- waves hello! Hang in there. You and Emily will do great. And your HA is really adorable - soooo cute!

- is dealing with some family issues and will return when she can.

- Zasy actually has stats very close to 81 (except for speed) so, unless you're getting crit hit to death, Zasy should have a good chance of being able to get five wins against Maybel. Not getting frozen is absolutely the key with her (especially for the lower tier pets with so little spare health) so parched mods are a necessity - preferrably baguettes. There are few mod slots for weapons at that level, so personally, I would have parched mods in those slots anyway, so I'm a little confused by your comment about not wanted to swap out mods and then replace them. What mods do you usually use?

Congratulations on your new Triple Threat Scroll. Nice to hear it helped with Mama Mush.

As far as your battle wishlist, I don't know what your current battle set is, but here are my thoughts for what they're worth:

1. If you do not yet have an Aftershocks Scroll, I would absolutely add it to your list. It is a serious battle staple and, if you are lucky enough to manage to get one sooner it is amazing how much difference it can make for a lower tier pet. Triple Threat is a good lower cost start, but it has no attack and that 24 icons of extra damage every turn can really help a lower tier pet win a battle and can also really add up over longer battles with higher tier pets against some of the tougher challengers.
2. The shrines can be useful but are not really necessities. (Caveat - the only one I own is Shrine of Apollonia, but I have found that I almost never use it since there is almost always something more urgent or else more useful to do instead.)
3. If you are thinking about Poukie - I would remove Morosbane from the list. To me, it's sort of like a cheaper Gift of the Forj for low tier pets (with the added advantage of a really big attack for them). But given the cost, personally I would wait for GotF.
4. Soma Tablets can be great, but except for the random blessing/curse - the Recycle Blaster (I think you have one now?) does exactly the same thing and doesn't take up the Stealer Slot. If you really need to double blast, Blackmoon Hand Blaster does the job for a LOT less sP than Soma Tablets. And if you are willing to play Card Crusade, you can win one for free by winning one game. Yes, the blasted weapon will do 13 icons of damage rather than 1 but for most times you need a second blast that's really good enough.
5. I've never heard of Porcelain Femme Fatale Figurine before and had to look it up in SubetaLodge. Almost certainly not worth that cost as a battle item. On the other hand, Acorn Bomb can be helpful due to the 100 turn curse, but will only make a difference in a very long battle. In either case, if you find an opponent where you really need just a little more - you can buy and use a lot of potions/shards/pylonics for the cost of one of these weapons and they can be used with two other weapons (and a scroll) on the same turn.
6. Reviver of the Lion is nice (I assume you already have a Phoenix Quill) and can be especially helpful as you outgrow the 1500 heal of Gift of the Forj which my pets haven't really done yet. But be aware that at those levels blocking becomes a lot more important than healing (I've been told I will outgrow my beloved Phoenix Quill) so if you are trying to conserve on sP the Reviver might not be needed. I actually use my UltimaPlus Tag as sort of a combination cheap Reviver (the tag only heals 25 percent)/freezer/stealer. LOL
7. I have a borrowed Reborn Icewand of Doom right now. The freeze and 10 percent heal are great, but I find the attack to be really too low powered most of the time for it to be really helpful. Even when I pair it with a Frostbite Amulet and try for a chain freeze, I always wind up doing better with something else that hits harder. It is a Genetech Combo so can be created for "only" 20 million sP if you get the first half and then wait six months for the second half. I keep trying to find a reason to make one of my own, but haven't managed yet.
8. Since it's a wishlist, I would seriously consider adding a freezing scroll or two to the list. :-)

By the way, Gulp has stats sort of close to Poukie's except that Poukie is a LOT stronger and more intelligent so Poukie pretty much can do anything Gulp can plus a bunch more.

- hopefully all three of your cats will have very long and happy kitty lives. And Hikaru has learned to stay out of trouble!

Oooh - coool HA.

She was here a bit last month during Luminaire! But yeah, I think she's just been busy with real life stuff lately, so she hasn't been around as often.

Thanks :D I think I am ready for Spring! So much snow!!!

- I don't seem to be a huge fan of winter so much anymore. LOL Although I would probably miss it if I went somewhere where there was none. :-)

I love snow in December, but then I want it gone lol!

- I love snow in small doses when I don't have to go out in it. And then I like it to get nice and sunny and melt it all! :-)

I like the snow but prefer it on a Friday night or Saturday so I can make a fire and enjoy looking at it. Not during the week when I have to get up at 6AM and go to work. ;)

I deff hate having to go out in it. My car hates the snow too! It was in the negatives last week. and I thought my fingers were going to freeze off. The gloves didn't even help :( One day it took me 20 minutes to clean the car off and then when I got to where I was going my door wouldn't open! I was stuck in my car until I could get someone to pull on it from the outside. Winter can be over now! lol

Won't be on much for the next 5 days, relative visiting from out of town. My car lives in the garage so only out in the snow when I go to work and I have one of those special windshield covers. Which I haven't needed to use yet since we haven't had any snow this year so far.

- if there is a next time you can't open your car from the inside you have a couple of useful options.

1. If you are able to open the window, you can try to open the door using the outside handle - or even use your ice scraper or a heat source to break at least some of the layer of ice that is keeping you in - often enabling you to get yourself out.
2. It IS possible (though not fun) for most people to get to the passenger door and get out that way if it will open.
3. If you happen to be driving a van, it is often possible to pull open one of the side doors and get out that way.

It's been a long time now, but I can remember having that happen to me and wondering if I needed to drive somewhere else to find someone to let me out, since there wasn't anyone around at the time. :-)

I used to have an Alaskan Malamute. He loved to go out in the snow. LOL

- those windshield covers are nice, but you still really need to clean the back window (unless it has another cover) mirrors, hood and sometimes even the roof to drive safely. The snow on those often winds up on either your windshield, or that of another motorist otherwise and can obscure someone's vision enough to be really dangerous for everyone around.

When the snow got really bad, I also sometimes wound up cleaning out my tire well too - because the big clumps in there could be a problem as well.

Oh well - spring is really not all that far away. :-)

Great HA by the way! I love the sled dogs.

I wish I had a garage, or at least some kind of cover.

Couldn't get the window down and my phone was dead! Bad luck all around. My sister came home and I finally got her to come over to the car (after motioning to her for a few minutes while she just stared at me) and open the passenger door (I could never climb over to the passenger seat...tried) and she actually looked at me and said "what do you want me to do?" all snotty like I asked her for a kidney! I said "you could just pull on my door"! Ugh

- ouch! That's one reason why I always make sure my phone is well charged when I might actually need it (which includes going out in bad weather)! I don't know how people ever got along without cellphones. LOL

Of course, you can always drive to somewhere where there is help (a police station if nothing else is open).

Wow! Is your sister normally snotty? Or was she just really confused?

Glad you managed to get out and aren't still stuck in your car!

If you ever get REALLY desperate - break the window!

She has always been like that! I have no idea why. She is the most unfriendly person you will ever meet. Any time I have to go to her house (to get my niece or great niece) she never says a word to me. I end up standing in the living while she is playing on her phone or watching tv and I just stand there feeling so uncomfortable. It is just really awkward!

- that is a shame. Is she like that to other people too?

Yes! She is like that with everyone. She doesn't have any friends. Big shock!

- I can understand why.

Me too! Oh well. For some reason that seems to be the way she likes it. I know I would be bored and lonely.

- well, hopefully she isn't. And if she is the mother of your niece and the grandmother of your great niece then she must have found someone to spend time with. :-)

Yep, and at least he is a little friendlier then she is lol. Gotta get some sleep. Night and sleep well!

- good night.