Conversions, God and Video Games

Howdy again,
I've finished uni for the semester!
And now the house is so much cleaner!
Except I haven't vacuumed.
But I will.
But I have to shop first.

I'm getting ahead of myself though, I have been converted. It all started with creepy aliens who no one could remember. Then she's pregnant/not pregnant/pregnant/not pregnant/make up your bloomin' mind.
And now I'm hooked :S Every Saturday now, at 7:30, Phil and I sit in the same position on the couch (otherwise the tv goes fuzzy) and we watch Doctor Who. I am sure that Pirates of the Caribbean peoples will soon be sueing them for breaching copy right in the latest episode. But hey! At least I didn't see any Daleks or Cybermen.
I feel a bit bad for converting after years of dissing Doctor Who. But I still diss them and Phil is happier when I am excited to be seeing Doctor Who ;)

Now, God and video games! I am nearly finished Dragon Age. It is a very long, well written, excellent plot line computer game that I have been playing on and off since Phil and I got married. He was so excited about it, and now I'm so excited about it, and one of my friends is also so excited about it and I have been having a ball going through it and doing awesome things. And strangely enough, I have discovered something about me. I can't disconnect myself from my character.

I think I know why.

I don't think it's because I am so 'everything has to be about me'. At least, I don't think that's the whole reason. I don know for sure, but I think it's because I can't disconnect from God. God is so good and I want to do what he would do, so as much as possible I have made my character do what I think God would want her to do.

Then I got up to a REALLY annoying thing in the game. It's towards the end and here are massive spoilers so DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS!!


SPOILERS!

This part of the game I have a choice. I can either: convince my boyfriend/partner/lover to sleep with a witch, just once, and we can both live; or I can say no, and then I must choose which of us must die.

I have had bad moral dilemmas in this game before, but all through the game I tried my hardest to choose the path that would let him and her live. I made Anora the queen, and not him.

But even in a game, I couldn't handle him sleeping with this witch. I just thought how sad it would make God.

And so I have to choose who should die. Should he die? Should my character die? If he dies, then it would be the first decision he's ever made in his life, I daresay. He's not very good at making up his mind. At least he would die having been strong for once. But what about my character? Should she let him die for her, or should she die for him? Men are strong, designed to protect women, asked to protect women (sorry, not meaning to preach, just stating what I believe) and so I would say that maybe he should die for her.

I read too much into video games I think....

Wow

Wow.

Wow! I still have a lollipop left over from that bag I got weeks ago!

Whoa, what is the rental agreement doing there?

Hey, that's the letter I was going to mail to my sisters.

I don't remember that letter... I think I was going to write 'Return to Sender' on it months ago.

Hmmm, that piece of paperwork reminds me... should I be doing something about my HECS debt? Or is it called HELP debt these days?

Yuck, that pamphlet on pap smears. Is it illegal to not do them? Or just extremely, highly, very much recommended, do-it-or-you-might-die kind of thing?

A cool quote: "His non-sense is not vacuity of sense: it is a parody of sense and that is the sense of it." T.S. Eliot, talking about non-sense.

Hmm, I wrote that underneath a weird poem of mine. About knitting and writting (yes, writting, prnounce it like knitting) and ends with me saying I want to go home. I wrote it in a tutorial. I think I'll keep it and never look at it again.

Hah, a marriage certificate. I should file that.

Hehehehe, the tealight that has hot chocolate in it.

Ivy and bullet casing pens. Those pens don't work... Why are we keeping them?



I should clean my desk more often.

Bribing myself silly!

Well, it worked! I told myself that if I finish a specific part of my assignment before lunch I could go to Beadstreet - the nearby beading shop. It wasn't a hard part of my assignment. None of that assignment is hard. But I have been having trouble with procrastinating. If something is easy I keep feeling like I can put it off. I was getting sick of it, putting it off constantly, and feeling bad for continually getting nothing done. But I am enjoying it now :)

I bribed myself with little things along the way. Finish another hundred words, and you can look at facebook. Next hundred words and you can listen to that awesome song you're craving. And so on and so fifth.

Now to eat lunch and then to go drool over beads!

Stay tuned for my upcoming jewellery facebook page! I'm not looking for much in the way of profits, so the cheap price might actually encourage people to buy them ;)