you know you are a game geek when

You either:

1. Accept xp as a suitable form of payment for babysitting services

2. You offer to pay someone in xp as a payment for said kid watching services.

- "you are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures..."

Somehow in the span of a mere two weeks, I have managed to unwittingly aquire 2 fish, a cat and a dog. This now brings the count to 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 fish and 1 turtle (with talk of getting another turtle in the near future as it would not be fair to poor donatello to go without the luxery of same species conversation) I'm not exactly sure how I allowed this to happen but I'm thinking buying stock in glade plug-ins and that petfresh carpet stuff is probably not a bad idea. They say that pets are supposed to decrease your stress levels but after chasing a baby human and a baby dog around all morning I'm not so sure anymore. There must be some fine print that went along with that statment that I guess I missed. Except for the transormation of house to ark...not much new lately. The search for gainful employment continues slowly. I actually had to go shopping so that I too can prentend to be a responsible and competent professional. At this point though, I have to admit that it kind of feels like playing dress-up. The last interview consisted of being drilled on counselling practices before a panel of people...it was waaayyy fun. Unfortunatley I won't know for a while on that one....but I'm not holding my breath.