Last night, Joe and I signed up for Disney's Toon Town Online, which is quite possibly the cutest game ever made. It is SO much fun! It is an RPG, and in it, you are a cartoon character. To kill monsters, you use weapons such as squirt bottles and pies, and instead of getting killed when you're defeated, you get sad. Then you have to go the playground until you're happy again, at which time you can play some more. There's more to it, but you get the idea. My character is a cat named Melody Sparklepounce, with maroon fur, a green skirt, and a lavender shirt with purple hearts on it. It's cuteness overload, I tell ya. I LOVE it!

So I actually used the pre-approved names to make my kitty name. Others who have paid accounts can name their characters, but if the names aren't from the pre-approved list, then they are submitted for approval. Until they're approved, the characters are named the color and the animal that they chose. Same goes for people with free accounts. So there were lots of Coral Cat and Blue Duck characters running around. This is actually really cool, because in the previous version, which was free, there were SO many obnoxious people joining to talk dirty to each other or just be rude to other people. They had names like MesoHorney, and Sukmee. It was so annoying. Now they have better rules in this new version to weed out people like that, as best they can anyway...

So this dude named Lime Dog comes up to me while I'm playing and I get a notice that he wants to be Friends. It's nice to have people on your friends list, because you can send private messages and warp to them and whatnot. Plus, I wanted to see how the friends features worked. So I add him. Then he says, "You stink!" I ignore him, and he says it again. So I just ran away from him, and decided I'd take him off my friends list when I got the chance.

Meanwhile, I'm talking to Joe, who is playing at his computer. "Can you believe this weirdo?" I ask him. "Where are you anyway?"

"Hold on, I'm getting some gags so I can fight the cogs." (It makes sense when you play the game!)

Lime Dog follows me and says, "You are hot."

"Um, ok," I responded.

"Joe, he's telling me I'm hot now."

"Really?" Joe says and laughs.

Lime Dog types, "Can you read this? I said... You. Are. Hot."

I didn't respond and Lime Dog types, "Your computer is slow. Want me to speed it up for you?"

"What the fuck is this guy talking about? Is that some sort of pick-up line?" I said out loud. Joe seemed amused by my angry outburst.

I type to Lime Dog, "Whatever, dude." And I scamper off to another neighborhood.

My computer is pretty slow, so it's lagging. Finally, I can see myself in the new neighborhood, and that dog is already there!! I could not believe he was following me! I ran into the nearest building, and he follows me in there too, and types, "You can't escape." I was really getting annoyed at this point and thought I'd log off in a second if I couldn't get him to leave me alone (but how sad to log off of a game I just got and have been looking forward to for so long just because of some annoying guy!!).

I started to run out the door of the building and Lime Dog types, "Wait, I want to tell you something."

I paused and faced him, and he said, "You're hot."

I huffed out a loud sigh of frustration and aggravation, and Joe continued giggling at the whole thing from his desk.

Then Lime Dog typed, "And your cat is going to fall off your monitor."

At first I thought he was talking about my cat character (which made no sense at all), but then I saw Patches sleeping on my monitor, very close to the edge. Suddenly, it all came together in my mind, and in half a second, I swung around in my chair, pointed an accusatory finger at Joe with my mouth wide open in an expression of simultaneous realization and horror, and uttered the only sound I could manage, one of astonishment and outrage, which went something like, "Ohhhhhh!!!" And that's when we both burst into fits of laughter.

"Oh my god. I can't believe you were harassing me. I can't believe you got me! You haven't gotten me in a long, long time!" I said while giggling.

"I can't believe it took you so long to figure it out!" Joe laughed. For the rest of the night he kept saying in a funny voice, "Whatever, dude!"

My husband, the trickster. He always tries to get me, but I know his tricky ways. I always recognize his voice, even if he tries to disguise it when he calls me from work or someone else's phone, if he's out. Unlike people who don't know him so well, I always know when he is joking. But he totally, totally got me this time!

And I gotta admit, it was damn funny. God he makes me laugh. I love my husband.