This week I’ll get to go to a few events for GamingAngels.com. I love attending the events, but I have to make sure I’m prepared too. Sometimes I feel like I have to over-prepare so that people don’t write me off as a “girl gamer” who doesn’t know any facts and is just there to be seen. Tomorrow I’ll probably do some research and write up some questions. I also have to write up my Wizard of OZ review and start playing MySims Agents for review. Lots to do this week and it’s only just starting!

We are very fortunate to be celebrating 35 years of Hello Kitty on GamingAngels.com with a giveaway from Mimoco, the makers of the awesome Mimobot flash drives. I own one from the Star Wars series and I can say they are pretty amazing. When I have money, I will buy at least one Hello Kitty Mimobot from the series. But lucky GA readers get a chance to win one of each of the series.

But not everything Hello Kitty is gold. I tried to play Hello Kitty Big City Dreams today. It’s a 3D version of Hello Kitty and your goal is to work up friendship points that you can use to buy a new place. Hello Kitty wants to one day be in the Penthouse, don’t we all? This would be a fun premise except there are too many faults with the game to forgive. First even on the DS the graphics are pretty bad, to the point of almost being blurry. I’m not sure why they went with that art aesthetic if they couldn’t produce a clear picture.

Another place where the title fails is in the gathering of friendship points. There really isn’t a challenge. I will admit that it’s pretty cool to interact with characters in the Sanrio world. Most of the characters have a task for you to do to earn points. The tasks tend to be overly simple and a player could do them over and over again. Which can make it very easy to gain points. It makes me question how many different tasks there are since they made it easy to get points over and over again from a single task. In one area there was a mini-game that was so uninteresting (you’re a mouse trying to get all the cheese in the room). I went through 10 levels and got so bored I died on purpose.

The reason this isn’t a review on GA because I only played it an hour. Which isn’t giving the title a lot of time to the title, but I have a lot of writing to do and can’t spend alot of time playing bad games. Or maybe not a bad game…let’s say games that don’t offer a bit of challenge. It’s too bad. I hope we continue to see studios make games with Hello Kitty and Sanrio characters.

Now back to GA and the Emmys

xoxo
Trina

Today I had an in-person interview. I believe it went well but you never know. I know that I am excited about the opportunity and hope that I get a call back!

Otherwise, I’m trying to play catchup from being gone for three days. I actually need to catch up for the last two weeks. So expect a flood of posts to GA as I unload all the articles I’ve been sitting on. But that may not start tonight. I’m feeling rather tired and can’t really focus. I finally got maintenance to fix some stuff in the apartment and now I’m eyeing a book I want to read over answering email and writing. We’ll see what wins.

Have a great weekend everyone! I will be writing here more often and now this site even works on the iPhone! I also updated to the latest version of WordPress, something I’m hoping to do for GA soon.

xoxo
Trina ^_^

Sometimes I wonder what feeling is stronger in me, stress or fear. Or maybe fear lends itself to stress making it a never-ending cycle.

There is so much going on personally. I’m worried about finding a job. Luckily, I have an interview on Friday. It’s for a company I would love to work for and then prove myself so that they want to hire me and keep me working there.

I have to catch up on GA. I have articles from last week’s trip, and then this week’s trip to post. I have one review and then the news to catch up on. Working on behind the scenes stuff and trying to help guest writers become staff.

This week I went on a trip to try out a new iPhone game. You’ll see my thoughts on the trip, game,company on GA. One of the events of the week made me face my fear, but this time I won. We went to a shooting range, which until we got there I was hyped. But I knew that due to my weak wrists that I probably wasn’t going to shoot any of the guns. What I wasn’t prepared for was the overwhelming fear that swept over me. From them explaining about the guns, to standing in the room and hearing guns being fired (which is freaking loud even with the headsets on). It was all too much and I ran out of there in tears.

After about 20 minutes of cooling down and talking to others, I was able to try and go in the room again to face my fear. This time it went much better. I still jumped, but I didn’t feel as scared. Then, after their tournament, I actually got the guts to try and shoot a gun myself (a 22?). Beginner’s luck but I hit all near the middle of the target earning a score of 85. Pretty good. I felt great because I was able to face my fear, even when it had me running scared.

I may never own a gun, or even fire one again, but I’ll always remember today. The day I faced my fears, of course with the help of my friends. ^_^