Really, it's been one of the best weekends I've had for ages.

I got paid on Friday so decided to go shopping on saturday.  Now the thing is, I do tend to get really lazy, and do my payday blitz on Teh Interwebz and get all manner of clothes, books, cds and games delivered to my house.  But this month I decided to go out with The Other Half.  It helped that he's fixed his sleeping pattern so we were both awake at a respectable hour of the day, rather than me waking up at 7am and waiting 4 hours for him to surface (plus an extra hour for him to drink his morning cuppa and actually drag himself out of bed).

So we found ourselves strolling into town at 11am, which was even better because it wasn't too crowded.  I get very very annoyed by crowds of people and usually end up with genocidal intentions towards the entire population of the shopping centre.  But I was in a good mood, and so was he, and we had a laugh and a mess around.

I ended up spending far too much money though, of course    I bought 3 new summer outfits plus some underwear, 2 cds (HIM's Uneasy Listening collection, and Lost Prophet's Liberation Transmission album), and 2 new games.  Buying Oblivion for the Xbox360 was a bit of an epic task.  The Other Half insisted it would be better if we got the 'game of the year' edition which included the expansion pack and would be cheaper than buying the original seperately.  Well we went in 4 different shops, and none of them had it.  GAME had the cases on display but did not have the game itself, which was annoying, especially as we had to wait for the shop assistant to finish chatting with his mate for 10 minutes before he would serve us   Then we decided to get the original game and the expansion seperately, but every shop had either one or the other, but not both.  So we had to buy the expansion in HMV and the original in GAME.  Well it was worth it :^)

I also got Age of Conan which I have to say does seem rather good.  It's very graphics intensive and I may have to invest in a new graphics card to get the most out of it.  I don't think I've played such a gorey game before, the blood effects are quite realistic and at times my character decides to decapitate her opponent, which is fun.  Although, how I'm going to fit in another MMORPG in with my work and WoW raiding schedule, I don't know.

All in all, despite the annoying heat, it's been a fabulous weekend for me, hope it was for you too :^)

V