omgosh too many games to mention which ones I liked or didn't like except 2 - never liked Monopoly either and always liked UNO.

I like your Subeta resolutions, Kat. That's inspiring b/c I want to do the same... not to mention I'm so sP broke, it's pathetic. I wasn't as prepared as I was the year before for Lumi so now I pretty much HAVE to do these things.

Mieke, that ramen looks AMAZING! I was going to make some ramen broth today and make that my NY tradition but I need to make sure I have the right noodle for good ramen. Just picked up some pork belly to go with it, though. :D

Went to the International market today (Asian grocer) and bought several young daikon to make dongchimi, which is water radish kimchi which I've been waiting to make (and tried to make) for months now. Just letting the broth cool so I can finish it off and let it ferment for a couple days before refrigerating it.
Need to make some more pickled radish (daikon) but I'm out of radish, lol. Got lots of yummy stuff I can't wait to eat and try!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Brother and I woke up early as hell yesterday, went to Walmart to get some stuff for the spring rolls we had last night (the kind you roll yourself, not the fried ones) and then took a nap. I woke up around 5:30 and didn't start the pork tenderloin until around 7 so we were both up when midnight came around. Last year... and he was here then, also... I pretty much passed out right before midnight.

Jeez Kat, you still have 600 million? Man I was working with around 130 million. :(

I couldn't find good looking pork anywhere, so we.. just used skirt steak. But I figure if you start the year out with something expensive like skirt steak, maybe that's a good way to keep it coming? haha.

I loveeeeeee Uni. I don't know why it's so fun. And skip-bo! And phase 10.. and sushi go!

We estimate you've spent about 1,193,458,734 on presents this year!

I think I actually spent like.. at least 700m because I'm a mess and just.. kept buying people stuff because I forgot that the page existed :/ It was.. a lot. I just kept pulling more and more and more SPs out haha. And emptied my shop of everything over 5m :P

Oh I suck at the new Mario games. I try, I have fun. But I lose majorly most of the time lol I remember playing original Mario. I LOOOOOVED it. Tetris was my all time favorite tho. When the Wii's came out, we got the one that came with the Mario game - for the kids - and they went to grandma's the day after Christmas....me and Ryan spent the entire week playing Mario and beat the whole thing before New Years ROFL!!! :) But these new ones, for Xbox and all, I cannot drive the dang cars or get the hang of moving right. Maybe if I played more often.

You know, speaking of "traditions" earlier - you ever heard the one that goes something like whatever you do today you'll do all year (which is all the more reason for me NOT do to laundry or dishes or any cleaning hahah) - but anyway. I would be quite happy to spend all my year like today. So far I have played games online, read my ebooks, taken Nathan to go hang out at a friends house, talked to friends/family, and now I'm eating ice cream. So yea. Sounds like a good year :P

That sounds great, Kat!

i've... avoided questing.. slept in, ate good food, read my book, played games, snuggled with the cats and Alex and even Lily and iz LOL.

I'll take it!

But man.. I just can NOT get into questing! Just started Quentin.. and I go bottom up :P

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I didn't think to look at how much I spent on presents - is there a way to get to it now that Dec is over?? Yep. I have 600mil in bank and about 19mil on-hand right now that I'm buying books with. I earn at least 4mil a day when I do all my quests. More whenever stuff in my shop sells. I have less than 100 items worth over 1mil in shops right now. Rest of my shop stuff is worth under 1mil per item, most of it probably under 100k per item. Christmastime I always get a lot of big sp sales as people buy gifts, however I still have a few items that have been in my shop FOREVER....

I start with Chase, then Shinwa...then I do Wiz just in case I get the wiz quest buff later - (gets 70 wiz tokens instead of just 20 if you get it after you completed all his!) THEN I start at the top and work down LOL I was seriously debating asking one of you to "hold" my sp and do Sarah's quests, but I figured the measly 2-4 quest points I'd get from her wouldn't be worth the hassle of trying to make sure someone's online to hold and return my sps.

Yeah, I just looked mine up haha. I went back a week in the news and clicked on the 'open your tree!" and then it's under there.

I do shinwa, wiz, saggi etc LOL.

We estimate you've spent about 124,019,095 on presents this year! 47 people. 5 of them got 1000 wizard token because - well I had no idea what they wanted or they hadn't been online in a long time. Some of that was random people too - I joined a few boards a few times to join giveaways and when I did that, I gifted the host.

You guys are expensive hahahah ;) no not really. I had fun picking out gifts when I could find things for people.

I just used the calculator because I was curious. And if I did my quests and kept to my aprox 4mil a day x 365 days a year = 1.46 billion sps. Sheesh. (am i saying that right? I sometimes forget the zeros name places = 1,460,000,000 = 1 billion, 460 million right?)

I did 26 people? Including some randoms haha.

Yes, that math is right.

OMG finally done!

2 morty cards, 2 mage amulets, 85 NY tokens.

Oh lucky you! I prefer morty cards over mage amulets (I got 4 amulets but only 1 card). AND you got more NY tokens! :)

Oh my you definitely splurged on us eh? :) I know I got some wonderful gifts!!

You have defeated Malerias Familiar

You won a(n) Impossible token to use in the battle shop!

Rattoony earned 1300 EXP Points! Head back to the Battle Quest headquarters to finish up this quest! Because this was level 29 you earned 1300 experience!

Wheeee! I've been occassionally making it to level 29, which is pretty awesome. For me, anyway!

I prefer morty cards too, but I DO enjoy the amulets!

Wow! Yep that is awesome. I barely get past level 20 most of the time still. I'm only tier 10 tho. I probably need to upgrade some of my weapons too. But I do have several that everyone says keep forever. :P

Level: 1543 Health: 3857 / 3857 Strength: 3858 Defense: 3859 Speed: 3858 Intelligence: 2898 AP: 181 Tier: 12 To Next Tier: 15432 / 22001

I.. have no clue on weapons. I just kind of.. hit things until they're dead. Occasionally heal myself LOL

Level: 720 Health: 1795 / 1803 Strength: 1802 Defense: 1802 Speed: 1802 Intelligence: 1972 AP: 121 Tier: 10 To Next Tier: 7209 / 8000

I look on the battle forums for weapons advice, but yea, like you, I just mostly hit and heal LOL I prefer to win with one or two rounds too, so if I am dying I don't bother to battle that one anymore and skip or quit. Battle Quests have been awesome to help me level up. Half the time I forget to go use my xp and when I do remember I get to raise up like 10 points each thing lol Its just higher levels take soooooo much more to get thru training/points

Turning in mage amulets now. I think I should have waited, not having very good luck haha.

I.. just sell amulets. I guess I should keep them and turn them in....but the in/out ratio is so bad I'm like meh.

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81 shards, 9 tomes.

I'd cry, if I wasn't going to go eat shellfish LOL

How many amulets did you turn in?? I need the tomes to read to my pets too, besides using them for training. ugh. One day maybe. When I'm like, level a billion.

well.. every amulet turns into a tome or a shard. So.. 90?

Level: 1562 Health: 3857 / 3879 Strength: 3875 Defense: 3877 Speed: 3877 Intelligence: 2917 AP: 181 Tier: 12 To Next Tier: 15432 / 22001

Moving on up!

113 crystals though, from fragging the shards.

That's what I thought, each amulet gets 1 or the other. Sheeesh. Lousy ratio. You saved up a lot of amulets!! What does a tome give you? Like, how much of what? Or is it random too?

I used my yearly totem to get a boost earlier today lol

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I also then went to the shop and spend 12 points to get a food item hahahah now I'm down to 2.

Well, I think I had about a dozen people and then I entered 2 secret santa events. I really like those but I know this year I was holding back b/c I had so little and wanted to give as much as I could to my friends.

So glad I still have tomorrow off so I can clean and do things without another person around. Ever feel that way? Like I'd rather do lots of cleaning collectively when I'm alone, rather than when a person is around b/c if they're around, I start getting a little agitated that they aren't helping.

Made some premade dim sum or steam buns with my bamboo steamer. One was a pork bun and the other was filled w/ red bean paste (adzuki beans) that my girls and I LOVE, and was our first intro into the steamed bun world, lol. Works good and came with liners so that will make steaming certain types of rice SO much easier.

My non subeta goal is to get in shape b/c I really need to and I know it will help with the daily aches and pains I have. I got some leg weights that go up to 5lbs each so I'm starting w/ 1lb just to walk around with. They're hard to keep from sliding down onto your ankle with so little in them (they have individual sand bags) but I can deal with it.