Part of me wants to convince my dad to make me waffles before I have to head back to school...

Well, you said he only makes them for special occasions, and I think you going off to your final semester before graduation could count in that category ^_^ <3

I could use that, and see if that'd work. Hmmm... They take him like an hour or so just to prep before he can even start cooking them. But mmm, so good! They make the house smell yummy too!

I'm salivating at the thought of crispy-but-not-too-crispy waffles

Made with homemade vanilla, that is amazingly yummy on it's own! :D Well not like drinking it, but the smell of it is amazing! ^_^

Homemade vanilla *o* what a skilled dad you have!

Oh, mom makes the vanilla. ^_^
Dad just uses it. Mom makes it in a giant jar, so we have so much.
She gives it out as presents, and still has enough to use at home. :P

So, I should correct myself. You have such skilled parents, both of them! ^_^ <3 Do you also make edible goodies?

I'm not a huge baker/cooker, but I can make Cheesecake, if I really want to. And give me a recipe and I can follow it, but they're the creative ones, although mom is more of the chef in the family. Dad can cook, but mom cooks more than him.

*nods* must have good meals in your house <3

I almost forgot to compliment you on your rainbow avatar <3

Eh, yeah - I don't eat much here though... as I don't live here much.

Thanks - it's a work in progress.

It's the opposite of my avatar, which is almost all black right now. :)

I went from all white - to Rainbow (although Cookie saw the whole me not being able to decide between pink/black, and rainbow last night)... I do feel like it's totally missing something that I just can't place. :/

I see what you mean by work in progress ^_^

Haha, yeah - I'm just over here adding/taking away a few things and seeing what I think. It'll be awhile till it's an avatar that I'm totally happy with.

The ears and tail are very cute ^_^

Thank you! I don't use them much as it's hard for me to get them to work with avatars - they were a gift from Hummy awhile back. ^_^

Aw that's nice ^_^ hummy is great.

She is -I just wish that she'd let us give her gifts. But I've learned to accept the ones that she does give, and give her lots of thanks in return.

hummy refused to accept items that I wanted to give her ^_^;

Yeah, I've learned to not really try - although giving her items by telling her that she can give them to people if they want them, that works. I give her items so that she can help out others who're looking for those items. ^_^

That is very nice of you, Cloudie ^_^

Yeah, that's why I had nothing to donate to the Wishing Tree this year - because all the things I was ok with giving away, I gave away during the URE when hummy was running the wishing tree. That was the event when I was going through and weeding through my inventory, I got it down to barely anything actually - in between donating to people, to charities, and selling things, and then giving away the gold, I now only have like 30+ items, most of those CIs that I love too much to get rid of.

They say that less is more :) do you feel like this saying kind of applies to your situation?

Not really - the reason for the major purging of items was I was seriously considering leaving, and felt bad keeping items on my account that people were questing for... so I decided to help some people out.