The 4th Annual Sonic the Hedgehog Day

Sonic the Hedgehog's 23rd Birthday

It's that time of year again, the 23rd of June marks the official release of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis making this year the blue blur's 23rd birthday.

And of course, being the massive Sonic dork I am, it's time to celebrate.

I kicked off the day with a trip to the shop for supplies for the rest of the day, then home for breakfast. 

Tea and Coffee with cinnamon spin attacks. Jordan also had a Wispa....or should that be...Wisp-a?....you know....like Sonic colours?....the aliens?...

Jordan headed off to work and I indulged in a little Sonic Generations to get in the mood....

...as well as the original game. 23 years old and still a blast. 

Sonic watched from next to the tv, he would have been jumping around the place but his kness are going in his old age, bless him.

Our entertainment for the night, Sonic the Movie for myself before I went out to workk, and Wreck-It Ralph for the evening. 

"You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you since I know everything YOU'RE going to do. STRANGE ISN'T IT?!"

Even found the time to do a little fan art. Nothing special, my skills are a little rusty right now and I've always sucked at drawing Sonic anyway. He's holding his scarf from Sonic Boom ad walking off, symbolising the glorious and exciting future ahead of him...or something like that...

Also some Eggman fanart, after all, it's his birthday too. 

Then it was time for the fun to end....off to work. Boo. 

But today, I had a sneaky secret....

...always representin'

Jordan came home from work and started on the dinner. What did we have? Why every hedgehog's favourite, Chilli Dogs of course. 

She even arranged some of my figures around the living room which was an awesome surprise when I came home.

Finally it was time foor dinner. Chilli dogs and liquified hedgehogs. The dinner of champions.

Chef Charlemagne's Choice Chilli Dogs

My body is ready...

Some after dinner entertainment in the form of Wresck-It Ralph

And finallly to wrap up the evening, some friendly cimpetition in the form of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.

Thanks as ever to Jordan for being generally awesome, putting up with my childish obsessions and making the best Chilli Dogs on Mobius. 

And of course, Happy Birthday Sonic.

....you too Eggman.

 

Photos 14/07/13

Sleep is for the weak

Sleep is for the weak! That’s what they say isn’t it? Whoever “they” are…..insomniacs probably. But these days, as a hard working, contributing member of society I find myself agreeing with it somewhat.

Far too often it seems like I get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up, go to work and so on and so forth. This can’t be right can it? This isn’t fair. I object. I shouldn’t be forced to give away eight hours of my day everyday for sleep. There’s so much to do. DVDs to watch, internet to browse, sitting down to do. All the spice and variety of life. 

Wait…no that’s wrong… Variety is the spice of life. That’s what they say isn’t it? Whoever “they” are…people with ADHD probably.

Why do people go so crazy for this sleep thing anyway? Is it the dreaming? Is that the appeal? Maybe that’s what I’m missing out on.

I hardly ever remember my dreams and when I do they’re the sort of vaguely disturbing thing you don’t particularly want ingrained in your memory. Like that time I was left wandering a desolate post nuclear wasteland….with Luigi….

These days I find myself actively fighting sleep. I’ll stay up even though I’m tired, I’ll get up far earlier than I have any real need to. I’ve just got more enjoyable things to do and I can’t be bothered with it.

Except when I have to get up for work, when I would literally kill a man to have more of it.

The 3rd annual Sonic the Hedgehog day

 The 3rd annual Sonic the Hedgehog day.

For the past three years, (since the 20th anniversary of the series) my fiancee and I have celebrated "Sonic Day" where we set a day aside to celebrate the birthday of one of the world's greatest video game series.

I kicked my day off by playing through a  few levels of Sonic Generations before work. I also got out some of my figures and made a display.

For one day only, my ps3 was set up with the Sonic CD theme.

While I was playing Generations, Jordan took it upon herself to dress me in my Sonic Colours hat and Sonic tie.

 

After we both got home from work we set about making our dinner. How else to celebrate the birth of Sonic than with some home made Chilli dogs?

Our snacks for the night, watched over by my Generations statue. We've got Gold Rings (hula hoops), Midget Chaos Gemeralds, Maom Sonic Spinballs and larger rings through which we would later jump and attempt to get the blue spheres. 

We had Pepsi to drink, I know Sonic's officially affiliated with coke, but Pepsi's cheaper and if sonic worked minimum wage, he'd get pepsi too. 

My outfit of choice for the night, Sonic baseball cap, oversized (but oh so comfy) Sonic shirt and pink sonic jammie bottoms.

 Sexy

The contents of the delicious Chilli bowl halfway through cooking.

Went back and rearranged my figures. The CD playing is True Blue: The best of Sonic the Hedgehog

Our entertainment for the night.

 Fixin' up the dogs.

 

Have you ever seen a more majestic meal?

 We enjoyed our chilli dogs while watching Sonic the Movie.

 "You might know everything I'm going to do but that's not going to help you cause I know everything you're going to do. STRANGE ISN'T IT?"

Afterwards we played a little Sonic racing. 

 And had an hour long stint of Sonic monopoly.

Finally we finished off the day with a round of the game we were celebrating. 22 years old and still as enjoyable as the day it was released. 

Thanks as ever to Jordan for an awesome day. Not many girlfriends would put up with a childish obsession like mine let alone actively spend an entire day celebrating it. Best fiancee in the world.