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Fridays are so pointless. Well, the lesson itself isn't, but the fact it's right in the middle of the day and I need to go into college for just one and a half hours seems relatively pointless. :(
 
Because I didn't have to get up until fairly late, I made up my lost hours of sleep that I used last night to play Pokémon Ranger: Shadows Of Almia instead. Yeah, I said I'd finished it in my older blogs - but then there's the matter of the epic amount of sidequests. Being the obsessive completionist that I am - they must ALL be finished. It's the law.
 
Mam drove me into college about 10 minutes before Film Studies and I hung about on the ground floor playing Solitaire and listening to Judas Priest. My current 'play-on-repeat' song is Electric Eye. I've learnt most of the words - I'll be able to do it on GH:GH vocals soon. :)
 
(I'm writing this in the LRC at college and I'd just like to say that THIS SPACE BAR IS A PILE OF WANK.)
 
Anyway. Film Studies was one of those handout lessons. Sarah gave us a wodge of sheets about Mise en Scene and we were to fill in the blanks on them. I shot through this - I didn't even need to use the word banks at the bottom of the sheets. Tee hee.
 
With all this free time I'd rendered myself, I wrote a few more coursework notes in the back of my notebook and wrote the lyrics to Electric Eye all over the front cover. :)
 
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On the way to the bus station, I stopped off at Home Bargains and landed myself a bag of tasty junk food items for £1.01.
Two bags of crisps, two Reisen bars and a can of Coke.
 
These were promptly taken home and enjoyed during my Super Paper Mario marathon. :)
I'm currently at chapter 7-2. It shan't be long now...

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The only glaring bad things about today was what occurred with my mam at about 12AM and the fact I ate WAY too much at nana's and rendered myself with an upset stomach.
 
Mam and dad were both on early starts, so I went there at about 9:30. I hovered about in the kitchen for a while, talking to nana and grandad, then I directed their attention to Play.com.
They'd been asking me what I wanted for my birthday and I'd had the idea when I was in the car of them getting me a CD and a game from there. Nana is a bit funny about inputting her details onto online stores, but grandad doesn't seem to be arsed - after all, he's a teleshopping addict and the possibilities of theft are the same, thereabouts.
 
So after I'd reassured nana it was safe - the amount of stuff I've been ordering with mam's Egg card recently proving it - I made them an account, saying they could use it if anyone else wanted DVDs or games for Christmas presents, for instance.
 
Shelly was going to order Abigail II: The Revenge for me, but apparently it's been out of stock for ages and if she had, I wouldn't have gotten it in time for this weekend, so. Either way, I ordered it for myself with grandad's card. It's still out of stock, so I'll just get it when it comes. I can wait.
They always spend £20 on everyone, so with the £12 I had left, I got Final Fantasy VII: Dirge Of Cerberus. It was one game on my wishlist that stuck in my mind of being £12. :)
 
After I'd sorted this, I was nominated to sort out their "Solitaire saving problem" - which just looked to be a saved game that wouldn't go away. I did what I could.
 
When I was leaving the bedroom to go back into the living room, grandad took my hand and slipped me £30. I was confused as to why - then he said it's because they apparently give out more for 18th and 21st birthdays. Can't be bad. I thanked him and put it in my pocket. I'm going to save it. My birthday money, I'll halve it - spend half on games and keep the other half in case there's anything I need it for.
 
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Nana didn't have any green beans this week, so I had peas instead.
I can't decide if I like peas or not. They have a proper bodged flavour. I can tolerate them, but I wouldn't say they're proper nectar, like green beans are.
 
Ash hates peas, Shelly loves them and I can tolerate them. Ah, another thing we all share a different opinion on.
 
After we'd eaten, nana and grandad sort of took it in turns to play Solitaire. They'd swap around every hour or so - nana would clean and grandad would watch the football while the other played.
I was laid on the bed continuing with Super Paper Mario.
 
I finished off chapter 7 - which wasn't as daunting as a task as I'd first predicted.
What a fucking weird twist though! I'm glad like, Luvbi was a right slag. :)
 
I think after 10 hours of gameplay, I've actually developed a small liking for this game. I'm still not rating it 4-star-excellent on my Backloggery, but it's risen from a 2-star-decent to a 3-star-good.
I got annoyed with it when I was at the 78th level in the Pit Of 100 Trials and I got killed by some bastard shadow monster. I had no sodding mushroom shakes left and I was miles away from the next level, so the fuckers ended up killing me and I wasted like an hour of my life in that hole.
 
Sigh, that happened all too often in Paper Mario: TTYD too.
 
So I swapped to Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly.
I really expected it to be shit - as all the new Crash and Spyro games after the PS1 era got sucky, but it's surprisingly decent.
 
Saying that, it's technically Spyro 4. Crash 4 was good too - but after the 4th one, it started getting shite. (Not counting the spin-off games like CTR and Crash Bash, of course.)
 
Some of the dialogue is fucking weird.
Nana thought the pigs on the island level were amusing - and we were both like WTF at the tiki idols who do the drumming and sing in their weird tiki talk. Funny at first, but then it got very vexing.
 
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Nana went mental with the tea today though.
Along with the usual sausages, crackers, cheese and cakes - she did a 9" pepperoni pizza as well.
So I had a slice of that along with my usual stuff, but maybe I drank too much apple juice.
 
I was okay until about 10PM when I got home. Then I got the growly stomach and realised I had an upset stomach. So this led me to take the gut-dehydrating tablets to make a natural cork up my arse. :)
 
I took a shower, straightened my room - then I played a few gigs on Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits.
I did a few songs on vocals, mainly the newer ones that I've recently learned. Electric Eye and Beast & The Harlot, for two. :D
 
Then I switched to bass. I played it on medium so I could finish those songs that don't have scores. I was surprised at myself, I only cocked up one song, and that was via an overstrumming accident.
How I like the shiny 100% stars.
 
Mam was in my room later on, insisting she make an account on Twitter so that she can follow Eddie Izzard.
She just didn't seem to take it in when I said "Mam, I've never used Twitter, I NEVER WILL. I know NOTHING." - she kept on asking me how she did things.
HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?! PRAY TELL!
 
This is where Dixie learnt two lessons:
 
1. Never set your MSN to show the last part of your last conversations.
2. Never ask mam to respond to someone on MSN for you.
 
I asked her to tell Shelly that she was on the PC, but our last conversation section was there - namely me expressing my distaste about being kicked off the PC and being spoken to like shit - via my exclamation of "Mam's a cunt" - thankfully, it didn't implicate either of our mams. So I danced around the point and said I didn't know if it was directed at her or Shelly's mam.
 
She was all high and mighty and was like: "MURR, WHY WOULD IT BE ABOUT ME?"
For a second, I felt like saying to her: "BECAUSE YOU ARE A CUNT SOMETIMES...??"
 
- But I didn't.
 
It was strange. As soon as mam started being all pissy, my stomach upset started up again. I got the burny bowels and the squeezy intestines and I needed to go and explode again. I wonder if it was rendered by my uncomfortable emotions. Thus leading my stomach to also become uncomfortable to mimic?

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Sundays appear to be the only days that I'm ever arsed to play Super Paper Mario. Oh, it's such a terrible game. I remember stupid slagtwat-cuntface telling me to just persevere with it and I'll end up liking it - but I'm at chapter 5-2 now, and I still hate it.
I'm still going for the 100% mastered completion with all the sidequests done, but believe me, if I didn't actually have the strategy guide, I wouldn't go out of my way to print out checklists.

After I'd eaten lunch, nana said I could have an ice-cream, but I found this week-old muffin in the fridge. She didn't want me to eat it, but I said it would be fine because it'd been in the fridge. Then nana told me to put it in the microwave for a minute, at least. When it came out, it was all warm inside, it had moistened up and all the chocolate inside had gone melty. Was ever so lush. :)

I found nana an online version of Mahjong to play, because her laptop came with it included as a program, but it's missing on her new computer. She's saved it on her favourites and she was playing it for hours while I finished off my game cards.

Last night, I printed them all out and laminated them, today I cut them all out and into card shapes. Cutting off the white excess paper around them. They look so pretty when they're all in a stack because they have coloured outlines. :)
Nana had a flick through them - she's pleased with it, she isn't even bothered by some of the weird cards. She said I ought to get it patented, but I told her it was just something silly for the three of us to play. She laughed and said it was the sort of game you'd play if you were drunk.

I poured myself a bowl of bacon flavour crisps, a glass of blackcurrant and I laid on the bed and player Super Paper Mario for a few hours.
I got from chapter 3-4 to chapter 5-2 - gaining two shitty pure hearts and finally getting to Flopside. The catch cards are becoming rather compulsive with me...

We ate tea while we watched The A-Team. I had a little tub of raspberry ripple ice-cream and some crackers and cheese.

Mam came for me at about 6 and we went home to watch a weird programme about people with a syndrome similar to giganticism that made their bodies grow all weird and out of proportions. The woman on it had a mint accent, I felt proper bad for her though.

Shelly rang me at about 8 and I was on the phone to her for a while. She was out somewhere with her parents and that annoying little cunt Charlie. I hate being on the fucking phone to her when she's there. Every fucking time I start to say something, little prick starts screaming in the background.
I've told Shelly time and sodding time again to NOT ring me when she's there, but noooooo...

AND WTF LOL.
I'VE GOT NANA MOUSKOURI AS A SUGGESTED TAG.

Lmfao! I Google image searched her and found HER:

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I made a start on that "54 in 24" challenge today.
Naturally, I'm trying to see how many old unfinished games I can complete before I get my PS2 on my birthday - naturally being 24 days from now. :P

I was toying with several games before I decided I'd play Harry Potter 3.
I thought about it, before realising that I've had this game since I was about 15, and not ever once sat down properly to play it.
I do recall playing the first 10 minutes onceover, but I'm unsure of what made me stop.

Either way, it's just as good as the prequel. Really smooth, tons of collectables, nice voice acting.
Indeed, I like the Harry Potter GAMES.

I hate the films, hate the books, despise the whole franchise - but I think I like the games because they are actually really well-made games. And Harry Potter and the surroundings and additions are that which perfectly matches the action/fantasy game genre.
It should have started out as a game and stayed like that. :P

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Today begins the torture of waiting...
The parcel from Finland arrived this morning - naturally, containing WE LOVE KATAMARI. :)
I opened it to first off, check if it was PAL. It was, thankfully. I now have more faith in Play.com - I reckon anything from Europe will work, but anywhere else would require a freeloader disc.

Either way, I put Katamari on my now-cleared shelf for PS2 games.
Though with the amount on my wishlist, I'll need more than just that small shelf when I aquire more. There may be some serious shelf re-arranging going on.
Anyway, it's sat on a shelf by itself. It looks so lonely. The case is really shiny because it's fresh out of its wrapping. It longs to be played.
Waaaaaahhhh...

I've spent most of today playing Super Mario Galaxy - I've just gotten to the 90 stars mark, so it shan't be long until I have all of the fuckers.
When I grew bored of it, I set Mario Party 5 off with a 50-turn all CPU-controlled board so it could unlock the mini-games for me. All I need is for all of the mini-games to be unlocked and then I can truly mark it as completed on The Backloggery.
While that was playing, I surfed around on Play.com, mooching for bargains and wandered about on GameFAQs, looking for guides I'm going to need in the next few days of my completion quest.

When mam got home, I asked if I could order some more games. I gave her £20 and ordered 6 PS2 games.
All were relativley cheap - all under £10, five of them under £5.

ONE OF THEM WAS 98P!!!
(So it's either going to be epic or shit - either way, it was only 98p, you can take it how you want. :P)

So I ordered:
Orphen: Scion Of Sorcery
Canis Canem Edit
Alter Echo
Harry Potter 4
Herdy Gerdy
Fur Fighters

Two of them, I would kill to have - the other four are those that interest me, and happen to be very cheap. :)
So all of this week, I shall be waiting for sexy jiffy bags to come through the door.
Six different ones, as they're all coming from different sellers.
Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

(But then I'll have the torment of waiting to play those too... All these PS2 games and not a console to play them on...)

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Oddly enough, I spent a lot of today sorting out my clothes.
My wardrobe and my chest of drawers.
In the process of this, I re-organised the box of games magazines and controllers that stops me from opening my wardrobe without actually moving it. And I dusted off all the skirting boards behind.

All I threw away were 2 socks that had holes - but thanks to some sweet organising Tetris-esque skills, I've gotten everything to fit in neatly and nicely.
Everything that's too small and all my decent clothes go in the large part - the shirts I don't wear very often, all of my trousers, shorts and jeans and all of my shoes go in the smaller part - and all my pjyamas, underwear, T-shirts and socks go in my chest of drawers.

I felt really accomplished when it was all finished. :D

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As mam and dad are both working late tomorrow, mam suggested I go stay at nana's tonight.
So I packed up my Wii, my clothes and some bras I'd found when I was cleaning out my clothes. They were all nana's size, so she'd have them. :)

When I got there, nana baked me a small chicken pie and a small steak pie - and I ate these in the living room while we all talked.
Then nana came into the front bedroom with me while grandad was watching football. I helped her to sort out a few things on her computer - then she played Solitaire while I carried on with Super Mario Galaxy - before switching to Pikmin.

Nana liked the noises that the Pikmin made. :)
I've bodged it up a bit though, I have one more part than I have day to find it in - but now I've gotten back into the controls and re-familiarised myself with the levels, I'll have another go tomorrow.
I need to get it finished - no more restarting!

When nana and grandad had gone to bed - I stayed on the phone to Shelly for a few hours, naturally talking with hushed voices. :)
She helped me to wind down and chill out before I went to sleep.
Even then, I didn't actually manage to get to sleep until 4AM.

I had to listen to my audiobooks to wind me down even further. :D