3. Meet New People -- Sure it’s fun to destroy your friends whenever possible, but don’t be afraid to make a first date. You have spent a good majority of the year holed up in your apartment waging war on fellow gamers and living off of ramen noodles and Mountain Dew and you wonder why it’s been so long since you have been on a date. Find that someone that you have been wanting to go on a date with for sometime now and ask them out. Go to a movie, The Dark Knight is still in most theaters across the country and The Miracle at St. Anna looks like it’s going to be a great movie, make a nice dinner or both. If you are already in a relationship, this is a good time to makeup for all the time you spend with your 360. Make some dinner reservations and surprise them with flowers or something special. However, make sure it’s on the 29th; you don’t want to miss valuable gaming time.

4. Rock Band 2 -- If you haven’t had much time to spend on Rock Band 2 yet, this is the perfect opportunity. Surely, so far, you haven’t spent the majority of your time on your band named after “Everyone Gets Laid” from PCU, but you are still playing the same songs over and over. Try to unlock all the songs so that when Xbox Live comes back up, they will be unlocked. If the first one was any lesson, you will be forced to play "Wanted Dead or Alive" and “Creep” a million times just to get to “Enter Sandman.”