Singstar! Woot!

Heh heh heh.

 Well my birthday is on Tuesday and I'm glad to see that my wonderful Matt is maintaining the tradition of letting me have my pressies early, that is as soon as they are purchased. This shows a sound understanding of the Debbie psyche. It is generally considered by most people that surprises are good. That not knowing what your presents are and only finding out when you unwrap them on your birthday somehow enhances the joy of receiving present goodness. However, I am of an easily excitable disposition. Not having any preview of birthday presents would leading to twitching and lack of sleeping. The excitement would be TOO MUCH and I WOULD HAVE TO KNOW.

So yesterday was a wonderful Saturday. We went down to Belmont to visit Dad and found out he now has a blog, got a useful bunch of stuff from my Nana that she no longer needs in her new smaller place, played some excellent Buffy and GOT COOL PRESENTS!

Firstly, my warm thanks to L and S for the lovely cupcakes with yummy blue icing, and the PIG PUPPET. Woot! Now I have a cute pig puppet just like in The Wolves in the Walls. The pig (called Dumpling) came complete with a short poem explaining his origins and Dumpling's special oinking features. When you squeeze his snout, he oinks. Or at least the label claims it is an "oink". However, when I squeezed Dumpling's snout I discovered the sinister truth...

"KILL DOYLE, KILL DOYLE..."

Dumpling, it seems, is in fact a dark and evil mind hidden in the body of a cute plush pig puppet. I don't know who Doyle is but it seems Dumpling has nefarious plans for him...

My second present of supreme coolness was... SINGSTAR!

Yay!

For those of you that have not had the joy of experiencing Singstar, it is a PS2 game of karaoke. It scores your ability to sing, well your ability to get the correct rhythm and pitch of the notes anyway. So cool!

There are many different games and options. Last night we played several enjoyable hours of Singstar at Jenni's place (Projector goodness - yay!). We played the Team Party mode where the teams must compete in different singing challenges with random songs. Much fun and a draw between our powerful singing teams.

We then played the game where you build up a Singstar career and become an international Superstar. You get gigs at different venues, make a demo, then get a record deal and move into a flash penthouse apartment with its own Golf Course. I was pretty excited about the Penthouse apartment. Very swanky.

Giffy's single of Superstar went to number 1 on the charts.

Needless to say we became World Famous by the end of the evening. Much fun was had.