September 23, 2013
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It's the small things...
Most nights I try to get my clothes ready the night before so that I won't waste time trying to figure out what I'm going to wear to work the next day. I sleep better knowing that this has already been done. Plus, it allows me to sleep in later. So last night, in preparation for ironing my clothes, I tried to pull an extension chord out from behind the sub-woofer in our family room. This attempt resulted in several things crashing down onto the floor.
In my mind, the noise seemed to linger for an eternity as I watched cables, educational video games, remote controls, and other pseudo-electronics tumble in slow motion to the hardwood floor and settle around my feet. Feet which I might add, were moving frantically in a cha-cha like fashion, rapidly side to side trying to avoid having any of these things fall on my exposed toes.
Upon hearing the commotion, my wife, whose wit I will readily admit rivals my own, glances over at me and with the straightest of faces says, "Now what did you go and do that for?? I spent a lot of time foolishly balancing those things on top of each other."
And this... this is why I love her.
Comments (16)
I like how you emphasize that the video games are, in fact, educational.
Well, I wanted to distinguished between PS3/Xbox 360/Wii games (which may or may not be educational), and the Leap Frog unit that the smaller kids use that plugs into the TV and has crappy 8-bit graphics about which a child 6 and under couldn't care less.
I too noticed the "educational" clarification.. I mean, what if like Dr. Mario and Zelda were falling? That would change the whole story! LOL! Also, your wife is awesome!
lol Hey, if Dr. Mario and Zelda can teach you something, I'm all for it. But I think it would be a stretch to say that education is the intent of those games.
You are oh so very wrong. Once upon a time, Mario taught me typing. Fact! http://www.amazon.com/Mario-Teaches-Typing-2/dp/B000AMCSWG
Ha! It was a vain attempt by Nintendo to try and cross-market (read: pimp out) Mario for the PC consumer. If you learned to type using that program, I would venture to guess that you were the exception. I mean, it was for Windows 95!
Actually wrong version, I had this exact thing, I was like 14 http://www.amazon.com/Mario-Teaches-Typing/dp/B0009PMW2K/ref=pd_sim_sbs_sw_4
Oh, so you've been a Mac Girl from way back, eh? I knew there was a reason I liked you.
It was a Tandy, sir. Get it right. And it was sick. You had to type fast and accurately about Abe Lincoln chopping wood or Mario would get creamed by a thwomp.
Ugh... those deceptive photos! The first picture says "Mac Play". :-/ And I don't doubt the level of difficulty. Especially if it WASN'T a Mac.
Remember those candy iMacs? We had that and I haven't gone back to the PC since except at work where I had no say so.
All of my comments are out of sync. lol By the time I respond, my comment is already obsolete.
LOL
I love the picture of your wife. For a teensy second, I wondered if that was a stripper pole beside her. But it's just the mirrored doors. Hahahaha, oh my imagination.
Haha! No, we have yet to install the stripper pole in the bedroom. Maybe for Christmas though.
nice to have a bit of comical relief in times of stress.
Ha! I love that!