Holy Avatar Achievement!!!
Posted: 03 Jan 2009 10:27 am
Oh my goodness you guys. Go check out my userlookup. I'll wait.
Notice anything different? Something new? No, I didn't curl my hair...
YES that's the Avatar Collector avatar you see!!!! Only the avatar that I started collecting avatars for, in case you're wondering. Every avatar I've amassed all in preparation for this moment... and I've had the avatar a whole day and didn't even notice.
I tried this month as I have the last two months, resetting my avatar count with the score reset day. All last night I was on pins and needles, staying up until 3 a.m. my time to see if I could hang on to my precarious top 50 position (probably why I am up so late tonight). Once Neo stopped releasing new avatars I had kind of given up hope, but a few months ago for some reason I decided to hope anew. So I was trying and failing and desperately trying to think how I could earn just one more avatar, because I was that close.
I checked at around 11:30 p.m. NST. I'd been bumped off! The clock struck 12 and I swear to you I was number 52. And then I checked again and I was 51. Which I thought was a little odd, but 51 might as well be 101, for all I cared. Not the top 50. I was so disappointed.
Then just now I was all awake, messing around on Neopets instead of sleeping as usual. I moved around some pets which I wrote about in Minor Achievements and Tales of Woe. Then I decided to go change my avatar to match my baby pet. I was a bit confused to see the default avatar but then I remembered that cycling the Usuki avatar sets you to default. I thought that was it so I clicked the button.
And THERE! It was! Sitting there, mine. Avatar Collector. Me. At long last.
So anyway this is awesome and I am very happy. I am never washing this avatar again.
Notice anything different? Something new? No, I didn't curl my hair...
YES that's the Avatar Collector avatar you see!!!! Only the avatar that I started collecting avatars for, in case you're wondering. Every avatar I've amassed all in preparation for this moment... and I've had the avatar a whole day and didn't even notice.
I tried this month as I have the last two months, resetting my avatar count with the score reset day. All last night I was on pins and needles, staying up until 3 a.m. my time to see if I could hang on to my precarious top 50 position (probably why I am up so late tonight). Once Neo stopped releasing new avatars I had kind of given up hope, but a few months ago for some reason I decided to hope anew. So I was trying and failing and desperately trying to think how I could earn just one more avatar, because I was that close.
I checked at around 11:30 p.m. NST. I'd been bumped off! The clock struck 12 and I swear to you I was number 52. And then I checked again and I was 51. Which I thought was a little odd, but 51 might as well be 101, for all I cared. Not the top 50. I was so disappointed.
Then just now I was all awake, messing around on Neopets instead of sleeping as usual. I moved around some pets which I wrote about in Minor Achievements and Tales of Woe. Then I decided to go change my avatar to match my baby pet. I was a bit confused to see the default avatar but then I remembered that cycling the Usuki avatar sets you to default. I thought that was it so I clicked the button.
And THERE! It was! Sitting there, mine. Avatar Collector. Me. At long last.
So anyway this is awesome and I am very happy. I am never washing this avatar again.