1. We've spent a year and a half in our lovely town home. Now it is time to say goodbye... to my life. For the four month gap between the ending of my lease and the beginning of my marriage I will be residing in the spare bedroom of my parents house. It's funny, I always think their house is the perfect size... until I have to live in it. Try working with your Dad all day then going home to live with him at night. Well at least I can catch up on my John Wayne movies and watch golf on TV. SAVE ME!
For the record, my favorite thing about my town home was having a place to have cookouts.
2. I took the staff to my house for "Staff Lunch" to eat the left over "World Famous Tacos" which (in case you were wondering) is still world famous reheated. While we were there I introduced my Dad to the Wii. They became fast friends. I am beginning to believe that the Wii may have larger possibilities. I think if Nintendo actually made more Wii's we could end the fighting in the middle east. Jews, Muslims, Christians... we can all play Wii bowling.
For the record, I'm not very good at Wii bowling.
3. It's that time of year again. I'm going to the PCC Ladies Retreat. Why would a man go on a Ladies Retreat? I carry the heavy things and let's face it... someone has to use the remote. My next post will expand on these events.
For the record, I do like going because I get access to the spa.
Too Busy NOT To Blog.
@ Girls
Recently my fiance wrote a post about men and video games. Her contention is that men don't grow out of being boys because they still play video games in their twenties and thirties. This isn't really the case. One has nothing to do with the other. Men act the same way with video games as they do with any competitive sport or activity. What this does bring up is most girl's lack of understanding or acceptance of video games as a legitimate activity.
In college there was a sad sick cycle.
At the college I attended I was NEVER bored. If I wasn't sleeping, eating, studying, in class, or going out with friends there were always video games to fill in the gaps of time. What's that? fifteen minutes to kill till class? Lets get a quick round of Smash Brothers in. Oh, crap we are late for class.
But unfortunately, the girls did not have the same experience. They weren't playing video games, board (bored) games, reindeer games, or any games. They were sitting around waiting for the boys to call. Because every girl came to college with the same five chick flick movies, watched them the first day and sat around bored the rest of the year.
Now this is where the break down exists. The girls would call us or see us and we would be yelling and laughing and having a great time (because we were playing video games). They would say, "Hey, they are having a lot of fun. We want to have a lot of fun, lets invite them over." And so like kids being lured with lollipops, us guys would stop our fun and go over to hang out with the girls. I don't know why. It was the same every time. We would arrive and their would be the initial meet and greet with a little flirting mixed in. And then the energy would be promptly sucked out of the room as the guys realized that we had been tricked. This would usually come in the form of a comment like, "Wait! That's your TV! I thought it was a microwave." Or the famous, "So what are we going to do?" "I don't know what do you want to do?" Oh No....
There was nothing fun going on here. They were expecting us to provide entertainment for them. Unfortunately, most of our fun consisted of video games and doing things that girls won't do because they are insecure and won't do something that might look or make them look "silly." In a desperate panic we would peruse their movies only to find one copy of The Wedding Planner for each girl who roomed at that location. Not that ten people could watch a movie on the heart monitor they called a television set anyway. Then we knew we were screwed, because the girls would be frustrated with us that we weren't fun when we came over. And we couldn't just leave because that would be social suicide. Things would get so awkward that eventually we would just try and get on the girls nerves so they'd make us leave.
We really couldn't win, because sometimes they would call and hear us having fun and want to come over to be where the fun was at. Of course when they arrived we were playing video games. They would insist that video games were not fun so we'd stop playing and the night would take a down hill turn because they didn't have any new ideas, so then no one was having fun.
In the end all of this could be avoided if girls would view video games as a legitimate activity that is fun. Sure, you're not going to be good at it right away, but that's fun too. However, they think it is for kids. And because girls don't want to appear silly and they all want to be older and more sophisticated then they really are... everyone suffers. I personally think if girls played more video games they would be better friends. They would get the competition out of the way with Mortal Combat and then wouldn't have a lot of time on their hands to be petty.
Thank God at least my fiance likes Wii Sports.
But Bivens had Video Game Music At His Wedding!
So in preparation for my upcoming september wedding, Charissa and i have begun organizing the service and picking out music. We have alot of the music already, but we need a song to walk out to. You know, after the "I present to you, Mr. and Mrs. LM" and then we walk down the isle. So far Charissa has not been "thrilled" about my suggestions. Can you recomend something?
My suggestions are...
Nowhere to run - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
Highway To The Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
You've Got The Touch - Transformers The Movie (cartoon) Soundtrack
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
You're The Best - Joe Esposito (Karate Kid Soundtrack)
Queen - Somebody to Love
The Darkness - A Thing Called Love