Nearly the end of 2013

Beat one Zelda, moving onto the next. 3DS battery doesn't seem to be big enough for this new adventure though which is shaping up to be pretty dang sweet. Just been eating midnight pizza which has fueled an idea for an end of year review. The kind of idea that has totally not been ripped from my Brother's top 20 songs of the year. I will be preparing a top 10 games of the year list for tomorrow, so thats something to look forward to!

Metropolitan

Tearing through 'Zelda: A Link to the Past.' For a game that is considered to be on par with 'Ocarina of Time' by critics, I'm not enjoying it anywhere near as much as I thought I would. Last dungeon though! Had to make a split decision about what film I wanted to watch tonight out of a pair of 'could be theater' films. I decided against watching 'The Odd Couple' at this point, just so I could enjoy it with Mark or my housemates as the theme of contrasting lifestyles seemed like an appropriate watch with them. Instead I watch 'Metropolitan,' a film about upper class young adults overly concerned about their lives and place in the world in a pretentious way. It's the characters that revel in the irony of their social gatherings which are the strongest. And while the film is about 20 somethings, it's only clear by the end, that they are still fundamentally children, no matter how hard they try to dress themselves up to appear otherwise.    

Mum playing video games take two

Bid goodbye to my grandparents this morning as they went back home to Kent, from what I hear, they have not been affected by the recent power-outage so that's a plus. I also did my annual 'Get Mum playing a video game thing' which often results in her moaning about the technical short comings of a game but not entirely so today! Brothers, a Tale of Two Sons went down surprisingly alright with her despite some moments of extended frustration due to her lack of user input; which of course she blamed on the game instead.  Baby steps though.

Ah, clothes shopping...

Kickstart today's post with a direct link to our new trailer for the 14 films which Mark has very kindly provided for us. So if anybody missed it, now's the perfect chance to gasp in awe at how awesome New Year's day is gonna be. For anyone who's seen it already, why not watch it again?

Louis and myself went into town today to see if we could use any of the gift cards we got over xmas. So we hit up a couple of clothes shops because Louis really wanted a new pair of trousers. I realized after I disgruntledly plodded around clothes shops while he avidly checked through several pairs of chinos that I had become his spiritual boyfriend who hates shopping. Turned out though the he doesn't really like going into too many clothes shops where people 're-enforce their own stereotype.' Couldn't have put it better myself.

Boxing Day chilling

Eating, gaming and TV watching. This is what boxing day is all about. The awkward wind-down to xmas, a good time for reflection where we can think about all the fun we had the day before and silently get over the fact that next xmas is a mere 364 days away. A gentle break-up for the biggest holiday of the year.

Merry Christmas 2013!

Merry Christmas to all! 2013 marks the first ever Christmas day where my parents actually woke up before me. Usually I have butterflies in my stomach before I fall asleep and have some insane adrenaline kick in when I first wake up to spring me out of bed and into the festive day. My alarm failed to go off so we didn't get to do the annual stocking gift unwrapping, but ah well.

Everything I got this year was very applicable to student life and well-being. Lots of clothes, more fab socks and jumpers along side a fair amount of coffee. Additionally I have a real Zelda back-log to work through now, donning the green garb and hat across 3 different games now. Present highlight was most certainly Louis' one to me. I could see it was a CD through the wrapping paper and I thought he'd gotten me some album he'd know I like. My suspicious were killed somewhat when Barry White appeared on the front cover - I faked an interest in his music based exclusively on that one Simpson's episode he appeared in. Opened up the CD case though, only to find Wind Waker HD inside! Ah yeah!

It's also worth mentioning I got to keep said Barry White Album as well, which actually turned out to be pretty jammin'. Next year will be a very (Barry) White Christmas.

Met up with all of the Durrant family for dinner again this year and had a cracking time just chilling by the fire in the living room. Which, incidentally, is where Louis and myself have been booted from so everyone can watch the Downton Abbey Xmas special. Ah ITV, truly bringing families together on Christmas day.

Finally, if you regularly follow this blog you will be aware of the 'Cafe 14.' Good news to anyone who has been patiently waiting since we are showing off a new teaser trailer as our xmas gift to the internet. You can check it out on our Facebook page.

Once again, to everyone reading this, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and I hope your day was just as joyous and heart warming as you hoped.

Happy Xmas Eve 2013!

Woke up to celebrate a mini Christmas morning in our student house by exchanging gifts of all sorts. I got an awesome coffee scented candle along with a witty picture book about dinosaurs and a neat DVD viewing game. A cheese board was then devoured in the name of Christmas.

Got back home to see the family and to help prepare for our Christmas eve party, I was chief candle lighter and beer keg opener. The festive waistcoat went down a treat with the guests, everyone thought I looked like a hotel worker or a barman. The evening was rounded off with the annual reading of Bilbo's humanities coursework which gets funnier every time I hear it, Louis reads it very well and is quick to point out any spelling or grammar mistakes for huge comedic effect.