I've gotten my Pokemon groove back! I managed to put in a decent amount of time into HeartGold. Currently, I have 7 gym badges and about 70 monsters in my Pokedex. My favorite part about these games is actually related to grinding, particularly when you get to see your Pokemon evolve into their next stage. It gives me warm, fuzzy feelings seeing my Rattata mutate into a Raticate or my Flaaffy morph into an Ampharos and get the nice stat bonuses that go along with the evolution. I guess I'm addicted to that aspect of it. Another thing I love about these games is that I feel it's an RPG series that's less about story and more about exploration. I don't really value story in video games (though I do appreciate them if they're done well), I value gameplay. Exploration is a part of that. Pokemon does a great job of giving the player a sense of exploring a vast world.

I picked up a copy of White Knight Chronicles Intl Edition on the cheap: $16. I've heard mediocre reviews of it, even underwhelming and sometimes bad reviews of it, but I'm not against giving it a chance.

Also, I got to try out Wii Party with Sid. Basically a Mario Party clone minus the Mario characters and substituted with your Miis. It's a lot of fun.