Grey Warden Lovin'

This evening I'm just sipping some pomegranate white tea and watching hockey while I work on my Christmas knitting. Though, my market gets the Red Wings/Canadiens game, and I don't like either team all that much. Wish I was watching the Leafs/Caps game instead, even if it's just to watch the Leafs lose. Again. And, completely break my heart while doing it, since I'm a Leafs fan for life. <3. I don't know what a broken heart smilie would look like. <$...? My fingers are all taped up like I'm ready to go to a sports bar and get in a fistfight over it, but it's because when I use really small dpns (double-pointed needles for all you non-knitting charlatains!), my right index finger gets a big dent in it from where the needle is pressed to it, and the left index fingertip gets sliced up sometimes from the points. I pretty much only love metal or pony plastic dpns, so it's easier to jab myself. Most knitters love wood only, but I'm completely a Hulk Knit, Hulk Smash knitter, and have snapped every small size wooden dpn or circular that I've ever used, and usually only within an hour. It makes me feel like I'm some sort of giant or ogress.

But, this afternoon, I spent a bunch of time playing Dragon Age: Origins. The characters are kind of fugly, at least compared to the last game I played, which was Uncharted 2. To be fair to Dragon Age, ANY game compared to Uncharted 2 is oogly. Right now I'm rolling a Human Female Templar. I thought that I would wind up romancing only Leliana, but I've totally kind of fallen for Alistair, so I'm cozying up to both of them. I know it's only a video game, but I actually feel kind of bad about this. Even when it's pixellated, I'm totally monogamous. Alistair is just too cute and charming and innocently sweet to be ignored. And, he's got Steve Valentine's voice, which makes him extra adorable. Steve Valentine was also Flynn's voice in Uncharted 2, so I'm getting double his awesomeness. Though, Flynn is nowhere near as adorable as Alistair, and not even in the same galaxy as charming adorability as Nathan Drake. Drake/Elena is totally my other hetslash love pair besides Zack/Aerith right now.
The game itself is pretty fun so far. My Human Templar chica is the nice girl (and ironically her name is Rigel, who when I finally write that story, won't be a nice girl). I have a mage character on deck who's going to be my raging asshole character. I'll probably make him a blood mage. His name is Auriga, naturally. And, he's totally going to sleep with Zevran. I mean... how could I not strive for the hot gay elf sex?! I actually love that the homo aspect of the romances is taken as seriously as the hetero. It's not played as some horrid stereotype or some gross-out joke.