My best friend Lori and I celebrated the end my thesis and the end her of her Saturday CPA exam classes by playing backgammon tonight. We sit on the porch for hours and play. We keep track of the score throughout the night by writing on the sliding glass door with a dry erase marker. We are hard-core players with trash talk and everything. Its great fun. Tonight, we even incorporated singing the songs from the "sound of music" (we are both huge fans). We haven't had a backgammon night in months because we have been so busy studying. It was the perfect end to so much work and tears finally being finished.