Lisa Smit’s Rants and Other Important Stuff

Getting Off My Butt

February 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM (Just Stuff)

Getting Off My Butt And Ending Up In Yoville

So much for getting off my hiney, as my Facebook status says I was going to do. I actually wrote that I was going to and had every intention of doing so. The farthest I got was to shut off the computer and do some quilting. When I finished quilting for a while, I decided to check Facebook to see what my friends have been up to today and got sucked back into the Facebook thing…….

One of my notifications told me that a friend had danced with my avatar in Yoville. I’m still not sure what that means, but I’m starting to get what dancing means in Yoville and I know what my avatar is. What I don’t get is how she danced with my avatar and I wasn’t in Yoville, to the best of my knowledge. Since, after all it is the weekend, I decided to check things out in Yoville. I saw that there is an apartment building where my friends and I reside. Some of my friends were hanging out in the lobby. I really don’t understand why my friends don’t talk to me there. They throw snowballs at me, dance some funky moves, and emoticons appear above them. I haven’t played the game, but I have figured out how to throw snowballs and make emoticons appear above my avatar. I could only throw an occasional snowball despite being hit a few times and couldn’t dance at all. So, I decided to pay a visit to Vinny’s Diner where the game tells me that I can get energy by buying food. I bought some food and went back to my friends to show off my new dance moves. A couple of moves and I was out of energy again. I cannot help making the connection to real life with CFS. From there, I paid a visit to the Widget Factory where I am told I have a job. There I picked up a couple hundred bucks. Then I visited a few more establishments where I bought a quilt to hang on my wall and wallpaper for my bedroom. All my money was spent very quickly. Alas, again a bit too much like real life for me. After having spent too much time in Yoville, I went to Farm Town to plant the trees and get the animals settled in that my friends have sent me. Some of my trees were bearing fruit and the potatoes that I planted yesterday were ready to harvest….. Well, that’s another story………..