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So, taking a break from Resort World, I went into the forums. Admittedly, it's the RW forum, but hey, what can I do?

Anyway, at some point, I was reminded about how much I wanted Winter Rose [WR, go figure]. So I went to the Marketplace and checked out the Buy Now price. Turns out the lowest one is 150K g. Realizing I have the virtual-money for it, I clicked the button and drastically changed that amount in the top bar for the first time in about 2 years.

Oh the wonders of impulse buying!

I think I now have the urge to change my avatar--also for the first time in 2-3 years.

UPDATE: Yep! Changed into WR gown and also changed hair color from green-ish to silver-ish. I like it!

So after not being here for forever and with the lack of desirable things to do, I started lurking here again. I tried to get back into zOMG, but I just wasn't feeling it. I tried to do some [rather sucky] art freebies, but I don't even have the desire to finish the first one. I tried to get into the forums, but I wasn't really one for those even back when I was really active here.

So I started clicking around, trying to see what else is new around here, when I found Resort World. Really, the game is just Farmville of some sorts, except you're building a resort on your own island instead of planting crops on your farm. But I was getting desperate so I said, hey, what the heck.

I started playing [a bit more than] a few days ago. I wasn't really sure how long my interest would last, but man, I gotta tell you--building things, moving them around, and, my favorite part, earning money--I feel like I'm doing something productive [even though I'm really not].

I zoomed through a few levels, then I slowed down. I felt like I was on Level 4 for forever, and just a few hours ago, I finally got to Level 5 [and now Level 6]. But while I was on Level 4, I started clicking around, looking for something to build. The last unlocked thing on the Service tab [or whatever the house icon was] was a Rescue Service in case of an "alien invasion."

Alien invasion? I thought it was ridiculous.

Boy, I was really out of Gaia for a loooong time.

Because, sure enough, just as I was going to click back to Resort World [after lurking in some RP forum], there it is: a spaceship at the end of the pier and about 25 aliens causing ruckus on my island.

I clicked on something and a bubble popped up, telling me that tourists were panicking [hell I was panicking myself] and to click on aliens to make them go away [as if that was not the first thing I tried].

In my state of panic, I clicked on "get help from friends" cos I thought it was a Zurg invasion type of thing. Luckily, they didn't copulate after a long period of ignoring due to my depleted energy bar.

I'll tell you one thing: first thing I did when I calmed down was to build that darned Rescue Service thing. I am not going to get caught off guard again when the pirates come in.

I was going to add a picture of it here, but that requires me to log in Photobucket. I might come back and do that if I remember my password--and my PB username.