I haven't had much gaming time since we're getting ready to host a French student, and I scored some fantastic writing gigs that paid well but needed to be completed "NOW". Also, my daughter earned the privilege to have a friend stay over at our house for the night. I also had to get another article written, so it was an 'interesting' night. I had to comment on this after they fell asleep. :D
How to exhaust yourself:
1. Have a teenage girl. Let her invite another teenage girl over for a sleepover.
2. Listen to them howl and scream while playing Halo. Feed them popcorn because at some point they need to close their lips to swallow.
3. Realize they are complete energy vampires, and you've been sucked dry. Send them to the park with the dog to absorb energy from the local creek. Feel sorry for the dog.
4. Grab coffee along with a cheap and sleazy freezer burrito to restore some semblance of energy.
5 Write like a mad women while the house is quiet with them gone.
6. They return about a half hour later with soaked boots and a slightly lower volume. Success!
7.Thank God for noise-cancelling headphones while the Teens restart Halo. Turn up the volume on the new Within Temptation album, Hydra, to mostly drown them out, but not completely. Completely silent teens are a Bad Sign that something serious is going down, like drugs, sex, house destruction, internet porn, and/or the launch of nuclear missiles.
8. Feed them beef stew and homemade Cheddar Bay biscuit clones. Send them back to shriek at falling off cliffs in Halo. Escape to the upstairs bedroom.
9. 45 minutes later, hear a howling by your daughter that is only partially intelligible. Wonder if that's due to having fun or dying of blood loss. Hubby tells them to "pipe down". Suggest that using a pipe in another way might leave too much blood and brains around. Turn up Within Temptation louder.
10. Decide the music is too loud when you feel a strange pounding through the floor. Take headphones off, discover daughter is singing a sea shanty--while sitting inside a clothes basket and scooting it around (hence the floor vibrations).
11. Discover another partially intelligible howl is about Sherlock. Send girls to the spare bedroom to watch it on the computer. Close the door. Decide that closing doors does very little to block teen girl voices.
