Fun Stuff

Brad got an Xbox 360 for Christmas and Xbox Live for his birthday. This means that M and I spend some quality mommy-daughter time every Wednesday from 7-9 pm while Brad has an online "appointment".

But one fun thing that has come of this for me is the discovery of a web show called "The Guild" that we can download through the Xbox. It is hilarious! Brad said I shouldn't admit that I watch it but it just cracks me up. Each episode is only 2-3 minutes long and come out like one a week or something.

It's about this girl that is addicted to an online player game similar to World of Warcraft. Her therapist dumps her because she isn't willing to work on her addiction and tells her that she needs to create a support group of live people, not just friends online. So she ends up meeting all of her 'guild' members in real life and it goes from there. Maybe it is because we usually watch it at like 11:30-12 at night, but I just laugh the whole time.

Two of my favorite lines are:
"Women: You can't live with them - and they will NOT go out with me."
"Sorry, my friend is really drunk. And the other one is just kind of rude."

Anyway, you check it out here. Be sure to watch the outtakes.

My other recent fun find is the Southern Vampire Series, a.k.a. the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. Now, these are not 'clean' books, they do have a few dirty parts, but they are a lot of fun. They fall into the mystery-fantasy-romance-comedy catagory (okay, I realize that is actually four catagories, but they fit them all). They are short fun reads, about 300 pages each, and I get a kick out of them.

There is also an HBO series based on them called True Blood. I don't get HBO so I can't tell you if it's any good, but I might check it out once it gets to DVD.