Blogelemy

It took 26 years but I finally did it!

I finally accomplished something that I began 26 years ago.  I beat the original Super Mario Bros that orignally came out in 1985 on the Nintendo Entertainment System.  When I lived in St. Petersburg, I used to play this game for hours on my neighbors Nintendo.

Three years ago, when my wife and I first got our Wii we purchased the classic game through the Wii Marketplace online store.  When we started playing it, I quickly realized that my wife was far more skilled at the game than I was (which was a blow to my ego).  She in fact showed me what it looked like to complete the game at level 8-4!  I didn't come close to finishing the game.  I gave up hope as I continued to die at the same parts and typically my wife and son would laugh at my ineptness.

This past winter as we were holed up in our house I decided that I was going to save the princess in the year 2011.  So, a few nights a week after I had shared in the duties of tucking my kids in to bed, I would go down and play the game to see how far I could get.  My skills increased and tonight at approximately 8:37 CST the princess was saved!

I can only imagine how proud my parents, Vic and Bonnie are right now.

So glad that this is finally crossed off my list!

 

Golfing (for real)

I've been asked to go golfing next Friday for my first time this season.  Golfing is one of those activities that I enjoy but always feel silly doing. Even though I grew up on a golf course and was raised taking golf lessons, I play so infrequently that I am hardly consistent.  I usually have one or two great shots per 18 holes that keep me wanting to play the game.  My competitive nature desires to be good at everything I do but golfing seems to be one of those things that gets the best of me.  My remedy is to go with friends (people I can trust and be myself with) so that I can quit pretending that I am something that I'm not.  Andy Bernard taught me from last weeks episode of 'The Office' that I don't want to hit 1200 balls before I go out.  I would get major blisters.

The other thing about golfing that always gets me is the time.  My wife always asks when I will be returning from a time of golf and I always forget the fact that I am terrible and am on the time by at least an hour.

Counting Steps...

On April 1st the staff who started a voluntary "competition" to count how many steps we take each day.  It started as something for our Health Insurance but since the inception of the competition we have changed coverages so the competition still goes on.  I seriously doubt that I will win since there are custodians who walk miles by noon.  So for the past 20 days or so I have strapped the a pedometer to my belt and kept track of how many steps I take.  So far, I'm at 221,239 not counting the 1,678 on my belt right now.

There are a few other things that would be fun to count:
Text Messages received and sent.
Minutes wasting time.
Number of Mountain Dews.
Minutes played on the Nintendo Wii.
Dollars spent at Home Depot.
Number of "The Office" quotes shared by our team.
Minutes discussing Legos with my son.
Minutes playing Backyardigans with my daughter.
Minutes dreaming in Best Buy.

P.S.  Yeah, I took a picture of myself wearing a Pedometer. 

Wii can come together...

 

I found out tonight that the Nintendo Wii is far more fun with lots of people!  We even had some people almost get hurt!

MOA

My daughter is addicted to Nickelodeon's  Backyardagains.  After going on a date with the Junior High Pastor and his wife at the Mall of America we learned that they have de-Snoopied everything at the mall and have replaced it with Nickelodeon characters. So, there is a Backyardagain ride that we took our daughter to this past weekend. Let's just say that she loved the characters and was okay about the ride. She kept a FIRM grip on my arm throughout the ride.

U23D at the Imax!

On my list of things that I would like to do sometime in my life is attend a U2 concert. Last night Jed and I did the next closest thing. We went to see the U23D movie at the Imax Theater. It was a sensory overload to watch the band perform 15 of their songs from a concert in Buenos Aires in 3D. Bono was about 6 feet tall on the screen! There were many times when it seemed that Bono was leading worship as thousands were singing along with EVERYTHING they had. I have always been impressed with the way that Bono takes the platform of the stage where millions will watch, listen and be called to action and speaks out against atrocities present in our world. There are so many rockstars who have placed themselves in the center of the universe and allows everything to orbit them. Bono illuminates the darkness with the lights.