How I Spent February 2009

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No really, I’ve been incredibly INCREDIBLY actively busy doing stuff.  And by stuff I mean mostly those facebook quality time wasters, which I’ll copy and paste here because it’s all I can think of to fill up space at the  moment.  The other thing I’ve been doing is playing Rune Factory 2, yet another DS game that has me completely and utterly hooked.  It’s a blessing and a curse to have such an addictive personality.  I pick it up and start playing and the day goes up in smoke.  There are pages and pages and pages of material written out by insane gamers and shared on the internet.  I thought I was doing okay with my first game until I checked it out on line and realized I’d missed a lot of first generation events by going all gung ho for the second generation where I become my child.  So I started over again!!  Because the child inherits everything, including money and skills and assets and tamed monsters.  Wouldn’t it be nice if real life were like that?  But I digress.  And I have no idea how to explain this fascination in a brief and concise manner. 

But here goes anyway.  My character is an amnesia sufferer who finds himself befriended by people in a strange land where he takes up farming, fishing and mining to survive.  There are four seasons in the year consisting of 30 days each in the village where he lives.  But there are also four areas surrounding the town where it is perpetually a different season in each.  So you can go to the spring area and grow spring crops, the summer island and battle priate goblins, the winter area and stay overnight in a fur sleeping bag,  the fall area and pick grapes off a tree every three days.  Those are mere random features, and in each area there are different monsters depending on the time of day or night, and gateways to new places that are not accesible until the second generation.  ANYWAY!  In this game I’ve amassed a fortune in money and goods so that my ‘child’ can inherit all of it.  Plus I have tamed different monsters who supply milk, lay eggs, produce wool, and also four who help with the watering and harvesting of crops.  I think I’m wildly successful.  Now I just have to get married, have a child, build a school…..and take off in the middle of the night abandoning everything so my offspring can take over. 

Just really mirrors real life, doesn’t it???  (LOL)  Well there’s no Canadian Idol this year so I have to do SOMETHING!!  And I haven’t even mentioned the interaction with all the other characters who say and do sometimes quite hilarious things.  I have no clue why I find this such fun.  W. certainly doesn’t get it.  Maybe it’s a control thing.  Like right now I have all these girls with high ‘heart levels’, any one of whom I could marry.  Problem is I know from the first game that once she’s married she does nothing but sit in the bedroom all day.  Even when the child arrives, she just continues to sit there rocking it day after day doing nothing else.  Not sure which girl really deserves that fate.   They all appear to get back to their normal activities once we zip into the future 9 years later.  And I’ve read that the child never grows up.  Obviously THAT really appeals to me.

Okay!  Enough for now.  It’s a snowy blustery day and W. suggested I not go anywhere today because the roads are awful, new snow over ice.  So by the end of today I could be off on totally new adventures, and on and on into the night.