Day 32 - My how time flies!

Ah, so much has changed. Expanded to 24x24. Have over 30 neighbors. Tuscan wedding was rolled out and broke many farms. Just traded in my wedding favors for the Tuscan wedding cake - THAT was a mistake, the thing is grotesque and humongous! Wild mustang active - but seems mine's going to escape, since there's no way to resend the link for people to click on.

Broke down and bought $10 worth of FV cash to get the Tuscan mystery box with a mirror lake. I was fortunate enough to get the mirror lake on the third box. First box had the prairie dog - cute, but pointless. Second box had the maypole, which I turned into a playground item for the schoolhouse and the THIRD box had the mother lode - mirror lake! Now, I've gone from saying I would not spend a single penny on FV to having spent $15 total. I feel it's worth it - for the amount of gameplay enjoyment I've gotten, yet, at this pace, I will violate the spirit of the experiment - which was to spend nothing at all. Thus far, it's less than 50 cents a day.

In the last few days, the gifting cycle has been broken - but seems to work now - IF you access from FB. The Zynga message center is still down. Mine shows 50 count as the awaiting messages.

Just installed the "gamers unite" snagbar and it seems to work. Who knows if I'll be kicked off the game. Have progressed from light, casual, fairly goal-directed playing to wanting all of the goodies in my feed and simply not having the time to sit here and click on them. Especially the eggs, which go like hotcakes.

Tempted to walk with DH to the nearby 7-11 to buy FV co-branded items to get the codes. I wonder how much it costs to buy one of each promotional item? Surely someone has done the math. A bottle of FV water can't hurt...see, more money spent on items I don't need.

In real life, we're moving. Since I started playing until now, we were served with a 60 day notice to quit the premises so my landlord can move in his son. There's a long backstory, but in the end, we're getting a better place and will finally live like civilized adults instead of over-the-hill college students/teenagers. Our current apartment is very small and over time, I've gerry-rigged it to fit in as much as possible. I have way too much and it's ended up looking like something out of an episode of "Hoarders." It's time for real closets, storage and being able to put everything in its place. What a concept!

Whew.