Holy crap, has it really been since January? I've been totally swamped these past few months. I got promoted at work, but a couple people quit so things have just been insane for me lately.

My boyfriend bought me a PSP the other day because he's awesome. I picked up Crisis Core and I think I'm in love. I find that I have too many games I want to play and books I want to read and not enough time to do them, so my OCD brain came up with a solution. I alternate weeks for systems and books, play one system one week, another the next. That way EVERYONE gets a turn.

I am so sick right now. It feels like something crawled into my chest nose and throat and vomited all over the place. I'm miserable but still working because I need the monies. D:

I finally picked up Folklore after a month of waiting. I love it. It's a gorgeous game with interesting characters and fantastic gameplay. I've been playing Enchanted Arms for over a month and it's nice to finally play something else.

Reguarding Enchanted Arms, I finally beat it, but I need to beat it again because I wasn't paying attention and got the "bad" ending.

Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get one video game. My boyfriend says he won't buy me another game until I beat at least one of the 20 in our house that I've failed to complete. Instead from him I got three books: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, Anasi Boys by Neil Gaiman, andDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. I got the cutest pair of shoes from his kids, a $25 gift card to Olive Garden from his ex-wife and a whole slew of cute little things from my mom. I also got lots of monies from various relatives that I will be using to purchase the video games I did not receive.

I went a little overboard with gifts this year. I got my boy the first season of House M.D. on DVD, mechanic's gloves and coveralls for when he's working on the car and a book called Look Me in the Eye: My life with Aspburgur's (his son has it). For the kids I got them each a stereo and a CD, I got his son the complete Chronicles of Narnia book series and his daughter the Golden Compass series. For my parents I got them the first (and only) season of Firefly. I always did enjoy giving gifts more than I did getting them.

For a while now I haven't made any progress in Enchanted Arms because for the life of me I could not beat Professor Kou. The guy would kick my butt every time. Then one night about a week ago, I felt like an idiot. I didn't know about the parameter increases. I had about 30,000 SP sitting around for each character not being used. After about 2 hours of increasing parameters I fought him again. Took me about five minutes to beat him.

Last night I didn't get to play games at all because I ended up going to a 4 hour seminar at work about new steam units we will be selling. The good thing about it was that there was plenty of food and alcohol (and believe me when watching a guy talk about steam for four hours you need plenty of rum and coke).

By the time I got home I was too tired to do anything except take a bath and go to bed. Now I haven't played a video game in over 24 hours and I think I'm going through withdraw symptoms.

It's December in Seattle and that means rain. Tons and tons of rain. It is pouring outside as I type this with no sign of letting up. It actually snowed over the weekend and my boyfriend and I had to spend an hour pulling the engine hoist we bought over the weekend into the garage. First we had to tow the car he is repairing up the driveway, then we both had to pick up this giant monstrosity of metal into the garage. I sustained an injury during the process, which is to say I wasn't paying attention and got my finger caught in the wheel of the engine hoist.

I also picked up The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the GBA. I've been playing it for a couple days and have hardly made a dent. I've been playing turn based tactics RPG's for awhile so I think my platforming skills have been stunted.