Breakfast: Wholemeal crepes with sweet cream and blackberry compote; and iced coffee.
Oh my...getting fancy aren't we :) I would have had to wake up at 6am to put this breakfast together today, but I prepared most of the ingredients last night (whipped the cream, made the batter and chilled the coffee).
And ok, I lied, they're not really wholemeal crepes, I just added a tablespoon of wholemeal flour to the 2/3 a cup of plain flour that made up the batter. But they give the appearance of wholemeal crepes and that makes me FEEL healthier when I eat them :D
I think G has it pretty good in the morning these days. We wake up and he turns on the PS3 while I head to the kitchen. He plays his game while I cook. Then half an hour later I'll yell out "OKAAAAAAAY!" , which is Teaspoon-speak for "Breakfast is ready". I'm really trying to compete noise-wise with Jack from the apartment next door. He is this 4 year old boy who looks a lot older. When we first met him G thought he was 8 years old and that there was something "wrong" with him as he was banging his toy car against the lift door, again and again, like a....well like a 4 year old. Lucky I asked his dad how old he was and then we were like "Ooooooh" - that explains it.
G is currently playing 'Dark Souls' on the PS3 right now, and from a spectator/wife's perspective it is a relatively unannoying game. There are no repetitive voice overs and there's no whiney medieval background music like there is on so many role playing games these days.
There is one bit in the game though that was irritating. The other day while I was taking a nap, I could constantly hear this...
"Chink......chink......chink.......chink....."
Over and over again, like a dwarf mining for gold in a cave. The apartment below is currently undergoing some construction work and in my nap time stupor, I thought it was from coming from there, but the noise was too exact and to the same beat, a workman would have to have been a robot to be making that it. So I came out to the living room and found out it was just the stupid game!
Oh and another thing is that there is no pause function in the game. So say if a husband is in the middle of an intense boss fight and a wife happens to yell out something like "Hun help!!! That baby cheechak with no tail has come BACK!!!", there will be a very long and uncomfortable pause (uncomfortable for the cheechak and the wife who are standing there eyeballing each other) before the husband puts down the remote control to remove the baby lizard from the apartment.
No pause button? Game designers what were you thinking??
In all honesty, I love console and computer games. Playing them in a way is a lot like reading a really good book where you can escape into a story, only better because you are the main character and you can make decisions and affect the story line to certain extent. Actually, G and I played WOW for many years. We did the whole shabang: instances, pvp, end game raiding...(yes, I know, n3rds!) We eventually stopped because:
1) We got a puppy who did not care to share our attention with two computers.
2) I got tired of going to work red-eyed after gaming till 2am every morning.
3) We decided to get married. Then real life kinda took over.
These days I just spectate as G unwinds from work with a new game. While I love playing two player games with him on the PS3 (that way he can do all the thinking and I can just follow him around and be his sidekick, mindlessly killing all the baddies), there are so few good ones out there. Almost everything is for the single player. And with game designers so reluctant to seriously tap into the female gaming market, I just end up sticking to old skool games on my iPhone.
