My Wii

I finally got a Nintendo Wii on Friday, and found a Wii Fit on Saturday. Now my crazy stalking of Target can end.

Of all of us, Will was the only one in our family who had used a Wii, and of course he was tickled, and wanted to play it RIGHT NOW! Of course, it wasn't as easy as that. The old Sylvania in the living room wouldn't switch over to game mode, so moved that, along with the DVD/VCR player to the basement, and brought the Toshiba with built-in DVD/VCR to the living room. The screen's a bit smaller, but it's much clearer, and everything works.

Finally got everything hooked up, and Will and I played a number of games Saturday night before supper. After the boys went to bed, I pulled out the Wii Fit and did about 45 minutes of that. Did the same Sunday night. Yesterday I was SORE!!! But all good.

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

This woman is a neuroanatomist who witnessed her own left-hemisphere brain aneurysm. I first heard her on Oprah's Soul Series, and was blown away by her. She has a book out, Called My Stroke of Insight. I haven't read that yet, but I intend to.

Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary

This is a terrific video from the TED Conference, about what dictionaries are currently and what they could be. The speaker is funny and dynamic. Definitely worth watching, especially for word geeks like myself.

Jed Bartlett is Back!

This is terrific! Barack Obama pays a visit to Jed Bartlett for some advice.

Obsession

As I've already admitted to some of my nearest and dearest, I am now obsessed with Stephenie Meyer's books, specifically the Twilight Saga, but I also liked The Host quite a bit.

How obsessed am I? I read all four of the Twilight books in a week and a half. And these are hefty books. And every Tuesday night I'm online to check out MTV's Twilight Tuesdays. And on occasion I read the Twilight Moms discussion forum, to commune with others as obsessed as I am.

The Twilight movie is coming out on November 21st. That had been the date of the next Harry Potter movie, but they moved HP to summer, so Twilight slipped into the spot. At least now I don't need to choose between the two, as I'd thought when I found out that Twilight had moved to 11/21, but didn't yet know that HP had been moved.

In the last couple of months I've also listened to all of the Artemis Fowl books on audio (thank you Buffalo & Erie County Public Library). They are very good. Don't be afraid of the YA designation -- they're fun for anyone interested in scifi/fantasy.