Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Will's Surprise Visit, level 80 now :)

Has been yet a month again since I've written, actually almost 2 months. Guess I've officially given up on trying to write here more often. Anyway things are going good for me :) And to any of my online friends that read this sorry for not being on msn much, usually am busy in wow.

Will visited again in January :) He stayed for 2 days this time. It was very last minute...in fact he hadn't even decided on it till a day before leaving. Was a great visit as always. Drove around together, cuddled while watching tv, played some board games and saw a movie together :)

He drove this time and stayed at a hotel...we didn't think my mom would be too thrilled about him staying here so last minute. I was worried about him driving with the snow but luckily he made it there and back without any problems. I made him sloppy joes for dinner the first day and stuffed pork chops the next day :) He loved them, poor boy hadn't had pork chops in ages. If the way to a mans heart is through his stomach I'm definitely doing a good job here...though he'd love me even if I burnt toast :) We also had pizza from the place near me again too for a late late dinner, it was horrible that time. Seems the one guy that works there does a really shitty job making it. Anyway spent most of the rest of the visit cuddling in front of the tv at the hotel and playing board games. :)

When we drive around we always drive past "our house" a few times which by that I mean the house we first saw on 2nd visit that I swear looks haunted. Lol some people have a song thats their song, not us, we have a "house" though lol. I did some research though, (discovered recently that google has a news archive search) I searched the house number and turns out it was just an accidental fire that happened when no one was even home. Have to admit I was kinda disappointed about that lol...was actually kinda hoping it would've had some horrific story about a family dying from an arson just so then I could say yep that must be a haunted house lol.

On the last day of visit after we drove by it we drove by some graveyard. We stopped to get out cause 1 of the graves had presents on it and I was curious. Then we stayed a bit longer (just a few minutes really) just walking around and looking at random graves. I almost wished we had brung the ouija board lol but it was good we didn't. After only a few moments a car stopped and some old couple asked us who we were looking for. (Who as in who's headstone lol) The guy said his wife owns the cemetery and could help us find a grave. Will and I must've looked like deers caught in headlights. Will replied first and totally put me on the spot! He went "uh Stephanie what was the name of your cousin again?" Or something like that. I just thought of any name off the spot quick as I could and first thing that came to mind was "Linda Stonesmith". A name that sounded obviously fake lol and they probably knew. I then said I wasn't even sure she was buried there. They then drove away. Will and I left right after too. Will swore they were following us after lol and that he saw them pull into another graveyard behind us. Maybe they were, did notice a car looking like theirs at times behind us.

We watched Avatar too. Was a great movie :) Maybe even in my top 5 of all time. Ending was kinda predictable though. Can't wait to see what movie we watch on next visit :) Unfortunately he's saying it probably won't be till April :( Miss my Will, wish April would hurry up all ready!

We also checked out the creepy attic (or so we thought, turns out according to my mom it was actually a small apartment that just looked like an attic) in my apartment building. Can't believe I almost forgot to mention this. It looked like someone had been up there recently too and there was furniture and stuff in there and a small radio. Nothing seemed to look like it had dust on it either o_O We asked my mom and she said she'd never been up there. Anyway after that we tried via the ouija board to contact the previous occupant of this apartment who had also owned this building at one time. We mostly got gibberish again. Wish we would get some results for a change, seems the more we do ouija board the worse our results get :( Anyway Will went back home the next day. And maybe we actually did get a result though not one we wanted...

The day after that I woke up to no heat. That wasn't too unusual though since we always turn it down at night and use heaters in our rooms since the vents don't seem to keep it warm enough with the doors closed. But my mom was already up and she said we have no heat. Someone was already down in basement looking at it. It turned out to be a major problem and they had to dig pipes and stuff up outside to get our heat going again. We were without hot water and heat for like 2 days. I can't help but wonder/worry that Bernard's spirit had something to do with it. So creepy how there was a major problem with our gas a day after we tried to contact him.

Valentines day passed again and I was happy and looking forward to it for a change. :) Will and I sent each other sweet cards and he got me some chocolates :) They were soooo good. Hes the best boyfriend ever :) He made sure to pick out something he knew I'd like, not some random assorted chocolate but peanut butter chocolate stuff which I loooooove. :D

We also did the vday dailys in wow just about every day together...we both got pet in same run and on last day of the event :) He got his first and I offered him gold for it but said I'd wait to see if one dropped for me in this run first. We had done around 20 summons that night with 1 of our wow friends and their friends, pet dropped 3 times in total. Weird thing that it seemed to hardly ever drop but when it dropped on runs it was always 2 or 3 times that day. Will said he would've maybe given me the pet too for free if another hadn't dropped for me :) Am glad we both got it but wonder if he would've.

I think the friend we went with for the vday stuff is mad at me though. Because I was running heroic mgt one day and he whispered me...he didn't ask to come but he hinted strongly that he wanted to. I didn't want to have to roll on mount though so I didn't ask. I did get the mount a few days or week later too. Felt kinda bad but think he should be more understanding...I wouldn't have minded running him though sethekk after since I have the mount there...maybe I should've suggested it after. Didn't really talk to him again after that until we randomly ended up in same group for vday boss one day. Then we did it a few days in a row together with some of his friends and WIll. Anyway think I didn't ask him to do any mount runs with me because didn't want to be saved in case Will wanted to run it. I'd rather see Will get the mount then a wow friend. Me and Will don't do much mount runs though, at least not for ones he needs. Maybe after lunar festival ends they'll be more time for them and I can run him though sethekk and mgt to get him those mounts since I already have :)

Speaking of wow Will hit level 80 finally :D So did my rogue. Always thought my lock would be my 2nd 80, but leveled rogue first so I could get lockboxes for the ravenholdt rep for the insane achievement on my main :) Still am interested in eventually getting my lock to 80, hopefully before next xpac. Waiting on his druid to hit 70 though first so we can do 70-80 together :) His druids level 46 atm. He's mostly been leveling it when I'm not on or busy with stuff, he's lost alot of interest in leveling it though since he hit 80 on lock.

Anyway he's getting geared up quick...his wowheroes score is already 2474 which means his just about ready for icecrown :) Can't wait till we do our first ICC together :D His dps is a little low though :( But he seems to do better on longer fights. He's trying hard to get it up though and has geared up very fast...I'm proud of him for that :) He also did 25 man ICC with guild (I went on my rogue to hide because I figured it'd be a wipefest. Though guild leader knows about my rogue he luckily must not have checked if I was on it) He got super lucky and won an awesome caster dagger off first boss. It was a wipefest though before and after that...lucky him though he wasn't in from the beginning for all the wipes. Gleader didn't take him at first but guess he finally figured even undergeared guildys would be better for it then pugs who would and did just leave. He didn't even ask him to go though...he just whispered "come to icecrown" to him. Rather rude of him. So was karma that Will won the dagger over him lol.

As for more wow stuff, shortly after hitting 80 me and Will became Bloodsail Admirals together :) Was his 2nd title ever in wow too, his first being Leeroy. Was glad to do that with him :) Feel bad though that he's gonna have to buy so much silk to get back in the good graces of the greedy goblins. Since I'm going for the insane achievement I have to grind by killing venture bay members or running DM. Ugh. I also fished up a turtle mount in under 5 hours :) Sure glad it didn't take 10,000 casts or more for me like it did for alot of people.

Anyway thats all for now. Gonna watch some Lost now :D Haven't watched any of this season yet because my guild usually does the weekly raid when its on, servers are down now for maintenance too so seems like a perfect time to watch it and maybe have a snack too :)

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and everything in between

Have so much to write lol. So much for trying to write here more often :( Anyway alot happened since my last entry. Will visited again the weekend before Christmas, and we joined a new guild together, and of course Christmas and Thanksgiving happened too. Will go in order I guess lol.

First Thanksgiving. Was my worst Thanksgiving ever :( I was making the turkey and everything else for thanksgiving (I'm a pretty good cook...usually) like I do every year because I don't like to or trust eating food prepared by other people (don't even eat out really just a pizza every 3 weeks or so).

Anyway why was it my worst thanksgiving ever? Well not only did Will and I have a big argument on that day but my stove broke and caught on fire...with the turkey in it! "Luckily" I noticed it right away...I had been in there to check on the turkey and it was fine, then like 5-10 minutes later I glanced in the direction and saw the oven was like lit up...at first I thought I turned the oven light on and forgot...then I remembered our oven light is broken so I went to investigate. Opened oven door and saw small flames on the bottom. Wasn't sure what to do so I called my mom who was sleeping and woke her up. She sure didn't rush to get there when I told her the oven was on fire, took her at least 2 or 3 minutes to even get up. The next few minutes were kinda comical I guess but I sure didn't find it funny then. She didn't know what to do either, she was saying "Do something!" so I grabbed the salt shaker and put salt on it since that usually works to put out fires (I know from experience with stove fires lol). It didn't work of course lol. So then my mom grabs a cup and starts pouring cups of water on it. That didn't work either (obviously lol) and the flames were getting bigger and bigger, when it just started it was very small. Finally we noticed the coil thing was burning itself out. So my mom moved the oven so she could get to the plug and we unplugged it. The coil thing was pretty much all burnt out then so she got a pot holder and slid the pan the turkey was in out. I checked to see how far done it was (knew it wasn't done all the way because the popup timer didn't come up) and part of it seemed fine but other parts of it were bleeding. It probably needed another hour or 2 to cook. We still had turkey and stuffing for dinner though we just cut pieces that seemed done off and put it in the toaster oven for a few minutes to be safe. The stuffing was done at least though I added too much liquids and it was mushy :( Ugh. Sure glad Will wasn't visiting on Thanksgiving lol. Want him to think I'm a good cook. Hope he does.

We got our oven fixed about a week later, would've been sooner but my mom had to wait until she had money, she ordered a new coil part (not sure what they're called) online and put it in herself to save money. I was able to use the burners before it was fixed though, she just unhooked the oven part or something which was good because I use the burners for most meals I make lol. Also tried to use the toaster oven for cooking some food I'd normally cook in oven, some didn't come out as good, but on a good note I found out hotdogs taste much better in the toaster oven on the grill setting then they do in the oven.

Will visited about a week before Christmas :) Since its winter he didn't drive, he took a bus, which I really appreciate, I know the bus rides (he had to take a few connecting ones) weren't fun for him. He had a really loud kid on the one ride (who I had the pleasure of hearing in the background when he called me during the ride lol) and on another bus he had crappy driver.

He got here Friday morning of the 18th and left Sunday morning. He stayed here at my house. Which was awkward with my mom here so often, but luckily she had work both Friday and Saturday. We mostly played board games lol. I obliterated him in scrabble, checkers and chess :D He only won 1 game and we played several lol. In fairness though I've always been better then most at strategy games :) Even used to play in tournaments over on itsyourturn.com , don't think I ever won one but always made it pretty far.

We also watched 2 movies together, both of which I'd never seen before, Independence Day and It's A Wonderful Life. Independence Day was pretty good, not one of my favs but enjoyed it alot, can't believed I never watched it before lol. Will said I couldn't be a true paranormal fan until I watched lol. It's A Wonderful life was good too, we watched the digital remastered colorized version which I downloaded online. Enjoyed that movie too but not as much, think its overrated lol. Liked the Christmas Carol better, we watched that online together a day or 2 before christmas eve. I liked scrooge lol.

I also made him homemade steak and cheese subs, he liked them :) Other then that he mostly had sandwiches...felt bad I couldn't feed him better food but we're tight on money in the winter :( Next time I gotta make him pork chops for sure poor boy hasn't had pork chops in ages lol.

We exchanged christmas gifts too :) He got me a lynx stuffed animal because it was cute and I like cat stuff. :) I got him a Niagara Falls tee shirt since he was too busy with me to go into the tourist shop on his other visits lol. Anyway not much else to say about visit, was fun and really glad he came :) Guess onto some wow stuff lol...

Will and I joined a guild together a couple days before Christmas. I don't know how long we'll stay in it (I'm unsure about them and Will doesn't like this guild much, will explain). Basically I was pugged to go on a run with them since they didn't have enough guildys on. The run was for normal 25 man TOC and it went alright cept we kept wiping on the last boss, they even tried it a few times later during the week, a few times without me since Will was visiting then and I obviously wanted to have all my attention on him. I was there for one attempt after he left though think was Monday night, they still couldn't get him down lol :( But anyway they were wanting to recruit me after, and I said I'd think about it. Some of them were kinda pushy about it though, though they finally said after a while ok and that there
wasn't a time limit on when I could join. So I asked if Will could join too and they seemed happy to have us both so I told them they could invite us to guild.

Our first issue with the guild was when Christmas came, the guild leaders sent me 100 gold as a Christmas present and they didn't send Will anything :( Found out a day or 2 later from the guild message that they sent it to everyone else too...except Will :( He thinks its because hes not 80 and he was kinda mad about it, saying they shouldn't have said they sent something to everyone in the guild when they didn't. Don't blame him, I'd be pissed too. A few days later the guild leader whispered him and asked him who his main was and Will replied that this was his main. Guild leader then told Will to come on vent so he could talk to him...he didn't even say please. Will doesn't have vent yet so he told him that and that seemed to be the end of that. But then he mentioned in guild chat something like "I have been way too lax with invites lately. From now on nobody gets in unless I interview them and when I want to interview them I will do it on my time not at their convenience." Will asked a bit later in whisper if he was talking about him in guild chat, he said no. I'm not sure I believe he wasn't though because I looked up guild info of all the guildys online at the time and only Will and I joined very recently. Thought I suppose the person that caused him to say that could've been already logged off.

Speaking of jerks in wow, had some asshole in heroic voa as master looter a few days ago and the asshole ninja'd the neck piece I won :( Along with rogue gloves that he lost roll on. Then he went "sucks I'm master looter." After that everyone gave him hell for ninjaing then group quickly split up. I posted on the realm forums about what he did and also made sure to let everyone in trade know not to group with him. He had the nerve to post back on the forum topic I made and lie saying he didn't ninja. Someone else that was there posted on the topic too though and backed me up. Noticed the next day thanks to wow armory that the ninja was no longer on our realm. Glad hes not but I wasn't about to let it go still. I found the new realm he joined and posted on their realm forums warning them about him. Hope the fucker never finds a group again. Unfortunatly he will though, at least for heroics because of the now multi server queue. It is kinda funny that he paid real life money to transfer his toon over it though, especially since it was so easy to find him and his gear sucks.

I mostly like the multi server queue they added with last patch, but this is one of the downfalls, that scum can now easily find groups. Usually I get pretty lucky with running random heroics on it on my 80 but any time I try one of the newer heroics theres been trouble :( My rogue also gets shitty groups most of the time. I shouldn't complain though because it does make it alot easier to find groups and finding groups for sub 80 dungeons was next to impossible before.

I have gotten a bunch more achievements since my last post and have now broken the 8000 mark :D Got my 100 mounts achievement and the bird mount in heroic sethekk halls :D Was when Will was here too lol :D He's my good luck charm :D Also got the rare green proto drake mount from my oracles egg a few days ago :D So now switched to frenzyheart rep being the achievement junkie I am lol. Sucks though because don't think frenzyheart has a chance to give any cool mounts or pets, unless they changed something with them. Was close to getting another epic achievement too just 2 nights ago, the one for doing 25 man 3 drake os, we kept wiping at 1% though :(

For Christmas didn't do anything. Just chatted online some with Will. We had another argument too :( We argue alot, trying to find ways to argue less though, hope we make it cause I really really love him. Anyway we had a good time before the argument, went on a raid of all the horde cities for the For The Alliance achievement (which I already had) and the new BB King achievement. I led the raid and I think I did a pretty good job was my first time ever leading a raid bigger then a 10 man, and 10 mans I never even led much. Will got his war bear mount from the first achievement and he was really happy about that :) He didn't get the other achievement though because he died on the boss in the beginning and didn't get to pelt the boss in time :( Felt bad about that, especially since I battlerezzed the tank instead of him.

For Christmas gifts mostly got clothes :( and a blender from my grandma :) Also my mom got me a headset for the phone thats actually not uncomfortable. Will had given me an old one he had but it went inside of the ear and I didn't like it. One my mom got is awesome though, and a huge help since Will and I talk on the phone several hours a day lol. :)

New years eve didn't do anything either, unless wow stuff counts lol. I was in a raid for some older raid dungeons with Will. Got some nice rep from it and was kinda fun. Holidays don't mean much to me anymore...but would be nice to do something on a new years eve for once. Maybe next year :)

Also made homemade mexican pizza the other day for the first time ever. Was originally gonna make for new years eve but was on wow lol. Cooked some ground beef to put on it. Used a regular pizza crust and put salsa on it for the sause, for the cheese used mexican cheese. Will make it again sometime cause it was awesome :D

Ok...think I got all the important stuff from the last 2 months in here and some of the non important stuff too lol.