Monday, September 02, 2013

What is a Jelly and Why do I Care?




I see all the requests on facebook for candy crush – every day.  Multiple times a day.  I see posts.  Victories.  Complaints.  I couldn’t resist.  It was a little like Bejeweled blitz, but in slow motion.  Whatever.  I’m done. 

Ignoring the requests, I just keep playing my “drug(s) of choice.”  Bejeweled Blitz, Ruzzle, and Canasta.  Kerri turned me on to Blitz and Ruzzle, but she moved on.  I haven’t.  But then I see a tweet by my son – WILL TWERK FOR MORE CANDY CRUSH LIVES Really? 

I couldn’t resist the urge to try it out again.  If it is holding Cole Carleton’s attention enough to tweet about it, I better take a second look…..

That was one week ago today. 

I went for 4 days without even realizing the meaning of his tweet.  I would play a couple of levels and move on to something else.  And then came level 33.  I was stuck.  I then realized you get a new life every 30 minutes.  I would try again.  Then I set it to notify me when I had 5 lives.  Gone.  I was consumed with trying to beat that level.  Every free minute I was sneaking in a try.

I finally beat level 33 in the airport while charging my phone.  I wasn’t really even trying.  I was certain I wouldn’t clear all the jellies.  I just wanted to use up all my lives and before Brian sat down and we would play yahtzee.  I moved on to the next level and then the next.  At some point I ran out of lives, again. 

Brian wasn’t feeling well, and asked the stewardess for a blanket when we boarded the plane.  She was snarky with him.  Rude.  (My first class king was sitting coach with me because there were no upgrades and was battling nausea and fever.) As we buckled our seatbelts and waited for passengers to file in, I went back to my candy addiction. The same RUDE stewardess approached from behind.  I think she is bringing the blanket – no.  She says, “what level are you?”  “Excuse me?” I answered.   “Candy crush?  What level are you?  I have been stuck for 2 months on ….” I quit listening.  Wow.  This lady was so tired that she was treating people rudely, but as soon as she saw candy crush, happy, happy, happy was swimming through her veins.  WOW.  I three-peat – WOW.  Unbelievable.  The lady next to me joins in… "wait until you get to level 165.  There are……"  Seriously people, my husband is dying here, and forget the candy, he might crush you if you don’t get him a blanket!  He never got the blanket. 

I am now sending those pesky little requests for more lives and something called tickets or something to unlock a bridge.  I have no idea.  24 hours later, I am stuck on level 38.   I don’t even know what a jelly is that I am trying to remove or why I want all the fruit at the bottom.  Now, I have shackles to break, and I am wondering if Christian Grey is lurking behind one of the jellies.  Whatever.  You are welcome to ignore my requests, but if you are addicted too, send a  sistah a new life!