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!

Leveling and Other Game Stuff

We changed the name of the guild back to Spirits of Retribution. Since all the old crew have come back together. We are steadily growing and have several new level 80's that have joined. Running dungeons shouldn't be hard to do from now on.

I am having to level Weelocke my gnome warlock. She was level 37 and I maxed out her professions at 300. She has alchemy and inscription. She has to get to level 50 to train those professions again. Sooo, I am on a leveling spree with her. I used to hate playing her. I have gotten her to level 40 so far. She has actually turned out to be quite fun. I am enjoying playing her. She does monstrous damage and her pet can tank anything! So maybe getting her leveled up might not be as bad as I thought it would to begin with.

Everyone has moved their mains to the new realm and joined the guild. We have I guess around ten to twelve level 80's. Hopefully we can do some ten mans soon. I have never done one of those. :)

School is going great. I still have my 4.0 GPA. I graduate in April of 2011. That isn't really that far off. Lol. Yay, me. I love my classes. It is hard but good. I can tell my memory is a lot better than before. Using my old brain whipped it into shape ... somewhat. hehe It's all good. As long as I learn something, I am not complaining one bit. Meeting new people in class and enjoying the daily life of being a student and mom. Can't beat it.

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. :)