Brain Full of Games

Well, I’m back!

It has been a long and weird month, but after a little trip to Italy for Carnevale and family stuff, I am home with the cat and a giant bag of kimchi and trying to get all the pizza/pasta out of my system. I’m feeling very carb-y. Also I’m a year older now (I age all at once like that). I do need to mention that unfortunately, while visiting my cousin, I was reintroduced to Pokémon Go and my husband is totally addicted to it so now I’m getting dragged around to do raids and stuff with him. And I had just got my daily screen time down to less than an hour on my phone, and I was really feeling very good about that. Ah well. I don’t want to let him and my cousin down so I guess I’m a Pokémon Go person again with sick iPad baby levels of daily screen time.

But this is a post about Crystal version. When I last updated, I was just about done clearing Team Rocket out of the Radio Tower. I finished that up but found that I am really, truly, struggling to evolve my Eevee into Espeon. I’ve had him with me for a while, but for whatever reason I just can’t make him happy (yes, I know about all the little things that could make him sad, but I’m really not doing any of those things to him, he never faints, so I don’t know what his damn problem is). I wasted a lot of time with something extremely stupid: as I mentioned in my last update, I wanted to teach my Butterfree the TM move Nightmare. Now, I thought I knew where to get this, but actually I was talking to the WRONG GUARD the WHOLE TIME. I feel like a complete moron. One thing that has really changed in the way that I play games now is that sometimes in an effort to ‘save time’, I will look up where something is to bypass the process of talking to everyone to find things. And every damn time this bites me in the ass. The most important thing I’ve learned so far from this play through is to just enjoy the process of playing the game, even if it all takes time. It really is the journey, isn’t it?

Now if you all will excuse me, I need to do some IRL Pokémon stuff with my husband (yes, it’s Pokémon Go raids. I’m sorry). See you all on Friday when I hope I will 1) be the proud owner of a sewing machine and 2) have 8 badges?? Maybe? I would also like to get a few more Pokémon… I’ve kinda stalled just shy of 100.