Best Wow Video Ever!

The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo.

I love this video. I saw it first on Wow.com and they have posted it again today. The graphics and story are made of pure awesome!

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!

More Gaming and New Classes

I started new classes this week. Not so bad actually. So far I still have my 4.0 GPA. I am happy about that.

Gaming:
We have been leveling the baby alts on the PVP realm some. I decided to make us a guild. With help from my friend Jesse, I named it Of Old Friends. I love the tabard. It is brown and white; rather neutral colors I think.





We decided, since we are on a PVP realm, we needed to make Death Knights. We put our lowbie alts on hold and created the girls! LOL My friends are cool like that. They feel comfortable playing girl toons and I do not mind at all. The Draenei (Kastrina) is my friend Bob. The Human(Sugarbush)is my friend Jesse. And I am the runt of the pack- the Gnome (Tinette).




We managed to get out of the starter area on the second night of playing together. Then we take some time to level our skills a bit. We have to gather stuff while we play or we do not have any gold coming in to finance our toons.


The very first quest, we get attacked from the sky by the horde. They kill my friend and I try to attack him but he runs! Little chicken. Another kills me later during the same quest. They wait until we are split apart to attack us. Anyway, two are waiting as we head back to Honor Hold to call it a night. One troll DOT's me up as I run through to the inn. I die as I reach the innkeeper. Stupid DOT's! That is a picture of my bones. LOL I already see, this is going to be fun.

Sample of my poetry....

I may start putting some of my poetry up here. This is the first time I have ever put it up for the world to see. I am a little nervous! :)

A Heart for You

This heart of mine belongs to you now
It is a strong heart; made that way over the years
By finding and losing what it thought was love
But nothing ever touched this heart the way that you do
It is always happy to see you
Your smile makes it melt; your eyes mesmerize it
Your touch can set it on fire; your gentle voice soothes it
This heart is a good heart
Not too many scars that are visible
Or hide the goodness inside
It tries to see the best in everything
It is not a hateful heart
It will never hurt you in any way
It is an "old" heart
It has lived several lifetimes inside this body
It is a wise heart
It "knows" what can happen
But, it is a brave heart
It isn't afraid to take a chance at finding what it searches for
It is a warm heart
Full of love and affection, it will give you all you need and still have more
It is a patient heart
It doesn't get in too big a hurry; it knows what's worth waiting for
It is an empathetic heart
It will always consider how you would feel
It is not a greedy heart
It will never ask for what you can not give; it will never be able to use "things" or "money"
It is a giving heart
It will give everything to you, freely
It is a careful heart
Ever watching and waiting
But mostly, it is a gift
Giving you love, steady and true, always there for you
No matter what happens
Every time you need it
And this heart loves you very much!
By:Pamela Merritt

Remarks from the teacher....

Outstanding work! Every class I teach there are one or two exceptional students who are a genuine pleasure to work with, and you are one such student. You clearly have a strong grasp on the subjects we discussed, and it showed in your exemplary grades. It's a pleasure to have students of your caliber in the class, because your classmates and I all benefit from your ideas and knowledge. Keep up the great work!


This makes all the hard work worth the effort. :)

Finals are over... gaming begins...

I took my finals this past week. I do not know my grades yet, but nothing was absolutely too hard.

My friends have made new toons on a different realm. You know me, I am all over that! I made a new Cabriella. She is a Draenei Hunter. No Night Elf this time. I am kind of tired of the Night Elves. My friends Sinnadyn and Lethalor both made warriors. Sinnadyn made a Dwarf and Leth made a Draenei. These new toons are on the PVP realm of Arthas. This will be interesting. I have never played very far on a PVP realm. I hear ya have to watch your back.

My friend Sinnadyn started his toon first, so he lends me some cash to get started. Thank you Sinny, you are the best!

Cabriella is cute. She made it through the starter quests on Azuremyst or at the crash site rather. Here she is:




Yeh, I know, she is in Auberdine. That is the most recent picture of her. I didn't take a starter pic of her. :(

Anyway, she quested alone trying to get to level 10 to get the pet. I already knew I wanted a bear. I hear there is a Spirit Bear coming in Cataclysm. I want to be ready!

The quests in Azuremyst are quite different. I can't say I like that area much. This quest has to be my favorite. It is called the Totem of Coo I think. You get wings to fly:



I must say, Blizzard has certainly made the beginning levels easy. There are all kinds of things that pop up now to tell you what to do next. Little mini boxes that explain a lot of things that were not there when I first started this game. It is great. The starter areas have all been changed to yellow so nothing there attacks you anymore. It is great! Just what an altoholic loves. :)

Cabbie hits level 10. Yay! I can learn to tame pets now!




So Cabbie heads off to Exodar. She has to go talk to Kella Nightbow about how to tame a pet.

First tame a crawler:




Then a Strider:




Lastly a Cat:




Now, I know how to tame pets. Before I can tame the one I want, I have to learn to fish so I can feed it. I am not buying its food. And if I am going to fish I have to be able to cook. Buff food later on is the way to go!






Then I get to Journeyman Fisherman: I wanted to get this level in fishing so I can do the fishing quests in Auberdine because I plan to go there to quest after I do some of Westfall.



Cabbie also learns a couple pets that were waiting in the mail when I got to Exodar. I bought the Collector's Editon of the Wrath of the Lich King and I get a Frosty pet on all new toons!







Learning the Journeyman on some skills that I will need. The skinning will provide me with some cash to keep going. I also took Herbalism. I love flowerpickin!





Now I head to Auberdine, catch a boat to Stormwind and time for a new doo for the achievement:



Now First Aid needs to be worked on you never know when you might need a bandaid :)



Now take the tram to Ironforge and head out to the Northgate Pass to tame my bear!



Her Majesty







That is the bear I tamed near Ironforge. Mangeclaw, it used to be a level 10 but now is level 11. I was disappointed when I got there, luckily I only had a few bubbles to go to level 11. I just killed pigs and dinged and tamed. I named her, Her Majesty because she just is!

Then on to Westfall an quest. I have to have the Chicken pet. She looks so dorky doing that:



After Westfall, I head to Darnassus and do all the low level quests for rep so I can buy a Cat mount. I can get the "Going Down" achievement in Shadowglen. It is the easiest place I know to get it. I do it on all my toons!




Then I finish up there and head to Auberdine and start my questing there. That is where we are now, hanging in the inn in Auberdine.

I am all of level 17. The plan, to play tonight and tomorrow as much as I can. New classes start on Monday. "Research Writing" and "Psychology:Why we do what we do". Sounds interesting huh?

New Year's Resolutions

1 Study hard.

2 Make more game time.

3 Level my alts... lol well that may take all year!

4 Keep family close.

5 Watch more NCIS, and Law & Order SVU. These are my new favorite shows!

6 Did I say more game time? yeh!