Recycling and Guitar Hero Obsession

Now that we are in a house we have recycling bins and have been trying to teach the kids about recycling and not wasting as well as where to put each type of garbage/waste. I had to pull out a pizza box from the green trash cans, the ones that are for grass and leaves & such, which is how my family was "caught" for ordering a pizza when they weren't supposed to! (while I was out) I've had to pull other things out as well. I actually enjoy breaking down the cereal boxes and sorting the things to be recycled. Zack and my dad have been working together to save out the soda cans and water bottles and turn them in for cash, which Zack gets to keep for things like his Tae Kwon Do belts and such. So all this to say, we've been trying to become a recycling family, and yet today Isaac wanted a "sword"......so he found one......in the middle of the paper towel roll.....a new paper towel roll.......he couldn't just pull out his "sword" like King Arthur did so he unrolled the paper towels to get his "sword"...............and then stuffed it all in the trash can!!!!


At least he tried to get it in the trash can, that's better than just leaving it from one end of the kitchen to the other!


GUITAR HERO
Our friend Isaac gave Jim Guitar Hero III for Christmas, last week. Jim has been wanting it for a while, I think because it has all his favorite bands on it......Black Sabbath, Kiss, Poison, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Dragonforce etc... So he has had fun "Rockin' Out" pretending like he's in the band. I've played some too. In fact, it can become an obsession if you're not careful. It can bring out the UGLY in you when you least expect it! Battling Lou, the devil looking guy or Slash from GnR....feeling the play isn't quite fair....not really knowing the tricks of the game.....losing can be pretty UGLY! Maddening even. In fact, some pretty colorful words can surface without any warning at all! And this is the EASY level!!
I'm fairly competitive, though many wouldn't know it because I can lose to most people gracefully....BUT I am very competitive when it comes to boosting or increasing my own score, against myself....gotta get to the next level, gotta beat my last score, gotta get all the correct notes, get all 100%, get more and more notes played consecutively......the list goes on.
So though my arms ache and my wrists and hands are pulsating....I must beat this game!!