so it seems like its been about a month or so since i've really relaxed at home (or even got a solid night's sleep). so the last few days have been welcome, and i've picked up/ordered some stuff for good times. since nothing really eventful has happened for a couple days, i've decided to write about this material stuff.

a friend told me about metroid metal which comes at an extremely welcome time since i've gotten way into metroid lately. i played a bit of super metroid and have started metroid prime over again, with the intention of finishing it this time. so the tunes from metroid metal were very nostalgic and very well done / interpreted, and it pushed me to order a shirt which i love. it features a little metroid with headphones on! and it came with a free sticker!

i also ordered the two towers and return of the king extended editions since i was missing these, and henrik's been really into them lately. we started return of the king last night, and the extra scenes are actually pretty cool so far... the movie definitely feels 'different.' sarumon's death scene in particular was kinda disturbing. i also got batman begins which i'm excited to watch on the projector. i saw it in the theater and thought it was awesome - probably the best batman movie to date (and pretty damn sweet on its own). i think i'll have a viewing party on sunday eve....

i also got final fantasy: advent children, and took a peak at it (no time to watch at the moment)... the animation is absolutely incredible, some of the best i've seen, though i have a feeling the story won't be as impressive.

on a much lamer note, apparently someone has been withdrawing money from my account on some random ATM machines across the city. almost $600 so far... my bank is investigating. my only guess is that my card's info was recorded by a swiper attached to a machine i've used recently, and someone made a fake card using that info later. i'll post what comes of this later...