In the month or so after my mother died I would sometimes just sit in front of the tv playing Dr. Mario and cry silently. It seemed to be very calming for me at the time. Sometimes my hubby would come in and play Dr. Mario with me with the second controller. We wouldn't talk or anything, he would just sit next to me. It was so comforting and truly one of the best things that anyone has ever done for me.
Remember that news item a week or so ago about the woman who went to hospital with abdominal pains and gave birth to a baby? No weight gain, continuing menstruate, full term birth? It happened again. [www.smh.com.au]
Huh, I'm not sure how I feel about the Tetris thing. I played a LOT of Tetris when I was a kid, and still play it quite a bit. I mean, like, breaking the enter key from rotating the blocks too much, lot of Tetris. Now I feel like there's some hideous trauma in my past masked by falling blocks.
@Dauphine: Or else you just like Tetris. Of all the video games I've played and admittedly there aren't many, tetris type games are definitely my favorite. I find them soothing and challenging at the same time.
@WaltzingMatilda(theOriginal): Ugh. F. That is the LAST time I try to type a comment while my secretary is talking to me. It's nonsense! Utter nonsense!
Playing Tetris, rated one of the greatest video games of all time, immediately after traumatic events appears to reduce flashbacks that plague sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a British study. Ah, so I have to play immediately following the trauma? Well, there goes my "I play Tetris because Matt Jacobson pushed me on the playground in 2nd grade, and the rotating blocks ease my pain" excuse.
@Political Party Girl: Look at it this way, that study probably hasn't been completed yet. Keep playing Tetris until you can't remember anything about second grade at all and you'll be just fine!
Once some friends of mine got ridiculously drunk at a club and the bouncer was going to kick them out so they told him that one of them was pregnant. And he let them stay.
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I knew working was bad for my uterus. Thanks science.
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I can play the Tetris theme song on the piano.
That is all.
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Ah, so I have to play immediately following the trauma? Well, there goes my "I play Tetris because Matt Jacobson pushed me on the playground in 2nd grade, and the rotating blocks ease my pain" excuse.
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The fine folks at The Center for Obvious Studies, always bringing you the goods.
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