New Silver Nintendo DS

After last night's fiasco of my DS lid falling off, today, I purchased a new silver DS. I managed to put back the beautiful skin on without the help of my husband.

I tried to connect back to wifi and I managed easily. I thought that I was going to have some problems but it all worked out. Sadly though, I have a new friend code. So please AC:WW friends, add my new code to your friend roster. I hope this doesn't confuse people. Yuki, Meow and Julie - hopefully I will see you again soon.

Leesh | Town: 90210 | 2321-7041-4659

Mayu/Yuki - you may need to add this new code to your website.
Shania - I still look forward to meeting you.

OMFG - Nintendo DS is broken

OMFG!!!

I just finished playing my daily dose of Animal Crossing and proceeded to insert the game cartridge for Cooking Mama 3. I heard a crack, snap and a pop. I looked and the right side of the lid popped out!!!  It's cracked all around the right button. I can't believe this. Mike says it's because I play it too much.

I am devastated that my DS broke. Many of you may think...who cares, it's just a gaming device.  Well, this gaming device means a lot to me since it was given to me by my late brother. It was his. He lent it to me back in January 2007 and since I was so reluctant to give it back to him, he let me keep it and bought himself a new one. Ever since then, he has bought me Cooking Mama 1 & 2, Nintendogs, Cake Mania and many more. He also supplied me with endless games and even traded them in for me when I finished them. To me, I wanted this DS to last me forever because it meant that a piece of my brother was always with me. Technically, it still works, the lid will just be hanging off when I play it.

But something just dawned on me. I am holding on to electronic or materialistic things that belonged to my brother because I feel like if I hang on to them, I will still have a part of my brother with me. I realized this is very superficial of me. No matter what electronics die on me, it doesn't mean that I am growing further away from my brother. Those things don't matter because regardless of them, I will always hold a place in my heart for him. TV may stop working, Macbook may conk out, iPhone may reset, all that doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that I am losing bits of him. I will always have Gino and memories of him in my mind and heart and no gadgets can replace those.

Now with that said, I will look for a new DS (hopefully a cheap one) and retire the one that Gino gave me. I will put it with all of his other things I have kept. Gino - wherever you are, sorry I broke your DS. It has travelled with me everywhere and been with me always. I guess it's time for a new one. If you were still here and I told you about this, I know that in an hour you would be at my place with a new one.

Playing Now: Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop

Cooking Mama is one of my favorite games. I have 1 & 2 and I even have it for Wii. I brought the game with my to my trip to Punta Cana and played it every night before dinner. I have unlocked all the recipes and am now just trying to get a gold medal for each recipe. This game is so much fun. If you are looking to try out a new game, pick this one up even if you haven't played the first two.

 There are new backgrounds and new outfits for Mama

 

 New recipes...

 

 New look of picking your bonus items

 

 Working on getting all gold medals

 

New - "Let's match" - you match up items, prepare and cook a new recipe

What the heck???

Today I woke up to water my flowers in the garden and this is what I found:

I know for a fact that I watered all the wilted flowers yesterday, there was only a couple of them so why it is that half of my hybrids have disappeared? This seriously wants me to stop playing when sh*t like this happens.  Sorry for my cursing but that is how mad I am. Can someone explain to me why this happens???

Here is what the garden looked like before the mass exodus of my flowers:

Guess what I got for my birthday???

For my birthday, my husband got me a cool skin for my DS. My old skin was looking a bit brown and dirty so I removed it with hopes to get a new one (if and when I found the right one). But my husband made me a custom skin with my favorite picture from our last vacation in Cuba.  One of the gardeners at the resort we were staying at picked a very pretty red flower. We placed it on the beach and took a picture of it. I love the contrast of the bright red and the aqua colour of the ocean.

 

 

Finally, there's snow in 90210

I started this game back in January and there was snow on the ground but that was ages ago and I don't remember what it looked like. I waited patiently as it snowed here and there but today, when I started my game...there was snow everywhere, just like Julie from Wildwood said..."snow will arrive on December 11".

 Snow in 90210 - so pretty!!!

 What's this? A snowball? What is Leesh to do with it?

After rolling the ball around in the snow...it keeps on getting bigger...what to do with it now? Can someone help Leesh? I am thinking maybe a snowman???

All paid off

Tom Nook can go suck an egg because Leesh has finally paid off her home loan. That big house of hers that she shares with Ross and Brody can now be called her own!

 

 

 

 

 

A short visit to Wildwood

Julie from Wildwood has been commenting on my blog for weeks now and we follow each other on Twitter. It's cool because she will tweet on Twitter when she's going to open her gates. Unforunately, it's never during a time when I can play wifi.  Finally today, she opened the gates of Wildwood so we can meet each other.

Within seconds of me entering Wildwood, Claire and Bonnie arrived. A full house.  I have to admit that I feel kinda old playing with teenagers but I was once a teen, although DS and wifi connections were not around. Tweeting with Julie is quite refreshing. She reminds me of my carefree days as a teen - just hanging out, shopping, going to movies, playing DS...oh wait, I still do all of that. Anyway, my point is, I felt awkward and thought it was wrong that I was playing with teens, but then I relaxed and began to understand that it's not bad at all.  No offense Julie and Claire.

So, back to my visit to Wildwood...here are some photos that I took:

In front of Julie's house - L to R: Leesh, Julie and Claire

 

Left room in Julie's house. It's quite interseting...a Super Mario theme? I didn't even know it existed.

 

 Julie is a hardcore Beatles fan. Her garden is a shrine to The Beatles. It's so cool. I have never seen anything like it. The tile of the photos are so life-like.

 

 I caught Bonnie and Claire sleeping in front of Julie's house.  I have to admit because I am meeting these three girls for the first time and being thrown into a full house wifi visit, I couldn't tell the girls apart. It took me a good couple of minutes to figure out who was who.

 

 Julie and I hanging out on her couch.  Classic theme in your main room...I have the classic theme in my right room.

 

Julie was digging through her dresser. She said she had a present for me and to meet her at the town hall.  She gave me a snowy shirt and two Jacob's ladder.  It's so thoughtful of her to give me these flowers after I told her that my town is no longer "perfect".

 

 Here is the backroom...Look at that cake and chocolate sitting on the desk...

 

 Upstairs room.  Pretty cool. It's almost like my beach-inspired theme.

 

 A birthday cake for me...how sweet of you!!!  My birthday is actually on the 8th, thanks for the early birthday cake and chocolate bar.

 

 After eating some cake, we noticed that Bonnie was still sleeping so Claire decided to hit Bonnie with her golden axe. I thought it was mean but it was actually quite funny.

 

 We took one last picture before I had to go.  See my new snowy shirt that Julie gave to me - isn't it pretty? It's so fitting because it's snowing in 90210.

 

One my way out of Wildwood but I had to take this last picture in front of the gates because look at all the pretty flowers.

Thanks again Julie for opening Wildwood's gates this evening. I am glad you did because I don't know when the timing would be right for us to be able to play.  It was certainly a pleasure to meet you and Claire. I hope to play again soon!

Is winter on its way???

Finally it started to snow in 90210. I was a bit jealous when I heard some towns were already getting some snow but yesterday when I started my game, there it was...snow falling. I can't wait for it to stick on the ground (only in AC:WW not real life).