{Taking a break.}

Been a busy couple weeks irl. Been so busy that I think I've only logged into FFXI a couple times at most. I don't see my rl schedule opening up too much in the next month, so I've decided to once again take a break from FFXI. For a while? For good? I don't know yet.

As of October 15th, 2009 I am now a proud new homeowner. I am now in the biggest debt of my life! Yay! {money} {Can I have it?} Not to mention all the gil I have to fork out to buy appliances, furniture, new flooring, paint, etc, etc, etc... X_x;

So I've taken two weeks off from work, and just about half way through that. Spent mon-fri of this week painting, and I'm still not done yet. I'd say probably about 50% done overall. I so hate painting at this point. Once that's done, I wanna put in some new flooring, then get furniture, then move in! I totally underestimated painting. I figured it'd be a one week adventure, then another week to do the rest of the work. I think I need to burn the rest of my PTO, and take another 4 weeks off D: It's kinda weird, I've spent more time working on my house than I do at my job... it's definitely doesn't feel like a vacation... which I guess why in my case it's PTO...

I've been looking forward to this phase of my life though. Finally moving out of my parents' house, and into a place all to myself :D Let the gaming begin! I have a nice queue of games I need to get around to, not to mention CoD: Modern Warfare 2 coming out soon. But my gaming time has been limited to a couple hours late at night before bed, definitely not enough time to do anything meaningful in FFXI, so I don't even bother. Most of the time I end up eating dinner at 9:30-10:00, shower, sneak in some gaming time then crash.

After three playthroughs of Uncharted 2, I have gotten my platinum trophy! It's a really good game, single player and multiplayer. Though I don't recommend playing single player three times like I did. I was just set on getting all trophies, and made the mistake of playing on normal difficulty first. If I had started on hard, it would have only taken two playthroughs. What's really fun though is that I've been playing multiplayer with some AP'ers (though they don't play FFXI anymore). Foosh, Deb, Cala, and Eldo have been playing UC2 also and invite me to play some co-op mode every now and then. Unfortunately, co-op is limited to three players :( It works out most of the time though, I haven't seen everyone on at the same time since beta multiplayer.

Guess that's it for now. It may be a while for any FFXI related stuff. I'll "miss out" on the Nov update, and the next mini-expansion (item). Sorry Maat's Cap and Leathercraft 100, maybe you were never really a reality for me anyways.