Apparently I'm crazy enough

... to be farming Warsong Gulch. Yes my friends, I have officially lost my sanity. Though honestly I was very surprised during my farming last weekend, as I won a lot more than I lost, some of which became insane farm fests. What I learned is that there is a sub-culture of those of us crazy enough to be farming WSG, because I ran into the same people over and over again. And look!

ZOMG! The third cap for Ironman was pretty close. I had several Horde on me when two priests on my team came to save my ass. I was somewhere around the middle of the field when the first priest pulled me forward, then literally a second later I got pulled by the other priest to our tunnel entrance. Priests who know how to use their leap of faith ability well? Hawt. Damn hawt.

I also had the opportunity to run some BGs again Gnomer and his guildies, as well as PP. Topics of discussion during these BG runs? The differences in how we pronounce the word 'banana' and the impending summer for us US folks vs the impending winter for the Aussie folks. They were talking about how cold it was, though celsius temperatures mean nothing to me. I've gotten the time conversion between us down, but I think converting temperatures between C and F is going to be a lot harder.

In other news I been doing a little bit of old world questing to work on Loremaster. The quest rewards have been quite amusing. Two of my favorites from this past weekend?

Unidentified Cooking Utensil

Speaking of which, how come we don't see offhands when you're running around? I mean you can control click on it to "try it on" but when your toon is running around, you don't see the offhand that you see when you're logging in. Weird. If I could always see my offhand, I just my replace my ledger with this pan.

Green Whelp Shoulderguard

These shoulders crack me up because its singular. Just one. Only one shoulder can be protected. What happens to the other shoulder? I guess its the WoW version of those one shoulder tops and dresses girls wear. It amuses me.

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I may or may not

Let's play the I may or may not game!

1. I may or may not have been on WoW the other night with a jar of nutella and a spoon next to me. If eating nutella out of the jar is wrong, I don't want to be right.

2. I may or may not have gone a little crazy in morganprather's Etsy store and I may or may not have ended up buying 3 necklaces and 2 pairs of earrings. But seriously, check them out... can you blame me?!?!

She has so many stunning pieces with leaf, tree, branch motifs. Just stunning. Go look.

3. I may or may not be planning a musical DS run in the spirit of our past musical runs.

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I just might be crazy enough

Look! I am finally exalted with AB.

It's funny that the image of this achieve is a guy screaming. Interestingly enough my statistics say it took 426 ABs (of which 205 were wins) to achieve this. I kind of thought it would have been more than that.

Anyways. So now what? Well, I am just one achieve away from getting Master of Arathi Basin as well as one achieve away from getting Master of Eye of the Storm. Its EOTS BG weekend this upcoming weekend... so you know where I'll be. Do you think I'll be spending a lot of time this weekend yelling at idiots going for the middle? (Is the sky blue?) Why yes! I believe I will!

Anyways, assuming I eventually get both of those, this means I have two options. Am I crazy and masochistic enough to go after Battlemaster or Justicar? Seriously the thought of doing enough Warsongs to go after either of those achieves pains me deeply.

Perhaps I need some advice from fellow bloggers, Gnomer who has Battlemaster and Pugnacious Priest who has Justicar. But can I really stay sane through that many Warsongs? Will I come out at the other end of this in a straitjacket muttering "Warsong... oh warsong..."? Possible. Very possible. Maybe I just start farming Warsong and see what happens?

In other news I was online when Chanti discovered Tyrande's Doll. I can't complain too much because I never ever do archaeology anymore... well scratch that. I can complain all I want! I looked up my completed artifacts to find that I have completed freakin' 140 common nightelf items with no doll. The bulk of this archaeologizing was done probably 3 months after Cata release. Since then I've been giving archaeology the big fat middle finger.

Perhaps what I could go back to doing is alternating archaeology with queuing up for Warsong Gulch. Or would that just be doubling my pain? But I do want to "finish" archaeology. Sigh.

If you need me I'll be in a corner consoling myself with the only doll I've got, a "gift" given to me by either Chanti or Lororia (I can't remember which... and they wonder why I have a thing against pallys).

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Four words...

Arathi Basin Holiday Weekend!!!!

That is all.

Ok some more words: I may or may not be killing Horde in AB all weekend... Team Glitterkick!

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Still here!

Oh my goodness, this might have been the longest I've gone without blogging outside of the 3 month break from the game right before Cata launched. Anyways, yes I am still around, though work has been pretty insane the last month. And remember I do most of my blogging at work? Well mid April to first week of May, I was on the road for three weeks straight. Ugh.

I've been back in Seattle for about 10 days now getting back into the routine of a normal person. I have another week or so here before I start another round of travel, though this time will be for four weeks. They've brought an analyst on to the project to help me out a little, so I'm hopeful things won't be as crazy. However I'm having a hard time telling him what to do (my guildies can stop snickering now). Delegating hard! Well delegating hard when it'd be faster to do it yourself.

Anyways, I have still been playing when I have time, especially on the weekends when Team Glitter Kick gets into high gear. That is the name that we have designated for our guild BG group. When we die we die into a poof of glitter. It's pretty awesome because we do pretty well, plus its always amusing to feed the BG trolls together. I'm not sure what Team Glitter Kick likes more, having a healer with them or being amused by me going off on the idiots in BGs.

So along with Team Glitter Kick I've been continuing my insane quest for pvp achievements. Two weekends ago I finished up Master of the Battle of Gilneas, and crazy enough the very last achieve I needed was Jugger Not. I think I finally got it on like the 108th win.

I also finished up Eye of the Storm Veteran. I can't even imagine how many times that required me to bitch at the 10 folks going for middle. I still need Perfection to finish out the Master of Eye of the Storm achieve, but am going to focus more on my march towards 100k honor kills as well as getting exalted in Arathi Basin.

In other news our guild is still raiding though summer schedules have started to get to the point that many weeks we only end up raiding one night a week. That leaves the other night to fool around or do old achievements. And no, even at 85 I still cannot jump onto Thaddius' platform in Naxx on my own. I guess I should have known this, I mean its not like your toon's legs get longer at 85 or something. Sigh. Fail.

So what's been going on in the blog world? I haven't kept up with my blog roll the past three weeks so I have no clue. Are a lot of folks going to be playing Diablo? I think like 75% of my guild will be playing it. I'm probably one of the few who aren't. Am I going to be missing out?

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A gnome becomes noble

Once upon a time there was a cute gnome priest. (Using the words cute and gnome are completely redundant, but that's besides the point.) Anyways, this gnome, Kakigori... she was working on finishing up the Noblegarden holiday achievement. After collecting all the eggs she needed, she set out to get all achiev-ery and earn the noble title.

Planting flowers in deserts? Done. Kissing someone wearing a pink dress? Done. Hiding an egg in Stormwind? Done.

Now while Kaki was getting her achieve on, she was keeping her eye out so that she was always at the ready to shake her bunny maker. Ooh! A female blood elf in Un'goro's Golakka Hot Springs! /use Spring Flowers. Oh, a female Troll in Gadgetzan? /poof bunny ears! Look! A female Tauren in Dalaran! /shake her little gnome bootie!

To find her last Horde females, brave little Kakigori jumped into a number of Alterac Valleys to try to track them down. What's worse then being bunny eared before dying at the hands of a high pitched gnome giggle? Not much, I tell ya, not much. Anyways, she found some success by coming across a female undead and goblin.

This only left the holy grail of this achievement, the elusive female orc. In a number of AVs, she saw a flash of green underneath PvP armor and quickly used her spring flowers, only to discover she was hasty in her shaking and ended up bunny earing male orcs. /sigh. So her quest continued.

After some more unsuccessful AVs Kakigori learned a couple of things. There are a lot of female blood elves. Lots. More hearts for Fabulor to break, she thought. But Kaki also began to feel a bit sad for Thrall because clearly the population of female orcs was close to nil. Poor Thrall she thought.

While she was contemplating this thought, her friend Rades logged on. Ooh! Now Rades is a big manly orc hunter and on her same server! Perhaps he has the inside track on where the orc ladies hang out! So Kakigori asked Rades for some help and the next chapter in her quest began.

First Rades shared that there was a female orc somewhere in Ashenvale, though she was afk. So both Kakigori and Rades spent a while flying all around Ashenvale looking for her. Perhaps she was camouflaged well, but she was nowhere to be found. Then Rades noted that there was a female orc in Razor Hill. When Kakigori got there, she found a female orc running around collecting eggs. Oh! Finally! The elusive female orc!

Nooooeees! Poor little Kakigori couldn't use her spring flowers on the orc because she had already turned into a bunny during her egg hunting. /sigh again. After another unsuccessful quest for a female orc in AV, she got word from Rades that there was a female orc in Dalaran!

She took her little gnome legs as fast as they would take her and got herself to Dal, and alas! A female orc! On the steps of the north bank! /shake what her momma gave her! And finally! Kakigori is noble!

Kakigori made sure to thank her good friend Rades for spending all that time helping her track down female orcs. Though given he is an orc himself, Kakigori wondered whether he might also be expanding the number of names in his little black book of female orcs. Hmmm she thought, with /suspicious eyes.

And everyone lived happily ever after.

The End.

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Bunnehs and tree humor

It's been a crazy week as Im back in NC for work for a while. Blogging and WoW playing will be at a minimum for another couple of weeks, pretty much only on the weekends.

So Noblegarden. I did take last weekend to grind out the 500 chocolates needed to get K her pet. I knew I could be saving myself the trouble by waiting until later in the week when others were done, but I knew with my crazy work schedule that I would have minimal time this week.

But ugh. Just ugh. So much so that my usual favorite treat of Annie's bunneh grahams made me a little "meh" the other night:

Though perhaps I have a case of amnesia and have already forgotten how horrible it was because I am considering finishing up the grind on my priest tonight/tomorrow. Hmmm.

Anyways, I leave you guys with tree humor.

Hahahaha... sigh.

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Tree^2

Look! It's a tree in a tree! Tree^2!

I often end up with serious lag at the Darkmoon Faire, to the point that this where I ended up while doing the Cannonball daily one day.

Here I look a little freaked out (perhaps threatened by the foliage around me?), trying to find a way down:

I must say the background matched my PvP gear at the time pretty well:

These pics just made me realize that apparently the trees in Darkmoon are perpetually in a state of Fall/Autumn. So anyways Darkmoon Faire. Are you guys still doing it? I'm still at it trying to get the second mount, but the dedication to do it every day seems to have fallen off a bit within our guild. Perhaps it wouldn't be as bad if the damn daily quests weren't so annoying.

How is it that they designed them so that its nearly impossible to do them in one shot (besides the one where you throw the ring on the turtle)? I can do the whackamole in one shot about 50% of the time, the Tonk Commander less frequently, maybe 30%, and the Cannonball daily even less (see exhibit 1-3 to support this above). But I don't think I have never done the shooting daily in one shot. Grrr. So annoying.

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