Going through the last week was pretty hard. I don’t know how but I know that I will have to do things differently. Right now I am doing fine because I have been keeping myself busy keeping my mind off of my mom having cancer and going through all of the doctor appointments. What I have been thinking though lately is that if I should go to school next semester. I am leaning toward not going this semester obviously to take care of my mom. I figure if I can’t focus on playing a game there’s no way I would be able to focus on school work. Also in my college life I have gone to the part where I can’t just take regular bull crap classes and actually have to major into something which I never really figured out what I wanted to do since all of this stuff happened. I think the most I can do right now is just get a part time job and work in between my mom’s doctor appointments.


My mother’s birthday is coming up next week on the 27th and I have been thinking of what I could get her because as it looks right now her surgery is probably going to happen sometime this week so she we will be recovering at home when that day comes. The best thing I could think of is getting a subscription to Netflix so we would be able to watch the streaming movies on my 360 with her. But I want to just give her more than that; I want to get her something real special. I’ve been talking with a lot of people; ask for suggestion from my friends and even people on Destructoid. What I have been thinking of getting my mom but I wasn’t really sure of was getting a certificate to a Day Spa. Someone also said I could like make something for my mom like a collage of pictures which I don’t think would be a good thing for her because I bought her a digital picture frame for her last Christmas which already has a crapload of pictures in it. *Sigh* I don’t know I think I will be able to think of something by the end of the week.

I haven’t given up on video games completely though guys they still can be fun for me. I played a bunch of Mega Man X and original Mega Man collections on the ps2. I am still surprised on how awesome Mega Man is still today for me. I’m going through fallout 3 a little bit but what I would like to make a couple more comments on is Ys Book I and II.



I never really played anything T16 related at all back in the day so when I downloaded Ys Book I and II on my wii I came to this as a brand new game. I was really surprised on how the music was, for me I think it’s just as good as any of the music from any of the SNES rpgs. The only thing I had problems getting used to in the game is the combat. There isn’t an attack button at all you basically just run into monsters which is beyond weird to me, once I got used to the way you fight I really got into it. I had a lot of fun just plowing into dudes and leveling up super fast. But ya, all in all though I am really happy that I got this game on virtual console.



I’ve received a lot of responses from quite a bit of people from Destructoid community and the one message I get the most is this “Be positive,”. I’m going to try whatever I can to get to an optimistic attitude and staying there. So I will leave you guys with a picture of me and my dog trying to channel some Chad Concelmo.


That's me about 5 minutes after I got out of bed.





(I also would like to add that I made a link to my previous post if you would like to send any well wishes to me or my mother on the About Me section, if you have already posted on there feel free to do it again if you feel like it I don't mind.)