Hi all, so it has been a while since I last blogged. Been busy, well sort of... You will recall that I lost my job again at the start of June, bringing my tally of redundancies up to 3 in the past 5 years - a good statistic by anyone's reckoning.

Any way, that gave me pause for thought and I have taken the opportunity to re-evaulate what is important to me at the moment. For a long time I was very much a career girl and I have reached a certain level in my career that I can be proud of, however I have been dissatisfied with my lot. For those that don't know, I have a young son, and I have worked full time since he was about 11 months old (he is now 5 and a half), and for all that time I have felt that I have been missing out on things. When I lost my job, it gave me the glorious opportunity to spend more time with him over the summer holidays, and as a result we have got closer. Now the holidays have finished and he has been back at school for the last couple of months, and I have been left wondering what to do with my time, so I have started to do some freelancing.

I am doing all sorts of things at the moment, some interesting, some not so much, but the most important thing is that I am working for myself, and I still get to spend time with my son. I take him to school and I pick him up when the day is done. I can also sit with him and help him now with his school work which is a surprising amount for a 5 year old! It is true that I don't earn nearly half as much as I did before I lost my job, but I feel much happier. I don't spend my money on many things any way, other than on my son.... or the occassional video game Which leads me on to things gaming related.

I have been doing a lot recently, which is great. I had a period in my life when I hardly touched a game, but now I can't put them down! I have recently hit my 30k gamerscore on my xbox which I am childishly pleased with and I have made some good friends over LIVE, and on here. It is strange to think that I can call people I have never met "friends", but nevertheless I can and I do.

I have also in the last few days got a Wii - I now own the trifecta of gaming consoles, although I suspect that the Wii will be my son's domain. I am looking for good recomendations for games on the Wii console that a 5 year old (and 30 something) would enjoy.

I am currently playing Borderlands, which is stupidly addictive, but I don't really know why I like it, and I am counting down the days until my birthday when I hope I shall have Modern Warfare 2 in my pile of presents. If I don't people are going to get hurt

In other news, I went to my first gaming convention. It was the Eurogamer Expo which was held in Leeds near where I live. It was an interesting day, and I got to play a lot of games that are coming out shortly, some of which look really interesting. A few of the games I saw were, Alien vs Predator, Left 4 Dead 2, Avatar, MAG, Assassin's Creed 2, Mass Effect 2, Dragon's Age Origins, God of War 3 etc. It was a good day, and I am really excited about some of the games I saw, in particular Alien Vs Predator.

Any way, that is all for now, I just felt the urge to update my page with something, and say "Hi" to people again!

Byeeeee

It appears that I have a case for unfair dismissal from my former employers as they have replaced me with someone else who is doing the exact same job they made me redundant from.

I don't know what to do. I could sue them, but I really don't know what to do

So, I am now officially unemployed again. I am getting a little bored of it to be honest as this is the third time in five years. I think I am a little careless

Just heard from one of my work colleagues who I also call friend - and it seems that my former employers have put someone else in to the position . I don't know what to do because they can do that, I am pretty sure I can sue for unfair dismissal, but I don't know if I have the appetite for it. I am looking in to it at the moment.

In other news, I have a pile of games to get through during my time off and in between looking for a new job. They are as follows:

Banjo and Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. I have made a start on this and need to finish it off.

Prince of Persia - again started - need to finish

Lost Odyssey - I am 8.5 hours in now and just getting hooked

Lost Planet: Colonies Edition - I picked this up cheap and I am trying it out.

Fallout 3 - I made a start on this at Christmas, but think I will start again

I am also toying with playing through a few of my other games to see if I can raise the number of achievements completed on them as I have a little competition on with one of my MGU buddies - ImaginaryFriend.