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Part 10
Saturday, May 2, 1998: This morning sometime before I was really awake Bunnicula said, "Your Tamagotchi is calling you." I said groggily, "I'll get him in a minute." (which meant that it was an hour or so later). When I was awake enough to check on Stanley, I found that he must've been hurt by a big foot stepping on him (eep!) and was wrapped all in bandages. I gave him medicine and made him well. Then at 10:33am edt he went into his little peanut-shaped cocoon! All I can do for him is make sure the temperature doesn't get too hot or too cold. I am told that in 24 hours from the time he entered the cocoon he will emerge as an adult mori no tamagotchi!
Sunday, May 3, 1998: I should've taken it as an omen when we were watching "Keeping Up Appearances" last night and horse dung played a prominent part, much to proper Hyacinth's dismay! Eep! This morning, promptly at 10:33am edt Stanley came out of his little cocoon and showed himself to be a ... DUNG BEETLE (fun-koro-gachi)! According to Bandai Japan's chart, I probably let poor little Stanley get too cold during the time he was in his cocoon. I was *very* good with him before that, never letting him go down totally on happy or hungry leaves (instead of hearts it's leaves on this Tam). Only once did I miss a call he made, resulting in his getting injured. ::sigh:: I was sorta hoping for a ladybug...but Stanley *is* very cute! :-) Whoohee, the mouse has been workin' hard! I never thought I could abide, let alone actually *want*, a page with frames on my site; but this one is practical and useful. It's my Awards page and possibly looks a little too classy for the rest of my site...but I *did* enjoy making it! The upkeep should be easier than my previous Awards page, plus each award can be better appreciated, with less clutter around it. The background was a scan of a gold lace bodysuit I have, made over into black lace in Microsoft Image Composer (which comes with FrontPage98)!
Monday, May 4, 1998: Stanley now goes to sleep at 10pm and wakes at 9am. No predators tried to harm him today! Yay! Maybe because he's a dung beetle, hiding in poop, no one would bother him there ::grin:: He got to go shopping for CDs with me today...but mostly he stayed in the little satin bag in my purse.
Tuesday, May 5, 1998: Happy Children's Day! Today is the one-year anniversary of when we here at our household got our first Tams! A year ago today Eggy Peep was born, the first in a long line of Tams and other little critters to visit our humble abode. In order to celebrate this, I hatched a new little Tama in Eggy's (and later Rascal's) egg--the yellow-with-orange-trim, heavy-keychain one. His name is Samuel Peeps! I'll be keeping his stats and such over on the My Tamagotchi page. This morning I missed protecting Stanley when he beeped for me! Eek! I was busy sleeping. So when I
did get to him, he was all bandaged up and not too happy. I gave him medicine, which he
did not like...but he did get all well.
Wednesday, May 6, 1998: Poor
little Stanley, my mori no tamagotchi, died today. I was on the
phone with a tech at our local cable company, in the middle of a conversation. I heard
beeping but thought it was my Tam1, Samuel, and figured he could
wait. Maybe it was an early cry for help from Stanley? I heard Stanley (again?) and picked
him up in time to see a FROG get him! Eek! Then all I could do was watch as he looked sick
and soft little death-beeps sounded. Now he's a little wispy ghost. :-( I
guess I let him get attacked by predators one too many times. Bye-bye, my little dung
beetle! I'm sorry I didn't do a better job of protecting you! You were such a cutie!
Concerning the cable: tomorrow a rep. will be coming to install our upgrade to 90 channels and show us how it works! Yay! We'll be getting the SciFi Channel, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Turner Classics, Disney, etc.! Samuel's going to get to watch a LOT of TV!
Sunday, May 10, 1998: Happy Mother's Day to every person who has been a mother-figure in any way to anyone; but especially to those who nurtured us and raised us through to adulthood! I put a little page up...well, here it is, if you wish to see it... AACCCKKK! I have been practicing Aurora Minui's
"Tamagotchi autonomy" strategy (i.e. not being a hovering caretaker, but letting
a Tam be on its own a good bit and call if it needs anything), hoping for *something*
other than a mametchi or a masktchi. Cat'r said I was going a *bit far* and said I might
even be approaching nyorotchi-dom! Eek! But what do you think I got *this* time?!? Another
masktchi! ::sigh:: Oh well. Oh! I have heard that
disciplining when not needed or deserved can bring a masktchi. But perhaps trying to give
shots when they are not needed could also be one of the things that can cause a Tam to
turn into a masktchi? The medicine/syringe icon on a Tam1 is in the place where the omaru
("duck"--for cleaning up poop) is on the mori no tamagotchi.
I accidently tried to give Samuel shots a few times.
We got the cable upgrade Thursday afternoon and have been watching all kinds of things! I even taped a program that had a segment on a mouse plague in south Australia! Eep! Well, even a good thing can get out of hand ::grin:: As to what Samuel has been watching: I can't remember very well, since he has been spending a good bit of time in the bedroom with the stuffed animals, talking with them.
Monday, May 11, 1998: Here we
have a lot of new channels on cable now, and what do I end up watching? TNT! (well, I
leave the TV on that channel during the day so it will be ready to tape "Babylon
5" each night at 7pm) Anyway, Samuel and I watched an
unusual movie called "Prelude to a Kiss". It is about a young man and woman who
are very much in love, have a lovely wedding, and after the ceremony a mysterious elderly
man asks to kiss the bride. Everyone's life is changed forever after that kiss! (I *won't*
give it away in case you haven't seen it yet!) I *will* say that it has a good ending.
Speaking of good endings: I am only a little mousie; and sometimes there seems to be just *too* much stuff on TV, in the papers, in the movies, and everywhere that is scary and terrible. I think it's time (again) for me to be more careful about what I let into my mind. I know there are terrible things going on in the world...but we are daily bombarded with "information" to make us frightened so *much* of the time. You know, I have even seen stories about Tamagotchi being dangerous and possibly evil and controlling. Sometimes I get so tired of people falling into the trap of seeing everything from a cynical, dark point of view...I suppose that's why I enjoy Tam sites that have innocent, sweet fiction about the cute little critters. :-)
Thursday, May 14, 1998: What
do you do if it's too hot out (anything above 70oF. is toooo hot for *this* mouse!) or
it's 12 midnight and you want to play golf? You pop "HotShots Golf" into your
PlayStation and off you go! It's such a fun and relaxing game! Caterpillar borrowed a copy
from a co-worker (pronounced cow-orker
5:30pm: Yayayayay! I *finally* got the secret
character on a regular Tam!!! After trying five times before this, since last June, I
finally got one! Well, I got the "secret character" of twins on the Angelgotchi...but *everyone* gets them. It's hard *not* to! Anyway, Samuel was sick around noon today, so I had an inkling that he
might transform later today. Then when I was in the other room around 5:10pm, I heard a
little musical sound (there were other things going on, so I wasn't absolutely sure if it
was my Tam or my beeper!). I went to check; and there was Samuel, looking like a
blond-haired guy! He's called gaijintchi in the Japanese scheme of things, meaning
foreigner. He is called the Mr. Bill character over here in the States. Whatever his name,
he's Samuel Peeps to me, and I am very very happy he changed! :-)
Samuel and I watched "The Piano" (starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, and Sam Neill) on laserdisc this afternoon. I have seen this movie twice before; but it is so powerful and beautiful, I never tire of it.
Monday, May 18, 1998: Samuel has been doing fine; but I don't want to jeopardize my chances of having a long-lived secret character, so I paused him this morning at 6:03am. Pausing a virtual pet always feels like cheating to me (except in the case of the dreaded twins on the Angelgotchi!--then pausing them was a matter of my *sanity*! (see Oct.22d entry and following)). I am going for a doctor's visit today (to see about my shoulder that I messed up via extended periods of graphics-making with the mouse at a very awkward angle), and I have no idea how long I will be in with the doctor (what with x-rays, etc.). Yes, I have since rearranged things so that the mousepad is on top of a thin cookbook that I hold in my lap.
Tuesday, May 19, 1998: I have a "frozen shoulder" and will have to be doing physical therapy to break the adhesions and get the mobility back. Oh well! I unpaused/restarted Samuel yesterday afternoon at 4:03pm. He seems to be doing fine. He has been watching a lot of TV: season finales for "Millennium" (eep! could this be the end of the series?!), "The X Files" (gotta see the movie!); a couple very cute comedies on Monday nights: "Damon" and "Getting Personal"; and tonight: Part 2 of the season finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". 6:01pm: Samuel and I just finished watching the incomparable Greta Garbo in "Camille" (1937). Such an impossibly sad love story.........
Saturday, May 23, 1998: Very wild night last night! We had LOUD thunderstorms, with very heavy rain (about 1.5" so far). Not the best way to welcome new little stuffed animals to your home. Well, they're actually bean pets. So I just put them with ones who have been here a while, so that the older residents could reassure and comfort the new ones.
We went to Drug Emporium and 2 Paul Harris stores! I got a total of 17 more Bean Sprouts! And two cute outfits! A wine-coloured velour running suit that looks great on Berry (a neon-blue bear) and a yellow dress with matching headband that Miami Flamingo looks cute in! I also got one Teeny Beanie Baby (Bongo the Monkey) at McDonald's. I definitely *don't* have room for them all *now*! So I am thinking about how to create another "condominium" (I have one, for a lot of my stuffed animals, that is made of stackable white plastic "milk crates"--pictures will be on my site eventually), this one for beanie people. :-) I have one Ty Beanie Baby. I got that one a couple Yuletides ago before I knew anything about BB's. I took the tags off (eep!). You guessed it: he's a retired one that is worth a good bit if the tags are still on: Sting the Ray. I have an Ears the Bunny en route, and I will *not* remove tags *this* time. Okay, so I haven't decided about tags on the Bean
Sprouts. I don't see them as investments: I see them as stuffed animals with little
feelings and lives of their own. I try to at least say hello each day, if not take one or
two down and put them on the bed with my Mr. Bean teddy
bear (I left Teddy's hangtag on *him* until it almost poked someone's eye out!). Are
the tags bothersome for them? Do they hurt? Or are they like having large pierced earrings
dangling? If you collect Beanies or especially if you collect Bean Sprouts, please write
(my email address is on the Mouse House Tamagotchi Page) and
let me know your opinion on what I should do about the Bean Sprouts' tags! In the meantime
I will think about building a nice place for them all.
Monday, May 25, 1998: Bunnicula got me 2 more Bean Sprouts, so my total is now up to 34, plus 2 Bean Sprouts keychain people (Squeakie Mouse and Patches Calico (mislabeled as Tabby Cat)). And today I constructed Beanie Towers [renamed later on as Highgate Tower], right next to the Stuffed Animal Condominium [also renamed later as the Stutz Apartments]. Photos will be coming sometime! :-) Samuel is 21 years old today! Yay!
Saturday, May 30, 1998: Well, I have to confess that Samuel has been "taking naps" (read: been paused from time to time) as he's gotten older. So I am not sure how accurate his age is. But when he is awake, he's not as much trouble for me as some other Tams have been in the past, since I have almost never played the left-right game with him but rather fed him snacks to make him happy. His hearts are emptying out pretty fast, so I guess it won't be long before he leaves to go back to Planet Tamagotchi. I started up my Wave UFO yesterday! This is yet another virtual pet from Bandai, the makers of the original Tamagotchi. It comes in four different colours, plus a special Men In Black edition (which is what I have). This vp is in a much larger case than a Tam: it's oval (sideways) and has four buttons. Your little virtual alien is affected by microwaves and cellular phones, etc., zapping it with energy and making it transform into various forms. Mine has been through several transformations: first it was the large triangular-headed alien, then it turned into a 10-foot-tall (it *said* it was 10 feet tall!) pointy-headed critter. Then it became a cute little kewpie-doll-type creature. Today it returned to its original form for a few minutes, then it turned into a little Nosferatu-type alien! Eep! All these transformations happened because of the microwave. The buttons are for: playing a slot machine game (to build up energy for it); playing rock-paper-scissors with it (also for energy); to feed and clean it (you don't have to check on it: it lets you know when it needs something); and to check on the time and how long your alien has been here on Earth with you. It's cute and interesting...and a change from the Tams I have raised! Well, I started the physical therapy for my "frozen shoulder": exercises, followed by icing it down. Did you know a bag of frozen peas makes an *excellent* ice pack?! And it's reuseable!
Sunday, May 31, 1998: My little alien visitor (in the Wave UFO) transformed again last evening, when we were microwaving things. Each time your critter transforms, a little message scrawls across the screen (that's how I knew he was 10 feet tall that time--I'm not *that* loony ::grin::). Last night it transformed, with the message EGG INTO THE BOWL. And that's what he looks like now: an egg in a mobile egg cup, with little stick-figure arms! Cute!
Tamagotchi images copyright Bandai | Background by Backgrounds by Marie | Periwinkles by Vikimouse | Copper buttons by Jelane |
He got to listen to a lot of music today: the Lilith Fair double CD I got
yesterday--wow! my two favourites on that are "The Water is Wide" sung by the
Indigo Girls with Jewel and Sarah McLachlan (what perfect harmony!!!); and
"Cain" sung by Patty Griffin (wowsers, what a VOICE on that woman!). Then I had
the Lightning Seeds' "Dizzy Heights" playing very softly when Samuel was
hatched; and later we all listened to "Treasure" by the Cocteau Twins (these are
my other two CD acquisitions from yesterday).
