Mom's brain loves Games.com

I haven't utilized online games in quite some time. However, I've come to discover that Games.com has been kicking butt in my absence. Today, as I pretended to NOT care about the massive control issues of one of my RADishes, and keep my gal with Tourettes under control after a minor burn("Please, Mom! PLEASE let me heat up breakfast in the oven!" And then she forgot to use a POT HOLDER!), and the five year old is ... well, being a five year old, and I'm trying to get through homeschooling all five sometime before I'm dead and gone ...

I could use a mental break. Mom needs some mindless fun to keep from jumping off the roof (or huddling in the back of a closet in the fetal position). So, off to Games.com I go.

I love Classic Solitaire, so I thought that would be a good transition back into the world of online gamery (is that a word?). Of course, online solitaire geeks afficionados all know that the REAL test of a good online Solitaire game is the sound effects. Games.com didn't let me down. You get this slight "swoosh" sound every time a card moves. Also (and this is my favorite part), cards move around with just one click. No, wait, did you hear me? JUST ONE CLICK! Hello, moms! I was plugging in the Leapster with one hand, and flicking cards with the other.

While Slots doesn't really spark my brain activity, it is a wonderfully mindless game where you don't have to concentrate at all. Again, the sound effects make all the difference. Funny how a big payoff of "ting ting ting ting TING!" can make your heart flutter. And it's not real money. Even better. I got the high while still being able to buy groceries. I would love to tell you that I don't gamble for moral reasons (being a pastor's wife, and all), but the reality is that I'm just CHEAP!

I have a secret to share. Sometimes I want to sneak away and blow an afternoon at the BINGO parlor. Instead, I put on my imaginary polyester pants, and warmed up my best smoker's voice and geared up for a feisty game of B-I-N-G-O! The really super thing about Games.com's BINGO is the sweet, elderly, animated dude that calls the letters. I'm pretty sure he left his dentures at home. He's stinkin' adorable.

The downside to BINGO is that you have to wait for a game to start, and your attention has to stay pretty focused. It's perfect for times when the kids are preoccupied with something else, but not so great when you're just trying to have a fun moment online while putting together a snack or ... oh, I don't know ... trying to pee uninterrupted!

I couldn't let my afternoon pass without a little game of Spades. You have to sit down in an available seat, and wait a bit before a game starts. Yet, you are playing others online (like you do in BINGO) and it helps you to not feel so stinkin' isolated in your prison home. At the small Baptist university I attended, Spades in the Student Center was our solution to cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women. I learned more during those games of Spades than I ever did in a classroom ... like maybe I would have been better off getting drunk out at the lake because I suck at cards. Just FYI: I still suck at cards. I lasted one round online today! I'm a loser AND a quitter.

So, if you're a mom and you need something to do and feel slightly more connected to the world (ya' know, outside of PBS and Oprah), I would suggest that you head over and kill some time at Games.com. You can choose to chat with other players, if you want. Maybe you're like me, and can barely concentrate long enough to push the "SPIN" button on your slot machine. That's okay. You can at least SEE all of the other people (real people - grown-ups even!). Perhaps you'll find, as I have, that these games actually build character in your children.

"Honey, you can wait a little bit for lunch. Mommy almost has a BINGO!"

I'm kidding ... ya' know, if anyone asks.



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