Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Moving Forward

This weekend was really good.  I was able to spend a lot of time with my wife and our little one.  I was given a lot of compliments regarding how I am with the baby and what not.  As well compliments regarding my imagination and content creation.  It's all been really encouraging but the best thing I got was a surprise card from my lovely wife.

We had to camp out in the baby room, thanks to our annoying cats, but as i was getting into my bed I found a card from her.  Boy did it make me feel a whole lot better!  As you can see from my last couple posts, I wasn't really feelin' it lately.  But she made it all better.

That's the magic thing about marrying your best friend.  You can make mistakes, and dumb stuff happens.  But at the end of the day they're there for you, and vice versa.  No one gets me like she does.  My advice to folks is to make sure the person you with understands you, loves you, and helps you be the best version of yourself.  My beautiful wife is my sole reason for always trying to better myself.  Well and now that our egg hatched, him too!

Life is good.  I plan on starting to stream zelda games again.  Hope you guys will tune in when I do.

And special shout outs to my lovely wife.  Without her, all of this would mean nothing.  Thanks for everything my love.

Friday, July 22, 2016

I'm Really NOT Feelin' it

Today has been the first day in a few weeks where I am just unmotivated to write.  Last night I didn't exactly get the response I was hoping to see, especially with how much effort I've been putting in, but it is what it is I suppose.


A lot of the time I do get really discouraged about a lot of stuff.  Stuff gets to me, eats away at me, but I just never really whine about it.  I keep it to myself and shut up about it.  Work harder, prove your worth, etc.  Over the last couple years though its been a cycle of it paying off and it blowing up in my face.  From jobs to hobbies.  I guess that's life though.


Added on with how useless I've been feeling in the care of my child.  He sleeps all the time and only mostly wakes up to eat.  I help out around the house but it's not giving me a sense of purpose or fulfillment.  It's just tough when there really isn't anything I can help with.  Or maybe it is helpful and I'm just thinking it isn't.  I could do more, or least I feel like I could.


Weekend is coming up!  My grandmother-in-law is coming to town from Vegas.  I'm ultra excited!  I have really cool in-laws.  They're always genuinely interested in our lives and whats happening, and they make a great effort to be around.  I appreciate it a lot.  Plus Grandma-Ann is my favorite grandma of all time.  Aside from my grandmother who raised me of course. 


So I'm looking forward to her being here, getting lunch, and her being around for a few days.  Plus she gets to meet her great grandson!  Oh it's a big deal in the family because we produced the first grandson for our parents, and the first great-grandson on my immediate families side and her side.  Wooo go us!  Plus he's so cute!  I streamed him live yesterday and he told all about his day!


Well I'm gonna take off, see you guys in the next blog!  See ya!

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Struggle Is Weird

Parenting.


It's something I certainly am trying to get used to.  My wife has been being amazing with everything that's been happening.  She spends all day taking care of the lad and I just am struggling to find a good balance between work, family, and hobby.




Typically I come home from work and just spend time with them as we had always done.  Hang out, watch TV, make food, etc.  But when it comes to sleeping at night I have to basically juggle the idea of sleeping, or staying up/getting up with him regularly so she doesn't have to do it alone.  She does so much with him.  So I need to try harder to be more involved in his care.




Today I wrote another news article detailing the announcement of the Collector's Edition for World of Final Fantasy, so that's pretty cool.  I actually was able to make  Press Account for SquareEnix as well!  It makes me happy when I can get some sort of progression with the press stuff.  I might have something even cooler to announce in a few weeks.




We'll see though!

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Dailies

Daily Blog.
Daily Blog.
Daily Blo~~~g~!


Hey what's up everybody?  Another daily blog, because, I find it find to make myself write for Triton and for myself every day.
I got my twitch page and twitter page sorted out with links to stuff.  I'm not doing anything crazy for twitch since it's such a small fan base at the moment.  3 people haha.  But it's still fun.  When I do something major, or something that requires my captured card Ill actually use the mic.  Otherwise I just use the chat, mostly because I have a baby who sometimes yells and sometimes doesn't.


Oh I also got back into the Pokémon games.  I was disappointed that I apparently sold my Pokémon Y version.  that had all my breeding, EV, etc type Pokemon on there and Pokedex of 400+!  Oh well.  I'll just finish Omega Ruby and redo it on there I suppose.  If I ever get my hands on a 3DS card I'll try and do 3ds stuff!  Though the big issue is that so much of library is eshop.


Yesterday I submitted Press requests for review copies of some games!  Capcom turned me down.  But Nintendo sort of responded!  So there's that.


I actually got some sleep last night, but I am still just beat.  So sleepy, so tired.  The opposite of so fresh and so clean.


How are you guys doing?  Hope everything is cool.  Let me know in the comments below!


Otherwise I'll see you guys in the next blog.  See ya!

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Nights are tough

These last few nights, have been really tough.  Our tiny one likes to be awake from midnight to 3am.  So from a variety of bouncing, burping, feeding, changing, and letting the little guy communicate to us in his only fashion it really starts to wear you down.


My wife and I have been doing good on communication and working together, but nights of no sleep can really break a person a part.  I've found myself just beaten and dragging my feet.  It can be tough to concentrate with only get a few hours of sleep and sometimes its broken hours, which are worse.


Thankfully I work a job that is not physically demanding, but still, it can be tough to focus.


Don't get it wrong, being a parent has been so amazing over these almost 3 weeks.  Seeing the way he interacts with us and the world around him.  Getting to see his smiles and hear his sounds.  Its HUGE!  I love him to the moon and back.  But these nights, especially when they're consistent, really can wear down a person.


My wife though, she is the real MVP.  I love seeing her in action!  She just works with him so well, even when I know she is just as wiped as me if not substantially more.  Moms are tough.  Without here, this would be a journey and experience that would be much more difficult and I don't know what I would do without her.  At work I often just wish I was at home with them, even if that means listening to tiny one shout his feelings, constantly cleaning, and changing diapers for days.  I love it.  I love the struggle.  I don't, however, love not sleeping ha ha ha!


In other news I had my second review posted on Triton today.  You guys have already seen it though.  It was my Stardew Valley review, but I went back and adjusted some of the language and added images.  That's going to be a big thing for my reviews over there.  I'll be adding images and links to everything.  Unlike here where I write everything as an informative blog post.


Well I think I'll leave it at that for today.  More to come tomorrow I'm sure!


Have a good everyone and as always I'll see you in the next blog.  See ya!

Monday, July 18, 2016

All about the blogs


What’s up guys, and welcome back to the blog.  AS some folks know I’ve been doing a blend of reviews and blogs here on this page.  Lately, I’ve been really into writing again and I find myself with small amounts of downtime throughout the day.  So I really try to utilize those moments and get my creativity flowing.  Very recently, as you may have seen, I released a Pokemon GO review on this page.  Well, it ended up receiving some decent views and I was asked by a website called Triton XP to write reviews and opinion articles for their website.  So I wanted to share with you guys that I plan to that and have already started!

I don’t get a lot of feedback or comments here, but I do see that folks view my content.  So with that being said I’m going to mostly convert this page into a dedicated blog.  All my reviews and opinion pieces will end up over on Triton!  So make sure to follow those guys and check out my content as it comes out.  I have a couple plans for pieces such as “What the NX needs to be a strong console” and “First impressions of Mobius Final Fantasy”.

But this is going to end up as my think tank and the behind the scenes look at my work, life, and projects!  Thanks to all the folks who check out this page, I really appreciate it.  Hopefully, you guys will continue to support the page going forward.

Thanks for reading and I’ll see you guys on the blog.  See ya!

Friday, July 15, 2016

Pokemon GO Review


Hey what’s up everybody?  Chukkaque here with another review for you guys.  Today I’m going to reviewing Pokémon GO!  With millions of players happening globally I figured I should do a review for this title as well.  The need to know information can be found right below this paragraph as well as the topics we will be going over in this article.

Device: Samsung S7 Edge

  1. Pricing
  2. Gameplay
  3. Pokémon GO IRL
  4. Music
  5. Graphics
  6. Overall thoughts
  7. Final Grade

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Final Fantasy Brave Exvious Review


Hey what’s up everyone?  Chukkaque here and welcome to another game review.  Final Fantasy Brave Exvious was released on June 30th for Android and iOS devices as a free to download app with in app purchases.  Per usual I will be going over a variety of topics pertaining to this title.  Those topics include:

  1. Pricing
  2. Controls
  3. Story
  4. Music
  5. Graphics
  6. Is this a Pay to Win?
  7. Overall Thoughts
  8. Final Grade

We have a little boy

Hey what's up everyone.  This is going to be a blog rather than an opinion piece or a game review.  Though I am going to be writing up reviews for Brave Exvious and Pokémon GO for those of you that are curiois.


On June 30th my son finally emerged into the world!  I can't begin to explain the rush of emotions and feelings that came over me during the entire period.  For some quick information that folks always want to know.  This was our first child.  My wife went through about 10 hours of labor.  She thought she had bad Braxton hicks for a few hours, then we started tracking them.  3 hours later our midwives were on the scene.  Her water broke at about 130am and then our son was born at 2:58am!  It was amazing.  My wife amazing.  I was with her the entire time, doing anything I could for her.  By the end of the process I was just left mind blown and in aw of this incredible person that was my wife.  She did so much, tried so hard, and was able to do this.  I just can't be more impressed or grateful and thankful for what she's done for us.  We wanted to have a baby, and it happened.  We wanted to have a natural at home birth with no drugs, and it happened.  She was worried at times, but she went through it and I just can't be more amazed by her strength.


Going through this 40ish week process was life changing.  I read books, which some people told me was pointless.  I read articles, listened to folks and stories, became educated in hospital birth, home birth, what the processes are and everything.  I became passionate about topics I didn't even realize I cared about.  But boy was it worth it.  It's been about 2 weeks since he was born.  The nights can be tough sometimes.  Especially since he likes to sleep all day and then stay awake at night.  I just recently returned to work, which has been hard.  It's hard not being there with them.  But we're making it work.  There is no good way for me to describe what it's like to be a parent.  I love it.


I dedicate this post to the love of my life, my rock, my partner, my everything, my amazing and wonderful wife.  As well as my new best buddy.  Welcome to the world tiny one!


If folks are interested I have a lot of opinions in Home birth vs hospital birth.  Maybe I'll write an opinion piece on that!


Thanks for reading and I'll see you guys in the next article.  See ya!

Saturday, July 2, 2016

My son is born!

Yay!!! Finally my little boy has been born!
He was due on 6/28 but he made us wait just a few more days, I'm guessing to prove mama right, and he was born on 6/30/16 at 2:58 am!

At some point I'll make a bigger post about it.  I'm so proud and amazed by my amazing wife!  She was able to complete her birth plan just as she intended.  Such an amazing woman!

And welcome to the world Oliver Miles!