I'm Not Addicted.

Well here I am again in Neopets. I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe it and it takes up a fair chunk of my online time. I'm in the middle of playing Freaky Factory and I've told all my friends I'll brb when, in fact, I'm sitting here with all my pm boxes minimised so I can finish this level in peace.

I think some of them suspect but no one's just out and out asked me yet and I'm not saying. I can't get past level 8 though and damned if I know how some people are getting the scores they're getting.

If you haven't heard of Neopets then you've been living in a virtual cave or a virtual vacuum. It's a great site where you create a virtual pet for yourself and you then play games to acquire points to spend on feeding your pet, along with a whole list of other things you can do including building your pet a home, pitting it against other neopets in the battledome, you can teach it, look after it when it's sick and even create a shop for your pet to run.

My nephew Irishoo, decided just recently to become a responsible citizen of Neopia and open his own store (pssst link to his shop is under the pic over there). I'm very proud of Irishoo. He and Snuff have been together since the start, but 'Shoo is quite mature for his age and you'd never guess that they were born at the same time. He's brilliant, his store is doing well and his pops and I are very proud of him. Why don't you pop in and say hi and buy something from him. Tell him Deb sent you and I said "hi". He won't give you a discount, but at least he will know I'm thinking of him.

I just have my boy Snuff (that's him pictured. Isn't he handsome?). He's a blue mynci and he's my pride and joy. I've had him since he was a baby and I nurtured and cared for him. I've been feeling pretty bad lately as I have since hit the skids and I am suffering from a gambling addiction. Now I just shunt him into a hotel every month while I go play the games that feed our sickness.

I never used to be this bad though. At one time I was loving and giving and generous of my time to Snuff. We were always spending time with each other and our lives were perfect. That is, until Dana.

You see, there was another.....

Back in the days when I was responsible: about December 2004, I decided to adopt a needy pet. Snuff and I found Dana down at the local pound and we knew then and there that she was the one. We gave her guidance, nurtured her; Snuff never treated her badly - always the protective brother even though she was older than him. Loved her back to health, making her better than ever before we let her go back out into the world so that someone else could do more for her.

I only have this picture to remember her by. All the others were lost when I forgot the password to my other photo account so alas this is what I see every time I close my eyes and it haunts me and now I see guilt in Snuffy's eyes every time he looks at me....

So now I just spend my time in the Games room, moving from game to game in a desperate bid to play Dana out of my mind. Hoping that by making a disgusting amount of neopoints that I will one day forget that she ever existed so that I can move on from my own self loathing....

My friends tell me that I'm addicted and that I should seek help to cure my addiction, but I just don't think I'm ready yet.

Ooooo. New high score in Ice Cream Factory.

Neato.

Posted By: Lint | 02:41 PM | Entertainment

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