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.

Wills Upcoming Visit :D Wow Friends and Pumpkinhead!

Well so much for writing here again sooner lol. Anyway things have been going pretty good for me lately :) Will and I are going to see each other again on the 11th :D He's staying until the 14th :). I'm so excited :D 2 half days together and 2 full ones :) (Was only 1 full 1 last time). We're gonna play the Ouija board and maybe some other board games, kiss/cuddle (blush), and maybe drive around looking at Christmas decorations and going to see a movie. For the movie we're thinking of the new one coming out, Fourth Kind. Since we both like aliens/paranormal it seems a good choice :) Just worried my local theater won't be playing it in time. I remember years ago they were always a few weeks slow on getting the newest releases :( I guess if they aren't we can probably watch District 9 or Paranormal Activity. Would suggest going to Buffalo but he's already gonna be driving 4 or 5 hours to come here so don't wanna ask him to drive that much more.

Speaking of movies we watched Pumpkinhead together on day of the dead (the day after Halloween). We watched it on a movie site while chatting online heh. It was pretty good, not one of the best movies I've seen though, I wish it had ended differently too. Was my idea to watch a scary movie online together :) Thinking we might make a habit of this watching stuff online together :)

Our recruit a friend thing ended :( But his lock and my rogue both hit 60 before it did :) We're level 63 now actually. Turns out when you hit 60 you stop getting the triple xp anyway and can't be summoned anymore (I really should've read the faq on recruit a friend more lol). Odd thing with the summons thing is sometimes it worked when we were 60 and sometimes it didn't. Seemed to work mostly in inns. Since we stopped getting triple xp a few days before recruit a friend ended we decided to play other toons. He had a level 10 druid and a level 8 priest so I made a hunter and he granted my hunter levels with both toons until I was same level as his druid :) Got those toons up to level 19 in a couple hours of play time :) Hunter seems a fun class but I'd much rather play my rogue with him, or my druid when he gets up to 80 :D

And he got the burning crusade xpac so we can level to 70 together...told him he didn't need to though and that he could've just bought wrath, cause when I switched computers and reinstalled wow all I needed was wrath. But thinking now I may be wrong and that doing that might only work for accounts that already had downloaded the xpac before. Because everything online says you need wrath so it makes me wonder. Anyway he'll need to get wrath, and hopefully he will soon. Will be even more awesome when hes 80 and can play with my druid :D

Just wish he'd play more :( We don't even play together everyday but he thinks we play together alot, he says we play together an average of 3-4 hours a day, but I know thats totally off. He said he calculated it from his /played in wow. But thing is he played alot without me too so I'm not sure how he could calculate it. Anyway I know for sure we don't play that much on average, we barely play every other day, even weekend days we don't always get 3-4 in :( He thinks anything above 2 hours is good though :( I disagree. I think 2 is good for weekdays but think it should be more like 5-6 on weekend days. Guess we just have very different ideas on what is alot. We've argued quite a bit about it actually. :( Also he said before that he'd try to play more wow with me but it seems totally like he went back on his word about that because he later said he meant 2 hours a day and I replied something like thats what you said weeks before you said the playing more thing and he said something like well I didn't always do 2 hours then and will now. Another thing is he seems to stay on wow longer the times he goes on without me :(

Anyway while I'm on the subject of wow, one of my wow friends, Rich got hacked :( I was wondering why I hadn't seen him on in a couple days, he came on last night, I asked him where he'd been and told him armory wouldn't bring up his toons. He said "yea, I got hacked" He said the hacker took all his stuff and de'd it and used his emblems to buy epic gems and stuff. Took him a few days to get it all back (he got hacked on Wednesday morning and just got account back last night). Whoever hacked him also paid for server transfers for both his toons to another realm. He thought that was funny since he said whoever did it spent money on it. What I don't get though is why they didn't change the email (he said he got an email about his toons being transferred and thats how he found out, orginally when he got hacked he thought the person deleted them since he couldn't find them on armory) if they changed the billing info (which I'm assuming they did if they paid for the transfers) Really confusing, I'll have to ask him about it later. Hopefully he isn't lying about getting hacked for some reason. Anyway he got all his stuff back, plus some abyss crystals and such from when his gear was disenchanted, guess they reinstated his gear and let him keep the crystals. He thinks hes missing some gold though which sucks.

Anyway I just recently am starting to get interested in getting back into raiding on my druid. But I think after my recent try I'll just give up and try again in a few weeks or months. It was an uldaur 25 run that I joined already in progress because 1 of my wow friends asked me to come. Wish I hadn't, we wiped alot, not only that but the run had 10 guildys in in and 1 of them was lead, the douche decided all runed orbs would go to their guild bank. Most guilds do that, I don't really agree with it in any case...but when you have non guildys in the run, especially 10 of them you should fucking let everyone roll. Assholes. Anyway I force dc'd shortly after that when they wiped again. Do worry some that I made the friend who asked me to come mad by doing that but meh. Maybe I can say sorry and make up some excuse to him.

Ugh speaking of wow friends...1 of mine, the one I mentioned before that suggested maybe meeting 1 day since he moved to Ohio never ever ever helps me and it pisses me off. I've run him through stuff before but he never does the same. Its been like this for years pretty much and I'm just about fed up with it. Don't think hes a very good friend at all. He always says he doesn't have much time or is logging soon, or has had a bad day and just wants to bg to relax. Yet he'll help his fucking guild whenever they ask. A guild whos leader is a good wow friend of his and who was very rude to me before when I was in that guild :( Pisses me off so much. Have actually considering ending the friendship over him not helping would think if he was a good friend he wouldn't only not be in that guild but would help me too sometimes like I've helped him. Don't really remember even many instances of him helping me even. Remember 2 though both over a year ago. 1 he got pissed at me when I asked him to run me and some others through an instance because the others took too long to get there (he really has no patiance at all, even less then me lol). Another one was for my locks epic mount quest at 60 and he actually suggested I give him money for it :( Could almost understand that in a way because he paid money for the items himself weeks before for his own lock quest, but he had them regardless of me so it wasn't something a friend should've done. I wouldn't have suggested he pay if the situation had been revered :( Also remember the time a year or so ago where he borrowed 2000 gold from me to buy epic flight and took months to pay it back :( Anyway the day I asked him to run me through the instance he was online for hours on end in battlegrounds. Would've only taken 20-30 minutes to run me through the instance and he wouldn't make time. Some friend.

Did eventually find someone to run me through, one of my old guild leaders who I still talk to lol, she was very nice about it too and got some others to help too to speed it up. Thats about the only guild leader I've had in wow that I don't hate lol. But that guild doesn't exist anymore they merged with another one. Anyway I like my achievements and they weren't progressed very far so I quit partly over that and partly because 1 of the officers was a total ass to me.

Anyway as for achievements...I've gotten a few lately :) Less then I used to but I have alot of the non raid ones now and haven't been raiding much to get the raid ones. I got sporegger and kureni rep achievements as well as the diplomat achievement/title :)Also finally did Sunwell and got my outland raider achievement :D Been waiting months to find a group to get that, no one ever does it. Also killed all the rares in outland for bloody rare achievement lol. That one took about a week but was fun. Got alot of crappy level 60ish blues and some good ones from killing the rares, so some nice gear for my rogue and Will's lock and some shards for me to de :)

Anyway might write again sooner but don't hold your breaths lol. Might do next part of that longest personality quiz if I'm bored. Otherwise my next blog entry will probably be about Will's upcoming visit. So excited :D