And I meant to post about it but got lazy and just did a blurb on facebook instead. I'm still kind of iffy about connecting my facebook with this journal so I'll have to recap this way.

The long and short of it is, it didn't go as well as it could have. Which seems to be the state of my life in general lately.

My birthday was marred by worries largely related to Dragonrealms. My mood was entirely shot and then I couldn't find the energy to post for rpol, which I'd promised I'd do. So I ended up getting really irate, and snapping at Jon a lot, on the 23rd and 24th. :( We never even got to go out at all those days.

The 25th was better though and I consider it my "real" birthday celebration. We had a nice breakfast at Cora's, went around the mall and bought stuff. It was actually pretty fun. I don't go out much nowadays (despite living in a city as big as Montreal) so even a mall visit is a big enough deal to satisfy me.

I had a list on Facebook of what I bought but I'll write one here too. Just 'cause!

Damn, shopping yesterday freaking exhausted me. I don't know why. I wonder if I got some sort of cold or illness or something in the air cause I got SUPER LETHARGIC after.

Anyway I bought stuff! Mostly clothes :o (Sigh, I hate my body shape... it's so hard to find pants now!) I also got the second Godspeaker book (The Riven Kingdom), reading these is like candy!

And I bought Knights in the Nightmare, playing the tutorial is making me go "wat" with how stylus heavy the game is. This isn't a bad thing, but having to do all that dragging the wisp around WHILE DODGING BULLETS! Aieee! I'll get used to it, but it still amuses the heck out of me. I'll probably also get my butt kicked like I did with Rondo of Swords. (Sting makes evil hard games!)

It continues to be incredibly hot. x.x HELP. Actually, it's mostly humidity, so it's hot AND stormy, and I'm anxious about being caught in a thunderstorm cause the loud noise scares me. I need to try going out more though, and exercising more too, or I'll never get rid of the extra weight I packed on since last year. :/

Whoa birthdays. Eni's was yesterday but I was out all day. And today's is Selina's and Lumi's. I'm sending birthday wishes all over the place.

Still feel rather sad I'm not sending gifts because I like being generous, but right now being generous may not be a good idea. Still no financial aid yet and Jon is just starting a new job at the end of this month.

On the other hand I DID spend *some* money as I had some left over... namely, to get Dark Spire. FINALLY. XD And Jon bought some music CDs which I will talk about later.

Dark Spire is just... totally awesome so far. Mmmmm challenging dungeon crawlers. The premise is very simple (go to the top of the tower, kill the bad sorcerer, get back the treasure--it's very Nethack-ish actually), and the gameplay seems deceptively simple as well. But this game totally does NOT handhold you through much at all. Even the tutorial had this attitude of "just DO IT already, stop asking questions!" which amused me to no end.

Vandal Hearts is apparently getting a PREQUEL on Xbox Live and Playstation Network. Wat! This is for real (here is the IGN article).

I was a HUGE fan of the original Vandal Hearts. The game itself was simple but it had great characters and a bleak plot, and one of my favorite ending songs ever (short, and sung in Czech). I am totally going to download VH: Flames of Judgment when it comes out.

Another thing I am realizing: My World, My Way is so my kind of RPG. Even if it IS super girly. Avalon Code is also my kind of game, for different reasons. I think I like the concept of the journal the most (it apparently lets you collect data from everything in the world and alter them with 'codes'. Mmm, customization.)

But I've seen neither of these in stores. I may order them... though I also want to order Ar tonelico 2 and possibly Odin Sphere. (Ar tonelico is my priority, I want to play through both of 'em!) I won't have money to throw at that immediately, though!

I'm totally beat though so I don't know I'll really be around much till tomorrow. I have Wardragon then anyways so I'll be around pretty much all day Sat. playing that. Also updating all my RPoL posts, and writing info for Dynastic Moon. I'm a busy writin' lady.

Jon and I really had a great time, two of our best days together in a while. :D We stayed at a nearby hotel, as I mentioned, a great and high rated one. Not like, super expensive though. Just enough for what funds we had. We even got a suite upgrade for a small cost, so we spent a lot of time just lounging and relaxing in the room. We watched a movie there (Taken with Liam Neeson, which I really enjoyed actually, for reasons I may explain later) and lots of Star Trek and Stargate. Lol, we're dorks.