I was seriously feeling quite stressed this week. A week of throwing everything – including a lot of money – into trying to get a Birthstone turtle. So, I resorted to this picture message. Yes, I really (short of taking on escort work) was doing anything for a birthstone…
The message above uses the new Awesome Blossom Write Stuff chalk board, by the way. You’ve probably seen it all over the blogosphere by now.
So, I went and bought it, posed on top of my specials orgy pen, and started blogging this particular post. I had a lot to say, about my options if I never got one of these collectable eggs, and the feelings involved of looking into the egg extractor every half hour for an entire week of despondency, and about the cost! Specials are fetching a major premium on the market at the moment, with this affecting many ordinary sales. Today, I’ve seen high shines and glows going for virtually nothing to make way for more specials stock out there. Larger breeders, who had the ability to stockpile many specials, are currently either hoarding their own to get more and more birthstones, or selling at a premium. The market is boyant, but it’s quickly moving outside of the range of small-time breeders or hobbyists and collectors like myself.
Enough, though, of my own sufferings and opinions. Because as I was writing up a lot of this, I decided I had better go check the darned egg ring again. And look what I found…
(Addendum – I would make a joke and tell you that I’m now too scared to hatch it in case something goes wrong, but I know how much such good cheer sometimes doesn’t help if you are sitting there without a birthstone when you’ve been waiting all week also).
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I’m thrilled I got a silver one. I don’t want it to sell, just to keep… I do sell my extra turtle eggs in my shop, but after nearly SL-bankrupting myself on the chickens, now I keep virtual pets just to enjoy them. And I SO enjoy these turtles.