Alright! Post #2

Great! I'm doing my second post! This is working out so well.

Okay, where to start? Well I'm finding that today I'm experiencing a bit of "great day" withdrawal. That's where a person has a just plain fantastic day (which was Monday for me), and all of the other days of the week have a tough time living up to that one, but I'm open to that being different :) and it's okay as ups and downs are part of life.

So I have differing experiences with Fiesta. While for the most part I really enjoy the game, I find that when I'm playing it when I really should be doing other things I don't enjoy it so much. I spent a good part of the morning getting my characters organized and checking out some of the new stuff that the Fiesta people have added to the site. So I found that the rest of my day was not particularly effective, or worse yet, I was in a hurry for the remainder of the day. I really don't like my little one(Jasmine) to feel rushed all the time. To be honest I don't like to feel like I have to rush all the time either. I suppose that I've just gotten used to it. My little one is still at the age where the world is magical and wants to see and do everything along the way which I not only want to foster but would really like to bring that aspect into back into my life... the "life is a journey", not destination idea.

Getting to my point, I think it serves for me to work out some basic ground rules concerning my playing of Fiesta. Having some basic rules to go by to keep the rest of my life in balance. I'm thinking that morning Fiesta time really ought to be kept to a minimum, I'm noticing I really don't like to play in the morning very much anyway. When I connect in the morning I really ought to just set up shop with items I have prepared the night before and just let my character sell.
I'm also finding it to be a great experiencing making the time to write about my experience . I have found that through out my life writing has seemed to bless my life. I think the issue where I am unhappy about my Fiesta time is where I'm missing out on the other things I really like in my life. I find that the things that are fun for me are even more enjoyable when I have completed all my other more important responsibilities. Such as my daughter. My little one asked me today why we didn't play together at all today. That really struck a cord with me. I only spent a few hours this morning getting stuff together and organized, but when the rest of the day came and I wasn't ready for it, or I had all of this other stuff to do, all of my priorities got mixed up. I'm going to take this a step further than Fiesta though. It could have been anything that took my time this morning. The big thing is to come up with a plan first and make sure that I have that precious time with my daughter set up first. More than that again, morning Fiesta time should be very limited.

So what's new Fiesta wise??? I have started making an excel document to manage my buying and selling of Fiesta items. I'm really excited about it. Not only for being able to manage what is happening with the stuff I'm selling, but I've always been apprehensive about working with excel, fear that maybe it wouldn't turn out the right way or that I would fail or something, or that the learning process would be grueling and a lot of work... but it wasn't and has been quite enjoyable. Not only that, but Excel is beginning to make sense to me. At least more than it did and I'm starting to see why people like it so much and that it really can be, or is (for those of you Excel guru's out there) a very powerful tool. Oh and I suppose I should clarify, I'm using Open Office Calc, which I think is a great spread sheet. In fact I really enjoy Open Office. I like what they stand for and what they produce and being open source they are free! :) For more information on Open Office click here. Spread the word!

I have already mentioned in my previous blog the characters I have but here are the pictures!