In Love with Singstar

I've discovered and become addicted to Singstar. I have always seen the game in stores and its always caught my eye but I never really thought about buying it. I love to sing along to songs but I suck at singing. Well today I was doing my usual round of sites and checked out the daily deals at amazon. There was nothing good in the gold boxes so I went onto the video game deal of the day. Well today it was singstar for the PS3. I've thought about getting this game but its $60 at stores with a set of mics. Well today amazon had the stand alone game for $20. I did some quick looking around online and found out that the ps2 mics work for the ps3 and I have been hearing that there is going to be a patch coming out this fall that will let you play ps2 singstars on the ps3. With all of that in mind I decided to buy the game. I have a nice little stash of amazon credit from different surveys I take so the game cost me nothing. Now I was on a mission to find mics. I figured I could find some used at gamestop for cheap. Well I was wrong. I checked out all the gamestops in the Kalamazoo area and nobody had any for sale. My closest one had 3 different singstar discs used. I took note of that and headed out to portage. I ended up picking up brand new at best buy the 90's set because it had some songs on there that I loved. I then made my way back to my gamestop and picked up the three used discs. I love buy 2 get 1 free weekends. When I got home I finished watching the NASCAR race and then went on the search for my ps2 controllers. I new I had put them away somewhere but I couldn't find where. Finally I found them downstairs in the closet and plugged everything in and started playing Singstar. I was hooked from the first song. I personally have to say its better than all of the other music games out there. I used to think Rock Band was the best but I've changed my mind. I can't wait for Tuesday to get here so I can pop in Singstar on the PS3 and check out the online singstore. I was looking at it tonight on my computer and there were quite a few songs I liked. And I can't wait for next month when the Country version comes out. You know I'm gonna be playing that one to death.

Besides the gaming I didnt really do much else today. It went by super fast and now I should be getting to bed so I can get up and go to work tomorrow morning. First I'm gonna play a couple more levels of lego batman. I gotta finish that game up soon.

Life's A Dance

Its a quiet Saturday night at home. I'm down in the office and have the tv tuned to Music Choice Today's Country. Right now the song playing is John Michale Montgomery's "Life's a Dance."

Its been a pretty quiet and relaxing day today. Last night I went out with my friends and of course did the usual I'll go down for one drink and ended up staying until last call. I only had a couple of beers but when I woke up this morning my head was hurting pretty well. I would have slept in longer but my mom called me around 11:30 this morning and woke me up. I'm glad she called because my aunt was coming down today to meet me for lunch and I needed time to wake up and shower and dress and then clean up around the house. After I got all of that accomplished my aunt called and said she would be a couple of hours late so I decided to run out to portage to Best Buy and Gamestop. I wanted to check out Gamestop because they are running a buy 2 used get 1 free game this weekend. I picked up NASCAR 09 and Burnout Paradise for the PS3 and No More Heroes for the Wii. I then went over to Best Buy and used my reward zone coupons and picked up The latest Sims expansion pack Apartment Life. Driving over to BB and GS I noticed I think a new game store so I checked it out on my way back home. It was an alright place, they had the usual used games from the current gen systems along with old games. The selection was pretty small but I will definitely go back. They had old NES systems for $35, I want one of those. Right after I left there my aunt called me and said she was on that side of town and I told I was over there too and had her meet me at Bennigans. I got my usual Turkey O Toole. I love that sandwich.

After my late lunch I came back home and watched the rest of the Nationwide race and then played some Lego Batman. I'm just under 50% through the game. Still have a lot more to play and unlock. I played that for a couple of hours and then installed my sims stuff I bought and played some NASCAR 09. When I got tired of gaming I hopped on the computer and just surfed around killing time. I found a layout I want to try here and I just need to get myself to sit down and work on it. I'm really bad at making myself sit down and work. I'm too ADD when I'm at home. I really need to clean off this desk. Its a mess right now.

Office Set Up is Complete

It took just about two weeks but the downstairs office/game room is complete. Two weeks ago we started peeling and stripping of the wallpaper and by the end of the week we were painting. Then this past week we mounted my 32" Sharp Aqous 1080p to the wall and got the furniture and game systems in place. Now we got a sweet office setup where I can work on the computer and watch tv and game in hi-def.

Right now I'm sitting at the desk and watching the NASCAR Nationwide race from Richmond. I was all set to watch this Friday night but with the hurricanes in the south this weekends races were postponed to today. I was out with friends on Friday night so I set the Tivo for the Nationwide race and went to watch it yesterday and found out the races were moved to sunday. I didn't watch much of todays Sprint Cup race and I'm glad I didnt because the 48 won.

I'm finally recovered from last night. I woke up this morning not feeling all too hot. Last night we went to our friends house and I had a couple of beers and then we went down to the bar and I had a few more beers. Then after the bar closed we went to an after bar party in town and I had some vodka and diet coke and a couple of shots that tasted good. I was a pretty good mess last night and having a good time. Then I woke up this morning with a nice headache. I drank plenty of water and took some target brand aleeve and now I finally feel better.

I'm not ready for Monday to get here, its going to be a long week for me. I have to work Monday through Friday and then I have to work saturday afternoon this week. The only good thing about this week is I'm out at 4:30 most days and a couple of days I go in at 8:30 instead of 8:00.

With the office now setup I hope to have a lot more time to work on getting this blog up and running. I need to add lots of color here.