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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. 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. 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. >_<

1. Ughhhhhh why can't I grow herbs in my own garden? This sucks. :( Thinking of selling my house in Bortola and moving down to Schimla Mirch or somewhere. I wonder if they'll make herb vendors at some point? Because right now you can have a house down there and grow herbs and still buy all your produce at a grocery vendor, but not the other way around. I found like six purple flowers ready for harvesting in the communal gardens but just one tincture needs 23 flowers. DDD:

2. Speaking of ugh, just my luck that I never stocked up on tree poison because I never needed it before. So now I have a quest to plant three trees, but I have no tree poison! I didn't even realise you couldn't buy it anymore and was going to gardening vendors and wondering why no one had it and then thought to look it up on the wiki and saw that because you can make it with potioning now you can't buy it anymore. But...even though I learned potioning, I have no tinctures! *cries*

Of course I could buy herbs or tree poison on auctions, but I don't want to spend the money (I didn't look at herbs, but I'm sure they're super jacked up in price now; tree poison certainly was).

3. On a happy note, I reached level 30 yesterday!

4. Is the DNA thing a relatively new addition? Because I've found three DNA spots (well, four, but I was in a hurry while passing through that street, so I didn't stop to find the spot and now have to go back for it) in the space of a few days, but never came across any during my exploration phase. I mean, I hurried through a lot of streets and/or just poked my head in and then out again when I was going for completist badges, but that humming is very noticeable. (I wish ghost spots hummed, maybe then I would have found more than one ghost by now.)

5. Since hearing about the welcome wagon bag project I've wanted to do that. Basically you fill up a bag with useful stuff and give it to a low-level player. I filled one up mostly with food and was wondering if I would be able to find anyone now that the game is back in beta, but the fourth or fifth person I checked out was level four and was happy to take my bag. :D I definitely want to do that again. It's also a good way to get rid of regular bags so I can replace them with bigger bags and/or toolboxes. ^_^;;


I feel like there was something else I wanted to say but I forgot...

I thought about including this on my Daily Happiness post, but really I just want to talk about Glitch in a post of its own.

Today they released new skills! I am so excited! I'm learning Distilling as we speak, and since it's such a short one, it will be finished by the time I wake up, so I can set something else to learn before I go to work. :D The question is, should it be Tincturing I or Animal Kinship VI? Tincturing is shorter and shiny and new, but I really do want to get Remote Herdkeeping, so I need to do Animal Kinship VI! (And it's fairly short itself, not even two days, plus of course I will donate it down a bunch.)

Anyway, speaking of learning skills and donating, I had a fun conversation on twitter today with pulchritude about our different playing styles. So how do you prefer to learn stuff? Do you donate a lot to reduce the time or just wait it out? I also like to donate because it's a good way of getting a lot of experience quickly, so for me it kills two birds with one stone.

And because I donate a lot, I can easily get rid of stuff like gems and music blocks that take up a lot of room in my bags. I also donate a lot of sparkly, since I mine so much and have more than I need for grinding (the main thing I grind for right now is shrine powder).

It's so funny, because we were also talking about having enough space for stuff, and I never feel like my bags are full these days, even though I that used to be such a big problem for me earlier on. It's not even that I've got bigger and more bags now, though that is a little bit of it. But I have really streamlined things and my style has changed.

I used to have a ton of food in my bags at all times because I needed to eat a lot and replenish my energy. But after a while, I started using the daily energy replenishment to my advantage, and that combined with the fact that I'm at a higher level and have a lot more energy to start with, and the fact that I have high cooking skills and can make meals that replenish 200 energy each, means I don't have to eat that often and just keep a small stock of these high-energy meals for when I do.

So while I always have a big stock of veggies and stuff in my bag for cooking, I don't have a lot of meals taking up space. And my main strategy is to play until I use up my energy, then go do something else until the new Glitch day dawns and refills my energy without me having to eat something. (This also works well for getting rid of stuff in my bags. I'll mine until my bags are getting full, then I'll donate and grind until I have plenty of room again, and go back to mining.)

And I carry everything in my bags with me! I tried using the cupboard at my house once, but then I kept finding that I needed things that I left there, even though I thought I wouldn't need them. So now the only thing I keep there are cubimals.

Anyway, so rambly! But I just want to talk about Glitch with people! Tell me your strategies! What are you working on right now?