midnight_spell360

So so sorry you're having to go thru all of this. Although our circumstances differ, I have been in the same financial hole without any family or friends to help, as well. The ONLY thing that ended up helping me enough to dig my way out was taking advantage of community resources. They can help with rent, electric and water bills, groceries, phones, clothing.. literally everything you can imagine. I hope you're able to do the same, if you haven't already!

 

If by chance you haven't, I'd be more than happy to help you find some in your state. Seriously, I don't mind at all and it's super simple <3

 

Best of luck to you in all of this

To those of you who have been praying for me and kept me in their prayers since my last post (http://www.tdnforums.com/index.php?/topic/46940-well-here-it-goes/) I just wanted to update you a little bit on what's been going on in my life.
 
My last comment stated that I had been called in for an Arraignment on the 9th of this month. I went it for that and stood before a judge who read me my rights and what I was being accused of. At the end of it he asked me how I plead and I said guilty. He looked at me very strangely for a moment and then said "I'm pleading "not guilty" on your behalf." 
 
I was a little shocked by this and wondering what it meant, I really hoped it didn't count against me as I was NOT the one saying I didn't commit this crime. I then was given a date to come in for a Pre-Trial conference two weeks later (the 23rd, yesterday). This was the LAST court date I would have before I found it if I was going to jail or not.
 
Everything actually seemed to be going good besides this lingering "what's going to happen to me?" question. Things are going great with my job, I got a roommate to move in to our second bedroom so even if I didn't go to jail and had to work on this HUGE fine and restitution I would have the money to do so with rent and all utilities being split. I also am almost caught up on all my bills with the exception of electric and my car payments (with electric being caught up tomorrow and my car payments in a couple of weeks)
 
I went in for my Pre-Trail and was super on edge and nervous. The lady that was doing the Pre-Trail Con. seemed really nice, but also unprofessional as everyone she called back to talk to she would have the door WIDE open and you could hear everything she was offering people. I got a really scared as it seemed everyone before me was getting offered plea deals with no jail times and I felt that if she's giving that many away that my odds might not be that high.
 
So I got called in the first thing she said was that they WERE offering me a plea deal, what that entailed I had no clue yet. She then went on to saying that they were going to go with resolution of what I stole with no jail time, NOT ONLY THAT but she didn't even ask for 3x the amount which would have been well over 2 grand without court fees. I do however have it on my record as I just missed the age of being able to qualify for the program where you can take classes to get it to stay off you record, but she said with no previous record I can get it expunged in 5 years as long as I don't commit another crime (and lord knows I'm never doing that again).
 
I then went before the judge who released me of my bond (so now I can leave the city and state freely) and gave me till mid-January of next year to pay it back. With court fees I'm looking at around 1,300 in total, which is way less than I was preparing myself to pay. I just have to save $275 a month for the next few months and I'm golden.
 
I think a beautiful thing about this is I can now start to forgive myself. I can pay back what I took slowly and regain my sense justice there and I can actually start to live a life now. The last 4 months I had no idea how to respond to people who wanted to do things with me for holiday's or have to think about the fact that I'd spend my birthday in jail and possibly miss Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family or even the birth of my niece or nephew and my new sibling. I know it seems small to the grand scheme of things but I highly cherish those things (not so much my birthday) and missing them would be devastating.
 
I by no means believe life will be easy from now on as I know things hit you out of no where, but this has made me appreciate things more than I already did. It also makes other trials I've faced throughout my life not seem so bad. I made it over a HUGE speed bump, now it's time to keep driving :)

Wonderful, thank you SO much to badly and midnight_spell360!!
 
"Level, strength, and health increased by a LOT"

I hope not! I like neopets because it's a nice little hour I can have to myself where I have mini goals and tasks that make me feel productive while I'm doing absolutely nothing.
 
I think maybe people aren't posting because there's nothing to talk about, like hrtbrk said! Don't worry there will be something to talk about soon I'm sure!

It's usually quiet this time of year as people are heading back to school and there are no events on Neopets.
 
I don't think it's dying, and this is typical behaviour across several websites and games.

Oops! I should get into the habit of scrolling down to the last entry, then I would know that tk421beth sent the book to syaz!  :rolleyes_anim:
Anyway, it wasn't an expensive book so syaz, why don't you keep it and read it to one of your pets or try to sell it?
Btw, tk421beth, I sent you the smoothie! Good Luck & I hope the faerie gives you a great blessing! :laughingsmiley:

Wow, thank you so much Midnight! :woot: :wub_anim:
 
Wow, you did it! Now I can get back to cooking. Thank you so much for your help!
 
Bisbee66's gained 2 movement points and 2 hit points!

Oops! I should get into the habit of scrolling down to the last entry, then I would know that tk421beth sent the book to syaz!  :rolleyes_anim:
Anyway, it wasn't an expensive book so syaz, why don't you keep it and read it to one of your pets or try to sell it?
Btw, tk421beth, I sent you the smoothie! Good Luck & I hope the faerie gives you a great blessing! :laughingsmiley:

Here is my alt for the Neo lookalike contest

 
It's the polarchuck from Snowmuncher :)
 
Didn't really like that the face was visible, so I tried to make it look like the face was the Polarchuck's mouth.

And the winners of The Runway's twentieth round are...
 
1st Place

Teganrose1
Edna the Witch

Animation link: https://impress.open...outfits/1219376
"You wouldn't be mean to a helpless old woman would you? *cackle*"
 
2nd Place

Panthersclaw
Adee and Her Ice Cream

Animation link: https://impress.open...outfits/1219361
 
3rd Place

Nielo
Princess Amira

Animation link: http://impress.openn...outfits/1219514
 

texanroses
Nabile

Animation link: http://impress.openn...outfits/1220065
 

coley
The Darkest Faerie

Animation link: https://impress.open...outfits/1219940
"I'm back..."
 
Congratulations to all winners and thank you to everyone who participated!

If you really love your Pirate Krawk, I would change him to the Elephante, get the avi and then change him back.
BUT, if you would rather have a Pirate Draik (my personal choice), then change your Shoyru to the Elephante and then to a Pirate Draik. 
 
Good luck!

My Aisha, Kokariia, found 20,000np at Buried Treasure! I splurged and bought a Faellie from the Faerie Petpet Shop for 19k and was relieved to find out that Faellies were going for 24k on SSW, so I did OK (I am a terrible haggler!). Then I got to add it to my Petpet Gallery!  :rock:  The other day, I managed to buy a bag of peanuts at the Food Shop for 975np and when I tried to look up it's price on SSW, couldn't find it & it wasn't on the Shopping Wizard's regular one (item not found) and then checked trades. I saw the bag of peanuts going for the lowest was 100k, so I thought, maybe I better check TDN's avatar list and see what's up with this item. Yep, a nOOb like me didn't know that you feed this to an Elephante to get an avatar.
  So now I have to get an Elephante, but I have 5 pets. I have sent the Orange Grundo to some of my sisters so they could get the Forever Orange avatar but really don't want to put her in the Pound, and I really didn't want to put any of my other pets, my Red Shoyru & Pirate Krawk (who started as a Graarl) or my adopted pets, by Maractite Aisha (she was blue but I got a reward at the end of the Faerie Festival that gave her a dip at the Rainbow Pool) & my Robot Kacheek. Then I found a Golden Elephante Morphing Potion in my SDB (I think I paid 20k in a shop for it). So I am thinking of morphing my Shoyru to be an Elephante to feed it the bag of peanuts for the avatar but I don't want him to stay an Elephante (no offense to Elephante-owners meant) and I really don't want to change my Krawk who looks like Dasher Soley from Krawk Island's Old Altador Cup Line Up. After getting the bag of peanuts and finding the Morphing potion, I went to finish my Dailies and went to Anchor Management, and the Krawken dropped...a Pirate Krawk Morphing Potion. Now, do I change the Red Shoyru into a Golden Elephante, get the avvie, and then use my Pirate Draik Morphing Potion on him OR do I change my Pirate Krawk into a Golden Elephante, get the avvie, and then change him back into a Pirate Krawk?  :rolleyes_anim:

Two more trophies! (One already awarded and another on the way)
 
 (will be getting the Gold Cellblock trophy in a few days, if anyone needs help with this one let me know, I have a method that wins almost every time!)

Yesterday, I received a Grey Faerie quest that resulted in a blessing from the Fountain Faerie
 
Behold: 

 
and then I go to redeem my faerie quest for today and I receive a low priced Fountain Faerie Quest!!!!!

Having to start over means getting all the little achievements again too. It kind of reminds me why I liked this game in the first place. Today I did my "first" Brain Tree quests, so I got Esophagor and Brain Tree and Battledome opponents. I even got the Tales of the Esophagor book prize. It had this whole HUGE banner for it!
 

I just found my Magma Pool time! 

I've had the page open now and then over the last three days or so, hoping to find my time. I knew for certain it didn't happen between 1600 - 1630, but other than that I was hoping to find it randomly, as remembering to go back every five minutes was, well, a bit boring. After clicking one last time for the day before closing the tab, the guard fell asleep!

Between this and getting the Lever of Doom avatar after ~3k's worth of pulls, I feel pretty lucky with this account! :D
 
ETA: After catching a glance at my counter, I just realised that I hit the 50% avatar mark today too! :D :D 

*so excited*

I totally agree, Moonflower! I'm a total nerd/geek irl, so anything with heroes and villains usually catches my attention. :bigeyed:

Just a quick update for everyone patiently waiting, I've still to get any kind of communication from TNT regarding my ticket.
 
The good news is, the price of the BGC has fallen dramatically from the last time we purchased, so the wait for a new one won't be as long in the event I do end up having to replace it.
 
If anyone hears of any current selling prices, please feel free to contact me. I've heard that they sell for around 50 mil now, but I could be wrong. Also, if you know of anyone selling, feel free to contact me. Since the Auction House is being annoying, it's harder to find sellers for expensive stuff.

The Deserted Fairground links for Bagatelle and Cork Gun Gallery have been fixed! So, enjoy playing those dailies, if you like to, without having to use the "direct links".

Dang, all of these are amazing!!  Quite a few of them are spot on :D  Voting for this one is going to be hard ... Regardless of who wins, props to everyone who entered!  This might be my favorite round of the CC yet!

It's crunch time, so jumpin' on the band wagon and signing up with the Theives. Now where did that sign up sheet go? Just can't trust those Thieves with anything...

I remember I used to spend a ton of time on the Neoboards, probably more than I should have, haha. I did use to play some of the games when I first joined, but that was when Neopets was in it's early days, so most of the games were really low quality and weren't that great. However, there were a few that I was decent at (can't think of which ones they were), and I managed to get a high score on a couple games. As for avatars and rare items, I did have some of the now-retired avatars which might be considered rare nowadays (Coco Roll, I Saved Mystery Island, the Battle for Meridell avatars, etc.,) but other than that I would just end up accidentally getting avatars while going through the site, lol. For items, I did have a shop where I sold semi-valuable things like paintbrushes, but I also sold things I found cool like motes and food. So to answer your question, the Neoboards were probably my favorite thing to do, and if not that it was collecting paintbrushes and other cool items.
 
One change I've noticed would be how much this game grew in popularity even after I stopped playing. I would have definitely thought Neopet's prime would have been 11-12 years ago, but as far as I've seen, the game grew tremendously within the past 7/8 years. It's honestly crazy to see a game I played so long ago still be active. One thing I've noticed is how the graphics have changed. When I joined, all of the Neopets looked like terrible Microsoft Paint drawings, some pets even being humans. I specifically remember the Bruce species used to just be a real photograph of some man which was pretty strange. The site layout has changed a lot too since I've last played, hopefully it's a lot better now. I might make a new account just for the fun of it, haha.

You have given Small Honey Lemon Smoothie to User 'tk421beth'. Click the button below to continue. Sent it. It was under 900 np, so if  I am late treat a pet or sell it. :) I hope you get something wonderful! :rambo: 
 
Just checked & saw your note above tk421beth's note, mc-4evah! You have given Stream of Light to User 'mcvdijk1986'. Click the button below to continue. Sent it. I found it in my SDB, so I hope the earth faerie is generous. Good Luck!  :laughingsmiley: 

I'm going with Thieves. Still need the stupid avatar  :tired:

I just wanted to let everyone know that the contest will be up later than usual today. I always prepare everything the night before, but last night I didn't have time and now my internet connection is acting up (I'm on my phone right now). This is something easy to fix, but I have to go out now, so I'll have to do everything when I get back. Hopefully that will be no later than 2pm NST. Then the contest will be up as normal :)