Happy Super Gold Valentine's Weekend

 

My Sunday morning started with the ding of messenger, from my daughter in love (I stole this title from another blogger)... letting me know she'd left valentine's goodies on my door.

Turns out her parents had made cookies and she and my son had picked up a croissant from a favorite bakery... so I had coffee and croissant breakfast watching curling.

The rest of the day I did a lot of phone gaming.  I have discovered the little app that has you untangling ropes.  And of course the wood blocks puzzle I've had on it for quite some time.  Wordle is on the web site, so have to fire up the computer to play that one.  But the bulk of my time are the "blast" games... Toy Blast and Toon Blast.  I'm on a team for Toon Blast.  Wyoming Cowboys.  Every weekend there is a tournament and the only thing they ask (to not get kicked off the team) is that you play in the tournament and give helps to other team members who are playing.  So even if I let up on it during the week, Friday thru Sunday I try to pull my weight.

Meanwhile, in TV land, I've got sucked into something called The Gilded Age, on HBO Max (the one my son lets me be part of his "family" plan on).  It's from the same producer that did Downton Abbey, but set in New York City, high society.  Naturally, it has modern themes woven into the period piece.  So far, three episodes have aired.  And I'm keeping up with Billions, too.  So when I'm not feeling Olympics, or between the airings, I'm in a fictional world.  Seems about right for this time of year.

When I was younger, it would have been books keeping my attention, but I'm finding myself turning into my great grand-mother, who was pulled to the screen of her television, when TV was new to the scene.  I've always been a bit of an addict to the screen-driven games, fighting my kid for access to The Legend of Zelda on his Nintendo.  I found out by talking to mothers of his buddies that I wasn't the only mom sucked into that one.

But on special days like this one, I of course have the Super Bowl on the tube, and the Halftime show is starting, so I'm going to wrap this.  The game is at this point fairly tight 13 - 10 with the Rams leading the Bengals.  I'm a long-time underdog rooter, so I have hopes for the Bengals.  Seems the quarterback (Burrows) for the Bengals has a dad here in Nebraska, currently in LA for the Super Bowl.  Nebraskans will claim anyone with ties to the state, no matter how remote those ties may be.  Said young man was raised in Ohio and went to school somewhere else, but his dad's here, so we'll claim him.  

Here's hoping that whatever sedentary pursuits you might have, you (and I) remember to get up and move, too.  

Life is Good.  Spark on!