imarci: (Snoopy Write)
It was a very nice weekend. The weather had been perfection … then Mother Nature has to go and ruin the prospect of spring by bringing us snow tomorrow. Evil bish. Ugh.

Anywho…. On Friday a guildie helped me out and we got the last 3 levels I needed to hit 60 on the horde character, so that I could unlock the stupid Horde end of the new classes/mounts/achievements, etc. I’ll have to actually go and make the characters, just so I can unlock their mounts as well. I’m just glad I got Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting out of the way.

Saturday I was working on the monk which has the last two professions I need to get the big (75 point) achievement; leatherworking and skinning. I’ve been having a lot of fun leveling her and am actually considering swapping mains in the next expansion to her… but I don’t know. I’ve been a Paladin for SO long. I know the rotation, it’s simple, etc. It’s my comfort, and we all know I never like to leave my comfort zone…. Ever.

Monk’s are a little trickier and procs can make a big difference in the rotation, which can make me anxious. There’s really only one proc for Paladins and they have like five spells total. Monk’s got a bit more. But they’re fun and different, so I dunno. I am definitely thinking about it, and I’ll see how things actually go in the next expansion for each class. Plus, they already have a ret paladin, and I really don’t want to feel like I’m stepping on people’s toes. I know they really want a ranged class… but I dunno. I’ve never been into ranged classes. I mean I guess I could level the lock too and just see how that goes. Gah.

Also, there’s a LOT of sexy mog for leather. I feel like there are a lot more for leather than there is for plate, so I dunno. She’s only level 48 and she’s already rockin’ a sexy mog… haha.

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So yeah. That’s weighing on me right now. But anyway… that’s far away and I have time to decide. Saturday I also got the last achievement for the Easter event meta. I swear, there needs to be more undead females. Took forever to get that last one!

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With this Meta done, I have TWO more to finish before I get the really big one “it’s been a long trip” or some crap like that. Though, I don’t know if I’ll ever get it. One of the achievements I need is to have my orphan out on BG’s and do things like capture the flag etc. I hate that shit. So… I may never get it. I just have no patience to battle people to capture a flag in a BG when capturing the flag is technically NOT the actual object (it’s holding towers). PLUS, everyone will be hunting that achievement, so it’s just a serious clusterfuck of bodies and annoying to everyone involved (especially the regular PvP players). Sigh. Blizzard makes shit so annoying sometimes. I wish they’d get rid of that one.

I also gave in and bought the Lightforged Warframe mount from the Army of the Light people’s. It’s a very nice looking mount, but it cost 500k gold, which put quite the dent in my character’s pocket, and now I feel like I have to always use it since it’s redonkulously expensive. NOT as expensive as the spider… but still. It is nice and glowy though … which I do like. These screenshots don’t really do it justice.

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Yesterday we went over to Nelson and Trisha’s house. They were celebrating their one year anniversary (can’t believe my baby brother has been married a year, geezus). They invited my brother Danny, Trisha’s parents, Trisha’s brother/family and my mom and I. We had some finger food and partook in eating the top layer of their wedding cake, which has been frozen for the past year (a tradition of ours). Surprisingly, it wasn’t awful. Hahah.

Then we all hung out, watch some television and chatted. I feel like I haven’t seen Ava (Trisha’s sis-in-law) in ages. She brought her babies, which aren’t babies anymore… seriously, WHERE does time go? The little one was JUST born but she’s already almost as tall as her big brother, and walking up a storm. It’s great but it just reminds me how fast time is going, and it’s just slipping away. Soon enough Trisha will be popping out a baby or two as well… I can’t wait to have nieces or nephews, but man … time is crazy to me.

We hung out there until almost 11PM. Watched my brother play a scary VR game, which wasn’t that scary and just very weird. I think the Batman VR one was a lot more fun (especially to watch). Got home a little after 11:30PM and decided I wanted to do a little writing. I know… SHOCKING. What’s even crazier? I got two full chapters written before I went to bed. Yeah. I’m nuts. Oh and kicker? I have a TITLE for it already too! I know… the world is legit ending right now.

I’m slowly working on this book today in-between work, but who knows if I’ll stick to it or what. Most likely I’ll give up again in a day or two… as per usual. I just feel like nothing I ever write is any good, but then others read it and they enjoy it. I don’t know WHY I am so damn hard on myself… I really don’t. Anyway … back to writing I go (and hope it continues).
imarci: (Northern Lights)
Work
Graduation time at work sucks. People are just overly annoying. Especially our students who have done NOTHING to inform us they plan to finish (as they are supposed to by January), and come at us less than a month from graduation all, “Yeah, so I’m graduating.” Uh… no. Yet we let them, because we’re just small enough that it’s doable… but it’s so fucking annoying and happens every year. Why are people such slackers? I can’t wait for this month to be over.

We’re also transitioning a LOT here at work. We’re getting a new President (finally) in July… so we’re all getting prepped for his arrival and things are a little tense around here because I do not think the old Pres wanted to leave (long story, not going into it). We’re also going to get an interim Dean (who is my boss’s boss, so I’ll report to him too and this one will directly affect me). The guy is nice though, so I do not see any issues there. It’s just a lot of change around here, and I’m not typically good with change … haha!

The only positive this week has been the weather. It has finally warmed up and feels like spring. I totally get the saying, “spring in your step”, because this weather has put one in mine.

World of Warcraft
Last night we actually raided. Felt good to bash in bosses. Though, I died on the dogs fight… I HATE when I die to bad luck. I got like 3 different bad buffs on me at the same time and went down so fast, no healer could have saved me. Of course, one of the tanks was all, “What happened to you?” As if to say, what ‘fail’ did you do… but thankfully two of the guildies that were with me on the dog we were fighting told him it was shit luck cuz I had multiple buffs on me that pretty much insta-killed me. One was a healer and I could tell he felt bad he couldn’t save me LOL.

We also had to deal with weird lag. It wasn’t awful, but every now and then it would spike and cause me to sit still for a few seconds, which could be bad if you are in the path of something you need to avoid. So that was frustrating, but it was all fine and I ended up doing decent DPS on all the fights (minus the dogs of course, cuz I was down for a good chunk of the fight).

In good news, I FINALLY replaced one of my 915 LFR tier pieces with a 945. TWO more to go. AH! I also got 950 shoulders I really want to use, but at the moment, I have a 915 tier piece, so I need a different tier piece so I can use the 950 shoulders lol. No luck man!

A couple of us hung out after the Eonar fight just messing around with toys, pets and mounts (showing off, etc lol) and renaming our pets to ridiculous or sexual things lol… like my tentacle pet I got last week I named ‘ribbed pleasure’ LOL. So yeah, shenanigans that had me laughing a little too hard. At one point, the GM got on his sled toy and was like SOMEONE PULL MEH! LOL and I had set down a pyre, so one of the guildies pulled him around and then she dropped him the pyre lol… too bad it didn’t actually cook his toon, but I still got a good SS of it.
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Afterward four guildies were kind enough to do the speed run through the Kara dungeon for the mount. I’d gotten it a few months ago, but I gave it to a different guildie, because he’d been the one to request the run for it. So, tonight they were nice enough to take me through it. With our gear though, we smoked that place pretty quickly.

It’s so PURTY!
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Tonight we should reach where we are on our lockout (Aggramar), but I REALLY do not want to do the coven fight. It’s just so painful and it stresses me out so much. If I could avoid that fight all together, I would be so damn happy. Every other fight has it’s difficulties, but when it comes to RNG, the Coven wins it. And our luck with that boss fight is ridiculous.

Reading and Writing
Been a reading machine this year. I’ve finished 29 of my 60 books already. I love getting lost in fiction … I really do. And some authors write so amazingly well that I wish I could read their stories forever. It’s why I love authors that do a series … make the characters last a little bit longer. Sometimes though, I wish there were more than 3 books lol.

I wish I could stop giving myself issues and would just actually finish a damn book. I actually have written some things that I have found truly funny/action packed and good enough to share with others, but something always stops me from finishing these books… fear. I hate fear. It ruins my life. Even in something as simple as RAIDING, fear can take such a hold on me. Fear of sucking, failure and disappointing others. Why am I like this? Some people this shit just rolls off their shoulders. They fail? They get right back up and try again. I fail? I curl into a ball for months and go over things again and again in my head, torturing myself to no end about something as simple as dying to dumb shit! Or not finishing a book!

I wish I could stab fear in the face and tell it to fuck off and leave me be. I wish I knew the magic trick. I am POSITIVE other authors go through this or have gone through this… but HOW did they get past it all? How’d they overcome it and finish their work? I wish I had the answer, but I don’t. Sigh.

Friendships
In final news … I have a friend I’ve known for 10+ years. We were kind of a ‘thing’ for a little bit, but then I became more of a ‘friend’ toward him, and he was fine with that… but NOW he’s acting all crazy and wanting to force more on me and I have told him MANY times I love him as a friend, but I am not into him like that… but he’s making my life crazy right now. He’s always messaging me shit to make me feel guilty. I have been putting some distance between us in the hopes he’ll move on with his feelings, but I haven’t shut him out completely … but he acts as if I should be talking to him 24/7 … No! I do NOT talk to ANYONE in my life like that … and I just hate feeling this way EVERY DAY.

A part of me just wants to cut him out of my life, but I am not that type of person. Plus, I am hoping he’ll come to terms with shit and stop pushing me to feel a certain way I do not feel. He’s always like “Oh you don’t have time for me but you have time for your guildies?” Like really? I shouldn’t be made to feel like shit for playing something that brings me joy. Half the time I am not even doing anything with the guildies except on raid nights or when I run the occasional Mythic dungeon with them… but even if I was doing nightly crap with them and having a blast, a TRUE friend would be happy that I was having fun and NOT give me shit about.

It's just so frustrating and giving me unnecessary stress.

Long post is long… Off to be a productive part of society.

imarci: (coffee leaves)
Had a pretty good weekend. On Friday I played way too much Warcraft, as usual, so nothing new there. Saturday my mother and I headed over to my brother Danny’s house to spend the Easter Weekend. We were having family over there on Sunday, so she wanted to get the house ‘in shape’ for guests. I worked on leveling my Horde Hunter, so  that I can get her to level 60 to boost.

I honestly cannot stand the new crap with leveling. It feels like it takes so much longer to clear a zone and leveling is so damn slow. I am nowhere near level 60 … before getting to level 60 would probably take a day … two max. Dungeons take forever and don’t give ‘more’ experience (which I would guess they would do so that you could level faster, but nope). I’m just frustrated. Hopefully I get her to 60 soon, then I can use the free boost on her and have a 110 horde (to unlock the races/looks/mounts and pets). I also decided to give this toon two professions I need for a meta achievement (Blacksmithing + Jewelcrafting). While I have alliance toons (slowly) working on these, I just want this achievement over with (I’m impatient that way). Plus with leveling as slow as it is these days, I probably won’t work on them for some time. Anyway, but boosting the toon, it will max those two professions (if she’s level 60). Sooo yeah. Gah.

Anyway, bro got home from work around 6pm, we had dinner (delicious lasagna) and then we watched some movies. I finally saw the third installment of the Mazerunner. It was seriously kick ass. I loved it. Lots of action, very emotional, and just constantly on the edge of my seat the whole film. Definitely worth it if you haven’t checked it out yet. I give it a 10/10.

Then we saw Priest again. I really enjoy that movie and it always rekindles my love for Paul Bettany. I really wish he did more films… he’s such a great actor.

Afterward, he went to bed and I continued my NCIS marathon. I finished seasons 12 this weekend and have started season 13 last night. Catching up slowly… thought I know Michael Weatherly leaves at the end of season 13, which makes me sad. He’s the glue to that team with his jokes… No one can replace him! Though, I said no one could replace Ziva, but I’ve been enjoying the Bishop character… but yeah. NO ONE can replace DiNozzo man … he’s the best. I also think season 15 is Abby’s last season sooooo this will definitely be the last one I watch I think. Still, 14-15 seasons of a show is pretty great.

Sunday I got up a little late (11am). I played a little Warcraft (still no level 60 toon!) … and then we had Easter dinner around 4:30pm. It was baked ham and rice with shrimp. It was super delicious. The photo doesn’t do it justice (as it was taken with my cell phone too).
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It was nice to hang out, chat and have some good laughs. After dinner and some dessert (mousse + brownies), we sat around and watched the new Jumanji film. I was surprised by how good it was. I had been putting off watching it, thinking it would be dumb, but it was absolutely hilarious. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart need to do more movies together… they’re great. I laughed way too much, which is always a plus. I give it a 8/10. The guy who had to pretend to be a stuck up female teen btw, was the absolute best! I loved it.

Then, I let my bro play his video game since Trisha and Nelson left, and I went to finish off season 12 of NCIS.

So yeah, it was a nice/chill weekend.

Now that we’re only a month away from our graduation here at work, things have been busy/intense. Finalizing lists, getting things ordered for the day, confirming graduates, ordering diplomas … etc, etc. Once the graduation is over though, things will be dull as a doorknob around here, so it’s just getting through this next month.

Hopefully tonight I can hit level 50 on the horde character. She’s 42 right now (it’s so slow!!!!!!!!!!!!). I get wanting to make it so you could quest wherever you wanted (diversifying zones to level in), but this slow ass shit is driving me insane. LOL. Eighteen more levels …. I got this!

Quick news ... the itch to write has been getting stronger. I have some ideas in my head as usual, but I just need to actually write and stop slacking off. Ugh. Hopefully I can finish the draft for this book this week so I can start to write it. 

I think I need to find a moodtheme for this blog AND some more icons. Hmmm.

Mounts

Mar. 30th, 2018 05:10 pm
imarci: (WoW1)
Finally stopped being a lazy pooper and worked on finding two 'secret' mounts in Legion. By this time in the expansion, they're not so secret, lol. BUT, I'm glad I waited. A lot of the video tutorials I found had mobs of people around the things you had to find to get these mounts. Today? None anywhere... so it was breezy and fast.

These two This one puts me at 194 193 mounts. Six Seven more and I get an Armored Blue Dragonhawk PLUS an achieve. w00t!
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Okay... I lied. I only got ONE mount this week. The other one is behind a world quest... so this week was the pet, next week will be the mount. IT WILL BE MINE ONE DAY!

The other mount is the Fathom Dweller.

The pet from this week is sorta cute, though it seems to be stationary... so meh. Lol.
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imarci: (wolf moon)
Now that the expansion is winding down, and the new one is on the horizon, things are slowing down in Warcraft. Been working on achievements in between raid nights. I'm almost at 19k achievement points, which is close to where my old account was at (my old account was about 19600 I believe).
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So getting there slowly (okay I've only had this account a little over a year, so actually that's good lmao).

Poop news ... the last week and a half we haven't raided at all because of a healer issues. If anyone out there actually reads this and plays Warcraft and is on Alliance side... we could use a full-time druid or monk healer.

We've gotten 9/11 bosses down. Currently on Aggramar. Got him down to 53% on our first night last week, which was pretty good considering we didn't have a lot of classes with CC (for the adds). Hopefully we get this healer stuff figured out so we can get AOTC before the next expansion releases. Really sucks considering we're so close to getting it (two bosses man!).

In other news, celebrated my mother's birthday last Saturday. We went out to Hibachi and invited my Godmother and uncle to come. It was a fun night and our Hibachi guy was pretty funny (not as funny as our cruise guy, but still pretty good).

Some photos that I took with the phone since I didn't bring my camera (so the quality is meh). In the fire one you can see my mom kinda freak out... haha! I got the shrimp and lobster with the lo'mein and rice. Was SO good. I also got a 'mudslide' for a drink, also delicious.
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Afterward we went to Danny's house and watched a few movies. Finally watched the latest Thor film, which was absolutely amazing. Already bought a copy for myself, ha! I love Chris Hemsworth... not only because he's absolutely hot, but because he's actually a good actor. I am somewhat meh for the new Avengers. That movie will have to be 5 hours to give each character ANY justice... I think they've got way too many 'big names' in this one to make it work right, but hopefully I am wrong. That should be out soonish.

In great news ... I've read 28 books so far this year (14 ahead of schedule).
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I'm glad work has been relatively quiet lately because I get to read a bit at work. Though, pretty sure things are going to pick up now that we're nearing Graduation. Gah. I hate this time of year. lol.

This weekend is Easter. I'm very happy for this because I gave up coffee for lent and it has been awful LOL. I finally get to drink coffee on Sunday... it's going to probably feel really weird ha! I may have to call out on Monday :P We're going to be at Danny's for Easter so yeah. I now have my laptop there since I built a gaming PC, so hopefully I can get more achievements done this weekend. Though that laptop is soooo slow... but eh. Plus my bro's net sucks, which is kind of sad because pays extra for 'faster' internet and his is slower than mine!

Oh well.. I am going to go work on a few more achievements then hit the hay. I was off today and tomorrow so w00t!

imarci: (books)
Back to work after four days off thanks to the flu … and I am thankful they have their once-a-month meeting this morning. Means I have the place to myself for the next two hours *stretch, purr*. It’s nice not to have to deal with ‘crazy’ for a few hours. I’m also beyond happy I am back to my normal hours. These weird ass ones were killing me. I have forgotten what it is like to leave work by 5pm… when the sun is still out!

So yeah. Four days out of commission. At least I was able to read a lot. I am eight or nine books ahead for my goal, which is good because I am sure there will hit a lull where I won’t read for a while. So far, it hasn’t hit and I’m glad. I do love reading. I’ve read some really great books and a few pretty crappy ones, but overall, most have been so good. I’ve even found myself a few new authors, so that’s always a plus. So yeah … It’s February 5th and I’ve already read 14 books. w00t!

I pre-ordered the next Warcraft expansion and made myself a Void Elf. She is so sexy.  SEE! (Pretty screenshots).
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I want to level her, but at the same time I have SO MUCH to still do on my main. I feel pulled in all sorts of directions and have no clue what to do so I end up sitting in Dalaran wasting time. Yeah. Issues. There are reps I need to farm (for lots of mounts), fishing I have to do for that damn BoA fishing rod, getting more gear on the Paladin …

THOUGH! I finally got my 4-piece tier gear on her. Freaking MONTHS with nothing, then the other night I did all the LFR wings with a couple of guildies and got THREE pieces (already had 2). It’s all or nothing, huh Blizz? Yeah. I was in shock. So she’s got her 4-piece and I think that shit has really helped. I did a couple of mythic dungeons and the deeps… so beautiful. I wish I could pull off those numbers in raids (which boggles my mind why I can’t—I don’t know if it’s because I get all nervous about the mechanics and make dumb mistakes… dunno).

So yeah. I want to do LOTS in WoW but working and being sick … really cut into it :P I can’t seem to focus on just ONE thing. It’s an awful trait of mine that I hate (why I have never published a book too). Oh … and I have to level a damn (debil) horde character so I can unlock the appearances, mount and achievements. Gah. I dislike horde greatly, but I made a goblin hunter, so let’s see if I level the thing. If not, I’ll waste my 110 boost on a toon ): Which I really DON’T want to waste it on. I’d rather use it toward one of my alliance characters, but I guess I’ll see.

See?! SO MUCH TO DO! AHHHHHHHHHHH and before I know it, the next expansion will be here. Ugh. Oh, and I need a panda because the damn turtle vendor has at least 10 maybe more mounts, but that rep is all but impossible to get now (even with a tabard, that shit only gives like 30 rep per boss—dunno WHY they fucked with it and made it that way. So annoying.. AND she’s a human so she get more rep, can’t imagine any other race). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *deep breath*

Anywho… Saw the Super Bowl last night at my brother’s. It was mostly family, but he invited over a few mutual friends so it was a nice, small, intimate group of us. I really didn’t want to go, but he would have killed me, haha. I ended up enjoying the game more than I imagined. It was a pretty edge-of-the-seat game and the commercials this year were on POINT. Last year’s suckkkkked. I think only Doritos had good ones. This year Bud Light, Doritos, Mountain Dew and TIDE (Tide won this year) … were all hilarious. Oh and the Amazon Alexa one was pretty damn good too. But yeah … I am glad the Eagles won… knocked those Patriots down a peg.

We had some great food, lots of laughs and beer. It was a good time and I’m glad I was ‘forced’ to go (though I still would rather have stayed home playing WoW :P).

I’m just so glad I am not feeling like I’m on death’s bed anymore, had a pretty good weekend and have a full night of WoW to look forward to! Bwahaha.
imarci: (winter)
So … the break. A week and a half off of work. It was fantastic and way too quick! I wish I had taken off a little more, but eh … too much time off is actually bad for me. I become way too idle (and FAT). I ate so damn much those ten-ish days. Ugh. So yeah … I definitely did nothing but eat, sit around and video game. It was … amazeballs. :D

Christmas eve, Nelson and Trisha showed up around 10PM. We opened gifts, had some wine, watched Christmas Vacation on the tube and just had some good laughs and chatter while we opened gifts. I got a lot of the stuff on my wish list but no new gaming PC :D I did get one part for it, though. So yay! I think Im going to buy all the parts I need this week and hopefully my brother can build it next week. It’s been a really long time since I’ve used a desktop at home. Will be interesting. Then, I can just leave my gaming laptop at Danny’s house.

On New Year’s Eve, Mike threw a party but since my momma didn’t want to go and I didn’t want her to stay alone, I took one for the team and stayed home with her. It was actually perfect because I really didn’t want ‘party all night’. I did a quick drive by his house, hung out for about an hour and came back to Danny’s around 9:30PM. I watched some television with her, played a little Warcraft, and then she and I drank some wine as the New Year rang in. I stayed up watching NCIS until 4ish am.

I really have missed that show. I stopped watching it completely (even the re-runs) when Ziva left, but I started it from season 1 last week and I am remembering how much I loved this show. I am going to just watch up until Ziva leaves and repeat. Now that Michael Weatherly isn’t even on it anymore either, I am just not interested in the newer seasons, but the first 11 are great (with Ziva and Kate).

Anywho. In other news … Guess who is pregnant?! Right … you can’t. Anyway … Diane! She told us the happy news on Christmas day. Yesterday, they had the ‘gender’ reveal party. It was a small family thing, and quite lovely. They’re having a BOY, which made both of them VERY happy (and us too). My uncle (baby-to-come)’s grandpa… cried. It was so adorable. So they have that wonderful moment in their life happening in 2018, so it shall be a great year for them! I’m very happy for their growing family <3

Other than that, the break was relatively relaxing. I played a lot of Warcraft (of course). I managed to get quite a few achievements done that I really wanted (for mounts). So, I am very happy about that. I need one more tonight and I will get me another mount. It will depend on how tired I am though. As the first day back to work today, I may just want to lie in bed and zone out to television … but if I’m up for it, I’ll hop on and get the last achievement for the Pandarian raid mount. I still have to get over the laziness and work on the Pandaria reputations because there’s about 15 – 20 mounts right there. Maybe I’ll work on those starting next week.

Now that the holidays are over, a lot of the regulars are going to start coming back. I’ve gotten really used to the small group so when the influx of returners come back, I’ll feel mad awkward again. Ugh.

Anyway. I have some things to get done. Write later!

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