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Blogger! Uaah! I totes would have made a post on here on the day after Christmas, and another one to recap the year before it became 2012, but I have news for you. It isn't good news but I'll tell you all the whole story anyway for Chrys' sake.

On the 26th, after Christmas, Mari and Hunter came over to play video games and dick around until 5 AM like usual. It was all fun (we had a horse flying up a mountain in Skyrim, that was interesting) until like 1 AM. I was on Pixiv, of all places, and I got that stupid Windows Firewall bullshit virus thing. That ridiculous virus that's been going around that doesn't let you do anything and pretends to want to scan your computer. So Trend Micro can't handle it apparently, and Mike helped me do a system restore to the 23rd of December.

The virus was gone and I was super happy because it all seemed fine after that. I was on my computer for like less than an hour before it started freezing. I have no idea what doing that system restore did, but it fucked something up (in my Windows files I'm guessing) and now, within an hour of turning it on, it'll freeze and require a hard boot.

So, thinking about how to fix this, I was trying to figure out what my best option was. One, I could install Windows 7, which would probably fix the problem and then I would finally be off of Vista, two, I could try installing updates because something might have gotten fucked up in that department since I haven't done updates since early 2009, or three, I could buy a new computer.

I decided to try installing my updates. There were only 96 of them so I assumed it would take a while. Chrys freezes during configuration. I get a weird black screen before it tries again. I leave my computer on literally for 24 hours, and the configuration is still at 0%. I hate goddamn Windows updates, I always turn them off because that's what killed Cat-Cat. Well, that and the fact that my motherboard was falling apart, but Windows update definitely fucked her up.

So I system restore again, to get rid of the configure screen that will never go away. Still freezing, can't find the problem. It definitely isn't overheating, I know it's not my hard drive, idk really what it is. I thought about putting Windows 7 on, but I came to the slow realization that I'll still have like no hard disk space and I still won't be able to do anything.

Yesterday morning, I bought another computer. It's another Toshiba, it's much smaller, and silver. Mind you, Cat-Cat had an 80 GB hard drive. How did I even function with her? Chrys has a 180 GB hard drive right now, and it only has like 9 gigs free because I have so much shit on there. This computer will have 500 gigs, and I feel like I'll finally have room to store ALL of my stuff on one computer. It'll also probably run audiosurf, TEF, and (maybe?) and editing program, and that's all that I really care about.

I don't know a lot about computers at all, but I know that Chrys' time to retire has come. He's served me faithfully for almost three years, and I just picked him up in Office Depot when they had a few laptops on sale for like $200. He's still in a semi-functional state of being, if I shut down like half an hour after I started up. I feel like I needed to buy a new computer, though I originally intended on getting a desktop, another nice Toshiba is worth my money too. So, Chrys will become my secondary sort-of computer, and he'll finally have a chance to relax after all the years we've chilled together. C:


Anyway! That's the story of my laptop adventure. But I have a lot more to talk about~ First, Christmas! We made casserole and opened Earbud Poppycock the Keepon. It's totally the most adorable thing I've ever seen, you can tickle him and he like squeaks and imitates you and jams to music~! I gave Bri her Okami poster and Hoarde necklace, and James got The Force Unleashed and a sonic screwdriver, and D&D dice. We all gave my mom her necklace and perfume and weird bookworm thing, and everything was fun and awesome. :D

After the whole computer ordeal came my 20th birthday on the 27th. I pretty much sat at home with everyone during the day, James got me Kre-O sets that kept me very occupied, and my mom even got me a Transformers dogtag! Then we went to the Fiesta buffet for dinner after hanging out with Hunter and Mari during the day. It was super yummy and fun~ Mari brought me Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, 'cause I was super late on it and hadn't played it yet. It infuriates me that I can't kill my enemies, but it's still an interesting game and I want to play it through with the actual story.

I will do my "New Year's Recap" post sometime tomorrow or later in the week when my new laptop arrives so I can get my pictures off my external. For now, I just want to say that we went to this rural spot on the mountain to watch all the fireworks, and it was super cool! We could see literally everything, I wish Brina and Mike had come with us.

Now, I know this post is long already, but I was up until like 6 AM yesterday because of this, so I need to mention it here. I don't think I can elaborate on it properly, because I can never fully express myself when it comes to this game.

I can never explain how much Rule of Rose means to me. I was talking to Bri about it the other day, because my disc is from 2006 and is scratched to all hell, and there's one at a Gamestop in Arizona that I want to buy more than anything. I hadn't played it in more than a year, and I figured what the hell, I should give it a shot. I put it in our PS2, and it worked. I literally felt like I wanted to cry as I watched the opening trailer again. I can't believe my old disc worked.

I sat there and played through the whole game in four and a half hours, which is a little longer than my typical speed runs from back in the day, without finding all of the films and records and such. I was just so so happy that it was playing, not freezing on the door screens, and even the audio was playing most of the time. It was the first "real" console game I ever played, back in like 8th grade when we first got our PS2. I feel like it's so misunderstood, that more than 3/4 of people who play it never understand what truly happened and what each chapter was supposed to mean. In 9th grade I poured my soul into documenting everything from the game, Greg's calendar, Jen and Wendy's letters, the books, the minute details that no-one looked for because it was regarded as such a shit game.

It's one of those things that I really cherish, that story. Every time I play through it I get to scared and excited and sad. I'm a major sucker for the super-tragic endings, those really heart-wrenchingly painful and beautiful ones. Rule of Rose was my first taste of it, and after picking through every second of that game over and over again I can say that It'll always be my favorite. I just can't put it into proper words how much I love that game. I was so happy to play it and relive it again.

Anyway, I'm done for now, I'm gonna continue drawing garbage and I'll probably replay RoR again today now that I have my disc working! I hope everyone had a happy holiday season~!