hmm... ok

So last night was not as easy at work as I thought. We were pretty busy for a holiday Monday. There was a point where we were really far behind in our closing stuff, but somehow we managed to make a comeback and get out at a reasonable time.

Played WoW tonight on my undead priest. Got her to lvl 11 and I am actually feeling pretty good about her progress.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) is my moms birthday (61 years young). I think today we are gonna try to go out to dinner since I have to work Wednesday night.

I have today off so I think I'll probably play W101 tonight.

I watched LOTR 3. I had forgotten how much I love those movies. I think I may do either the Pirates of the Carribean or the Bourne trilogy. But of course there is always the Harry Potter series... hmm... idk.

Anywho, I think I'll get headed to bed. Everyone have a great night/day.

Happy Labor day!

wow, today was so much better than yesterday! Work was a little tougher than expected cause the customers spaced themselves out, so we had very little down time to get stuff done.



Last week I swore off of WoW so that I could progress in W101 a little bit. That paid off, my balance gained 4 levels and is just a few battles away from Mali :) So tonight I decided to play WoW. My (now lvl 27) Tauren hunter has too many quests to work with, I'm having trouble focusing on one area.



I finished watching LOTR part 1 from last night, then watched part 2. Monday night I'll probably watch part 3.



Well, I guess I should be getting to bed. Everyone have a great night/day.

zzzzzzzz... huh! What?....zzzzzzzzzzzz

I am so sleepy right now, lol. I think tonight I could've actually gone to bed right when I came in the door after work. Normally its the opposite, I am too wired to sleep. Work was kinda boring tonight, but I worked hard (which is half of the problem right now).

I spent an hour or so in the LNW chat tonight, something I don't usually do. Most nights if I start chatting in there I don't get in game or get a movie going until its really too late to do so, lol.

Finished up the sides in crystal grove. Yeva Spiderkeeper dropped nothing useful. Finishing all the current quests in my book will still leave me about 10k short. I still have the side quest in the forum which will give me about 3k leaving me 7k short. But the main quest in the forum plus malistaire may give me that 7k. I am 99% sure I grabbed every side quest (Except KP and maybe Tomb of the Beguiler).

*sigh* I am about half way through Lord of the Rings but I just really need to sleep. Everyone have a great night/day.

PS 8-close tonight, should be easy :)

I got the headmaster statue!!!!!!!

I've got a bit of a headache so this won't be too long of a post, but here goes:

Ok I just spent 3 minutes thinking more about how to chew the piece of candy in my mouth instead of what I wish to talk about. That can't be good.

Anyway, work was crazy and hectic. The boss I had tonight is sooo scatter-brained. She doesn't know what shes doing half the time. She's always losing her keys, cell phone. One day we found her cell phone in the top of the frosty machine. Shes a nice enough boss, but her scatter-brainness, really makes me not want to work with her.

In W101 news, I was battling Chronius and he totally dropped the headmaster statue!!!!!! Only problem is that my wizard doesn't have a house to put the statue in. I stopped playing tonight because it was either do the crystalline queen's tower or the secure house. I had no friends online so I figured I would just cut my losses for the night.

Tonight I watched "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". I must say it wasn't a half-bad movie. I didn't laugh all the way through it, but it had its moments. The one weird thing was seeing the lady teacher (prof. mcgonical?) from Harry Potter, not as a wizard/teacher. James Gardner was also in this movie. I know he doesn't take a lot of speaking parts but in this one he really did have very few lines, and almost all of them were towards the end. Of course with all those women, he couldn't have gotten a word in edgewise.

Next movie up for Tuesday will be Big Fish. I've seen it before, but found it to be the kinda movie you have to watch twice to absorb it all.

Well, that lasted longer than I thought. 4-close tonight :( its gonna be a long day. Everyone have a good night/day.

lvl 49!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The funniest thing just occurred to me. Years ago, there was a guy in my life who probably shouldn't have been. Most years my goal for the fair would be to run into him (figuratively). What occurred to me is that my dad does the same thing. He goes just to run into old friends (one of which is the guy I spoke of, but that is a much longer drawn out story). I don't know why I deem this soo news worthy, it just kinda hit me like a book.

So we went grocery shopping today. I honestly love grocery shopping, but not with my mom. She'll either stop to look at everything or get completely far ahead even if I say "wait a sec". She also will say something to me and assume that I can hear her in the busiest Walmart isle. And then when my dad goes he wants the trip to be as short as humanly possible, which is incredibly annoying.

In gaming news, I got my balance Wizard up to lvl 49. She finished up all the sides except for crystal grove and beyond. I kinda want to work it out so that my Malistaire fight is what puts me at lvl 50. I used up my 2 transformations on my 2nd acct. I like the treant one better, but the ninja pig had less lag.

Its back to work today for another football Friday. Luckily I only have to deal with 8-close. I should get "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" today. And I just remembered to send out meeting reminders for the officer meeting tonight lol. Well, I guess I better go do that before I forget. Everyone have a great night/day.

Fair Week :D

So today was... different. Understand that I don't get out much, most days off are spent at home in front of my computer. As I think I said before I have been to all but 2 county fairs in my 23 yr existance. Some years have been funner than others. The years that are more fun tend to be the ones where I ride some rides and have a friend or 2 to hang out with there. This year doesn't look like much of that will happen. I still had a nice time today, being outside and having great food. But hopefully if I get to go again either Sunday or Monday it will be a little bit more fun.


Anywho... Played Wizard101 today, got up to about 48 1/2. I went back and finished up those side quests so now I am all on crystal grove. I really do hate spiders though :(

A week or 2 ago, I began watching Stargate SG-1 on Netflix. I wasn't sure if I liked it or not in the beginning. But now I am about 2 or 3 episodes away from being done with season 1, I am finding myself addicted.

I am sooo ticked at our mailman. Because he was a day late delivering Casablanca, I missed out on Rose Red again. It has said long wait and short wait for a while now. On Tuesday it said available now. If Casablanca had arrived on time, I would have been able to get Rose Red. Now it says long wait again. Grrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is grocery shopping day (which I am just soooo thrilled about -_-). I better be getting to sleep. Everyone have a great night/day.

The Iraq war is over!

First off, the first half of this blog post is pollitical. The normal topics are below the dotted line. Feel free to skip the first half if you like.

On 9/11/01 I was a freshman in high school. I didn't care much about the world around me. I didn't even really know what to think or feel about what had happened. I do however, remember how I felt on the first night of bombs on the city of Baghdad. I remember fearing that we had just started ww3. I guess that would have been worse case senario. From that night on, I cared a hell of a lot more about all things political. I help elect our current president, and have tuned in for almost every national address he has given. Most politicians lie to us at some point, and I am sure that President Obama is no different. But to know that troops leaving Iraq is a promise that he is keeping, allows me to trust him now as much as ever. We tend to focus so much on what someone is doing badly (in this case handling the economy) that we so often overlook the really good things.

I don't know anyone in my personal life who was in Iraq. I have friends from high school who are in the military, and I have gaming friends who have been to Iraq and have thankfully come out alive.

I'll be brutally honest, I never supported the Iraq war for one minute. I get that Sadaam Hussein was a very bad man. But I could never understand how if the Taliban were responsible for 9/11, then why weren't we going directly after them. Instead we were duped into believing that the Taliban were getting "wmd's" from Iraq. I hope that some day the history books tell the story the right way and not the "politically correct way.

What this all boils down to is; I am so happy that almost all troops have left Iraq and that the war there is over, but I feel no safer than I did a week ago or a month ago. I know that I won't feel safe until Osama Bin Laden (not his advisors or his second in command) the man himself is behind bars (not dead, death would be an easy way out).

I'm sorry for bringing down the mood of the blog a little, I just felt like this was the only appropriate time to speak of this topic. I'm also sorry if I was rambling up there, I was thinking as I was typing. But now, on to other, brighter topics.
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Today is the first day of our county fair. I always love fair week. I have been to every fair since I was born except for the 2 years I was in college. I like the rides if I have someone to ride with. Since my only friends that go are pregnant, I don't think I'll be riding much this year. That being said I love the food and really the whole atmosphere. I'm actually treating my parent today (since they get in for $2 each). Today may be the only day I end up going. There's a slight chance I would be off Sunday or Monday but I am not holding my breath.

Tonight I watched Casablanca, which I absolutely love. There's so many good lines in it that its hard to pick a favorite, but I love the ending line "Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship". Before tonight I didn't understand why Rick made Ilsa leave with Victor, but I get it now. Victor would have never left without her, and Rick had to make sure Victor got out. Because Louis was right all along, Rick was a sentamentalist. He wanted Victor to succeed and that meant he (Rick) had to give up Ilsa.

In gaming news, my balance girl is now at lvl 48 and has her power nova spell and her hydra (which I was appauled at the 18 hr hatch time). She's up to crystal grove quest wise. I may wait to finish the grove until after I grab the books from Grand Chasm and Crucible. I'm kinda hoping tonights maintenance was a character copy for test realm, although I did crash twice in the past 24hrs.

I have taken up way too much of your time at this point so I shall be going to sleep now. Everyone have a great night/day.