It was only 8 years ago that I found myself in a desperate situation that required me to sell off a lot of my collectibles and toys, including my power rangers, he-man, wrestling, star trek, and of course a bunch of my Tamagotchi. I have regretted that all so much, especially the loss of my Tamagotchi, and I will feel awful about this for the rest of my life. I lost so much, it breaks my heart. When I was doing it, I felt like I was trapped and disassociating. I regret it so much, I feel like I could have done better... just ugh. However, hindsight is always way more clear than it was in the foggy black cloud I was mentally living inside at the time.

I try to remind myself, I can not change the past, but I can try to reacquire my lost Tamagotchi.

For the last month I have been shopping around all over the internet trying to find the Tama's I used to have. I am quite surprised and disappointed at how expensive my old Tama's are on ebay and other places. I will never ever get some of the super rare and expensive ones back, like Devilgotch. But I may get some I have never had before that I long ago always wanted.

Also, I am working on getting one of each of the Tamagotchi that have been released over the years that I missed out on. A difficult task considering the insane prices of them. It is all about timing and patience I find.

This is going to take years, but I think I will be able to at least get a bunch of the 1996/97/98's Tama's back that I used to love, especially my P1's and P2's. I can not tell you how impatient that I feel about this.. I wish I could win the lottery so I can just buy them all back up again haha.

I still have over 35 Tama's from my original collection, but I have many more to acquire of my original collection, sadly.

Here is a list of all of the Tamagotchi I have added to my collection:

• 2021 P1 Gen1 re-release Ice cream with light blue border & buttons (gift from Dennis)
• 2017 Japanese P2 Gen2 re-release Yellow with orange border & buttons (gift from Dennis)
• Mothra White shell with blue and red art and dark blue border & buttons
• 1997 P2 Green with white border & buttons, bought on ebay as untested and it arrived in non-working condition (I am hoping I can fix this one)
• Tamagotchi Uni Monster Carnival
• P1 Gen1 re-release Garden Green shell with pink border and purple buttons
• Tamagotchi Mix Anniversary Gift Set (Birthday gift from Cay)
• 2018 P1 Gen1 re-release Mermaid shell with light blue border & pink buttons (Birthday gift from Cay)

It is my birthday this month. Cay is always so supportive of me. She got me two Tama's I really wanted.. the Anniversary Mix and the P1 Mermaid shell.

When I play with Tamagotchi now I feel that energetic love for them again, like when I was living back on Dragoon in that big house with the creek out back. With my resident Black Widow spider. Surrounded by Tamagotchi. And Furby. Even with all of the odd problems that house had, it contains some of my favorite memories of my younger days.

I am so grateful for the kindness and friendship of both Dennis and Cay. Dennis really helped me re-light that candle in my heart for Tamagotchi. Cay has encouraged me to enjoy all of my hobbies and to live freely without judgement. After years of having my young heart trampled, I am finally being joyfully inspired to be my authentic self.

Here is a bit about how my Tama's are doing...

Finally in the mail I got my Tamagotchi Uni Monster Carnival edition. I was so excited to experience a new Tamagotchi! I carefully looked through everything on and off during the day, admiring the packaging and the cuteness of it all.

As much as I welcome new Tama's, I can not help but to feel sad that the original animations have been mostly abandoned. Many of the original characters are still around, but the pixel style of animation is gone. I am happy they re-released the Gen 1 & 2 Tama's without any change to the animations at all.

During the day I plugged in the Uni to charge. I was planning on waiting to hatch the Uni with Dennis, but I could not stop myself in my excitement from hatching it before bed. So at 11:40pm I set the clock and chose a blue egg. The egg seemed to take very little time to hatch before a lil rolly polly girl popped out. She is a Niinitchi. I am so happy they just have a screen that says the name, that is very helpful.

Most of the menu functions did not work during this stage but I enjoyed looking at everything anyhow. At this point I lay back on the bed to take care of the little one through the baby stage. I should also mention that I was rapidly getting very tired. When the lil guy napped, I definitely napped too. She beeped at me from time to time as I half awake took care of her. I tried to take pictures but they did not come out as well as I would like, and it was somewhat dark in my room. Between beeps I fell asleep haha. I was more tired than I thought I was when I first hatched her. When I heard the changing sound I knew we would both be going to bed.

I had been hoping to do a group hatch with Dennis this weekend, as it turns out today was the day! I decided I was going to figure out how the discipline system works on these new re-makes. I was already making plans before I even hatched them.

To be continued...

It is afternoon here and I am having a coffee. My Tama's are all next to me on the table, I have my little grasshopper girl on my shoulder, and Cay is busy researching the hurricane.

Hurricane Milton is headed our way. We live in Southwest Florida so the path of the storm is currently pointed right at us. It may go right over us like Hurricane Ian did. Milton just got upgraded to a Cat 5 an hour ago. I have had a difficult time keeping my worries at bay. I wrote about Hurricane Ian in my last log so you may know the many reasons why I am very concerned.

The good thing we see is, because of wind shear, Hurricane Milton is expected to fall to a category 3 right before it makes landfall here. This storm is much smaller in width than Ian was. It has not had the same buildup that Ian did. The gulf has very high temperatures, thanks to global warning, so that is why it turned into a category 5 so quickly. We do not believe we are in grave danger. The house should be ok with a category 3.

The thing is, I was born and lived on the other side of the United States until 6 or 7 years ago. I am not used to this insanity. Even after being here this long, I just am not yet adapted to the idea of being afraid for my life every year. I never imagined I would move to a place with hurricanes.

I moved here to be with my soul sister and dear friend Cay. I have much to say about Cay and the events that lead up to me making this life decision several years ago. I intend on writing more about that in this section of the log in the future. For now I will just say... I do not regret this decision no matter what happens with any of the hurricanes.