Crappy annoying day on Neopets. Food Club got me a 20% loss for the day. I spun the WoE and Grainne caught a disease (I was battling while doing dailies, too... so I still need 14 of my prizes). Then the WoK and HS refused to heal her (the HS has refused 5 times in a row). Then I tried to play catch up in DD while waiting for the next springs visit, and all the games are laggy and glitchy, and there's only one day left. And I'm sick and tired and just want Grainne to heal so I can get my battles done and go to bed. The cure is up over 8k, and even a cooling potion is 6k. But that's still less than the lost battle drops, most likely. 6 minutes til my next HS visit. *sigh*
Oh, and not really Neo-related, but it happened because of my frustration. Apparently you can hit ctl-alt-[arrow key] and it will rotate your screen. Why you'd want to do that, I don't know. When I figured it out and put it back, it had resized all my Windows and changed my screen resolution, so I had to fix all that. Arrrgghhh.
P.S. This is the gloat and whine thread, right? I've done a lot of gloating lately; I'm due a good whine. Normally the above wouldn't bother me so much, but my patience was already worn thin, and then it all happened at once. Neopets was supposed to be a quick relaxing way to unwind before bed, not a stress-inducer.
ETA: "All of your Neopets gain fifteen hit points. I am getting better at this!!
" No, you're not! You're not a fairy, you're a witch. Humperdink! Humperdink! Humperdink!
ETAA: Failure at the HS and WoE, but the WoE kindly gave me 5k, nearly enough for the cure (not counting the cost of spinning it twice), which I snagged for 5097. Got ~23k in codestones, so it was worth buying the cure to get the battling in. Next time: finish battles before spinning WoE or playing Expellibox.
ETA 8/19: I just won 192:10 on Food Club (so the max possible winnings, 1M NP). Yippee! I could try to sit on it for a trophy, but there's not that much left in the month, and I'd probably need another 2M over the next 7 days to even get silver, at this point (I already have bronze), which I have a less than 50% chance of doing given my long-term bet history. And I'd give up ~2.4k in interest attempting it. Besides, my bank account will reach a nice round number if I deposit this... Okay! Decision made! Gloat: highest amount in the bank I've ever had!