I'm doing great! Thank you for the welcome. And no, I can't bear to put my pokemon down either. Personally, I think my beloved Umbreon would give me the look and proceed to bite at me and throw shadow balls at me until she chased even the thought of it from my head. It's funny actually, Umbreon is a rather special pokemon to me and here's why. I remember in silver, I had an eevee and a ditto in daycare(not knowing at the time they could breed) I've always liked the eevee evolutions, and wanted to raise my eevee just a little more. I got the egg, much to my surprise, and when it hatched, it was a shiny, female eevee. I was goin crazy. So I raised her a lot, and she grew to like me. I was playing at night, (in real life it was a full moon) and she leveled after a battle. And she evolved into the most beautiful pokemon I ever saw, an umbreon with deep blue markings instead of gold. So, that's why she's my favorite, and that's why I change my avatar so much. I'm sorta stuck on my current one because she looks like mine. I don't understand why as an eevee she hatched shiny, I didn't think it was possible. Maybe because ditto was shiny….*shrugs* oh well, I love my umbreon. ^_^ pardon the long response, heh heh. Lol.