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Thursday Jan 31, 2008

Leap year proposals

The shops are full of them, you can't find a birthday card for love nor money and your other half is dropping some serious hints. Yes, it's that time of year again with Valentine's Day just around the corner. As it's a leap year, if you're a woman and thinking of proposing then you've got quite a few decisions to make, and if you're a man, you better watch out!

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Wednesday Jan 30, 2008

Turf War

My last online game addiction engulfed me during the last months of university. When I was supposed to be focusing on my dissertation and future career I was more interested in how far I could hit a penguin through the artic. As the uni deadlines loomed so did the leader boards on the game. Eventually I had a reality check and decided that I had to give up my beloved 'punch pingu' to concentrate on my studies. I passed my degree but I never got my name onto those damn leader boards, something I regret to this day.

TheSite.org has just launched a new game to test your finance skills involving rodents, dog shit, rotten eggs and used condoms. You may very well ask: "What the hell do rotten eggs and dog shit have to do with my financial wellbeing you handsome devil?" The answer is everything. 

                              

Find out what I mean by playing our new game Turf War and learn more about keeping your finances under control.

. . . and try not to get too hooked!!

 

 

 

 

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Friday Jan 25, 2008

Post Pals

I've talked about my sporadic charity giving in a past blog and here's an example of something that's really touched me this week. Although not in any way life threatening, I've had a very small taste of what it's like to be bed bound and that was only for three months when I had a bad bout of glandular fever at the age of 16. The sense of boredom is immense and I remember at the time that one of the main things that got me through those months was to have contact from my friends and family through post, phone calls, and visits.

That's why Vik's latest diary entry had such an effect on me because not only are the children that she's helping though the organisation Post Pals seriously ill, many of them have been bed bound for years and friends have long gone. The realisation of how easy it is to send a card or a small gift to one of those children and reading about how much it's meant to the lives of the children who now have something to wake up for, made me go all weepy inside.

I'm off to the shops today to buy some stickers and a card for a child and hopefully it's something I will do regularly, I can even email one of the children featured on the website. With the growing popularity of emailing and social networking websites, if you've got time to forward a funny joke to friends or to poke and prod someone or send them a message, you've got time to put a massive smile on a little one's face. I'm definitely getting softer as I get older but I guess that's not such a bad thing   

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