Anyone that knows Bratfink and Sheldon knows they are not rich. How many of us are? But Bratfink wanted to give me a special Christmas present this year and I have to tell you about it. I hope I explain it well so you understand how I feel about it.
I told you that both she and I play on this one game site where you can go to special *charm* parties for gems. You can either buy the gems or you can watch videos for them. This is no mean feat. Bratfink and I started watching ones by this particular sponsor that paid 5 gems if you watched their videos. Each set requires you to watch a minimum of each video in the set (in this case it's usually 10). The first video requires you to watch 25 seconds and the other 9 20 seconds for each. That's a total of 3 minutes and 25 seconds.
Yes, it's time consuming to *mine* for any considerable amount of total gems and the best charm parties are ones that require 300 or more (usually more). She decided that her gift to me was a full 24 hours that she would *mine* gems for me! She kept track of the time since she couldn't spend 24 hours up and she didn't mean as many as she felt like doing in one day between meals, naps, etc. She meant a FULL 24 hours! It took her a couple days to do it. She got me lots and lots of gems. We spent some going to parties and collecting charms from all the people at the party as well as the host charms. Some of these parties can be amazing.
The charms are good for increasing the amount of (worthless) coins you can earn playing the various games. But it's fun to see that amount increasing even if all you can do with them is buy clothes for your avatar (or send some as gifts to your friends). So the gems she mined for me was an incredible investment of her time....all because she loved me and knew I had a problem with watching the videos.
We have satellite internet and our *time* is limited to a certain amount of gigabytes allowed during the hours of 8am until 2am. Then we have *bonus* gbs for the 6 hours between 2am and 8am. The videos, we discovered, were eating up our allowed gigabytes during the day so my only recourse to earning them for free was to do it after 2am. I could manage it some nights but not on others. Sometimes I would start and then fade and have to go back to sleep. That is why she decided that mining for gems for me would be the perfect gift. I wanted to thank her so very much for her gift and let her know I really appreciate what she did for me. It's one of the most special Christmas gifts I have ever received because it required so much personal effort and such a loving heart.
Thank you, Sis. I love you, too. *****Hugs*****
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