It’s every guy gamer’s dream to someday find a young woman who is as passionate about games as they are, fall madly in love, and live happily ever after. It’s a fantasy for most, but for some lucky guys like me, it’s a reality. While it is super awesome and rad to the max, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t some things you need to be aware of before you start 2-player mode until death do you part.

I’m certainly not complaining; far from it. I’ve dated girls who aren’t into games and girls who think games are just okay, and dating (or in my case marrying) a girl who is a legit gamer is definitely the way to go. The point of this article, my dear brothers, is to bring some things to your attention that you may not have thought of.

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Today we got to do the food tasting for the wedding. This in itself was almost reason enough to get married. Oh man. They bring out all this food and wine, and it’s all free, and then you pick what you want for your wedding. There were like, six appetizers, six entrees and two kinds of cake.

And later tonight we’re going to see Scott Pilgrim. Booyah. Today is awesome.

I’ve been making a lot of changes in my lifestyle lately, some gradual, some not so much. While this post is going to be a bit more personal than they usually are, I’m doing my best to keep it from seeming preachy, because that’s really not my intent. I told you the blog was going to be a bit more open, so if you don’t really care you can go play your DS or something.

Anyway, I’ve been making a lot of changes to the way I eat. I mean, you guys have seen pictures of me, I’m not like OMG FAT but I’m not in the best shape. It’s the result of years of a sedimentary lifestyle and not knowing much about maintaining a proper diet. I’ve learned a lot in the past few years from working at Whole Foods, especially since I spent seven months as my store’s In-Store Educator, where it was my job to train new hires and educate all of our Team Members on our products and philosophies.

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Have you ever noticed that people treat refrigerators with the same kind of sanctity that they do a bedroom? It’s like, if you go over to someone’s house for the first time, you don’t just go in their bedroom without asking. It’s the same thing with a fridge. Why is that?

When I was in high school, my three best friends were Aaron, Antonio and Bryan. We spent equal amounts of time at each house (except Antonio’s because his house smelled weird), and we never had any qualms about just going into each other’s fridges or cabinets to grab a snack or a drink. I think Bryan was the one that first spoke the phrase, which should honestly be on a scroll or something, “An acquaintance will ask before getting something from the fridge. A real friend will know it’s cool to just take it.”

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There’s a lot going on in the news right now that’s pretty terrible, most notably the oil spill in the gulf. It’s a horrible, unmitigated disaster with consequences that will linger over the environment for years to come. No one is playing down how big a deal this is. When I look around the internet, though, it seems a lot of people feel it’s necessary to complain that other things are being covered in the news that aren’t quite as big a deal as this.

I’m referring to things like the World Cup, the LeBron James media circus, things like that. You can argue for days over “How are those news when such horrible things are happening in the world right now?” Well, to you, they aren’t news. However, they’re still important, just in other ways.

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I want a monkey tail.

I’m completely serious.

Christina has begged me not to write this, because she thinks it’s going to make people think I’m weird, but whatever. You know what I think is weird? NOT wanting a monkey tail.

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All right. I can do this. It’s writing, just like I’ve been doing, just without video games.

So I was sitting outside in the yard today, just looking around at the surrounding houses and thinking about who lives there (note: I don’t actually know the people who live in any of those houses). I know everything there is to know about my life and what it entails but I don’t know a single thing about the people who are ten to fifteen feet away from me at any given moment.

I was thinking, the four walls erected next to the ones I occupy encase an entirely different experience, an entirely different life (or lives) being lived. I found it quite astounding the more I thought about it, because I had never really thought about it before.

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