About a year ago I wrote a mother-in-law-nup (MIL-nup), so that one could comfortably hand their sweet boy over to some son-stealing Jezebel. Clearly, I'm still bitter, but it made me realize that there should be "nups" for lots of things.

Like email and social networking. I'm not talking about the spammers who seem quite certain I have a small penis, I'm lonely, I could use Prozac and Cialis, and I should get said drugs from Canada.

No, I can forgive the Internets, but what I cannot forgive is the annoying emails and Facebook requests from my supposed friends and family. You guys are on shaky ground, which is why I've written this "e-nup," and I say everyone signs!

I hereby decree that:

If you're embarrassed to be a gamer, stop! Chilling on your couch with a controller in your hand isn't just for acne-ridden teenage boys these days. Celebrities are using their downtime to get their game on just like the rest of us!

It seems there are plenty of stars who have let it slip that they use video game consoles the way the rest of us do: to blow off steam, get social, lose weight, and more. Any guesses who tops the list of secret celebrity gamers? Check it out!

If you thought time travel was impossible, think again. Thanks to Facebook, The Oregon Trail is beckoning us for the first time in decades. The game has graphics better than anything else of its kind. And I'll bet you all my oxen that it will be 10 times more addicting than FarmVille.

Oh come on, doesn't the action of thieves stealing your oxen at all hours of the night, the possibility of catching cholera, and losing a wagon axle while attempting to ford the river sound more incredible than some mooing and clucking animal game?

The holidays can be an incredibly stressful time of year. Between the baking, the family members you can't stand, the never-ending to-do list, and the wrapping, a lot of people despise this time of year. But there are ways the whole family can de-stress and one of those is playing games online.

For moms, online games provide a place where children can play and be entertained as well as fun entertainment for themselves once the kids are in bed. They are mindless and distracting, a perfect way to get your mind off Aunt Sally's nagging or Uncle Bert's refusal to adhere to the "no-smoking" rule in the house.

Here are some online gaming ideas for all ages:

Be afraid. It's another Facebook horror story.I just read about little Megan Fox, a 7-year-old in England who, while playing PetVille on her parents’ Facebook account, spent $400 on virtual pet care. Yes, virtual, as in not even real.

A couple of obvious questions spring to mind, like What’s "virtual pet care"? and Why does a 7-year-old have access to $400 to buy it? I can’t really answer the first (because I’m afraid to log on), but I can tell you that the money wasn’t hers to spend. PetVille is a Facebook game, and because this second-grade spendthrift was playing on her parents’ Facebook account, she was connected to her father’s PayPal account (which he’d forgotten to log out of). Snap!Megan must have bought some really fly clothes and furniture for her virtual pet with that $400.

Back in a more innocent time, when the one-step-up-from-the-99-cent-store retailer Big Lots was known as Pic 'N' Save (oh the jokes we made!), my mother would always give each of her adult children a down-on-its-luck board game for Christmas. It combined so many of her favorite things: bargain finds, gifts for kids, board games, helping the downtrodden. 

Usually, the games were sucky and overcomplicated, and the public had been right to reject them and send their ass to Pic 'N' Save. But every once in a while she'd find a gem. Hedbanz, in the early 1990s was the best find ever. I don't even remember which kid she gave it to. We were all winners.

The premise is the same as a million party games where you have to guess something everyone knows but you. It's basically Celebrity, or the game they played in the cellar tavern in Inglorious Basterds (though it only ends in blood and death some of the time).

Caitlin Burke has stunned the world -- or at least the world that cares about Wheel of Fortune -- with her amazing puzzle-solving skills. With just one letter on the board -- "L" -- she solved the 27-letter phrase:

"I've got a good feeling about this"

A really good feeling, for sure.

Pat Sajack was shocked when the 26-year-old fashion magazine editor gave the correct answer, as was anyone watching.

Immediately accusations followed that she cheated, or it was rigged (it really looked like it was!), or she's a witch. But by all accounts since then, it seems Burke is just a puzzle-solving freak ... in the best sense of the word. 

Check it out:

Well this is a fun one. If you've got a blank wall and want some kind of art to make it all come together, Art.com has an iPhone app for you.

This free app allows you to snap a photo of your sad, art-free space and see what a nice Monet print might look like in your office. Not only do you search through over 750,000 images, you can pick your frame and actually place it in your home -- virtually.