Easily Addicted

I have one of those personalities where, if I like something, I'm going to spend a lot of time on it. Sims is a perfect example of this, since I spent pretty much two years almost exclusively playing Sims2 when I was 16 and 17. I mean, it was to the point that I was getting roughly 5 hours of sleep before I would wake up and jump right back on the game. It was strangely the most focused and hyperfixated I've ever been.

I can also get like this with books. I once read a 4-book series in a four day period. I got six whole hours of sleep in the last two days. It got to the point that I was hallucinating. And it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. I've since tried it with other series, but I never again went into a manic state like that. This is why I'm absolutely certain I can never try shrooms or other hallucinogenics, because I actually liked hallucinating. Also off the list: alcohol, nicotine products, and any kind of gambling. Basically, anything that I know has a high chance of getting you addicted, I'm not going near. I'm definitely stubborn enough to stop while I'm ahead, but it would also be incredibly stupid to put myself in that position in the first place.

Games are still my weak point. After getting a job, my Sims days slowly petered out. Then the bf made a huge mistake by getting me a kindle. (I dislike reading ebooks, so I knew I wasn't going to use it for reading very often.) I downloaded Fishdom. Let me tell you what a mistake that was! I was so addicted that I was playing ALL THE TIME AT WORK. I'm talking, I would have a lineup of customers, and as I was waiting on credit cards to process, I was moving pieces around. It was BAD. The only thing that stopped me was when the kindle died. To this day, I absolutely refuse to download Fishdom ever again.

After that was Wordscapes. I downloaded it on my first ever smartphone. My addiction to that wasn't as bad as Fishdom because I didn't allow it to be, but it was a stable part of my life. I think I finally ended up in the 1500s as far as levels, and I would stockpile all of my hints and I loved collecting all of the little animals. Nothing made me more upset than when I got a new phone and none of that transferred over. Then I decided I was better off without having any games on my phone.

MY STREAK HAS BEEN BROKEN AFTER 2 YEARS and it's all Christopher's fault!

The other night, we had just finished dinner, and instead of going back to the living room, we sat at the counter for probably an hour and a half with me just watching him play this stupid game. OVER AN HOUR of just watching. Then, this asshole goes ahead and lets me play a few levels tonight following dinner. Do you know what happened next? I handed him my phone and told him to download it while I went to change into pjs.

It is called Pixel Flow. This will be the downfall of my poor phone. Sorrows. Prayers.

Okay, I'm done here. I'm gonna go play now.