Bored games? Never!
Hello, my name is Leah, and I suppose I’m addicted to games. 
Board games, card games, video games: I love them all!
I have wonderful memories from evenings with my friends or family playing games. I remember playing Tripoley with my Aunt Patty & Uncle Mike, and the entire rest of the family, and beating the pants off of all of them – and I was probably 9 or 10 at the time. A few years ago we did a New Year’s eve get together with friends and played Mao. If you don’t know what that is, unfortunately I can’t tell you. But in the midst of playing Mao, I made homemade ice cream, and someone said something funny. As a result, two of the people at the table laughed so hard that ice cream came out of their NOSES! It was so funny that I thought I’d pulled my stomach muscles from laughing for so long and hard.
We also have a game night at least once a month with my parents, and it just makes me happy. Last night we played Muppet Mayhem Uno, which is just fun, and then Sequence. ‘Course, the Rohwer collection of board games is nothing to my sister and brother-in-law’s collection. They have easily 50+ games. I wish they didn’t live in Colorado Springs sometimes!
There are definite benefits to playing video games along with board and card games. Marc and I play World of Warcraft online together, it’s fun to defeat huge bosses with our Priest/Boomkin teamwork. But it’s hilarious when people find out that I’m a “gamer.” Marc gets huge props for finding a wife that not only is cool with him playing video games but plays with him. Many of the online folks that he meet are simply in awe that he’s got a “gamer girl.” But I really do enjoy our time in WoW together. (I’m listening to Marc play WoW even as I type this)
So fair warning my blog reader friends: if you don’t see a new blog once in a while, just know: I’m gaming. =)
Rob in Gallup said,
October 19, 2008 at 1:09 am
Oh man, I haven’t played Mao in forever. That brings back some great memories.
For me, I grew up associating board games with family gatherings. When the aunts and uncles got together at holidays, they loved to play games, usually Pictionary. Games with them are loud, wild, crazy, and so much fun. To this day, whenever my siblings and I are at my parents’ house, our favorite thing to do is play games. It’s also kind of an initiation. It’s how we get to know each other’s boyfriends and girlfriends (some of whom are now married into the family) and during those games, we discern how well they’ll be able to get along in our family.
As for computer games, I still have a horrible time with three dimensional stuff. In my mind, the character should run from the left side of the screen to the right side, there should be eight worlds with four levels each, and our princess should always be in another castle. Liesl and I occasionally play a game called Age of Empires against each other, though. And I am starting to venture out and play a few games on my mostly-untouched Xbox. I haven’t experienced World of Warcraft, but it made for one of the best South Park episodes ever. The Wii is the stupidest invention of all time — the whole point of video games is to sit on your butt while moving as little as possible. And I have been tempted to buy a PlayStation whatever so I can buy that cool Rock Band thing and relive the youth group glory days.
Anyway, enough from me. But first, one board game recommendation: If you haven’t yet discovered it, run, don’t walk, to your nearest It’s Your Move (they don’t ever have it at regular toy stores or department stores) and buy Settlers of Catan. It’s a freaking blast.