Borderline Bishounen (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} auton) wrote,@ 2008-09-24 20:28:00 |
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Safely returned
I came home last night from a trip to the US to visit my lovely fiancée,brightlyiburn. It was a good vacation for both of us, and strongly needed. It had been three months since she went back from her last visit, and we were feeling the strain of that long a separation.
We didn't actually do much of anything, except spend every hour together, pretty much - we went shopping a couple times, went to the movies once (Wall-E, an excellent movie which I highly recommend), and a few visits with her family (who all seem to absolutely love me for some reason). We enjoyed every moment, though. Time together really gets precious when you have very little of it.
Just before I went over, B was given a belated engagement gift for us - a Nintendo Wii. Much squeeing with joy ensued. :-) So while I was there, we added a few bits and bobs, a few games, and Wii Fit. Exercise is good for us both, since neither of us is in great shape. Especially B lacks opportunities to exercise, so this makes working out a lot easier for her. I'll also add that it's remarkably fun to use that balance board!
Another game we got was Okami, an utterly brilliant action RPG type game. You play the Japanese sun god Amaterasu, in the shape of a wolf, trying to defeat an ancient evil that has been released to plague the lands of Nippon. You do this with the help of a magic system that's simply brilliant: Press and hold a button, and the screen changes to a scroll, upon which you can paint certain figures with your Celestial Brush. This then translates into game effects such as trees springing forth from the ground, waterspouts or gouts of flame erupting, bursts of wind, or broken things being repaired. It's a visually stunning game, to say the least. A true example of a game that is a piece of artwork. I recommend this game to anyone with a Wii - I can't imagine it working nearly as well on any other platform, though.
I miss B badly, now that I'm home. But she got (somewhat belated) notice that she's got her interview for her Swedish residence permit Thursday, so hopefully this means the case is going swiftly. We can feel the time approaching when we won't have to be apart any more.
In closing, and unrelated to anything (except that I'm oncomekah's friends list):
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Douglas Adams, in a speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, 1998
I came home last night from a trip to the US to visit my lovely fiancée,
brightlyiburn. It was a good vacation for both of us, and strongly needed. It had been three months since she went back from her last visit, and we were feeling the strain of that long a separation.We didn't actually do much of anything, except spend every hour together, pretty much - we went shopping a couple times, went to the movies once (Wall-E, an excellent movie which I highly recommend), and a few visits with her family (who all seem to absolutely love me for some reason). We enjoyed every moment, though. Time together really gets precious when you have very little of it.
Just before I went over, B was given a belated engagement gift for us - a Nintendo Wii. Much squeeing with joy ensued. :-) So while I was there, we added a few bits and bobs, a few games, and Wii Fit. Exercise is good for us both, since neither of us is in great shape. Especially B lacks opportunities to exercise, so this makes working out a lot easier for her. I'll also add that it's remarkably fun to use that balance board!
Another game we got was Okami, an utterly brilliant action RPG type game. You play the Japanese sun god Amaterasu, in the shape of a wolf, trying to defeat an ancient evil that has been released to plague the lands of Nippon. You do this with the help of a magic system that's simply brilliant: Press and hold a button, and the screen changes to a scroll, upon which you can paint certain figures with your Celestial Brush. This then translates into game effects such as trees springing forth from the ground, waterspouts or gouts of flame erupting, bursts of wind, or broken things being repaired. It's a visually stunning game, to say the least. A true example of a game that is a piece of artwork. I recommend this game to anyone with a Wii - I can't imagine it working nearly as well on any other platform, though.
I miss B badly, now that I'm home. But she got (somewhat belated) notice that she's got her interview for her Swedish residence permit Thursday, so hopefully this means the case is going swiftly. We can feel the time approaching when we won't have to be apart any more.
In closing, and unrelated to anything (except that I'm on
comekah's friends list):"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Douglas Adams, in a speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, 1998
