The Party Time Vixens!

Kombanwa! *bounces around the house, knocking of chairs and bounding over Amanda and pushes Jenny over and sits on her* Yes it is I Motoko blogging for each and every one of you this evening *swishes tail and tucks in to an apple*. It has been many blogs since I have blogged for you I think yes? Jenny has been most dominant in her ways and she has wanted to do some of the blogs due to the fact that I had been blogging a lot myself of late here. So now you are treated to another blog full of hyperactive Eurasian rambling and poor English and grammar I think so get ready!

You today is the first day we have had little to no rain at all and I felt it was safe to wonder around the yard with my waterproof top off, risky I know in Cumbria but I did keep my waterproof trousers on just in case we had a big downpour of rain. It would be nice if this semi-dry weather was to carryon like this you know as we have a part to plan and then execute for this Saturday! This weather going to last, lets find out.

*big vixen cheer and swishes tail* the weather it seems has to be now set for the dry weather, which is good news indeed. I think thought that we may still have the part indoors as I do not trust the Cumbrian weather, don’t trust it at all. One moment you can be walking around outside dry and snug, and the next thing you know you are soaked though and running for cover, of you me walk sedately to the closest dry area.

Esumi and her good wife and little baby daughter have gone home, they left this week, it was more than fantastic to see them again I think as it’s always great to see close friends. Esumi is a very close friend indeed as we used to fly together and serve together for many years, and that can bring people close together. It is a shame however that she could not be here for the weekend as that is when we are having our party.

Now that the working week for myself, Jenny and Amanda is now at a close and we are now enjoying a relaxing evening of good food and wine we are planning the last few stages of a part we are holding on Saturday of this weekend. Catsuitfriday is tomorrow and that is always a joyous occasion indeed and enjoyed by all in our household, and why not, catsuits are awesome things Tomorrow while we are enjoying catsuitfriday we are also going to be setting up for the party, and what is this party I am hearing you ask now. It is Jenny’s mothers birthday on Saturday and Jenny wants to plan a big birthday party for this occasion and I think it is a grand idea.

We have spend a long time finding people who can make custom made balloons and custom made napkins and this kind of thing, and we also have custom bunting as well, and all of which arrived this morning and everything is present and correct you know. We also had some funky helium gas bottles arrive later today as well, and this shall give the balloons a much needed lift if you excuse this pun he he.

Jenny and Amanda have been busy making invites and posting them off all week and we have had plenty of people respond back and this is a good thing indeed, as you can’t have a party with only a handful of people there. I and my wife and daughter with the help of Jenny’s big sister Lyn have been making away like a bunch of busy little vixens and we have a massive surplus of party food such as sausage rolls, pies, cakes, nipples and other assorted party food and snacks. The main meal shall be two big sized steak and ale pies of which Amanda shall be making the rest of us shall be working under her direction. Amanda makes a rather grand steak and ale pie and so we are leaving that to her, and I assure you that Amanda’s pies are heavenly.

I have been left to make the pudding and this is tricky for me as I really only know Japanese style puddings and this shall I think, not go well with steak and ale pie which I under the idea which is very British. So Jenny has book marked lots of pudding ideas in her many cook books and Moria has also given me a few ideas. I just have to now you know, pick which one I think shall go well with this meal for the party. When it has come to picking the drink I am good at this task and have spent a good many hours on picking out the wines and ales which shall go well with the party food and main course lunch.

Part dress code is smart but casual and we though that this was a good option to go for, and I know that I and Jenny shall be wearing our smart but casual catsuits Long as the hall we have booked is warm enough that is!

This blog though must now end, as I have to chill and unwind as it has been a busy week at work for us all. I also have my knee problem flare up again and so it was even harder to get though the working week for me. I did take this afternoon off work today to rest but I felt bad for doing so, so after a short while I went straight back to work. This may not have been the best idea but I safe in the knowledge I was there at work to carry on working and make the jobs seems less insurmountable.

That is all about it for the blog this evening but We shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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Krin Drog Dovahkiin

Krill dovah krait do keizaal, welcome to my blog! Today it is the krilot, krin dovah kriid dovahkiin Motoko do keizaal! Yes that’s right I have been speaking in the language of dragons, but I shall try and keep to English, as my English can be bad enough sometimes, even worse when I am sleepy from a hard days work. As with every blog that I and my brit (dragon for beautiful) wife do, here is the local weather forecast for the next few days. So far the weather has been foggy and very wet.

Oh the weather looks very wet to say the lest, this means it’s time to place sand backs in and out of the house by the front door to defend our home from the worst of the rain. It’s a hard to job to get flood water out of our home, and it’s always all hands to the brooms. Which to us means we have to sweep the water that arrived though the front door; back out though the back door. This can take up to thirty minutes to a whole afternoon, I am just glad that we have a stone floor, water can’t hurt that.

But enough of the weather, it’s time to open the doors to a snowy and mountainous region called keizaal (which means Skyrim). Yes that’s right I and my good wife Jenny and our daughter Amanda have as last got our vixen paws on The Elder Scrolls Skyrim, and my word what a stunning, most engaging game it is. From the moment we started the game we were blown away by how fantastic the game looked, felt and played, from the smallest leave to the biggest mountain, everything looks stunning and really pulls you into the rugged bron (Nord) landscape. Right from the moment you see the firs dragon arrive you know how the game is going to turn out, and although you can’t engage this dragon at that point in the start of the game the massive scale of the dragon was so impressive and we know they would be a challenge each and every time we got to engage on in a battle.

We all got different copies of the game and I must say that I do like the PC version better, but I really do enjoy playing the PS3 version as well both have good and bad points though the bad points do not ruin the game in any way shape or form. I for one am playing a play-though on both PS3 and PC with different characters, and by doing this I really can see the radiant story at work, as I have been to different locations on PS3 and PC for the same quest, as you can guess I was so happy that radiant story works as well as Todd Howard said t would. I must say that Todd Howard and his team and produced such a inspiring and wonderfully crafted game, really is fantastic. We can see us playing this for years to come; it’s just that engaging to play.

Combat is a big part of The Elder Scrolls and Skyrim is no different, and I am really impressed with how they have handled it and improved it to such a point where it fees as if you’re really swinging that sword or pulling back the strong of hunting bow. Walking up to a small keep I spotted a bandit archer, so I took him out with a stealthy shot with my bow, someone heard my dispatched foe fall and land in the river below, the strong current of the water carried him away. Before I knew it I was swarmed by armed bandits all wanting to put me into an early grave. Stealthy approach now was the last thing I wanted to do, so I equipped a sword in my right hand and a healing spell in my left had, and rushed at the keep. The first bandit lunged at me but I swung my sword and with luck that activated a well animated kill, and I watched as my character plunged y sword into his chest before pulling it put and slashing his throat open, he span around and tumbled down to the floor. An orc with an axe is not the kind of person who will be easily persuaded to stand down, as she swung at me he took a load of my health, I bashing him and he staged back. I run up the steps of the keep while casting heal with my other hand, now I had full health again and I plunged my sword into the orc, two well aimed slashes and he fell dead. I was now outside on a bridge, with multiple bandits now rushing towards me. Rushing at them I was lucky enough to be rewarded with another animated kill sequence and my foe fell from the bridge and like the one that fell before him, he was carried off by the current of the river below. There was too many to deal with and so with a thu’um (a dragon shot) I sent them all to an early grave, all the bandits laid dead and I looted their gold. Though my surround sound speakers I heard a tremendous bellow behind me, I span around and a dragon was hovering right behind me. Equipping my bow I was ready to engage him.

So that was a little tease of the combat, and how in a short space of time you can mix and match the weapons and spells you need in an instant so you can deal with any given situation as you see best to tackle it. Now after a battle there is nothing like a nice relaxing walk home, and so that’s just what I did. The world is a live with people farming, hunting, smiting, crafting, you name it they are doing it. Walking up to people in Skyrim is so much better than in the last Elder Scroll game. For one you are not forced to stare at their face when you start to talk to them, once you ask them something you can walking around and look else where. If you stroll to far away they will just stop talking to you, if your talking to a person at a farm and they working hard, when you talk to them may just keeping looking at their work when they talk to you. Others may stop and have a fuller conversation with you. Hearing people talk in a town is also vastly improved with more voice actors at work than ever before in an Elder Scrolls game, and really is a pleasure to hear, the better voice acting the bigger voice acting cast really makes the world come alive and makes you feel as if your there. If you walking around in underwear the towns men and women will make comments such as “Its going to be a cold night, you may want to cover up your . . delicates” which made everyone laugh, even a child running around said “your naked!”.

Everyone needs a home a place where they can call their own, and like in other Elder Scrolls games, you can get a home. You can only own homes in five of the holds but I think owning five homes is more than enough. It would have been nice to own a home in Dawnstar but we can’t have everything. Our friend Sam Mia likes Dawnstar as it reminds her of her birth place in northern Iceland! Home owning in Skyrim has been taken a step further than owning a home in The Elder Scrolls Oblivion, and is a lot more engaging and immersive than before. For one you can use the bookshelves to store books, you simply have to activate it and then click on the books in your inventory and then after you have performed this action the books show up on the bookshelf. Some can store more than others, and it’s a great way of displaying and storing all the books and skill books you can brought, found or stolen! There is an alchemy room you can purchase as well so you can make potions to your hearts content with our having to travel else where to do this. It’s always been something I wanted to do in Oblivion but couldn’t where I wanted to store weapons but have them displayed, and at last my wish has at last come true. You now have weapon racks in your home where you can store or display weapons in your home, it’s always good to have a weapon handy isn’t it so why not store them where you can reach it when you need it. If you are married (yes you can get married in this game, regardless of sex, age or race) your partner can move in with you, cook you dinner and set up store. If you sleep next to your partner you also get a bonus as well.

Wildlife in Skyrim has also been greatly revamped and improved from The Elder Scrolls Oblivion, and that like all the other improvements draws you more into the game. Seems to me as if the animals now has a greatly improved AI system, as bears can hunt other wild animals and wolves can also hunt other animals. I have seen a pack of wolves hunt and kill a mountain goat before spotting me and then turning to attack me. The wolves are so much better looking now and have different colours of coat depending on the area where they are living, same for bears as well. Insects now play a part in the world of Skyrim as well, from small glow bugs to butterflies they are all in the world of Skyrim. You can also find insects that you can’t interact with like ants running over a small fallen tree, small details like this really show the level of detail the game developers were aiming fore. Not every animal wishes to attack you such as chickens, highland cattle and even bears will warn you off before they engage you in a battle. Birds now fill the skies of Skyrim and I am not sure if you can interact with them, they do fly over head and cast shadows on the ground as they fly. Fans of The Elder Scrolls will be pleased that Mud Crabs make a return as well!

The quests and missions you are given be it story driven main quest or a side quest or a radiant mission they all feel well though out and planned out. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between radiant story and a scripted quest. As I have said before in my blog so far that I and Jenny have only spotted that something was powered via radiant story when we did the same quests on the PC and then on the PS3. It sent us to different locations but with the same objective. It also had different loots and bandits as well, which goes to show radiant story working in all its glory. The main quest feels like it flows very well and is a really engaging story, I’m not going to spoil anything here but I will say that if you are thinking about getting this game you shall not be disappointed. Of course there are side quests, and infinite radiant story quests, guild quests and other assorted quests to keep you amused for months and months. The guilds are different in the way they work from The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and each hold has it’s own guild, for example the companions are the “fighters Guild” of Skyrim and they are only in Whiterun. The guides also have and infinite radiant story quests, so once again these should keep you busy for hours, and hours.

Skyrim the collectors edition for they PS3 is my version which I have and my good wife Jenny has the PC version, Amanda our daughter has PC version. Each version plays very well, very well indeed. The PS3 can lag ever so slightly but nothing that as stopped game play or ruined the game enjoyment. The PC Version runs very well on the set up that I have. It runs on ultra very well, and the world looks fantastic and better than the consoles do. But that is because it’s running on a powerful PC, the PS3 version looks great as well so don’t worry about getting it for a console. Of course PC version can be modded and run of a higher setting, but this should not sway you. Many people wonder if an Xbox 360 controller will work the with PC version and although we don’t own an Xbox 360 the back of the box states that it can work with one. Remember you need to have a steam account in order to activate the PC version, but you don’t of you are running it on a console.

To celebrate the launch of The Elder Scrolls Skyrim, I and Jenny, and our daughter Amanda, all went over to our friends home. Sam Mia and Moria also had their copy arrive as well so we had an 11/11/11 Skyrim party, full of snacks made by Amanda. A great Icelandic pie cooked by Sam Mai and an awesome pudding by Moria. It was a warm and welcoming party and we spent two nights there at our friend’s home.

It’s always nice to spend time with friends and the ones you love. We played a lot of Skyrim and in-between that we had a run each morning. Sadly I and Jenny and Sam Mia had hockey team practice that Friday or we would have been lunching into the world of Skyrim long before that. But Moria had work so we would have felt bad if we started to play it with out her, so maybe it was just as well we didn’t have Friday morning free to play Skyrim!

Well that is it for my Skyrim blog; I am most worn out after a busy and very wet day at work, and my English is starting to get rather poor.

I need to have a nice relaxing sit on the sofa before dinner and then I think an early night is in for the order. I wish you all a very good evening. Below is a picture of Jenny resting her feet upon the Skyrim box!

That is all about it for the blog this evening but we shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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Been A Good Few Days

Heya one and all tonight it’s I Jenny blogging for you all tonight. As I have not blogged for a while, so I feel that it’s my turn tonight, that and my great wife Motoko is fast asleep beside me on our bed as I am typing this. Well the weather has been a real mixed of late and let’s check out what it shall be doing later on this week.

Well now the weather forecast is not that forbidding is it; in fact you could say that weather wise we have got of lightly for this time of year. As a rule we get a lot of rain and floods which then leave ruined ground and a flooded home, lane and work place. I am sure though that this period of zero rain shall come to a swift and decisive end, and we shall be back to wind driven ice cold rain that stings you when it hits you!

It’s been a great few days that is for sure, I and Motoko this year held a small privet bonfire/Firework party. Was a small but cheerful occasion with our friends Sam Mia and Moria, Motoko’s big sister Sarah and her daughter Amanda, Motoko’s younger sister, my older sister and her husband to name a few. It was great fun and everyone really enjoyed it, and all the food Amanda helped cook and layout was brilliant and was enjoyed by all. Sam Mia and Moria slept over that night, and we all had an early night in the end as everyone was really sleepy. To much excitement I bet ha ha.

Motoko and I really love reading and we like nothing better than to snuggle up and read a good book, be it in bed or on the sofa in front of a flickering fire we love to read. Motoko’s English when she is sleepy can be really limited and that can either be speaking or reading it. One thing she likes is for me to read to her, and the other night was no exception. I and Motoko sat in front of the fire, and I was reading to her some Wind In The Willows. She sat giving at me with her wonderful eyes, she took in everything I was reading to her, smiling and really enjoying the story. Moments like this are fantastic, one of the most enjoyable moments I have is seeing Motoko Happy. Motoko reads to me in Japanese, she reads poems to me, and although I don’t always fully understand them I really enjoy her reading to me.

Well it’s been a short blog I know but I and Motoko are off to have a nice early night as we have work tomorrow. Then Friday morning I and Motoko have hockey team practice/ meet up, and then Motoko and I and our fantastic daughter are going to have a “The Elder Scrolls Skyrim” party with Sam Mia and Moria which shall be great fun. Remember Skyrim is out on 11 / 11 / 11!

That is all about it for the blog this evening but We shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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