Happy Valentine's Day

I hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day. Shaggy loved his dragon & Toberlone gift (I call it the Hobo Dragon, what with his cardboard sign.) Shaggy gave me the most beautiful pink, purple and white bouquet of flowers. :)

We did a bit of shopping today. Shaggy doesn't usually get Saturday off, but it's Family Day Weekend so I get him to myself for 3 whole days!

We stopped at Romni and bought some wool and some yarn I need to make a gift (not telling who it's for. :p) Shaggy spotted some beautiful knitting needles in the size I needed for my project (and only .80 cents more expensive then then the other not quite so spiffy ones) I picked up a pound of Welsh White wool to spin, but it's really scratchy! It's hard to tell when it's in a plastic bag. I think next time I'll pay the extra $2 a pound for the Coopworth like I did last week (in bit's right now being dyed as I type) Oh well, it spins well at least. I'm gonna see if it gets softer with some wool wash or something.

The mohair/merino/nylon yarn is drying too. It's plied, set and ready to dye. I only got 50 yards out of it though 0.o I'm waiting for some more roving to arrive in the mail. I'm gonna ply that with the Coopworth and use both yarns to make a stripy scarf.

We then went on to the Eaton Centre and found some beautiful tins for $1 each! I would have bought the whole lot of them, but I don't think Shaggy wants 10 plaid tins about the apartment (He hates plaid >.<) so I only got two. I'm going to use them to store crafty things or even just to store the small strips of roving I spin from.

I finally found a copy of Katamari Damacy. Shaggy thought it was interesting. He's actually better at it them I am, but I'm sure I'll get better with practice.

I'm back

I always have a hard time blogging when I've gone wandering for too long. I feel like I have to recap everything, but this time there seems to be so little to re-cap. Things have kind of been ho-hum and dreary. My in-laws have finally moved on, and anyone who knows me well, knows I have a hard time living with others. I'm don't like people disturbing my processes and I've grown quite fond of the ivory tower I've built for myself. It's not that I dislike my in-laws or that they are hard people to live with. On the contrary. I feel that I am a hard person to live with, and end up feeling bad for it the whole time.

But that has passed, and "normal" life is taking over, what ever that may be. :)

My birthday was last week and Shaggy got me an awesome gift! A PSP slim. I'm so happy with it. I've been spend way too much time enjoying LocoRoco. But it's so fun and so relaxing. Almost in a mantraish sort of way. "Stop stressing out and just roll this little ball around!" I'm already over half way done. And I'm really really bad at finishing video games.

Speaking of unfinished video games, I've been a Final Fantasy fan for sometime now. But I've never actually finished a game. I love the story lines and the characters but I tend to jump around and want to play the latest greatest thing. But I think I finally have a reason to sit down and actually finish FFVII (the first FF game I bought):

They made a FFVII prequel!

That's like the next best thing to remaking FFVII itself (which I hope they do. It's the series 20th anniversary. They re-released I, II, and Tactics, so there's still hope!)

I came late to the FFVII scene. It was so cool looking in Grade 9 but when I finally got a copy of it myself in college the graphics were soooo dated that it's almost hard to play. I actually prefer sprites to the first 3d rendered images.

But I know I'm going to want to play the new one, so I'll hunker down and work through the old one. FFVII is a great game with a great story. So I think I'll hook up the PS2 today (Shaggy hasn't gotten around to doing that. He's been too busy with the Wii & Guild Wars) take advantage of the fact that since Shaggy is so obsessed with Guild Wars that I'll have the TV to myself for a bit and finally play through one of the great games of gaming history.

See I told you people my life is boring. I'm blogging about playing a PS One game in 2008. :P