Finally, a Lich King kill. Only took, what, 9 months or so? Still, well worth it.

Another new mount to share! My boyfriend and I have been running heroic Magister's Terrace whenever we remember to, and the mount finally dropped. :D

I don't have a lot to say right now. I just got off work and still have things to do. It sounds like the manga library is getting a new home, so I have to move it out of my room. Also thinking that some coke is needed to go with this rum I have. We're raiding Ulduar tonight, and hopefully getting some hard modes done. I /really/ want that mount.

However, I will post this picture, my most recent mount acquisition. It's the black drake mount from OS10 3D.

Currently, I am not so broke, and patiently waiting for my boyfriend to come over for today's adventure while my cousin's tweets fill the inbox on my phone. Granted, I have to wait for the check to clear, so I'm not exactly unbroke, and as soon as it does clear, most of it is going towards things I have to pay off. The thought occurred to me today, as I was waiting for the bus back, that it makes me happy that I can pay these things off. I suppose it's that feeling of responsibility. This is the first time in two years that I've received money not from a state organization. I am still getting food stamps, but I feel that's more of an obligation than my unemployment was.

Initially when I got this job, I was looking forward to being able to buy things like laptops, and a copy of the new Warcraft expansion due to hit early December. But in the last few weeks, life hit me like a truck. I did panic for a bit, but I've settled down quite a bit since. And you know what I most look forward to buying now? Socks. Yes, socks. I might even splurg and go to Sock Dreams. Also, the Warcraft Expansion. I made the decision that if I'm going to be poor for a while, I can at least give myself that kind of escape.

(and I will have my Lich King kill D< )

Now that I think about it... I should be showering, and not randomly rambling about things. :P

Really, this is a test. But I thought it was a cool picture. :D New priest ability, found in the Disc tree.

In short: Smite gives you wings!!

Heh, what a change this is. I get home and my first instinct is to write on my blog, no matter how mundane today's events seem. Actually, I am probably going to end up complaining. Why? Well, upon my return home, I am now (still) super broke, slightly irritated that my foot is sore and acting up again, and so out of gas that I don't think I will be able to back out of the driveway tomorrow.

I'll start with the story of my foot, as it's the worst one for me at the moment -- my being broke will fix itself tomorrow when I go to get my pay check. It was a couple of weeks ago or so when I rolled my foot and fell while walking to MAX. I was on my way to see friends I hadn't seen in a long while. Being that I'm usually very clumsy and have a habit of finding every crack in the sidewalk, I got up and brushed it off as if nothing had happened. Fast forward three or four weeks, and the damage, I believe, as become more apparent. I cannot walk down the street without having a difficult time walking back, and getting on my hands and knees to clean results in a cramp in my foot. I'm going to try and wrap it up a bit to see if the pressure helps any.

On top of my foot causing me trouble, I also had trouble picking up my pay check today. I was actually pretty excited this morning when I went to work -- I was going to get paid, which meant I could put gas in my brother's truck. It really needed it, as the gas gage was getting really close to empty. So I go to work with the intention of getting my check on the way home. Well, it really wasn't ON the way home, I had to go out of my way to get to the office, and I got there only to find that the office workers had gone home early. Which is ok with me, I can't expect them to wait around just for me to pick up my check. However, when I got to the parking lot, the gas gage had hit the orange bar. I am pretty sure I got back here just in time, and that I actually don't have enough gas in the tank to back out of the driveway.

Tomorrow will be interesting. I'll have to find two dollars so I can take the bus to go get my check, and deposit it. I am lucky that I snagged the gas can out of my dead car when I brought my brother's truck up here, I think I'm going to need it.

Patch 4.0: Relearning Feral Tanking

Just thought I'd make a quick post, one that I'll expand upon at a later time.

For the last week, I've been afraid to tank on my druid because of the changes that were made when 4.0 dropped. The biggest change I'd seen was a cooldown added to swipe, which, for those who don't know, was my main multi-target tanking skill. I've been scared to tank heroics most because with the cooldown, I had nothing to grab and hold onto mobs, which would be torn away from me as soon as the DPS started attacking. DPS are stupid sometimes, and never pay attention.

However, after having talked to my boyfriend, we decided to run a few raids and instances to try and get me some practice. It started with a ToC10, which went amazingly fast. The buffs DPS got made it so that the fights lasted around a minute and a half each. (Nothing dropped for my kitty DPS set, which made me kind of sad, even if I was expecting that to be the case). Next followed a random heroic: Halls of Reflection. I couldn't believe my luck. By the end I was sailing, but the beginning was very rough from my point of view. That particular instance is really good for tanks still learning multi-target tanking -- they'll learn very quick in that sort of situation, as I did. We ended the night with an OS10 zerg. As a precaution, I asked my boyfriend to tank the trash as I wasn't sure I could pick them all up, but I ended up doing fine. We wiped once, but got him the second time around. 

I lost the mount, though.

On an off topic note, I apologize for how rough my writing must seem right now. It's been a while since I've sat down to write anything at all. Hopefully my writing will smooth out the more I do this.