I had surgery on my wrist last Tuesday. It is still in the cast for another week. It is completely miserable. I'm handicapped. :(

I'll be taking a leave of absence.
I'll still be lurking around, checking out new games, checking my tracked games.
But that's about it.

See you when I see you.

I've had my glasses, well the frames, for about 5 or 6 years now. And I've been planning on getting new glasses for quite some time now. About a year ago I got some new lenses at a place my friend recommended (big mistake), and I've been stuck with these piece of crap lenses for a year now. Every weekend I say to myself "I should visit the eye doctor," but I always find an excuse not to go. No more! For I finally have a big enough motivation to get new glasses (aside from the notion that the ones I currently have are crap). Yesterday .... I stepped on my glasses ... and one of the arms broke off. I tried taping it back on, to no avail. And by the time I decided maybe I could manage to tape it back on with my husband's help, I had somehow lost the arm. So I've got a pair of crooked glasses. They barely stay on my nose, and they're totally crooked, and annoying as hell. But they're all I've got for the moment. So this morning, I went to the closest eye doctor. He was very good, and as it turns out, my eyes were very ready for a new prescription anyway (I could have told you that, though). $400 later, I picked out a nice new set of frames, got the thin lenses with teflon anti-glare, scratch resistant coating, and an 18 month warranty. So basically the plan is to get some great new glasses, and when the warranty is almost up, they'll be due for a free replacement thanks to the warranty, because by then, they will be "broken". And the best part? I have to wait till WEDNESDAY EVENING to get them! That means I have to look like a total dork with crooked glasses for 3 whole days!! I can barely function as it is. These things are so crappy. They don't sit right on my face, so I can't see right, and on top of that, the lenses are trash, and always smudged, and they're all scratched up. I see better without them on! Well, only if what I'm looking at is very close to my face, but still...

I've come to the conclusion, that, in the world of online gaming, I'm meant to be the healer.

In Dark Age of Camelot, my highest level character was a shaman. I was the main healer and buffer of most parties, and I thrived on that. Although, my little dwarven "nuker-tank" was fun, too (I can't remember what the class was called), but I didn't play her as much as the shaman.

In Final Fantasy XI, I was a white mage. Technically, I was just leveling up my White Mage so it would be high enough to get the skills I wanted for the sub-class when I switched over to Black Mage as my main. I never got that far before I quit playign the game.

In EverQuest, my favorite character was my Barbarian Shaman. She rocked, because not only could I buff and heal, but she was a big barbarian lady who could hold her own in battle.

But in World of Warcraft is where I've found my niche, I think. Before beta testign was over, I knew exaclty what my character would be: an Undead Priest. She's been my main character since the first day WoW came out. I've tried out just about every other class, but every time, I go back to my priest. I'm best at being the healer and I get frustrated when I'm playing a class that cannot heal. I'm very attentive to the status of all my party members, and it works well for me. And unlike just about every other priest in WoW, my talent spec is Holy/Discipline, so that I can be the best healer possible. it's just what works for me. I guess there's not too many other people who like being the healer, because I'm pretty much the only main priest in our guild, and my group members always tell me I'm the best. What can I say? : )


And on a side note, I tend to like the healers best in other games, too. For instance, my favorite characters in Final Fantasy IX were Dagger/Garnet and Eiko.

Its been storming here since Saturday. And these storms are sneaky. They're being awfully "tricksy" too. You see, one moment it can be all bright and sunny and hot (like normal), and then I turn around and it's storming so bad the power goes out! Wtf? We've had it happening, as I said, since Saturday. It happened to us on Sunday night. We (me and the husby) went out to dinner with some friends. I shall refer to them by their WoW names, for privacy sake. Gil, with whom my husband works. In fact, the husby is the guy who got Gil and Cans (Gil's girlfriend) into WoW in the first place. And then Gil's neighbor, Agg, got in on it, too, and started playing WoW with us. So anyway we went to eat dinner with Gil, Cans, and Agg. It was so much fun that we didn't want the night to end yet but felt we should leave the restaurant. So we headed over to Starbucks. Everything was going swell. We hung out, looked around at books, drank some coffee. And then.... the power went out. That is where the nightmare began. We looked out the windows and saw that rain was coming down so hard we could barely see the cars in the parking lot. There was lightning left and right, accompanied by very loud, rumbling thunder. The power flickered on and off a few times and then decided to stay off. And that's when the Starbucks manager decided it was a good idea to kick all of the customers out of the store. That's right. She told us she was very sorry but we all had to leave. After she managed to push us all out the door, ignoring our obvious shock and disgust, she closed the door on us and stayed inside. So there we were, about 20 people just standing outside the Starbucks, huddling as close to the wall as we could get so we didn't get pounded by the rain. We watched the storm. It was pretty exciting, really. We hung out some more and watched the storm and talked about how rude it was for the mean lady to shove us all out into a very bad storm, and keep herself locked inside. And apparently that wasn't good enough for her. Because she called security on us. That's right. After we had been there for about 30 minutes, watching the storm, a security guard (the kind of guy who drives around the parking lot in an SUV not doing much of anything) came up and started telling people to leave. He told us that we could not stay there any longer and that we needed to leave. He said we could sit in our cars if we didn't want to drive in the storm (meanwhile, siren after siren from emergency vehicles sounded in the distance, obviously on heir way to accidents caused by the weather). But the point was that we had to leave, and, of course, there was not one "no loitering" sign anywhere in sight. Heh. Of course, we refused. Eventually, I think he caleld for backup because another secuirty guard showed up. But then they both left and didn't bother us again. And about 10-20 minutes later the rain had let up and the worst of the storm was past, so we went home.

It's like some crazy fad going on right now.
Why has everyone decided to start overhauling their friends lists and cutting a bunch of people?
Just curious. Because I don't really see why it makes much of a difference.

I'm level 8! It took forever. lol. I think because I don't visit any forums or anything very much anymore.

So I've been looking at EverQuest II lately.
Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I'm obsessed with MMORPGs and just can't make up my mind. Not really the case. I could go into detail about why I'm annoyed with World of Wacraft. I could try and explain why I'm not playing Guild Wars at the moment (my husband doesn't feel like playing, and I don't like going solo).

Unfortunately we (me and the husby) seem to have gotten ourselves into a little bit of a gaming lull. Now, we still play WoW sometimes. But the rest of the time we've got nothing. We went to Fry's over the weekend and bought Sid Meier's Pirates, which was fun for about 2 days. It's got a lot going for it, but it's just... too easy. So we tired of that quickly. And even though I bought Front Mission 4 (that same day), I guess I'm just not in the mood for any more TRPG games right now. I haven't even finished Stella Deus yet because I needed a break from the monotony. I've played every other game I want to play, I think, and so has my husband. So again, the lull.

Right, back to EQ2. In our desparate search for new gaming material, we went to Wal-Mart on Sunday night (all the game stores were closed). The only games that looked at all interesting, were ones we already have, and EQ2. So we decided to look it up when we got home. Now, I've been getting mixed reviews from people about it. For the most part it seems like a decent game, but not spectacular.

Some points about the game that really drew my attention:

• there's no PvP whatsoever (PvP is my main gripe about WoW)
• the gnomes look as fun as they did in EverQuest
• you can be a rat! (aka ratonga)
• there are something like 24 different classes to choose from
• they claim to have fixed the major downtime issue from EQ
• there's supposed to be a plethora of quests to do
• the graphics are more cartoony and look very fun
• you can build/design your own house
• guilds get to design their own guild houses and there are guild quests and stuff
  

Some points about the game that didn't impress me:

• it doesn't seem very different from the first EQ
• you can only have 4 characters per account. not so bad, until you read the next complaint.
• the class/rank up system is retarded. you can't even try out your final class until level 20, and if you decide you don't like it, too bad, there's no going back. you'll have to start a new character and get THEM up to level 20 to try something else

Overall, more good points than bad. What do you think? Is EQ2 worth looking into more, or should I just keep holding out for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and try and find something else in the mean time?

We bought Front Mission 4 when it first came out. My husband beat it, i played it for a while, then got preoccupied with another game and never went back to it. Eventually we traded it in, thinking that I would probably never go back to it and finish it.

And then, as nostalgia tends to do to me all the time, FM4 was appearing again in my thoughts. We went to Fry's just to browse, when I saw FM4 on some discount rack with a bunch of crap games (!!!) for only $14.99. I couldn't believe the price had dropped so much. Does everybody think it's a terrible game or what?

In any case.... I bought it again. :D

Do you ever re-buy a game that you've previously had and traded/sold at some point?

I've been wanting to shaved my head since I was like 13 years old (almost 10 years ago). And it's women like this (Natalie Portman, for those of you living in a hole) that make me want to do so all the more. Holy hell, she is frickin HOT!

It just won't go away. It's driving me mad.

Night before last, I woke in the middle of the night because my finger was hurting. So I went to the bathroom to look at it. The nail was broken, very far down, and it was bleeding everywhere. After searching for nail clippers and trimming it down as best I could, I went looking for a bandaid. Couldn't find any. Ugh. So now my pointer finger looks nasty. It's still got dried blood on it, and it hurts when I use it for anything.

And then today I was messing with some boxes and the nail broke on my other pointer finger. Frickin bleeding again. But this time I don't have any nail clippers so I had to trim it down as best I could with the giant scissors I have in my desk.

And the phones are still acting retarded. My headache won't go away. I wonder if it is a migraine. It's been here since Saturday. Going on a week now! This is a record for me. Not something to be proud of, though. Ugh.

I better go....