Yay!  Rainribbon has posted the photographs that she and Trippy took at MACE!  Unfortunately, both of them got fewer photos than they would've liked to have had, since they were both too involved in the games at the event.  You may link to the photo pages via the MACE link below.

Furthermore, Rainribbon volunteered at the Westminster, CA Neopets mall tour this past weekend.  She came home with many new Neopets cards (though she still hasn't gotten her much-desired Cooty card) and Dave and Zim, two of the Neopets artists, were nice enough to sign the cards that they designed (Ghost Lupe and Maintenance Tunnels, both of which Rainribbon uses in her main play deck.)  Hopefully, she will have photos of the event set-up posted soon, though she had no time to get pictures while working at it.

It's certainly taken long enough, but Rainribbon's FINALLY going to host a Neopets meet!  Thanks to Kit Steinmetz, who is kindly providing the location for the meet, as she has in the past for My Little Pony meets, Rainribbon hopefully will be able to meet some of her fellow Aishaholics online in person.  If you live in the Midwest and would like to attend, the information is available here:

Whoot!  Rainribbon has updated the graphics page, adding newer categories of images and linking some of her full-page layouts including several images.  I highly recommend taking a peek at the scary Halloween Aisha layout; it's the best one among them!  Furthermore, she put up her most recent creation, the Pizza of Death (TCG) card, in the freehand graphics section.  She had a great deal of trouble imitating certain aspects of the cards, particularly the coin and the font at the top listing the item name (even considering her formidable font library of a few hundred fonts, none seemed to fit!)

Speaking of the Neopets (TCG), Rainribbon is looking to trade for cards she does not have.  Please let her know if you have any cards that you would like to trade, especially Aisha cards.  The numbers of the cards that Rainribbon has already collected are as follows:

First set: 4, 9, 35, 41, 45, 51, 53, 56, 58, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 82, 86, 91, 92, 97-115, 117-121, 124-126, 128, 132-147, 149-157, 159-212, 214-231, 233, 234, S1-S6
Battle for Meridell: 2, 21, 29, 36, 37, 39-41, 44, 46, 52, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67-69, 71, 74, 75, 80-83, 85-87, 90, 92, 93, 98, 102, 106-108, 110-114, 116-121, 123-129, 131, 133-140
Promotional Cards: Cereal Promo P4 Green Shoyru

As far as I'm concerned, I've been spending a great deal of time lately battling Darigan's forces.  I keep getting stuck in ghost battles, however (I leave a battle, and suddenly I cannot enter any others, the healing faerie telling me that I am already engaged in battle), which is extremely frustrating, because most of the enemies are defeated by others before I get the chance to get in and tackle some more.  I was sorry to miss out on the second wave of Skeith warriors; Rainribbon was working all day and couldn't get home in time to let me after them!

Hmmph, well, once again, here is a huge space between updates to my site.  I guess I'll excuse her this time, because Rainribbon has been working on redoing our Neohome, isolating the Dung Furniture to a few rooms instead of having it just about everywhere, including  in the main family room!  Unfortunately, Neopets decided to redo the Neohomes, so for the moment, all our furniture is positioned incorrectly, and doors are appearing and disappearing, making it hard to walk from one room to the next.  Not to mention the fact that there are nonexistent doors opening out into thin air on the second and third stories...

In other news, Rainribbon just completed my sister's, Cognigente's, website, and it's really quite nice, if I do say so myself!  One of Rainribbon's best Neopets drawings to date is its opening image.  Check it out: Cognigente's SmArt Site!

After about 300 page refreshes, Ramoth got her Cooty, which has the tentative name of mini-Poopshy.  I'm not so sure I'm all that pleased with that name, and hopefully she'll get a new one soon.  She's a cute little bugger, although she tends to attempt to carry Ramoth while flying, which doesn't always work out that well, considering their relative sizes.  Apollo, Kseniya's petpet, also got a Zytch.  Iswonk and Cognigente are a bit disappointed that their pets don't have petpetpets, but if one of them ever decides to move her petpet, it would be silly to have petpetpets for them.

And alas, Rainribbon will be in an airplane on my birthday this year, so she won't be able to pamper me as she normally would!  *sniff*  Oh well, I'll just have to take an expensive room at the Neolodge to pamper myself...

Well, due to an error on the TAP message boards, Rainribbon had to update many of the graphics on them.  At the same time, she realized that my Images page had not been updated in a very long time.  Thus, she decided to add many of these images to that page, considering that she created them.  If you would like to use these images on your site, please contact Rainribbon before doing so!

Well, after a long hiatus from the Internet, Rainribbon has returned!  You see, she was moving to France (where she will be for the rest of the school year), and didn't get an Internet connection in her room there until now.  Therefore, there have been no page updates on any of her sites (including mine) for a very long time.

So, alas, we missed out on having pictures for our  favorite holiday, Halloween!  However, now that she is able to spend a bit more quality time with the Internet, she can spend a bit more quality time with me and my sisters, which is just fantastic!

Furthermore, she has worked on updating the links page some more, adding some missing friends from the list, not to mention Aurability, who is a biological sister of mine!  Aura used to live with an adopted family of her own, but one night her owner was forced to leave her behind.  She stayed with a kind foster parent, Tonya, and her pets for a while, but wished secretly to have a home among other Aishas, where she could savor the delicacies of Aisha culture.  One day, Tonya granted her wish, and Aura found her new home, where she enjoys spending time with three Aisha roommates!

Unfortunately, some of Rainribbon's page updates are hindered by the new Neopets rule of blocking all links from all petpages.  How ridiculous to have websites without links!  Can you imagine?  Anyway, many of my friends and family will soon be moving their pages to my webspace, so that they can have normal websites instead of limited ones.

As for Ramoth, she came back from gorging herself on the Giant Jelly, just like all the other petpets in the mysterious disappearances.  Rainribbon purchased a petpetpet Cooty for her last night on the Neopian Auctions, but she cannot figure out how to give the Cooty to Ramoth!

If your Neopet is linked on the links page, and you would like to use the icon for your pet, please contact Rainribbon and request that she let you do so.  Also, Rainribbon might be able to convert your icon into a cursor if you would like to use it that way on your webpage.

So far, Rainribbon has cleared out a few cobwebs from the Images section and is working on updating the links section.  We really wish people would STOP PAINTING their main pets, so Rainribbon would not have to completely redo all the linking graphics each time that page gets an update.  You should see a few shiny, new links and graphics up there soon.

And finally, another RANT!!  Alas, my best friend has been FROZEN!  EVIL PEOPLE!!  RELINQUISH MY BELOVED ATORAVO!!  SHE NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG AND NEITHER DID HER OWNER, AND YOU KNOW IT!!!

OK, well, maybe there's too much news to share overall, but I'll start with some highlights...  First, Aisha items.  Neopets went way off the deep end with the commercialization, and Rainribbon went way off the deep end with buying it.  They have these things called Rare Item Codes, and if you buy stickers and such, you get them, and they give you cool stuff in return.  Well, Rainribbon bought up tons of these trying to get us some cool items (not that I mind that part, I love being pampered) but now she has too much junk she doesn't want lying around, hah!  She's interested in selling the stickers, by the way, if you're in a country where you can't get them:
http://www.rainribbon.com/trade3.htm
If you're interested in anything on there (she sometimes has Neopets plushies, too) for trade or purchase, here's the link to the main trade page so you can figure out how to contact her and for what she's looking to trade:
http://www.rainribbon.com/trade.htm

Secondly, Rainribbon tried to snazz up Kseniya's sorely outdated page, because Kseniya  remains depressed sometimes that she has earned no trophies.  Alas, in spite of the fact that Kseniya's site should have swept the competition at the time her site was submitted, she didn't even get points for originality in her pink glory!  My Aisha Arcade, formerly the TAP Aisha Arcade, has now relocated to Kseniya's site, and you can find it there.

Several new pets have joined our Neofamily!  The first is Cognigente, who joined us with the release of Ixis as adoptable by anyone!  She's my newest trainee in the Way of the Aisha, because Iswonk, well, she's just not cool enough to be an Aisha *sticks out tongue* and Alalakh, well, she comes to lessons, but she's not a very good student.  She's more interested in grooming products, how boring!  But Cognigente is wonderful!  She takes me flying, and she's such fun!  I hope it's not because she's so young...she doesn't seem naive.  We'll wait and see, maybe Cog will turn out okay, although she is kind of hogging Rainribbon's attention right now *pouts*!

The second pet to join us is _Lil_Cute_1_, is also a really great kid!  She loves to hang out in my toy gallery (although I have to keep some of my favorite plushies locked up behind glass cases, like my Angel Chia Plushie that Nisiko gave me)!  She's really greedy, just like I am, and she comes up with the darndest things when she follows Alalakh to Aisha Lessons.  Anyway, Rainribbon intends to work on her page after mine gets done, so expect to see some developments there sometime soon (hopefully).

Also, about pets, the Lab Ray finally made Mechanicial robot!  Unfortunately she's not a robot Aisha, yet *sniff*, or female again.  She decided that she wants to enjoy the lack of fleshly concerns, such as needing to eat and having emotions, for a while, before she goes back to the ray.

Next, a RANT!  POOR KSENIYA HAS BEEN SUNBURNED!!  BADLY!!  PLEASE HELP FIX HER IF YOU CAN!!  Contact Rainribbon IMMEDIATELY with a Pink Paint Brush to SAVE KSENIYA!  She is HURTING from the sunburn!!  WHY DID THEY NOT LEAVE THE PINK AISHAS PINK AND SELL CHEAP RED PAINT BRUSHES TO PEOPLE WHO WANTED SUNBURNED AISHAS?!

As for this site, and updates...Well, the About Me section has received updates on my stats and such (although stats tend to change rapidly).  The link to the correct Aisha Arcade was set (and Rainribbon needs to add a new game to it), and clearly this page was updated!  Now Rainribbon is working on editing the Links page and the Art Gallery are next on the palette, but those will probably take a few days because they require graphics to be created!  Hopefully they'll be up soon!

Anyway, so now that you have received a few tidbits of the most interesting recent news from me, hopefully Rainribbon will stop hiding the keys to my diary and you'll see me post more often!

Wow, has it ever been a long time since Rainribbon updated my site!  Bad Rainribbon, Bad!  In the several months of non-communication, lots of things have happened (including a change of season, heh)!  First of all, Rainribbon dragged our sorry little selves back to TAP, realizing that resistance to it was futile.  Frankly, I'm glad that she did, because otherwise I'd be pretty lonely with just Kseniya and Iswonk and FlamethrowerX and...to interact with...hmm maybe I lost the point in mid-sentence there...

At long last, perhaps a month ago, the Fire Aisha was made, and FlamethrowerX got his true identity!


Neopets came out with merchandise in "Limited Too" stores across the country.  Rainribbon wasted a lot of money there, primarily to get the stupid item codes that come in the stickers and such.  The products are somewhat lame and fragile; they fall apart with little wear and are way overpriced.  The commercialization of Neopets plods on, forcing the good, the few, the proud players into oblivion.

We learned some time ago that my cousin Sunny Skye had never been taken care of by Rainribbon's cousin.  Sunny is now much better fed, has a petpet, and hopes to be fixed up with the Laboratory Ray as a proper "she" (a detail which the Neopets staff mixed up when sending Sunny to Rainribbon's cousin) sometime in the future.  Sunny has become the guardian of my Aisha Items collection.  I unfortunately had to abandon the toy collection because it just got too hard to keep up with all the new toys that Neopets kept putting out.

Rainribbon has also figured out how to edit user lookups using CSS!  You should take a look at Rainribbon's; it's quite unique now!

As for recent news, Rainribbon created the Mangled Red Lenny Plushie today to demonstrate what my Lenny plushies really look like:

Mangled Red Lenny Plushie 1 in stock Cost: Priceless

Furthermore, there have been massive updates all over this site today!  More pictures were added to the picture gallery, my personal stats were updated (with the exception of the books I've read), more games were added to the arcade (including a brand new Flash game by Sithel!); let's just say there's MORE all around!

Well, we've left TAP (The Aisha Pack) once and for all now.  Due to a non-argument that blew up into an argument, Rainribbon got angry and we left.  I don't think Rainribbon's going to bother completing the petition for Fire Aishas anymore, because she has no way to say anything official now from TAP's viewpoint anyway.  It's rather depressing, but I guess she just saw too much of the bad days of TAP gurgling up this week, and couldn't take it anymore.

Wow, it's been a long time since I got the chance to write in this diary.  A lot of changes have been made to the site since then, however they were made as clandestine changes *shifty eyes*.  Rainribbon's been sneaking around and posting things without letting me talk about them; how sad!  At any rate, I'll try to get you up to date as to what's gone on in my life since the last entry!

First of all, as you might have noticed, all the correct top of the page pictures are in!  Huzzah!  They now correspond to the pages on which they sit, which is how they ought to be set up!  The site was completed around the end of last year, and Rainribbon submitted it to the site spotlight.  Alas, it was not accepted, causing much sadness *sniff*.

Atoravo finally surpassed me in strength in the Battledome, due to all her training.  For nearly a month, I had lost my best sparring partner, and it was very disappointing and depressing.  However, Rainribbon got me back up to my normal level just yesterday!  YAY!  Except for that little fact that we went BROKE in the process, heh...  We haven't had this little NP in a LONG time *gulp*!  And today, Tor and I had a reunion fight, which resulted in a near-draw.  I have 7 more HP than Tor, otherwise it might've been a complete draw.

Thanks to Black_Cat (commonly known as BC), Tor's owner, my Green Flurby has been restored!!  The Green Flurby, for those who are not familiar with it, was later changed into the Green Fuzzle when Neopets went commercial.  Rainribbon bought me this Flurby from the main toy shop a LONG time ago, before Kseniya came into our lives, even!  She was so pleased that she had finally gotten one, because they were very rare and nearly impossible to obtain at the time.  However, when our inventory loaded (Rainribbon ALWAYS put things away in our Safety Deposit Box right away so that they wouldn't get lost!), my Flurby was gone *sob*!  The Pant Devil had stolen him away from me, and I was heartbroken!  For a good year or so, Rainribbon searched in vain to find my Flurby, but it had disappeared off the face of Neopia.  It was then that she realized that my poor, unloved Flurby (I never got the chance to play with him, after all) had been replaced, forever erased from existence!  Fortunately, BC recently discovered her never-emptied internet cache!  Stored within were all of the Flurbies!  A complete set!  And now, at long last, my Flurby is proudly displayed in my shop as one of my favorite items, where he belongs.

Rainribbon drew a new Aisha icon for Mistress_Emmy on 12/29/01.  It will be added to the picture gallery soon, hopefully.  And just to remind you, all the Aisha icons here on my site are adoptable, IF you DOWNLOAD them and PUT THEM ON YOUR OWN SERVER and if you GIVE CREDIT and a LINK to me: http://www.neopets.com/~poopshy!

Aisha Day came and went on January 3rd, unfortunately also the first day of winter quarter classes for Rainribbon (BOO!!  When she's in class, she won't be able to update my site as frequently, or play with me as often *sniff*).  Aisha Day was EXTREMELY disappointing!!  I was so looking forward to FlamethrowerX getting to use the paintbrush I got for him, but Alas! there is STILL no Fire Aisha!!  Because of this GROSS INJUSTICE, Rainribbon has begun a PETITION to have the Fire Aisha made!  Here are the instructions to join her in the petition:

Wahoo!  Rainribbon has finally gotten to work on the final key stage of my website, the top of page images!  She has spent several hours over the past couple days drawing them, and now they are being scanned in!  Just 4 more pictures to be completed, colored, and scanned, and my site will be ready for the spotlight submission!

OHMIGOSH!  SHE BOUGHT IT!  SHE ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT!!  Rainribbon got me my very first Neoquest Plushie the other day!  It's a Dire Lupe Plushie, nothing really special, but I'm still excited about it!

She also has gotten me the FULL SET of Aisha Collectible Cards!  Yay!  You can see them in our NeoDeck!

Wow, today was a big day for me.  Not only did I get the Vampire Blumaroo Plushie I've been wanting very badly since it first came out, but Atoravo and I just had our first Battledome DRAW!  Never before have we drawn in battle, and we've been fighting each other in Battledome ever since it came out!  We've always been pretty well matched in strengths, but it's amazing with all the intensive training that Tor's been doing at the Krawk Island Training School (where I can't go because they won't accept me *sniff*), and the desperate piddling training I've been doing to keep up, we make a perfect battling match!  At any rate, Atoravo and I decided to battle tonight because we figured that we might as well do something with those Wet Snowballs we'd gotten at the Advent Calendar, so we chose to throw them at each other.  Naturally we had to complete the battle, and look where we ended up-both bruised and sad (to quote BC, Tor's owner).  Thus Rainribbon decided to draw a picture on the computer of us hugging, feeling sad and looking bruised, but it wasn't coming out too well, so she came up with this one instead:

Cute, aren't we?

To add to this entry, now that it's nighttime of the same day, Rainribbon has begun a Virtual Snowball Fight in TAP!  Basically, she goes out and buys a bunch (5 or more) of Wet Snowballs and sends them to someone, along with a message saying that they've been hit with a virtual snowball.  Unfortunately, Neopets filtered out the word "hit" so the actual message says "bombed," but whatever...  Feel free to join in the fight and keep it going!