Expansion!

So it's been a few days now, and I have had a chance to absorb some of the new content in World of Warcraft's newest expansion, Wrath of the Litch King.  The new areas are beautiful!  The monsters/animals/etc. are beautiful!  It's all shiney and new, and I am not even slightly disappointed.  The queues have been horrible (I am currently number  293 in a queue where I started out at 947) but it isn't a huge suprise.  After a few weeks it will balance out and be more normal.  It's been nice to have the game feel exciting and new.  David and I have been having fun questing together and taking in the new content.  Life is good :)

WoW Patch Day

Today is one of Blizzard's infamous patch days.  I am having flashbacks to the early days of the game when patch day was both something to look forward to and to dread.  Patches mean fixed bugs or new goodies.  They also mean more bugs and days of unplayable time.  It is 7:15pm and I have yet to be able to look in and make sure my characters are as they should be.  I'm glad I'm not in a raiding guild right now.  The pressure to get logged in and all updated (new spells, etc.) before the raid can be a bit much.  Now I just have to get past my impatience.  Stupid patch day.

New Character

Last night we rolled spacegoats (Draenei).  It was time for something different.  I think we are still feeling a bit lost since we quit our raiding guild.  The best part is the bleating sound Elfy makes while he's playing his spacegoat.  hee hee

Fast Flappy Flappy

Driel has really crappy gear, but she has her suppa fast flappy flappy thanks to being able to do dailies and 2000 gold from Demonsfury.  This weekend we did dailies, and ran around doing the flame quests for the seasonal event in game.  I think we made about 600 gold doing those, and we got a pretty dress.  Today we ran around on some characters we don't play as much;  Demons on his hunter and I actually played my beloved Chala.  We ran around with our two favorite warriors and caused some mischief with some stupid alliance.  It was just what I needed.  Last week at work was kind of intense, and tomorrow is going to be more of the same.  It was nice to have a low key gamey weekend.  Now, I need to work on Driel's gear and maybe running some instances with Chala so as not to lose my healing skillz (it has been awhile).

The Grind Never Ends

So if I'm not grinding for rep/faction I'm grinding for gold.  Driel needs a suppa fast flying mount.  The one she has is too damn slow and she hates it.  Chala likes to rub in that she can zip around on hers.  Driel gets mad and reminds Chala that she (Chala) can't kill stuff without help.  It's a big jealous mess.  So, I've been doing all kinds of dailies.  It's nice to be able to do them without needing help from someone.  I'm really enjoying my priest.  Sometimes I find myself thinking "Chala who?" but I do miss the healing.  I'm hoping maybe when the new expansion comes out there will be some new raiding opportunies.  Hopefully by then Driel will have her suppa fast mount.  I guess I have a goal!

Faction/Rep

Grinding for either one sucks.  

Did You Know...

that if you file a lawsuit against somone or are a named party in a lawsuit that your blog is fair game?  They can request-and you are required to provied-any diaries, journals, notes written and electronic.  This includes blogs, myspaces, facebooks etc.  Anywhere you have written and maintained information.  When I'm posting to my other blog about work things, I think about that and I have to think about what I say.  I'm not expecting any legal issues, but it's something I deal with every day so it's kind of always in my mind.  I guess the only safe place to vent is in my mind.  Just something to think about with today's sue happy mentality.  *grumbles*

Dailies

I am such a dork.  I logged in this morning, even before I got ready for work, just to do my cooking and fishing dailies.  On Driel, my shadow priest (face melter in training), I need to get my suppa-fast flying mount.  In order to do so I need $$, and lots of it.  I've sort of started the painful grind.  I have 800 gold, I need 5000 gold.  *dies*

It will happen.

Mini Pet I Did Get

So the bug farming was driving Demonsfury insane, and I pretty much didn't have the patience to farm the drop that someone else might snatch out fro under me... so I farmed up Sporegar rep and got myself a Tiny Spore Bat.   It didn't take long, and I made some money picking up all the crap and selling it.   Now I'm farming rep to get a Riding Talbuk.  That rep grind is very slow going and pretty evil.  I'm not making as much money, and there is more competition.  Oh well, it's not like I'm raiding so I have plenty of time to farm up really odd rep for twink things.

Captured Firefly

I want this.  Instead of cooking and fishing, which I still need to finish leveling, I was on a mission to get that.  I did play some alliance, but shhh don't tell.  

I don't really have anything else to say.  I have been blissfuly brain dead the last few days, and loving every minute of it! :)

Fishing and Cooking

So I decided I needed to level Driel's fishing and cooking (you know, for all that not raiding she does).  I forgot how evil that process could be.  On one hand, it is nice to level them up together.  On the other, it takes FOREVER to level fishing.  I just trained Master, so I have 75 skill ups left in each profession and then I can cook and fish just for pleasure.  Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha!

Le Sigh

So work is stupid.  There is all kinds of stupid high school drama type attitude going on.  I'm sick of it.  For example, today I was talking to a co-worker.  She told me something she did, and I expressed concern/frustration about the way she did something.  So she stormed off and wrote a memo to everyone and made it sound like I was preventing her from doing her job.  All I did was tell her it was frustrating that she was crowding the work space and that there was a better way to do what she was doing.  What it boils down to is the boss is out of town and coming back Sunday.  She's trying to make it look like she got all this stuff done, which she didn't.  I'm just sick of it, and I'm not putting up with it any more.  *snarl* *growl*

I Know My Elfy Loves Me

Because tonight he needlessly PvPed with me until we both thought we might go insane!  I finally got Driel to 70 (also with Elfy's help) and now she is level 70 with crap gear.  She doesn't have a raiding guild home, so the only way to get better gear (for what?  The expansion I suppose) is to PvP.  Actually, I want to do two person PvPing with Elfy but need better gear.  I'm passable (barely) in large PvP situations, but before we run around as the Double D's I need to gear up a bit.  Tonight was the start, the honest start, of that whole painful process.  I guess it's nice to have a purpose when playing again.  And a character I can actually do things with other than just heal.  Look out Arena, the day of the Double D's are coming!

A Little Part of Me Just Died.

There are a few people I keep in touch with from my old World of Warcraft raiding guild.  One of those few people has a blogger that I read, oh, just about ever day.  But today, when I made my merry way to Furious Cognition I was greeted with this.  I think it's pretty clear what I thought of this movie.  In fact when Elfy and I were at the video store this weekend the biker couple we ended up trailing behind as we looked at titles were talking about how incredibly terrible this movie was.  I believe Mr. Biker told Ms. Biker that it was a festering pile of crap.  We agreed.  To learn that my pal Zcepter (I should have known something was off when he changed Scepter to Zepter) thought it was "Gold baby.  Pure Gold."  Scepter, if you are reading this my eyes are sad, and I'm just a sad panda.  We are going to have to discuss this sometime on vent.  

;)

Groovy

I am so easily amused/impressed.  I just figured out how to sync my iPhone with my MacBook, so now my calender is shared between the two, and all my contacts are shared between the two.  It's just amazing to me to be able to plug in my phone and have it get along with my computer, and be so flippin easy to do on top of it all.  It's so nice when things just work.  

Too Cool

I am in just such a wonderful mood.  I got to sleep in, and wake up to watch silly tv with my sweetie.   We got to have a lazy breakfast and run some fun errands (all related to our new beautiful computers), and then getting the most important part of the morning.  Coffee.  

Now I have a cute little mouse for my compter, so now there is no stopping the world of warcraft maddness.  Our christmas gifts to one another a few year ago (really comfy living room chairs) is now a wonderful gift revisited.  I am one happy healing druid! :)

How Cool is My Elfy?

He bought me a lap top!  I am now blogging from the comfort of my living room on my brand new (came today just took it out of the box not even 20 minutes ago MacBook Pro!  Now I can have my cake and eat it too.  My Elfy loves me very very much!!!  I'm giddy :)

Happy Friday!

I haven't had much time to blog, work has been busy and I have been tired. The last of the office evaluations should take place today (hopefully!) so some of that tension should go. Elfy bought us new toys, which I am just giddy about, and I should be blogging like crazy once it arrives. I am sooo happy today is Friday!!

No Country for Cloverfield

We watched "No Country for Old Men" and "Cloverfield" last night. I'm still forming an opinion about "No Country." I didn't hate it, but I'm not sure if I liked it either.

I do have an opinion abut "Cloverfield." ***Spoilers***
So it starts out the day in the life of a group of people, shot "Blair Witch Project" style (one of the characters is running the camera). It's hard to really care about the people, the story was not that interesting. I believe I asked Elfy when the spider bug bombs were going to start about 2 minutes in to the movie. When things finally do start happening the style of the movie becomes even more annoying. I hate jiggly camera. I also hate movies where they are shy about showing you their monster. So there is a lot of sly shots of the beastie, lots of running around and jiggly (not to be confused with jiggy) camera shots, one (seriously one) combat scene, maybe 5 spider monsters and then the blessed death of the characters start. I hated the way the movie ended, crappy movies should end completely, not open. I found satisfaction in the fact that all the characters you are forced to follow die. I would say don't waste the money, wait for it to come out on TBS or something. Or maybe the bunny troop from Angry Alien will re-inact it in 30 seconds (that would be the better option).

We rented two other movies, hopefully they will be, different. :)

*Happy Dance*

I am finally not at work! Me and my sweetie went and rented a bunch of movies to watch, you know, to help us forget about the pain we must endure tomorrow. *sigh* I really shouldn't feel this way about seeing my family. One of my former co-workers just lost her mother. I should cherish the time I have with my parents. I just wish they would let me be an adult. That would really make things so much easier. Off to watch a movie, perhaps I'll post some movie reviews soon!

Ugh

Today is the day that will go on forever! I mean, I love Fridays but all the time between the good stuff is taking forever! Everyone in the office has pretty much checked out for the day. No one wants to be here. Some people have not had their evaluations yet so there is still some tension in the air. Currently three of the attorneys are out of the office in a meeting, a meeting no one else was invited two and two of the attorneys have no idea what it is about. This has some people squirming. I should be working, but it is too late to start a project. Ugh. I hate days like this. Please let 5 pm get here soon!!!!!!!

This Week

So this week I had my yearly evaluation at work. We are all supposed to fill in and submit a self evaluation in advance. I did this. Then the boss reviews it, and any feed back from other staff about your work performance and prepares a personal evaluation. I dread this. I hate anything that is all about me. I don't like talking about me. I generally know what I need to work on, and where I've done good. I was incredibly honest in my self evaluation so I had an idea of what to expect. It was not what I expected. My evaluation was actually very good. My boss wrote me a very positive, complimentary evaluation. I know that I have the two attorneys I work for to thank for a good chunk of that. I was given very positive feed back, and had a very good conversation with my boss. And I got a raise. :) I don't know why I get so worked up and stressed out.

This weekend I have to go to the coast for my sisters graduation party. I have developed a cold sore and a strong desire to stay in bed.

Fridays...

are hands down the best day of the week. Fridays for me mean alarm clock off. After the last snooze and just before I put my feet on the carpet to shuffle to the shower I get to turn the alarm clock off for two beautiful scared days. Fridays also mean scones and coffee with my sweetie. He takes me into work that day and we enjoy Great Harvest marionberry scones and triple venti vanilla lattes at Starbucks (where it is like Cheers, everyone knows my name, my drink how many shots to put in base by my smile or lack thereof). But this isn't it, there is more. After work, David comes to get me (bless him) and we enjoy dinner at either India Place (naan makes me super happy) or if we feel like seafood we'll go to McGrath's. It is lovely, and I look forward to it all week. This Friday had even one more layer of wonderful-ness for me. David said it was time for new clogs, and he bought me these, and a really cute pair I can't find a link for but I love them and I plan to sleep in them tonight. *super huge grins* My David love me. *beams* It is a very good Friday.

I am my own worst enemy

Why do I think it is a good idea to stay up alone and watch shows like Ghost Hunters? I am such a chicken. The room I am sleeping in has creepy little midget doors and I am now convinced something sinister is lurking behind both of them waiting to get me. Damn it.

My Turn

I finally got sick. The small office I work in has been passing cooties around for the last few months. At any given time at least one person in the office is sick. I had dodged it successfully until just recently. My poor sweetie got sick and was out for a week. I guess it was only logical that I came down with something next. So here I am, I feel like a giant bag of snot. I just hope it goes away soon. I would like to have my wits about me again.

:)

Rawr. That is all I have to say.

Praise the Heavens...

...it is Friday! Alarm clock OFF! It has been a really really really stressful week at work. First there was a big response due that needed to be prepared and filed in federal court. It is on one of our larger cases, and it had to be filed both in person and online. So there was all kinds of coordinating being done. I put in some work time last weekend just to make what needed to be completed during the week a little easier. It got done, and the client was very impressed with the work done. That is always a compliment to the attorney and his support staff, and much needed after the whirlwind of work done. The boss is getting ready to be out of town for two weeks, so the stress of him clearing his desk and wanting to get things done before he is gone is in full play. There has been some tension in the office lately that has been making things that much harder. I am sooo ready for the weekend. I think I'm going to spend some time doing home stuff, and I think I'm going to see if I can level my priest some. She needed to be a new level now. It is time.

I Do Not Understand

So I'm driving into work yesterday, and I'm following a car with "Bumpernuts" dangling from the back. I found this disturbing, and then a little irritating. First of all,they were sort of a translucent blue green color. And second, the car they were attached to was a beat up piece of crap with a largeish looking mad with dark hair that looked like, well, it make me think of Gene Simmons. So as I'm driving I can't help but wonder what this person is trying to say. Surely that POS can't "own the road" even if it has alien reproductive parts hanging from the back (because no human should have blue green parts that are not eyeballs). Then I wondered if this person is looking for a car with a pair of female reproductive parts hung for display. Does that even exist? It all just disturbs me. At least it made the drive into work less dull.

Checking In

Wow, I'm bad at blogging. I was hoping I'd be able to do some some from my much adored iPhone, but alas it doesn't ever want to publish what I write. Since Elfy and I are no longer raiding (which we are still happy and sad about) I've had more time to read, fix puzzles, watch movies, see my sister, get caught up on favorite tv shows, and level new characters. I feel bad, we haven't played much lately. Work has just been sucking the life out of me, tension in the office and massive deadlines makes for a very drained and brain dead Chala.

The writers strike is ruining my tv fun. I miss my tv shows and I desire them to return with new, witty episodes. Promptly.

I recently read "World Without End" by Ken Follet, the follow up to "The Pillars of the Earth" and loved it!! The only complaint I had was that the female characters were too obviously written by a man. They seemed lacking in dimension, and were a little too irritating/slutty/whiny. Even the main female character seemed disjointed. But having said that, it is a wonderful read and regardless of what I didn't like that book is great. And that is all I will say about that.

Ugh, to work I must migrate. /moo