i should've spent a good three hours writing last night. instead i watched the new season of "hell's kitchen" and a rerun of "the office". a RERUN! granted, i could have been squeezing out a page or two whilst watching said programs, but thanks to my brother i was instead playing five or six fierce games of Tetris on Facebook.
i'm addicted! once i start, i just can't stop. i can't have anything in my way. "nunu! stop trying to crawl into my lap! you're going to fuck up my game!" "no, i don't want to take a call from my mom! you're going to fuck up my game!"
i became addicted just shortly after reading a post on my brother's blog (http://theblarg.wordpress.com/) about him being addicted as well.
look what you've done to me, justin! you're like the bad kid in fifth grade. the one with the weathered old face from smoking a pack a day at the ripe age of ten. the one who decided to infect me as well with his addiction and offered me a cigarette behind the slide at the tot-lot.
last night i honestly dreamt about fitting the pieces together as they fell. i'm sick! tetris has taken over my life like that Steve Weibe guy in "King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters" who is SO into his Donkey Kong game that he can't even stop to wipe his kid's butt!
"Daaaaaaaaaad! Stop playing Donkey Kong! Wipe my buuuuuutttt!"
- Bethany James Leigh Shady
- Novelist, children's book author, freelance writer, and lover of the Shire.
12 comments:
I was so addicted back in 8th grade (1988) that I used to get up two hours early for school to play on our P.O.S. IBM knock-off. My mother seriously thought I needed professional help! I used to see falling bricks in everything and would think through games in my head.
I can't not play 100 games in one sitting even now!
Tetris is amazing. I have it on my ipod and I constantly play it on my lunch break at work.
I thought it would be cool last year to dress up as tetris blocks for halloween made from boxes. My husband didn't agree, so we didn't do it. Instead he went as a Jedi for the millionth time. I still think it would have been the best costume ever!
I haven't played Tetris in ages! If I come across it on Facebook, i'm in trouble. I still have a settle to score somewhere around level 21.
My name is Rikke... and Im a tetris addict, LOL.
Good to see you post again; it's been too long.
I'm always amazed at just how small the world is. I had no idea until now that it was your brother that wrote The Roberts. I haven't read any of them (yet) but a close friend was into comics and I'd heard all about it and thought the premise sounded intriguing. Maybe I'll check it out now that it's coming out as a book.
PS: THE TOT-LOT!!! HAHAHA!
okay, so.. I thought it was addicting on my ipod. I was wrong. Damn Facebook Tetris! I thought I would give it a try and now I can't stop!
Nothing beats the sit-down two-person arcade version. With the bonus round for the first finisher. A bar I used to frequent in Mpls. had to invent a table number for the Tetris game so they knew where to deliver drinks to my friend Steve and me.
I remember when I first started Tetris. I lost 10 lbs because I couldn't stop to eat. And every time I looked at a city skyline I saw blocks falling down to fill in the gaps.
(Very nice blog btw. I'm another one who got here from your man's blog. I look forward to reading the Figs one as well)
lol As far as the TV watching, I get like that too sometimes. I made myself get up and set up my easel yesterday. Baby steps...lol baby steps.
Tetris...I've never played it before. I keep hearing about it/ seeing references to it though. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
ooo Tetris is truly evil! I hate when my facebook friends pass my high score, I sit there determined to beat theirs! All the while orders sit unmade and unpacked! I must get more focused and ~GASP~ maybe even remove the Tetris application :)
Holy crab, I have seriously dreamed about Tetris, too! You can imagine the exquisite relief that someone else has, too. *sigh*
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