In an attempt to make me resent the PS3 less (not that i really resent it but it is a running joke) my husband got me "Go! Sukodu" from the PS store (web-store). Boy, is he regretting that 10 bucks!
I played and played and played today, about 4 hours worth. I didn't mean to Sudoku that long but I am feeling pretty burnt out with watching movies on my laptop while I knit and just wanted to veg out after our dinner guests went home. The trouble with Sudoku, much like Tetris is that my brain LOVES puzzles and I don't even realize that the time is passing until suddenly I am rotating little cubes or placing numbers in a grid in my head even when I am not playing. Growing up, after we got a Nintendo, my parents would let me play pretty much anything and never censored which games I could buy with my own money (how I ended up with "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" but that is another story) with one explicit exception: I was not allowed to buy Tetris. They would rent it occasionally for me and I would play like my life depended on it for the entire term of the rental (maybe a whole weekend).
Not that really anyone reads this thing but if anyone is reading this let me tell you something else special about Tetris for me...
When the (now) husband and I had been together about a year and half (this would be over a decade ago) I got pneumonia. I had had pneumonia before but this was the first time he had seen me that sick. I spent about 6 days running a crazy high fever and unable to leave bed (it's all a hallucinating haze for me honestly), occasionally I would try to sit up and ramble at the sweet fellawho was camping out in my 200 sq-ft studio apartment to make sure I didn't die or anything - plus, I had Internet... I was bugged by him being there and kept on trying to get him to leave. Anyway... at that time we were really in to restoring old arcade games (boy, that studio was crowded) and we had ROMS for many many games. We would take turns playing different arcade games with MAME and whatnot. Because of how much I loved Tetris he found that game for me. When I was sick, he took a screen capture of the winner screen (st. Basil's cathedral with the fireworks) and modified the picture to give me as a gift once I was feeling human again. The modification said "HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY! <My Name here> is FEELING BETTER" in the tetris font. Very cute (to a geek like me anyway). I saved that thing for years and would post it as a reference but the hard-drive died a cruel and unusual death before we moved from Portland and I no longer have it... Ah well, such is life.
Before I go though, I want to also share my dinner party success! Tonight we hosted the best man from our wedding, Chad, and his VERY pregnant girl-friend and I wowed all with my cooking prowess... Too bad I cooked something that they loved and I was not so happy with. Chad had given us some venison a few months ago and I hadn't done anything with it. Being that he was coming for dinner, I figured it was no or never. I made a massive batch of spaghetti with Venison in the sauce. Everyone said it was tasty. I am sure it was but I was having one of those days when by the time I am done cooking something I am sick of it and have no interest in eating it. I felt the same way about the cookies I baked tonight as well... WEIRD, I generally always want to eat cookies :). We had several reasons for having them over for dinner: the venison which Chad really wanted to eat;Caitlin (the gf) should be going into labor in the next two weeks or so and we figure that they won't get to have a relaxing, sitdown meal with other adults for a while (at least not without kid in tow); they are friends and it is good to occasionally be social; I skipped the baby shower at the last minute and needed to give them the blankets (yes two) that I had made for them and the baby; and Chad has his test for SERE school (some military thing) at 10 am on Monday (today I guess) - he is attempting to re-enlist in the military (this time the airforce instead of the army where he was before) due to the current economy and a very rational desire to be able to feed his soon-to-be-arriving son. So, we needed to praise him and tell him what a good job he is going to do and make sure he ate a real dinner.... Anyway, that's the story of the dinner party, if I weren't so exhausted I would have told that totally differently but I figured if i didn't post it now I wouldn't post it at ever, after all, there is sudoku to play (insert evil cackle here)...
Off to sleep, my apologies for the rambling incoherence of this post - didn't sleep at all Saturday night and it is now 5:33 in the morning Monday so I have been up for about 40 hours or so.
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