Yup, Still 71

In a new land where people are almost racing to level; I’m very content to take my time. We have some guildies that are 74+ now. I am running into people already level 80 and I honestly don’t care.

I wouldn’t categorize myself as a “slow leveler”, more of a controlled and organized one. I simply don’t want to skip a single quest. I don’t mind if it’s green or grey. I don’t care if I’ve got seventeen other quests waiting for me in some other area. I want to finish where I am first.

I’m also a bit of a wanderer. When I visit a new town I speak to every single NPC that has something to say. I browse every single vendor. I try the new foods and look at the clothes on my character just in case there’s some RP gem in there.

I am a quest reader. Gasp! Yes, much to my husband’s dismay I do enjoy reading new quests. This gets him a tad impatient with me as I stand at the NPC for an extra minute to read what it is he wants us to do. What he needs to admit is that it ends out working to his advantage when I know what we have to do when we get to the quest location.

I’m keeping up with daily quests like the cooking and the jewelcrafting quests. It’s nice they give experience as well just so they can’t be called total wastes of time. However, I will not start regular questing until I have them either completed or by lucky chance we will be killing where I can collect the items.

After I’ve finished the Fjord, I actually plan on going to the Tundra and doing those quests as well. I’m a completist. You will not rush me.

Hooray for Firefizzle!

This post is a special thank you to my friend and magely mentor, Firefizzle. He was astute enough to notice my jealous gaze each time he pulled out his D.I.S.C.O. ball. When he came to visit this weekend he had a disco ball loot card for me. He also gave Keste a Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E. card. This was exceedingly kind of him and I couldn't be happier than I am right now with my own private party in a box. Thank you thank you thank you!

RL Guild Meeting

This weekend Keste and I met up with our some of our guildies in real life and had a blast. Meeting everyone was great. There were 10 in all gathered to meet face to face. Our good friends Firefizzle and Nyriell handed out these achievement cookies for everyone. I thought they were hilarious and took a picture before I eat it.

We had fun going to a museum and out to eat. Saturday night we sat around and played Munchkin, which is a fabulous game. I completely recommend it. Keste and I will be purchasing a copy for ourselves.

Meeting everyone was fantastic and was a truly memorable event. Gwydion, Rina and Ethwn were very gracious opening up their home to everyone and allowing us to meet and hang out there with them. Restriel and Drestrien were a hoot. Jaci was a sweetie and Rina is of course my mana-totem-loving sister. I'm so happy to have met you all!

I have to say meeting Firefizzle and Nyriell in person was simply wunderbar! They are such lovely people and it was a treat for them to have come so far and simply shower us with gifts! They are too much and it was nothing short of pure pleasure to get to spend time with them. We were driving home and Keste asked if I missed my buddy (Nyriell) already. I pouted in response. I will munch my German chocolate and think of you two! Thank you so much for coming!

Greetings from Dalaran

So much to tell as I've seen so much in the last couple of days! Keste and I are working well together helping the good folks found in the Howling Fjord.

I think thus far my most memorable moment was receiving training to make it to Dalaran. This city just hums with the vibrations of magic. Add to that that the entire city is beautiful it hard to find reasons to leave. I must of spent hours running through the streets. I visited every shop and spent a lot of gold trying man little curiosities I found. The chocolate cake is delicious!

I also visited the sewers and found myself a new ghostly skull companion. Pretty spooky. I also found this odd assortment of animals in the sewer. They seem strangely familiar and made me think of my little brother. I took this picture for him.

I completed a cooking task and was given a cooking award! It was very exciting. I can turn in the awards for more recipes which is going to be most useful.

Other than all the running around I've worked hard on keeping up my fishing and cooking skills. I have spent quite a bit of time fishing and then cooking up my catches. It's working well. Jewelcrafting is not going as well. The Fjord seems a bit populated at this time so finding unused mining locations is difficult. I'll most likely will have to return to work on this skill at a later date. I was able to finish one task and received a token for jewelcrafting.

Behind The Curve

I do not currently have my new copy of Wrath and won't until probably 5:30pm EST tonight. Keste and I are old. We can't stay up until midnight on a Wednesday. We have jobs that make us get up at o'dark thirty and Keste gets up even earlier than I poor fella.

Keste contemplated staying up and picking up the copy and then coming home for a couple hours of sleep. Our local gamestop was open at 10pm for nerd fest and I think he was slightly interested in going. It wasn't even a thought for me. My pregger butt sees sleep greater than everything else. I think in the end Keste realized how tired he would be and that it just wasn't worth it.

So while folks took today off to enjoy the new wonders of Northrend, I'll be spending my night installing the game. I'm hoping Keste will start my install when he gets home! I'm sure he will. Maybe I'd better call him to make certain...

We're excited to head off to the new lands with our friends. We just hope they're able to wait for us!

Oh and in completely unrelated but irritating news. I brought Goldy to Karazhan for the last time last night and the silly dwarf got the T4 gloves. Do you have any idea how many times Desdarii has rolled for and lost her T4 gloves? It's just sad. That dwarf has always been my lucky character.