Its hard to believe that a year has flown by. I guess that it flew by because I was working so hard on getting back into action and not really looking at everything that I left behind when I got the cancer. Anyway, this has been a very active year. I'm getting back into playing games on the PC. Just as long as I can stay off of facebook.

Where did itall go??? I don't know. But The end of August is in sight and Labor Day is almost upon us. My PSP has been my life saver in so many ways. I can gauge how well I am doing by if I am playing on it or not. You see, with having Cancer and then having surgery for my cancer... it has been a long road back to feeling 100%. But I am improving and that is one very good thing. Each day is better than the day before.

Of course we have been getting a lot of rain lately, which isn't helping too much right now. But, I am still making little steps toward healing.

This is interesting... how did I go from being a number level in the double digits (didn't really notice which level except that it was going up) to level 00. How interesting.

Yes, I am paying attention.

Anyway... the reason that I haven't been around much is because of healing from my cancer treatments. Its been a rough time and it isn't completely over yet.

But I am playing games as much as possible.

I guess that I should mention that not all the games on my list are mine. I am sort of accounting for all the games in the house, which means that most of the Xbox and Xbox360 games are really my husband's and the PSP and Computer games are mine. I don't play any of the first person shooters or the war games... those are all his. Puzzle games and RPG type games are mine.

I never grew up with an Xbox, so I am working on catching up and learning how to use the controls.

The upcoming events will put some emphasis on my PSP... because now I am going to have to sit for periods of time while receiving Chemo treatment and I will be taking my PSP with me. I love being able to play these portable games where ever and when ever I want.

But most of all... This little hand held machine can help me forget what might be considered a negative experience and make it positive by taking my mind off of what is going on around me for that small piece of time. I'll probably use my PSP as a measure of my day... if I don't play it is either a really bad day or a really good day (good because I will be too active to play). If I am playing, then it is somewhere in the middle and I find that I have a need for the escape that it can provide.

All in all... everything is good. I am good and life is good.

Positive Thinking!

Shadowchilde

I have become so addicted to my PSP. I don't know where I would be without it. However, I've yet to finish playing a single game. I've played Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy II, Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony, Dragoneer's Aria, Puzzle Quest, Jeanne D'Arc, Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl, Legend of Heros II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch, Neopets Petpet Adventures: The Wand of Wishing, and Warriors of the Lost Empire. I have so many more to try in my collection and yet... I need to perhaps not spend so much time playing. If I talled up all my game time from the saved files, I bet that I have spend almost a month playing just on the PSP. Not to mention the other games on the PC like Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and other ones that are there, that I dabble with. Anyway, I love my PlayStation Portable.

Last night I took my daughter to see The Golden Compass and we were very impressed. I'm sure most of it is because neither one of us has read the book, yet.

But the conversation started up about what our souls would look like if they were animals/Demons (I wasn't very pleased with the term Demons to describe something so intimate and powerful as someones soul, but I didn't write the book. Maybe I will write something that will take this idea along another path). She told me that hers would look like a cat, maybe a hummingbird and a puppy because she's so young and it would shift. Mine she said would be a lion. Very strong, and protecting.

I thought that was really kewl.

I sort of see myself as more of a wolf, cougar or cheetah.

Interesting ideas.

when I grow up. The funny thing is that the longer I put them off the farther away from ever achieving them I get. I think that the change in my life is going to come when I start putting the events and the achievements in priority and start actually doing them. Because the longer I spend working a job, with the intention of saving and/or spending lots of money, the older I get and the more regrets I will have. It was discussed that people should take their dream vacations now while they can enjpy them, because tomorrow never comes. And I try to teach my daughter about putting things off until tomorrow... So, there comes a time when we all need to make the appropriate plans for today. And stop putting things off until tomorrow.

Later...

Is it my imagination or is Final Fantasy II easier than Final Fantasy I? I'm really not sure that I like switching characters at the game's descretion instead of when it really might be needed for the good of the party. Perhaps that's why Dungeon Siege is one of my favorite games. You have the control about when and who you add to your party and when.

Anyway... the things that keep me going in playing a 'turn-based' game is getting the loot... and kicking some butt.

When I have had a stressful day of work... I love to go out to my car and kill some monsters in one of my games. PSP is a life saver... *grins*

Shadowchilde

What can I say... wow. It is pretty impressive, however, I am also suffering from the learning curve. This game is not as intutituve as Final Fantasy 1 & 2. It has a lot more to offer, however, it takes more time to learn how to use it all. I'm at Chapter 1 and trying to get the first battle scene. And I have no idea what I'm suppose to do with the character.

I'll have to start all over and go through all the tutorials... at a time when I can concentrate and make notes.

I think that's one of the reasons that I liked Dragoneer's Aria, Untold Legends, Dungeon Siege and Warriors of the Lost Empire. The game play is pretty straight forward, it takes about 10 minutes to figure out what is going on and then get going...

I'm learning the difference between a stradegy game and an action one.

Later...

Shadowchilde