For the Alliance!

Real life stuff~ today was fun :D mom and dad came over around 4:30 and Chris and I went to Holy Smokes with them, Tony, and Jared :D It was super tasty! Regrettably they were out of pulled pork :( but the pulled beef was still super delicious.

I played WoW and The Sims a lot today. I bought the Open for Business pack :D I do like it but I haven't had much time to experiment. I thought my second generation Legacy family sims were going to die together in the photo booth because it bugged and they were both stuck inside slowly starving to death :( but I used the move_objects cheat to delete the photo booth, and the two of them magically appeared in the middle of the house :D so yay!

I've also been reading the Lemony Snicket boots since I bought the last pack of 3 books the other day :) I just started The Grim Grotto. I love these books SO much but I wish they weren't all so short! The books are very expensive and if they were not as good as they are there is no way I'd pay as much for so little content :P the pages are thick, the text size is large, books just aren't very long :(

I don't know what else to write about D: things have been pretty boring. Chris is programming a lot and every time I try to tell him something I get those blank replies where I know he has no idea what I'm saying :P

At the very least I have nothing halfway interesting to say about how things have been, so I am going to end the post with some WoW crap.

WoW stuff~ Shaeldre still doesn't have her 45-minute baron done, but we haven't been able to do it in a while anyway. Hixxy is often leveling her warlock on Akama or working, so I don't know when I will finish it ^^; for now I am going to continue the chain a bit on my mage! She is 7/8 Magister's right now (missing robes still!) and just needs 6 more ogre beads to keep going :D I'm very excited to upgrade her boots/legs/shoulders, although I'm not sure I'll wear the shoulders (depends if the set bonus overrules wearing Thuzadin Mantle or not).

I went to my first MC on my druid and got pissed off because every time one of my heals landed, someone ELSE'S heal landed about .1 seconds earlier so I couldn't cancel and I overhealed for 1000! AU doesn't have a very organized method of healing though like Astrum does, which I think is part of the problem. We just heal whoever whenever whereever, whereas Astrum has you heal group members, then focus on the two groups around your own, so you don't need to stare at 40 names all the time.

I'm very excited for the new 25-man raid cap for instances. It'll make things much more manageable (maybe DotA can do it by then :D) and I very much enjoy the feel of the smaller instances (I do not like ZG but AQ-20 is REALLY fun up until post-Moam trash mobs).

( Ceres )

( Alaphrei )

( Shaeldre )

Welll Lily is having a blast here and I'm really happy :) Whenever she's hungry she just nags me by meowing and being generally annoying... she's so cute :)

I'm taking care of Kyorei's bunny for a week, he's really cute! He's so soft to the touch :)

Today I went to work for a few hours and got some stuff done, I'm going in again on Thursday to finish up.

I'm halfway through The Carnivorous Carnival in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It's really good... I love these books :) I need to get the next 3-book set, and then I think there's only one book left! Oh no :( (I think I can manage ^^)

WoW stuff
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I went to MC last night on Ceres. I got my Giantstalker's Belt :) Yay! 5/8 set pieces now, and I got my 5 piece bonus.

I'm really looking forward to the servers coming up. I hope I hit Knight-Lieutenant :D That means I'd get two pieces of my PvP set (gloves and boots). I want the robes the most, but I get those next rank at Knight-Captain. The journey to my 90g epic mount is going slowly but surely. Yay!

Got 3 final projects coming up, one in each animation class. It's a bit scary.

My Priest is level 55 now and is Rank 4 for PvP. I only PvP once a week or so, so I think this is pretty good.

My dad is in the hospital tonight, and probably will be for a few days, because of an infection in his leg. My mom didn't have any details to give to me about it at the time, she said she didn't know how it happened either. I'm sure he'll be okay, it's still a little scary though... I am going to try to call him tomorrow if I ever get the chance during the day.

This weekend will be fun since it is Tyris-Chris' birthday :) I'm really looking forward to it, game parties at his house are always really fun. :D

I need to go to bed soon as tonight will be yet another night where I don't get enough sleep but still have to wake up early. I always do this to myself. I suck.

I almost accidentally lost this post, not that I wrote much anyway, so I am going to post it now. This was really boring and brought to you by Caitlin. Good night!

Edit: Also, Aegis Uprising killed Ragnaros without the use of fire protection potions today. Wow! :) I wasn't able to be a part of it, but Kelsin was, so I wanted to post about it ^_^

Tonight the Aegis Order on the Mannoroth server killed Ragnaros for the first time ever. 29% before he submerged for the first Sons.

Loot:
Choker of the Firelord
Dragonstalker Legguards (x2)
Onslaught Girdle

Thursday night, I received my Ancient Petrified Leaf! Screenies of some of the demons below the cut (I was way too excited and missed some :/) Also screenshots of Ragnaros!


How cool is this mount? This is the first time I've seen it. Yes, that's an Orc.

Summary: I received the Hunter Epic quest thursday night. None of the demons were up. Friday morning they were, and I worked between 9am and 12pm with my boyfriend (a druid) as my only buffer. I killed all 4 of them. However I do not yet have the Black Dragon Sinew required to make the bow, and Onyxia was stingy (as she ALWAYS IS when I'm present) and didn't drop it. After two days of farming, my guild downed Ragnaros for the first time. I <3 my guild.

I very much regret not taking more screenshots while fighting the demons. However I was soo excited I didn't really think about it :(

( Screenshots of Demons/Ragnaros and a Story! )

Had a pretty good weekend... friday we played WoW (ugh, hardly any progression in MC... we started around 8 and finished Magmadar at 12:30. MAGMADAR!).

Saturday played a little bit of WoW then around 2:00 went to Corey's apartment at Sugarloaf Estates for a BBQ ^_^ It was really fun! While waiting for others to arrive we watched some Family Guy, including The Family Guy Movie that I never knew existed. Pretty much more of the same, it felt like 3 episodes that only barely associated with one another :P

I met Tarik's girlfriend, Christina (I think that was her name anyway, though I'm not sure if that's how she spells it). She apparently plays WoW on the Lothar server, and she's a hunter (with a priest alt) :) Tarik is a warrior and we talked about Molten Core and tons of other little things. It was cool actually meeting another girl that plays WoW (rather than just talking to them online and whatnot, which of course is always great ^_^).

Also, there is a kitten in Corey + Natasha's apartment. Oh yes, a kitten. Named Kilala. Sooo CUTE! Just made me miss having pets at the apartment even more :( I can't wait to live in a place that allows pets. I miss them so much.

Anyway, we ate eventually, then others left to go see The Brothers Grimm (which I heard sucked) and Chris and I went home. We went to MC again (and accomplished nothing, we wiped 3 times at Gehennes... sigh). Then went to bed.

( MC details last night )

Sooo Ceres got a Quick Strike Ring last night. Yes, that's right! With a beautiful mix of Quick Strike Ring + Don Julio's Band from AV, I will be the unstoppable Ceres! Those are probably the two best crit/atk power/stam rings in the game. At the least they are the best that *I* know of. And both are unique so I can't have two :)

I sold my Magni's Will ring last night. What! I didn't expect that would happen for a while XD so now I have two epics. And, if only 3 hunters come tonight like only 3 came last night, and the leaf drops... AHH! I really really hope I get it. You guys have no idea how much I want that bow. I would pass on 3 weeks of full giantstalkers if I knew I could have that bow soon. T_T I still don't have the sinew... but Kieph already has blastershot, I think Pinpoint wants Blastershot, and I'm positive that if the quest DID drop and I won it they would have the sinew default to me. Geez I want that bow so badly XD

Now I'm all excited for tonight :O Playing my priest at the moment, halfway to 35, having a lot of fun! :)

Sooo... on saturday, my video card died :)

We were in the middle of Molten Core (in WoW). About to hit Sulfuron... and suddenly my screen went black. Hmm, ok, maybe it just overheated or something and turned off :/ Turned it back on... nothing... not even a loading screen, though my computer was certainly getting power. Tried some stuff, etc etc, I went on Gianni's computer and ended up finishing up the night there (thankfully). Chris put in his video card... viola. Works :( Luckily I only bought the video card about 3 months ago so it is certainly covered <3 yay.

Now Gianni is letting me use his laptop which is really super nice of him, I really appreciate it :D Haha, I can't even go NEAR the bank or AH in Ironforge because the laptop goes 100% crazy. I was afraid to do Battlegrounds last night with Chris (I'm going to be demoted again... I just know it ;_; I used to be Sergeant!) so I helped out Gianni/Erin/Gianni's friend Ephiny in SM. She was having a lot of trouble being connected though, which sucks :(

Anyway, I guess I don't have that much to say. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes ^_^ I'm going to try to clean up the apartment now because it is a mess D:

I have jury duty tomorrow and I almost forgot about it... bleh. I'm going to bring the last warcraft book (reading about Khadgar and Medivh is soo awesome), possibly another book (though I can't bring Dreams Made Flesh because I think it's still at home ;_;) and my gameboy, so we shall see how it goes :D

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