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This post is coming to you from my desktop computer at work! Which means… probably a lot more posts. I couldn’t remember my user name and password for my blog, or even the url although such information was known to my laptop at home. However as my gamecube, and now my playstation 2 are also at home the question after a long day of work was pretty much “What would I rather do than play my fun video games?”. Typically the answer was(and is), “Nothing!” Writing a post hardly even entered my head. Cleaning my room also was absent(I do have a path to the door and my closet is still accessable). Occasionally, more so recently, I would go “riding my bicycle!” but again, writing a post was not able to overcome all of the other things I want to do at home.

But here, at work there are no video game consoles(though my DS is a standard fixture in my purse but that is a “handheld” system as apposed to “console”). I also don’t have a bicycle here. And I am here for most of my waking hours because I come into work with Mom and Dad (I’m not driving yet) and thus am here until they go home around six (if we’re lucky, normally it’s later. Or so it feels like). And guess what? I work part time!!! So I’m not working the whole time and as I have plenty of fun time for the things I like to do, playing games, reading personal finance websites, walking out to check the mail even though I know it isn’t going to be there but I like to go outside and I like to have it at least look like I have a purpose for walking outside, and so forth. I think I lost my place.

Anyway, I have a lot more time here than I do at home. Thus, since I am now logged into my blog here I may post more!

The phone just rang. “Hi!” says the computer recorded voice, “You have just qualified for (insert telemarketer sales pitch here which I didn’t listen to since I have permission to hang up on telemarketers)”. Right now Mom and Dad are out so I am sort of “babysitting the phone”. I am very good with the phrase “He’s not at his desk right now, Would you like his voice mail?”. For some reason though when I say, “The Light Source, Elizabeth speaking” sometimes the person on the other end will say “Hello, Alyssa” so it’s possible my enunciation could use some work. That or I ought to change my name to Alyssa.

I’d nearly forgotten how much fun it is to post. Admittingly, I don’t think this would win out over my PS2 and the exciting Kingdom Hearts game I’m in the process of playing but it is definitely winning out over most of the things here, specifically entering sales leads… A while back, as in a few days or weeks, I’m not sure, I was given a task of taking a multitude of emails that had names and addresses in them and put them all into a nice neat excell spreadsheet.

I love Excell and making spreadsheets. For the fun of it, sometimes even over playing video games, I will make budget spreadsheets and spreadsheets about how much saved now will turn into enough money for me to live on when I’m a hundred if invested well (It’s only about $200.00 to grow into the equivalent of $40,000.00 in today’s dollars when I’m 100.) and I did all the way down to sixty which was several thousand dollars invested now to grow to 40,000 in today’s dollars. However, to get back to work, or at least writing about it. I discovered that when it comes to copying and pasting peoples names, addresses, zip codes, and email addresses and so forth into an excell spreadsheet… I really don’t like it! So for the past while I’ve been actively procrastinating doing it (I’m not done yet, but my blog is getting a post! Besides, I’m supposed to be answering the phone right now and at the moment it isn’t ringing(hopefully future employers don’t read my website!)). However progress has been made. The first list was so long… 647 different entries most of which had to have nine different copy and pastes each. Finally, some aid in motivation arrived when I saw a silver playstation portable(with accessories!) on Ebay with a buy it now of $100.00 and $13.60 shipping… I said to myself, “Self, you can’t buy it until the PLSN Sales Leads are entered… And somebody else could buy it before you do!” Before that day was over the PLSN sales leads were entered, the Playstation Portable was purchased(I really like video games) And without my realizing it, a large portion of my task was done as that was actually the longest list of the eight or so lists I had. All the rest have been much shorter. I only have two lists left and I’ve done three or more today. So… It’s getting down.

I have learned a few things while doing this. However, it is time for me to get back to work so perhaps I shall mention the moral to this story later. One thing, I’m going to be really glad when it’s all done. And I’m especially looking forward to having my PSP!!! I understand you can put RSS feeds of blogs on there so I can read personal finance blogs in the car!!!