it's 1:13 am, do you know where your game controller is?

Okay, I admit it, I'm the worst blogger ever. It's been months since my last post but it's not my fault, I swear! Minecraft and Steam made me do it! Between my fiance introducing me to Minecraft and buying me loads of fun games on Steam for Christmas I've been pretty busy. Blame him, yeah that's it, it's all his fault!?! No seriously though, the gaming has hit an all time high recently. I've been playing Minecraft, Plants vs Zombies, Defense Grid, Grand Theft Auto, Sims 3, and Lume. He bought me Mass Effect 1 and 2 but somethings up with my computer and it won't let me play *pout. My laptop is great for most gaming but it has trouble with the high graphic stuff. Skyrim and the new Batman game are a definite no no. I thing my computer would explode if I even attempted it. So, let's start with Minecraft.
Minecraft was a little confusing at first, it might have been because I was trying to play on a day when I had only gotten something like 3 hours of sleep. Once you play around a bit you eventually get it. The wiki helped a lot, especially the page with the list of everything you can craft. Once I learned which pickax to use on what stone and that a shovel is better on dirt than a pickax I was set. It looked like it was going to be a fun game. I had loads of land to explore, lots of animals and everything looked pretty. Then night fell. The good news is I didn't die! By the time the sun came up and toasted the skeletons and the zombies I had about one heart, maybe a heart and a half left. Of course stupid me didn't think to burrow into the side of a mountain or something and wait it out, no, that would be too easy. I ran from island to island while being chased by monsters, and a very determined chicken. I think it was some sort of glitch, the chicken followed me everywhere and I couldn't kill it. Anyway, after the first night me and my new pet chicken decided it might be important to find a semi permanent residence. Should have been easy right? Wrong. Again, this is me we're talking about. The next night I was fully prepared. The chicken and I found a nice cave to hide out in. I blocked up the entrance to a room off the side of the main entrance with some dirt blocks and spent the night digging in the back of the cave with a wooden pickax. When Mr. Chicken and I emerged the following morning we were surprised to see an archer waiting for us. I didn't even think about the fact that the sun wouldn't reach him in the cave. This is the point where I finally kicked the bucket. As soon as I removed the block he shot at me a couple of times so I replaced it and formulated a plan. I had used the last of the wood in my inventory to make the before mentioned pickax, which had broken during the night and the only other things in my possession were dirt blocks, cobblestone, and eggs from my chicken. I tried throwing an egg to do damage. Fail. I decided to just run at the archer with the cobblestone blocks and maybe I could kill him that way. Fail Again. I cornered him, he jumped to my side, I turned to hit him, hit the wrong key, went backward instead of forward and fell off a cliff. Dead. My next life wasn't any better. I spawned on top of a very large tree,... under a spider. I fell from the tree while trying to avoid the demon and that was the end of me, again. The third time was actually the charm. I found a little hole under the ground and decided that was going to be my home. Cut some trees, made a crafting table, made a door and a wall to close off my underground home and I was set. Night fell, monsters came, I survived. I made myself a nice wooden sword, pickax, and shovel and went to explore my new homeland. I found nice things like pumpkins and cows and sheep and some coal. Then, panicking, I realized I didn't know where my house was. I had outfitted it with a crafting table, furnace, chest, and a bed. Everything I had was in the chest, I wanted to make room for the treasures I would find after my adventure. After cursing myself for not marking my underground home I began looking for anything familiar. I finally found it as night fell and an archer got in a few arrows. I placed torches to mark it's entry after that. My first experience with a creeper the next day blew the roof off and part of the wall but it was easily repaired just in time for the next nightfall. I watched my fiance play that night when he returned from work and learned a lot about how to survive in the game. I really love the game except for the spiders. I have severe arachnophobia which unfortunately effects my gaming but I've gotten better at it. I found an abandoned mine shaft at one point and it was full of spider spawners. Didn't like that at all! There is one important thing I've learned. Spiders can climb walls so if you build a residence with a open look out tower they will be up there waiting for you but if you place a row of blocks around your fortress they won't be able to make it up because they can't climb upside down. Be careful though, the shade from the ring of blocks will make it so the zombies and archers don't burn up in the sun. Try to build high and place the ring 5 or 6 blocks up, or better, use glass blocks. I love the new addition of the jungles, made a really nice tree house that's high up so I can see almost everything around me. I've learned lots of neat tricks like if you use shears on a sheep you'll get more wool, and now it will grow back, and if you build a snow golem make sure you pen it in a fence or else it will walk off and you'll never see it again. I'm going to finish everything up later, it's late, I'm tired, and because of that my spell check is getting a hell of a workout. Good night!