55. Pull an All-Nighter/68. Finish a Game of Monopoly

Greetings and Salutations!

Last week, my friend Elizabeth and I pulled an all-nighter. It wasn’t planned; even the sleepover part. Like most times I go to her house, I ended up sleeping over. Rachel didn’t partake in this item, mainly because she wasn’t there and we decided to pull an all nighter around midnight. Fortunately, Rachel wasn’t exactly thrilled to pull one anyway, just something I wanted to try, so it was all good.

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We officially started at midnight. The way that we defined “all-nighter”, is we would stay up until the sun rises, which was about 6:30 A.M.. DSCF0009

You know how the boy scouts say, always be prepared!

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12:00 – 1:00

Spent taking selfless, instagraming, tweeting our boyfriends, and gossiping while drinking way too much sweet tea and jamming out to the Jonas Brothers. That’s just the way we roll.

P.P.P.S. Make sure you follow us on twitter! We basically just tweet each other Justin Bieber lyrics. Too cool too cool.

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1:oo – 2:00

We started playing the Harry Potter Lego game. It was my first time using a playstation or xbox.I clearly do not remember. I also had no idea what was going on the entire time. At least I was well kinect’d.

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2:00-5:00

We started and finished a game of Carolinaopoly. Elizabeth’s family members are huge tar heels fans; it’s a bit hard to tell.

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I was the banker. So young money.

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I had no idea Monopoly lasted this long. I guess it takes longer when you have two very stubborn competitive people who don’t like to trade properties. My strategy was to buy all the railroads, or in this case “campuses”. Mission accomplished. I also went for quantity, and bought a lot of stuff. Since I got the campuses head on, Elizabeth had to keep paying me, which prevented her from buying more property. Her strategy was to waste all her money loads of houses/hotels, or degrees, on the orange area. She would then land on a railroad, and have to mortgage her properties because she broke.

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Elizabeth had to pay two hundred dollar tuition, but she ain’t got no money.

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Look how many properties I own. Hashtag winning!

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The game carried on for three hours, it seemed to never end. Lizzy would land on my property, lose money and sell her houses. Then, I would land on her property, give her a bunch of money, and she would rebuy her houses. For a while, we were pretty even except for the fact that I never went into debt. It was just really lucky for her and really unlucky for me that I kept landing on her trap. Then, I started buying my houses. I was always earning money and kept getting richer and richer, while she was struggling. Eventually, Elizabeth mortgaged all her properties, so that she was unable to profit from them. It was almost five in the morning and she wanted to watch Teen Wolf. Who could blame her. It was only minutes until she unable to pay me, and I won! At the end of the game I had almost ten thousand dollars. I guess when one person wins Monopoly, the loser loses badly and ends up with nothing. Sucks to suck.

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5:00 – 6:30

We drank tea,watched Teen Wolf, and I almost fell asleep. It could’ve been bad, but luckily I somehow managed to stay awake. I was so impatient around six and too tired to function. I barely remember that part, except for the moment we saw the sun and moments later we climbed into bed. It was strange to fall asleep to the sunrise.

Mission accomplished!

-Sara