10 Neopets That I Want..

Because who doesn't waste their life on that website..?

1.Transparent Wocky: I've had this bizarre obsession with Skeleanimals since my cousin bought me a sketch book with a Skeleanimal kitty on it when I was younger. Now I want one of my own. Plus, I love anatomy and bones, making the art on this perfect.

2. Zombie Uni: I love zombies, and I love unicorns. 'Nuff said =)

3. Faerie Grundo: This was my dream pet when I was younger. I worked extremely hard to save up my first million neopoints to buy my pet her faerie paint brush, and then I made the mistake of trading my pet to an account that got frozen. I regretted my decision, and since then I've made a pact to get another baby Grundo to never ever trade.

4. Baby Usul: My other dream pet as a kid that I vowed to have on my account before I retired from the website.

5. Baby Draik: I love dragons, but the regular draik got ugly after the redraws. This little guy, however, rocks the one-piece tuxedo and melts my heart.

6. Pirate Lupe: Because Lupe means wolf in Latin... and because this Harry Potter look makes me howl ;)

7. White Ixi: I always thought the Ixi was amongst the prettiest of Neopets, and I always wanted one.. or five. I chose the white Ixi because I can apply the skeletal makeup to make it look like the Ixi is wearing eyeliner, which complements my favorite feature on them: their large, doe eyes.

8. Island Kacheek: RIP MARQUETE! COME BACK TO ME!

9. Royal Boy or Girl Korbat: Greek gods are love. But I saw this cool Batman ensemble so... 

10.  Some kind of Shoyru. I just love them all and have yet to decide which I want.. maybe pirate, faerie, or chocolate..


CREDITS: Dress to Impress to play with clothing items and Neocolours to play with paintbrush colors

Poker Log - Day 1

I've toyed around with making money online as opposed to at a "real job" for a while now. I spend a lot of time reading about all different avenues of making money, everything from investing in stocks, to just setting and forgetting something in an index fund, to monetizing a blog (which I'm trying to do with Trackhound), etc. Well today, I finally decided to settle on playing poker online.

Obviously making money with poker isn't easy, it takes hours of dedicated practice to become SUPER good and make the big $$$. I'm hoping to put a solid effort into teaching myself the basic theory and practicing in "play money" games on PokerStars over the next couple of months and get to a point where I start making some consistent money by September. It's okay if I'm not raking in $40K every day, I'm just looking to make some pocket change that I can live off of for a little while in school. Extra fun money to add to what my parents give me monthly. I mean all my rent is pre-paid and I'll be getting money for grocery shopping, and I don't have too many bills, so why not?

My initial trial today has been pretty successful. I'm maybe a third of the way through the "Poker Beginners" tutorial on PokerStars' PokerSchoolOnline and I already turned $160P (to denote "play money") into $1,300P. I lost most of that being stupid, but I still came out ahead. 

To get into how I lost the money, I got emotional. Someone was pissing me off by placing ridiculous bets before the flop (like $500P+..). This would be fine for some games, but the table I was playing at only allowed you to start with $400P maximum. His wild bets weren't part of any grand strategy, he was just being an asshole and went broke because of it. I lost my money by going against him on one of his stupid bets. 

If I were to do that game over again, I wouldn't have gotten into the situation with that idiot guy in the first place. I'll be setting a few rules for myself, and one will be "If I break $1,000P, cash out and return to the table with $160P". I might lower that number as I play some more games and find out what my average "downhill" point is, but for now I'll leave it at that. I'll probably cash out once or twice a week. 

So yeah, that's a little bit about what's going on. I'll be keeping track of my stats via this blog.

Starting money: $1,000P (this is the default amount they give you when you start)

High: $1,300P

Ended with: $950P