Rocking Good Night, Rocking Great Day

Last night I had the great honor of hosting a room for the Xbox Live Community Playdate with my friends at The Married Gamers. They're all great people and I was flattered that they asked me to participate. After having many bad experiences gaming with people on Xbox Live I've kind of avoided it for a while, but I was pleasantly surprised that everyone I played with was awesome. Sure, there were some people that didn't get the whole idea of how the game night worked. One kid didn't even own the game and was waiting for me to invite him to play, another didn't have an XBL Gold subscription, and I did have to report one person for his "Wanna see my...?" message in my inbox. But for the most part I had a blast.

An hour or two before the gaming started I fired up the Xbox and spent about all of the 1800 MS points I had on new songs. Oddly enough I didn't get a chance to play any of them during the game night, do people not like country songs? My oldest daughter and I played (SHE likes country) for an hour before I realized I should probably not exhaust my voice before the night starts. Hailey even played along with us nicely thanks to me giving her the Little Tikes guitar I had planned to use as a Christmas present. This is a great guitar if you have a toddler that likes to play along with you, definitely worth the money. I picked mine up for only $9.99.

After we were done with our game night I recorded with the others that participated and that podcast should be up by Sunday, I'll try and post the link if I decide to blog again. Don't want to make too much of a habit of it.

If last night was great, today was even better. I had my stepdaughters over and our day was filled with Rock Band playing (them not me) and me serving up an awesome do it yourself sub buffet, and for dinner a "season your own chicken wing" buffet. The kids really liked picking their own flavors and the honey soy sauce creation was the favorite for me and Ashley. The other girls lack creativity and adventure and just stuck to BBQ sauce.

We watched the movie Beneath the Blue while we did lunch. The movie has crummy reviews and it is a cheesy predictable movie, but the kids all loved it and wouldn't stop talking about it during and after watching. It has to do with dolphins and young love or something like that.

After dinner we watched The Smurfs and chowed down on some fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, I forgot how great those things are right out of the oven! The Smurfs was the winning choice of the day. All the kids were excited to watch it and Hailey even sat still for most of it, taking short breaks to beat the dog and the other kids with her princess wand. ( I didn't give her that thing...)

I even got a great present from Grandma Sally. A tshirt and kitty from The Big Bang Theory :) I'd post pictures but I'm too lazy right now, if you're on my facebook you've already seen them as most of the people I care to share my real life with are on there anyhow.

I ended my day off with a bubble bath, a good book (thanks again Grandma Sally) and am now going to try and get a little WOW time in before bed. Night everyone and thanks for those of you who love me no matter what :)