Today was one of those days where I was a lazy bum and I sat on my butt, turned off my mind and played dr. mario for a good three hours (things got really crazy when Eric showed up and we played head-to-head) - during which time Lorie and Anna were trying to make us feel guilty for "neglecting" them, when they knew that we knew full well they were content to talk to each other about shopping and manicures while watching us boys and making commentary about how unskilled we are at playing dr. mario... (we really aren't that bad, but I do admit it is enjoyable to poke fun)
oh - let me describe how "crazy" actually is...
[dr. mario music playing in the background, blips and beeps from them turning of the colored pills and sound effects of the viruses being eliminate]
eric: "Hee-hee, I can't get over how it sounds like the game is farting"
ryan: "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" (he just mispositioned a pill) "I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast I'm toast"
eric: "UGH!!! CRAP! I'm sooooo dead!!!" (mistook one colored pill for another, blocking his next move)
anna: "Dude, what are you doing? Do you even know how to play?"
eric: "Who are you talking to?"
anna: "Which ever one of you is listening, you both suck!"
ryan: "SSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!! Shut up!!! I can't concentrate!"
lorie: "Goose? Look at this!!! Isn't it sooooo nice?" (looking at a catalogue)
ryan: "WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!! HAHAAAAA!!!" (recovering from previous disaster) "Wha? huhn? umm, yeah."
lorie: "You don't even care..." (fake pouting)
ryan: "umm... uh... sorry babie..."
eric: "OH! OH! OH! YEAH!" (also recovering from disaster)
ryan: "AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Dammit - dude! you just blocked me with tha - CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! I'm dead. AARRRGGGHHH!"
That pretty much rounds out the conversations we had during the 1.5 hours of head to head dr. mario - perhaps that is not so crazy... but it sure was loud...
Afterwards, we got to devour a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake, which was a part of a celebration of Lorie's sister's birthday... the cake was about 14 inches in diameter and 5 inches tall... I would say I had 1/8th of the cake... so not that much, really... I think.
So, anyways... why do girls find it necessary to make boys feel guilty? [Has nothing to with previous - completely separate random thought] Whatever it is, not matter whose fault it is, girls always have ways to turn the blame onto the guy... Even if the girl knows that she screwed up, somehow the conversation gets shifted to something the guy wrong did in the last week that has no relation whatsoever to what the girl just messed up... When this first started happening to me I would just suck it up and apologize, no questions asked... but now I point it out first chance I get... nip it in the bud before the fact that I'm always late (when there is no specific time for me to arrive) pops up in a conversation - again... [editor's note: this type of conversation is probably the worst any of our "arguments" actually get - communication is a big thing with us, so as to avoid those pent-up-frustrated-over-flowing-damn-breaking-total-screaming-and-yelling fights]
where was I? hmm... well, I guess I lost that train...
so I will stop...
uh...
here.
*For those not in the know, Dr. Mario is a game involving Mario Mario (of Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. fame) where Mario is a "doctor" (I don't know how he did it, from giant gorilla tamer, to plumber, to heroic plumber, to boxing referee, to golf pro, to doctor.. where does he find the time?) anyways, there are three types of viruses, distinguishable by their shape and color (although color is the primary characteristic around which this game revolves - I imagine the different virus shapes are for those that are color blind - well, that or to keep monotony away...) and these viruses can only be destroyed by dropping the same color pill on the viruses, forming a straight line of a minimum of four, made up of pills and viruses... once you have cleared the screen of viruses then you move on to the next level or you beat your opponent (assuming he hasn't already cleared his board) - there is the old school nintendo version and the N64 version, the latter being the one we were playing...
