Silver lining

Although I hate to even think about how eventually I’m going to have to think about a whole, whole lot of stuff that hasn’t been getting done while I’ve been on Husband Care Duty, there is one good thing that came out of this past week: I played “Cash Cow 2″ on Webkinz.com enough times to earn Mabel the Kinzcash to buy her mouse Kate the “Princess Bed” she’s been trying for weeks to save up for. (Reading over my shoulder, Mabel says you should know that that bed was 1750 Kinzcash. Which is a lot of games of Cash Cow 2.) Dean says that I’m altruistic in my time-wasting.

Once upon a time, I was addicted to “Animal Crossing,” and used time travel to get enough money to buy four of the largest size house you can get — one for me, and one for each of my family members at the time (this was before Rose and Henry were born.) Dean only ever went in the house I bought him one time, and only because I begged him to, but about a year ago I found Mabel playing Animal Crossing and trying, with little luck, to save up enough pennies to enlarge her little shack. I was able to tell her, “Oh, Mabel, you don’t have to do that . . . I already have a house for you. A much bigger house. And the complete set of Princess furniture. Here, let me show you . . .”

(In my Animal Crossing town are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.)

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