Hoenn's Number One Contest Idol

It seems I have just had all nerd posts recently. Anyway, after become pokemon league champion of Hoenn and otherwise destroying any other trainer in the region, I turned to pokemon contests. When I had the original Sapphire version, I was so obsessed with these contests. I remember I did have an Altaria that won the cool master rank and a Gardevoir that won the smart master rank and was put in the gallery in Mossdeep. I also had a Ninetales that won the beauty master rank. It was really hard winning contests and the talent round was brutal. In this remake, the contests are so much easier. There is no more limit on how many pokeblocks your pokemon can eat and winning the contests are much easier as well. I used to have to get the right nature that would like a certain pokeblock that would be beneficial to a certain trait. Pokeblock making is also simpler now and there are only two types rather than before where smoothness and all those other things mattered.

Anyway, my favorite pokemon is Ninetales so I decided to make my that my contest pokemon. I had a female lv 1 vulpix from a random wondertrade so I decided to use that one. It would be such a dream if I ever got a shiny vulpix or ninetales. I think that would be my most coveted pokemon. Anyway, the good thing in this remake is that natures don't matter since pokeblocks have no limit, which also makes it easy to max out all contest stats. Anyway, I will list the movesets I used to win each type of contest.

Cool
Hyper Beam
Double Team
Flame Charge
Dark Pulse

Beauty
Flamethrower
Safeguard
Overheat
Sunny Day

Cute
Rest
Sleep Talk
Swagger
Return

Tough
Dig
Giga Impact
Roar
Overheat

Clever
Calm Mind
Secret Power
Toxic
Hidden Power

I will have to say the tough contests were really the toughest ones to win, mostly because there aren't really any good tough moves for ninetales. That was really a struggle and I had to experiment with different movesets. I beat Lisia in the beauty contest, which was definitely super hard and took a few tries. I wish they do a mega evolution for ninetales. That would be so awesome. Lisia's altaria's special move along with the mega evolution was really cool. She is definitely as fabulous as her uncle Wallace, whose outfit in this remake is definitely so much more fabulous than before. If you do pokemon contests, I would love to see what pokemon and movesets you use to get all the ribbons! Always happy to see what other people are doing.

Notebooks Galore

All my close friends know I have this weird obsession over ornate notebooks. Recently, I have gotten back into writing so every time I finish one notebook, I buy another one to write in. I try to have at most two empty notebooks in my possession. I learned the hard way after I used up my notebooks and had to find time to go to Barnes and Noble to buy more. Also, I've noticed I have a thing for map designs. I don't know why.

If you own any nice notebooks, please show me and tell me where to get them! So far, I have bought all my notebooks from Barnes and Noble. I'm really looking for other shops so I can have a variety to choose from. Also, if you can't tell, I have been going to the same coffee shop lately.