Psh, being responsible is for losers

I thought this was too humorous not to share, so I'll post the food related myths tomorrow instead.

Anyway, I've been dealing with a head cold since Sunday morning and haven't been getting the best of sleep. Last night I planned to watch the World Series game starting at 8 and then try to get to bed by 9:30-10:00.

My wife and I both ended up getting home a bit earlier than usual, so by the time we were done with dinner and whatever shows we had recorded it was only 7 pm. Rather than sit and watch some junk tv shows I didn't care about, I figured I'd play on the computer for a little bit and then come back downstairs to watch the game and have some ice cream.

I'm still in the process of downloading WoW (it actually finished last night) and haven't quite pulled the trigger on renewing my sub yet, but I had a couple of choices for gaming: D3 (bleah; I'm almost against this just on principle at this point) Torchlight 2 (hadn't touched it in ages), SC2 (I usually just play arcade games), or Civ 5. I started up TL2, saw that it needed to download a patch and closed it. I then opened SC2 and started a Tower Defense arcade game. We won quickly and it was just meh, so I looked for a different type of arcade game. Didn't really see anything I liked so closed down SC and opened up Civ. I had just finished a game over the weekend, so I figured I'd start one, get a few turns in, and then head downstairs for the game and ice cream.

Well, as 8:15 rolled around, one of the NPC civilizations declared war on me. The next thing I knew it was 9 o'clock and my wife had just come up to bed to read for a bit before going to sleep. So much for going downstairs to watch the game and eat ice cream. Engrossed in Civ5, I kept playing ... and the next thing I knew my wife had turned the light off in the bedroom and gone to bed. It was 10:15, but I figured if she was already asleep ... why not play till 11?!

So sure enough, I played until 11. A night that started off with plans of watching the World Series, eating ice cream, and going to bed early turned into me playing Civ 5 until much past my bedtime. This is why we can't have nice things! To be fair, the WS game quickly turned into a route (7-0 after 2?!), and Civ has always had that "just.one.more.turn" thing going on, but passing up ice cream is pretty bad.

So there you have it - before even buying the WoW expansion, I've set out to prove that I'm still bad at playing games responsibly!