Well,
I’m off to a slow start. But that’s what I expected, being a slow reader after
all. Now that I’ve done ten books (actually, eleven with two Ten Little Indians), I just wanted to do
a little retrospective of my time during the past ten posts and write about
some things happening outside of what books I read. I plan to make these little
recaps after every ten books.
Part
of the decision came from my realization that just writing down the name of a
television show or videogame doesn’t indicate how much time I gave to it. Movie
titles, on the other hand, are explanation enough. Each one stands alone and
has a set amount of time for it. So, I figure I can use this as an opportunity
to discuss any TV or gaming (or movies, too – it’s my blog!) that I gloss over
in my regular posts. I also want to keep a total of how many books are staying
versus going.
Wedding:
Well, I got 15 more months until the big day. Since I started my blog, Olivia
and I finished asking all 14 members of our wedding party to confirm that they
want to stand up with us. All yeses. That makes me glad. We have a church we
want, but we still need a reception venue. We’ve searched plenty of places, but
they are either too small or too expensive. We still have a few ideas to check into.
We got our engagement photos half-taken. Olivia and I had a weekend of
seriously considering moving up the wedding by a year.
TV:
I watched the entire series of Cadfael. I love that show! There are only 13
episodes, but each one is 75 minutes long. My favorite character, apart from
Cadfael, got replaced after the first season, which sucked, and then the
replacement got replaced for the last season. Olivia and I barreled through the
first two seasons of Downton Abbey. Another amazing British show. Mr. Bates and
Anna were immediately my favorite characters. I’ll admit, I really liked
Lavinia and part of me preferred her to Mary. Mary lost some major points with
me after turning down Matthew while the entail was being questioned. Off and on
I would join Olivia as she marathoned all of the Office. I watched all of Twin
Peaks season 2. I was disappointed with the show’s end. I’ve heard the movie
sucks ass, but I was still going to watch it until I heard that it’s a prequel.
Dammit, I just want some closure! I watched the first two seasons of Once Upon
a Time. That show’s pretty cool. I don’t really like the actor playing Emma
Swan. She always has a grimacey frown on her face, no matter what’s happening.
I hope I made my point. Olivia and I
watched the first two series (that means seasons in British) of Misfits. The
first series is amazing and was hard to put down. It’s very funny and very
thrilling. Series two was really awesome as well. However, we started watching
the beginning of series three, but there were so many changes (worst of all,
our favorite character left the show) that we weren’t enjoying it at all. So we
stopped and haven’t gone back.
Movies: I never got around to that
Tarantino marathon. Damn. I still mean to do that.
Videogames: I started and beat the
Uncharted trilogy, God of War 3, Far Cry 3, Bioshock: Infinite, and the
Injustice: Gods Among Us story mode during my blog. Uncharted was amazing, and
the third game was epic all the way through. So many awesome set pieces, such
as the sinking ship, the plane falling apart in the sky, the train convoy from
2…all three games were super fun. The first Bioshock is still my favorite
story, and I think Bioshock 2 is my favorite gameplay, what with the
dual-wielding plasmid and weapon. And the drill. There was not enough Songbird
in Infinite. It was still a good game. I tried picking it up later to try 1999
mode, but I got my ass handed to me pretty much as soon as the fighting
started. I started Dead Space 3, but I hit a wall of being scared once the
necromorphs jumped up in difficulty. After finishing Twin Peaks, I picked up
where I left off in Deadly Premonition (because I guess that’s the next best
thing to a sequel I’m going to see). I created new characters in both Fallout 3
and Skyrim. Olivia and I started a band in Rock Band, The Mistake. We collected all the Star
Coins in Mario.
Running Total: 3 Staying, 8 Going.
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