Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35319541-20180419004434/@comment-35315474-20180419080020

I saw your real name earlier when I looked at your SN profile. I thought to myself that we must be kindred spirits, both of us Viki and Vicki! 😊

I'm so happy you got to spend time with your grandbaby! And that the family wind has calmed down. We're also enjoying the 70's (I'm in Texas). It's cooler than normal for this time of year, but I'm enjoying it. Not cold so no coats or snow or ice to mess with while still not too hot. Just right! LOL!

I've thought about TT, but I'm afraid of liking it too much. I recently graduated with a master's degree, and am now working to become licensed as a psychotherapist. I have to take and pass a major national exam (kind of like passing a bar exam for lawyers, but this one is for psychology counselors) so I'm going to have to spend time studying. I've ordered the manual to help me, and I'm allowing myself to enjoy the time before it arrives (okay, it's my excuse for not studying yet as I do have study materials, but studying is so boring). I'm afraid if I start to TT, I'll get so hooked, I won't study. This is why I've kept turning it down.

Although I think culling out my friends list will help with my time issue. I spent a lot of time these last couple of days making sure each and every friend received a nice gift. I sent out a total of 163 gifts (20 of them CI's and some Premium Fixers), and what did I get for my trouble (excluding the board friends)? So far, 79 TY gifts, 4 CI's, and 26 freebie gifts (including thread, tar, and fluff). Many of the people didn't even bother to send back a TY gift even though they visited which I find baffling. This is the group of friends I've been playing with until I met you guys.

It's not that I expect lots of CI's and premiums from all my friends all the time, but heck, does a level 118 with 75 rep really not know how to send me something other than thread?! And the few who do gift are the same ones each time. I have a lvl 36 friend who managed to send me a CI from my WL, and a couple other friends who are now in the 50-60 levels who consistently try to send me what they can when they can. I do the same for them. So it's not levels. I know some of the people are from Asia (they have Korean, Japanese, and Chinese names), but even then, they're all different. One player from China has leveled up quickly while visiting and gifting what he can. So I know it's not as if i'm not giving them a chance (I even have a button on my WL to be sure my lower level friends can find something on my WL that they can send. I wonder how many buttoms they'll send? At least half of my friends are lvl 60 and above so they should be capable of sending a button if they wanted to. I bet most don't ever look at my WL. And, yet, I spend my time looking at each person's WL and sending something from it at least 2-3x a week. So I'm pretty fed up with my so-called game friends that I picked up from the Invite button. Some are def keepers, but some are just wasting my time.

So... sorry my frustration took me over! Basically, if I can bring my friends list to a more manageable roar with people I truly enjoy, then I might consider sticking my big toe in the TT waters to check it out. I'll just have to learn to discipline myself (yeah, like I'm doing now! LOL!) to not get so caught up in it that I don't study.