April Favourites

Super happy to see April go as it was another stressful month and I've quite a number of things on all at once. I have been working on the blog more and trying to clear out my backlog of screenshots. Pretty much up to date and I am going to work on updating/revamping the various topic pages on the blog. One exciting thing of the month was seeing the Aespa World Tour concert at the cinemas which I went to last weekend. It was great that it got shown here and there was even two sessions! My session only had 23 people in one of the biggest cinemas at my local one and it was good to see support for the group.

Gaming

This month I've been playing stacks of Pretty Princess Party as I've been working on finishing the game. It is a cute game with lots of collectibles and I've been creating some nice looking rooms. Once you get a good range of furniture that is from the same set, it is easy to create rooms. Currently I am focusing on completing the villager houses but I think I've reached the limit I can do until I reach Level 5. Here are some of the rooms I've designed in Pretty Princess Party:

March Favourites

Happy to see the end of March as this month has been quite eventful. Lately I've been having a stressful time and looks like it will stick around for a while longer. So I haven't really been doing much besides playing Nintendo Switch or reading. Hopefully April will be better and things will improved. I will miss the warm weather though as we starting to head into Autumn. It is meant to be stormy the next few days which will be good as we haven't had rain for a long time.

Gaming

I have been playing my Nintendo Switch more than usual and I actually got back into Fashion Dreamer! During my last play journal that I posted that other day, I commented on how I was a bit bored with the game but once I got back into it, I found it quite fun. There is currently an event running and I have been enjoying taking part in that. I want to try out making some cute outfits to take photos in and level up the NPCs.

Another game that I've been super into is Pretty Princess Party which I totally forgot I owned! It got caught up in all the games I have on my Switch and I randomly decided to play it again the other week. I forgot how adorable it is and I love a good collectible game. Once I focus on it, I should be able to finish it in no time and trying to master that silly horse riding game. Never have been good at that type of mini game and I was surprised I aced the dancing one as usually I'm awful at rhythm games. Might post a play journal on Pretty Princess Party one day if I have enough photos. Maybe once I get closer to completing the storyline or collections.

Music

Finally brought all the items I could on Yahoo Auctions and I am currently waiting for the parcel. So excited to get all my Japanese CDs as they are unavailable here in Australia. Our iTunes didn't have a lot of the albums I was looking for and luckily I could find copies on Yahoo Auctions. The parcel will take a while to get to my address but I don't mind waiting.

June Favourites

June has definitely been the fastest month of 2023 as I felt like I blinked and missed the entire thing. It feels like we were only just at the beginning and now it's the 3rd of July. June was a crazy month weather wise here with lots of rain and storms. There was an intense cold front which was horrible as I cannot stand the cold weather and having to wear thermals constantly. The rain hasn't been bad the last few days however it is going all next week. Anyway here is a cute pic of Pudge at his birthday this month in my Animal Crossing town. Too adorable!!!

Gaming

There was a good sale recently on the e-shop so I picked up some new titles. Mainly puzzle games as that is my favourite genre on the switch. I did get Pixel Paint 2 as I loved the first one except it doesn't work well with a stylus. So disappointing as the game is a billion times better using the stylus to colour. Whenever I try to use the stylus like I would in the first game, it just moves the screen around. So I haven't played that one much as colouring using the joy-cons is so boring and tedious. Also picked up the Island Cities game which is the sequel to Island Farmer. Another great game on the console and I've almost finished the Cities one already. A sequel Pretty Princess Party was released and it made me remember that I actually brought the first one and forgot. So silly and I cannot believe I hadn't played it until now. Only played a small bit as I've been busy and it is quite fun. Very cute and the mini games are exciting.

Books

Thought I would bring in a new section to the monthly favourites as all I tend to do nowadays read. Lately I've been kind of bored with Youtube so I decided to try out listening to an audiobook. I've always stayed away from them as I thought they would be difficult to follow and remind me of podcasts which my brain doesn't like listening to. So far I've listened to three Agatha Christie books and I'm hooked! I'm a big fan of mystery stories and these are enjoyable to play in the background whilst I do stuff. Plus I can add the reading stats to my Goodreads and Storygraph apps with the later having some great audiobook tracking.

Music

Has anyone else been watching Queendom Puzzle? I wasn't too sure about following it at first because I didn't enjoy Girls Planet 999. But some of the girls on the show are from my favourites groups so I tuned into the first episode. Now I'm hooked and have been taking part in the voting. Juri from Rocket Punch is my number one pick then I've been voting for Yeonhee as well.