Happy New Year

A new year is coming bringing a new life and hope to each of us. Make the best of what you have and hold your family close and love them with all your heart. Be tolerant and forgiving to those you love most in life.

It was a wonderful Christmas and I loved spending it with my family. We really had a wonderful time.

I got something for Christmas that I have wanted for years. When my Dad passed away, my Mom gave me her old record collection. I did not have any way to play those records that I grew up listening to. I got this for Christmas, I am so happy!




I also got this as a replacement for the one I was using. I gave the old one I had to my daughter. It has a 17" screen and it is great for playing Wow.



I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

I hope that each and every one of you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will not be posting any on the blog for the next few days. I plan to celebrate the holidays with my family and not spend it online. I have some friends that have really bad weather where they are, Vermont, Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington, Chicago and South Dakota, and I hope their holidays are warm and cozy. Warm wishes to you all and Happy Holidays!

Dalaran

So Calyann the mage was the first one to make it to Dalaran.(Thank you Drossard, you are the best!) Only about 15 levels and she can port there herself :).


I also got a mage port for Cabby.




She got her fishing training done but that was about it so far.

She needed the "Frosty Shake" achievement and managed to find that one...





...but look what happened! Lol. Lot's of folks needed the achievement as well I guess. To get the achivement, you have to have a winter veil disguise kit that turns you into a snowman. It requires a snowball to use. You then go to Dalaran and dance as a snowman on the street. Wait for someone else to do the same with you and you get the achievement.



It was fun anyway.

A beautiful nighttime view of the city from a tower we found during our exploration of the city!


I alse joined a gnome train in the middle of stormwind on an alt I have been leveling a little. It was loads of fun and just too cute. Lots of little gnomes in a train going "Choo Choo", just too cute.

Meet Moonmyst the Druid

Moonmyst is my druid alt.


The others were not able to get on and play the druids as a group. My daughter and I decided to level up our skills. We made the trek to Stormwind and first things first...






... a new look and an achievement!

Then its off to the machine to make me a Christmas elf...



...but someone thought it was Halloween and made my elf look silly!




My daughter and I went off into the world leveling up my herbalism and her mining and hoping to do it without leveling... I dinged ooopsy.



Then it was back to town and more festivities...



Then it was time to level cooking. I had already taken cooking in Darnassus but wanted to learn more while in Stormwind...




... just call me Lunch Lady!




...skinning



...then first aid



...then fishing






It's all in a day's work. It is much better to level this as you go than to wait until later. It makes it so much easier on you. First aid can help keep you alive. Skinning provides income, cooking provides buffs later on and fishing helps level the cooking faster plus adds nice stuff at the later levels.


On a side note...

My daughter is too funny when we are leveling together. She gets impatient with the role playing carried out in the game and the Lich King dialog was no different. She was like "OMG, hurry up please!!!" until it came right down to it then she comes up with this...

Guild of Druid Alts

Five or six of our guildies rolled Druids last night and knocked out the starting area quests. We made it into the next area questing but some of us had to go and one of us had connection issues. We plan to work on leveling these Druids by playing them as a team only and at least a few times a week for now, maybe more.

Our Team is as follows:

Druid Alt       Main Character

Chameleon     -   Lethalor
Moonmyst    -   Cabriella
Rajaah     -   Brieze
Layzerfayce    -   Sinnadyn
Kowbelle     -   WickedSalmon

We hope that more of our guild will join us in our druid only leveling adventure but we will see. We have one Randallrogue who says he already made his to join but, as of right now, I don't know his alts name.




Here we are filling the vials for the moonwell quest, many comments about a hottub were mentioned! Lol.

Meet Cayelia The Death Knight

This is Cayelia. She did all her death knight quests and made it out of the holding area. She is now learning mining, skinning and fishing. I need to get her levels of those up so she can skin, mine and fish in the areas she needs to quest in at her level.





I like the Helm she starts with but the next one you get is ugly so we don't show it.





As soon as she is done with her training, I will be taking her to Winterspring for the Wintersaber rep grind for the blue Wintersaber Mount. She should level some while she is doing this grind, then it will be off to outlands for her.

Camaryn the Rogue...

Camaryn is my rogue. She is level 39 so far. I love to play her alot. I don't know that I play her well, but she is fun. She got the new bear pet from Blizzard for the WOW Anniversary and she has a bit of trouble with him...



... when he gets tired, he sits down!! Lol. Not cool with Camaryn at all. She tries to teach him better.

Equals alot of dead bodies...

The battlegrounds are alot of fun and getting achievements while there is just awesome.

Shaydian and Priestleigh find a new home...

The two newest members of the Renegades Guild. This guild is very helpful and often times chatty. We absolutely love it! Thanks guys for having us join your wonderful family!

House Guests

A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. Although she did not recognize them, she assumed they were hungry, so she invited them in to have something to eat.

"Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No", she replied. "He's out." One of the men spoke for all three, "Then we cannot come in".

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a House together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends; then, pointing to the other one he said: "He is Success, and I am Love. Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!” he said. "If that’s the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!" "Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, Wealth and Success will always follow.” ~Author Unknown

Battleground Question

My daughter made a statement when we went over to alliance side of the battleground from our horde characters. She mentioned that she did not want to fight in the same level battleground as our horde characters. (We have two rogues the same level only alliance) I asked her why? She said because I don't want to kill the same guys I fight with over there! Hmm... I never thought of it that way. I always kind of had the BRK attitude in the battlegrounds, I never really think of them as people, I think of them as standing in the way of my objectives.

A Couple of Battleground Achievements

I rerolled Horde.

I made a little horde hunter and named her Shaydian. The horde side of world of warcraft seems to be more peaceful. I don't know why. I really do like it alot.

Meet Shaydian



My daughter made a Blood Elf Priest and named her Priestleigh. Here we are on our new mounts.




We have leveled them to 39 and have spent the last couple play times in the battlegrounds. It is alot of fun.


My first honorable kill.




Perfection? Lol




Shaydian, top damage and top honorable kills. Not bad for my baby hunter!



On another note, I took Calyann into the battleground again. Boy is it different this time. You know you are in trouble when right at the outset you are rezzing in the cemetery and this is what it looks like the rest of the time in the battleground.





And again...



And again...



And this is why...



Umm, I think I will pass on any battlegrounds that the death knights can go into. That is just no fun. There were 7 alliance to 15 horde players and they were mostly death knights. When you die right out of the gate and stay in your graveyard for the remainder of the fight, that is not fun. Lol. At least they got an achievement!

Random Thoughts:

I guess that after the first of the year, I will start looking for my own apartment. My baby girl does not want me to move from staying here with her and my grandson. I love being here but it isn't like having your own home. I am tired of feeling like a roommate. I have felt like a roommate for the last few years and I want my own place to decorate as I see fit and be able to relax in and call home.

I want to cut my hair but I am scared I will not like it. Right now it is almost waist length and I would love to go short - very short.

I hope it snows... alot! Ha ha, we do not get alot of snow here in North Carolina. We have gotten some good storms but not often enough.

I wish I had a fireplace, I really miss that.

I don't have room for my Christmas tree, I love putting one up and looking at it until after the new year.

How can one person make your life so wonderful yet another can cause it to be the total opposite?

God gave me my handicapped daughter for a reason, I do not question it, I just take care of her for him. I love her with all of my heart and soul. She loves me unconditionally. Would that all of the people we associate with in life be that way.

What makes us always doubt ourselves? When you do something major in life, why do you second guess your decision?

Yellow is my favorite color. Cinnamon is my favorite flavor. Apple-Cinnamon is my favorite scent. Autumn is my favorite time of year.

I have lost 20 pounds even though I didn't need to.

I love banana, bologna and cheese sandwiches. Ha ha!

I guess I am just weird.

I have a myspace. Lol.

My grandma always said: "If life was easy, anyone could do it." I never understood until I grew up.

The holidays are here.

I love the holidays. I love getting together with my family to eat and spend time together. I don't get to see most of them throughout the year because we all have busy lives but, come holiday time, I want to see them all. So Thanksgiving came and we ate our turkey feast and celebrated by spending time together. Now it is time to get ready for the Christmas holidays.

I am going to South Carolina this weekend to see my oldest daughter and my three grandchildren. I will be taking them their Christmas presents and spending some time there. My oldest girl wants me to move there and stay with her in her new house. That is something to think about but since my other children live here, I will probably just stay here. It is a long way to her house.

I hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

So I did it anyway....

I purchased the Wrath of the Lich King Collector Edition. I got the frosty pet. He is adorable. I was planning on waiting until our triple xp is up in December to get the expansion but that didn't happen. I purchased it anyway, took Cabby up to Northrend to look around and went right back to playing on our baby alts for the extra leveling. So basically I have no opinion of the new world yet. I really only took a peek at the first place I went to which was some little town actually. I am not even sure of the name of it Valience or some such. I do want to go to Dalaran though.

I did make a Death Knight so did my daughter. We leveled them to level 58 in the starting area and didn't get to half of the quests there. We put them on hold as well until we can level them without the triple xp. I have to say I like them pretty much.

We made a couple of horde characters and have leveled those up to level 40. We will continue leveling these alts until we have to choose which we want to work solely on after the December 13 when our triple xp bonus runs out. It will be a tough decision.

I am thinking since Cabby is level 70 she will be brought up to level 80 first. I have all the outlands quests to do since as soon as she stopped getting xp at 70, I stopped doing quests. My daughter will benefit from this when she can go to outlands at 60. We will quest together and then be able to go to Northrend. As for our alts, I guess we will level those when we need a break from the higher level characters.

On a side note, the grandbaby is doing great. He is growing like a weed and eats more than any baby I have ever seen. He is a very good baby, he never cries much and is a total joy to be around. He keeps me company and keeps my mind off my real life problems. I have not talked to my exhubby any more, I figure he is happy with his decision and I am still trying to move on from that. It is slow going for me but it will happen eventually. I am just taking one day at the time.

You have GOT to read this....

As one commenter put it:

Barrhona said...
As expected from the Blog-o-sphere's master Role Player, that was an excellent rendition of the the Death Knight starting experience.

Read Ratshag's Death Knight tale here.

As always wonderfully entertaining reading. Even if you don't care too much for roleplaying, you will enjoy this story.

Thanks Rats for all your hard work on your blog. It makes my day to read it!

Cabby :P

Happy Anniversary

So yesterday was my anniversary. Since my hubby and I are no longer together it was not celebrated. He has moved on. He is interested in meeting someone new or has met someone new and I will abide by his wishes that we not try to work out our troubles. All in all, yesterday really sucked.

In Wow, my pally is now level 57 and is on hold for now. I am leveling a rogue. She dinged 31 last night. I really enjoy playing the rogue class. We can't level past level 58 because if my daughter hits level 60 the triple xp stops. I do not plan to get the Wrath of the Lich King as soon as it comes out. We have until December 12 on our triple xp and I see no sense in getting the expansion until after that time runs out. If I get it, I will want to play it and I need to use the triple xp to the fullest.

Real Life Issues

So real life issues have been hitting me hard. My husband and I have not been getting along and I found another place to go. My daughter and I are doing great and life is moving on smoothly. He is of the opinion he doesn't want to work things out.

No further details will be offered. I will not put my private issues up here for the world to comment on. Some things are just meant to stay private.

Oddly enough my WoW time has decreased dramatically. I am hardly ever able to play anymore. I spend alot of time with my new grandbaby and I am loving every minute of it. I used to play while my husband watched tv but now I find the new grandbaby just way more fun! Plus, he will grow up and I will find my way back to playing.

I did manage to get my baby girl to play and with the refer a friend bonus we have managed to get two characters to level 46. She made a hunter and I am leveling my pally. There are drawbacks to the refer a friend...

1. You get triple xp for kills and quests. That is great. Makes leveling way faster but...you fly through the levels and outgrow zones really fast. We find we have to leave the zones without finishing all the quests because they turn grey to us.

2. Leaving the zones early you don't get to level your professions as you go. You leave too soon and your profession level is still in it's infancy.

3. My daughter is new to world of warcraft and with the triple xp and faster leveling it is kind of hard for her to learn all she needs to be the best player she can be. She is doing really good though.

4. For every two levels she gains, she can grant one of my lower level characters one level. I so far have been splitting the levels between my lower alts. So I will have the same disadvantage that she does. My lower level alts will level but I will be at a loss as to how to play them well.

5. Triple Xp Rocks though. You really have to love it, if you like racing through the levels. You have three months to level and as long as my daughter doesn't hit level 60 we can level alts until the three months are up. The triple xp stops at three months or when she hits level 60.

So we will be leveling alts and having a blast and trying to learn all we can during this faster process. Wish us luck!

Meet Calyann the Mage

So my mage has hit level 49 and she is coming along nicely in the leveling department. I decided to hit the battlegrounds on her and see how much dying I could do. I love the gnomes, they are too cute and I wish they could be hunters cause I would be all over that!




My little mage is specced Arcane. Yep, the spec no one does much of. I love it! It fits my play style and works for me. You can see her here.





My BFF (thats our picture up there) started out as a fire mage, I started out arcane changed to frost and went back to arcane. When my friend saw my dps, he respecced to arcane as well. Both of us in the battlegrounds, arcane explosion on the enemies, too awesome to say but I do have a screenie.

Going Back To School At My Age?

I am considering going to school for Therapeutic Massage/Massage Therapy. Since my daughter was born with CP, I have thought alot about it. Well, I am 46 years old and my memory isn't at all what it used to be so that being the case.... am I too old?

I would love to take classes and start an adventure towards a new career. I have been a mother since I was 17 and with four children going back to school was out of the question. Now that my children are grown and only the handicapped one is at home, I have the time to do it so should I?

I am looking for any opinions here and if you say yes then thanks for the encouragement. If you say no, then please follow it up with reasons why I shouldn't.

How God Chooses Mother's of Handicapped Children

Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures, and a couple by habit. This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen? Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to make notes in a giant ledger.

"Armstrong, Beth; son; patron saint, Matthew.

"Forrest, Marjorie; daughter; patron saint, Cecelia.

"Rudledge, Carrie; twins; patron saint.... give her Gerard. He's used to profanity."

Finally, he passes a name to an angel and smiles, "Give her a handicapped child."

The angel is curious. "Why this one, God? She's so happy."

"Exactly," smiles God. "Could I give a handicapped child a mother who does not know laughter? That would be cruel."

"But has she patience?" asks the angel.

"I don't want her to have too much patience or she will drown in a sea of self-pity and despair. Once the shock and resentment wears off, she'll handle it. I watched her today. She has that feeling of self and independance. She'll have to teach the child to live in her world and that's not going to be easy."

"But, Lord, I don't think she even believes in you."

God smiles. "No matter. I can fix that. This one is perfect. She has just enough selfishness."

The angel gasps, "Selfishness? Is that a virtue?"

God nods. "If she can't seperate herself from the child occasionally, she'll never survive. Yes, there is a woman I will bless with a child less then perfect. She doesn't realize it yet, but she is to be envied. She will never take for granted a 'spoken word.' She will never consider a 'step' ordinary. When her child says 'Momma' for the first time, she will be present at a miracle and know it! When she describes a tree or a sunset to her blind child, she will see it as few people ever see my creations.

"I will permit her to see clearly the things I see --- ignorance, cruelty, prejudice --- and allow her to rise above them. She will never be alone. I will be at her side every minute of every day of her life because she is doing my work as surely as she is here by my side."

"And what about her patron saint?" asks the angel, his pen poised in midair.

God smiles. "A mirror will suffice."


This was written by Erma Bombeck

A New Grandbaby

My new grandbaby is here. He was born July 15th and weighed 5 lbs and 12 ozs. He is so sweet. But here is a quick look at him.

Today is my Birthday!

I have been hoping that my baby girl would have my grandson today. She is due any day now, but no such luck on sharing his Nanna's birthday.

I have not been on wow in a couple of days. I have been sick. Also, I have been working on my graphics for my scrapping blog and shop. I hope tonight I can get back to the game.

I bought myself a birthday present, some extra memory for my laptop, and hubby installed that for me. Maybe just maybe my game will run faster for me.

Other than Scrapping...

Aside from my scrapping and in Wow, I have now gotten my little gnome mage to level 41. She is so much fun to play. I have chosen to go frost spec and my best friend in wow has gotten his mage to level 41 too and has gone fire spec. Together we can freeze them in place and burn them down so to speak. I got my mount for her, I went with Darnassus rep and a cat. I just can't get into the noisy, clanking chicken to ride around on! We really have alot of fun questing with these guys. We have alot to learn and I haven't spent as much time reading blogs about mages (I really need to do that!). I hardly ever play my hunter anymore. She is just languishing waiting for the new expansion and level 80. Maybe by the time the expansion arrives I will have two characters to get to level 80. Here's hoping!

I have a new blog!

I have become addicted to digital scrapbooking lately and this has cut into my Wow time quite a bit! But, I love making graphics so along with my oldest daughter we have started making kits for digital scrapbookers to use in their own scrapbook pages. These items are for digital use but may also be printed for scrapbooking purposes as well. We offer premade kits, elements and much more. We also have a few freebies.


Please visit our store and blogs here:

Snappy Expressions (store)

Snap Scrap & Create (blog)

Snappy Expressions Blog

My Alts you ask? Yes, I have them!

Hello, My name is Cabriella and I am an altaholic!

I have way more alts than my friends. Probably more than anyone in the game, but hopefully not. I love to play the younger characters. They level so fast and I am addicted to the leveling process. Sometimes I just like to play alone. Not often, but sometimes. No offense to anyone, even my friends. Most of the time I like playing with my friends.

Nazgrel was my starting realm.

I made alts on Vek'nilash for my Cafemom group to play with those ladies.

Zangarmarsh was our guild horde experiment that has been put on hold.

Kirin Tor is a realm of a friend of my hubby and I play there as much as I can but not often enough!

The other realms, well I have no idea. Just made an alt and need to get back to them and will eventually.

Right now, I am leveling my mage alt on Nazgrel. I have leveled most of my alts on this realm to at least 20. I plan to level them all then start leveling the rest of my alts on the other realms.


HERE'S A LIST:


Nazgrel Realm:

Alliance Side

Cabriella - Level 70 Night Elf Hunter

Calyann- Level 31 Gnome Mage

Caybriella - Level 26 Night Elf Rogue

Pamella- Level 22 Human Paladin

Weelock- Level 21 Gnome Warlock

Liltank- Level 20 Gnome Warrior

Kelila - Level 20 Night Elf Priest

Flowerchild- Level 10 Draenei Paladin

Horde Side:

Shaydian Level 8 Blood Elf Rogue

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Zangarmarsh Realm:

Alliance Side

Carolina - Level 16 Dwarf Hunter

Misspryss - Level 7 Gnome Rogue

Horde Side

Wynter - Level 17 Blood Elf Priest

Reynes - Level 11 Blood Elf Hunter

Shadowspyrit - Level 9 Undead Mage

Darklass - Level 8 Undead Rogue

Whyspur- Level 7 Blood Elf Rogue

Shadowelf - Level 5 Blood Elf Rogue

Kittia - Level 2 Troll Hunter

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Vek' nilash Realm

Alliance Side

Caybe - Level 28 Night Elf Rogue

Cabryella - Level 16 Draenei Hunter

Cabriella - Level 10 Rogue

Wyllow - Level 6 Draenei Hunter

Moonchyld - Level 6 Night Elf Priest

Misspryss - Level 3 Human Priest

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Kirin Tor Realm

Alliance Side:

Cabriella - Level 30 Night Elf Hunter

Kelila - Level 25 Gnome Mage

Callyann - Level 9 Human Warlock

Shedevil- Level 6 Night Elf Rogue

Horde Side

Hedevil - Level 1 Blood Elf Rogue
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Cairne Realm

Alliance Side

Moonspirit - Level 1 Night Elf Priest

Cabe - Level 1 Gnome Rogue

Horde Side

Moonchyld- Level 2 Blood Elf Priest

Spyrit - Level 2 Blood Elf Hunter

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Ice Crown Realm:

Alliance Side

Kittia-Level 13 Human Priest

Cabriella - Level 9 Night Elf Hunter


Horde Side

Jessamia - Level 16 Troll Hunter

Warrie - Level 4 Tauren Warrior


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Sisters of Elune Realm

Alliance Side

Cabe - Level 12 Human Mage

Fanci - Level 6 Human Rogue


Horde Side

Alwynnora - Level 3 Blood Elf Hunter

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Anvilmar Realm

Horde Side

Moonchyld - Level 4 Priest


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Llane Realm

Alliance Side

Silentelf - Level 6 Night Elf Druid

Moonmyss - Level 1 Night Elf Hunter


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Cenarion Circle Realm


Mooina - Level 2 Tauren Shaman

This was for the Runnin of the Bulls Race



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Drenden Realm

Cabriella - Level 2 Gnome Rogue

This was for The Gnaked Gnome Race

Where Are You Now In The Game?

Since Cabriella hit level 70 I have found out quite a few things about my playing WOW. I do not play Cab very often. I only play her when:

* A guildie needs a run through of a dungeon or some help.
* A guildie needs an enchant.
* Our guild decides to run an old instance.
* I decide to run an old instance alone to collect some possible gear for one of my alts. and normally I find someone hanging out around an instance and they need help, I offer to run them through. NO CHARGE! and they get to collect all the loot. I do not mind helping and it makes me feel good about myself. I would feel badly to say ok, I ran you through you owe me!


I have not done any of the quests she has left in Outlands for the gold.

I have not ran any of the new instances nor have I done many of the old ones.
When Cab stopped getting XP, I pretty much stopped playing her. I have alot of quests left in Outlands for her to do when the expansion comes out and she can level again.

I have not done any of the dailies except maybe a few of the cooking/fishing ones for the recipes for her.

I have found that I like getting the xp. I did the Frostsaber mount rep grind, but there ya go, it was a reputation gain and almost like getting xp. I am not in the game for fabulous armor. Neither do I need alot of gold, nor do I want alot of gold. If I need gold on an alt, Cab can go grind for it, but mostly with all my alts I send all items and collected things to my bank alt and she sells them and she takes care of the money for the whole group.

I am not that competitive that I have to have great armor. I did do a few battlegrounds and got a few pieces for her, but that got old.

I AM a casual player. I know some folks say they are casual and maybe that means different things to different folks. But to me, casual means I play when I want to play, which alt I want to play and do what I want.

Stopping in the middle of what you are doing for a few minutes and it not being a problem is casual to me. In a dungeon, there is no stopping, you have to move on for the sake of the group and finish without dying if possible. I personally don't like dungeons. I can and will do them but I don't really like them. The ones my level 70 can blow through alone are fun to do but when I have to have a group I get a little antsy. My guild is great in groups, but we are hardly ever on at the same time and it is hard to get groups for a run in anything. I am not complaining just stating a fact. I love my guild and my guildies. They are a great bunch of people. I have managed to pass my altitus along to three more of them and they are leveling along with us. We are all about the same level right now, but my friend and I are gaining on them since they are on less often than we are.

I do not play alone. I have a good friend that plays with me every night. We quest together and have for a long time. His play style is very similar to mine. We are currently leveling our mage alts.

Playing a new character, learning its ins and outs, gaining levels, doing quests in a different area than before, is all like a whole new game. I guess after I have done it all, then I will have to find something new in the game to do. But, I have a long way to go to get to that point.

And that my friends is where I am in the game at this particular point!

A Prayer

Dear Lord,

I pray for Wisdom to understand my man;

Love to forgive him;

And Patience for his moods.

Because, Lord, if I pray for Strength,

I'll beat him to death.



AMEN

Isn't She Lovely...

This is my daughter Kelly. She is 19 almost 20. She has Cerebral Palsy and is totally disabled. This is her first prom! She was so excited. And she just looked so beautiful I had to post it here. I am so proud. She is the light of my life. Kelly can't talk and walks very clumsily. She is totally dependent on someone else to take care of her. She is like a two year old. She is a full time job but she is so worth it!

I Love You Kelly!

Running of the Bulls

Of course I participated and had a blast! I even convinced my guild mates to attend. My best friend and guild leader and his son attended. It was an awesome turnout and much fun. The guild filled to capacity and then some. There was dancing and a conga line. There were baby cows galore! People (like me) were there 4 hours prior to the race. I had created Mooina days before and logged on to see who may be about. To my surprise there were around 10-15 others already on! Of course I stayed and got into contact by vent, with my guild mates. Two showed up and we proceeded to dance, play some simon says, participate in spelling out BRK, just hanging out waiting for the race to begin.

BRK showed up, so did Ratshag (no finer orc can be found anywhere!). Hecatuul handed out shirts to those of us early enough to get one! Thanks to him for the hard work!

Finally the race begins, the lag gets us at the first hill and the baby tauren pile up. We move on up through the barrens, my guild mate dies in Camp Taurajo and tries to catch back up but can't, in Orgrimmar (I just missed the first zeppelin and had to wait for the second one), past Undercity through Silverpine following the path of dead bodies and skeletons. The mage at Dalaran got me and I died but rezzed and carried on. Through to Arathi and a raptor got me the next time. Rez and on toward Hammerfall. As I am almost to Hammerfall, I see everyone headed back! I don't know where they are going but I turn around and fall in! I find out we are headed to Iron Forge! I make it all the way to the front gates and beyond to the Military Ward before I die again. I rez and go a few feet and die again. They are headed to the tram. I get almost to the tunnel and there is a massive pile of bodies there. Rezzing and running back with as many ghosts as there were live tauren was a hoot! Making it through the portal to the tram only to find 5 or more allies there waiting to kill you was a sight to see. Bodies everywhere. I find then I am in the graveyard at the Eastvale Logging Company. I made it to Goldshire before I had to log off for supper.

Thanks to BRK and Ratshag for the great event!

My condolences to Sharvan's family. May God be with you and comfort you in your time of sorrow. I was happy and honored to take part in such a special event.

Of course, Moooo for Sharvan!

:) Pictures later!

Too Much Happens In Real Life...

... really sometimes real life just takes over and you feel like things are spiraling out of control. But hopefully now things are back to normal and play time can be had!

As for the guild experiment... it has been temporarily put on hold. We leveled to 17 or so and need to find time to get back to it.

Three of the original members of the horde anti pug group (myself included) have made three undead rogues. It has been a blast playing these characters while we wait for the original anti puggers to come back to play. My undead rogue is level 7 and named Darklass. She jumps like a frog and that eating thing they do after you kill someting is just discusting! Gotta love it!

I have been leveling an alliance rogue on my normal server. This is my first male character and I made him and named him after my hubby. Hubby's name is Cabe my new character is named Caybe. He is totally fun to play.

I have way too many alts and I am trying to level up all that I can before the next expansion comes out. Only because I don't want to have to level up sooo many levels later on each one.

Well, that is it for now. I hope to add more later and keep up to date on this blogging thing.

Horde Hunter Pet

Well my friend made it to level 10 on his hunter alt on the horde side. He got his hunter pet quest done and was ready to tame his pet. He had already made up his mind. "I want a ravager!", he said. "Well ok then, let's go get you one". So off we go, two nearly level 11 hordies off to get a ravager from Bloodmyst Isle. We head out north of the crossroads. So far so good. Then out of the barrens, through the guards that my alliance characters have to skirt through the fence to avoid. On up towards Ashenvale. Hmmm, a horde camp ... wait no ruuun! It isn't horde it's those danged 'ol devil looking guys. Sheesh, we made it ok by that one. Oh there is the horde camp. Anyway onward to Ashenvale, wait someone just shot your pet with an arrow, you better just run. So we sacrifice the temporary pet chosen to tag along with us. We run like the wind and no one but piggy dies. We stop and rez the piggy and I heal it and off we go. Up to the edge of Ashenvale. So far, so good. Nothing too bad has happened. We take a detour toward Zoram strand because as an ally I remember seeing what I think is a flight path there. So we pick that up and head back to the road. Down through the woods onward to Darkshore. Now this part will be tricky. We have to sneak up to Darkshore by way of shoreline, swim out to the dock and get on the boat. We take our swim and get to the end of the dock. We have to die and rez on the boat just as it is leaving. "I have never commited suicide before! This is too funny!", I told my friend. We laugh on the corpse run back to our bodies and as the boat is leaving we rez. We jump off the boat before it docks at Azuremyst and swim towards the mountain and around behind Exodar. We swim all the way around the mountain and get to the bridge and head on over past Silverpine (I think its called) and find the ravagers. He tames his pet and then we hearth. All in nights good fun! "We did it!" A fine, proud moment in our beginning horde history!

Our Guild's Anti-Pug Experiment

I took an idea from Two and a Half Orcs and molded it to fit our guild. The idea (you can read their's here) was to have a group of players get together on a new realm and all start from scratch and play as a group once a week. I tailored it to fit our guild and then pitched the idea. I got a great response. Our guild has a few level 70's a few mid 60's and lots of lowbies. Out of our guild members of 60 something we managed to make a 5 man team. Not too bad for a small guild I guess.


I asked for ideas from the members about faction, class, etc. This is what we came up with.

-We made alts on the server Zangarmarsh.
(So no one has help from higher levels or friends there)

-We rolled Horde.
(Being as we all have alliance characters and horde is unfamiliar it's like starting the game all over!)

-We ended up with a group of 5.
(and a greater bunch of people there isn't)

Rogue-Undead
Shaman-Troll
Hunter-Blood Elf
Paladin-Blood Elf
Warrior-Troll
Mage-? (boss and close friend of our rogue, haven't met them yet!)

Mage-Troll ( quit, didn't like anything about the horde)
Blood Elf-Priest? (haven't seen them at all so not sure if they are participating)

-We agreed to level to level 10 and meet in Ogrimmar.
-We run our little group on Friday's at 8 EST.
-We all agree to start with gathering professions at first.
-We hope to get enough with us to make a guild eventually but that isn't our main goal.
-We will take half of our gathered mats to sell for cash and half to keep for later professions.
-We will not level beyond each other more than one-half to one level.
-We will always share as a whole (kinda like you share all your things with your own alts)
-We are a group- not a single individual.
-We will start out in Ogrimmar and quest from there. (at level 10)
-Working on professions can be done away from the group night, as long as you do not gain xp and level.
-Fishing, Cooking and First Aid is recommended for all the characters.

I will be posting more as this rolls along and hopefully we will get some excitement going on in the rest of the guild and can maybe catch up any later stragglers before we all get too far in levels. (otherwise it will be no different than the guild we have now on the alliance side!)


We are going into this knowing most of it isn't set in stone and may have to be adapted. We will just see how it goes. As it is, everyone is really psyched up and has already been hard at work trying to get to level 10 before tonight. We will see how that goes. It seems like it is going to be loads of fun!

Saturday Night Invasions

Some of the guildies were in Wetlands questing. We get a call out that there are horde invading. We ride over and take a looksie. Not much happening. When the higher levels show up they all tend to leave. No Fun. So we head over to Auberdine. There are always horde in Auberdine. It's a daily thing. Sure enough. But for the first time that I have ever seen, the alliance have a raid group started and are killing them as fast as they respawn in the town. I wasn't going to join and even declined the first invite to the raid group. But some horde hunter thought it would be funny to snake trap my pet thus flagging me. Bad idea! I ask for that invite to the raid group from the same person that invited me the first time. I explained why the change of heart and set out to personally whip some horde patootie. Especially a hunter with his freakin snake trap.

During this adventure. I saw a weird glitch in the game. One of the Auberdine Sentinels was stuck in the ground with only her head showing. You could click her and she would speak to you. Needless to say it was quite an amusing sight.





After a while though the horde beat a hasty retreat. Except for one. He just wouldn't leave. He kept rezzing in the middle of town and dying over and over. I guess he finally left when his equipment was busted.

Pretty soon, some more horde came but they are trying to make it to the boat to Darnassus. Well, we follow them over there and pretty much watch them die trying to get through the city. Only a couple were level 70, a priest and a warrior. The rest are lower levels only two above level 10 the rest below. We watch as they die and rez nearer and nearer to the starting area for the Night Elves. Finally, they make it Dolanaar. But this is about the end. The priest dies and never comes back leaving the warrior alone with his lower level buddies. These lower levels just danced around the graveyard for a while then they left. The orc warrior decided to make a run for the starting area. I followed. He had a fast mount, but mine was just as fast. Not being familiar with the area, he ran around and around with me following. I wondered if he was going to do that all night. It was just him and me. Why not dismount and fight? No, he just ran. Ok, well we will see where you go. He took a wrong turn and ended up out on a limb, literally. I whispered my friend and he came to see the sight. It was too funny. Finally, I guess he figured he had had enough and he dismounted on the limb and hearthed. All that trouble getting there and having to hearth out. Not a good night for one orc warrior. But, I have to give him props for tenacity!

My New Friends- Eggman & Gengeoff

We managed to find two new guildies of most awesomeness. Eggman is a spriest and Gengeoff is a warrior. They are of the same age and when on vent they both keep us laughing. It is truly a fun time to hear these two tease each other and anyone else that happens to voice an opinion on whatever the topic of the day is with these two. I love it! They are both really good players and very valuable assets to our guild. I am thankful that we have them and appreciate all that they do for our guild. They are swiftly moving up through the levels while at the same time managing to have fun with the game. They are smart and attentive players and will answer any questions for our lowbies that they can. They are always willing to help with actions or advice. Thank you guys for being so great!

Black Rock Depths

We have been running some guildies through this instance for a few weeks now. It is a huge place. Not so bad for us at level 70, but for the guildies, it has to be a pain when if they get too close to them, all the mobs run past us at level 70 just to attack them. But, we manage ok. So we go into the instance, make it all the way to the tavern or whatever its called in there. The bar patrons are all yellow to us. Well, the guy we are running in here is supposed to talk to someone to get a door to open. Never having been in here before, I have no idea who is who and what is what. Somehow the guy ends up talking to the wrong person, or attacks someone and oh dip, it's on then. The whole tavern starts attacking us, both the top and bottom level. With two level 70's and his level 54 we still don't stand a chance. Too late, you done pissed someone off and he and all his buddies have politely kicked our butts! My two guildies die, somehow I manage to stay alive by being out of aggro range of them all even though I am standing right in the middle of it. The only way out is to hearth out. We decide the only way to finish this is to come back another time maybe they will forget who we are and we can be friends with them again!

Frostsaber Mount

So I have been working on this rep grind since July. It has been a long journey to say the least. I love this mount as it matches my cat Adara. I have not been in any hurry to get this grind done. I wanted to take it slow so I wouldn't get burned out on it and quit. Now that I have it, I totally love it. Each day of grinding, thinking that I would never make it, now seems not so bad. The last bit actually wasn't so bad since Blizz upped the reputation gained for each quest turn in. If not for that I would still be out there grinding away!
It is a beautiful mount.