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1. My mom's birthday is next week and I've been meaning to get her some books but keep not thinking about it when I'm actually at the computer. Tonight I remembered and finally ordered them, and while I was at it, got myself a new wiimote and nunchuk, since I'll be sending the old Wii ones to Irene along with the Wii (she was going to take it in her luggage, but there ended up not being room).

2. Speaking of finallys, I also finally got my new iphone stand thingy set up. I have been wanting a stand for ages because I facetime with Irene several times a week and it gets really annoying to hold the phone the whole time (and sometimes my hand hurts), so now I will just be able to set it on the table and not worry! She had bought me one and brought it with her, but since I wasn't actually calling her while she was here and plugging it in involves getting under my desk, which I didn't want to do, I hadn't set it up yet.

3. TWO people called in sick today at work, both of them scheduled for the same shift (it's not so bad if one person calls in sick in the morning and one person in the evening, but both at the same time means there is only one person left). I called the three people who weren't working today, but my hopes weren't high, so I was resigned to spending my last several hours of work on the register once we were down to one cashier, but someone did call and say they could work! (And it was the person I almost didn't call because I thought it was so unlikely she'd say yes. She's an older lady who only wants to work like 15 hours a week and so far has said no every time she's been asked to work an extra day or stay even an hour or half hour extra.) So while I did have to spend more time than usual helping at the registers today, it wasn't as much as I'd feared and I did manage to get a fair amount of work done at my desk.

4. I've been playing Super Mario World tonight and wow, it looks so old! It's weird because even though it's a newer game than SMB 1, 2, and 3, for some reason I remember those better. Maybe I played them more? I remember being super excited about SMW when it came out and reading all these magazine articles before the SNES's release. I'm sure I played it a lot when it was first released, but I guess I didn't go back and play it much later? idk. Anyway, I don't remember anything. Also having just been playing New SMB Wii U means that I get confused about what I can and can't do a lot. ^_^;; Can't butt pound blocks. Can't flutter with Yoshi. Can't wall jump. Some of these things can be deadly when you think you can do them and then you can't. :p I also feel like I have no goal when there's not the three big coins to collect. I'm like, okay, I'm just going through the level, but not doing anything. Having the goal just be "get to the end" is weird. I'm not used to that anymore.

5. New SMB Wii U is also super awesome and fun, though. It's also really short and easy? I mean, Mario games generally are pretty short, but this seems easier than the Wii one. I beat the cloud world tonight, which means there's just Bowser land left, and while there are still coins to go back and get, there's not a ton. Most were easy to get the first time through. (I know for sure I've completely finished worlds 1 and 2.)

1. Guys, New Super Mario Bros Wii U is so awesome. *_* The graphics are just amazing, even compared to the Wii version you can really see a huge difference. The gameplay is, of course, the same old sidescrolling Mario gameplay we've known and loved for decades, but that is a feature not a bug to me. :D There is a new suit for Mario, a flying squirrel (which looks a bit like tanuki Mario SMB 3), and perhaps more? So far I've only played the first world, so I really don't know! (At one point I watched a let's play of world one and part of world two, but I didn't want to spoil myself too much so I didn't watch any more, and also that was a while ago so I don't really remember.)

The Wii U controller is pretty neat. At first I found the size off-putting, but I got used to it quickly. I like that I could play it like a handheld game if I wanted to (and since the controller is huge, the screen is much bigger than the DS screen).

I also found a tutorial on how to transfer your save files from the Wii to the Wii U, which seems more complicated than it should be, but only requires a 512 MB memory card, which I happened to have in my camera, so I don't have to go out and buy one.

2. Irene and I walked down to Whole Foods and the 99 Cent Store today. I never go to the big 99 Cent Store because there's one right on the way to work which is much more convenient (though like half the size). I also hadn't been to Whole Foods in ages because in general I find it best to avoid altogether than to go and see all the super tasty but expensive food that I can't afford to buy. :p We splurged a bit today, though, and bought four types of cheese, including a stilton with chunks of mango and ginger, which I ate almost all of already.

( cheese party! )

Since we were down by the tattoo place where Irene had gotten her ears pierced a few years ago, I wanted to stop in and get another couple holes in my ear. Ever since I had to let the second hole close up because it wasn't healing properly, I have wanted to get it redone professionally and have also been thinking about getting a third one higher up, but I just never seem to actually getting around to going out and doing it. Unfortunately when we went in the woman behind the counter said she no longer had a piercer so they just do tattoos now. :( She said she thought one of the tattoo places a little further down the street did piercings, but I didn't feel like going any further, so just gave up for the day.

3. Alexander came over in the evening and he and Irene watched me play Mario and then we ordered Thai and watched Kung Fu Panda. He went home tonight and has a thing in the morning, but then will be back to spend the rest of tomorrow and Sunday here as well. :D

4. It's so nice to have more than one day off in a row! We have plans for tomorrow afternoon and evening, but I can sleep in again in the morning.

5. I reactivated my Netflix account tonight. I have been planning to do it a some point this month because while I know that there will be torrents of Arrested Development, I really want to show my support for the new season, so I'm actually going to watch it on Netflix. (Not sure if I will keep the account going after the season ends or not. On the one hand I really don't mind paying to watch stuff since I can certainly afford $8 a month right now, but I really hate watching stuff in the browser instead of in VLC.) I decided to go ahead and do it now, though, so that we can use it while Irene is here if we want. (Though Alexander has brought his Apple TV over and Irene has a harddrive full of movies, so we may not actually use it.)

1. Sundays are usually my day off, but I got asked to fill in for a cashier so I worked four hours in the morning. I would have preferred to sleep in and not work at all, but on the bright side, this means I have a half day Tuesday, too.

2. I went karaoke with Alexander in the afternoon and had a lot of fun.

3. I saw at the bookstore today that there's a new volume of Kimi ni Todoke out and was able to find it for download when I got home. I also found downloads for most of the volumes of two other shoujo series that looked interesting. And while I was looking for stuff to download, I figured I'd check and see if there were any new chapters of Silver Spoon since I last checked and there were seven more chapters!

4. I stopped at Trader Joe's on the way home last night and got a salad there for dinner and it was so good! I can't even remember what all was in it, but I have to find it again. I also got some curried chicken salad and had that for breakfast and dinner today.

5. After we went karaoke, Alexander came back to the house and hung out for a while and watched me play Lego LotR for what ended up being like three hours. XD I don't usually play games in that long a sitting because I'm always conscious of having stuff I need to do, so I'll usually play a level and then turn it off. (I might do that several times a day, but still probably not add up to more than an hour total.) I don't like playing games with people (either competitively or cooperatively) but it's fun when someone's watching me play. And Alexander doesn't play games but he likes to watch, so that works out.

I finished the last of the storymode playthroughs, which meant I could now explore the overworld with ALL the characters and I basically walked all the way back from Mordor to Bree doing everything I could on the way. XD By the way, who or what do I need to break sparkling rocks and stuff?

1. Day off tomorrow!

2. I totally spaced on the

white_lotus deadline being tomorrow, but I was able to get an extension, yay!

3. I've been playing more Lego LotR and really enjoying it. Except tonight when I was playing the hide from Boromir level and got to the bit where you have to button mash to keep Sauron from seeing you and the game locked up so badly I had to just unplug it. :( (I also had a somewhat annoying incident not long before that, when I got to Lothlorien and I was approaching the map stone thingy and even though I didn't actually go in the place to make the story start, I somehow got sucked in there anyway, so I didn't get my map stone. Bah.)

4. I got caught up on One Piece! Now just Naruto and Bleach left to go.

1. I stopped listening to the radio after high school because it's just so annoying and full of commercials. And then there was internet radio, which has less/no commercials, but I just never got into it because of laziness until I started at my current job and we have Pandora on all the time. I still never listen to it at home (even though I created an account) because I just don't think about it, but I like how much new music I'm exposed to that way. Because otherwise it seems like I have been getting stuck in a rut the past few years, not feeling like I have the time or energy to download unknown stuff and sort through it to see if I like it or not.

2. I had been thinking about how I would like a larger TV, because while the one I have is not small (I think it's 24" or something like that), it is less than ideal when I'm sitting all the way across the room on the sofa. So I had been thinking about maybe getting myself a new TV for Christmas, but not really seriously considering it, but then I got this raise and was like, well, okay!

I looked at TVs the other day at Best Buy, but had been planning to get something off Amazon until I realised that delivery would be a huge hassle since I'm not home much these days, and it's not like I could have it delivered to work since I don't have a car to bring it home. So today when I went to Costco with my mom, I just took a look at the TVs they had there and found one I liked and now I have a new 40" TV! I'm determined not to go on Amazon and see what the price is there or if I could have gotten something else cheaper or what. For once buying something offline was the more convenient solution, so I paid for that.

I played a bit of Mario tonight and it looks great! My mom asked me if I was going to get cable now that I have a big fancy TV and I was like lol no. I watch actual TV shows and movies in a tiny window on my computer monitor like God intended. This is just for gaming. :)

(I don't know, maybe if I had a laptop still I'd want to watch stuff out there on the sofa, but really I just prefer having a small window open and doing work on the same screen.)

3. Down to just fifteen stars left on Mario Galaxy! I think what with the TV and all I won't be buying myself a game for Christmas after all, but I am getting Lego LotR from my mom, so there will be that. Plus maybe I will try playing through Galaxy as Luigi if I can manage to get all 120 stars.

It's a big if, since the remaining stages are mostly really hard (for me) stuff (there are a few that are easy or at least not super hard, but I haven't done them yet because the whims of the comets keep giving me other stages instead), but I have beaten some that were giving me a lot of trouble (I did the Freezeflame purple comet tonight, and I had trouble with that before). But ughhhh just thinking about some of the remaining ones...

There's the Dusty Dunes purple comet, which I have played so many times and inevitably fall in the quicksand at some point. Then there's the green star rolling ball (died so many times without getting across the first area) and manta surfing (keep surfing right into those black holes, Mario). Oh, and the shadow race in Gold Leaf. I'm so bad at that, guys. So bad. (I find the shadow races to be the hardest of the regular comets in general, but this is the worst for me.) And Dreadnought purple comet! omg the Battlerock one was bad enough, I'm dreading (ha) this one. Haven't had it come up yet, but I did watch the let's play.

1. I had a coupon for three footlong subs for $14 at Subway that expired today and I thought I wasn't going to get to use it after all because it has been raining so much, but this afternoon it stopped raining for a while, so I walked over and got my subs. :)

2. I hate vacuuming when it's dark because I always feel like the light isn't good enough and I'm missing stuff, so it was tempting to just say fuck it and not vacuum at all when I lost track of time and suddenly it was 5pm and pitch dark, but I still did it, and now the floor is at least cleaner than it was, even if I did miss some spots.

3. I got volumes three and four of Himegoto in the mail today! On the one hand, I'm not looking forward to having to scan these ones myself, and I know I probably won't get as nice scans as the ones I've found online for the first two volumes, but at the same time, I don't want someone else to post them now that I've spent all that money on buying them and having them shipped from Japan! >_<

4. I beat Bowser! I still have 25 stars to get, mostly the purple comet ones, but also some stuff I've put off doing, such as all the green star stages, a few other comets, and one or two secret stars. Oh, and I still didn't do the last two stages of the molten whatever it is last galaxy in the garden, because the second one is so hard I can't pass it. ;_; That's the one where at the very end you have to ride the ball of doom across the lava and I'm so bad at it, guys. So bad. (And so of course since I can't beat that one, I can't go on to the stage after it, either.) We'll see how things go... Right now I am still thinking I would like to get all 120 stars, but I may have to give up on some of them (I don't have a lot of confidence in being able to beat the second trash stage or the second manta race, since the first ones of those were so hard).

What stages did you find the hardest? Did you manage to get all 120? (I know there's another bonus stage if you play through again as Luigi, too, but I don't know if I want to bother with that...)

I'm wavering on whether or not I want to get myself Galaxy 2 (which I have so far managed to completely avoid spoiling myself for, which is a miracle because I find it so hard to stay away from let's plays) for Christmas or Mario Sunshine. I have been watching a let's play of Sunshine and it does look really fun. I also made the mistake of watching a let's play of New Super Mario Bros U and omg it looks so awesome and I want it so bad! *cries* But of course the Wii U is sold out, so even if I wanted to splurge and get myself that for Christmas, I would have to pay some reseller's ridiculous markup to even get a system, and then it's another $60 (!?) for the game itself. So that's not going to happen, but I want it! It looks so pretty and so fun and you can be flying squirrel Mario!

FLYING SQUIRREL MARIO, GUYS.

1. I slept about nine hours last night, which is pretty rare these days.

2. I also got a lot done today!

3. There must have been a big delivery this morning at the 99 Cent Store because they had a ton of awesome stuff. I've been wanting more green beans ever since I made them the other day and so of course every time I went, they didn't have any, but today they had a huge pile, so I grabbed two bags and will probably cook those up tomorrow or Tuesday. They also had some really tasty looking granola bars, so I got several boxes. Plus they had 16 oz bottles of Coke and Dr Pepper for 69 cents each.

4. I played a bunch more Mario Galaxy today, too. I'm enjoying it a lot, but it's also stressful. I always hate levels where there's no ground underneath you and that is pretty much the entire game here! >_< (Also who's bright idea was it to reset your lives whenever you stop the game? I specifically went and replayed an earlier level to stock up on lives only to find myself back to four when I started playing the next time.) Anyway, I just started on the Fountain area tonight (played the first level) after finally finishing the last couple levels in the Terrace (including the horrible water racing level omg I died so many times).

5. I hadn't given myself a testosterone shot in a couple weeks because I was saving the last bit I had, but since I have a doctor's appointment Tuesday and should be able to get my refill this week (*crosses fingers*), I figured I'd go ahead and take the rest of it today. It's hard to gauge how much is in the bottle, but I thought it was less than my usual dose, maybe even half as much, but it actually turned out to be more. I just went ahead and took all of it (well, all I could get in the syringe; there's always a tiny bit I can't get out at the end), since it's hard to get it out when it gets that low and I figured if I tried for a second shot, I might be able to get even less out of the bottle.

1. I am really behind on this month's goals, but trying to at least get one more thing finished before the end of the month and made some good progress towards that today.

2. I discovered a really good Wind Waker walkthrough on youtube. I'm trying not to spoil myself too much, but it's hard because I really like watching the videos! XD So I'm trying to watch them after I've already played that section (unless I'm super stuck on something). I love how neatly it's organised, too.

1. Two days off! I'm looking forward to that. (Not looking forward to working six days straight after that, but oh well. :p)

2. I finished the first dungeon in Wind Waker. Ugh, that boss was a pain. The camera was just determined to give me the worst angles when I was trying to kill that dude.

3. Glad I got some translating done before going to work today, because I really haven't done anything productive since I got home. :p

1. I have to go back to work tomorrow (so nice having two days off in a row!), but at least I can sleep in, since I don't work until the afternoon.

2. I got a lot done on my days off!

3. I'm getting so close to finishing Lego HP. I think I have about 5-6% to go (most of which is house crests). I think all of it is in the game levels, too, though there may be a few gold blocks or character tokens still left in Hogwarts. I figure I'll finish up the levels and then see what's left. Oh, I do know one. It's that stupid bash everything bonus level inside Borgin & Burke's. I played it once and got like 950,000 or something, but I couldn't get the last of the stuff, possibly due to glitchiness (I could target some things, but nothing happened when I shot at them).

1. I finished another book! I've lowered my reading goal for the year to ten books, but I still don't know how doable that is, considering I haven't felt much like reading anything. ^_^;; This was only my third for 2012... But still! I have a ton of books on my ipod, so surely there must be something interesting.

2. Meanwhile, I'm reading Kimi ni Todoke 16, which is super cute as always. :D

3. I finished summarising volume 20 of 7 Seeds! That felt like it took forever. ^_^;; I think doing it chapter by chapter is definitely better for me, though, since it means I can post more frequently.

4. I played through the Gringotts level of Lego HP 2 again tonight (free play) and thankfully got everything this go so I don't have to play it again! It took me forever to find the last goblin at the end and I was afraid it was another glitch (I've heard it can sometimes glitch and never give you the fifth goblin), but I finally found him. Ugh. Stupid game. I did have more glitching on the story of the three brothers level, though. I had to just shut it off and will try again. I had trouble the first time I played it, but finally got the pumpkins to shoot at death, but this time even if I got them spinning, they didn't have enough oomph to get to him, and just kind of fell down instead. Ugh, this game has so many glitches (I had some with the first Lego HP, too). Still, I'm like at 87% or something, yay!

Uh, guys? What happened to my stuff that was in my house after the housing revamp? I saw something that said all my stuff had been packed into moving boxes, but I don't know where to access those. They're not in my new house, and not in any of my bags or slots or anywhere that I can see. I don't really need all those purple flowers, and I suppose I can easily buy or make all the stuff like the piggie-feeders and butterfly-milkers and stuff, but. I kind of want my stuff!

Also, I feel bad about my poor Glitch brain. I don't care that it takes me forever to learn high-level new skills, because I'm not doing anything else, and I can always donate them down if I want to, but seeing the picture of the poor sweating overtaxed brain every time I go to the skills page makes me feel bad. -_-;;; I am at 99/37 skills and have a 2062% time penalty. XD (That is what happens when you learn ALL the skills, including all the Unlearnings, which I will never use because why would I want to unlearn anything when the goal is ALL THE SKILLS. Right now I'm learning Transcendental Ratiation II, which is the last skill currently available that I need to learn.)

1. I got the translation done for the next chapter of A Child's Child, so I am totally on track for getting that posted before the month is over. :D

2. I got a lot more red and gold bricks and character tokens in Lego HP tonight. :D Though I have to say, it's super annoying that in free play instead of giving me a variety of characters it gives me like fifty different Harrys, Hermiones, and Rons in different outfits. >_< I finally got Lucius, too, but I think I will keep using Bellatrix as my dark magic user, not least because I have now memorised where her spot is on the massively-confusing character chart of doom. D:

3. I finally left some prompts on the transfic mini fest! I have been feeling super bad about not leaving prompts on my own fest, but am also not really feeling like I have a lot of ideas? Or like I don't know how to write prompts, idk. D: Anyway, I am going to try and leave some more, and also I would really like to write something, too. I hope we get some more prompts and fills!

1. Tom came over today to fix the wiring. No new sudden blackouts, just that he had only patched it up as best he could last time, but this time he actually got some new wires and stuff, so it's as fixed as it can be without completely redoing the wiring in the whole house (which needs to be done, but would actually need a professional, so that's not going to happen anytime soon). Hopefully this will mean no more problems. *crosses fingers* (It did mean I had no internet this morning/afternoon before work, so I haven't even caught up on reading my flists tonight, gah.)

2. I had been thinking recently that I wanted mabodofu, but although I have the sauce and some tofu, I don't have any ground meat, and was like, bleh, guess I will just go without, because I have so much other meat in the freezer I should use some of that to make something else rather than buy full price meat just to make one dish. But then tonight I got some 50 cent packages of ground pork, so yay. :D Tomorrow I will make mabodofu after all.

3. Tomorrow and Friday I don't have to go in to work until 3 and 3.30, respectively. Not quite as good as a day off, but I'm looking forward to not having to set my alarm and just sleeping as long as I want.

4. I played a lot of Lego HP tonight! So much fun now that I have a dark magic user! I have been getting so much stuffs! After a bit more Hogwarts exploring, I decided to start free play on the earlier levels and did the first three. I even got my first fully completed level on one of them, woohoo!

1. Yesterday I got a check for $525! It was a refund from UCLA dental school for dental work we had paid for but Irene had not yet had the work done before she moved. I'm glad to get the money back, and also happy there wasn't any trouble getting them to issue a refund when she explained that she wasn't going to be around.

2. I had to go over to my mom's again today to work on her husband's computer (as I did last Tuesday). He somehow managed to reformat it, so he lost everything on there and now didn't know how to reinstall the programs he needed. >_< Well, he didn't have too much on there to lose, just some photos and bookmarks mainly, so I think it might work out for the best to have a clean start. That computer has been acting up an awful lot lately. Anyway, blah for having to do that on my day off, but I did get $100 off the rent and also my mom bought me lunch. (She is always eager for anyone to go out to eat with these days, since her husband had complications from weight loss surgery and now can't eat much of anything.)

3. I finished all the levels of Lego HP 2! That left me at around 50%, so I've got lots of work to do still. I think I will explore Hogwarts a bit more before doing any free play. I really want a dark magic user, though. So many dark magic objects tempting me! When I found Narcissa, I thought I could use her, but apparently she doesn't know dark magic? Oh! But I just remembered I got Bellatrix after Molly beat her. (Now I am super tempted to go play some more even though it is 2.30am and I should be thinking about bed...)

ETA: Yisssssssss! After 30 minutes of playing Bellatrix and exploring Diagon Alley and Hogwarts, I have freed three or four students in peril, got three new red blocks, a couple gold blocks, and a shit ton of new characters (also money, lots of money, since I have it set on x8 (highest I can get right now), to replenish what I spent on Bellatrix (she is spendy but so worth it!) and a handful of others).

1. I didn't buy anything today. I'm really happy about that! I've gotten into the bad habit of buying something pretty much every day, whether it's lunch/dinner, or a snack, or a soda, and I just really do not want to be buying stuff all the time, and I certainly don't need to. I've got plenty of food at home, even if it's not exciting or it needs to be cooked and I don't feel like it. I'm hoping to not buy anything tomorrow, too!

2. I did get a couple free sandwiches tonight. They are not great sandwiches to begin with, and I would never buy them at full price ($2.98), but the leftover ones are $1 each the next day, and I sometimes buy those, and then like tonight if I can sometimes get the two-day leftover ones that are going to be thrown away, I will certainly take them for free. :D Anyway, I ended up taking out the meat from a roast beef one and making a better sandwich with it. The reason these sandwiches are kind of sucky is that they're super plain. For example, the roast beef one has meat, a bit of lettuce, and a bit of mustard on a sub roll. That is it! So plain! I put the roast beef on some King's Hawaiian rolls, added a bit of mayo and miso onion dressing, along with some pea sprouts, and had delicious mini sandwiches. :D

3. The other day I was playing Lego HP and hit a glitchy level. It's the first level of Deathly Hallows part 2, where you are going in to the bank vaults. I tried forever to hit the five red lights and turn them green, but there's no way to aim, it just auto-aims or whatever, and I got four of them but the last one it refused to recognise, no matter how many times I went past it shooting. ;_; So I just turned it off and then was afraid to play the level again lest it give me the same problem a second time, but tonight I finally tried it and it was okay! I was able to get through! Also it's a horrible level overall. Like, every part of it kind of sucks. D: But anyway. Still a fun game!

4. Oh, and speaking of games, Glitch introduced Imagination! A lot of stuff is still in the testing phase, apparently, but you can play around with houses and stuff, and everything is all changed around. I was afraid I had lost all the stuff I had in my old house, but I was able to teleport back there and go inside, so as soon as I clear out some slots in my bags, I will pick up all my stuff. I have my still and my feeding thingers and meat collectors and milkers, plus like a million purple flowers I grew and just left on the floor because I had no room.

1. I had a good day off today, productive and restful. :D

2. But why did I stay up until 4am??? D: At least I can sleep in until noon!

3. Speaking of productive, I'm super excited about getting that chapter of Yasha finished. I posted chapter four towards the end of 2010, so it's been about a year and a half. D: I didn't mean for it to be that long, but you know how things go. It feels good to be working on it again, though, and it always feels good to get something finished (even if it's just one chapter of a long, long project).

4. I have been playing Lego Harry Potter 5-7 an awful lot! I'm on Deathly Hallows now, so I've finally discovered what those weird lego platforms are for! I like all the new skills that are included in this game. (Also this is making me want to read the books again, which is ridiculous since I just read them last year! But while Lego HP is an awesome game, it's really bad at storytelling (or maybe I'm just bad at understanding its stories), and my memory for things I read is just not very good, so while I have a vague idea of what each level and scene-transition is supposed to be, I am often left scratching my head and wanting to reread and figure out what is going on! Also it just makes me want more HP in general, so maybe I will just read some fic or something.)

1. After two days of working in the morning, I can sleep in tomorrow since I don't have to work until 1.45. :D

2. I'm really enjoying this electric lapblanket I got for Christmas.

3. I read a couple Yuletide fics! I keep seeing loads of stuff recced on my flist and wanting to read, but just not having a chance. I know I don't have to read ALL the fics (or even all the ones that seem interesting to me) before reveals or anything, but I also know how I am about bookmarking stuff for later and then never getting around to reading it, so I want to try and read as much as I can while it's still "Yuletide season" and I have the reminder that these fics exist. :p

4. I got some translating stuff done today, too.

5. And of course I played some Glitch. :D :D :D I am finally getting somewhere with the tinctures and potions! Just one more of each and I will have fulfilled those quests! I also fiiiiinally was able to make tree poison and have sucked it up and poisoned some trees in order to fulfill the various plant new trees quests. (I hate how guilty it makes you feel for poisoning the trees! I wish it would just kill them outright and not draw it out. -_-) I also realised that the plant five seeds in your backyard quest does not say they have to be five different seeds, so since all I can grow in my swamp house is an egg plant, I can just grow one five times. Also I reached level 34!

1. Hmm, I was hoping for more holiday-themed in-game stuff like there was for Halloween, but so far the only thing I saw was the cracker? (I need to find someone to open it with me!)

2. Ugh, I am really frustrated with the whole tincturing and potion-making situation. I want to build up these skills (and I really want the damn tree poison!), but they're making it so hard. ;_; I feel like they didn't really think these skills through well at all when they added them. I sold my house in Bortola a few days ago and have been poking at listings for swampy places, but only the most basic houses are for sale, presumably because everyone else who's playing Glitch and didn't already live in Chakra Phool, Jethimadh or Shilma Mirch also wants to move there. :-/ (And I still have the "plant trees in your backyard" quest to finish, so once I do a bunch of herb-farming in my swampy house, I will then have to sell that house and buy a house where I can plant trees... Gah!)

3. Speaking of quests, when I logged on tonight I had like six new quests all of a sudden. One of them was perhaps the easiest thing I've ever done (related to eyeballery; you just have to look around and answer a multiple choice question). Several of them are teleportation-related, which makes sense because I did learn a new level of teleportation not that long ago, but some (like the eyeballery one) are just totally random, so I'm not sure why I got hit with a whole slew of them at once tonight.

4. I have been auctioning a lot of stuff in-game. I've found that I can make quite a bit off stuff like Awesome Stews and they sell really quickly. Not that I really need money for anything at the moment, but there's probably a badge I can earn if I keep hoarding it. XD (If only the auctions were for real money... :p)

5. I still have one invite left if anyone wants to play!

1. Day off tomorrow + payday today.

2. I made chocolate chip cookies tonight, only instead of chocolate chips, I used coconut M&Ms. *_* Also last night Irene made a super delicious spicy bean/corn/chicken soup. I've been eating it with Triscuits, because they go really well together.

3. In Glitch news, I finished learning Animal Kinship VII tonight. :D Now that I have a ton of butterfly milk and meat all the time I've been using it for donations along with gems and sparkly. I also donated a bunch of hooch tonight with good results.

I still haven't done much with tincturing or potion-making due to the lack of herbs. :-/ I did make one tincture (the purple flower one), though. I need to devote some time to wandering the ancestral homelands and see if I can get some seeds that way. I got tons of seeds the first time around, and of course I donated/auctioned/planted them all because I didn't have a use for them. And now that I want seeds, every trap I tripped gave me something else. >_<

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