rest guilt

i don't know what it is about my life now, but i honestly feel guilty if i come out of a weekend feeling rested and not more exhausted then when i went in.

i got a ton of stuff i needed to get done, but i also tried to take it a little easy and get more than 4 hours of sleep a night (as per my weekly routine).

finally finished halo 3. interesting ending. in fact, i was downright disappointed with the second last (more like third last) chapter of the game. but maybe i'm just not all about halo like a lot of people. the last two movements were pretty satisfying (sorry for the vagueness but i'm trying to avoid spoilers if anyone reads this post who hasn't finished the game). i'll try and formulate a real opinion on this before i have to write my review (which will be out very soon, will let you know).

got to play my first couple of xbox live games and was thoroughly satisfied with the experience. how is nintendo not watching this. this is how you do multiplayer online. no friend codes. and full chat. after my first nhl 08 game with my buddy will, i went out and picked up the messenger kit (so i could get a headset and not sit in silence listening to the announcers). in another bit of best buy gold, the messenger kit, with the brand new chat pad and original wired headset bundled, was the exact same price as the wired headset on it's own. wow, that's a great way to market the chat pad, but what about the poor guy who buys a headset only to figure out he could have got two things for the price of one. what the hell?

but really, i love xbox live, and it's going to be very hard to give back the system when the loan runs out...

started in on blue dragon right after. i asked for this game before i had received any (so i was a bit desperate) and knew nothing about it. suffice to say, this is a big learning experience for me as jen googled it and found out that it is an rpg that is over 50 hours of gameplay (created by the guy behind final fantasy) and is the first 360 game to span eight disks!!!!!!! dammit!

so, basically, between that and fire emblem, i may not be leaving my apartment for anything but work for a while. but i shouldn't complain, because it is fun, i just wish there were more hours in the day.

hoping to start battalion wars 2 as well tonight, and finally finish jen's and my save the dates for our wedding coming up this summer.

stay frosty,

JD