Bloggers Block?

Recently I have found that I start blog entries and then after writing a little I leave it in draft form and can't seem to finish it. I currently have seven posts that are sitting in draft form waiting to be finished.

Five of those are book reveiws as well as the Dublin post that has been mentiond more than once.

In other news since I get the first two zelda games and Four swords for my 3DS I have been trying to at least play every game in the zelda series (except the cdi games *shudder* if you dont understand why they provike that response watch this video).  So far I have managed to play all of them apart from the oracle games and I have finished Four Swords (the main quest at least).  I have made it a large chunk of the way thorugh the Minish Cap, Wind Waker (I like to think so) and Ocarina of Time. I haven't played very much of Majoras Mask and I keep dying in A Link to the Past.  Skyward Sword has been severly neglected (Scaldera scares me)

Crafty news! the knives chau inspired scarf is finished! it comes in at just over 3m.  My knitting for Dee-con is going good and I will definatly have more headbands than last year.  I'm also knitting a variety of chunky mug hugs and travel cup sleaves in coffee clolours so my table isn't all girly accessories.
The chicks are comming back big time (as in more than twenty of them). I might have acutual jewelry that's not knitted.

I'm amazed that this post has made it out of the draft stage.

D-con comissions are open! (again)

D-con is actually happening this year so any commissions are most welcome to collect there (I haven't got a table yet but that will be fixed soon enough).

I think I'm also going to try and have accessories that are made of fabric as well as the knitted stuff.

The Easter Chicks are coming back too and (maybe) in greater numbers this year because they sold so fast last year.

More details are in this post.

 

I probably shouldn't be writing this...

I wanted to get a post in as I have been soreley neglagent in the past few weeks with blogging (I don't know if the blogger spell check is working so plese tell me if there is any mistakes).  The reason for this is I have been buried in assessments and stress for the past four weeks which has made the time horrible. I didn't want to put any posts up here aout that as that's not what this is for!

As it stands I have one last assessment due for tomorrow and then all I need to do is revise for my exams. The most annoying thing about this assessment is that I have been looking forward to playing Skyward Sword since I got it on the release day (I even arranged to borrow my freinds wii so I could play it). I haven't let myself go to colect this wii as I know all I will do is 'just play the first few minutes of it' and I will end up staying up all night playing it trying to get past that one area where the solution is so simple but I can't see it (like what happened in spirit tracks). Right now I've been feeding my Zelda craving by almost constantly litening to the 25th anniversary orchestral CD that I got with the game.

If I do manage get to any lectures on wednesday I don't know how I'm going to be able to take notes.

This means that there's most likeley to be a shortage in posts next month too.

3DS and Zelda

Back in June I got a 3DS and the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.  Since then I have been playing Ocarina of Time, the 3DS preloaded games, downloaded GBA virtual console games and NES virtual console games I got through the Nintendo ambassador program.

This was the reason for so few posts back then despite being on my summer break.

I got the first two Zelda games free with the ambassador programme and they are really difficult!

In the original game I cannot actually get to the first dungeon without being killed by moblins.  In Zelda II I am stuck in an overworld battle. I continually die before reviving back in the middle of this battle only to die again and I can't even run away from the monsters as I would normally do in other Zelda games. I am a little sick of how easy it is for the enemies to kill me in these SNES games.

The streetpass games are really addictive and I just competed the second run of streetpass quest yesterday and collected the final hat for my streetpass mii.  the other streetpass game is the puzzle collection game. I have unlocked all the images and I am almost finished the metroid picture. (EDIT I haven't really unlocked them all but I think I just have one to go)

There are a few free downloads available from the e-shop the three that I have are pokedex 3D, Nintendo Video and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (released for the 25 year anniversary). I paid to get Legend of Zelda Link's awakening DX before any of the ambassador announcements were made.

 

With the four Zelda games that are currently stored on the system memory and with my Ocarina 3d cartridge plus the fact I have just recently preordered Skyward sword limited edition has made me think I'm a little bit of a Zelda geek despite being pretty bad at it (I have never completed a Zelda game even though I have gotten very close).

The only thing I'm not happy about is that the red 3DS was brought out after the price had dropped and I wasn't able to buy it at the time I got mine (which is blue)

Koi-Koi anyone?

I have a set of hanafuda cards from Nintendo.  They came with a set of instructions for the game Koi-Koi and now I really want to play a game with someone.

Nintendo originally started as a company manufacturing hanafuda cards in 1889 which seems so far from what most people associate with Nintendo now.  Hanafuda (flower cards) cards are divided into twelve sets of four each representing a month with a different flower.  The images on each card are different so almost none of them exactly match.

I got my set through the points exchange with club Nintendo and they had specially redesigned sixteen if the cards replacing the traditional designs with Mario characters such as...

Mario, Yoshi, Luigi (and Waluigi) and Lakitu

Blooper, Paragoomba, Donkey Kong and Boo

Toadies, Piranha Plant, Wario and Peach with Toad

Koopa, Bowser and the club Nintendo logo

Koi-koi is played by trying to obtain sets of cards usually the four cards to make a whole month or other sets like the "five lights" or "moon viewing" where you can either end the round there or call koi-koi if you think you can collect another set before your opponent to earn more points. In each game there are twelve rounds and the person with the most points  at the end of the twelve rounds wins.

So... anybody up for a game?