I went to bed early so I could get up and play the last hours of Happy Hearts. I set the alarm for 3.30am (it went down 5am), but the alarm didn’t wake me! I missed the end and now I won’t get to play any more!
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I will go cry now.

Anyways, on a happier note, they announced the Happy Hearts Quest Event Winners!
Congrats Kenman, Kaito, Serenity, Miyabi and Yueya!

 Tell me which bloggers have the most screenies of the end hours. I need to see some and pretend I was there!

So, I actually had Hello Kitty visit me on my farm today. I had to rub my eyes and squint to know it was true. And then the screening-frenzy began.

You might (should) have read about Hello Kitty being out and about in Ripplecloud’s Blog. I have also run into Hello Kitty a couple of times before during FB. At first I saw her running around in Florapolis and later on we (the *Twin Starrs*-guild) caught her on the beach during the end of FB.

But this is different, she actually came to visit me on my farm!

She was all over the place, running around and looking at everything. Who could blaim her with all the pretty roses and fountains to look at though?

And then I started wondering aloud

And I started wondering other things aloud without getting any answers.. finally I started feeling like I had lost my mind talking to myself like that. And that was around the time that she left. She went to the door like any other nice guest and she was gone.

My guildies encouraged me to follow her, but by the time I gout outside she was gone. I saw Kittynator and Bi sitting outside and asked if they had seen her run by. And just then… Hello Kitty appeared again out of thin air! Only to run off and I wasn’t fast enough to catch her or see which way she went.

But it was fun having you visit Hello Kitty, come back again, any time you’d like!

I must say, I really enjoy the farms now! Before I thought it was so stressful with the constant pause, un-pause, pause again over and over. This new system I got the hang of much faster, so thank you HKO for that!

Also, the new farmstyles are so pretty! I knew the instant that I saw GM Abbys blog about her farm that I would never find a more beautiful one, and I didn’t. But then there was the question of $. 20,000$ doesn’t grow on sorosis’s.

So I started of really simple in the Happy Hearts of HKO.

That didn’t stop me from getting nice visitors though. Both Starrfire7 and Bi came to visit my little farm during the first couple of days.

My Guild-mates quickly got their pretty farms though and I felt it was time to speed up on the $-raising.
Ghost made sure she would never have to get water again, by simply putting her farm next to a nice brook.

And Kiui has a thing for the mountains.

So… after a rollback that took the last 6k I had made (I finally reached 20k and then the rollback happened) I pulled my strenght together one last time and finally got my own beautiful farm!

I can’t help but spend a lot of time in there. Especially now with the great new farming-system. This lead to me running into an old friend from another online-game I’ve been really addicted to (I still play it, just not during HKO’s betas), Ceci. It was so much fun talking to her again, it’s been a while since we talked. The perks of keeping the same username in several places online.

I’ll end it with a bic pic of my new farm. My pride and joy! Just click the pic to see it in all it’s amazing glory!

You’re welcome to come visit anytime!

So I got in just fine when HKO opened it’s doors again. I finished enough quest for today and found out there will be 1 quest per day going on for 5 days. Too bad I’ll be working then so I can’t really get up at 4 am, but good luck to those who can!

My first hour was full of fun, though.

First thing I noticed; I love being able to quickly see which NPC to talk to on a quest with that helping question-mark leading the way.

After finishing my quest, I run into koray, which very un-characteristicly wasn’t afk but very much there. It was nice getting to talk to him for a bit!

I also got to meet some of the other guild-mates. Starrfire7, Ghost and Tidesong where also online. I never saw Tide, and Ghost was like the wind. I was to busy getting the blowing hair out of my mouth to get a good screenie of her. But Starrs happily took a breather with me.

Hearing from my guild-mates that petcards were now dropping, I quickly ran to my first favourite in HKO, the Skunks. Luckily enough I got a card on my first try. I wasn’t as lucky when I continued to the Fox’s, but I’ve got time to work on them. Anyways, meet my new friend cotton candy!

Now I’ll see if I can catch me some of that sleep I’ve been hearing about. It’s supposed to be good for you, so I’d better give it a shot.

So if my Time Zone Converter is correct, HKO is scheduled to open for the Founders in about half an hour. It’s a bit after 3.30am my time and I pondered a while over wether to get to sleep early to be able to wake up or if I’d just not go to sleep at all. Since the anticipation made me “not-at-all-sleepy” it kinda just decided for the latter automatically.

So I’ll just have my own little HKO-wake here in front of the computer. I’ll be in the chat-room incase anyone wanna join me.

At 2.50am I decided to run HKO incase there was a new patch, and there was. Then I couldn’t help but try and login and I got to accept some Terms and Conditions - that’s new. Then - to my utter surprise - I actually got in!

There weren’t many of us around, but I got to see Victor and Tidesong running around in there before GM Neverender announced that the server would go down for 45 minutes. But during the about 15-20minutes I got in there I got to see the moving windows. They weren’t the only things moving though. The windmill in Paris was moving, as well as the water in the London fountain. So pretty!

The Maps looked a bit different

And there where new NPC’s I met (or were they there during Christmas? I might have missed them then)
 

So… 30 minutes left huh? I just hope I can get back in then and not be run over by the crowd.

First of all; HKO has made the New Installer and Patch available for Download. So if you still have your client, and participated in the Christmas Reunion; run the program to start the patching. Or, if you want to download it faster, use the manual patch.
If you didn’t participate in Christmas Reunion, uninstall the client and download the client again along with those who hasn’t been part of Founders’ Beta.

So far so good… except
If you live in Europe!

“Sanriotown users in Europe will not be eligible to participate in Hello Kitty Online at this time.” says the official blog.

Allow me to cry for a minute.

Ok, I’m officially scared now. I don’t get to play? Surely this can’t be the case for European Founders’ now can it? Can it?!

For once I’m looking forward to Valentines’ and now this. Oh, well.. hope is that last thing that leaves. I will still stay up through the night and try to get in like usual. You’ll hope with me, right?

*off to find a shooting star* I need to make a wish.

EDIT: Thankfully, azog (unlike me) knows how to read properly and found this in the same official blog;
“All HKO Founders from all countries are automatically eligible to play HKO and join the Happy Hearts event.”
Phew, now I’m all happy again!

 
Founders’, it’s time to join up again!

I got home today to find the newsletter for the founders’ in my mailbox. During a couple of days around Valentine’s Day we get to meet up in-game again. I’m so excited!

Seeing how I missed the Christmas reunion I will not be working on the day that the Happy Heart Event opens the doors for us once again. I will be there at 22 EST Feb 12th!

Did you see the image of the farm? I can’t wait to see what other options there are, I want a pretty farm now! (”players can now enjoy 8 new uniquely-designed farm types!“)

If you haven’t got the newsletter, just run over to the official blog to read the news. Will I be seeing you in-game?

Hmm. I need to work today so I couldn’t get up at 4 am this morning when the Christmas Reunion started. I had hoped to be able to play for a while before going to work though, but I’m stuck in the land of “connecting server”, so…

I hope I can play a bit when I get back from work then.
If you get in, post me some screenies of New York please ^_^

So the “Blog for Thought“-part of the Founders Finale has ended, and as I expected there has been some great bloggings going on. Wich makes a blog-addict like me very happy (this is certainly one of my favourite-events so far). I thought I’d list all of the ones I have found. If any is missing from my list that you know of, please let me know so I can read them and add them (in that order).

• Starrfire7
• Ripplecloud
• dreamymeown a.k.a. Maneechan
• Allara
• Anndiana a.k.a Ann
• Kittyology
• Chariline a.k.a. abrieLLa^_^
• azog
• cherrychinghk a.k.a. Ching
• rinsama a.k.a rin_様
• chuckys_rabbit a.k.a. Hakuri
• karinchoong
• mltf83 a.k.a. Bi
• polei_25 a.k.a. kittypolei
• Sundaygirl
• the_otakutopian1 a.k.a. the_otakutopian
• plutochan a.k.a. Katsuko
• mccricket a.k.a. Cricket
• tsuki-chan a.k.a. Noi
• red_ant_arsonist

And I had to give it a shot to, of course: My Blog for Thought
Reading all of theese awesome entries though.. I realise I don’t stand much of a chance. But I did enjoy the reading! ^_^

Just a fair warning, this will be image-heavy as my F11 went warm during those last moments of HKO FB. All of the images that has been resized down you can click for fullsize.

At 3:45 am (I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; HKO don’t like me sleeping!) I got up and logged on for the last ingame event in Sanrio Harbour during FB. It started with a 5 question quiz which I as usual could answer most of at once but never was fast enough to win.

Then came the Kevent wich turned out to be just guessing how many Kev’s there was. (Or was it a trick question and the answer was 1? The chat went by so fast I couldn’t determine.)

So the event was real fast and ended sort of.. fast. I got ready for bed as I needed to get to work in just a couple of hours. But when it came to hitting that Exit-button for the last time in who knows how long… I simply couldn’t! It was too dificult and I ended up staying to the very end.
Boy, am I glad I did!

First we decided for another of our valued Guild-screenies and called everyone to the beach! We were only 6 people online so we quickly gathered… with one exception; Starrfire7 had gone afk. What to do, you might ask. Well , remember that this is no ordinary guild, this is the *Twin Starrs* guild, and for us, no task is impossible! We kidnapped her! Which of course made her come back and get all confused a couple of minutes later.

Suddenly we started seeing flashes of light and we all panicked in the thought that here comes the end, the heavens will fall down upon us!

But it was just a bunch of the GM’s who had caught a climpse of our fun beach party and decided to join us.

They then headed off and suddenly Hello Kitty came running past us! What do you do when you’re a HKO-fan? You run after!

Well, we did anyways…

We soon realised that we probably crashed a GM-screenie party and headed back for the beach again. This is where things got out of control. The girlies decide it was time to have a naked party!

The guys were very a bit shy, but after some persuation, we soon had started a naked party-line!

*flash* *pof* Once again, GM-AVA was the first to join the fun!

The GM’s and Hello Kitty quickly joined us , which of course caught the eye of some passers by who decided to join us too. This was starting to get pretty crowded, but you know what they say; The more the merrier!

But then people started hearing that Hello Kitty was at the beach and people wanting to get screenied with her quickly messed up our pretty line with their clothes and sitting down upon each other.

Then the countdown started for real.

We all said our goodbye’s and promised to keep in touch through the chat. We got told TO NOT delete the client, so remember to keep it! We waved and silently cried, while hoping to maybe get just some minutes more, when….

…the end

hmmm

…or is it?