Yeah, I'm alive.

I refuse to let a year go by without me posting. Yeah, I still have till July, but might as well start now, right? Right.

So anyway I got thinking about this poor abandoned place again when Rai had the genius idea of making a blog we both contributed to. You should go check it out.

Other than that... uh, my life recently, I guess. I don't know. Same old? Yeah. Um. There's nothing really interesting to talk about, regarding me, really. I mean, I'm sitting here, your average white teenage girl living in the suburbs of Massachusetts -- there's nothing special, unique, about my life, to talk about. And besides that -- it's funny, in that sort of ironic way I find a lot of my life is -- I made a blog, but I don't really like talking about my life.

So instead, I shall talk about something I do enjoy talking about. Like, say, Pokémon!

If you didn't see that one coming, I think you should rethink your status as my friend. If you are my friend.

So, HeartGold and SoulSilver came out almost two weeks ago now. I freaking blew through like, that first half of the game. The Johto saga. I slowed a bit when I got to Kanto; I only beat Red last night. But still, I thought it was a pretty good run. I mean, I was doing a lot of side things.

Now that the metagame is done -- for the most part, anyway, I still need to rematch all the leaders and get their numbers and such -- it's time for post-metagame, competitive team building! Yay!

By "building," I mean literally building. Breeding, hatching, EV training. The whole thing is planned out; tested in the games to see how well it would fair, not once, but twice, modified, perfected. We're going to be unstoppable, unbeatable, untouchable. Yeah, maybe I'm full of myself when it comes to something like this, and it's probably silly, taking a game so seriously and getting so worked up over it. But you know what? I don't care. I love it, no matter how pointless it is it's a passion, and I want to be the very best. Like no one over was. I've been like that since I was little, I guess. I never let go of it. Immature? Yeah. Stupid? Yeah. But did I love it? Hell yes.

Being the paranoid person I am, I can't disclose the Pokémon to you anonymous folks of the internet, but I will tell you something: as I said before, we are going to become the perfect team, and no one will stop us. And I mean that, I totally mean that.

But I digress. Some of the building is done, at least. I have three out of six hatched, right nature, good IV's. So we're halfway there. Once you get past the tedious breeding and the frustration of hatching more eggs than I probably have in my freaking ovaries to finally attain the right nature, the EV training -- though also tedious -- seems like a breeze.

But that's not for tonight, no. Tonight, I'm off to catch me a Mewtwo. Cerulean Cave, here I go.