Yeah, it just happened again for me.. a good reason to just go to bed, I guess!

The elementary has two choices, plus salads and peanut butter and jelly. So they just don't have as many options.

Tomorrow we're having broccoli cheese soup (I have to make it.. it's a LOT of cheese. I'm nervous haha) with garlic flatbread, popcorn chicken and noodles, and uh.. I don't know what yet on the grill, but I'll figure it out.

OK. Good night!

Enjoy the rest of your night!!

Morning from Europe!

Sounds like things are busy for both of you - Kat with the assignments and Mieke with the understaffed job! Be mindful to not go too hard and burn out! I learned about burnout specifically, having periods of stress is normal, but if stress levels start to be high All The Time with no calm down, then that's the way to burnout town. I've gotten close but am grateful I could always find something to change rather than burn out completely 🤞🏻

It's Tuesday, it's cold out. I'm wearing my cozy strawberry sweater to the office today. Sky's beautiful this morning, all soft clouds and bright light! Little kitty was not satisfied with the breakfast. I normally skip breakfast too, so I guess I can't judge too hard (and I know she'll likely eat it eventually once I'm gone but I don't like when she doesn't even get started before I leave, just Pet Parent Things!).

Good Morning! I just finished kumos. I had to quit 4 quests - 1 maybel, 1 library, 1 Saggi and 1 Rumi The maybel one was my very first one and I was like UGH! This is gonna go bad. But it wasn't too bad.

Last night I spent about an hour buying cheapo stuff in user shops to frag. I got two or three more items from the cyrstal shop. Still need like 20, not including books. I don't know if I'll have time for that today, due to class. We shall see.

That's great progress, Kat! I've been doing a few legacy quests while at work, I do keep fragging what I have lying around and don't need, but it's slow going with the Crystal Shop. Newbies should take their time, so all fine :)

Also I kind of expected to not get any more new year currency in February, but seems like the Kumos quests still gives it out, which is cool! And I suddenly have more quests to do, went from 3 to 5 on Kumos.

I can't wait to have the wardrobe sorted out, it's so finicky and will not let me switch outfits without redoing them from scratch, which means I don't really wanna change clothes at this point :')

Well you got a gold account now, it looks like? GA users get 5 quests instead of 3 on kumos. I had not realized kumos was still giving out new year tokens, Keith had said somewhere that was going to happen on kumos until the end of the month, so I stopped looking at it after Jan 31 lol I wonder how many I have now. I still need lots of books from the new years shop.

Some people get REALLY into the wardrobe. I change clothes every now & then, but I don't do fancy outfits. I do basic ones. a top, a bottom, some shoes or socks, a scarf or hair thing, a necklace sometimes and always lipgloss. :P I just don't like the plain mouths. the lipgloss at least looks like lips

I agree on the lips needing a lip "item"! I love a bold lip color anyways, so it works out for me. Definitely can see that I might get really into the wardrobe, especially now that the filters were fixed on Kumos so I can actually use them properly. It was such a hassle to navigate without! Although hanging out on Legacy and the wardrobe on Legacy simply not working for me is a bit of a deterrent currently.

Oh, you're right, I have a gold account! Huh! I didn't do anything for it - is it possible someone gifted me that and I didn't notice? Because that's a little embarrassing 8D

And - also quit 4 Kumos quests today, whew! I guess having 5 quests available makes it more likely I'll give up haha.

Mieke, may the force be with you for the broccoli cheese soup today! You'll rock it I'm sure!

I gifted you the gold account :P I figured this way you can autoprice your shop, and that'll make it much easier for you to sort by price, etc! AND you get extra quests!

OK, a strawberry sweater sounds adorableeeeeeeee. I'm jealous.

Today went fine!And the soup went fine :P Especially once I uh.. stopped following the recipe. And all the kids that tried it really liked it!

And then after work I went to work.. but the copier fixer guy finally came during my hours, so he finally got to fix the printer, so that was great.

All in all, not a bad day!

Hope everyone else had a good day! (And that your cat finally ate their breakfast!)

Oh, thank you Mieke! I'm glad you came forward so I knew who to thank haha! Autopricer is definitely handy, and this will be super useful in getting that last shop till achievement 🥳 so it is highly appreciated!

Glad the broccoli soup went well. Was something wrong with the recipe? Sounds like you didn't merely improve upon it but the recipe itself was trouble! Was it an excessive amount of cheese? 🧀

My day was decent and yes, kitty ate her breakfast. I did have some cleaning up to do when I got home since she didn't keep it all down, so in that way, breakfast was a mixed bag for her today. But dinner went off without a hitch and tomorrow I'm in home office, so can make sure she paces herself a bit more!

Wellll.. it made two gallons of soup, and called for one tablespoon of onion powder and one tablespoon of garlic pepper. That's it! For the whole soup!

And I actually ended up adding more cheese LOL. And cooked it for a bit higher and longer than it said, so it would thicken up more!

Aww, well I'm glad dinner worked out well for her, at least!

Kelly (my cat) has been obsesssssssed with me since I got home today. I don't know if it's because Isabelle let Cinnamon (outside cat) inside or just because she's cold but.. she's attached haha.

And you're very welcome!

lol - they don't mind if you fix up the recipes? Like, I would think you'd get in trouble for using more of an ingredient as it would take away from the remaining count of food to have for other meals? But I don't work in the kitchen, so I have no idea. Plus I think your kitchen at your school works so much differently than mine anyway. I am glad (and I bet the kids were too) that you made the soup tastier!! (and there is NEVER too much cheese!)

Class got over about 10 mins ago. I'm so glad she's not keeping us excessively long. Even though she keeps stating that we should "remember that we are officially in class until 1030, so work on your assignments" Yeah. N O I am not staying on my computer working on things until 1030 at night. By 10 I will be in bed almost asleep :P I did however quickly turn in my discussion for this week while I was on. Our high school student started today, she knocked and came in the room, and the kids were all about to jump up and were asking who she was and why she's here and all that and when I told them that we had to finish small groups and THEN I would explain who our visitor was, they quickly got back to work!! And they were so sweet and welcoming to her and involved her in their playtime at centers.

I also wrote a BUNCH of stuff for my two assignments in that class that are due Sunday night, now I just need to type them up and then turn them in. But I want to try and finish quests, and maybe buy more cheap items to frag. I still need 15 items from the shop (based on whats still available)!

Well, I said I seasoned with my heart instead, and changed cooking times. My boss used the extra cheese :P Because generally, yeah, everything has to follow particular ingredient guidelines but like.. sometimes, they're stupid!

Wait, I'm sorry, class is supposed to be until TEN THIRTY. AT NIGHT?! I was sound asleep at 8:30 last night haha.

I did kumos (only got one of saggis and two of Rumis. Yikes!), got wiz, saggi, quentin, pete and maleria done... not sure I'll finish but I'm trying LOL

Yes ... the "official" class time is 530-1015 nightly. However she starts class at 6pm and then "reminds" us to continue working until 1030 eyeroll Not once since I've begun has the class EVER lasted until 10pm. We did get close a few times with a certain professor - like 930 and once 945....lucky they were zoom meeting only like this one, and not in person. All my inperson classes always ended sessions around 8-830 so everyone could go home.

I finished kumos this morning, but you know I start at the top and work my way down, so I'm only at Duality on legacy right now.

That sounds.. truly like my nightmare. I don't function past 9.

... and 9 is pushing it.

You've earned the Yum... not! achievement!

OMG FINALLY NO MORE BLACK CANDY BARS THAT'S 250 WHOOOOO.

Andddd.. I gave up halfway through library quests, my eyes keep blinking on me LOL. Good night!

Oooh nice!! I need more black candy bars. They're pricey. I mean, not super expensive, but pricey just to feed for an achievement. So I haven't focused on them yet. I did finally finish the oofa fruit ones, so the black candy bars are next when I focus on a feeding achievement.

I got library done. Moving to Maleria.

I just get them from random I think haha. I don't know that I've ever bought any?

I swear the oofa fruit one is a scam, you're for real it works?! You can still get the bugs!?

I always forget to play random. I usually get sP when I play. If I can get candybars there, I might have to put it on my TO DO list! Yep. It was freaking annoying. But I saved all of them from slots, and bought some sometimes. And fed them to ALL my pets on the days they got out of the resort, before tossing them back into the resort. It took MONTHS. But I finally got enough bugs. What I hated was that it changes your pets hunger status, but doesn't TELL you your pet isn't hungry, like other food does. So your pet will be full, but still show up to feed an oofa fruit to - and then you get a message saying your pet is full.

edit Omg. hahaha too crazy. So yeah. I went to my sharecare (heathcare rewards app) and looked at what this months challenge was, because yeah, I forgot it was a new month and a new challenge. Anyway, the challenge is "reduce sugary drinks" and the question it asks to record is "did you reduce your intake of sugary drinks today?" UHHHH NO!?! I will not be doing this months challenge LOL

Basically a night class! I couldn't do it either I don't think. I work best in the morning, but only when I got enough sleep. And lately that's been a bit difficult, admittedly. I procrastinate a toooon when it gets to bedtime!

I also only remember to play random once a day, if that. But there's so many daily things to do here! Focusing on quests seems like a good idea.

Reduce sugary drinks is okay for a health tip, but that prompt Every Day seems, well, boring! I don't even really drink sugary drinks (protein drinks are on the list, but that's pretty much it), so... that would be a weird challenge for me, I would probably also skip it! What was it last month?

My sugary drink is my daily tea for lunch. Otherwise I mostly drink water. Sometimes I'll have another glass of tea or a glass of kool aid or steal one of Nathans soda (even rarer!)-at dinner- but I've tried to cut that out for the most part (i use less sugar in my tea than in my koolaid). So to cut out a sugary drink every day, I'd have to not drink my tea. Nope. I need my tea. Its my daily dose of caffeine lol

Even when I use the "alert" I still forget to play random very often.

Yes - all my classes have been "evening" classes....they have what they call a "working adult program" - so we can work during the day, then do one or two classes a week at night. - The way they set it up, if you are a "full time student" - we have 2 classes every 8 weeks (and if you do a "field work" class like what I am doing now, its an extra class for the entire semester). The classes meet once a week, either on zoom or in person at one of three campuses. I'm happy I am in my final semester and will graduate in May with my bachelor degree in early learning and development, birth to kindergarten. And then I get hired and become a certified teacher :D Oh the field work classes - those are not every week, those the instructor meets online a couple of times total, and in person AT your work/placement up to 3x during the semester. And the coursework is online, except for your field work hours. So like last semester, I had to go to a daycare after work to get my hours in and get the info for my assignments. This time I get to be AT my work, IN my class and I am doing student teaching, so I get to basically take over the class (as long as my teacher agrees to my lesson plans lol)

Oh, very cool! The end is in sight! Very exciting, graduating 😀🎉

And yeah, cutting out a daily tea ritual would just be mean. You have my full support skipping that challenge 😉

Speaking of drinking, I need to go refill my water bottle and drink more water! Helpful reminder!

Today I had work calls during which I could do Subeta quests, so I'm on top of my dailies pretty much. Didn't really do General Drills, but I rarely ever do. It's interesting as a newbie he sometimes sends me places I didn't know before (the goat that ate my worries was amazing, I loved discovering that), but the item reward, ehhh. And I also did some vending! Hooray 🙌🏻