13 posts tagged “world of warcraft”
Two months ago I made a trip home and I took a bunch of pictures and then I never took them off the camera. Why? Well because ---->me<---- = lazy. But it is done and without further ado....
I love my sister and one of the first things I did was go home to my parents house to hang out with her. She is a bit of good ball. Atleast she wasn't making faces in this picture. Leaving in LA now makes me appreciate more
I made sure to go home for the 4th of July because my family has always done the 4th together. I don't really feel like they do much else together but this is like a special time. I almost feel like I am a part of a family then and that is something since all the rest of the time I feel quite removed from them. We went to a ball game to have it be rained out and then diverted to Roamingwood. It was a tiny private lake in the Hideout. I was
Philadelphia is a 2 hour drive on the turnpike and my sister has never really been so David and I packed her in (and I promptly fell asleep because I could not do EST hours) and took her to her first trip to Philly. Baby lemurs awaited us.
So to do a quick catch up... I play WoW still... A LOT!!!! Most days for atleast 12 hours. We have up to the General done in 10 man Ulduar, Lord Jarraxus in 10 and 25 man ToC.... No 25 man Maly:(. We have Kolo downed in 25 Uld but no IC and Auriaya handed us our asses last night. Mand and I started new toons. Two Draeni, a hunter and shaman. I like the shaman but it isn't Ali and I don't think I want to give up on Ali. I bought a mount on ebay the other day... it hasn't arrived yet. I hope the guy wasn't a fraud because it was expensive. I promised Mand that I would ride it instead of my kitty. I won't disappoint him.:)
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
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.
I read two trashy romances this week. It's nice to read. I miss it. I have been picking romances because they don't
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
Oh I am getting too excited. It's only 22 days until City of Glass. I have been reading the COG cookies at Cassandra Clare's My Space and I am completely abuzz. The earlier cookies were longer, the last two were snippets. And I love the picture from the tour to the right with Sebastian as the dark angel and Jace as the light. Oh but I don't want it to end. But she has her new shadowhunter series The Infernal Device. I just want more Jace and Clary.
I watched all the video and read the articles about Rob over the last few days. I love that he is still clueless as to why he is so popular. I was a little disappointed to hear that Little Ashes was pushed back to May 8. But incredibly happy to hear that Eclipse has been greenlit (is that the right tense?) and should be out June 10, 2010. There just isn't enough Twilight stuff for me. I haven't gotten my dolls yet but I plan to.
Note in the pic right that Ali is wearing pants instead of her robes. It's like she's naked.
We had a couple of good runs over the weekend we ran mainly with Kaei and Garvey and interchanged others. We played with Nasmirn and Dawsacre which I love running with, even if Nasmirn was a bit of a tool. He did give me 10 pieces of heavy leather so I could level up my tailoring. I was going to play after I wrote this but I don't have time before I have to get ready. I think I will take my computer with me and play at Iso. I also have the new Vampire Diaries book to start. Maybe in the waiting room.
Sunday bloomed early and we played more WoW and got ready to head home. I wanted to see some missions and we started at Mission San Jose in Fremont. I loved the ceiling of this mission. I thought the raw wood and chandelier effect was beautiful. The altar was simple and elegant. I love missions so hard. I wish this one had better grounds but it was pretty high up there in rating. It's small and I think I would like to see it when it isn't raining. Maybe we will visit it again.
I don't know why I like missions so much. D has a theory that it is because they are like art rather than religion and that is as sound as anything else that I can think up. I am always looking at the altar and because I'm not that well versed in biblical stories or religious iconography I don't know what it is depicting but I like it all the same. I loved San Juan Capistrano and it didn't have a chapel though so it isn't a pre-requisite. I think I'm going to collect the mission figurines from each place we go.
Can you say road trip? Later this morning D and I will be leaving to go to SJ for our Sharks weekend. I am so excited. We are staying in a hotel a hairsbreadth from the Shark Tank and our room has a jacuzzi! It will be good times. I am hoping to stop by some missions around the area if we have the time. The Mission Dolores is in SF which might be too far out for us to get to today. But Mission San Jose should be do able. Mission Santa Clara shouldn't be too far away either. Then for Sunday I'd like to take the 101 back and stop at Santa Cruz definitely and maybe a few others like Mission San Juan Bautista or San Carlos Borromeo which is touted as being the most beautiful of the missions. We can take it easy on the way back though... we don't have to rush. It's not like we go north all the time. This will be the first time we have been further north than Paso since we left Chico. All we really lose is questing time and we can make that up over sleep.
Speaking of questing... We are in Desolace now and I have to say it is my least favorite of all the lands. Although we were in the Barrens the other night and got attacked by NPC and some little shit Horde characters and killed us while we were fighting a lvl 40. I died quickly. D was impressive but couldn't take all 4 things at once. It was mad carnage on us. It sucked. I was reading some articles and player's guides this morning saying I should auction more of the stuff I get rather that just selling it off. And auction more stuff I mine too. Some people will be too lazy to get it on there own and you get more in an auction house than you do selling to a vendor. It's something to consider. My goals for playing over the weekend... and this is keeping in mind that we are traveling and will be doing other things so I am aiming low. I would like to be a lvl 38 by Sunday night and have 2g more. Nothing lofty.
I am still reading You Shall Know Our Velocity. I seem to not have gotten very far in the last few days. I'm getting closer to Thursday all the time. I think I am going to read the last 15 pages of this part in the car before we start listening to the audiobook. What I have been reading is Gena Showalter's Heart of the Dragon. I liked it differently then the Nymph King. I think I found Darius more callous. I liked whatever the Nymph King's name was. In both books I loved Layal, the Vampire King to be dastardly enough to make me melt a little. I love my villians. I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon yesterday including YSKOV, so I could own my own copy. I also ordered Nightfall, the new Vampire Diaries book. I don't have high hopes for this book. I think it has been a long time since the others were set and LJ Smith's mind isn't in the same place and that she will change their world when I liked the world they had already. Well, except for Bonnie. But I miss Stefan. We will just have to wait and see. I also ordered Dream Warrior, the new SK book. We will see how it goes. They are becoming formulaic. I wish she would take more time and write fewer better quality books. Not too long until City of Glass. Oh Cassandra Clare, I am so so so very excited. Almost a month now! I think it will be City of Bones that we listen to in the car. It's been a little over a month since I last gave it face time.
I woke up an hour ago singing the Canadian national anthem. I don't know why but it's stuck in my head. Maybe it is a little leftover from seeing the hockey game on Thursday night. The flames prevailed to win it with a 2-0 shutout. Belle enjoyed her first game. Paul and Amanda had a good time too I think. Ollie was over the moon because his team one. I think Mikey was just drunk. I was happy because I got to see a whole minute of Dion playing the way Dion played last year. I have to glean my Dion happiness wherever I can. I'm still a fan but man he is tanked this season. Only a week a way from watching the Sharks play. My Torrey jersey came. I swim in it but I am happy about it all the same. Go Torrey. I hope you might be back in time for Saturday's game.
So WoW is going well, although I think I have been a lvl32 forever. We did the Gnomeregen and that went well although a lot of heals. I have been thinking a lot about guilds and the last few days we have run a couple dungeons with his guildees and they haven't been asshats. I am just afraid to commit. I don't want to choose poorly. I have it in my mind that once I pick that's it for life. I know that isn't true but I still think that. I'm interested in where our next dungeon mission will be.
Speaking of guilds, I finally caught up on the Guild. The one before last I watched when I was falling asleep. I remember only bits and pieces clearly which is a shame when it is only 5 minutes long. There was a part with Clara and Tink selling Codex that was pretty horrifically funny. The last Guild was pretty good. I think Zaboo stole it for me and Vork and Bladezz talking to him about the duel was hilarious. Of course the entire show is a bunch more funny now that I'm playing WoW. The dynamic is better understood if you know from where they are coming from.
I'm still reading the Eggers book with Jason. It's going pretty well. I have a strange resistance for Will's thinking when we are submersed in his head. Jason's right, it is all very Kafka-esque and I'm not sure that I like that much of Kafka. I still like Hand though. Eggers has these phrases and these statements that I love. He was right. He was a titan. We were again golden. I just love the imagery it brings to mind for me. I won't get to the next park until tomorrow, as D and I are going to spend the day playing WoW.
It's been raining a lot lately. LA floods and it gets chilly. I kind of love it. Right now it's coming down and I have the blinds open so I can look out. Of course being who I am, I want to look at it but I don't want to be out in it.
