So after a trip back home for my son's first birthday, I started thinking to myself on the trip back home. Perhpas its time I call it quits in FFXI. I spend a lot of my freetime in the game and maybe I could be more productive outside of it. So I decided I was retiring from FFXI (once again).
The trip was ok, a little boring - too much in-laws, etc. I got home thinking about what I'd do with this new found time. There was a large collection of games I never got around to during the time I played FFXI. I figured I could play them and spend more time doing other things.
The last couple days, I've spent trying to decide what to do. I'd start playing a game, put it down thinking "nah I don't really feel like getting into this" and go do something else. I'd watch TV and remember how boring TV can be. I went and tried to get my wife to go out and do something, but she suggests we've gone out enough on our trip and shouldn't get in the habbit of spending too much money. I thought about buying a new game, but that would have to be justified to the wife, who would likely give me grief, especially when I have a stack of games still in wrappers (Dirge of Cerbeus, etc) that I never really felt like playing.
Then I started to remember why I play FFXI - its the one thing that keeps my restless self from driving myself and my wife crazy. She works 80+ hour workweeks and then still has work to do at home, so having to entertain me outside of our weekly "date night", tends to be a bit stressful.
So, this is my "I'm qutting FFXI post" with the added twist being that before anyone says "You'll be back", I can say "I already am".
Edited, Sep 15th 2009 3:26pm by VawnLakshmi