All Done!

I finished my Associate's degree on July 10th. I started my Bachelor's degree on July 19th. That was not a very long break in between, thanks to my school changing its attendance policy.

Learning teams are a very new concept in my schooling. You are paired with others, and you all do the work, then everyone is graded. If somone does not do his or her part, you are responsible to get it done. So far, my team is great and everyone is doing his or her part. I just hope that continues into the final.

In the game, I am not doing much playing this week. I just returned home from spending the last 10 days in South Carolina with my daughter and grandkids. I had a wonderful time. It was good to see and spend time with them!

I need to start working on my baby alts. I did manage to get my hunter from level 84 to level 85. I am working hard on getting my death knight to level 81. I am also trying to get her mining and herbing levels up to match her leveling level so she is able to pick/mine the nodes she comes across in Mt. Hyjal.

Most of my friends have stopped playing. They either went to Rift or stopped all together. I still have my small guild. It is not very active. I also trimmed my real-id list down to one person not including my daughter.

I plan to spend the next week or so in game. I am going to level some professions and some alts. I want to see how many I can get to level 85. Ha! right... well here's hoping!

:P

Finishing Up...

One more week left and I will be done with my Associates degree in Psychology. Yay, me!!! I still have my A...woot!

It is a good thing I like school. I start my Bachelors degree on July 19. Only about a week break in between the two. Sheeeesh. I need more WoW time!

So, in the game... My hunter Cabriellä, is now level 84, almost 85. My mage Cabrìella, is level 84 almost 85. My death knight, Deysia, is still level 80. I have a new baby hunter, Cabryella, who is not so much a baby anymore... she is level 54. So my game time has not been too bad lately.

My daughter and I have started leveling a couple of Shaman. My shammy, Issera, is level 47. So is her shammy. It has been fun playing them. I have only had one other shaman and I deleted her at level 20. However, I am having fun right now with this one. We are leveling elemental.

The guild is doing fairly well. I am inviting people to make it grow. Trying to level it to get more experience is tough. The new people are all nice so far. My friend Brutal came from Kirin Tor to join us. He is awesome.

Life is good. Times are tough all over anymore. Friends are rare but loved. Family is close and loved more. Remember your raisin', live each day like it's your last, and love all you can. You will not get another chance! Do not waste your time on things that do not matter. If you have your doubts, then they probably do not matter as much as they should!

:P

A Trip to the Other Side...

My daughter and I have been playing horde. I have leveled my death knight to 76 and she has leveled her priest to almost 72. We both wanted to experience all we could of the horde side of things before Cataclysm comes out and destroys the entire world of Azeroth. It has been going great so far.

We are now just into Dragonblight and with her heals and my blood spec, we downed a couple elites with just the two of us. The last elite was level 74 which was at the time 3 levels above her. Everything went well right up until we died the first try. The second try with a little more planning we got him. We are trying to get these girls to level 80 and plan to start on leveling something else. We both have quite a few alliance toons but, we both wanted to try out the horde side, and we like it. We think we might end up neglecting our mains, or making these our new mains.

My hunter has been level 80 for what seems like forever. I do not even play her much anymore. I haven't done many dungeons so she is not geared. However, I am thinking I may research tanking on my death knight and give the dungeons a try as a tank. I already have a good healer to go with me. :)

Snow, Snow, Snow

Snow! We have had quite a bit of it this year. We don't usually get much snow. We had a good snow last year. It will usually skip a year or so before we have another good amount again. It is pretty though. I love it. But, I am ready for the warmth of Spring. I just hope we have a Spring and not go right into the heat of Summer!


This is in my back yard. I still have about an inch on the ground this morning and it melted all night!



It was a heavy snow. It caused some trees in my back yard to break. Poor birds, they won't have anywhere to hide now with the trees gone. They flocked to my bird feeders on my back deck. They love it! It seems good to be able to have bird feeders and decorations on my deck and decorations in my house! I can't say I like plain walls much or teenage-like posters on the walls. :) Give me decorations! Anyway, here are some pics of the birds eating at the feeders...






I haven't been in the game much lately. I hope to change that soon. School has kept me busy and I spent the night at my daughter's house over the weekend and played with the grandson. He is such a cutiepie.


Nana's little bug. I love him!

Soooo, How Is Life Treating You?

School keeps me busy. Psychology classes are great but, I can do without Sigmund Freud. Personally, I think he is an idiot. But, anyway.... I am learning why people do things they do... like drinking and smoking and what it is they are trying to compensate for with these activities... umm yeah... but what they are really getting in the bargain isn't worth it.

The game... leveling a Pally on the PVP realm. Leveling on a pvp realm is always fun. You are running along questing, minding your own, when out of nowhere someone attacks you and you are dead. One hit! Dead! I don't get it??? If you are 20 levels over someone what do you get out of killing them? It isn't my kind of fun. I don't mind the death part or the running back to my body to rez and die again. I just don't get what you get out of killing someone that is so much lower level than you and then camp the bodies? I mean you killed me a lowbie, you have to wait until I rez so you can do it again?... that does something for you?...Geeez, Dude, Get a life! hahaha now that that is out of my system...

Leveling the pally with my daughter's priest... we are level 65 and 64 respectively. It is a pretty great combo. Well, until the 80's come and set up camp...yeh yeh, I am over it....moving on hehe

Doing pretty well with the economy on the new realm. Big realms with a queue to log in, have the best economy or at least this one does. Nazgrel and Kirin'Tor are very poor realms compared.

We have started running dungeons to get Cab her gear, because my gear sucks big time. Last night, she got the Staff of Trickery. A very nice purple staff. I bought a 300 gold enchant to put on it as my enchanting isn't high enough to do it myself. We ran Violet Hold for that one and we ran Utgarde Keep for a bow that didn't drop. Oh well, maybe next time. It has been awesome running with Sinnadyn and Drossard (Lethalor) again. They are my two best friends in the game not counting my daughter. Drossard talked an 80 mage into joining our guild and we hope to do a lot more dungeons.

Love is in the air... yes it is that time again... in game the Valentine's Day festivities are underway. I am trying to do them when I can and it is not my favorite holiday in game. I do have to say, I want a shot at the level 80 trio they added to Shadowfang Keep... that is one of my favorite lowbie dungeons and I would love to tackle these guys ... hopefully our guild will do that soon. In the meantime, I will keep leveling the pally, death knight and working on Cabby some decent gear. Yay! for good friends and loads of fun!

Whew....

The hustle and bustle is over. Time now to relax and get ready to get back to my studies next week. Christmas was great. It is always fun to spend time with the family.

I got a new desk for my desktop computer. I love it. It has shelves and a drawer and my computer fits on it perfectly. I have not been on the game much at all. I have been enjoying the holidays.

I have been rearranging my furniture and doing some heavy cleaning. I finally got it all done and am ready for the winter. I will do it again come spring. I found some vanilla scented plug ins and now my house smells like vanilla.

All the Christmas decorations have been tucked away until next year. All in all it was a great holiday.

I hope to find some time, before school starts back, to play my game. I want to finish leveling some of my alts to level 80. Well, here's hoping.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Christmas break is finally here. I have two whole weeks of no school to rest my weary brain. I won't do it though. I have two projects due the week I go back; although I have started on them, I will finish them over the holidays.

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your wishes come true. I am thankful for my friends and family. I apologize to any I have wronged in the past, regardless of my reasons at the time. If you feel I have wronged you, then I am sorry.

I plan to play the game while on vacation. I am excited to get some playtime in. I will be leveling on Vek'nilash. I have a new hunter named Ariandri and a priest named Januarie. I am multiboxing these two young ladies for the triple xp from the refer a friend. I get triple xp for kills, quests and reputation. It is different. Lol.

Christmas at my house on Christmas day. Chicken pastry, honey baked ham, collards, yams, and more(yum). I didn't want turkey again. So something different is on tap with the pastry. Maybe I won't have days of leftovers! Kelly and I can only eat so much!

Well, I am off to play a bit. Here's to getting all you want for Christmas. Sometimes a phone call or email will suffice to make someone's holiday special. Call or write someone you love today. If you don't tell them they may never know. They can't read your mind!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all, thank you for reading.

Not Enough Time To Play The Game

School is taking up most of my time now. I have a lot of work to do and I want to keep my good grades so no play time for me :( Even though it is taking a lot of hard work, I still love it. I want to keep my A's and am working hard to that effect. It is still awesome and I don't mind the hard work. However, assignments that cause my head to hurt really suck! LOL

Game time... yeh I have played some. I am leveling a hunter on Vek'nilash. She is level 28 and doing well. When the expansion comes out, I plan to level a Worgen Hunter. Shapeshifting might not be all that, but I like the fact that before shapeshifting the worgen look like humans. I wanted a human hunter when my hubby first gave me the game. (Yeh, I know, he isn't my hubby anymore, but I guess he always will be to me)

Christmas is coming fast. I have been cooking and freezing collards for the winter. (Yum) All the decorating is done, the family is coming for Chicken Pastry on Christmas day and all is well in the land of me! I don't think I can stand another week of left over turkey, ham and such so, chicken pastry is on the menu for Christmas.

I headed over to Meadow to see the lights (meadowlights.net). As always, it was beautiful. I stopped at the little candy store and bought some candy. Santa was there. Kelly had fun looking at the lights and she liked the train. She doesn't care too much for Santa. haha

Looks like I have some time for gaming this morning so I guess I am off to the land of WOW for some relaxing fun!

A Very Happy Birthday...

Today is my birthday. I am 47 years old. I am spending it with my grandsons. Family is very important to me. I promised my grandsons they could come spend the summer with me when they got out of school for their summer vacation. They had been looking forward to it since I got my own place way back when. I had told them I had to have my own place first since my daughter didn't have room at her place when I stayed there. We have been having alot of fun.

As for the game, I have played some, but not as much as I would like, since the kids have been here. I did manage to get my son interested and he has downloaded and installed the game and is in the process of creating a character. I see more game time in my future as I introduce Azeroth to him and his wife. I can't wait.

I have been playing my mage again and also playing my death knight. I love my mage, she is arcane specced and has been since I first started playing her. My death knight... is just ok to play. It isn't really hard to play her and I think maybe the melee kind of fighting isn't the best style of play for me. I love my hunter and my pet tanking is awesome. I miss that on my mage, but I love playing her anyway. I tried a warrior once and it wasn't for me. I also have a level 59 pally but like the death knight... I just can't seem to get it. I have struggled through the levels...But, I will keep trying and hopefully I will get an understanding for this playstyle. Or well, here's hoping.

I have alot of alts. I like playing them in the early stages, the leveling to me is addicting. I don't mind the same quests over and over. I actually like it because I know exactly where to go and what to do. I have too many alts though to fully get a good understanding on how to play them as well as I do my hunter. Since my hunter is level 80, I plan to take each alt to that level and maybe doing so one at the time, I will better understand that class. Playing this alt then that alt does not help the situation at all. So maybe this new game plan will work out for me. Again... here's hoping :)

I have not been updating my blog much lately but will try to do that more often with more playtime. I am looking forward to it actually. I have a nine day vacation coming up here soon and after that... game time is on!!!