It's the silly things sometimes...

Some of you know I play on Neopets, and have since mid 2000. It is one of my sanity savers, my stress reliever, the place where I can talk and call many folks friends. What a lot of folks see as a kids site, really isn't. Yes there are a lot of kids who play it now, and it has a lot of content geared towards them, but it actually started out as a college kid created site for bored college kids :P In fact over 20% of their players are over 18 and clear into their 80s. I only say this because I know a few who read this blog aren't neopet players.

I have been trying for a long time now, especially since neopets revamped their site to win the UserLookup trophy. Their user lookups are customizable using CSS and it has been a lot of fun creating graphics and code to redo mine. I have done many for friends and entered tons of times but to no avail.. till today!

**for those who aren't neopets players the below links won't work.. but here is an example of my winning UL. If interested in signing up for a neopets acct, it is free, and I have a referral link listed here in the places of interest :)

http://www.kroegercreations.com/ulsnapshot.png

	[theneopetsteam] The Neopets Staff » Make this user your Neofriend
Sent:	7/4/2008 05:12pm
Folder:	Inbox
Subject:	You won the Lookup of the Week!
Message: [Report Message]	Congratulations! Your User Lookup has been chosen as a winner and is currently on display on the Lookup of the Week page. To see your winning entry, visit http://www.neopets.com/ul_spotlight.phtml . A nifty trophy has also been added to your lookup. Hoorah!

This had me jumping for joy and screaming :D silly maybe but finally custom graphics and code won and proved that Neo can finally chose complete revamps (before most tended to be all of one style... very frustrating!)

and then to boot one of my pets got chosen 1st place in the custimization awards too!!

Week of:
March 31, 2008

Neocash
1st
Pet: Wallie2000
Owner: ickle_pengu

Lets just say.. it has been a real NICE day!! :)