Bunch of stuff going on lately. First I finally got a Gameboy Advance SP (silver). Since I'm going to Mexico in 2 weeks I decided I should spend some of the time playing my GBA, but my first edition one drives me nuts w/ the lack of a light. I got a bunch of gift certificates for Best Buy for xmas, so I used those when I got my SP, so I only had to pay $4.65 for it. Now Annette and I can link up w/ my old one and play games, which is cool.

I also ordered a 256Mb Flash card for it, so I can put...um..."stuff" on it. ;) That should be cool once I get it. I'm really impressed w/ the SP, it's definitely the best hand held game system ever made. Speaking of, I finally got to the end of Fire Emblem. I thought I beat it, but apparently there's a nice big surprise at the end you need to beat and I got trounced. I've replayed the final chapter about 10 times thus far and haven't even gotten close to the end again, so I dunno. This may be the 500th game in a row I don't finish. Once again the game was great up until the final chapter, where it just becomes almost impossible. I don't mind it being hard, but the rest of the chapters weren't even 1/10th this hard so it's sorta lame to just ratchet it up so much at the end. Oh well, maybe I'll beat it while in Puerta Vallarta, although I am saving my Mario & Luigi game for then.

I also rented SSX 3 for my GC for the week. I had a lot of fun playing Rob's while we were home for xmas on PS2 so I had to at leat try the GC version. That game rocks so much. It temps me to buy it, but I have another 6 days with it and I'm pretty far already so I should be able to get my fill. If you haven't played it, please do, it's on all 3 platforms and it's amazing.

Speaking of Rob, I need to email him to see if he's gonna meet Annette and I in Vegas for our B-day's. We actually finalized our travel plans this weekend, and we'll be in Vegas for 3 nights, staying at the Paris. When I was there last time the Paris was by far my favorite place and I never thought I'd acctually stay there (it's pretty $$$), but we found a SUPER awesome deal online for it that we couldn't pass up. It's sort of amazing how much both hotel and airfare fluctuate depending on the day. We started looking over Thanksgiving, and if we would have bought tickets then we would have been paying probably $1700+, but with the deal we just got, we get the exact same thing for $1100. That's pretty sweet. I can't wait.

I am also really looking forward to Mexico. The Packers lost today, which I'm pretty bummed about (they had about 3 chances to win the game and blew them all), but at the same time, if they somehow would have gotten to the Super Bowl, I would have missed it since I'll be flying back from Mexico during it (Go Indy and Carolina!). Still, they have a lot of positives to play off of for next year, so that's good, I'm looking forward to it.

So that's what's new here. Time to go play some more SSX 3. Booya!