Token Female Gamer

This 30 Days of Video Games project turned out to be incredibly fun. I will admit the idea of posting every day felt rather daunting and at times it caused a bit of apprehension, but it was completely worth it. I’m still surprised that I actually managed to pull it off without being late. =D

A huge (HUGE) thank you to everyone who joined in. It really added so much to have all the different opinions. In fact, all your comments inspired me to create a whole new set of categories!!

Yup, ‘Another 30 Days of Video Games’ is in my future and I would love to hear any good new category suggestions you all might have!!

But until then, it’s back to a more manageable posting rate for me. Thanks again to everyone for joining in. <3

This was something I caught the tail end of on another blog, but it seems to have gone around a while ago. Never one to be fazed by being late to the party, I thought this would be quite entertaining. My 400th post hurrah seemed like the perfect excuse to try my hand at answering these thirty video game questions.

But posting every day is a challenge. Very much wanting to succeed, I started working on the list slowly. First I wanted to simply find an answer to each question, which turned out to be trickier then I expected.

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For some reason the site is all messed up. No idea why. ~sigh~

Thankfully my awesome hosting site is helping me (<3 Dreamhost!), so maybe someday it will all look like it did again. Sorry for the mess.

Edit: Dreamhost team was incredible and saved my poor little website from certain doom. No clue why it went down. But its back to functioning so yaay!

My husband spent Super Bowl Sunday alternately sleeping, throwing up, and writhing in pain. He was so sick he didn’t even want to watch the Super Bowl. Clearly something was wrong. So I took him to the ER and yup he had some gall stones.

This means I’m spending quite a bit of time at the hospital, and not doing all the other things I normally do, so I just want to apologize in advanced if its a bit slow. I’m thinking about loads of stuff to write about, just not finding much time to execute.

<3 TFG

I do so love to close out most years with a glance back at my performance, be it cringe-tastic or worthy of a small pat on the back. Though I prefer the pats, I do tend to learn more from those cringy moments. =D

2011-

Reading Challenge didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. I started off strong, but burned out around October. Though I only read 35,101 pages of the 50k I had planned, I still managed to hit the 100 books read tally. It does look like 50k pages is a bit ambitious, life is a bit too busy. Maybe I’ll aim for 40k this year.

91 Posts this year, eighteen of those reviews. Always a goal to ramp that up a bit and I think I managed that nearing the end of the year. One thing that helped was realizing that not everything I post has to be a five page dissertation. Soundbites are fine sometimes.

Tumblr was a big fail. I so don’t have time for extended social media. Sorry. What it really comes down to is that ultimately the site is here to give me an opportunity to get more writing in. Though I would like to get my post count up, I have more chance of succeeding, if that is what I focus on instead of trying to juggle various social media extensions.

Podcasting was fun, though its not something I’m very good at. Like all things, I would need more practice to get better at it. Though I have run out of spare time to do more Podcasts with the Mulititap folks, I might record some of my own. Eventually.

One great thing about having the site, is that it has encouraged me to branch out and try a larger variety of games. I think 2011 was particularly successful in this regard. (Taking a break from WoW was also a huge help.) =p

Knowing that I will be reviewing something also makes me struggle through more of the content. I’m always trying to give the game more of a chance, so I can review it with as much information on hand as possible.

Overall a pretty good year for TFG. Onward to 2012! <3

I finally figured out how some people manage to post daily, hourly, minutely. My husband went off to PAX East this weekend, which resulted in my productivity shooting through the roof. It was so quiet at night that I had nothing better to do than be productive. =D

So basically either I get to post like crazy or I get to keep my husband/life. Thankfully its an easy choice. Too bad blog, your short lived top priority spot has been filled with husbands and stuff.

On a side note, the husband gave a talk at PAX to a packed room. According to online comments, his discussion was really well received. I’m super proud of him. <3

An auspicious date to review, preview, and most importantly enjoy day 1!

TFG Review for 2010 -
85 posts
19 Reviews
124 Books read
1 Level 85 Character
2 Level 80 Characters on their way to 85
5 Guild Levels earned

TFG Preview for 2011 -
2010 (+1)

=P

Happy 2011 everyone. <3 TFG

I just recently discovered the Cake Wrecks site and its been making me giggle ever since. I know I’m a bit slow considering the site has archives back three years and has been featured on dozens of other websites. But even this delayed its well worth sharing. =D

But its even better, because the author of Cake Wrecks started another site called EPBOT.com. A fun geek (crafty) girl blog. At first I was skeptical (always am of crafty sites!), but just the other day she posted probably about the most awesome tee shirt of all time. If there was any doubt left about the site being worthy, linking this shirt instantly trampled it all to bits.

Best shirt EVAR! Only failing, no woman’s sizes!! Seriously, that was one of my favorite childhood movies of ALL time, and they cant make at least a girl shirt. Booo! /sigh

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Its about time for another little World of Warcraft update. And though I have been trying to keep WoW topics from overwhelming the site, I do still spend quite a lot of time playing it still and could go on and on. Thus I am consolidating all my latest news into one post.

Almost forgot to add that the Midsummer World Event began today which is the last world even that my warlock needs to complete the purple drake flying mount achievement.

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WonderCon was indeed this past weekend, an event that completely snuck up on me. Then again I’m terrible at planning for these things, which is probably one of the reasons I have been unable to make it to ComicCon the past few years. (If you don’t get a hotel room within the first hour that the phone lines open up, you are so out of luck!)

Thankfully WonderCon (the con of wonders and delights) is hosted near enough to home that a simple reminder from my husband the week before the event is plenty of notice to assure my attendance.

Just one of the many reasons that I love WonderCon. =)

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