Dude, the first three things on my list are games for her new DS.

So, when Activision invited us to check out all their latest games, we were so in. She had so much fun, and she was in total heaven the entire time. I couldn’t get her to put the DS down. Her favorite? Zoobles.

I wasn’t too surprised, because that’s her favorite toy– but she was SO into the game play. I asked her what the best part was?

Apparently, it’s everything.

Gaming isn’t a solitary thing– maybe you’re killing zombies until 4am with your buds via voice chat, or rolling through bingo card after bingo card with people you don’t even know, it’s just nice to know that you’ve got people to play with. When I think about the super friends I’ve made through gaming– well, dude– is somebody cutting onions up in here?

Speaking of Zombies– Have you SEEN Dead Island? Holy crap, it’s a great game– even if it does have the weirdest group matching system of any game I’ve ever played…

The quests are cool, the story line is fantastically woven into the action,

And it’s beautifully bloody in a way that I can’t describe.

Just looking at that screenshot makes me want to play it right now. (But that would be weird because it’s 8am, and I don’t feel like you should kill zombies before at least ten.)

I wouldn’t say I spend too much time gaming, but that’s only because it’s not something I want to admit to myself. I still feel in the minority when it comes to the girl-gamer thing, but that is totally changing, and I would say there are more of us out there than ever! It’s always nice when you run into another of the female persuasion– it’s like insta-cool points.

So, now I have to know…What’s your favorite game of all time?

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10. It’s something to do in my free time.

Sometimes you just want something mindless and fun to do, warcraft is exactly that. There isn’t a whole lot of thinking behind mindless daily quests and raids you’ve done before–so it’s nice to have a qay for the brain to totally veg out that isn’t television.

9. It isn’t Televison!

Yes! Hello! I hardly watch any television at all. I watch a couple of shows with my husband, but mostly I play video games or write in my free time. Before WoW I watched a lot more TV.

8. You meet people from all around the globe.

Okay, so you don’t ever actually meet them, but you do hang out with them and talk to them, and get to listen to their awesome accents. I love this part, because you learn really cool things, like that pop tarts cost 8 bucks a box in Austrailia.

7. I don’t go Stay At Home Mom Stir Crazy.

Oh this is a good one. I know so many SAHM’s that talk about how little contact with the outside world they have, and if you are playing WoW, it totally eliminates that.

6. What better place to brush up on my teen dialogue?

I am writing a young adult novel, and guess what–I’m 30. That means I don’t exactly know how the kiddies talk these days. But, if I just watch them in trade chat, then I get a feel for the things they say on a daily basis. For instance did you know that a Randy is a Random person. Who knew?

5. Minipets!

I bloody love minipets! I think they are one of the coolest in game things ever!

4. I have made friends from all walks of life…

Seriously, from the budding scientist to the old dude that just sits around all day playing WoW and getting high–I’ve met them all, and it’s neat. In real life you meet people that are a lot like you because, let’s face it… we stick to our kind, but in the game you never know who you will meet, and that makes things way more fun!

3. It gives me something that is my own.

When I first started playing WoW, my husband played with me and that was really nice because I got to spend all this time with him, but then he stopped playing, and I realized that I could have alone time right in my very own house. That’s nice when you’re at home with each other every day all day.

2. Mini goals are smackin’ fun to accomplish.

Seriously, it’s really fun to get a super cool rare recipe or beat a big raid boss with a team. I love that. There’s really nothing like it.

1. I like it.

I’ve never been the kind of person to not do the things I like, and I like playing World of Warcraft, that’s a good enough reason all on its pwn.
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But, until I started twittering, and announcing my complete geekness to all of my friends and former friends from high school and college, I felt like that was something I could keep kind of quiet.

Now they know everything.

I’m not going to lie… I am a little uncomfortable with that, because people get to find out just what a geek I really am, and I am sure they say things like, “Man, I knew she was a huge dork back in the eighth grade, but I figured she’d grow out of it.” But, I’m grown now, and I would like to think I care less now than I did then about what people think about me. I hope so at least.

Maybe I should be less of a geek? Maybe I shouldn’t live twitter my night out, or maybe I shouldn’t check my facebook page from my phone, but I can’t help it. I love being connected to the internet, and it’s who I am.

I also wonder if the internet will help me or hurt me later when I go to look for a job.

I mean, if this whole book thing works out, and people out there are looking for someone quirky… then I think I have a nice little platform going for myself, right? But… if I try to get a job where I am supposed to be poised and professional, and they google Jamie Harrington and my twitter stream pops up… I’m probably screwed.

So, I plan to continue my queen geekness, and hope that it’s cool with everyone.

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