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June 5, 2008
Lego Indiana Jones
As planned, I picked up Lego Indiana Jones on Tuesday, and, holy shit, I love this game so much. It's just as much fun as Lego Star Wars, with the added bonus of Indiana Jones. <3
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May 28, 2008
now with more surgery!
In one week I'm having laproscopic exploratory surgery to check for endometriosis, adhesions, scarring, etc. It's an outpatient procedure, but I'm more than a little nervous because I'm not sure what to expect for the recovery. The doctor said one to two weeks is what it usually takes people; I'm hoping I'm on the shorter end of that spectrum. My only previous surgery experiences involve wisdom teeth and the removal of two cysts, so it's hard for me to have a feel for how quickly I'll be able to start doing normal stuff (work, picking up kids, taking Mike to and from his vanpool, etc.). I'm sure I'm just over-thinking this, as I tend to do with new procedures, and aferwards I'll look back and think how silly I was to put this much thought into it. For now, though, I'm making a list (OF COURSE) of everything I want to have done by this time next week to make things easier for me as I'm recuperating:
pick up my Lego Indiana Jones game to help keep me entertained once I'm home from the surgery,
pre-make a couple of meals to keep in the freezer JUST IN CASE,
pick up more dog food and treats so I don't have to worry about lugging around a heavy bag while they've just stitched my belly button back together,
wash every piece of dirty laundry in the house so I won't have to worry about it for a few days at least,
repeat that process for the dishes,
vacuum to keep the dust and puppy hairs from mobilizing and taking control of the house while I'm bed-ridden,
lay in a hefty supply of reading material and bottled water upstairs so I won't have to get out of bed for anything except bathroom breaks, and
make sure every area of the house that might possibly be seen by people who are not me or Mike is tidied up because GOD FORBID MY MOM OR SISTER SEE MY HOUSE A MESS.
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May 11, 2008
Dr. Jones says "Happy Mother's Day!"
For Mother's Day this year Mike and the kids pre-ordered the Lego Indiana Jones DS game for me. I love Indiana Jones as it is, but given how much fun I'm having with my Lego Star Wars game, you can bet your ass I'll be at Game Stop on June 3rd with my nose pressed to the glass, waiting to get my game.
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May 8, 2008
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
I love this game so much. Mike bought it for me the day before my colonoscopy, and I thought it would be a fun way to pass time when I picked it up, but I didn't realize it would take over my life.
The story mode is fun (except for the flying missions - I don't steer my little Lego crafts well!), and I really love being able to go back through the levels on free play. It's not possible to unlock everything in a level in story mode, which I think is neat. I like having areas that I can go back with different characters (a bounty hunter, storm trooper, Sith, etc.) to unlock. I'm stuck in one spot on the last level (a flying level, OF COURSE), but I'm determined to get past that without having to ask Mike or the boys for help. This will be a game I beat by myself, dammit.
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February 29, 2008
you have a new revenge rival
Mike bought me a present yesterday - Burnout: Revenge for the 360. We have it for the Xbox, but it's not backwards compatible with the 360, so if I wanted to play it, I had to fire up the Xbox. That's not a big deal, but it is an inconvenience, so I haven't played it much since we got the 360. Until yesterday. I spent a good couple of hours playing it, at first just trying to get familiar with the controls again (there was an embarassing stretch where I couldn't figure out how to accelerate. Luckily Mike was in the bathroom at the time and wasn't there to witness my ineptitude), and then trying to rank up. I unlocked a couple of cars, a handful of events, and ranked up a couple of times before going to bed, and I can't wait to play some more this weekend.
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January 10, 2008
Sorry!
When the boys and I were at Target last week, Z spotted the Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry/Trouble game for the DS. There were a couple left when we went to Target this weekend, so I picked one up for Mike. He started playing it after we got home and discovered that up to four people can play together on their DSs, so I'm going to get a copy for each of the kids to keep at our house, that way we can play when they're with us.
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January 8, 2008
Mario makes my thumbs hurt
For a while now Z has been telling me about a Mario game he thought I would enjoy, but I never put much thought into until this past weekend when he handed me his DS and said, "Here. Play this." It took all of eight seconds (the same amount of time it took me to die) for me to realize that I needed to have that game. We made a special stop at Best Buy to pick it up, and it took up the majority of my time after that. The New Super Mario Brothers is not a game for me to play in public or around small children. I get caught up in the game, clutching my DS like it's my lifeline, swearing like a sailor when I die, and glaring at any outside distractions. I played it all afternoon Sunday and a good chunk of yesterday before my sore thumbs forced me to set it aside for a day or so. They need to hurry up and get callused already, because I'm itching to pick it back up. I have a princess to rescue!
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September 27, 2007
Nancy Drew: The Deadly Secret of Olde World Park
I did indeed receive my Nancy Drew game before yesterday, so there will be no beheadings this week. I also FINISHED it before yesterday. The game was sitting on the doorstep waiting for me when I got home Monday afternoon (along with a box from Amazon containing two books and a CSI game for my pretty, pretty laptop, but those are stories for another day), so I tore into it like an impatient consumer and started playing right away. I put in about 45 minutes or so of gameplay before bedtime, but, like a nitwit, I forgot to, you know, SAVE the game before I turned off the DS, so I had to start from the beginning again on Tuesday when I picked it back up. In spite of that, I managed to finish the game before Mike got home from class Tuesday night.
The game itself was pretty fun, and Bess, George, and Nancy's dad interacted with her at some points in the game while Ned chauffeured Nancy around River Heights. While I enjoyed playing it, I think it's safe to say that this game was not made with 26-year-old women in mind as its target audience. It was a little too easy. Everyone I needed to talk to had an exclamation point over their head, everything I needed to look at had a magnifying glass hovering above it, and everywhere I needed to go was marked with a stick figure. Now, I appreciate my fair share of handholding, but this didn't feel like it left much of a challenge for me, and that was a little disappointing. I'm hoping that the upcoming CSI DS game proves to be more challenging.
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September 21, 2007
I can has CSI too?
As if the news of a Nancy Drew DS game wasn't exciting enough, I just found out that a CSI DS game (CSI: Dark Motives) is in the works. I'll have to wait for it though, because it's not scheduled for release until November 27.
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Nancy Drew? In the palm of my hand? Make it so.
There is a Nancy Drew DS game, and soon it will be mine! Not as soon as I would've liked, though. Mike and I went into EB Games on Tuesday so he could pick up Eternal Sonata. While I was waiting for him, I browsed through the printout of new and upcoming releases for DS games and saw the Nancy Drew game on the list. According to that printout, it was supposed to be released that day, but when I asked about it, the elfin-looking guy behind the counter said that the release date on that list is actually the day it ships, so they wouldn't have it in until Wednesday. With that in mind, I stopped Best Buy on my way home on Wednesday to pick up Nancy Drew, but they told me the game wouldn't be released until next Tuesday. My next stop was EB Games, where they told me that, yes, they had said the game would be in stock that day, but, well, it wasn't. And even though my little elfin friend from the previous day looked in the computer and called one of the other local EB Games stores, they couldn't tell me why. So I pouted, ate the ice cream Mike bought me at Maggie Moos (he knows how to make everything better), then went home and ordered it online. I even paid extra to have it delivered by the weekend so I could play my new game instead of studying for my networking test. In spite of that, the UPS site says it's going to be delivered on Monday. This does not please me at all. There is a Nancy Drew game that can be played on my pretty, pretty DS, but I CAN'T PLAY IT YET BECAUSE I CAN'T GET IT ANY SOONER THAN MONDAY. Good thing I'll be able to spend most of Wednesday getting acquainted with Ms. Drew while I sit in waiting rooms.
If I do not have my game by Wednesday, HEADS WILL ROLL. Trufax.
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August 29, 2007
Brain Age 2
I picked Brain Age 2 up while we were at Best Buy last Thursday. I hadn't realized that a second Brain Age was even in the works, much less on sale, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it on the rack. Out of the different training sessions I've played so far (sign finder, piano player, word scramble, memory sprint, change maker, and word blend), my favorites are change maker, sign finder, word scramble, and piano player. There are still five more training sessions to unlock, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what those are like.
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