Corusca

I’ve slacked majorly regarding written posts here. Partly due to being busy but also because I’ve been lazy.

Some news, none are bombastic revelations, I’m afraid.

I started using Wii Fit again, in an attempt to become healthier. I’m not as heavy as I thought, but close to being above the ideal body mass index interval. Although small, the increase in weight would explain why my knees have been aching more than usual lately. Wii Fit is not as good as practicing Iaido, but for now it’s what’s doable, and Iaido will need to wait until September or so. Anyway, let’s see how long I keep up with this Wii Fit practice. Place your bets!

I stopped playing WoW again. On hiatus until further notice, but haven’t really felt the urge to play at all in a few weeks. Not even the prospect of possibly doing alt/social runs with my old guild on my Paladin seems that interesting, so this will likely be a long hiatus. I feel like playing one of the many single player RPGs that have been tempting me for a while now. Which reminds me, is there a kind soul that can advise me on where to buy The Witcher Enhanced Edition? Both Game.co.uk and Amazon UK are out of sock, and at least Game has been that way for months. What must a girl do to buy the damned game? :\

Thankfully Dragon Age: Origins is supposedly coming out on October, so I’ll get my BioWare single player RPG fix. I haven’t enjoyed a new game THAT much, since Mass Effect, and that’s been well over a year ago. Yeah I’m kind of a BioWare fangirl. With good reason, since there’s not a single game made by them that I disliked (exception being the Jade Empire PC port which was pretty crap and didn’t even seem like their work), and several I enjoyed a lot.

I ended up participating in Cookapalooza!’s blog earlier than anticipated since I made some strawberry ice cream (and this week some more with my sweety) and then some mustard-sauced chicken with mushrooms recently (OM NOM NOM!) and took photos of the process. Of course after these two posts it’s entirely possible I’ll not post anything new for ages there, depending on when I’m in the right mood (and have the time) to cook something fancier and take photos of it.

As you may have noticed from the post before this one, we have a new family member at the farm. Ramá is a six month old Alentejo Mastiff and she’s adorable. I thought I wouldn’t like as much as I would a young puppy, but I was wrong. She’s very sociable, playful and sweet. She’s also very calm considering her age, which is something I appreciate a lot.

I’ve been feeling the need for vacations a lot on the last couple of months. Two weeks to go until a one-week break, and I feel burned out every day. can’t wait to rest my head a bit.

Have a nice week.

It had already crossed my mind how this music’s lyrics fit Bram Stocker’s Dracula so very much, and it looks like someone else did too.

“And though my mind is cut by battles
fought so long ago
I return victorious
I am coming home
And if the paths that I have followed
have tread against the flow
there is no need for sorrow
I am coming home”

I really have to watch this movie again.

I’ve been excited about some of the video games that launch this year, and lately the one that has been getting my eye most of all is Dragon Age. Origins.

BioWare did the right decision and made it a mature rated game, instead of going for a lower rating to aim to a broader market. Good. If I had to take a semi-educated guess, most of the BioWare games’ fans are people over 18 years old anyway, a lot of them being a lot older than that and having played classics such as Baldur’s Gate. So. Mature rating is good, and why do I believe that? Because when you have a mature rating you can show all the blood and guts you want, thus depicting things more realisticaly, and also, no idiots can complain about there being a sex scene in the game (much like what happened with Mass Effect). This despite it being an expected consequence of the plot of the game itself and not just a ‘just because we felt like spicing things up’ scene.

Anyway, there was a new trailer out this week (check it out a bit further down in this post), and it looks awesome, which makes me want to go an pre order the game already. However, since there are still several months until it comes out, I decided to wait a bit longer, because with any luck BioWare will release a special edition or something. Not sure but better to hold off ordering the regular version for a while longer.

Meantime, I’ve noticed there’s a prequel novel for the game – Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne. It’s still out of stock on my regular online bookstore, and that can be a good thing actually after the mountain of books we purchased recently (four more books bought at the fair after the photo was taken) – and yesterday we got Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in hardcover on a cool bargain (we’d both been eyeing that novel for a while now) over at Fnac.

I admit I might be more excited about this one that about SW: TOR, despite the recent announcement of the Bounty Hunter class. I guess the rumors about it being RMT-based game turned me a bit off of it.