5 pm, cloudy.

Sadly, summer seems to be thinking about going on vacation. It's been a sweet one, though - lots of ice cream, late nights gaming, and that warm weather I'm so fond of (yeah, yeah, I'm oh so original) - and I'm already looking forward to the next one.

The husband returned from a work trip on Monday evening - as stated earlier he's spent a week in Canada - and he's still recovering from jet lag and waaay too much limp coffee. He made an interesting discovery while abroad: The fact that he uses the english language every day while playing WoW, doesn't necessarily mean that his spontaneous "every day-english" is flawless. Apparently the phrase popping out of his mouth when greeting people was "Hi 2 U!" All I can say about that is /faceplam.

As I've said earlier, I've been playing my druid quite a lot lately - mostly because I rediscovered the fun parts about being a moonkin, but also because the next expansion is coming closer, and there are things I'd like to have done before the level cap is raised, and the rat race starts all over again. Now, I'm not much of a raider, even though that part can be so much fun - I had a short stint as a resto druid in Karazhan - so I'm not aiming at Kil'jaeden, but there are a bunch of other things I want to have done on my druid before going to Northrend:

• Reaching exalted with the pre-TBC Alliance factions
• Getting a Tiny Sporebat (which requires exalted rep with Sporeggar)
• Collecting a decent set of PVP-gear, for battleground fun, and in order to manage the odd heroic. Yes, I'm one of those people. (Welfare epics ftw-people.)
• Actually getting the fancy pants Swift Flight Form

There's probably a whole lot of other things I want to do too, but these are the ones I can think of at the moment.

I do have other, non-druid related, plans too, though, such as getting my rather new human priest to 70 (she's still only 25), and playing around as holy for a bit. Should be doable with all the fancy tailoring gear. I'm also aiming at getting my mage and my shaman to 70 - both have been stuck at 65 for a while.

Anyway, enough talk, too little action.

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Ah, once again, my posts have been a bit too few and far between, but once again, I'll just go "hey, this is my blog", and go about my business, posting nonsense whenever I feel like it.

I woke up early today, for a change - husband's off to work, and I haven't quite gotten around to having breakfast yet. Wednesday in Europe (if you play World of Warcraft) means maintenance, so what I usually do on those rare early mornings - dailies and farming - is not an option at the mo. Right now it's 8 am, which means I'll have to wait for another three hours before the servers might be up again. Oh well, I'll live.

Last week was spent solo, since the husband was on a work-trip to Canada. My parents were here during the weekend, which didn't make me cringe as much as I had feared ("oh, you do your dishes that way, well that's possible too, I guess"), and before that there was studying, playing, and cleaning, pretty much in that order.

Lately I've been playing my druid quite a bit, so I guess I'm not entirely in denial about it anymore! I finally got around to grind 5000 gold for the second time, so that my beloved moonkin will be able to get her fancy Swift Flight Form (last time I had 5000 g, the rogue got the flying skill, for farming reasons). She still only has a regular 280% mount, though, since I haven't gotten around to do heroic Sethekk Halls yet, for the last part of the quest chain. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I decided that my druid was finished as a leatherworker/jewelcrafter, and as soon as I had grinded enough honour to buy Vindicator's Wyrmhide Bracers, to replace her fancy Windhawk Bracers, and cut a bunch of those overpowered bind-on-pick-up-gems for future use, I switched to herbalism and alchemy. I have to say, herbing as a bird is just as fantastic as I thought it would be. Swoop down, pick the herb, flap away. And no more problems along the line of "oh, crap, I aggroed that mob, now I have to fight it 'cause I can't mount in combat" - just fly a bit higher to get out of combat, wait for the mob to patrol away, and continue herbing.

Also, since my druid has rather good reputation with most TBC-factions, especially considering my rather casual approach to actually getting around to doing dungeons, she's been able to get a Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone, a much wanted replacement for the Glowing Crystal Insignia she's been sporting since some time late last spring.

OK, getting hungry, off to get breakfast.