Wow it's been a bit since I last blogged. I've been very busy. School and all my extra curriculars are keeping me busy like never before, and honestly for a period it was quite stresful. On top of that I somehow developed gastroesophical reflux disease, which really is a fancy way of saying I get wicked heartburn whenever I eat. But seriously calling it heartburn doesn't do it justice. It was crippling, I basically couldn't eat it hurt so bad. I've lost a good ten pounds over the past week and a half or so, and I'm already a pretty skinny guy so that really is a problem. Anyways, I did finally see a doctor and he gave me some medication for it and it's a lot better. I can still feel it but the burning heartburn is gone, now it just sort of feels like a lump in my chest. Still sucks but WAY better than before and I am eating regular meals again.

So yeah last couple weeks have been bad, some issues at school got me really stressed out, and homework was keeping me up late. Add that I couldn't eat and I was on edge like no other. A couple of teachers even talked to me about my so called attitude issue because I was so friggen irritable. Honestly thought I hate it when teachers try to act all sympathetic to me. I'm sure it was legit but it still really annoys me for some reason.

I flew down to minneapolis last weekend for the Vikings Packers game. AWESOME! It was my first NFL game (I live in Canada, CFL ftw!) and it was a total blast. But the weekend coincided with the peak of pain from my GERD so as much fun as the trip was I was still really annoyed the whole time. And then I get back to find out I am totally f***** because of the days I missed. I'm not going to go into it because the week is over now, but honestly I have never had so much school work in a 2 day period before.

BUT! Happy ending here. As stressed as I was it's more or less over now. It's Canadian thanksgiving weekend so I have a four day break from school. Plus, I am finally caught up on the work I missed when I went to the game. And the other issues at school I mentioned have all resolved themselves fairly positively. There is still some stuff going on that is rather troublesome to say the least, but none of it directly affects me. Still annoying. Haha honestly I could tell you what it is but I'm so sick of dealing with it that I don't even want to blog about it.

onto NEW GAMES

I bought the orange box a while back for 20 bucks. Seemed like a good deal for the package even if it is old. But not gonna lie I havent been able to get into half life at all. Portal looks sweet, but I haven't even tryed to get into it. Just other games to play I guess haha. But Team Fortress 2 makes it all worth it. So much fun and the graphics are awesome.

I also bought Prince of Persia for 5 bucks NEW! If you didn't already know this, I work at Best Buy. Long story short apparently PoP is soon to be clearance on PS3, and clearance items lose the store money (my manager explained it, I had no idea what he was talking about) Basically to prevent the game from becoming clearance they are trying to sell them to the staff for cheap. Or at leas I think thats the reasoning behind it. All I know is that there is a list of about 40 or so games on all platforms that are soon to be clearance games that I can buy for 5 or 10 bucks. Honestly they are mostly s*** games that should be clearance but there are a few like PoP that looked alright. I've barely played it and my first impression is that the graphics are sweet, but the game is very repetitive. Maybe I'll change my mind about it once I get farther in.

On a related note, has anyone played Wolfenstein? Is it good? For some reason even though we are still selling it for 54.99 or something like that wolfenstein is on the clearance list so I could pick it up for 10 bucks if I wanted to. Seems like too good of a deal to pass up, but the game really doesnt seem my styl.e so I didn't buy it. Let me know if you've played it what you think of it.

And my last new game is Rayman Advance. Rayman for PC was one of the first games I ever played. My friend gave it to me for my birthday and I loved it, even though I remember finding it terribly hard. I was never able to get past a completion level of 20% or so. I remember not being able to configure my keyboard controls either, and having to press random keys to find the right buttons. Every new ability I got was the same process until i figured it out. Funny thing about this game is that the friend who got it for me for my birthday loved it so much that I bought it for him for his birthday:P I saw the game for 9.99 used at a gamespot and I knew I had to get it if only to relieve my childhood a bit. I still have the PC disc, but Vista doesn't seem to like it too much (XP doesn't either, so it's basically unplayable to me)

Well yeah, thats my blog. Just read some of it over and.... wow. That's what I get for blogging without a plan. Just a series of random, barely related thoughts. I feel like I owe you an apology now for this terrible blog, but it had been a while and now that I am finally in a good mood again I really just felt like writing a blog.