More NintendoDS… 0
I finished playing “Another Code:Two Memories” the other night. It wasn’t too bad, but like all the reviews, it was too short. Time to find another game with which to test my Nintendo on. Mario and Luigi are always good time-wasters. Someone, please let me know if I am singing the Mario theme too much. *Doo doo doo, dududududu, dudidu doo*….
I’ve started sourcing textbooks for uni already since I want to be a good uni student this year (same old ‘resolution’ I guess which usually degrades to apathy by the end of semester)! We will see how this goes…
I went to the city last weekend and browsed through Borders bookstore. Bad idea… I emerge from the bookstore 10 minutes later with some R.A. Salvatore books on Drizzt! Yay! I bought the ‘Icewind Dale Trilogy’ containing ‘The Crystal Shard’, ‘Streams of Silver’ and ‘The Halfling’s Gem’, as well as the ‘Dark Elf Trilogy’ which contains ‘Homeland’, ‘Exile’ and ‘Sojourn’. I’m pretty sure I read some of these years ago and I can’t wait to delve back into them again. I seriously had to hold myself back from buying the other collectors edition Salvatore books there. Darn you Borders! Darn you!! This temptation is too great… Anyway, I thought it would be important for me to read the Icewind Dale Trilogy as ‘research’ for our mini LAN game! It’s a shame I don’t play D&D really…
I’ve been experimenting with cooking lately. I went to Mrs Flannery’s healthfood store and bought a whole heap of lentils, chickpeas, TVP mince and spelt flour. I’m going to take it slowly though – years of non-organic foods may have taken their toll. The TVP mince wasn’t too bad when I made a spaghetti sauce. I actually mixed through beef mince with the soaked TVP and it was yummy! The other sauces and spices probably drowned any residual flavour anyway. The spelt flour is amazing since it holds its form and consistency like normal flour, but is better for you! Rice flour just wasn’t working anymore. Oh, and while I was there, I picked up some Australian Bush Flower Essences. I must say, placebo or not, they are working really well! I got the Confid Essence one, to enable me to be more assertive at work. Then again, I have been on a training course for a couple of weeks so it could just be me thinking I am confident rather than actually dealing with day-to-day things. Wasn’t there a Sound of Music song? *googling*…Yes, why yes there was. *sigh* I love Google! And yes, I have found my auto-link button in Wordpress. Very handy!
If you are looking for a totally insane German movie, check out Killer Condom . I’m sure that nearly everyone has stumbled across it at some time or other (probably late night channel flicking past SBS…). I saw it again recently at a friend’s place. It is just as funny again. I also realised that I still remembered a little of my German from high school. Especially the swear words! 
I received a NintendoDS for Christmas along with the program Nintendogs. I have chosen a King Charles Cavalier puppy, and have named him Xander. He is soooo cute! I must admit, I spent much of Christmas/New Year trying to play with him after my family hijacked the Nintendo to feed/walk/wash Xander. Anyway, I think I received it so I would stop asking Nath if we could have a puppy. Our place is a little small and crawling with much cable. I like to think of this as responsibility practice! The game itself is pretty cool since it allows me to interact with the puppy a fair bit. I can stroke the puppy using the touchscreen and a stylus. The puppy responds fairly naturally too! The best bit is the bubble blower toy for the dog. I just blow into the inbuilt microphone and bubbles appear (to entertain the dog).