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The small pleasures of life
I was once one of those people who always felt the need to be accepted by society in terms of behavior. Dress well, buy this, travel every year, show off, be around people, all the things that society and the media consider acceptable were once part of my being. As I grew older, I have come to understand myself a lot better. I always reinforce the ( Read more... ) -
Yearly progress
As I kept repeating over and over on my previous posts, this year was very productive. Let's go over some lists around here.
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December Monthly Progress
Acquisitions:
Audiobooks:
- A Farewell to Arms (17/Dec)
Books:
- Estrelas Perdidas (05/Dec)
- Elantris (Tenth Anniversary Edition) (16/Dec)
- Fangirl (20/Dec)
Games:
- Shadow Complex (05/Dec)
- Jade Empire (12/Dec)
- Shift Happens (25/Dec)
- Samurai Warriors 4-II (25/Dec)
Free audiobooks:
- The Chimes (13/Dec)
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Books I read vs. Books I bought
So... I bought a hell lot of books this year, but I'm also proud to say that read/listened to as many books as I bought. Here's the list.
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Games I played vs. Games I bought
I may or may not be slightly ashamed of my gaming progress this year, compared to the amount of games that I acquired. In my defense, although I did not finish ALL of those games, I did install and play a good part of them. I also did not spend that much money in them, since most of the listed games were bought from Humble Bundle. At least a dozen ( Read more... ) -
Top 10 game songs of 2015
And, as always, time to make a top 10 for my favorite game songs of the year! I thought I was going to have trouble with this list since I haven't been playing many games lately, but the games I played have a terrific soundtrack, so it wasn't hard to pick ten of them.
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Top 10 games of 2015
I haven't been playing too many video games lately, and this must be one of the first times in my life in which I actually decided not to play video games because of whatever reason. I either feel more like reading, writing or drawing rather than playing video games. Specially writing. Still, even with so much going on with my life, I managed to ( Read more... ) -
Melanie, would you like me to get you something for Christmas?
We're approaching the times for festivities and the time for those ritualistic phrases in which people who are dear me approach me with the much dreaded question:
"Melanie, would you like me to get you something for Christmas? Is there something you want?Yes, there are many material things that I would like to get. But definitely not from you ( Read more... ) -
The humanity of your parents
My parents frequently state the advantages of becoming parents at an early age. Of course, it pretty much ruins your professional life depending on your economic condition, but on the brighter side of things, it allows you do follow up with your children's life. I think I owe a lot of what I am because my parents were rather young when I was born ( ( Read more... ) -
2015 NaNoWriMo - comments and thoughts about it
This is the first NaNoWriMo I took part of, and I believe I have one thing or two to say about the event.
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