Skippy has been wanting a puppy for a long long time so we finally got one.Introducing.... Blossom!Blossom was 16 weeks old when we got her last Saturday. She's very well behaved most of the time and desperately wants to be friends with the other animals. We'll see if that happens!
I got three Wii games yesterday (Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz and Rayman Raving Rabbids. I had seen a post on the internet that some GameStops were selling 3rd party Wii games early and I had to mention that fact to the sales clerk. One short call and he sold away. The only other games I want are Trauma Center: Second Opinion (sold out) and Legend of Zelda (1st party). Since Amazon won't return my email on if or when they are shipping my preordered Wii, Skippy and I are planning our two-store attack for Sunday morning.If I had known PS3s were going for so much on EBay I would have gotten us to preorder a couple. One went on Ebay yesterday for $10,000.
about myself this week. The lonelier I get from being away from home so much, the more I eat. At least I'm still doing great workouts at the gym.
So I'm 37 years old and I still like video games. A lot. Granted not as much as I used to, but certain kinds are still a lot of fun. This week brings two new systems and a necessary accessory.The Playstation 3 doesn't interest me in the slightest. I don't know why but I have always had a bias against Sony in the games market. Never had a Sony console, never wanted one. I did get to play a racing game on Playstation 3 at Target and it was actually quite amazing. But no thanks.The Wii, on the other hand, has me much more excited than it really should, considering my age 
Skip and I finally got to play ExciteTruck last weekend (fun, but not enough depth to buy). Yesterday I was in a mall that had a huge kiosk with five different systems for use. Four were devoted to different Wii Sports games (it comes free with the system, Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, Baseball) and the last one was for the new Legend of Zelda game. Now I have never played a Zelda game ever but I can't wait to have this one. It used the Wiimote and the numchuck and was just so easy to pick up and play. I played more than 10 games of tennis. Tennis is amazing fun and I can't wait to start refining my shots so they go exactly where I want. I was lucky enough to get a preorder in with Amazon (I'm not crazy enough to wait in these long lines) but god only knows when Amazon will actually ship.So the necessary accessory is the new Microsoft HD-Drive for XBOX 360. I wish the Wii just came with DVD playback (it will, but not until late 2007). Why do you need that, you ask? Well I only have two component slots on my TV and they are currently used by the XBOX 360 and the DVD Player. The HD-Drive hooked up to the 360 will free up a component slot for the Wii. Boring but true.In other news, my Mom is coming for a 10 day visit tomorrow. How fun!Emmit Smith won Dancing With The Stars. I don't watch it but my Mom loves it. I don't understand how Mario I've-Never-Had-Any-Dance-Training-Even-Though-I-Danced-Professionally-On-Kids-Incorporated Lopez wasn't disqualified. More power to them and thanks to Tucker Carlson for perpetuating the stereotype that Republicans have a stick where they shouldn't and can't dance to save their life. Oh, and who was the Republican a-hole that sent out a HUGE mailing to his support base telling people to vote for Sara Evans because she represented his kind of values. So much for it being about how you dance.Kylie Minogue is back performing after her breast cancer fight. Please, please, please come to America to perform.
I don't know why, but there's a line from Fergie's new song "Fergalicious" that just makes me smile every time I can't hear it. I just can't get it out of my head. It's a good thing though because I think it's the only thing keeping that god-awful song "Smack That" from moving in and irritating me to death."I be up in the gym just workin' on my fitness!"
I don't tend to do too much sightseeing when I travel (especially in congested areas). Being at the gym (workin' on my fitness ) at 5 am tends to make me tired after work. But on Halloween I decided it was time to see Santa Monica. OK, OK, I was told that one of the biggest Banana Republic stores was in Santa Monica. Whatever, I was off. To get from Calabasas to Santa Monica means driving through a canyon which is a very pretty drive. Kind of like home but with more vegetation. I had never been to Malibu (a city along the way) and was surprised at how small it was. The houses reminded me of home also, with the majority of houses having great views because of their placement on the hills.When I saw the Malibu sign that stated there were 13,000 residents, I was very excited and hoped to see Jennifer Aniston. OK I'm not that gullible but I can dream. I didn't see her but I did see Matthew McConahay walking along the beach talking on his cell phone.Santa Monica itself is very pretty although you pretty much have to park in a public garage as all the spaces I could find were 15 minutes only. The BR store was 2 floors, very huge, very nice but I have never seen such snotty staff in a BR store before. Blech. I then trotted over to the Third Street Promenade, a blocks long outdoor mall. With an Apple Store! And four movie theatres in four blocks! And many, many sushi restaurants. I will definitely go back before I leave.I was getting money from an ATM and this woman walked up and asked what the service fee was to use the ATM. Well I ddin't know so I said "I don't know." She asked me again and I repeated my answer. She said, "You don't see it on there?" And I didn't, I hadn't gotten to the screen yet and said, "No." So she swore at me and walked off. My polite self informed her (in a very loud voice) that I wasn't her slave and she wheeled back and said "I just wanted you to be neighborly." Well I would have loved to but even by this point I hadn't gotten to the screen that tells you the fee. I wanted to put on my best retarded voice and say "I DON'T KNOW!" Instead I just said "I don't know" and she stormed off. As soon as she did the service fee came up. $2.00. Just like I figured.Then I came to one of the theatres that was playing The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. Well it was Halloween so what choice did I have? For some reason I confused 3D with IMAX so I sat in the back row so I wouldn't get a headache. It was a lot of fun, no one under 25 I would say.Driving back I took another way, Topanga Canyon. It's evidently very steep with deep drop offs and a lot of people won't drive it. The dark made it easy for me but it is windey! Like almost making you nauseous windey.A great Halloween.
