Guys, I really just do not like technological games.. I just don't. Heck, I don't carry my phone around with me. Scrolling Facebook and Instagram have no interest to me. To be honest, I really prefer "real" books, but do use the Ipad for trips and such, but I really don't like it. I downoaded some of the games on my ipad just to see, but I really doubt I will like them. They just don't appeal to me at all.

We are in Texas and they paid us very well. Heck, they just paid us very well when they totaled our 2012 RV! They have done very well by us and I would never, ever bypass them. But again, that is our experience.

And sorry guys. I am not knitting, crocheting or sewing in any form or fashion. My grandmother and mother were excellent seamstresses. My grandmother made wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses. My mom made me a new Easter dress every year ( and many other dresses) until I went to college and sewed all of the dresses for my wedding. She tried to teach me. To say it was a disaster is an understatement. I don't sit still long enough, don't have enough attention, sewed things together, sewed pins inside fabric. It was horrible. I can't tie knots. Just no. Now my sister, on the other hand, makes Medieval Faire costumes and is SO incredibly talented. She can paint and do all kinds of things. For Christmas she took the giant box of buttons that had some from my mom, grandmother, and great-grandmother and she made Christmas trees for me and the cousins from them. She used buttons that had a special meaning for me or my mom and in the card, told the story. Like one of the buttons is from a favorite pink Easter dress of mine. She is the artistic one.

LOL, yes. In fact, last summer I made it a mission to read all of Kate DiCamillo and wrote a newsletter about the experience. 🙂

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LOL, Yes, I know. I taught English in high school! 🙂 I just have trouble finding contemporary fiction that doesn't have cursing or sex scenes. I will go back and reread Jane Eyre or something for fun. I was born in the wrong era LOL.

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Ok, it looks like all of these games people recommended require Wii or Switch or something like that. I am loathe to buy an expensive game system if I don't know if I would like it. Plus, obviously, not an option right now. So any suggestions for games like Animal Crossing or whatever that I could get on my IPAD...also, it would be really good if it did not require the internet. In our room, it keeps kicking me off and the signal is weak. Last night I had to keep going out onto the stairs to post to y'all. Plus, power outages are very common here for hours at a time, so no internet at all. So it needs to be something I could access offline. I just looked and they have Civilization 6.... what about 1? LOL It is overwhelming. I have no clue which of these I would even like.

Ok.. it looks like Breath of Wild is only for a Switch or Nintendo Wii, is that correct?

To get information you can use. I pretty much only read nonfiction.

Oh, yes, that is what A LOT of my writing is about. I write all about the stories about and from people.

Yeah, ageism is definitely a thing. They probably think he will retire soon, so why invest in him... I am so sorry and it really, really stinks. What a valuable resource they are missing!

Oh believe me, my writing in my journals is pretty raw. I've told my husband to burn them if he finds them. I went through not long ago and destroyed a lot of them so my loved ones would not be hurt by what I wrote.

Ok, I will try it tonight. We will see, but I just have trouble thinking straight in the evenings. Sorry guys, I have to get off. I need to make some mango cobbler, write my newsletter and get ready for tutoring. Thank you for the suggestions.

What is the point of a game if you cannot win?

Yes, I know. I do a version of morning pages and write several pages in the morning. Like today, I will write off and on in my notebook, type some of it, but after 6pm I am just done. My brain doesn't work much ( probably because I have been up since 4.) But yes, I haven't been in Africa a week yet and I have like 40 pages of stuff written longhand in my notebook.

Yes, I have them. But my mind wanders that late at night (or races thinking about stuff) and I lose the entire thread of the book.

Ok, I think I need translation here because I don't understand 3/4 of what you are saying here: blue poles? Mrs. Sourpuss? inkle? card loom? How do you weave ribbon? embroidery punk? Onya? And again, I do not have access to any of this in Africa for the next few weeks.

Honestly, I am really trying not to be argumentative. I am not. But I HATE video games. I have tried to play them and I just don't like them. I can't win LOL. I tried occasionally to play with my boys to bond, but they make me mad because I am so bad at them and they just don't hold my interest. I have never understood the attraction of things like Candy Crush or whatever. I am also truly bad at art and have some triggering memories as a kid from my elementary art teacher. ( I got minuses in art my entire career..... How in the world can you give a first grader a bad grade on her art??? ) People have laughed at my attempts at art over the years, so no arts and craft activities for me. I might try the Suduko puzzles.

You say that, but even on here I know there are certain things I could never say as they would not be well received. When I have an opinion, I would get shut down.... So, wait... I am thinking out loud. (Verbal processor) I guess what I REALLY want is to write my opions and have others love them and agree with them. LOL.

To everyone else, absolutley!!! He tells me everything inside his head LOL. I am his one and only real friend.

I am in Africa and do not have access to any of that.

Oh yes, I know this and I know that a lot of this was his anxiety over all of the legal stuff with his former partners. (I would truly love to vent about that to someone, but not on a public forum.) So, I half expect him to take some of the homemade brownie mix and try to make the perfect brownie because that is something he CAN control and the legal stuff is totally out of his control. I do recognize this. But we were both really tired last night. He has apologized this morning. Ever since his head bleed, he has been better about not "improving" something I did, so he recognizes it and apologized. We were just both tired and with only one room there is nowhere I can go or he can go that we can get away from each other. At home, I would have gone to bed and left him in the study or the kitchen or if it was during the day I could have gone for a walk. I didn't have that option last night here in Africa.

My dh does not know anything about this site, and I really don't want him to. Then I will have lost my safe space to just say whatever is on my mind, particlarly stuff that isn't nice.

Yeah, way too late for that LOL. For the first 20 plus years of our marriage, yeah.... Plus, honestly, if HE cooks, that doesn't fix it. When he cooks if it isn't absolutely perfect, he will then talk about what he will do better for the next 3 days. He will apologize over and over. He has been a lot better since his head bleed. We have had talks. We were both tired. We had a conversation, and he apologized.