Guess what I’ve been doing the last few days. Come on, guess. I’ve been playing copious amounts of Kingdom Hearts. I’ve turned in to one of those geeky gamers who plays video games until their eyeballs fall right out of their head. I’ve taken over the kids’ Playstation 2. I wouldn’t even let the kids look at it sideways for fear their eyes would burn a whole in my memory card and I’d have to start the game all over. Again.

See, a few years ago the kids had Kingdom Hearts. I watched them play and thought it looked pretty fun. So I decided to give it a try. And I was instantly hooked. I made it pretty far in to the game. Just two worlds away from winning.

Then the kids broke the disk. And I refused to speak to them for years.

Ok, maybe not years. But I was slightly less than thrilled with the disc that was in pieces. They say duct tape fixes everything. But they lie.

So for the last few years I’ve had Kingdom Hearts on my birthday and Christmas wish list. And every year everybody has just skipped right over that and gotten me socks or underwear or a Shop Vac or something.

But not this year. This year my Aunt Candy gave me Kingdom Hearts. And not just Kingdom Hearts, but also Kingdom Hearts 2. She loves me.

So for the last two months I’ve been playing almost every night. It’s been driving Lee crazy. Partly because I’ve been an absentee wife. But mostly because I’ve taken over the big screen TV.

But today, after 45 hours of playing [that's over the last two months, not just the last three days], I am proud to announce that I won. I beat those nasty monsters. I used my keyblade to lock all the keyholes. I saved all the monsters and kicked some major final bad guy [I don't to give away any game details] boo-tay. I watched all the credit. [Did you know Haley Joel Osment was the voice of Sora?] And at the end I saw a clip of Kingdom Hearts 2.

As the credits were rolling Lee said, “Did you beat it?”

“Yep,” I beamed.

“Good. Now I’ll have my wife back.”

But I reminded him, “Oh there’s still Kingdom Hearts 2.”

“But you don’t have that one.” I think I detected a little bit of pleading in his voice as he said that.

“Oh yes I do.”

I think I saw an eye roll and heard a deep sigh. So I decided to be nice. I won’t play Kingdom Hearts 2 until tomorrow night.

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