Month 15

I said in the last post that Golden Sun: Dark Dawn would be the best Christmas present I got this year.  It was.  Not that I don't appreciate the stocking filler gifts and cash from my parents but they don't have the epic-est music ever when you first start playing with them. 

I've been playing GS:DD for 22+ hours now according to the info on the save screen and I'm up to the final boss.  I have missed a fair chunk of stuff out though such as optional dungeons, bosses, djinn and items.  I haven't missed them on purpose, I just haven't found them and I didn't want to look at a guide on my first play through.  I'll have to start again when I've finished so I can get everything.  I'm sure I could get a 35+ hour save file out of it which is pretty amazing. 

I'm going to Liz's tomorrow to spend New Year's week with her.  My resolution for 2010 was to read more books.  I think I've kept to it quite well, especially over summer when I was reading a book each day for a few weeks.  Last year I only read about 3/4 of a book (The Picture of Dorian Gray) so I think the 15 or so I read this year is a good improvement.  I'll try to read at least as many books again this year but my new resolution is going to be to try to write more.  In March I started a fictional blog, wrote four entries, then didn't know what to do next and left it.  Well, in the next few days before 2011 I'm going to try and make a plan of what's going to happen in this story and then my aim is to have at least 150 entries before 2012.  I'll let you know when I think it's good enough to set to public.  For now, while it's still getting off the ground I'm going to leave it set to private.