I love my sister.

The last few days have been a bit of a blur. I've finally got work sorta going at the Kroger grocery store, although I have yet to really do any "work", yet. Just a bunch of training modules on their computer system teaching me about shoplifting, chemical cleanup, great customer service, all filled with delightfully bland CDi-quality animation.

Though, I'm pretty sure these guys would have made things more entertaining.

On the plus side, despite how simple these modules were designed, it took me an extra hour to finish them all off today, so I got a little bit more pay set aside for my first paycheck later on down the road.

But really, the one thing that I've been pretty chipper about has been a visit from my little sister. Granted, growing up, we were practically at each others' throats on a constant basis, and hardly agreed with anything. She wanted to chill, I wanted to chill on the computer. She wanted to play with figurines, I wanted to stick with my video games. She wanted to hang in my bedroom, I liked keeping things to myself. It was a rocky relationship that hardly ever worked in synchronization between the two of us, but over the years, I'd like to think we've improved slightly.

Nowadays, that I'm not at the house anymore, she'll come around (she drives now, too!) and hang for the weekend whenever she has off time from the high school. Our main pasttime? Why, videogames, of course! And how! Mario Kart, Pokemon Puzzle League, Mario Party 2, a ton of Gamecube favorites, and more. We rock that multiplayer stuff like none other, and we have a blast.

As of this moment, though, she's toying around with the Chaos Garden in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Such was another pastime back in the days of our childhood. Most of the time we played, we paid plenty of attention to making sure these cute, bubbly monstrosities grew up into bigger, stronger bubbly monstrosities.

I mean, how on earth can you say 'no' to this face?

And all I'm really doing right now is just watching her have fun, occasionally stepping in to lend a hand if a particular stage happens to be kicking her ass around. Which, if any of you have ever played the latter half of the game's space stages, you guys will know what I'm talking about.

I think while she keeps herself busy for now, I'll get back to sketching and being a dumb ol' artist and all that nonsense. I will say, at some point, I'm gonna have to make things happen with this artsin' shtick I have for myself.

So, with that, I bid y'guys adeiu.

[ It should be noted that the above images are copyright to both Nintendo and Sega/SonicTeam, respectively. Just sayin'. ]