I am EMBARASSED to admit how much TIME was spent WORKING toward this goal. It is a true slog from 75,000 to 100,000. And most of it spent in places like this:

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because in a million years I would never admit it to anyone else.

So I got A FEW free Snowy Dog pets at Christmas, because I DID obsessively watch for floating tokens on SOME accounts, but not all. On one account I DID get Snowy Dog was the Alice account.

But what to name them? I've mined my brain SO. Many. Times. to come up with new characters/new room themes that I really couldn't think of a good name. So I pulled out my annotated copy of The Hunting Of The Snark and opened it for inspiration.

I was IMMDIATELY gifted with a LONG list of possible names for webkinz for QUITE a while, when I read this (one of my favorite passages.)

It's about the one who came on board the ship and had forgotten all of his luggage, but more importantly:

 he had wholly forgotten his name.

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,

   Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"

To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"

   But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,

   He had different names from these:

His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"

   And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."

So on Tumtum Wabe the dog is called "Fry Me!" and he is a loner - I don't feel any great need for him to have a brother - and that was just fine, but when I adopted Candle Ends I just HAD to give him a twin and named him Toasted Cheese. I said i WAS. Not. Going. To. Buy. A. Code (the whole POINT was that the pet was free!!!) and PROMISED myself that I would just wait until next year for the NEXT snowy dog. That way he could have a TWIN brother, which is really the point, right? Its just two names for the same guy...

So, in the meantime, I started making them a little love nest (and MULTIPLE matching outfits) for the future. For one year from now when there will be two of them.

Well you can guess the rest - finally broke down and spent a whopping eight bucks in this guy,

which was the closest I could find to a twin

.And now they live happily in their little love-nest, and by " little" I mean at this point it is includes three rooms.

And LOOK!! after YEARS of collecting Bloomin' Furniture from The Curio Shop I FINALY have an ENTIRE Bloomin' house!! (And this is the first time this has happened!)

Now, when I think about these two and their story, I wonder if they are Best Friends or maybe Enemies-to-Lovers??

got a box of pet medallions - gathered them all up and guess what I got?

Very excited. (I LOVE free stuff.)

Meet a VERY Uffish guy.

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It's a garden because I bought a garden that I hadn't used for anything yet. That's really the only reason. But, hey, outdoor fireplace. They're really living the dream.

Wait, where did that HUGE rug come from?

Too sweet.

What do you think of those plates of cookies? I had to buy 3 items from that line on EVERY ACCOUNT so I bought a lot of cookies... obviously in TumTumwabe it would be normal to see a bunch of sweets lying around randomly (but don't eat them just because they tell you to!) But they don't LOOK like a plate of cookies to me, they look like a bowl of ribbons, if that makes sense.

I actually forgot it was cookies. When I took this screencap, I was like, “What a strange doily. Oh well. Maybe it’s meant to be Christmas cards or something.” Cookies. Right. I put that there on purpose.

Bowl of ribbons makes more sense than whatever was going on in my brain.

HUGE. See, we keep our wrapping paper in a red rubber trash can too. But THIS red container is bigger than the couch?!? HOW BIG ARE THESE ROLLS? If a webkinz, standing up is normal-person sized, like 5 feet or whatever, the rolls must be more than 6 feet long.