Ah yes, hopefully I'm back to the usual Friday blogs now!

I think I need a bit of help, I might be a shopping addict! I'm leaving my job in about a month, so I only have two pay days left until I'm back to being a poor student, so I'm buying things that I want now while I can still afford them. I bought some MS Points last night, and bought Puzzle Quest, I was tempted by Buku Sudoku but I decided against it in the end, so I've got about 1100 points left over so I might have a look at some other XBLA games, does anyone have any suggestions?

I also pre-ordered Viva Pinata 2, Fallout 3 and Fable 2 My boyfriend needed an XBL Gold subscription, and well, I didn't want to miss out on 'Pinata Vision' so I ordered one of those bundles, apparently they used to come with some MS points and a couple of free XBLA games, I'm not sure if they still do but that would make it a pretty good bundle if they did!

I watched the Sony & Microsoft E3 conferences. I thought MS's was pretty amazing, lots of games I am really looking forward too like Viva Pinata, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Lips, Scene It 2, You're In The Movies and the new avatars thing, although a bit of a Mii rip-off still look pretty good! I was a bit 'meh' about pretty much everything else.

I missed the Nintendo one because I was out purchasing a new telly. But I only really wanted to watch the Animal Crossing stuff, so I looked it up on YouTube afterwards, and it looks AWESOME! I can't wait for it to come out, I hope Elvis is in it. I'm tempted to pre-order that too, but not a lot of places have it up yet which means that I can't search around for the best price. Sony's conference was particularly yawn-some, Little Big Planet was the only half interesting thing in it.

Anyways, I've rambled enough now

-Zoë

Yep, it was my 21st birthday on Wednesday!

So here's a nice picture of me and my boyfriend enjoying birthday drinkies at my party.

I got loads of cool presents but my favourite one of all is Professor Layton for my DS which my boyfriend imported for me. I love it! The puzzles are so much fun but I'm finding it really hard to resist cheating :/ but I go on holiday tomorrow for two weeks to Cyprus so I'm hoping there will be no internet out there so I won't be able to look at any walkthroughs or anything! So I'll see you all in two weeks *waves*

I've been a bit lazy with my blogs recently, because I'm a lazy person

Rock Band has been getting played quite a bit too since I got it last Friday. I thought I'd be able to do guitar on medium, but I got stuck so I'm back on boring easy! I'm also attempting the hard vocal career and I'm 2 sets of songs away from finishing that. I got really stuck on Orange Crush and Should I Stay Or Should I Go, it just didn't seem to register my low notes for that song, obviously I'm better at high notes...as my 96% on Enter Sandman proves lol. I'll try and get some pics of my characters up soon.

GRID arrived yesterday, but it's not getting played for a long time I don't think, as I'm enjoying Rock Band and the Lego Indiana Jones game is out soon which I'm looking forward too very much.

Seeing as WiiFit wasn't helping my weight loss, I've joined Tesco Diets to try to help me to lose weight. They give you a weekly shopping list and meal plans for each day, so hopefully this will work. It's my last hope before I'm resigned to a life of eating junk food and being so fat that they need a crane to lift me out of bed. My 21st birthday and my holiday are at the end of June, so I'm hoping that I'll look a bit less podge-tastic by then, so wish me luck

- Zoë

Sorry, no cool panda pictures today!

I couldn't be bothered to do a blog last week, I was off work and too busy sleeping and that kind of malarky But I'm back now you'll all be pleased to know! I spent a large chunk of my long weekend playing GTA IV, I wasn't that impressed at first to be honest, but as I've played the game I totally get why it's got rave reviews, although I necessarily wouldn't agree with the 10, it'd probably be a 9.75 in my book I've not played it much this week, and doubt I really will until my new strategy guide arrives, courtesy of the GSUK podcast competition I want the Liberty City Minute achievement so I will need all the help I can get!

I've preordered GRID also, I've not got round to playing the demo get, but it basically looks like DiRT but on a road. So I'm sure I'll love it which reminds me I need to finish getting those last elusive achievements for DiRT. I've been attempting to play Wii Fit every day too. So far I've lost a pound, gained a pound, then lost it again...so it's going to be a long hard road to lose that 2st! I really like the rhythm boxing, it's a lot more of a work out than it looks and the Mii trainer has a hilarious gruff voice! I find it really hard to do the yoga and muscle ones though, because they are just a bit boring, so I'm really only doing the balance games and the aerobic ones.

Also: ONLY 2 WEEKS 'TIL ROCK BAND! I feel like I should have some kind of Rock Band outfit to play it in like spandex leggings, and a studded leather jacket lol

- Zoë

Yeah so I currently love pandas, they are just so big and cuddley and dopey. I really want one! There is no way that you can watch pandas and not smile, if you can? Well, you need to see a doctor about that stone heart of yours!

Last night, my grandma died but I'm putting a happy face on it because she'd been hanging on for a long time and she's not suffering any more, she's at peace now so I'm taking what comfort I can in that. So the pandas are helping with the happiness. As are Gamespot, because I won a game ( Euro 2008 ) in one of the GS UK podcast competitions and I'm supremely happy about that because it's the first time in my 20 years and 10 months (exactly!) of life that I've won anything. So that also made me happy, thanks guys...AND the fact Wii Fit is out today too So there are lots of things to be happy about.

I finished the Lost game this week too, I have to say, it got a bit more interesting at the end and I'm kind of looking back on it now as 'hmm that was an alright game'. Also I played my boyfriend at Mario Kart locally this time, and yes I can confirm he kicked my bum at it! except at Coconut Mall because that is the only track I'm good at. I unlocked Toadette, but finding it a bit hard to play with her because she's so slooow!

Anyways, thats about it for this week. Hopefully next week, I might have some pictures of Wii Fit in action to amuse you all with

- Zoë