So, my apologies my friends, the drug of choice for me this week was a little game called “Viva Pinata.” Perhaps you’ve heard of it. If not, just know it’s a game designed for CHILDREN on the Xbox 360. My brother-in-law bought it and lent it to us, (let’s see if he ever gets it back) telling me Buster may like it, but beware, he had read a review that parents loved it more than their kids. I laughed, I’m no gamer, I wasn’t scared. I went ahead and pursued it as a fun little game both my son and I could enjoy together.
It started off well, we planted a little garden together. Whirims came, and Sparrowmints, lots of little cute painted pinata’s wanted to stay in our garden. Buster and I found it very exciting.
Perhaps Mommy found it a little TOO exciting. I became a little controlling, a little greedy, a little worried Buster would ruin everything we had worked so hard to accomplish!! And my pinatas! They were getting sick! He wasn’t hitting the Sour Shellybean! He wasn’t investing his chocolate coins in the right kinds of seeds! He wasn’t starting his Sour Totem Poll and I worried sick about having to chase the bad pinatas out of my garden all the time. PINATAS WERE DYING! I needed to romance them! All Buster wanted to do was dig more ponds!
People do you understand where I am coming from? I couldn’t let him play that garden anymore. I just couldn’t…after all I had worked towards.
I realize I’m a freak. I hope I haven’t scared you all off…but when YOU get to level 44 and YOU become “Ultimate Gardener” YOU go ahead and try to let a five year old play your garden.
It’s physically impossible.
Happier news, Buster has started his own garden now and made me swear that I won’t get involved. . .I have to leave the room when he’s playing.
I relate to this. For me it was Neopets–I finally had to get my own account (Neopets.com). But I’ve been Neopet-free for months now. If only I could get a better handle on my blogging!
TOO FUNNY!! Let’s see… I got SimFarm for my hubby and we turned it into a contest. I would stay up late checking the irrigation on my farm. Had the horses gotten out? How many new lambs are there now? Oh crap… a tornado just ripped through my corn… yeah… been there… 🙂
I was busting a gut reading …. I can totally relate. Last week, Pablo and I snuck upstairs quietly and played the old version of Pac Man on the kids PS2. We were having SO much fun. I love to eat the ghosts when they turn blue, I love the sound of crunching. Pablo himself just goes for all the power pellets. We were debating the better strategy. The kids called us…we didn’t answer. It took them awhile, they finally found us and quickly took over their game, darn.
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