VetusAstrum

sorry. i don’t live here anymore. well.  i never really lived here, but i don’t even THINK about writing here so, yep.

mostly i put interesting things in my tumblog and i write actual things in my livejournal and generally slug about at gaia because i’m cool like that. oh yes.

next time i’m here, i’ll explain the last month or so.
then you’ll forgive me for not writing. yeah. i bet.
anyway. *head desk* i will write. write write. a lot.
you wait and see if i don’t. also, we were supposed
to leave here about ten minutes ago. bummer. i guess
i’ll poke the boy in the arm and get a move on. yes yes.

i tell you i am not dead. NOT DEAD i say. obviously. i’ve just been so tied up in the past month, which is really ridiculous since i’ve just had the month off from work. that was super awesome. run down of things that happened in a random kind of way….

my sister came to visit for two weeks! TWO WEEKS. oh my. i haven’t seen her in just over two YEARS so as you can tell, this was super awesomely amazing and whatnot. we did not do a whole lot, really, but we spent time together and hung out and i forced her to watch all three seasons of deadwood and she managed to plow her way through all nine trades of preacher (which was an awesomely amazing find at $70 and would not have been a possible buy had not my ex-step-father sent a nice note with kathleen and the money. nice timing!)

we went to a movie, we went to the art gallery, we taught her how to play texas hold’em, we went on a ferry ride and we got matching tattoos on our left feet! it was so great to just hang out with her. she’s changed quite a bit in a few years, but not at all. you know? when she first arrived, she sort of reverted back into this weird, no-opinion quiet blah kind of kid that she was at fourteen… but i beat that out of her fast enough. well, we had a big talk and figured some stuff out and then wa-la.

too soon (for me anyway) that visit was over and the boy and i got… what? two days? yeah, and then is brother came to town. boy hasn’t seen him in a year or so (something like that?) so that was a great thing for him too. they went to wrestling and cricket and hung out at home playing xbox (boy now firmly convinced that after some more pressing matters are taken care of, that an xbox is a requirement of our life) and, i think, they had fun. mhmm.

the brother left last night. i go back to work on monday. it was odd and quiet and a bit sad at home last night. strange to have it back to ourselves. nice, but strange too.

(ps. thanks to melissa , i am now totally addicted to gaia so if i do not show my face for another month, now you know why!)

i have to talk about god of war 2. i’m a loser (as previously stated) and do not own the game but have rented it from the video store ($2 thursdays rock) and OH MY GOD! buy it. play it. love it.

for the most part, i’m working on the theory that obviously you have bought played, replayed and adored GOW1, so now i emplore you to do the same for 2. it’s awesome. it’s amazing. it’s totally addictive.

have i gushed about it enough yet? no? well, for those of you who are do not know the beauty of god of war, let me give you a quick run down on the story:

you play as Kratos, the best spartan warrior.. until a war with barbarians comes along and all his thousands of men are killed and he sort of loses the plot a bit and asks Ares (god of war) for help, and pledges his life to him in the process.

Aeres pretty much takes him up on it because Kratos is so super awesome and whatnot, and kills all the barbarians. he also “gives” Kratos the blades of chaos, which are chained to his arms and on fire and, let’s face it, totally super awesome too.

from then on, Kratos wanders about greece with his soldiers - path of destruction and all that - until they come to a town and Kratos goes into the local temple and kills everyone in there… including his own wife and child. he realizes when it’s all over with what he’s done. turns out Aeres set it all up so Kratos would have nothing left with “humanity” and sort of.. become the perfect soldier or whatever. Kratos says stuff that, and pledges (! again) a decade of service to the gods of Olympus in hopes that he gets forgiven for all his wrong doings. … all that is just the intro!

form then on, you play as Kratos and fight against Aeres and his armies and monsters and whatever.. you fight your way through a bunch of stuff, have sex with slave girls and spill blood everywhere. you learn magic bits, sneaky attacks and go on the hunt for pandoras box because that gives mortals the power to kill a god. you get through the temple, climb back from hell and come face to face with Aeres who tries to make you nuts by throwing visions of your family and stuff at you… but you’re better than that! (of course)

push comes to shove (so to speak) and you kill Aeres and ask the gods to forgive your sins. they say NUH! and laugh (or something similar) and send you on your way. of course, now that Aeres is dead (good job!) someone has to be the new god of war. ! job opportunity.

phew. that’s the first gow… and it’s a buzz to play. it’s great. honestly. super fantastic (have i said that already? well it is, and the second is turning out to be better. harder and moved on, which is awesome. game play is so much fun. spins and whips and medusas heads and the amulet of the fates which slows time and puzzles and god. the fighting is so fun. blood lust abounds.

the story of 2 follows fairly soon after the last ended:

as god of war, Kratos leads his spartan armies on rampage through greece. Athena begs him to stop because he’s abusing his power (or whatever) and if he doesn’t quit it, all the other gods are gonna get super mad and she wont be able to protect him from them.

of course, he ignores Athena, says shove it all and keeps doing what he does. you begin play when an eagle swoops down on you and steals all your god power - eagle is Zeus - and puts you in the path of colossus, a giant robot basically. that fight is neat. anyway. you’re offered the blade of Olympus to defeat colossus, but to use it you need to give it the remainder of your god power.. so you do. course, that means you’re just a man again. suck! Zeus shows up, tries to get your service and being the petulant child you are, you refuse! take that! so… Zeus kind of kills Kratos.

on your way to hell, Gaia (who is awesome and totally my favourite titan so far) saves you as your destiny is not done yet. exciting stuffs. Gaia tells you to go find the Sisters of Fate and so off you fly on Pegasus. You go through a bunch of fight sand puzzle type situations to get to the Island of Creation….

.. and this is about where i’m up too. eight or so hours of game play for me so far and i’m still so into it, it’s awesome. i can’t wait to see what happens next. i do like to leave you hanging with that though! heh. i know no more just yet though!

play it. get addicted. love it. very obviously my favourite game ever (beating diablo into submission-spot #2)

read more: gow1@wiki, gow2@wiki, gow2@ign, official gow.

+ what is it about the weekend that stuffs me around so much? i don’t like to work, not really… who does? so why is it that when i hit a weekend which should be awesome and amazing and omg!yay because i can do nothing or stuff as i wish, i have at least one day where i’m totally out of whack. i get restless and annoyed and bored and weird and i usually end up with a headache. none this has anything to do with a hang over.. though probably isn’t helped by the fact occasionally. meh. i want to enjoy my time out, not feel like i’m ripped out of how things should be.

+ my hair is getting long long longer. it’s by no means long, but it’s shoulder length and that makes me happy. i am itching to dye it or chop it or something it, but i’m not sure what to do or if i really want too yet. i am fully enjoying having longer hair though. it’s been at least three years since i had a decent head of hair. i get bored (with everything!) and chop it usually, or it gets too hot (it’s heading that way now) and chop it… something. for now though, neat!

+ i have half a bottle of white wine left in my fridge. i am going to heartily consume it tonight and do silly little collages for my journal and write about places i’ve been and people i’ve known. it’s one of my favourite ways to spend an evening these days.

+ i’m starting to get really hungry. almost dinner time i suppose. we’ll be making bacon and egg sandwiches, but really they’ll be masterpieces that think they’re bacon and egg sandwiches. fun and yum. exactly how food should be.

+ tomorrow the boy and i are joining lyn for an expedition to ikea and super amart and any other furniture store we can find along the way. for us, our main aim is to get a dining table and a couple of chairs.. i don’t know how much luck we’ll have, but here’s hoping. i’m totally sick of trying to sew and glue and write letters on my lap.

+ SEVENTEEN DAYS UNTIL MY SISTER VISITS! awesome, no? yes! i can’t wait. honestly. i keep yelling it at people. how many days are left (SEVENTEEN) and what we’ll do when she’s here (CINEMA, FERRY, TATTOO, ART GALLERY, SHOPPING, QUEER AS FOLK MARATHON, DEADWOOD MARATHON, ETC!).

+ ho hum. better hurry the boy along otherwise i’ll have to chew his arm off.