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Maybe it’s the upcoming new year or maybe it’s just because I’m bored but I’m feeling like a change! While I do like the current theme for this blog, I am getting the feeling that it’s not quite the right fit anymore. I want something simple, yet snazzy. Something that loads well and is pleasing to the eye. Being a design noob myself, I have no idea where to even start when designing my own theme. And the only graphics program (if that) I have on my computer is Paint!! I think you can start to see my predicament.

While I don’t have a great deal of money to spare, I would be happy to pay a fair price to the right person. If you feel that you can design a theme for me that stays true to the overall tone and feel of GirlieGeek, please drop me a line at kimberley.gaudet@gmail.com with some examples of your past work and how much you would charge for a project such as this.

Thanks a million!! I look forward to hearing for you!

If you’ve got a family like mine, the holiday season is full of tradition and visiting relatives. For some people, this is a real pain in the ass … but for others it’s what makes Christmas special. I suppose I’m a little bit of both. While I love seeing family and friends, I still want to get some gaming in while everyone’s got the time off.

The holiday season has always been one of those times throughout the year when guilds everywhere, in many different games, feel the lowest in activity and recruitment. People are busy with real life commitments which overthrow gaming commitments. I try my best to find a good balance so that I am able to spend quality time with my family, but also fit some WoW time in. Generally the WoW time is spent very late in the night after everyone has gone to bed. There aren’t as many people online but at least I can get some serious questing done!!

Do you game over the Christmas holidays? If so, is it alot less than you normally do?

Since L33tz0r and I are currently separated by an ocean, spending quality time together can get a little tricky. For us, online gaming is such a great way to “do something” together without having to actually be physically together.

Last night we dusted off out Steam accounts and downloaded Counter Strike: Source again. I remember playing 3 years ago and the graphics were pretty good. Last night while playing I had to giggle because they are dated by today’s standards. Just another example of how fast technology changes and evolves.

I was surprised at the number of people still actively playing CS:S. I had figured that people would have moved on to CoD or other such games as we had. But there were lots of full and active servers to choose from. Our biggest problem was finding a server that was good for both of us since we are so far apart. It was very frustrating constantly getting kicked from servers because of high ping!!

Eventually we chose a 1 on 1 server so we could hunt each other down for the kill. I can’t think of a better activity to do with the man I love than to get out my SMG and pop him with a headshot Aren’t I lovely?

I am so happy to announce that on Thusday, L33tz0r got down on one knee and asked this little girlie geek to marry him!!!

I was so surprised and excited!! I can’t even express how happy I am that he has made this commitment to me and I am already looking forward to the geekiest wedding ever!!

This post is two-fold. First, as I mentioned before, I am now back home in Canada. I am in a new house so it doesn’t feel like I’m home. It feels like I’m staying at someone else’s house … and a house I’m not overly fond of at that. I am missing L33tz0r like crazy and am wishing I was back in England with him.

Second, I had a chance to try out the Home open beta on the PS3. I love custom character creation as you all know so I was very excited to make my avatar. Only to be slightly (not completely) disappointed by it. I didn’t find that there was alot of choice. However, I do appreciate the fact that this is free. So I’m not going to complain about it.

I walked around my seaside apartment for a bit, tried out all of the dances, and painted the walls. As of yet, there isn’t a whole lot to do but I expect there will be alot to come.

Anyone else check it out and have any comments?

So apparently I’ve heard that Home will be available to PS3 users tomorrow, the 11th of December! Well, don’t get too excited … it’s still in Beta but at least we’ll get to use it. The closed beta has officially finished and tomorrow we can expect to experience the open beta for ourselves.

OMG I cannot wait to decorate my house!! Ah god and we all know what I’m like with my customizable avatars!! I should be packing and that is going to take me all damn day!

I expect it won’t be perfect at first so, while my expecations are high, I’m willing to look past any minor faults and bugs since I’m sure that there will be a number of fixes and updates in the months to come.

Expect to see a post tomorrow with my thoughts on the newest addition to the PS3!!

Here’s a little more info for anyone interested.

Ok I know this isn’t normally the type of post I’d do here … since it has nothing to do with me being a geek and all. But since I am pretty desperate and don’t have very much knowledge on the subject, I thought I’d take a stab out into the interwebs and look for help.

I am moving back home to Canada on Sunday (hoorah!) … but that means I’ll have to leave my sweetheart L33tz0r here (boooooo) for a while. He wants to come with me and immigrate but we’re unsure which is the best way to go about this.

There’s the Working Holiday maker visa from BUNAC which is about £280 (not including flights) and will allow him to work in Canada for 1 year. It should get him to Canada in mid-February I hear.

There’s also the more serious route of a sponsorship visa in the Family Class since we qualify as a common law couple. I’m not entirely sure on the price of that one but I would expect that it’s pretty steep. And I’ll bet it takes a long too. But the good thing about that one is that, as far as I can understand, we can apply for it while L33tz0r is in Canada. It would be soooo good if he could work WHILE the visa is in progress but I’m not sure if it works that way.

Does anyone else have any information that they could give us to shine a little light on the situation? We’re pretty desperate and will consider anything. Especially donations of millions of dollars so we won’t have to worry about him working hehe!!

Thanks a million to anyone who can provide an answer!! I’ll owe you one!!

There have been quite a few really good game releases for the PS3 lately, and like any good little gamer … I bought them. Well I lie, L33tz0r actually bought them on staff discount at GAME but whatever I have them anyway!

So we picked up Saints Row 2 a few weeks ago and to be honest, I’m actually really impressed by it!! Sure, it’s not the sexiest game as far as graphics are concerned but it’s not pretending to be. They marketed this game as frigging fun and that’s what it is. I was pleasantly surprised at the sheer volume of customization in the game. It took me almost an hour (I kid you not) to create my character. Not only are there TONS of hairstyles, taunts, commpliments, clothes, voices, etc to choose from but you can also change the colour of almost anything you want. This instantly made me more connected to my character than to, say … Niko from Grand Theft Auto 4 (which I love, don’t get me wrong). And all of that is just in character creation. Once in game, your first mission is to go shopping for some new clothes. Again, I pissed L33tz0r off for taking an obscene amount of time choosing an outfit. But I had too!! You get points for style!!

As you can summize, I really like this game. Yes, it’s alot like GTA4. But at the same time, it’s very very different. You have so much more freedom and it feels alot more personal. You can choose to do some serious missions or you can choose to drive around and kill bums. I made the mistake of killing a bunch of hookers as soon as I started (hey they were looking at me funny!) and now all hookers and pimps are my enemies. Oh well.

Oh right, I got some other new games recently too. Today is L33tz0r’s birthday and he got Resistance 2 and Singstar. He’s been playing Resistance pretty much all day and I’ll just tell you that it looks awesome!! Graphically it’s very pretty and shiney. Game play seems smooth and I like the fact that you can play it in co-op mode. Since I haven’t played it myself, I can’t really tell you much more than that so I’ll have to leave it to L33tz0r to do a review.

Singstar is basically just kareoke … which I HATE, but I will admit that there are some really awesome song choices. Maybe after I’ve had a few drinks tonight I’ll give it a try haha!!

And how could I forget my favorite new game … Call of Duty 5! I’ve been looking forward to this one since I caught wind of it’s release and I was not disappointed. It stays with the controls and ease of CoD4, but adds some snazzy new graphics and a wicked story line to play through. I was able to jump into online mode without any difficulty because of the CoD4 controls, but I still knew it was different because there are colours other than grey, green and brown in it. Also, instead of having airstrikes in online play, you can now release the hounds!! The dogs will go searching to kill people and they don’t stop until they are killed themselves. The other good thing about the dogs is that, if you are on the recieving end, you can kill them instead of them eating your face. You do have to be very quick however because these little basards are brutal!!

I might have rambled on enough now because I didn’t want to get into too great of detail until I had the time to finish the games and write some full, comprehensive reviews on them.

Anyone else have any thoughts or opinions on these games or other new releases? I’d love to hear them!!

Have you ever played Halo with one of those guys that screams and swears and just takes the game waaaaay too seriously?? Well when I saw this, I thought that this type of guy would be the one in the costume.

For a mere $800 you can have your very own Halo 3 Master Chief Supreme costume!! This Halo Costume is sooo detailed and actually looks pretty damn cool, in a sad sort of way. If I had the money to waste, I’d totally waste it on that!! This is THE most realistic Halo suit that money can buy. Imagine showing up at a gaming convention in that baby!! Sure you’d probably get a little warm but hey, you’d be the coolest looking person in the building!

Well if Halo or gaming in general isn’t really your thing, do not dispair!! Because this site also has many other Costumes to choose from. I really wish that I had seen this site before Halloween because they have some really awesome looking costumes!! I enjoyed looking around the site at all the different things and even bookmarked it in case I ever need to dress up for something and actually want to look good haha!! There are some big expensive costumes, but there are also some way cool affordable ones too so don’t let Master Chief scare you off!!

Definately worth a look just to see the costume though!!

Check this out this video to see it in action!!

Master Chief on YouTube

So I’ve been a bit distant lately. Not posting as often as I’d like to. But … I’m sick, you see.

My name is Girliegeek, and I’m a WoWaholic. Yes, I admit it’s true. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of but the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem so here it is. After quitting a few months back, I just couldn’t resist and had to start playing again in time for the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King.

And do you know what? I’m actually kind of impressed by the new expansion! I’ll just tell you about a few of the things I have really been enjoying so far.

Achievements - Sure they don’t actually get you THAT much but there is something strangely satisfying about that little badge popup letting everyone know that you just accomplished something. I’m even kinda looking forward to going through all of the Classic instances to get the Achievements for those. And that Leeeeeeroy Jenkins one is up there on my list. It might be worth mentioning that I have rerolled … horde. *GASP* Yeah, I’ve gone to the dark side. I’ll let you know how that’s going at some point. Because of this I am currently only level 40.

Inscription - One of the good things about my reroll is that I could actually level a profession at the pace they were meant to be levelled. So if you’re planning on doing Inscription, the logical thing to pair it with is Herbalism. It’s a really easy profession to level because there are herbs everywhere you go if you can be bothered to stop for them … and I can lol! The other good thing about it right now is that it’s still a new thing so people are willing to pay lots and lots of gold for some of the things that you make. Glyph of the Penguin has been my highest gold earner fetching me an average of 15g per glyph. And the mats are really easy to get so it’s basically free gold. That’s just my server, not sure about the others. Which glyphs are selling best on your server?

New Pet Tab - The new pet tab on your character sheet has been great because now, you no longer have all of your mounts and pets taking up bad space in your inventory. Extra bag space is always good bag space.

Currency Tab - Tying in with the pet tab, the Currency tab is also saving you some valuable bag space by holding onto all of your PvP tokens.

Ok so these are just a few of the new things implimented with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Leave me a comment and let me know what new things you are loving (ar hating) about the expansion. I’d love to hear what other WoW addicts are thinking!!