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Part 22
Tuesday, December 19, 2000: Hello
again.
Last Christmas I got a couple of very cute bears
for presents. In January I bought a couple
Sunday, December 24, 2000: ::mouse bounces up and down with excitement!:: It's almost Christmas Day! You can track Santa's progress at the Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website! Also, another great site is Claus.com. It's not too late to have a lot of fun there! I wonder if I started up my Santaclautch too late? He's gotten his hat, his outfit, and his sleigh; but he hasn't gotten a reindeer (pochitchi with antlers) yet. Will he be able to make his trip tonight? Eep!
Tuesday, December 26, 2000: Hola!
I hope everyone (that celebrates it) had a wonderful Christmas! My Santaclautch was able
to make his Christmas Eve run after all! He must've found a Rent-A-Reindeer place at the
last minute. The Briarberry girls had a nice slumber party. And although they were very excited, they were able to get to sleep early enough so that Santa had no worries about little bears peeking.
Friday, January 19, 2001: What a way to start the new year/new century/new millennium: I had a cold for the first part of January. :-/ But things are better now (*knock on wood!*). My Santaclautch is still going--I don't feel
Christmas has to be totally over with until February 2d.
My Pokemon Pikachu 2 GS is still running, but I don't do a very good job of giving him enough steps and watts. He thinks I'm a "Meanie" again ::sigh:: I think I really like the original Japanese Pocket Pikachu better. I found the slot machine game in the PP1 easier, for some reason, than the high-low card game in PP2 GS. Yesterday I got a Pocket Hello Kitty! It's from
Nintendo, and its shape is the same as the Japanese Pocket
Saturday, January 20, 2001: I don't think Hello Kitty ever sleeps! And I think she's like a little guardian angel...well, a cheerleader, anyway! One of the items I found turned her into a cheerleader, and that's what she does when you walk--she cheers you on! :-) But about not sleeping: she did have a bathtime last night, with her being in a bubblebath. But when I checked later, she was back in her cheerleader outfit. When I checked after midnight (yes, I was up that late...again), she slowly sailed across the screen on a broom, in a cute little witchy outfit. The caption underneath was Witch Time. Then she returned to her cheerleader persona. I guess she was trying to tell me I should be in *bed* at that hour! LOL!
Wednesday, February 28, 2001: Whoa! I haven't had my resolution set at 640 X 480 in a long time--BIG FONT! Well, I always had done my pages so that *anyone* could look at them without too much scrolling back and forth. But for some time now I have been using 800 X 600 resolution for my own daily use online. But anyway. I still have my Pocket Hello Kitty going: I also found (see entry above, about Witch Time) that from about 3am-approximately 6am, if you check in on her, she slowly sails across the screen as an *angel*, with the caption Angel Time. She is still very easy to care for, not at all demanding or petulant if I can't give her steps for days on end or anything. I sent my Santaclautch no Tamagotchi back home (put the tab in) on Wednesday, January 31st, the same day I finally took down the Christmas decorations. ::grin:: S/he was 143 years old and weighed 163 grams. I finally gave up on my Pokemon Pikachu 2 GS. I had passed beyond the pale of being just a "Meanie". Pikachu actually went into a pokeball, and the caption said, "Strangers". ::sigh:: I even restarted/started a new game; but it wasn't long before I was on the awful "Meanie" level again. I just couldn't give him enough steps and watts to make him happy. I am not really an active enough person. So I sent him back to Professor Oak (put the tab in) on Tuesday, February 20th. I still haven't haven't made a final decision about Peachy Keen. I tried having him going for an entire day, last year. But I am too conscientious to let him beep and not immediately take care of his needs (which happened about every 20 minutes or less). I don't think I can go through more of that right now, just to get to see his little grave and ghostie (he's a Japanese Tam--I won't see an angel or spaceship); so he's back in stasis (on pause). At some point I will send him back home (put the tab back in). So the status of virtual pets for me at present is: Pocket Hello Kitty running; Peachy Keen (Japanese Tam 1) in stasis/on pause. I wonder if I should start up a Wave UFO?....... Had *another* cold, for the first part of February; then conjunctivitis ("pink eye")--apparently it's very easy to get this at the tail-end of a cold, although I have never had this before in my life. Highly contagious, the doctor's office stressed *repeatedly*, so I was washing my hands endlessly and taking all kinds of other precautions so that no one else got it.
I know I have said this somewhere earlier on in this diary: I am thinking (still) of putting up a section on my stuffed animals and beanies, which would be mostly pictures/photos. When I'll get around to this, I don't know, though. :-P Maybe I should make a separate subsection for my Briarberry people...
Tamagotchi images copyright Bandai | Briarberry Bears copyright Fisher-Price | Vermont Teddy Bear image copyright Vermont Teddy Bear Company | Hello Kitty copyright Sanrio | Kogepan copyright San-X | Background by Backgrounds by Marie | Copper buttons by Jelane |
been in stasis since late May. I just
don't have the heart to start him up and let him go through the final leave-taking
process. Maybe after Christmas...Today, however, I *did* start up my Santaclautch no
Tamagotchi (at 7:38am). I hope he keeps on schedule. Last year he went on 
I got a Pokemon Pikachu 2 GS in about...October? I forget when they came
out. Anyway, I have been taking care of him, but not always very well. I did get up to the
level of "Friends" with him, but then forgot to wear him for days and days on
end. We fell back to "Playmates", then he finally decided I was a
"Meanie"! Eeeeep! It took a lot of work to get his trust back! We are still only
at the "Playmates" level, since I haven't been going out very much.
more outfits for them, then didn't think
any more about them for months. Last summer I got reinterested in them and started
building my collection of Briarberry bears and friends and clothes and furniture and
accessories and SO on! They are intensely *cute* and cuddly, easy to dress, fun to pose
and play with, and just all-around adorable.
Da mouse got some really nice presents yesterday! The two biggest and best were:
1) the boxed set of the very cool anime series "serial experiments lain" (on
DVD) in a limited-edition lain lunchbox, with a BOA music CD enclosed (this group did the
opening music for "lain"); and 2) a REALLY CUTE/HANDSOME Vermont Teddy Bear!!! My Christopher looks like the bear
on the left, except Chris was wearing little WORK BOOTS instead of
"Bearkenstocks" and not wearing shades. He came ::ahem:: bearing chocolate and
(bear-size) red velvet roses for me. He's 15 inches tall, and soooo soft and cuddly! Also,
I got a LOT of Hello Kitty things: notepads, stickers, a Hello Kitty musical jewelry box,
a plush Hello Kitty (dressed as a wizard, all in purple), stationery, a light-up pen, etc.
I got a Furby electronic game, a DVD of nature music and scenery, a Beanie Baby Zodiac RAT
(ty-dye purple and very pretty!), a tiny Stuart Little plush, some bead bracelets, and
some gift certificates. Some presents didn't make it in time, so I have more to look
forward to! I'm glad there are *twelve* days of Christmas!
Pikachu. The instructions are in
Japanese; but it's fairly easy to figure out, if you've already played with a PP1. Also,
information that Val Murphy posted to the VPetsML
on eGroups [NOTE: this group is now on Yahoo! groups] was
very helpful. 
