Hey, Lee, you're funny? "Get my DRIFT?"!!! HA HA HA. Yeah, I look drunk too! I always seem to head straight for huge trees when I "drift" off the sidewalk! I started saying, "Big tree, little me!" and my dad and I laugh. (I'm a tad overweight right now, which makes it even funnier.)

Then I was telling this joke about how, at the MRI, the tech looked at me closely and said, "Hmm... it does appear that one side of your face is lower than the other." And I deliberately grimaced and raised an eyebrow. He freaked and yelled, "Oh my God, it's worse than I thought!!" HA HA HA HA HA HA. Still funny (to me, anyway) on its tenth telling! Hold on, gotta find the laughing guy... <=== There he is!

Yeah, I agree, humor is great! Probably even better if you're a recovering alcoholic! Congrats on your upcoming anniversary for that, by the way!! Late July, right? Yeah, I'll check in!!

I don't have any input on your condition, but I did want to pop in and say 'cool name!'

I have spent way too much time watching my son play Zelda games and he loves his ocarina (on his second one now). And I hope I haven't flubbed majorly, missing out on a different Gerudo Valley somewhere...

HA HA HA HA... No, you haven't flubbed, you have correctly identified Gerudo Valley, found in Hyrule! The music for that location is so rockin'! Actually, all the Zelda music rocks!

Let's get out our ocarinas and play some Zelda now! We must save Hyrule from the evil Ganon.

Woot! Cool mom for a nanosecond!

We just downloaded Majora's Mask on the Wii, his first ever Zelda game was Twilight Princess, then we got Ocarina of Time, Skyward Sword, backed up again to Windwaker and now working on the creepy moon one :lol He is actually pretty good with the ocarina. He starts middle school in the fall and is hoping to maybe learn the flute.

/end hijack

Btw, hope you're feeling better Being off kilter sounds like no fun at all.

Cool mom for a nanosecond? No, if your kid can play the ocarina, and he's going to learn the flute, and he plays Zelda, you're a cool mom all the time! That's great stuff! My brother and I tried to learn the ocarina back when the Ocarina of Time game came out (in 1998, I think), and we couldn't--it's harder than it looks! That's really cool that your son plays it. I personally like to play the Zelda music on piano. (You can find arrangements of the music if you know where to look.)

I'm stuck big time right now on Twilight Princess. It was easier to push through them when I was younger, but now my mind doesn't want to focus on trying to figure out how to get the next task done and finish the level!! You're more likely to find me replaying the earlier games, where I know exactly what to do to get through the game. (The creepy moon one--Majora's Mask--totally rocks! What atmosphere it has!! Have you seen the part where the cows get abducted by aliens? It's classic! HA HA HA HA!)

Yeah, I feel better, thanks! Still off-kilter, yes, but knowing my brain is healthy makes me none too concerned about it, I guess. I'll see what my psychiatrist thinks later this month!

Yeah, definitely get him the flute lessons!!

If you need help, just borrow a 10/12 year old :lol:

I swear, his memory is killing me. He buzzes through the levels of the dungeon (what color door? Why are you hitting that ice? How many levels do you need to bust through?) and I'm just left dizzy. But the 5 y/o and I enjoy watching him like going to the movies, we sit and shout NOOOO! Wait! Hit the jars! Get the arrows! Sloooowww dowwwnn! over and over and it's great fun for all of us. But I could never play it myself. I just can't keep track of the details of the puzzles, let alone the dexterity needed to complete the tasks.

Twilight Princess has cool graphics and a nice spooky sort of ambiance. He freaked out when we first tried it (gamefly) but a year or two later he was itching to start again and now here we are, Link obsessed. He had Grammy sew him a link costume for Halloween.

Here is a photo of him in a cloak I sewed for him as a Christmas gift (mods please move this to an appropriate place if needed, sorry I'm not up on all the ins and outs here) Pardon the comments, I need to get in and do some clean-up.

http://merlotsmusings.blogspot.com/2...s-snowing.html

He did have a 6-hole clay ocarina, but it broke, and he saved up his money and recently bought a 12-hole plastic one, so a new learning curve.

OMG, that's adorable. He looks just like Link! Great photo altering too!! He doesn't want to stop and get the arrows out of the jars? That's hilarious! I bet you all are a fun family!

Ooh, hey. When he plays the Ocarina of Time game, tell him to repeatedly attack the cuckoos(?) in Kakariko village. (And then watch him run. HA HA HA HA HA.)

Yeah, the atmosphere of the games is what makes them so great, in my opinion. It really is like a movie!! I think it's great you all sit around and watch him play as a family. When I was a kid, it was the Mario games: 1, 2, and 3. We played those together for hours! Looking for the warps and stuff.