Being that we have cable, we love to watch TV (when we aren't playing WoW, of course!) and I have 3 channels that are my favorites to watch. In no particular order, HGTV, Food Network, and Animal Planet.
I love HGTV for the design ideas that they come up with. The designers are always finding unique uses for things that they may not have originally been intended for. Tonight, I was watching "Myles of Style" and she created this really awesome nursery for a couple who is adopting a baby. The piece of furniture she used to create the changing table was actually a buffet! I would NEVER have thought to do that, but you have SO much more storage space and it can be updated again as the kid grows. That was GENIUS!
Food Network is awesome too. I love sweet stuff, so one of my favorite shows is "Ace of Cakes". Duff and his crew make some AMAZING cakes. If I didn't live so far away, I'd be ordering cakes from them every month! LOL
Other Food Network shows we enjoy are, "Throwdown with Bobby Flay", "Good Eats", "Iron Chef", among many others.
My favorite shows on Animal Planet are "Animal Cops: Houston" (although all of the Animal Cops shows are good to watch) and "It's Me or the Dog". Victoria Stilwell is an amazing dog trainer. I love how she is so direct and clear about what the dog owners need to do to remedy the pet problems they have. A new season is starting soon and I can't wait to watch it. I applaud all the work the ASPCA workers do to help the animals on "Animal Cops". It makes me sad that people are so ignorant to starve animals, or abuse them. Those types of people should NEVER own a pet more complicated than a goldfish, IMO.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Video Games
I will admit that I am slightly addicted to video games - a trait that is only enhanced when my husband is around, as he is a pretty avid gamer.
I enjoy the simple games, myself. I love puzzle games (The Adventures of Lolo, Lemmings, etc.) and of course, there will always be a special place in my heart for Mario and all of the games where Mario & Luigi must save the day! I'm a big fan of a lot of the classic Nintendo games.
RPG's are difficult for me. Not for the reason that the mysteries of the given world are so difficult, it's for the fact that they are so much more time consuming and I don't exactly have the patience to spend an hour looking for some little guy who's going to send me right back where I came from. That's not to say I don't play them, because I do. I just have a little help with playing them. :)
I think the first RPG game I played really was Kingdom Hearts. It was pretty spiffy - then the second one came out (on Game Boy Advance only) and then there was the 2nd release on PS2. (I only played the PS2 games b/c I didn't own a Game Boy Advance at the time. The hubby does though - just haven't made the time to play it.)
Well, since then, my husband and I made a deal. You see, when the 7th Harry Potter book came out, I decided to read the whole series at once, start to finish, so everything was fresh in my head when I got to the last book. In some of those books, there are some serious "laugh out loud" moments, courtesy of the Weasley twins. At this time, my hubby had been asked by a friend to try out a new game. While my hubby was playing this new computer game, I would be reading. Having never read the Harry Potter series before, he was interested in reading these books to see what I was going on about.
The game he had been asked to try was World of Warcraft....and the deal was that he would read all of the Harry Potter books if I also tried WoW. So, we had an agreement.
It was tedious to me at first... and a little boring because I didn't know what I was doing. Once things became a little clearer, it got less frustrating. I altered between phases of playing and not playing due to work. Then, for a very long period of time, after I had reached a fairly high level (I don't remember exactly what level, though), I was so frustrated with the questing that there was an extended period of time where I didn't play. One day, my husband discovered a very helpful add-on - QuestHelper. OMG! That made my life so much easier I was back into playing again! Now, I've been playing for almost a year and have 9 characters. Since my hubby and I are both into this game, our free time is usually spent.
What are we gonna do when they add Bejeweled for the in-game play during long flights? The Yahoo! article was right... it's the end of our free time. :)
I enjoy the simple games, myself. I love puzzle games (The Adventures of Lolo, Lemmings, etc.) and of course, there will always be a special place in my heart for Mario and all of the games where Mario & Luigi must save the day! I'm a big fan of a lot of the classic Nintendo games.
RPG's are difficult for me. Not for the reason that the mysteries of the given world are so difficult, it's for the fact that they are so much more time consuming and I don't exactly have the patience to spend an hour looking for some little guy who's going to send me right back where I came from. That's not to say I don't play them, because I do. I just have a little help with playing them. :)
I think the first RPG game I played really was Kingdom Hearts. It was pretty spiffy - then the second one came out (on Game Boy Advance only) and then there was the 2nd release on PS2. (I only played the PS2 games b/c I didn't own a Game Boy Advance at the time. The hubby does though - just haven't made the time to play it.)
Well, since then, my husband and I made a deal. You see, when the 7th Harry Potter book came out, I decided to read the whole series at once, start to finish, so everything was fresh in my head when I got to the last book. In some of those books, there are some serious "laugh out loud" moments, courtesy of the Weasley twins. At this time, my hubby had been asked by a friend to try out a new game. While my hubby was playing this new computer game, I would be reading. Having never read the Harry Potter series before, he was interested in reading these books to see what I was going on about.
The game he had been asked to try was World of Warcraft....and the deal was that he would read all of the Harry Potter books if I also tried WoW. So, we had an agreement.
It was tedious to me at first... and a little boring because I didn't know what I was doing. Once things became a little clearer, it got less frustrating. I altered between phases of playing and not playing due to work. Then, for a very long period of time, after I had reached a fairly high level (I don't remember exactly what level, though), I was so frustrated with the questing that there was an extended period of time where I didn't play. One day, my husband discovered a very helpful add-on - QuestHelper. OMG! That made my life so much easier I was back into playing again! Now, I've been playing for almost a year and have 9 characters. Since my hubby and I are both into this game, our free time is usually spent.
What are we gonna do when they add Bejeweled for the in-game play during long flights? The Yahoo! article was right... it's the end of our free time. :)
Blogging
So this is my first ever blog and I'm hoping to better share my thoughts and organize my ideas in one place. I'm a pretty smart cookie but sometimes my brain works a lot faster than I can write or speak. :D
I'll probably blog about random personal things to start out, and see what transpires from there. If you found this blog and have any suggestions or comments, please let me know. :D
I'll probably blog about random personal things to start out, and see what transpires from there. If you found this blog and have any suggestions or comments, please let me know. :D
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