Homework...Fiesta or otherwise

Right on evening time again! The family has gone to bed and I'm alone with my thoughts... Scary :). Actually it is very good as I have had at least a few of them lately. Some of them have even been about Fiesta. One in particular that comes up is that I don't know how long I'll be playing Fiesta. As I am getting into better habits, I find that I'm feeling better and better about life which is causing me to do other things with my time, which leaves less time for gaming. We'll see, I've noticed many things happening in my life lately. I feel like I'm observing my life right now, listening to what my feelings are saying as well as the experiences that are coming up for me.
Another thought I had was concerning homework. How does that fit into Fiesta one may ask, but it does! Consider the excel document that I have been working on. I was just at the part where I thought I was done and actually using the sheet to collect data when I noticed ONE CELL WAS NOT WORKING! Course then consider that I'm dealing with SHEETS of like 30 units to a sheet and the one cell in ALL of them is wrong! It's actually a fairly easy fix, but it'll take work and I find that I have to take time away from the game to do this. Which is very good. The writing of the blog is work... taking away from game time that I could be spending playing, but it's good that I'm writing, as I find that it inspires me. I suppose what I'm getting at is taking a break to to the work before the play can be a VERY valuable habit. I find that the homework option I have struggled with for most of my life. Play has been so important to me and at times it's not easy for me to see the value of the work right off the bat, but every time I have a finished produce I am reminded of the value a little work can bring, One would think I would be inspired to work more when I do this , but I find I have more time to play so up until lately I have played more, in whatever it is I'm working on or playing. Right now though I'm creating new habits, which in turn is doing good things for me in my life. I find that I'm doing more. I suppose tying this paragraph together, I still want to be able to have and do fun things, but I also want to be spending time doing my "homework" as the work I do at home can be some of the most valuable work that I'll do. Ooooh speaking of homework, I wanted to fit this into my blog somewhere and here is the place! MIT offers over 80%(I've heard) of it's courses online for FREE! Granted one does not get the paper degree... but for those of us looking for useful knowledge and to gather skills, what an awesome opportunity, yet it requires one doing their homework. For those interested in these MIT courses click here.

There have been good things happening to me lately, as I ponder these things I find myself asking "what's causing it?" The thought crosses my mine "oh! perhaps it's the Fiesta game." I find it's more than that though. I find that the Fiesta game is a bit of a distraction and could even be a detractor of the things I'm looking to create in my life if I'm not careful. I think what's making the difference in my life right now, are the habits I'm getting into. I am a spiritual person, yet for a while now I have not been praying, I mean I have most of the time but they have been sleepy right before bed prayers lacking in substance. I found that I wanted this to be different so I decided I would say my prayers BEFORE gaming and before I was anticipating sleep, and now I'm finding that I'm begin to really pray again. It feels good.
I've started to write. This blog has been enjoyable and given me a place to write some of my feelings about what's going on in my life. Granted I look at what I've written so far and think, "wait this is a blog about Fiesta!", and while that is true.... it's about my Fiesta Experience. The bigger thing going on though is that I'm writing again and I've always noticed that life seems to get really good when I'm writing :)

Okay so enough about these things, what's new in Fiestaville? The group I tend to hang with online likes to have dance parties and I find it's quite a bit of fun. Granted the characters only have a few dances they can do. I find that we make it more exciting by using other movements that are available to the characters to create some level of variance. I took a few pictures and just had to get them posted of my character dancing with the "PEPSI" girls :). It was lot's of fun and makes me laugh!