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.