minniemeggie

I feel like I have been on a roller coaster for months but it hasn't even been a full month since I have posted here in the forums. It has been a CRAZY few weeks and I just haven't had the time or energy for neopets, or showering. But I missed you guys so I made it a point to carve out some time to come say hello.

 

Life has been insane, as some of you might remember me, my husband, and my kids (my 4 year old son, my two nephews 11 and 14) had to relocate to a nearby city to care for my father in-laws state. Meanwhile our house was being cared for by our roommate and a renter we had to supplement our income while we were away. We have a lot of animals at our house, I like to call it an urban farm, we live in Austin, TX but own a nice little chunk of land and we have two goats, 4 chickens, a blind dog and three cats. So leaving all this behind was very stressful, so you can imagine how delighted we were when the last thing keeping us in this city (living with my father) sold! My father in laws house sold within 3 HOURS of being put on the market. While we still have a lot to do getting the house on the market was the most involved process.

 

Unfortunately when we drove up to see our house which we hadn't seen in months, we learned that the previous night during a storm instead of being brought inside (the garage usually, its huge) the goats were left outside and as goats do the climbed the roof and in fear they destroyed 3 of our solar panels and destroyed our roof which in turn caused some of the framework of our old home to collapse. So basically our home is unlivable until we can fix it, which will probably take close to six months. But we can't stay with my father so we rented an apartment.

 

We signed the lease today, which was exciting, but unfortunately since Austin's rent has gone up so MUCH we could only afford a two bedroom apartment with a small study since we also have to get a storage unit for most of our belongings, we have a five bedroom house with two living rooms, a study and a 'library' which is really just an air conditioned attic with a lot of book shelves and chairs, so yah, a lot of stuff.

 

Now remember the animals? well luckily my dad has agreed to care for them in the meantime at his ranch, well except for the goats :< my dad hates goats. So now we have to sell our goats.

 

But in all reality everything is turning out great, we really needed to do some serious remolding on our house and now insurance is paying for almost everything!

 

Anyway I have a decent amount of free time the next few days since the kids will be with my dad taking a mini road trip and was really looking forward to going hard on some neopets! Haha what great timing I have. pffft. How have you all been?

I would only suggest using both the lab ray and training if you have loads of neopoints. My stats are all over the place because I do both, I often get bumped in and out of my leveling grid and have to pay more :<

Lucky you.
Tarla dropped a few things on her way out.
Quetzal

 

http://www.neopets.com/freebies/tarlastoolbar.phtml

hehe its okay! it happens to the best of us! I had been trying for the neomail addict avatar for YEARS when I realized I could just refresh :facepalm:

Definitely ask your family what they like first, and when you first set out to bake for someone's birthday with a new recipe buy enough ingredients to bake two. Whenever I start off with a new recipe I always bake a miniature version first, so if I was baking a 9inch round I would make a small batch of cupcakes or a 6inch round. That way I can taste and test the recipe first and make alterations. If you decide baking is for you I highly recommend you invest in a spring-form pan!

 

The black velvet cake sounds delicious but it also seems like a specialty cake that may not be for everyone. I always ask someone what they want and go for there. I usually find great new recipes that way! I asked my sister what kind of cake or treat she wanted for her baby shower and she said either cheesecake or strawberry cake. So I made her a three layer cake. Strawberry cake on the bottom, cheese cake in the middle and strawberry cake on top, with a homemade blueberry puree between each layer and whipped blueberry icing. So by asking I came up with an awesome recipe by combining some of my tried true favorites and a whole lot of experimenting.

 

My husband and kids love it when I try new recipes because they get to eat treats every day until I perfect them. Good luck and I hope you love baking as much as I do!

here's what works for me, I found that when I logged into my habi on my husbands computer it would work, I would put all my little guys in their homes/nests and then reopened habi on my computer. I have been locked out several times.

Well in that case I would probably go with books. Personally I have never had that much luck with selling food. When I did restock food I probably made about 30-40k. I like the profit I get from Uni's a lot more ;) good luck!

Well a number of factors will count here, how often have you restocked currently? If you are brand new to restocking I would suggest books, since from what i remember the main bookstore restocks pretty often and you are almost guaranteed a profit. I also recommend restocking at the AAA if your account is at least three years old. A lot of the items there are worth a lot and the boards usually have restock times that can help you gauge when to start refreshing. Restocking at the AAA was the best newbie experience for me, i got a lot quicker and you don't have to haggle so it is a good stepping stone. After the AAA I went to books and now I restock soley at Uni's but I might changed to a smoothie shop soon.

You have several options, let all your P3's die and the professor will give you more or here is what I would do if I didn't have any solider eggs harvested. Keep in mind my method works for me but I am level 50 and have 20 nesters.

 

I would have my workers repair all nests to perfect condition then I would purchase a decor item (I mainly use the tooth) and completely fence in my nesters until I get some solider eggs. I already fence in my workers around whatever resource they are collecting and I fence around my resources.

 

While pests can sometimes still attack resources your remaining p3s will be safe until your nesters have time to produce more solider eggs. If you haven't already upgraded your nests and p3s to their top level I would suggest doing so. If you need more neofriends to help with rebuilding resources or nests feel free to add me.

for me it's usually about a day, but I have had it take up to a week before. I'm currently waiting on my Hannah and the Kreludor caves to be reviewed, been about 3 days. but it was a really highscore, I just played level three for a looooong time over and over again until I was at trophy level. But it's been so long I'm only at a bronze level now :< next time I am going to have to play for much longer and hope the review it faster. :evil_notsmiling:

I don't work anymore but when I did I rarely went to any social events except for when I worked at the dating abuse hotline. I had such a great relationship with all of the workers and volunteers and we had a lot of charity events that were a lot of fun (since we were all like minded similarly aged people.) But I have never worked anywhere it was forced to go to holiday parties or whatever, sometimes I would go just for the free food and booze, but I usually kept to myself. At my last office job I hardly spoke to anyone outside of the office, and would spend my lunch breaks walking the hiking trail behind our office alone. I'm pretty shy at first so it took a while for me to warm up to people but I eventually made some office friends but we never hung out outside of work and I only agreed to go out to lunch with them once. People are usually pretty respectful if you politely decline their social offerings.

Congratulations! She's a beauty! Your lucky someone neomailed you! I try to remember to neomail the notable neopet owners, but I forget unless I happen to visit that page!

 

I love her outfit!

Again, I can't really phase it any better than Rune. To be honest I have always felt that the lab ray map was pretty cheap. A few hours gaming and a few hours restocking and your golden not to mention habi. What pieces are you missing?

I have been listening to Little Fang non-stop lately, we finally unpacked our vinyl records and I haven't stopped playing it since this morning. That and our friend just uploaded the videos from Pysch Fest when we danced non-stop for this set. <3 Dave Portner

 

My opinions on this matter are very biased. I was brought up by hippies, my mom and dad weren't even married or in love, they were best-friends who hadn't found 'the one' but wanted children, so they had three kids together. Some people think my home life was dysfunctional but my parents never fought, had separate bedrooms, and we generally had a fantastic childhood. I was unschooled until I asked to go to a traditional high-school to experience what it was like, when I took my tests to place in my high-school at 15 I could have been a senior but I chose to stay with my age group. Most of my life was spent traveling in a RV. We had a home in San Francisco but being unschooled my parents felt it was important for us to get a hands on learning experience in the world, we traveled the U.S. several times, we spent three years traveling in Europe, two years in South America and 7 months in Australia. We made money in two very unconventional ways, we made soap and my father sold marijuana we would grow.

 

I grew up with marijuana, I was taught to treat all of mother nature with a cautious respect, you abuse and disrespect earth and she will bite you back. Now before I continue with what I have to say next some people (unfamiliar with marijuana or natural medicine) would consider this next part to be child abuse or endangerment and before you say anything negative about my parents reactions and solutions please check them at the door and keep those opinions to yourself.

 

When I turned 8 years old it was discovered that I had severe scoliosis, so bad that I had nerve damage all along my spine that would only get worse as I grew. Nerve damage can have a number of effects the most common being numbing or pain. I had the latter. By the time I was 11 and when I stopped growing due to my scoliosis (4'10 and what!?") I was in so much chronic pain that existing was so painful I would vomit and pass out from pain multiple times a day. My parents tried every natural remedy they felt safe with and gave up after a short while and took me to a doctor. This was the one and only time I ever heard my parents argue. At the tender age of 11 I was getting prescribed narcotics for my pain. My parents fought at the doctors office over whether or not my prescription for morphine was safe. It is commonly given to child cancer patients with severe pain. Obviously the dosage was small but here were parents being forced to decide whether or not relieving my pain was worth pumping me full of chemicals and opioids.

 

That night my mom made me ganja tea for the first time, and for the first time since I could remember it wasn't miserable to exist, sure the pain wasn't eliminated but it was subsided, I was no longer continually nauseous and could spend a day being active and having fun without passing out from pain or being bedridden.

 

Marijuana isn't always the answer and although I no longer eat/drink/or smoke marijuana it was the stepping stone to help me learn to live and function with my body, I have seen it help many and I have seen it lead many down a dark path. A path I believe would have a lot more lights if it was legal and readily available.

 

Those that have fallen into dangerous drugs usually start with marijuana and friends I used to know who have gone down that road have one thing in common, the same dealers that sold them marijuana led them to the harder drugs.

 

My husband smokes still and although it isn't aloud in the house or around the children I will never hide his use because marijuana shouldn't be looked at as evil, it should be treated with respect and not abused or made into a villain.

 

 

Haha! I love this! I used to throw my dog birthday parties. So much fun! I love the theme, very fitting!

edit: I realized I used the wrong quote!

 

1. Can you vote in the BC on your side accounts? (I know you can't enter there, though) 2. If you get a faerie quest on one account, can you look it up on another? It would sure beat having to ask on the boards. :) 3. Can you buy items from Neopian shops on side accounts? It is possible you could profit from this, but not certain. 4. Can you buy items from players' shops on side accounts? Same reason as above. Thanks. :D ~beads_and_buttons
1 - No. That's not very fair, is it?
2 - While this is not encouraged (it kinda defeats the purpose of blocking access to the Shop Wiz, doesn't it?), we've never frozen anyone for it mostly because there are people who can't ask for quest help on the boards.
3 - No, you may not restock on side accounts.
4 - As long as the Nepoints you're using were earned on your main account.

http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=285

 

 

I hope this clears it up for you guys. I would just steer clear to be safe. Even though it isn't strictly against the rules.

As long as its not a reoccurring issue you should be fine, it is a mistake I have made myself and nothing happened. Just be careful to not earn any neopoints on your side and refrain from using it to get extra searches. When I am doing large searches like pricing my items I usually wait until 40minutes after the hour to start my searches so that I don't have to wait so long after getting banned c:

last month i could have gotten silver or gold for snot splatter if i had played on day one, but day two got me 3rd. same score this month on day one still only got me 3rd. maybe next month the snot splatter ppl with trophies already won't be snotty on day one:( like they were this month.. i don't know why ppl with trophies already submit on day one- day two isn't good enough for them?

Well I for one always submit on day one, especially for games I know I am good at if I don't have a gold trophy, like pet pet rescue and ice cream machine. Ice Cream Machine is hard to get gold unless you submit on day one because it's mostly luck of power ups. If I already have a gold trophy I usually don't play on the first.

 

I'm just curious but is this trophy run fuelled by the borrowing of the Grarrl club?

 

I certainty am, I'm trying to get the poker one right now > <

 

hehe it partially is but I usually try for at least one trophy on reset day. Yesterday there just happened to be a lot of very low scores in the games I was playing so I lucked out :P

I am actually quite please with myself! Usually I am only able to get one trophy but I noticed on a few games the scores were quite low so I took a stab at them!

 

For starters I bumped my silver ice cream machine and pet pet rescue to gold

silver in Attack of the Revenge

silver in Meepit vs. Feepit

gold in Itchy Invasion

silver in Ultimate Bullseye

 

I'm super proud of myself, especially in Attack of the Revenge, a game I actually really suck at - it was pure luck!

 

How did you do?

Yay! Glad I could donate, it set me back a million but it was well worth it, let's see where I stand:

 

1. I'm only 10mil short! not bad a month of restocking, saving, gaming should get me there!

 

2. Yup!

 

3. Almost there just need to play more games!

 

4. If I stay diligent in keeping active in the forums I should meet this number soon

 

5. only 7 to go! which is what I am working on today!

 

so in today alone I am killing 3 birds with one stone by taking advantage of the score reset. making money, getting trophies and avatars!

if your low on neopoints to buy the codestone I'd suggest selling the dubloon and playing a couple games, that should net you enough to train.

Now that I have a pretty diverse portfolio I often just buy stocks that are in the 15-16 range already in my portfolio. That way I have a few thousand shares in each of my stocks to play around with.

 

If I have more than 2000 in a stock I sell 1000 at 30. I then sell the remainder at 70-80 depending on how the stock has been behaving.

I have had a goldfish for 15 years, his name is Gilbert. We have him in a 30 gallon tank and he is HUGE. A lot of people think goldfish just have short life spans but that's definitely not the case. If you have it in a large enough tank with a good filter and feed it the correct amount they can live for a long time. You just have to see the warning signs. I would change out his water immediately but not before taking a sample to the pet store to see if that's the cause.

 

As with most pets it is important to have a vet, another misconception I have run into is that vets don't see fish. While that may be true for a lot of vet's chances are there is at least one in your area. If you can't afford a vet visit a local pet shop that specializes in aquatic pets and they can give you a plethora of information.

 

I've also noticed since moving to Texas where we have hard water with fluoride I had to change out the filters and clean the tank a lot more often until I got a water filter and softener for my house.

 

Good luck to you and your little fishy!

You have awoken the great Turmaculus...
and he has completely restored your pet's hp...