Chilling/Changes

I've pointed out earlier how the summer seemed to be over, and sadly it's gotten more and more obvious as the days have passed. I'm wearing a sweater made of the wool from what might be several goats, and finally I'm not shivering. It's not extremely cold in the apartment, but the drop in temperature is noticeable. Also, I'm getting older :( I really should do something about that "start working out again"-plan. Once I get some nice looking pants for it, I may very well start running. Or I'll start doing triathlon, or start a religion dedicated to clogwearing chinchillas.

Anyway, still stoked about the upcoming WoW-changes, even though I can understand raiders becoming frustrated that the last month pre-expansion will be screwed up due to every class being different enough to mess with all the available strategies, and arena junkies wont be too thrilled either, I guess, for the same reasons. I, however, can't hardly wait.

Politics(!) + Pre-expansion Angst

Am I the only one hoping that Sarah Palin is crazy enough to make the U.S. population vote for Obama, just to see if Palin's head explodes? I think not. I'm still kind of hoping they'll vote Obama, just cause they want Obama, though.

Today I realised that I can actually order 2 boxes of the WotLK Collector's Edition from the same online store - I thought my credit limit was lower than it is - and so I ordered another one, to make sure both my druid and my shaman can sport the super cute Frosty! Yes, I'm a true member of a consuming generation.

Ordering the expansion has given me the "waiting-for-the-expansion"-blues, and part of me is torn between going further with long-term projects, such as my level 33(34?) pally, and finishing other projects, like getting the mage and the shammy to 70 (both are stuck at 65...). However, I've read that the amount of xp required to level from 60 to 70 is going to get a lot smaller once the pre-expansion patch hits, so I might as well wait until then. Mid-October seems to be the time when it goes live (but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will be sooner). Tonight I'm planning to watch Heroes, and try to get my warrior up to 20 (17 atm), so she can finally be the fierce, dual-wielding bitch she is. I've wanted a MS-warrior for a while, though, so one day she might be wielding a big club/sword again. Probably not til level cap, but maybe I'll try slam for a bit.

Semi-back? Perhaps.

Monday was an exciting one, wasn't it? We finally got a release date to go with Wrath of the Lich King - 13th of November, this year! Also, there's going to be a collector's edition, and yes, I've booked one of those online, just to get the mini pet. (I always envied my old guild mistress, who had the Netherwhelp - endlessly adorable.) I'm hoping to get another one, though, since I have two accounts... May seem silly, but since I'm more of a "cute accessories"-fan than a hard core raider, it's really not a big mystery that I want the mini pet on all of my favorite characters. Honestly it bugs me a bit how my hunter is the only one with a Spirit of Summer - maybe I'll get one on another char next year.

Earlier I went out to get some lunch - it's been a while since I had the noodles from the local thai-fast food place, so I went there. Noodles with deep fried chicken and shrimps - really good. Unfortunately there seems to have been peanut sauce all over the chicken - bad, bad, bad. I'm quite allergic to peanuts, and yeah, I should know better than to have thai fast food, but the noodles and the shrimp were sooooo good... And now, the swelling of my throat seems to finally be going away. I'm not extremely allergic, but in the past eating pieces of peanuts has led to projectile vomiting on several occasions, and a night in the ICU - charming, eh?

I'm hoping to spend the evening getting a few levels on my priest, and perhaps logging on to my level 17 warrior. I doubt I'll be able to get her to 70 before the expansion hits, but getting her a few more levels wouldn't exactly hurt.

Confessions.

Most blogs start off with high ambitions - post every day, write insightful stuff about interesting subjects, yada-yada-yada - and I think most blogs fail, eventually.

For some time I've had "real life issues", and they will be here for some time, right now it feels like they'll be here indefinitely. No, I'm not pregnant, no, I don't have cancer. They are, however, life-altering issues, and unfortunately I'm not yet prepared to make their existance public in any other way than through the anonymous channel that is my World of Warcraft-blog.

So, I broke the code - personal stuff has been posted, kind of, and I don't know when - or if - I'll feel like posting anything, game-related or not, again. Might be later today, might be never. There are too many blogs in the world as it is, though - I don't think this one makes or breaks anything.

Slow Sunday.

So, yeah, I'm one of those "bloggers who only post when they've got nothing else to do". Right now, I'm for some reason unable to log on to my WoW-account(s) - I keep getting the annoying "Unable to connect"-message. Apparently I'm not the only one - my husband plays too, and he got in on his fifth or sixth attempt, and lots of other people on the server are having the same problem. Still, I was just going to do some dailies before dinner, so it's no disaster, really.

Earlier I ordered something I've been ogling for a while: The cute, pink iPod nano! I have another mp3-player, but it's a bit buggy, the battery is getting old, and 2GB isn't a lot if you're me. And, my old one isn't pink. Pink is an important factor.

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.

Yada-yada-yada

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.