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Please tell me someone out there loves and appreciates Spinal Tap.

I feel like a complete dork explaining why the drummer blowing up in GH2 after "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You" is so damn funny.

I borrowed Shareeda's GH2 this week and I've beaten it on easy and skated by on medium. Using the blue button is really tough at first, I can only imagine what will happen when I try doing it on the hard setting.

I think this one may have better music and more interesting graphics, actually. I always play as Lars, because, well, he is the coolest one. In GH2 he blows fire, and his fingers crackle with lightning. Did I mention he Blows Fire?? If I were a rockstar, I would be Lars, for sure. A cross between Gene Simmons and Jack Black. Maybe I already am that, a little.

I have GH1 on our GameFly list, as well as the 80's version, both of which I'm looking forward to playing. I have not been this interested in a video game in a long time. I really loved Okami, but before that I'd have to go back to Lunar and Shining Force to remember being this engaged by pixels. The loss of Sega was a real blow to me, I am apparently a remnant of 90's gaming that the big companies have left behind.

Rock Band comes out soon, and Rose and I stopped to play on the demo a little bit. It has a drum kit and a guitar. I think that could be pretty addicting too.

Last week we had a crocheting/sewing/Guitar Hero night. Here are the young ones being brought up correctly:

So I beat Guitar Hero 3 on easy on Wednesday night. It's only on easy, but it was still really hard to beat the last one, it's a hard rock version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Well hell, I'm proud, it's the first GH game I've played. Now I'm going to rent the others, starting with the first. I still want to see if I can 5 star all the songs on GH3, just to see if I can.

Dread Update!

It's been 4 months, and they are starting to shrink AGAIN! My dreads appear to be on a different schedule than others I've read about, but that's okay. They are super tight since I washed them in orange Palmolive too. I guess there was some residue from the natural soap I was using, so I think I'm going to use Palmolive for a while and see what happens.

I still love them, even though I've been less than attentive with the crochet hook lately. Part of it is laziness, but I've noticed a wonderful ease of living since dreading my hair, where small things bother me less, I don't get so angry anymore, and other people's opinions have far less impact on me. A good deal of this is dealing with having white girl dreads in a small town, and part of it is the way I've chosen to deal with life in the past year - either way, they work together somehow. Even though they are fuzzy, I do still get the occasional compliment on them. Before I started reading about the process, I just assumed that fuzzy dreads were not taken care of, but fuzzy dreads have a lot more to do with recent washing and wet weather than I thought! Though I admit I do need to do some crocheting, some days they decide to be poofy, other days they want to be twisty. They really do have their own way of doing things, and it's no use fighting them.



( Lots of pics of my dreads, including some scary henna covered dreads that look like a mass of snakes on my head - woo hoo! )