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Feb 20, 2009 05:09PM
I don't know what minesweeper is. I don't know if you have all the same video games in England, but have you heard of Call of Duty? Or Rock Band?
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The Call of Duty we have is for Wii. Rockband is also Wii. You can play drums, it's a real set, guitar, a realish one you actually strum and you can also sing. You can do one by yourself, or all 3 with friends. It is so much fun> I hate Call of Duty and am hoping they ARE NOT playing it when I get home. The boys are addicted to it.
I am so bad at that game Fiona.Kandice my son has Rockband and Call of Duty for the Xbox...He loves both of the games.
I do Sing Star on the playstation 3 and Wii with my girlfriends all the time! We have such a good time. We kick everyone out and we just go to town!!!Both my sons are very, very into their guitars. They like Rockband and Guitar Hero, but don't play as much anymore because it's so different from a real guitar they say you have to get back into the groove of whichever.
Thanks for the link Fiona:)41 minutes! I'll gather up my roses and chocolates, race out of here, and we are off... Hooray!
Kandice are you going to Disneyland or Disneyworld? Am I remembering right that your husband bought you tickets?
Call of Duty and Brotherhood sound a LOT alike. CoD is World War 2.
Brady has a game called Monkey Island. I wonder if it's the same. I think I cheated on your "list" game. I added #6 and then #8, but the next person took my 8 off. I thought we could add two but not in succession.I promise I wasn't trying to cheat!!!!
I use to get addicted to Tetris...lol but I love the midless games...but of course I love Suduko too...I guess I just love any games...hehe
Depending on how well Darby's team places in the tournament we could be home as early as 4 Sunday, or as late as 9. I don;t know if you know what they are, but the Oscars are on Sunday, and I really do not want to miss them!!!!We have games in our house that are 13 or 15 or whatever. I keep them in seperate places, and I am super strict about who gets to play what. My husband, though, will sometimes play a game with Brady (12) that I wouldn't let him play alone. (compromises of marriage;)
I loved Tetris! The only other game I was ever addicted to was Donkey King. I am not lying, but I broke my arm, and learned to play better than all my brothers using my.............feet!!!! I swear!
LOL that is funny Kandice...I liked Donkey Kong too.Now I play WoW online. It takes time away from my reading...but I play it with my husband he's addicted to it...hehe
Frogger and Centipede were pretty good too. I am really not into any of the "newfangled" games. You'd think I was 100! There just seems to be too much going on. They look so real. I like watching Brady play the Mario games, and some of the Wii things are cool. Yoga, bowling, carnival games, but otherwise, I am an observer.I can just imagine you getting all into it Fiona! Do you sqwuak at the t.v.?
Kandice we will miss you...I know I don't talk a lot on the threads here but I love reading what you and everyone else on here talk about...Makes me feel like I have girlfriends online...hehe
You would like Mario Kart Fiona. All I ever seem to do is crash! My kids are always begging me to play, and I know it's just for comic relief!Thanks guys. I'll miss you too! What did I do before GRs?
I have heard of the Baftas, but never seen them. I haven't seen a lot of the movies this year, I just alwys get so excited. Also, this is a little embarassing to admit, but a few years, my husband and I have played this game. We print out the nominees for each category. We have to choose before the Oscars start. If his choice wins, I have to take a drink (of alcohol) If I win, he does. If neither of us do, we both take a drink. I am not a big drinker (understatement) and two years, I never even saw the end!!!! I fell asleep! It was a lot of fun, though.
Is FF7 a military/shooting game?
ooh that sounds kind of fun...My husband and I use to play Everquest which is old too but not that old. And that is also online.
Fiona, et almkay, I have to weigh in about Stephan King. "The Stand" gets people now because of the possibility of bio-terrorism, modern plague, etc. The BEST King book was "The Shining". It scared the sh.., well, the bejeebers out of me.
My conclusions are based on King's memoir "On Writing", where he really lets us get into his wild and weird head.
On the side, I had a next door neighbor who often played with his kids at his house. Her descriptions of him, his family and the house were very interesting, and very human. From what she said, the Kings were very nice, but not your typical family, given his fame and his genre.
I bought The Stand on a whim and when I got it..."
Fiona wrote: "Okay, I hated The Lovely Bones, but that DOES sound really interesting.Oh dear... but I probs won't read it in March. Maybe if everyone else likes it I def will!"
I loved "The Lovely Bones", but I can see where it might not be attractive to everyone, because it's really a breakdown of some unlikeable people. If you want to understand Sebold, you may want to read her memoir Lucky to see where she's coming from.
You know I have never been a huge fan of Stephen King but my husband is. I did read Christine when I was a teenager. I have seen The Shining movie and liked it, I did think it was creepy the first time I saw it but I was only 12 years old when I saw it...LOL
The book is both scary and creepy. It is a good read if you are into Stephen King. I loved it, personally.
Good Night Fiona...you all are making me think about reading some Stephen King soon. :~)
Allison wrote: "yeah! I will definitely start First Man in Rome in the next few days, and we can start a thread :-) Was it you I talked to about that?"don't talk about it also here!!!! need to pass those bookshops today without buying....and i jsut remember we will go in Eason because my boyfriend wants to buy a magazine soooooothere will be many books around.....
Kandice wrote: "I want to eat at your house Jeane! Other people's food is always better. I guess like "The grass is always greener""Really? Well even though my boyfriend isn't really cooking at the moment you would eat mainly italian meals or lots of vegetables!
I made him remember that till five march we have no housemates so the kitchen is all ours, nobody to suddenly make it dirty.....welll he knew that I meant that it is the perfect time to prepare homemade pizza...I hope I go to work on monday having eaten that homemdae pizza!!!!!!
Fiona wrote: "Aw, Kandice your husband is a sweetheart. And I think we'll all have to invite ourselves around Jeane's place for dinner. So you better be prepared.
And holy molies 41 posts? You girls have been..."
uhm, what??????????????????
Allison wrote: "I think JP 4 is coming out later this year...I recorded the original movie off Cinemax last night, I'm excited to watch it after I finish the book."
JP?
Fiona wrote: "What, JP4? I thought they'd scrapped that.Ugh, now do I wanna watch it?
I do want to see The Young Victoria in March. I don't really go out to the cinema much these days, £7 for a ticket and ano..."
Fiona after having lived in London any cinema seems cheap now!!!!!
Kandice wrote: "The Call of Duty we have is for Wii. Rockband is also Wii. You can play drums, it's a real set, guitar, a realish one you actually strum and you can also sing. You can do one by yourself, or all 3 ..."Kandice, did you hear thet (mainly in England) people start to have problems after playing the wii? Thay don;t warm up or start slowly and everytime play a little bit more like you would do with real sports and so they play for long times at once and overuse muscles,,,but I still want one.
Fiona wrote: "I love First Person Shooters on the Xbox - and GTA! Woohoo violent road rage oh yeah but for 18+ only. I just like running people over, I just hope the more derranged people out there realise it's ..."As the company I work for works for Microsoft (and my team mainly around x-box and devices) we have two x-box games that we can play in one of our canteens...some guys always come fast around noon playing on it...Fiona, you should come!
Fiona wrote: "I also have Quidditch... it's more fun when you got someone to play with."I played Far cry on the pc but one moment it became scary and I was alone, evening, dark....
Fiona wrote: "I think my fave games of all time are the oldies though...Settlers and Age of Empires.
Oh and Dungeon Keeper. You get to be an evil lord and rule a dungeon of evil creatures and kill the shiney ..."
I like more games like Caesar III and those kind, but can also enjoy a game like type;need for speed;...it just can't happen all too fast and all at once because then I don;t lie ti as I don;t manage..
Katie wrote: "Fiona wrote: "Okay, I hated The Lovely Bones, but that DOES sound really interesting.Oh dear... but I probs won't read it in March. Maybe if everyone else likes it I def will!"
I loved "The Love..."
I whish The lovely bones didn't had that nice blue cover ebcause then I probably wouldn't have read it and would have a book less with one star. I would give it zero stars!
I have a bit a crazy thought but going to try as much as possible. I want to finish Jonathan Strange this weekend. It is now saturday morning, 8am. I really enjoy the book and I am over 500 pages now. I don't know why but it is a book for me.The only thing is that most reading might have to be done on sunday and that is only one day.... I promised my boyfreind that if the weathr is good we will go to the city centre and I offer him lunch there in a place that I don't have a clue if it is any good but that I want to try out. It isn't a restaurant but....well you know the old american style with lots of coloured lights, a bit like in Happy Days....well it seems like that. I am jsut so curious to try it when i see the place from outside.... but if we go there will be practically no reading today....
Kandice recommended one...ummmm can't remember I'll have to go look, she said its her favorite. Maybe you have that one.
State of Fear...thats the one Kandice said is her fave...but unfortunately its a Crichton. I was confused :-)
What Stephen King ones do you have Fiona?
LOL gratz Allison...now you aren't one of the one's on the other thread about not buying anymore books right? hehe!!!
eh, I just lurk there even though I flagrantly disobey.
I haven't read much Stephen King. I need to read the stand and Salem's lot because I own them.
Allison: you are making me want to go book buying! I can't until I hit 50 books that I own already. I only have lke 30 to go!
Fiona you are so good! I won't get anything until I hit 50 read books. Unless of course my father buys something for me!
My Dad is a worse book addict them I am. When I moved out of the house he filled my old room with books. When my brothers moved out their rooms books. I think he has as many books as some small libriaries!
Fiona, I haven't read much of Stephen King but my husband has and his favorite book is IT. Good luck in choosing...hehe!!!And Allison you make me want to go to the used bookstore...but I just bought books yesterday and if I buy anymore I think my husband will divorce me...lol I have to resist!
I read It when I was in about 14. Scared the heck out of me. I doubt it would be scary now!
Book buying is hard to resist!
I am actually going to start a quilt today. As a matter of fact got side tracked. Came to get thread & logged onto GR. We will see if I start it or not!
oh...and did I mention that I got the set of three Pamela Aiden books about Mr. Darcy used off Amazon last night too?(lets not tell my husband about this)
Fiona. Read Anne of Green Gables. Now. ;)
I really am going to read The Stand though. I can't decide whether I want to read that or The First Man in Rome next. I think I'm going to finish Jurassic Park today though, and then I have to read Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly because I have to loan them to someone Monday.
Well...fiiiiine. The Stand it is. I DID promise Kandice I would start The First Man in Rome this week though....eh well. If The Stand is as addicting as you say, that probably won't be a problem.
I have to stop listening to you Fiona! First ICTC...now the Roth trilogy...The Stand...Howl's.
My own TBR's are not very happy with you.
I'm not very good at doing that. I am reading Two for the Dough and Jurassic Park right now, but I really don't like reading two at once.
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