The Good Enough Witch

On Sabbatical....Back July 1st

Gentle Readers:

This Witch has gotten herself into an overly crispy state (I'm fried) on the blogosphere. So I decided for sanity's sake that I'll be taking a two month sabbatical to regroup. I believe this is an important exercise for me to take this time to define my writing goals and how it all fits into my life.

You still will be able to find me in the Wii Mommies forum dishing about weight loss and I'll still be blogging each Friday on the Wii Mommies site: www.wiimommies.com about my progress on the Wii Fit for Fitness Friday. With that, I know what I'm doing! And it's working! :)

I'll also be lurking about Twitter from time to time...

Thanks so much for your understanding. I'll be back and revved up on July 1st.

Chillin' out -

Tennis Anyone? FitWitch Fitness Friday

Second to Wii Sports Bowling, I'm in love with Wii Sports Tennis. Now that will get your heart rate going!

Like the bowling, there's something rhythmic about it and I have to proudly say that after playing for a while I'm getting pretty good. My main goal in life when I play is not to win, but just to MOVE and that I can do quite successfully playing Wii Tennis.

(When my son Alex plays Wii tennis he turns all the Miis into himself...that way he always wins. What can I tell you, he's four and is that that stage where he must win all games he plays or the world is over. Can you believe? It cracked me up when Dave pointed out this was what he was doing.)

But, can I confess to all of you that I am still completely perplexed as to how the heck tennis is scored? I just take the Wii's word for it. I really should look up it up on Wikipedia or something and learn one new thing today...which is always postive.

The only bad thing about the Wii Tennis is that I need to push the furniture in the living room way, way back, cuz I really get running around. I once bashed the TV table and have had to really police myself to ensure that I don't whap the TV screen!

Don't forget to log that activity into the Activity Log!

3-D Animation...Thumbs Down

Movie screens are flat. The images projected upon them should be flat as well.

3-D Animation has ruined the animated film...one of my favorite things in the world. There I've said it.

I took my four (almost five) year old son Alex to see "Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D" on Tuesday and oh-my-God I thought I was going to loose my cookies the entire time. Can you say queasy? Motion sick? Ugh. I couldn't even eat my $7.00 bag of popcorn that I bought.

And forget about trying to watch the screen without the 3-D glasses on...it's all blurry. So that's almost worse. And then there was the decibel level of the soundtrack ...it was at least twice as loud as in a "regular" 2-D movie I swear. My ears were ringing for several hours afterward.

I mean really in this culture of over-stimulation that we live in, MUST we add something else to the mix? I don't have enough input onslaughting my senses?!?!?! I'm so ready to get myself to a nice quiet mountain-top nunnery it's not even funny.

Now in complete fairness Alex watched the entire film, turned to me and said in his most enthusiastic voice, "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!" Target audience reached and pleased.

So there it is. 3-D Animation: Mommy thumbs down. Alex thumbs up. Two days later and I'm still recovering from the sensory bombardment.

I say, "Just say no."