Found Not Lost

We won the Tomagotchi giveaway!

What a coincidence that one of the girls actually had Tomagotchi on their Christmas wishlist this year. Then when Elizabeth emailed to ask which color I wanted, guess what, one of her offers was the exact color, Yellow! So I know someone will be really happy to get their wish this Christmas.

It has been a while since they had their original Tomagotchis. When the big girls were about 7 or 8 years old they started their romance with Tomagotchis. Jade lost hers on the same day she got it. She was so excited about getting it that she brought it to a birthday party with a bunch of other kids running around; despite dire warnings from her mommy not to bring it, she brought it anyway. Let’s just say she didn’t come home with her pet and was miserable for days afterwards especially when her mean old mommy wouldn’t buy her a replacement.

Asi, gloated for a couple of weeks because she still had her Tomagotchi. She kept it on her almost daily, nurturing it, playing with it, feeding it. Then I supposed the novelty wore off or it may have gotten buried among the junk by her bed. She forgot about it and it went uncared for for days. Maybe even weeks. Then one day she pulled him from the rubble and sadly discovered that he had turned evil. He was now a wild little monster. She tried to revive him for a while, tried to nurture him back to health but other things vied at her attention yet again. Somewhere in her messy room, that Tomagotchi probably still roams, but he’s probably now a mass murderer somewhere in Tomagotchi nowhere land.

Hopefully, the new Tomagotchi who’s coming to town will fare better in our household. We are all anxiously awaiting his arrival.

In the wake of the Twilight series, Asi, my teen fantasy fiction supplier, handed me this book. Prom Nights from Hell is a collection of short stories from notable authors such as Meg Cabot, Lauren Myracle, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe and of course Stephenie Meyer. For quick reads while waiting in the car, while waiting for water to boil for pasta or while waiting to get a turn on the computer, these short stories are good enough to whet one’s appetite for the macabre.

I liked the variety of characters in the collection from the vampire slayer, the ‘dim’ reaper, the super hero to the demon. It is but a teaser though, it doesn’t have the satiated feel you get from reading a whole novel. But for a quickie, it is good enough. Now I want to find more novels from these authors.

If you’re into vampires and paranormal, I stumbled on this site, Vampire Wire, which focuses on just that.