Yesterday Jef came over and I played a bunch of Animal Crossing, then we stopped to run out to get a gift for my Love - which ended up turning into a 2 1/2 hour adventure in hell - and then came back and I started making dinner for everyone because Rand, Jef and Kali came over. They all played hockey on the X-box, Rand gave my Love a surprise gift of four tickets to see the Bruins on Saturday as his birthday present (his b-day's the 18th). He was thrilled because we weren't going to be able to go otherwise as we're broke.
After hockey, I played some more Animal Crossing because I was so close to paying off my final expansion in my house and Jef had just paid his off that morning so I wanted to also. So, from about 10:30pm to about 1:30am, I played while Jef and Kali and my Love chatted in the living room about this and that, bad past relationships, etc. At 1:30am, I finally paid it off. This is months of work invested in getting this done. I corrected the game's clock (the store closes at 10pm and as I had only started playing in real time at 10:30pm, I had set the game's time clock back to 5pm so it would be open and I could do all the stuff I needed to do) and since it was past midnight, it was a new day and the statues for completing paying off our houses were there. Jef got a Gold statue for doing it first; I got a silver one for doing it second. The problem was that my statue was off center of where it was supposed to be because he had put down a little sign (you post a sign and can put a picture on it of something you drew in-game) in the spot it was supposed to go. I was simply crushed. Everyone was laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world, but for me, it was like working so hard at something, only to get your prize come broken. I know it's stupid, but sitting there, listening to the guys laugh at how "funny" it was my statue was permanetly in the wrong place and permanetly displaced by a stupid sign, I just wanted to cry. So, for the moment, I'm done playing the game. I don't know if I want to go back to it. Jef says we can start over and make a new town and cheat to get everything paid off quickly so it can be done in a few weeks instead of a few months, but....I don't really want to have to go through it all again. I just wanted to have my nice little statue of reward and settle down to finish off the other things in the game like filling up our museum and such. It would have been a lot of fun now because the hard work stuff is over and it would be time to just do whatever I wanted and spend my money on anything I wanted and not worry about saving it to pay off my house. We've put months into the game and so I feel really just empty that my prize is fucked up. Such a stupid thing, but it really just hurt my feelings enough I've lost my taste for the game at the moment.
So, today's Valentine's day...
...and I have some stuff to do still, so I suppose I should go. Hope everyone has a happy day.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 2/14/2003 01:22:14 PM ~
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