13 August 2008

Mahjong for Insomnia

Thank you to China for some great Olympic hosting. That's a party I would liked to have gone too.

Instead I can thank China for the invention of Mahjong and Steve Jobs for making it downloadable to the iPhone.

The recent birth of the cutest little baby I have ever seen has me getting up every night between the absurd hours of 2am and 5am to feed her. That's ok. I knew I would pay that price when I decided to have a baby. What I didn't know is that after spending around 40 minutes to go through the whole changing-the-diaper/feeding routine, I wouldn't be able to fall asleep again. So I find myself lying in bed at 4am, wide awake, wondering when she'll wake up again and thinking of odd ways to drop the baby weight.

One day Ben told me to download all the updates for my iPhone so I did. Lo and behold, one can now download free games to play. I have never been into playing games on my phone but I discovered Mahjong and I can't thank China enough. Requiring just enough concentration for me to not think of other things, it relaxes me enough to fall back asleep. The gold medal goes to China for neat-o tile game invention!

6 comments:

WonderKitty said...

Mahjong is a pretty addicting game. Its almost as good as the bubble shooting games on addictinggames.com. I'm glad you like your iPhone. Hope you didn't pay the big bucks for it.

JustMe said...

Mar - thanks for blogging. I was telling Charity just last night that I really missed reading your blogs. Isn't it amazing how time- consuming a person so tiny can be? But, since you've been so slack, I've been reading your friend "mormon child bride". I find her interesting but much less amusing than you. Hope all is going well with new motherhood.

Mar said...

I would never fork over the cash for an iPhone. Luckily, mine was a freebie.

chiggidy said...

what the hell is Mahjong? i'm not in the cool crowd with the iPhone.

Mar said...

Chiggidy, You don't have to have an iPhone to know what Mahjong is because the game was invented hundreds and possibly thousands of years ago.

Stephanie said...

hahaha looks like you're a hard act to follow marianne.

glad you are doing well, i miss reading your posts too, but i guess the cutest baby ever is a good excuse.