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Things on the home front are quiet. Nothing is going not that is a big deal aside from me cycling, but we have a new med dosage for that. I am looking forward to having D home for the long weekend. I feel like we haven't had time together in a really long time. Nicky is doing better. He is eating 6 or 7 times a day. We started him out on that TessBrianna suggested and from there he just dug in. I still don't see him putting on weight though. He is painfully thin and when I have to hold him down for his IV I worry that I am going to hurt him. But he is getting stronger and he fights fiercely. I don't blame him. I wouldn't want IVs in my back either. In other news we are going to take Deami to the farm this weekend I think. I feel so horrible but he is really not a social cat. He has so many attitude problems. I can wait for years and it won't change. I don't know what to say to Mr. Martin. I will have to tell him the truth but I'm not looking forward to it.
D just told me that I won't be able to get to Comic Con this year.:( Here is where I whine. I never want to go anywhere and the few places I want to go never work out and I am so sick of it. I get dragged to all these bullshit places I never want to go to and I hardly complain at all and then the 2 or 3 places I want to go don't work. Like TBS is in Anaheim on the 6/3 and I won't be able to go because of traffic. It fucking sucks. /end whinge, sorry for the tantrum.
WoW has been fun. I got a sea turtle mount the other day. I love it but it's not a traveling mount really. Well not on land. It is good in the water. I have been working on 50 pets and now I've decided I want 50 mounts too. I'm at a pitiful 12 right now. I'm at 42/50 pets though... that is something. D says I need money to get mounts and it just bums me out some because it makes me realize that I have questing that I can do now but soon it will be nothing but instances and lets face it... that isn't going to bring in all that much. I am going to have my income slow down. I don't know what to think. I do need to do more instances though. I have been doing runs with Mandarb (D), Annäbell, Laureena and Mclaren. I love Mclaren. Next to Anya he is my favorite person in the game. Of course he doesn't know that and it is best that way... I think he would be freaked right out and hide.
I read two trashy romances this week. It's nice to read. I miss it. I have been picking romances because they don't require a whole lot of work or thinking. I have Fragile Eternity here and I am thinking I am going to start it on Tuesday. It's a lot thicker than Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. Interesting. I can't wait to get back to Seth and Aislinn. I still haven't finished The Vampire Diaries; The Return/Nightfall. I was a little turned off with the direction it was going and I hate Bonnie and so much of the book is from her perspective. Why not Stefan... it is called the VAMPIRE DIARIES. I also noticed on my calendar that Carpe Corpus comes out in two weeks!! New Morganville Vampires. Oh Shane I hope you don't spend the entire book in jail with your dad. I am happy and unsure about where Rachel Caine will go with Morganvile in the next few books. I liked it when Amelie was the unknown evil. I don't like the Bishop story line. I really hope it ends with this book. I also hope that Shane and Claire get a little make out action... she is 17 now. Shane always impied that 17 was the dividing line. Oh Shane... Shane, Shane, Shane.
So I think I want to make some wishes and mayne anyone who reads this could combine their good thoughts and help make my wishes come true, I wish I could go to Comic Con for Thursday and see the New Moon Panel. I wish I could get BlizzCon tickets. I wish that Anya gets WotLK soon so she could hang out with us in Dal. I wish Mand gets a chance to do what he really wants to do. I wish T would come back because I need a break from being in charge. And I wish that I could do more things by myself so that Mand could raid and I could do more than sit and twiddle my thumbs.
Oh and this,,,
Today is Sunday and as usual I am up before D and I want to be a child and jump on the bed and wake him but he has been really tired lately so I refrain. I would like to do a few chores today. Nothing much just small things. Tomorrow I have therapy and that means the day will be shot. And oh how therapy is going to be rough tomorrow. I have a shit ton of neurotic devices to bring to the table... all the downtime when Nielle was here that caused me to shut down. What's going on with Nicky. My not talking to Dr. Scott about the sleeping issues... although some of those have corrected themselves. And I see Dr. Scott this week and I never got my SMA-12 done and lithium level done. We will have to do that tomorrow morning. It looks like I will be going into work with D tomorrow.
So I haven't really given an update to WoW lately. D and I are 80's and have been for almost 2 weeks. I have my JC at 420 and my mining is maxed. Fishing is at 383, cooking at 122 and FA is at 213. I got my Master at Arms for 4 weapons lvled to 400. Anya, D and I have been collecting pets and I have 33 of them... 17 away from the Shop Smart, Shop Petsmart achievement. I am working diligently. I have a game boyfriend who is endorsed by D, his name is Brimm/Brimw. A million years ago he gave me a pet cat in Deadmines and he gave me a mech squirrel last week. I adore him. Today we are going to run Dire Maul... hopefully Anya, D, Brimm, Garvey and me. I would also like to run a lower level instance in Northrend. And I want to work on Iratze and Killsunday. It's a lot of things to do. =/
Meanwhile Nielle is still visiting and today we went to La Brea Tar Pits. I have been fascinated by them since I was in middle school and when I found out I was coming to LA it was one of the first places I wanted to go. Of course now that I live 7 or 8 blocks from them I never go there but I still hold fanciful ideas about it. Today we walked down and did the Lake Tar and museum route. I think it was the most thorough walk through I have ever done of the museum. I got some smooshed pennies and a magnet about the saber tooth cats. It was enjoyable. We also walked to Pit 91 to see the current investigation. It's pretty gross but oddly compelling. I had the staggering thought that all the scientists there passed chem and physics and suddenly my amazement for them grew in leaps and bounds. As we were leavine Nielle wanted to put her finger in the asphalt to see what it would be like. We found her some seepage in the lawn and she stepped in it which I promptly informed her that she wouldn't be allowed in my apartment with that sandal anymore. Then she found a stick and a more liquid puddle and she played for a minute. Black sticky stuff doesn't do it for me. I'm a party pooper.
Nielle is visiting and I have time to post right now because she is sleeping and D is trying to do a heroic run. I have been a bit of a shit while Nielle has been staying with me; logging on and playing leaving her unentertained, arguing things that aren't really that important... my general disinterest in doing anything. I really doubt it has been that fun for her. I kind of bet that she is wondering why she even came at all. We did go to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire at Santa Fe Dam yesterday. We got there before noon and walked around a little bit before trying to get some food. The food selection was pretty slim for vegetarians but they advertised corn on the cob and french fries. Ofcourse after waiting 10 minutes in line for corn the guy ahead
of me got the last ear and it made me pouty and pissy about the whole event. But then we took in some shows and I liked the Washing Well Wenches and the William Shakespeare ones. They were pretty funny. I had never been to Santa Fe Dam before and the area outside of the faire looked pretty nice. Of course it is tons of families and little kids. But the faire part is kind of like county fairs back home. Actually if you subtract the people dressed up than the atmosphere is much the same too. Oh now I am homesick. Anyway back to the faire. I saw a bunch of things that I wanted but I did NOT buy EVERYTHING. I did get a brown flagon that is currently full of cherry juice. I got Belle a present (that I won't mention here because she would pick today to read my stinking Vox). I got my sister a garland. She will probably destroy it almost immediately after getting it. I had a good time and I would probably go back sometime. I think next time I want to buy one of the hand blown glass ornaments. I am kicking myself today for not having got one so I will have to rectify that next time. Oh and I will watch the entire hand blown glass demoinstration. If I wasn't sure that it would be ungodly expensive I would find somewhere to take a class. I probably am too out of shape to do the blowing part of that too. No one make the dirty joke about how I can get into shape.On our way back we stopped in Westwood to take Nielle to Iso and then we went to Santa Monica to the Water Garden by D's work to see the baby duckies. Only the water was almost all gone and the baby duckies are stranded. I didn't like it much. The mom and dad were on the outside and the babies were on the bottom of the pool. They are too tiny to get out. The concierge assured me that they grow up fast and that the mom feeds them grass. Nielle, who knows the ins and outs of baby duckies, told me that they eat bugs and that the concierge woman was making shit up.:)
Now Nielle is sitting here looking at me while I post so I already feel bad about being a little shit so I will leave this post with a comment to the fact that I miss Anya like crazy while I am doing things irl. Soon I will be back to playing and we can do a bunch of exploration places!
I'm really loving Oregon. We drove out to St. Helens, Oregon and Kalama, Washington today and I had this odd sense of everything being familiar but not recognizing anything. I think it all looks like it could be someplace back home. The look of the scenery, the rural setting, the large bodies of water. I could live in a town like St. Helens. I like small towns. And the Waterfalls... I could make weekly trips to them. I could work on climbing hills then and not die from lack of oxygen midway to the tops. :)
So Thursday we went on a roadtrip to the east to find the Viewpoint in and Multnomah Falls. We got to drive by Mt. Hood, which we may have to get a closer look at before we leave, and it is majestic. The only way it could be better is if it were a live volcano. Reminiscent of Mt. Lassen but with more
snow. We stopped at a look out for the Columbia River Gorge on the way to the View Point Inn... D tried to convince me to use the public drinking fountain. I am grossed out by them in general and this one looked like it would commute diseases. But we took a picture or two and moved on. We came upon the Viewpoint Inn and we weren't quite snooty enough to go in but I walked around the grounds. They have a bricked pathway of fans of Twilight. I didn't buy a brick.
Then we finally got to Multnomah. Really impressive, the mist starts hitting you about 100ft from the falls. It's really built up with a restaurant and hiking trail and netting to keep debris from hitting you. It's the cat's meow.
After that we left Oregon and went to Kalama, Washington... where I found something that really made me excited at my last destination. But before that I want to mention that Kalama has three Frontage Streets that all run parallel to each other so it was hard to find Forks High but after trial and error we did. Other people were there trying to ruin my pictures and recounts of what happened where but we powered on and I found where Justin and Bella talk on the walkway her first day. The parking spots for the Cullens and the stairs they use to walk up to the school. Where Bella parked. Where Edward parked the day he took Bella to school. AND D FOUND WHERE THEY WALK UP TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN!! My favorite part of the movie... I wish I had the Carter Burwell piece to crescendo as I walked up the hill. Okay I'm a dork.
Oregon agrees with me. I like it a lot. Things are green and lush in a way Socal just isn't. And so many people are tattooed. I would have found my place if we lived up here and not LA.
So we arrived and had a mini panic when we realized we only had one power cable for our laptops. I also forgot the camera, so it was off to Best Buy first thing. I think the camera we got we will give my sister when we are done with it. Then I yammered on about Oregon beaches and D got us going in the right direction when I saw signs for the zoo... I was lost then. The end of the end.
Can Anyone say kitties, polar bear and orangutans? Yay!!
I am writing because I said that I would and not because I have anything to say. I have played WoW almost exclusively since the last post and all I have to talk about is playing. I got my Jewelcrafting up over 300. I have socket gems now and no idea what to do with them. I need some gems that only fall off of mobs. I might have to go and kill some elites to do it. And elites are tough mofos. We have moved up to Borean Tundra although I don't think I want to stay there. Thinking of moving to Dragonblight. I think that is what it's called. Sylianya and I are adventuring during the day. She is close to getting her mount. No more walking then. T is helping me get my first aid done. I just have to learn how to apply bandages to do the next quest. Something tells me I may fail at it a few times.
As for today... going to shower and then clean up the bedroom some. I will log on and do some BGs. I also need to make a new bank toon. Send all my runecloth too. A quiet day.
Oh my I am weeks behind in updating. I kind of feel like parts of my life are being failed. My apartment is a disaster area. My email commitments have gone to hell. I don't eat properly... okay I have never done that but still. For a while in January I was getting my shit together and now I am worse than ever. I am making a promise right now to post a Vox at least twice a week. Even if nothing new is happening. I can post how nothing ever strikes me as noteworthy. Oh! See? Now that is a lie. Things are noteworthy, I just always feel silly for what is of note to me. So on with this.
Last week City of Glass came out and I devoured it. Hard to believe The Mortal Instruments is over. I loved COG. There were a few places that I almost threw the book and I did scream at it some. The first half with all the Simon stuff when it was my last Jace book, annoyed. I felt so bad for Jace through out though. He more so than Clary. He's my favorite character of the three books. But I am having a hard time not writing anything that would spoil D who hasn't read it yet. I think that after he does I may have to write a play by play, chapter by chapter synopsis. For now it's a new tattoo I can't scratch.
So I think a good illustration of where my mind has been... last week I went 5 days without checking email and 3 without looking at my phone and Belle sent a message that there was a How To Be screener at the Burbank International Film Festival but I got it late and told her we wouldn't be able to go. D told me we were going and I was like what is he talking about... How To Be isn't being released. It was like I was resistant to believing or something. So I went on not connecting any of the pieces and found out late Saturday that we were meeting Belle and Susan at the screener and that we were all going. I enjoyed it. It has Robert Pattinson in it. It's about the neurotic musician who blames his parents for everything that is wrong with his life. He gets a self help guru to come to London from Canada to personally instruct him on how to have a better life and in the course of it everything falls a part. It's funny but awkward and pathetic at times. It will be screening in May again at First Glance Hollywood Film Festival and I would like to go see it again. I hope it gets released. I think Ronny was my favorite. Yeah.
So I have ebeen the world's worst BSG fan. I don't know what is up with me. I watched two eps and then got really stubborn. But no more. I have a plan. Nielle will be here visiting next month and we are watching all 10 eps. We can watch them 2 at a time and still have time for the Ren Faire and Salton Sea or San Juan Capistrano. I am making lots of plans for when she is here. I would take the car and drive her to some of the places alone.... but I can't handle the stress of driving anymore. Especially not in LA. So we will be stuck to the whim of D. Oh and I have to take her to Scoops for vegan ice cream for the win!
I am ruined! You know it was a bad habit that I had for years where I typed all in lower case without punctuation... 2 months into playing WoW and it exists again. It took almost a year to learn to write properly. So it's with a concerted effort that I have typed this entry. I have a role model though. I want to type like Terun. He doesn't type like a jackass at all. I think I'll just slow myself down and make sure that everything I type from now on is pretty and understandable.
As for what I've been doing in game... well I'm a 69. Just a few tens of thousands away from lvl 70. Then all the good stuff starts. We are finishing up Nagrand... we are 2 or 3 quests away from the achievement. We have been playing a lot still with Terun/Deathtoou. We did Ring of Blood as primarily a 3 man. We needed help with the final boss and with Durn: the Hungerer. I'm always pretty amazed by what the three of us can do together. I've been having some disagreements with G since T and I started Tali. He really resents the fact that we didn't stay with him and I get it. It was a betrayal but I wouldn't have been happy in Ring of Fire. I don't know how to get that across. I have been spending a lot of time talking to Thelyon and I wish, wish, wish I could convince him to come to Tali. I don't want to pressure him but he's the kind of people I want to surround myslef with. But hey he could feel about Tali the way I feel about RoF and Warlords. Who knows. I've also been spending a lot of time with Sylianya. She is so cool. We spent the first morning killing big babies and walking to Lakeshire. The second morning we went to Exodar. And Tali... I mentioned it above but it's been a while since I last updated my Vox and I definitely never mentioned that T and I started our own guild. T and ali = Tali. It's small but growing. I hope it grows to be a very successful guild. Low key but fun.
I love this...
I have been caught in a trap and Voxing has been the last thing on my mind but I promised myself that today I was going to do it. A little too much questing and a little too little living in the real world. My life is really in the toilet.
Moderation let me know thy name. So let me start where the trouble stems. I am a lvl 57 now. I traded one dumb hat for another and just have used the interface option to not show it at all. I have run Mara, Sunken Temple and BRD since last posting. Took part of the raid on Zul'Gurub... i died 4 or 5 times.:( I've been doing a lot of runs with Garvey and Terun/Deathtoou. We are questing in Burning Steppes now. Have hopes of lvling to 58 tonight and being lvl 65 by Sunday. It's ambitious, I know.I've been doing a real little of reading. I'm reading You Will Know Our Velocity! in 15 page segments. Jason is going to get the impression that I don't want to read it at all, which just isn't true. I just have this buggy personality and when I obsess it takes up all my energy. I haven't been able to concentrate at all. Of course I'm going to devour City of Glass when it comes out a week from tomorrow. Oh my god am I excited. And in my feed this morning was a Rachel Caine update about Fade Out the 7th Morganville Vampire book. The cover design to the left. So she has the next two books in the box. Oh Shane, I'm wishing happy things for you.
Class has been more interesting. I still think my prof is a tool but I really liked the video we watched in the last class. I liked the debate of Intelligent Design/Creationism and Evolution. Go Evolution go! I'm eager to see what happens in class tomorrow. I hope we actually start learning about something other than religion and politics though. D needs to know about psychology before he goes to grad school.
April is coming soon and we have Portland and Shanny and then Nielle will be coming to visit. Oh fun everyway around. Speaking of Shannon she took the pic to the left and I loved it so much that I snagged it for in here. She is so awesome. And Nielle... when she comes here we are going to do the RenFaire in Irwindale. I'm hoping we can do it on a day when Belle can come too. Note to self: remind D to buy plane tickets.
I haven't been watching hockey but I have been playing fantasy hockey and my team beat James for the first time all year last week. WOOT! D tells me that Chris Kunitz is playing well in Pittsburgh and Ovie is edging in on the 50 spot for goals this year. Go boy! Do DC proud. I can't wait until Thanksgiving this year when we will be in DC and I have high hopes that we can see a live caps game.
love you guys chris.... i'm crying for your loss. read more
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