Tanukitsune

While I get the ellipsis abuse that I'm still trying to get over, I've never heard it's inappropriate to have question marks when I'm questioning whether the situation may or may not happen?

I just finished Blackwell Deception.... it's the best one yet! I can't say more without spoiling it! :3

In two weeks I'll do a course in the Red Cross and then I'll see if I can do some voluntary work for them? I just want to stay active in some way or other... They say they need people to teach the elderly how to use a computer, something I think I can do?

Have we talked about 3DS games here at all for the last few pages? It seems we're only using it for playing Virtual Console Game Boy games and DS games! I'm wondering what does each country have in it's 3D video section? I think the magic trick is for Europe only maybe Oscar's Oasis is Europe only too? It was enjoyable the first few episodes, but it's so formulaic I don't even bother watching the shows anymore... What does America and other areas get?

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I've played (and beaten) Manhunt 2 and I know I MUST KILL YOU! (I hoping some veteran Thumber will catch the reference) So... yeah... I beat the infamous game! It was the PSP version that was censored, but the censored version didn't seem that gory to me, even the first God Of War was more gory than this! It was like playing Splinter Cell, only not as good? Like all Rockstar games, you can just run from your problems if spotted, hide and try again later. And even though I could see where most of the story was going, I actually enjoyed it! Also, I kinda like the censored version more, the static effect you get instead of the gore seems a bit symbolic of his "inner static"?

Well, I do believe my parents care for my "monetary health", they just don't care if I go insane of if I'm miserable as long as I'm making enough money to survive... They are paying for my pension fund, although they might just be doing this so I'll keep working for them for the "free pension plan"... Sal Limones is right, I've been working for my parents for as long as I remember, I only didn't work as a child because my sister worked for a while until I was older...

I don't think that's how it works here, they only way I could get monetary unemployment benefits here would be to work in a non-self employed job. All unemployed people have the right to get job counselling and free courses, but only non-self employed people get money after they lose their job? I am willing to move out though... I was even looking up jobs in other areas, even as a park ranger, which apparently isn't an easy job to get?

Well, my family had me on a self-employment contract and then they fired me? I guess technically they made me fire myself since they couldn't afford to pay for me anymore. Maybe the situation just doesn't translate into English well or maybe Spain is simply different? Or maybe they had me on a self-employed contract for some financial reason? Probably because they'd get fined if I worked for them without a contract? I was a self employed assistant, I don't know if that was legal or possible, but it's what I did... except I now do it without a contract.

At least I managed to solve the money situation and now my bank account is no longer in the red... Even if I did get a job, I'd need to make a few friends and split the rent, the rent is pretty high here, the only apartment for rent in this building has four tenants minimum! Like I've said before, since I'm self-employed I don't get unemployment pay. My sister claims to have had anxiety attacks all the time and that she'd had it much worse than me... I don't know of this is a Spanish thing or something my family does in general? I certainly never use the "Don't you dare complain, I'm a million times worse and I'm not complaining!", yet... I've gotten little sympathy or help from her... I've told her EVERYTHING! She gave me no advice on how to deal with the anxiety except "Man up! You shouldn't complain and have no right to be stressed!", I have no idea how to deal with this presentation letter, since she works in marketing she could help me, but in the end, I did all the work, I just sent her a template which she change a word or two... I really can't blame her, she has a baby and a very busy job... yet I just heard she has enough time to learn to skate... :| I don't know if I'll be able to find a job on my own or not, but I really need to deal with this anxiety, having constant chest pains can't be good for my health, I think I'll be able figure everything out if I could just calm the @#$% down for a second... Hmm, if there are anger management groups, there must be some public entity that can help apart from my therapist. I'll ask my doctor since I have to see him today anyway.

I'm unemployed (yet I still work for them), penniless and friendless? Where could I go? I know I have to leave, but until I get a job, I can't!

What the hell is a snuffathing? I assume you must think I'm either insane or making things up... Things just get better... ING screwed me over and now I have negative money in the bank! I never wanted an ING account, but once again, my family practically forced me to get one... It was some sort of investing fund, but since the economy is going down the drain all it did was lose money. I do believe my parents where going to take some of the money from this account to fund the store, but greed convinced them to shift to safer option and to open a retirement fund. They were supposed to put take the money from my "investment fund", put in my normal bank and then put it in the retirement fund, but.... They just took the money! My balance is -7000€ now! I know they should but the money back, but if they put it in the date they mentioned I'm going to be a week in the red. Frankly, I can understand Orvidos might think I'm making this up, because this is just... lunacy?

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea, if I was receiving unemployment pay I would do it without a thought, but the thing is.. If I ever have "free time" I have to work for my father, even when I got a job at "in bulk" store and I woke up at 4 AM and passed out out of sheer exhaustion... I had to work for him the moment I woke up. And when I had a full time job for a few months? I still had to at least do some chores at the store like cleaning... Heck, he made me work the moment I was back from the unemployment office! At least he seems to be worried about the legality of my status, so he's making me work "off-hours" as much as he can, which means I still have to wake up at 5:30... Speaking of which, this is not a good time to have a prehistoric laptop, it's so slow I can barely do any work with it... Including filling up online CV forms and editing my CV and similar stuff... The day practically flew by and I was only able to send my CV to most of the cinemas of this zone, if I can't find anymore I'll move to another sector and so on and so on... The universe must be having fun with me since it busted the last decent pair or ear buds and I can't afford more and our phone died! Fortunately, like in the case of my PC, we were able to replace them with inferior, but functional, substitutes... You can break my junk, but you can't break my spirit! .... OK, maybe it's got a crack or two, but it's practically in mint condition!

*wink**wink**nudge**nudge* Say no more? Hmm, I'll have to look it up, but I do think that Income Support isn't something a Socialist country like Spain has... I'm also not sure what's the minimum wage in my country of if we do have such a thing, I had a fixed income, I have no idea what I've be payed now, whatever they can afford? I'm also trying to tell them we can cut down on spending by cutting back on some things... I'm eating the cheapest yogurt because the stress doesn't let me stomach much else.

I'm self employed by my family, but I was fired because they can't afford my Social Security, yet I still work for them and I'll get payed much less if anything? This could make a great story, you could spin it as a drama, a comedy, just about anything! If it weren't for the fact I can't get unemployment money, I'd be doing voluntary work while I look for a job... I might do it anyway, this is jut ridiculous! The genius of his plan if that the store fails it will obviously be my fault! Oh well, I'll go back to the job hunt tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised if my dad said the complete opposite of what he said today. I really hate the fact that I have to write a "presentation letter" in each email, I'm not eloquent enough to say I'm willing to do anything without sounding weird, I feel like I have to market myself and I don't know how, I'm a "blue collar" worker! Me no need write good! Me work hard! That not enough?! Unga bunga!

Damn, not even in my case? I'm not qualified for getting unemployment money since we are self employed. Although it looks like I'll no longer work in the new store, but it looks like I'll continue part time at the old store no matter what until I get a new job. They are still going to open it even though everybody else thinks they shouldn't. Come to think of it, I have no idea if the laws are different here, the Unemployment Office would know the answer for sure, but it seems unwise to ask them? Google isn't helpful either. Either way, I'll tell them this. EDIT: Wow, my father just told me he fired me so after a few months of job hunting (that he's sure will be fruitless), I'll be grateful for his insane canned goods store option... That's messed up, right?

What? Are you saying I shouldn't interrupt the other discussion or that I'm not taking your advice? I've already said my father is going to open the store no matter what, but now that we're aware of this legal issue I might not have to work there, which is why I really need to know.

I'm back from the Unemployment Office and, like I expected, I don't get any money because the shop is self employed. This is important: I know it's illegal to work while being registered as unemployed, but... Who is the one who gets in trouble if caught? The person working or the person who hired you? When I work in my father's shop, I'm in the back and nobody would know I'm there, but now they want me to work frontline in the shop they want to open? That's insane! Also, I just found out that the people who are repairing my PC might take 2-3 weeks to repair it.... EDIT: I'm really confused about the legality of my situation, some say it's OK since I'm not getting any money from the Goverment and I'm only working partial hours, some say my boss will get fined, some say I will...

No, it only counts as finished if you 1CC it blindfolded, with your feet and with two angry bums you pay 5$ so one constantly screams in your ear and the other is constantly shaking and poking you.... Since the PSP is the only thing I have to pay with I beat a few PSP games: Who's That Flying? is a very strange shmup, you're immortal, but for every enemy you let through the city takes damage and you have a combo bar for super attacks that you lose if you let an enemy go... It was so-so, but innovative. Would you believe the older Dynasty/Samurai Warrior games ported to the PSP have much more strategy than the modern games? They are both turned based and while Samurai Warriors is more about setting and avoiding traps for the enemy, Dynasty Warriors is mostly about finding the perfect route to reach the enemy base before you run out supplies while being strong enough to take it. I also finally finished the PSP Assassin's Creed game that takes place between 1 & 2.... You can skip it's barely adds anything to the story and the guard are ridiculously stupid! A restricted area with two guards? You can stealth stab one right in front of the other guard and he won't do a thing... until you try to enter the restricted area, but you can stab him easily, they only seem to notice if they looking directly at you when you stab their friend and only sometimes?

I guess I got it wrong, but it is definitely a limited offer. Let me guess, is one of the DS games you're playing Solatorobo?

So.. who else here has played the free Four Swords game? I could have swearing I played the original and this is nothing like it.... I guess that's why they call it the 25th Anniversary edition? While it can be played solo, I do believe the only reason they gave us this game for free is because it's only fun with friends... At least I hope it is? The solo game feels so uninspired and dare I say it? It's dull! The puzzles are too easy, and so are the bosses, sure I died a few times and you have to pay with rupees to continue, but I guess when you're playing alone you just get too many rupees to even have to worry about it? The retro levels are nice touch, they even use the proper palette so they look right in the era the game is from, but these extra levels don't even have bosses... I really hope this like L4D, so-so alone, but awesome with friends, because it's very boring solo. EDIT: Just as I feared this game is multiplayer, but NOT ONLINE, it's just a clever ruse from Nintendo to convince your friends to buy a 3DS to play this awesome free multiplayer game... which was only free for one day?

Yeah... I know it takes time, but the stress is making me lose weight fast, which is kinda worrying... Oh, I know my father's advice is terrible, I never listen to him, this is the man who thinks opening a store he knows nothing about in a dying market is a good idea... (I could go on forever on is bad ideas) I'm going to take as many courses as they let me, I know I won't magically get a job, but at least I'll get to meet some people and maybe make some friends and last time I remembered they had one for people with self esteem problems? Although I don't think you have to be unemployed for that?

I'm finally back from the therapist and... it's didn't help out as much as I expected. It was nice to have someone finally notice and acknowledge how ridiculously stressed and anxious I am and he did say I'd feel better once I got a job that wasn't with my father and he even told me I should try to bring my father with me, but... But he didn't say anything on how to deal with how I feel... What? No mantras? No affirmations? No sugarpills? NOTHING?! I just filled the "unemployment" paperwork the other day, but since I work for a self employed person, I don't get payed unemployment... I'm not sure if I should get a severance pay, but since my father fired me because he can't afford me, I'd be a dick move to ask my family for severance.... Anyway, I might not get any money, but the first thing I'll do next month is go to the unemployment office and get employment orientation and as many courses as they'll let me have? The funny thing is that now my father is discouraging me from getting a job, saying that I'm likely to get an asshole boss that will make me cry.... I'm already with a boss that makes me cry, at least if I get another boss that makes me cry I can probably sue him...or punch him... at least he wouldn't be family! A part of me is hopeful and excited, the rest of me is in panic mode.... My chest still feels like it's about to burst 24/7... I convinced myself to do some pixel fanart to cheer me up and... of course... the Universe said NOPE! and killed my PC, since I'm unemployed and my PC is under warranty, I'm using the family laptop.... which is so slow it feels like Windows 3.11.... I'm just happy I didn't have another breakdown when it happened!

I finally beat a Harvest Moon game, I always considered that game "cursed", I rented the first and could never find it again, I bought the sequel but it deleted my save file for some reason... I cheated on the GBA one which ruined it for me so I quit and the DS one ALSO deleted my save file, right after I proposed to the girl I was dating in the game! Hero of Leaf Valley is a more interesting one, you're not here to save you farm, you're here to save the whole town! You have two years to either make enough money or get help from the villagers to save the town! It got tedious at the end, because I had way too much money and I just had to wait until the final day, and I got enough villagers' quests so I wouldn't have to pay anyway... It sucks that the game doesn't let you marry your girl until the game is "over", and only then it give you the best tools to make farming easier... The worst part? The hero got a letter from his parents telling him that he needed X amount of money before two years were over to prove he was serious about the farm or return home, and I already had three time that amount... Since I knew this was just overtime, I just got the new upgrades, got married and quit...

Well, they think I'll magically find a job if I'm unemployed, but while I'm unemployed, they'll still make me work for them in my free time... Heck, even when I had a job that wasn't with them I had to work for them a few hours the moment I got back from work. The only difference is that now instead of getting social security, they'll put money in a pension plan and little to nothing else... According to them, I can't even get whatever payment unemployed people get because it's a small business? Either way, I'll figure out the truth once I'm officially fired and go to the employment office.

So.... My PC's power supply died the other day and since I'm kinda fired.... (I'll still have to work though) and it's still under warranty I'm going to have to take it somewhere to get it fixed, except... The place where I bought it now only exists as an online store, so I'm no longer sure they'll cover my warranty or if they do where to take it? Bad news comes in threes, right? I'm "fired", I've had an anxiety attack and my PC is dead, so here's hoping things don't get any worse... My parent's laptop feels like it's running Windows 3.11 and it's only good for browsing, but at least I have my PSP to keep me entertained until it's fixed?