My parents have been gone a little over a month now and it's HEAVEN I tell you. My mom calls every few days but the phone cards only last 6 minutes so the calls are blissfully short. It's beautiful.
So what have hubby and I done with our new peaceful existence? Did we take up zen meditation to get into tune with our spirits-- or whatever the hell that stuff is for? Heck no! We bought "Guitar Hero."
I have never in my life played video games before. I hate the whole joystick thingy. I cannot push buttons and aim at the same time. I don't know if it's an X chromosome thing (kind of like being directionally challenged) or if I'm just lazy. But "Guitar Hero" rocks (no pun intended)!
I can play a game that lets me hold a guitar and pretend I know how to play it. How great is that? I don't need to know my way around notes or chords or melodies or any of that junk. Nope. I just push the blue button when it appears on screen and music happens! Instant gratification never felt so good.
Blogging is tough though. My hands are all tired and cramped up. The first night I put a brief post up on my sci-fi blog and I could barely type.
But I have found it's a great stress reliever and oddly enough something my husband and I can do together. Yeah, we're dorks. Parent free dorks....
3 comments:
OMG we truly are twins. I hate video games as well but got my boys Rock Band for Christmas. I have been playing non-stop. I'm the lead singer. Her name is Licky Mewly, she's got an asymmetrical haircut in fuschia and she's wearing something called "not pants," much the the chagrin of my children.
I first heard about Guitar Hero here in blogland, and you are bearing out what I've read elsewhere. I love the image of you--even though I don't know what you look like!--rocking out.
There's something fitting, too, about celebrating freedom from parents through rock, as that's the whole basis of that genre of music--and how kids separate from parents in the first place in this modern age.
I should stop trying to be analytical now. Just have fun, babe.
Lee, that is hilarious. "Guitar Hero" doesn't let us make up our own names so right now I'm Judy Nails. I might be too chicken to try "Rock Band," I can't sing.
Jocelyn, I hope this isn't a form of rebellion. It would be kind of late and kind of anti-climactic. Mostly, I just like to think I'm having fun.
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