Mission accomplished!!!

Well, earlier this afternoon i accomplished something i do not think i have managed to do before. I know i have tried (many many times) but i do not believe i have succeeded - till now!

I don't know what it is that has stopped me from reaching this goal before, I know of many people who have done it many times - i have even sat and watched people make it all the way to the finish. I think i have, in the past, coached people along, help them find the right path but i have not actually don't myself.

I am quite proud of myself for this achievement!

So do you want to know what it is that i have done?

I have finished the console game - "Super Paper Mario" (for the Wii). I have had access to and owned may consoles over the past however many years and I have played many games, but i can't remember a time that i have actually finished a game by myself.

Well, when i say by myself i did a bit of looking up hints when i got stuck and did not know which way I was supposed to go, and M34tb4LL did help me get through certain parts of the game (only a minute or two here or there) when my aim was not as keen as his and i was getting frustrated. But i still finished the game!!!

So this afternoon we took the game, along with another that we bought and turned out to be crap, to the local game shop and traded them in for a new game that we have had our eye on.

Which brings to another point...

The trade in price for both games was about $30, don't mind that - we have had fun with the game, gotten our moneys worth out of it. But the shop will then resell this game for only $5 less than the price of the game new! If you don't know how much these games sell for, that is a mark up of about $65!!! So i then ask the question - why bother buying a second game when you can get a brand new one for only $5 more?

It might not make sense, but... I FINISHED a game. Well done me.

(: G

Not much going on really...

Except work and being sick!

Since Christmas this family has a about three rounds of the common cold, a couple of cases of bronchitis / pharyngitis / conjunctivitis and a rather nasty bout of gastro - and it is only May!!!

And through all this it has had to be business as usual at work. The temp job I started back in... um, I think it was late November (maybe early December), have I mentioned that I am back at work? Well to give you the cliff notes I started as a temp on a three week project at the same place that made me redundant back in April last year! Have I mentioned I was made redundant? Well the three week project turned into six weeks and then they decided they needed in another department - but still temp...

So I am still working there, as a temp, and the job they have me doing may have an end in sight - I can't see it though. And rather than being told "We'll need you for another few weeks" or "can you stay till the end of Smarch" I am just "here till further notice"!

I don't mind the work i'm doing, I am writing training manuals and process and procedure documents, but I'm not fond of the whole state of limbo thing. Plus (going back to the family full of illness thing) if I don't work - i don't get paid! That is kind of how temping works, but if I'm not well enough to go to work I don't get paid AND we still have to pay for child care!

There has been some talk lately around the office, seeing as there is a mountain of stuff for me to get to, about me doing it as a permanent roll in the business. That would be nice, or maybe it is really time for me to get my butt into gear and look for permanent work somewhere else.

If only there was way that I could make money by blogging - really money that is!

(: G