300th Time is the Charm!

There are a lot of random little things that happen that I never thought would happen. For example, having another job at a grocery store. I worked at a store during high school and thereafter swore that I would not do it again. Four years after that, I found myself working at a grocery store.

Speaking of jobs I never thought I'd have (and never wanted to have), one of those happened when I was unhappily employed at McDonalds for some years. Needless to say, that experience reminded me why I didn't want that in the first place and it also served me with motivation to never get that low again.

Ha, but that is another story entirely...

Back to the point at hand. another random thing happens to fall onto this blog of mine. I never would have imagined that I would be writing a long term blog, mostly because my mind and my attention tends to wander away from things before too long. Hell, I wouldn't even have thought that I write up a whopping 300 posts for said blog neither. And yet here it is, plain as day, and I am still writing for it today.

300 posts!

Either that is a little bit of dedication or perhaps a sign that I end up with nothing better to do more often then not? Hmm...

Anyway, I was surprised to have read that my favorite former WWE Diva, Victoria (who claimed to have retired some months ago), has resurfaced recently in TNA Wrestling under her real name (Lisa Marie Varon, pictured above). And my god does she look hot! It looks like her MMA training got her back into top shape!

What? Don't judge! I am only human...

Now as much as I think TNA is a weird paradox of a wrestling company, I have to admit that the former Victoria's appearance there has sparked my interests in that strange place to a certain degree. In my opinion, it is about damn time they got some REAL talent in their so called women's division!

On the subject of wrestling, I just got my first wrestling Blu-Ray disk (WrestleMania 25) and my thoughts? It really isn't worth the extra money in my opinion, I mean the only thing that really seems to stand out is the onscreen graphics. Is that worth shelling out an extra $10? It is a mistake I won't be repeating twice, that's for certain.

But what did make the purchase worth its coin were a few great matches. For starters, the pre-WrestleMania tag match for the Unified Tag Team titles was awesome! I hadn't had the chance to see Carlito and his real life brother Primo tagging before, but they are a pretty solid team. And their opponents, John Morrison and The Miz, were their usual awesome selves. I liked that team! But I suppose the WWE felt their run as a tag team had come to an end, which I hope means they won't fall into the same hole like a lot of broken up teams (meaning failed solo runs).

What was so very sad is the fact that this unified tag title match managed not to make it onto the actual show itself. I agree with what was said by others here on the net, in that those involved must not have been too thrilled not to have made it onto the biggest WWE show of the year.

The Money in the Bank ladder match wasn't as bad as I heard, even though the winner of the match is a repeat of last year (CM Punk). Surprising to me was how Kofi Kingston was absolutely amazing! I think he was rivaling Shelton Benjamin in the insane spots department, though the "Gold Standard" had his share of holy shit moments, too. Personally, I'd love to see both he (Kofi) and Shelton Benjamin mix it up in the future.

But the biggest draw for me was the Shawn Michaels versus Undertaker match. Ever since this event, I've been reading about just how great a match these two guys had. And needless to say, my interest was tickled. And after watching it, I can wholly agree with what people have said!

Everything from the pre-match promo video to the match itself, man the whole thing just gave me goosebumps! There literally wasn't a dull moment in the match from bell to bell! What took me by surprise was actually seeing a great Undertaker match (his matches tend to be a bit on the slow side usually). But both he and HBK stepped up their respective games that night and it easily can join the short list of favorite matches in my book.

Last thing to write about is focusing on Suikoden, which I have picked up on PSN a short time back. Yes I did have the PSP version with both the first and second games. But it was all in Japanese! I can't read it and playing a RPG you can't read just doesn't end up being a fun experience (at least not for me).

What has been a bitch is actually trying to recall things about the game (like where and how to recruit the 108 characters) and I think I've been doing okay so far. One screw up in the road was Pahn's death, which I prevented before, but was very, very ill prepared for this time around.

Regardless, it has been a fun experience to be able to relive this classic RPG. Everything from the full scale wars to the castle itself... oh the memories...

Next up for me is Wild Arms... I still got a bone to pick with the original version!

Oh and a funny story in relation to Wild Arms. I actually bought the original game twice, the reason being was the first time around just pissed me off. You see, I didn't realize you could switch between characters and in doing so, use their abilities (bombs, the little rat, etc). So after just barely starting up into the game, I was terminally stuck! And it didn't take long before I swore (figuratively and literally) that I would not touch such a shit game again!

Imagine how stupid I felt the second time around? It just goes to show, it would be wise to sometimes read the game manual from time to time...