Persona 3, Food Adventures

I beat Persona 3 this weekend, except for needing to watch the final fmvs and some talking to people. I logged almost 100 hours of it - and decided to just run through the last month of play. Kind of regret it, kind of don't. Got the boyfriend playing it now though, so I can more than likely live the dream through him.

The ending did not produce as large of an emotional response as the events that happened in the game did, to tell you the truth it ended exactly as I had expected it to, so I guess it was more closure than anything else. I have yet to see the very ending of the game, but the last boss is beaten. So ends a chapter in my life that I am inviting to end with open arms - there are SO MANY other video games I could be playing..

At least until Persona 3:FES comes out.

In other news, I have been going on some food adventures!

First off, the apples.

Mike and I went to the WORLD CLASS Shoprite near the Sbucks he works at for dinner, and while we were there I decided that I needed to buy some damn food. When I went to get some apples I was pretty surprised to find that there were over 10 different kinds of apples. We stood there for about 15 minutes trying to decide which ones to get, but I ended up getting one of four different kinds.

I got Macintosh (sour!) Jazz (tastes like snapple apple!) Pink lady (tart, with a funny aftertaste!) and Stedman (havent had it yet!). So far I have not found the right apple for me (banking on the Steadman by the looks of it) and next trip to that Shoprite I will be getting four different kinds of apples. Pretty soon I will be an expert on what kind of apples I like to eat.

Secondly, French Press!

Mike, for no reason what-so-ever (and this, by the way ladies, is why I am luckier than you) bought me a french press coffee maker from his work. I wasn't being smart enough to realize that when I ground up coffee to use in it that I needed to get it ground in the biggest chunk possible, so I tried to make it using the fine grounds. The coffee pretty much came out like very thick coffee, pretty much espresso-like. I drank some of it and had to throw the rest out. I have decided that I'm going to use up the rest of the coffee (Ubora blend, again courtesy of the boyfriend) thats fine ground in the one cup coffee maker. Which, by the way, kind of stinks, because I only have one mug that will fit in the coffee maker. The rest of the mugs are too tall! So once the fine Ubora is gone I can move on to the special Princeton blend, get that ground thick, and try this french press thing all over again. I'm sure there is some kind of water/coffee special balance that I have to achieve, but thats the best part about it - always an adventure!

Next, I made miso soup from scratch for the first time last week.
The thing that sucks the most about that though is that there is APPARENTLY some kind of secret miso/water/stock combination formula that I don't know yet - so every time I make the soup its a giant experiment of whats going to taste good. Other thing that sucks is that I don't readily keep broth in the house - so I had to use shitty campbell's chicken soup broth which has tons of sodium in it and really threw off the flavor. Other variations of miso soup use fish stock instead of chicken, and different kinds of miso, so there is a LOT of experimentation that is going to be going on over the next few months.

Finally in some kind of celestial breakthrough I found a kind of mushroom that I like! They're called enoki mushrooms, and they're cute AND delicious! I put them in my miso soup and they act as a kind of noodle since they get mushy. They don't really taste like anything, its more of a texture thing, but thats rad!



Like I do with most things, I bought them because they looked cute. Who knew they would be so tasty (in miso) as well!!

Rabanastre Declassified Information

Heres a conversation Dan and I had back in August about ffxii.

me: dude i had the most awesome fight last night too
i fought three marks and like, 4 minibosses last night
Daniel: damn!
me: can i tell you about them
i only want to talk about one mark and one miniboss
Daniel: of course
hahaha
I've narrowed this topic of conversation down into two subtopics.
me: so i started reading about the marks because i wanted to speed up
haha
so i started reading about the marks because i wanted to speed up how long it was taking me since greg was leaving shortly and taking his game with him
Daniel: hahaha
me: and there are two marks that i set out to defeat last night, one in the Necrohol of Nabudis, and one in the Nabreus Deadlands. Two very obnoxious places to be in.
I read about the one in (I'm saving this so i can finally blog about a game)
Daniel: (okay)
me: I read about the one in Nabudis first, and figured it wouldn't be too much of a problem - the one in the Nabreus Deadlands was incredibly foreboding (right word there?) of danger and even began with "So you're at this mark, eh?" so naturally I got scared and decided to revisit that one after a few more levels
Sent at 9:42 AM on Friday
me: However I had to go through the Deadlands to reach the mark in the Necrohol. I thought I was lucky because the one in the Deadlands was "hidden" in a "secret area" and I didn't think I would have to worry about it.
Sent at 9:43 AM on Friday
me: SO I'm running through the Deadlands for a bit because I figured while I am here I might as well get the stupid map, and as I'm running through this little tight piece of land before I get to the map urn I decide to try to find a secret area, which blows my mind, because I KNEW that the mark was IN a secret area..
Sent at 9:44 AM on Friday
Daniel: hahaha
goofball
me: I mean I kind of stumbled across it and kept traveling deeper into it but I knew what I might find - For some reason though I thought since this was the Deadlands (which in itself is a very scary place to be, its filled with thick mist and theres, well, dead shit in it everywhere) there had to be at least more than one secret area and maybe I'll find a chest because even though this was that "area through thick fog and tall grass" I thought maybe there was more than one
Well I'm running around like an asshole
And I start going up the side of this hill.. and all these skeletons are popping up at me, I mean, every three steps, I'm fighting 3/4/5 at a time
Daniel: sweet combo boost though
me: And believe me I am not really plowing through them but I'm doing alright so I keep going up a little bit more until suddenly somehow my fucking brain starts to function properly and I says to myself, I says, "Oh, so this must be the hill of skeletons you have to fight your way up before you get to the mark, oh and HEY LOOK THE HUGE RED DOT right up the hill past this fuckin army of undead right
Ok Molly, fuckin you're here, just deal with it"
Daniel: good good
me: And I'm pretty terrified, I'm using a LOT of magick to keep everyone alive and this mark is a magick user and uses fear on my people to drain their magick and holy shit its fucking HUGE its this GIGANTIC GOLEM LIKE THE SIZE OF RABANASTRE
All the while the fuckin skeletons are still comin at me
Daniel: hahaha
me: So I don't know, I kill off about 30 of those skeletons and finally get up to the golem who isn't really moving but hey thanks for casting fear on Penelo and draining my MP
Oh, thanks, there goes Fran
So here I am, with my arsenal of status spells, Blind, Silence, Slow, ok cool slow sticks, Dispel
I don't know how I did it, it took me a good fuckin 20 minutes to kill this thing just because ... ok well if you focus on the golem the skeletons stop coming at you but since Fran is magick using and bow using and in the back she kind of drums up a few of them here and there
So I'm running back and forth trying to save her while more skeletons pop up since I stopped fighting the golem and the golem is casting Blizzaga on me and shit and I'm just like
THIS SHIT IS BANANAS
Makes me wish I had this one Esper Greg was telling me about who's only ability is, well, to cast DEATH on everyone.
So I get up to chain 50 something at least with those skeletons
I kill that Golem.
I feel so fucking good at this point
I go and I kill the mark in the Necrohol, another Golem.
I go back, and I get mad shit as rewards.
So then I head back and visit Montblanc, he's like, man you are so slammin, Vaan, and I'm just like, yeah yeah I gotta go man see ya
Daniel: the only tim vaan will get a compliment.
me: I head out to The Port at Barlthformheim or whatever silly name they gave that pirate town
I talk to Reddas
Plot, plot, plot
I end up at this fucking huge dungeon
Greg says, you're only on the first ascent, or descent, or whatever the fuck they call it
"Don't even bother me"
There are three minibosses already in the first hour I have been in there
They have all gone down with ease
I mean I am slaughtering these guys
But I've got about five more marks I have to kill
An Esper I want to get, and some side quests I want to look into
However, I might just beat some more marks and end the game, and then go back and revisit once I move.
So thats my ffxii story, I can't stop thinking about it, right now all I want to do is go home and play it.