Last week N gave me some lovely gifts for my birthday. Books are always popular gifts at our house: N gave me a paperback set of the Sookie Stackhouse books which I've been meaning to read and also a couple of graphic novels that look really great. I'll post about them as I read them.
But the big surprise was this:
My very own lime green Nintendo DS! (Complete with a stylish carrying case!)
Before we had E I played video games fairly often. I liked the Final Fantasy games in particular. But post-E my free time is too precious to devote big chunks of it to playing games (but oddly enough not to watching movies and tv).
But while I seem to have lost the patience to tackle any 100-hour epic quests I'm become more interested in puzzle games (for you know, exercising the old noggin). They can be played for just 10 or 20 minutes at a time which is handy. N gave me a few of these puzzle games, Scribblenauts and Professor Layton and the Curious Village and both are really fun.
It was a very thoughtful gift because while it's something I've been hankering after for a while, it's also something that I could never justify buying for myself.
My very own lime green Nintendo DS!