Amor,

Dear Amor,

Rather than commenting in the forum, my first thought is to send you a maramail. Since that's no longer possible, here we are. How was your Hawaii trip? What did you do? How did your dogs react when you got home? How are they doing?

Things have been going awry one after the other for the last few months, so life feels hectic. You leaving Mara kind of fit in with that theme. The year of the snake will bring a lot of change which is always difficult. Hope you're doing well.

March 20, 2025

Well, I've decided that the Labyrinth isn't worth it at all since the Charms and Voodoo Dolls shops barely stock. It would be bad enough if they stocked and I was spending RP/BP to go back and forth between levels and failing most of the time. But since I burned through my stockpile of charms and dolls and can never buy any unless it's overpriced items from user shops, it's not worth it. I wanted to at least get past level 57 of Eleka Castle goals (yes, more levels were recently added - yay!) but I'm not spending 1.5mil for a charm I need for a 10% chance of making the goal after failing three times in a row. So maybe next year. I'll just keep hoarding magnets, codes and ransoms until I can get charms and voodoo dolls again.

March 26, 2025

Sixteen new tattoos were released in various shops around Marada on the 9th, and now 17 new items were released in the tattoo shop today. Kind of makes that year of grinding Wonky for tattoos for Lowlyhood goals seem like a total waste of effort. Of course, when new items come into a shop, the shop stops stocking at all, so good luck to those trying to buy anything. Maybe in several months.

Anyway, Ian commented that there will be more face makeup and really, more of everything being released later in the year so I think I'll put Lowlyhood goals off until next year instead of wasting Wonky on trying to get all the retired stuff. I've learned my lesson with the tattoos. I don't have a lot of time to play so I have to save Wonky to accomplish things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. *Edit from my future self: the Shimmer face and eye make ups don't count towards the goals so I guess I have a lot of Wonky to do still.

It is exciting that goals are expanding and I'm hoping there will be more rewards for pet stats coming. Glad to see all the updates lately. Mara is still my favorite escape aside from Kdrama. ^_^ Wish you were here. Hope you're having a fulfilling time whatever you are doing.

April 15, 2025

We're in the middle of a glitched weather event and I was just thinking about how you left the site right as they were adding a whole bunch of new stuff. Seeing as how much time I'm spending on this, maybe you made a smart choice! But I wish you had left your account active so I could at least send you stuff.

Totally unrelated, but I was playing Extract Enpiah and I think they should make another gift box for it that gives you double the moves. Most times I play, I have four moves and don't get any more. Way too little.

Anyway, the Easter Egg Hunt is coming up and you're going to miss it. But I hope you are having lots of fun out there in the real world!

May 4, 2025

This month has been so busy! I think I'm a bit burnt out from the Easter perks. I took advantage of the free education/training for too many of my pets and though it's awesome to level them up, it somehow tires me out.

Ian launched Gumballs Galore with a creative event and I've been having fun launching gumballs and discovering planets when I should be getting things done. Haha.

May 16, 2025

I've been launching gumballs like crazy and have 314 in orbit right now. There are 121,454 gumballs on the launch log so far. That means an average of 386 people have launched a similar amount. Probably a few over achievers have launched way more. I wonder where I am in the rankings.

Anyway, I'm ready for the solar flare to wrap up. The chances of discovering a planet have noticeably decreased in the last few days and instead of a dopamine hit, I'm getting disappointed and tired. It would have been better to start off with sparce discoveries and have it slowly increase as the event goes on to build momentum instead of slowing it. Ah well, I'm still playing, aren't I? Is this self loathing I feel?

May 21, 2025

On May 19th it was announced that pets who completed university courses would receive one of several new globes. This renewed my enthusiasm and I threw all of my pets into Uni. Unfortunately, many of them need three days to finish a course and the solar flare ended two days later so... that was a bit disappointing.

On the plus side, the event is over and we now have low gravity. Wonder what that will entail. It would be cool if level 20 astronauts had some type of advantage, but I know that is not going to happen.

May 29, 2025

One Eye, my blind chicken, passed away today. She had been having respiratory issues lately and we treated it with antibiotics, but it never quite went away. She bounced back for awhile and was eating well, but then lost her appetite again. This morning she died in my arms and while I'm happy for her, I'm sad for me!

May 31, 2025

🧠 Welcome to Team Kaalactic!
You're now part of the most advanced minds in the universe.
Precision, power, and planetary defence — that's your mission.

A new team event is starting tomorrow. Maybe you will miraculously come back after having a two month Mara-vacation? Hope things in the real world are going well.

July 20, 2025

The event was really taxing. I'm totally burnt out. I'm barely doing dailies at this point. I think I'm burnt out with life in general too. On top of that, Mercury is retrograde until August 11. Things have been going wrong one after another. Today our neighbor's dog came into our yard chasing chickens, which caused my pig to run away. It's now 8:45pm and he's still not back. Even when hunting dogs came and chased him one day months ago, he was back within an hour. It's been six hours, he's missed dinner, and it's dark. I'm 90% sure he's okay and will be back in the morning. But my mind keeps wondering if he somehow got trapped somewhere, if he's hurt, if he ran too far and ended up on the hunter's farm, if someone has him, if someone killed him... We've looked all over the area, and that's all we can do for now. Stressing won't help the situation at all, but I can't seem to stop. His friends came back. The pig with the hurt leg came back almost immediately and wanted me to comfort him. The baby girl was back a little later. They both had dinner and hung out before bed. But my bratty boy is just gone.

August 10, 2025

Well, as I predicted, my pig came back the next day and everything went back to normal. But now my cat has cancer. Can we catch a break? I guess not. Her foot swelled up to about 3x the normal size and the vet expected it to be an abscess. He has never seen such a large cluster of tumors on top of a paw before, so my cat is very special. -_- He recommends amputating at the shoulder. The bill just for finding this information out was over $2k. We did get a big discount, but still, there is no way we can afford an amputation, and I don't want to put my cat through that. The floors in our house aren't even level! Dogs come hunting in our yard often enough that I don't think it will be safe for her with only three legs. And there's no guarantee that the cancer won't be back in another part of her body requiring more cutting. Ugh, no thanks. Two years ago she had a liver infection and the vet could not tell my why or how she got it. But it cost about $5k to treat her and I had hoped that she wouldn't have any problems the rest of her life because she had broken our bank. Now this. We are just going to give her the best life possible until she starts to suffer. Right now she can still run and jump with her huge paw and it doesn't seem to bother her too much. The concern is the speed at which it is growing may not give us much time with her. But miracles can happen and if it just stops growing, she can live like this for a long time. She's only seven. Life continues to be brutal.