Haha. That's crazy!

I got up to 100k and gave up, but then I looked again a few months later and there was more cheap (ish!) ones.

Rattoony has eaten 8997 different foods . You've got to be so high!

Rattoony has 1762 different foods left to go!

Kayano has eaten 9941 different foods! Kayano has 818 different foods left to go!

Yea, I had to adjust the items several times as I went along. I would see a couple that were cheaper, and it would remind me to go price check it all - I would use the "sort by price" feature and then just move what needed to be moved to a different category and keep going.

If I didn't have the huge amount of sps I had, I wouldn't have ever spent so much. But I just keep splurging and I still have : You have 200,000,000 sP in your vault. Plus like 1mil onhand right now.

And I had so many friends spoil me and send me food items for my birthday and even back at christmas too.

Whoa, that's crazy! Congratulations on that, too! 39 to go until 10k, that's insane!

Yep. Thanks! If they ever add tiers, I am good to go LOL

I resorted my books by price today. And my minions. I still havent added all of those yet, to my wishlist. I have been adding 1-2 letters per time I do it. Then sorting them into categories. i have no idea what prompted me, but I started throwing cheap minions into my minion zoo one day, and then well, it snowballed from there and i wanted to see how many minions I could collect in there, so I started looking them up and adding to wishlist. And I've found some that I didn't even know existed and I needed in some pet treasures. Sheesh.

I hope they do add tiers, and to the plushies and beanbags, too. It's so hard to finish the collections, after you stop getting achievements along the ways, too!

Yea, achievements definitely help me keep going on stuff. But plushies, I would get those no matter what. That is my thing lol It is honestly what drew me over here. I fell in love with plushies on neo, but they were so hard to get. Then I started here and I was on the highscores list in no time, and I was able to just keep on getting them!!

[edit] 935am Did another recording this morning. And while I did mess up near the end, I think overall it was good. At least as good as my other one. So rather than keep being freaked about it and trying to make it better, I'm just going to turn this one in and be done. Stress less right? :P Well I'll probably stress more until it gets graded hahahah! :P But whatever. I have a 98 in the class (he updated the way the grades show so now I know) and even if I do get points off for my mess-ups, I should still end up with an A. I also have to take another exam in this class, he said it would be available starting this evening. So ugh. But yea, I did fine on the other exam so I should be ok on this one too.

Have NOT logged into the school site yet this morning, just recording. Read over that article for the childhood class several times last night trying to figure out how to respond to it for a full page and a half. Ugh.

- here is the final speech should you wish to watch this one also. I do not believe it is VERY persuasive at all, but oh well :P Speech

OOooh nice, good job Kat!

Yeah, I just think the more tiers of achievements, the better.. especially when they're like.. 5k behind the amount that we have now :P

We had book club today! A year ago we had our first meeting to pick our first book, next month will be our 12th book, which is crazy!

But! We had a local author (who is actually my friend) come again today, and it was just really interesting to hear about what goes into writing, etc.

Yep I am on a roll I guess :P I turned in the speech. I also completed the two work ethics assignments (no more work ethics! DONE - for this semester anyway). And I did the essay assignment and turned it in (the page and half on the article). AND I did one assignment in the other class as well - I kind of cheated on that one because I used an activity, I already did in my classroom hahah so I knew it was appropriate and exactly how to say what we did. But like, I had to basically do a lesson plan. And I needed something different that I didn't do in my Health/Safety/Nutrition class last semester, so instead I used the science experiment I did for my professional learning class last year hahahaha! :P I did not have to write it all out last year, I had to do it and show pictures and explain what we did. So this time I had to put it in a lesson plan format. I was able to do the "evaluation" part of it, due to having conducted the experiment lol oh the experiment was baking soda and colored vinegar - what happens when the liquid hits the solid, and do the colors change if you drop them on top of each other? and the GELD (learning goal) was to "use simple tools correctly to experiment, observe and increase understanding" so I think I had that covered pretty well. Hopefully that will be acceptable. Should be.

Oh yes, I saw you were having an author come to your book club, I saw that on Facebook. I thought it was very exciting!! And you know them personally? Even more cool. My dad wrote a book. It needs a little improvement, but to be honest, I've seen worse on kindle :P I told him that. I liked the story line he had. I wonder if he will do more with it or not. Who knows :) Shane was going to come home tonight, but now he is probably not. And so now I guess I need to take the trash off by myself instead of waiting for him :P So I will be back in a little while. [edit] 6pm Oops. Got distracted in schoolwork and forgot to cook supper. Late supper for me it is. I completed everything I was currently able to. That leaves me 2 things left to do - My exam in the Speech class, which is now available, but I am going to re-read the chapters before I do the exam....and my discussion board - which I emailed the teacher about (and had another student email the class about so I responded to her) - the one where the page does not exist in the textbook. sigh :P

Haha yes, we're friends! We met because his daughter joined marching band last year, and then we just ended up really getting alone through teh school year. Plus, Lily literally pulled people in off the street at teh Christmas market, told them to buy his book.. and they did! He's still shocked about it haha. She's going to be the base of one of the characters in his next book actually.

It's the SECOND local author we had, our very first book was also a local author.. who is actually the AP English teacher, and the flag director for the marching band haha. And honestly, hers was my favorite book we've done so far!

Booo for the trash, it's trash night here, too.

We had uh.. french fries with onions, bacon, brussel sprouts and cheese? Which was actually really good but it sounded weird but I really liked it haha.

Oh well yay for Lily, getting people to buy a book AND being the base of a character, how awesome!! :D You make me almost want to go join book club at my library lol. I don't know if they have a regularly meeting one, but I know they even extend the summer reading program to adults in a way, so I bet they do. They have all sorts of programs for all ages all year long honestly. But mostly hype it up in the summer. (since school is out). I haven't been to any programs in a long time - since the kids stopped doing the summer reading program, Nathan was ohh just barely old enough to get into the teenage program and he didn't like it that much. I do still stop in and see if there are new books by my favorite authors, or grab an old favorite when I feel the urge to read one.

I am cooking my other denver steak from the little shop down the street lol. They had another truck today, but most of the stuff I wouldnt' like so I didn't go. I am waiting to see if they put anything out for free, they do that sometimes when they have a lot left over....if they have some stuff I like leftover I'll go grab some then.

Edit: Nathan will come home on the 22nd. My brother is just going to rent a tow dolly and haul the Mazda back up here. He is going to spend the next week working with Nathan on driving it. I still need to make him drive MY car or the jeep, because I just don't think he needs to take the driver's test in a manual. He won't like that, he doesn't want to drive "big vehicles" which he feels the jeep even is. Its smaller, but not as small as a car, I get that. But hopefully he'll see reason. he is much more likely to fail the test in a manual, especially with the reverse braking and all that crazy crap.

OH yeah, much easier to fail in the manual than teh automatic!

Oooh yes, I'd look into it! If the library doesn't have one, there may just be a group around you! There's some like that here, they meet at different wineries or such haha.

Just got done cleaning the dog pen and mowing it. Why do dogs poop so much? Or maybe I just am terrible at cleaning it up lol But it's nice and clean now. I would like to get some new fake grass. I put some old grass carpet out there because the dogs killed the real grass and then tracked mud/poop in the house. This way there is less mud and poop being dragged in. But. It's nasty now. There is an area that doesn't have fake grass outside the big cage part, that is real grass/dirt still. That is what I had to mow. I had to rake/pick up poop from the fake grass....and pull up a bunch of weeds/grass that grew through the old fake grass. There is a freaking baby pine tree there too. Need to pull that up. How the heck does a tree grow in a fully shaded covered dog pen?????

Thats the dog pen. The inner/big cage with the roof tarp is 10x10. Got it free from the neighbors. Added it to my little wire "pen" which makes up the other part of the dog pen. I had 2 of those, but with the cage part I only use 1. But see the pine tree? (I zoomed in and cropped it for you) REALLY? sheesh. Need to cut/pull those weeds on the other side too, they are in the pen I thought they were outside it. And now all I can smell is poop. :P

Haha. I was going to sya, no, I can't see the tree! LOL. I

Ugh, that would drive me nuts! All of it, really :P

I got three morty cards AND a forum point today, the subeta gods are looking down on me.

AND SPEAKING OF DRIVING ME NUTS.. my 4H co-leader is.. driving me nuts. She doesn't reall ylet the kids make the choices they should be making, and like, I'm trying to nail down what we're doing for this thing on Saturday and nothing. And she's just. IDK. I really liked her but now I'm realizing that she's kind of.. really judgy? And it's making me sad!

OHOHOHOHOH. BUT. BUT BUT BUT. Today the car part came in and Alex put it on (and replaced the rotor while he had everything else off, it had to happen anyway haha). AND THE NOISE IS GONE MY VAN IS FINALLY QUIET and so like.. that's a very good thing :P

Aww for the judgy 4H person. Is she still learning? Is there anyway you can explain to her how it is better for the kids to do, whatever it is they need to do? That's so hard to deal with tho.

Yaaaay for no more noise in the van!!!! And congrats on the Morty cards!!! I got three forum points yesterday when we got busy chatting!! 😁 I just forgot to post about them.

[edit] Good Morning! I am going grocery shopping this morning. Especially for meat. Ingles (the grocery store I use for meat) sent me a 4x fuel points coupon! So yay! I rarely buy enough to get 10c off a gallon most of the time there, since I usually only buy meat. Everything else I buy at Walmart. So this time I'll get like 40c off :D I'm going to pick up as much as I can afford to (and have room in the freezer for, good thing I've made inroads on the banana bread and fruit/veg lol)

She just wants to be in charge charge, I think. But the kids are supposed to run the meeting and vote how they want, etc. And she's just kind of.. voting by herself? Which just.. isn't how it's supposed to work, obviously! Like, they need to learn!

Whoo, that's a good coupon! I ran to walmart after work today too actually LOL. No meat, though! I haven't bought any since May? Ughhh

Well I think I have enough meat for about/at least a month. After I divided it up I have - 5 steak dinners, 4 pork chop dinners, 4 ham steak dinners, 4 pork rib dinners, 2 pot roasts, 6 hamburgers, 4 bags of hamburger meat (for tacos, chili, etc) and 2 bags of handmade meatballs for spaghetti, plus I already had a pork roast, 3lb bag of chicken drumsticks and 3lb bag chicken breast tenders. I also have 4 bags of hamburger meat for Shane and 4 pork steaks for him (which if I need it I'll steal it if its still there at that time). yes, they had very lean ground beef on sale half off. So I got 3 3.5lb pks!!! :D It was all still VERY nicely colored too (sometimes its greyish inside when I divide it up when it is reduced like that) I spent $80 more than I planned to. Oh well. It was worth it. I got 70c off gas and so I only spent $40 filling my tank! :P

Then I was nice and mowed the neighbor's side and backyard, he was still picking up the front and other side, and then he mowed that. (I told him he could use the mower when he finished picking up sticks). Now they are getting some more appliances delivered. I am still not positive, but I think it is just her moving in, he is her boyfriend and has been coming over to help get it all set up and all. He has two boys that live with him (Nathan and Shane's age funnily enough).

[edit] So I went to mow my lawn this morning. Got the back area done (which includes the dog runner line area), and most of the front. Then I hit the edging of the porch by accident, but nothing seemed wrong, (I figured it was the blades, and I know I need new ones already anyway), it seemed to be mowing fine still. I came around my circle and saw red on the ground, stopped to see - apparently the belt cover peice broke off (that protects the belt I guess? I dunno). It seemed ok, so I kept going another circle, then I heard a pop/clunk type noise and smelled burning rubber, so I stopped again. Belt popped off. Called Ryan. He says $40 for new belt, he will come look at it tomorrow. So now I've also sent him a picture of the cover thingy that broke off (the bolts are still on the lawn mower, the metal sheared/broke off). Dunno what he will say about that. sigh Can't win for losing eh? I cannot mow the lawn w/o a riding mower, this is TOOOOO big of a yard. But cannot get a new one either, they have gone way up in price. Hopefully I won't NEED a new one and can just replace the belt, blades and maybe that cover peice? Should be able to. But that will take away from the $ that is supposed to be being saved for the siding if I have to fix it and pay for it (if Ryan won't). This is why I hate waiting on stuff to get fixed. If they had fixed the siding right away I'd have no extra $ in the bank. I keep trying to pretend I don't have it - but when something like this mower issue happens, I am like, WELL this NEEDS to be done and I DO have the $ even tho I am not supposed to USE that $.... Ugh.

Also that sounds sort of like how my youth group leader would run the girls group. It was supposed to be led/ran by them, with guidance from her, and instead she pretty much would tell them what they had to do. It was one of the reasons I stopped being involved with the younger girls when Katie aged out - I knew I was going to send them from my group where they got to decide what to do and how to do it and when to do it, to her telling them what to do. AND that whole issue of the use of the funds on top of that. Nope I was done. Couldn't stay and deal with it anymore. I will say she never FORCED them to do stuff, but she did keep saying You have to do this, you need to do that type of thing. Even when they said they didn't want to or had other things they had to do or whatever.

[edit] 230pm Ok so all my dolls (CPK) are now on the shelf. [Spoiler=pix] The longer side of the closet The shorter side of the closet Do I have too many or not enough? :P [/spoiler]

ugh, BOOOO for the lawn mower stuff! It should all be fixable, though!

Yeah, like today she was like "Lindsay wants to be president again and honestly it'd be easier for me, so tell your kids to vote for Lindsay" and Lily was like "Oh but I wanted to try to be president because I think I'd honestly be really good at it too, even though Lindsay is doing a really great job". And "Vote Gianna for secretary, don't vote for S if she runs again because she's awful and her mom is doing all teh work" OK BUT YOU'RE BASICALLY DOING ALL THE WORK.

Just enough, I'd say, because they all fit perfectly! haha

Mmm but, see the edge of the back picture? you can see the football trophies....I can move those and fit about 4-6 more dolls..... :P I don't have any more dolls. I do have 4 of the Koosas (doll size CPK dog and cat type "pets") lol but they are down in the baby doll cradle w/ some stuffed animals. Yes. I have weird things in my closet. I removed a Christmas train, small empty boxes (to use for Christmas presents that are weirdly shaped), 3 motorcycle helmets and I don't even remember what else, in order to make the rest of the dolls room on the shelf LOL - I had about 3/4 of the long shelf full already. Then found the other box. So now I have the whole long shelf full and 3/4 of the short shelf LOL I need some doll stands or something, to make the back row more visible :P

Ok well, maybe take everyone elses junk out of there and get yourself some more dolls :P

Thats what I've been working on!! :P Removing everyone else's junk!!! AND....I just bought myself a new doll like, last month? A cute little piggy dressed baby LOL I don't buy them nearly as often as I used to, mainly because I don't see them very often. The last two I bought, the piggy and a chipmunk, are ones I found at dollar general for like $10.

[edit] 420pm Oh yes, I forgot to say Ryan came this morning, looked at the mower, it needs a new belt. We went to lowes and home depot but neither had the right size belt. So he brought me back home and ordered one online. It'll show up in a few days and he'll put it on Thurs or Fri when he comes to give me my money. And he wasn't worried at all about the belt cover thing. But did tell me to start avoiding the dips in the yard and go across them a different way to go easier on the mower. I thought I was going easy but he says the way I am going across them will keep messing with the mower. Ok then. shrugs This is how you live and learn I guess. I only started mowing the lawn because I was tired of telling Nathan to do it and then him going "I will, later" like he does for everything and later never happening. And Ryan always did it when he lived here. He liked it done his way...so no one ever really learned the best way to go over the dips except him.

AND I completed my test in my speech class. So I am done with work there. Need to only do the discussion board for the ECCE class, that the teacher STILL never replied to my email about - maybe he will monday. But if not, Mon or Tues I have to say something or get a 0. (Not that one 0 will hurt my grade that much - I have an A in that class (over 100% somehow, but I bet that gets adjusted to be correct as a few of my grades I am missing a few points, and I don't know exactly where the extra points came from? LOL) One other assignment still has to be graded in that class, besides the discussion board I have to do. I have an A in all 3 classes ATM. A 95 in speech (only waiting on the last speech to be graded for final grade) and I dunno the exact grade, but A's in both ECCE classes. I am like 20-25 points off having 100% in the 2nd ECCE class, and 3 things to be graded for that one.

[edit] Good Morning. Well, its ALMOST afternoon, its 1145am lol I have been busy cleaning up my room. I took a bunch of trash out to the burn pile, took the actual trash off to the dump center. Trying to burn the trash pile now. I have also emailed my "academic advisor" for Mercer (the new college I'll start in Jan) to see if she is available on the Henry Campus on Thursday afternoon so I can meet her, hopefully someone for financial aid AND go to new student orientation all the same day :P Hopefully she will respond.

I need to vaccum my bedroom, closet AND the living room and hallway, as I used the yard wagon to haul trash out to the burn pile and I brought it inside LOL Hey it worked. I didn't have to carry all that stuff. My closet is actually able to be walked into again, and my clothes are all hanging up/put away, except the load that is in the washing machine! GO me! I sent more pictures to Katie to see if she wants to keep some stuff, and I have MORE stuff I need to send her pictures of, but she hasn't responded, so more stuff for the keep/trash piles coming up soon.