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I LOVE…  making new characters on WoW.  It. is. addicting.  World of Warcraft FTW!!!!!

I LOVE…  raising awareness and supporting causes I believe in.

Today is To Write Love On Her Arms day.  Check out TWLOHA here.

I LOVE…  that I’m able to talk to my husband as often as I am.  I’m grateful every day.

I LOVE…  that I call him a blogger, and it disgusts him.  :D

I LOVE…  days when I write furiously because I can really feel the emotions of my characters.  I actually cried a little bit on Wednesday night when I was writing a particularly heart wrenching scene.

I LOVE…  having silly conversations with my friends that make me feel awesome.

I LOVE…  that Glee was back on this week, and it was so totally worth the wait!!!!!  Each episode never feels long enough, especially this week’s, but it’s always awesome.

I LOVE…  Café World on Facebook.

I LOVE…  sleeping through the night and waking up without the stress of having had a severely messed up and stressful dream.

I LOVE…  that 20SB is now partnering with ItStartsWithUs to help make a difference in the world!

I LOVE…  The Chartjackers song I’ve Got Nothing.  Basically you just need to watch the video, because it’s these great guys working for a great cause.  THEN go on iTunes and purchase it.  I am ordering you to do it.  Then tell all your friends to do it.  You can ONLY buy this song on iTunes, so hop to it!

On a totally related note, everyone should pick up their phone and call all their local radio stations and ask them to play this song.  If they don’t have it, tell them they should!  (( Yes YOU, I’m looking at you! )) I’d love to hear this on the radio!

I LOVE…  that you guys keep coming back to my blog every Friday to tell me what you love.

What do YOU love today?

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Word count:  20′558

Hi.  :D

I’m feeling in a sharing mood, so I’m going to share today.  I’m taking some time to write a blog because, while on Friday I didn’t write at all, on Saturday morning/early afternoon I wrote more than 4′000 words, and I really fell in love with the scene I was doing.  I feel like I’m really getting to know my characters more, and that makes writing a lot easier.

On Saturday Jean and I went to Danielle’s house, which neither of us had seen, and then we went to dinner at 7 Moons *drool*.  I was wicked excited, because I hadn’t seen Danielle since her wedding day last year, and I just ♥ her, and Jean is always awesome to be around (I ♥ her too!).  We had a great time (well, I know I did!) talking about men, being married, anxiety, knitting, beads, and vacuum cleaners.  And pets.  And cookies.  We totally stayed there for at least two hours after we ate, just sitting at our table talking.

My voice was hoarse when I got home.  lolz.

Oh!  And on the way to Danielle’s (Jean was driving) I actually said ‘lolz’ out loud.  In the car.  Turns out it doesn’t sound as cool out loud as it does in my head.  I mean, it wasn’t the first time I’d said it, but it was definitely the first time to someone outside the crazy world of blogging and gaming and such.

Anyway, it was a blast.  And I didn’t feel guilty about going out because I’d written so much!

I’ll also have you know that I started writing this blog Saturday night when I got home, so if it gets long I’m going to put quotation marks around the quick in the blog title.  I like to be prepared, you know?  I might not have as much time to write on Monday, and I like sharing so I would feel sad if I didn’t have the time.  This way I have a blog for you guys AND I get to share, so it’s a win/win situation.  (also made the tektek on Saturday night out of boredom because Walter had already gone to bed when I got home. ]:  )

There wasn’t much to speak of on Sunday.  I spent most of the day playing WoW, because I’d done almost three days of writing the day before.  I didn’t have to write much.  So I leveled and had fun on a new character.  This week?  Human paladin.  I’m in love with starting new characters on that game.  Then I had dinner at my mom’s house, om noms, and after that Sarah and I watched the two latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy.  WTF is happening to Seattle Grace Hospital?  I mean, really!  I can’t stand the Mercy West people, and everyone is breaking rules all over the place!  First Derek and everyone that was in on the inoperable tumor, then Yang with the embolism, the Chief really just needs to step down now.  And what’s up with the Hotness Monster attacking Yang in her room like that?  These people from Mercy West are so dumb!

Also I really didn’t get to talk to Walter much with everything I was doing.  That = lame.  His internet was crap and not working, but today it is better and I got to talk to him for a good 48 minutes this morning.  It is the right way to start my day.

Anylolz, happy Monday!!!

How was YOUR weekend?

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Word count:  13′455

Let me tell you what my problem is:  I have this love affair with procrastination.  Sometimes I’ll have a huge goal set for myself, and it’s a goal that I want to achieve so badly I can taste it.

It tastes good.  That’s why I want it.

But no matter how much I want it, I’ll go out of my way to do everything but what needs to be done to achieve that goal.

Take NaNoWriMo for example.

Yesterday I laid in bed for about 40 minutes after I woke up, plotting just how I would get up, pee, get something to eat, and then sit at my computer with Word and just write.  I would write until I couldn’t write anymore, because I really want to get a jump start on this.  But once I got up, you see…. things didn’t go as I’d planned them to go.  It was 9am.

• I made my bed.
• I peed.
• I realized we were supposed to set the clocks back during the night, so it was only quarter after 8!
• I set my clocks back an hour and realized I had more time to write than I thought, so I figured I wouldn’t rush it.
• I waited for Sarah to wash some dishes so that I’d have a spoon for chocolate milk.
• I sat down at my computer and checked my Facebook (BAD IDEA ALWAYS!), because I can’t write on an empty stomach.
  • I Restaurant City’d.  I country Story’d and Roller Coaster Kingdom’d.
• I logged in to WoW to see if my auctions had sold.
• I made and drank chocolate milk.
• I figured I was already logged in to WoW so I did a few quests.
• I realized it was noon-thirty when Sarah said it was time to go.
• We went grocery shopping (took nearly two hours).
• I talked to Walter on MSN, and played some more WoW (I was due at my mom’s for 5pm for dinner, so I couldn’t just sit and write for an hour).
  • Deleted some characters, made a new character.
• I went to my mom’s for dinner.  It was good.
• I got home and finally sat down to write.
• I wrote 96% of this blog
• Then and only then did I finally write 1′684 words, reaching my quota for the day.

That looks nothing like the day I had planned.  I’d planned to have all the necessary writing done before noon, so that we could go grocery shopping and I could go to my mom’s without breaking stride.

Stride?  What stride?!!

And all in there I tweeted, I Facebook’d.  I even wrote most of today’s blog.  Because I have a procrastination problem.  No matter how good my intentions are when I start out, I’m going to procrastinate.  It is one of the handful of things in life I can ever be 100% certain of (we’ll discuss the others in another blog, because I have to write some more… you see?).

Walter:   If someone could die from procrastination, it would be you.

I pretty much choked on my own laughter right there.  Because it’s true, it would be me.

Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year?
What’s your word count?

Word count: 1′684

I LOVE…  my new last name.

I LOVE…  hot chocolate.  Especially the kind with the freeze dried marshmallows.  With a little cream in it.  Mmmm.

I LOVE…  hot tea on a cold morning, with a little milk and sugar.

I LOVE…  that Walter sent me flowers on Tuesday because he knows that I hate Tuesdays, and then he forgot he sent them.  DORK.  ♥

I LOVE…  that my nephew is going to be Peter Pan for Halloween this weekend.  The costume is so effing adorable!  I get to go around Trick-Or-Treating with him, too!

I LOVE…  both Robin Williams and Mary Martin as Peter Pan.  Since I already have Hook on DVD, I now need to find the Mary Martin version of Peter Pan on DVD and my life will be complete!  Not really complete, per se… but it will be better.

I LOVE…  that every few nights before bed John will ask me where Uncle Walter is, if he can sleep over our house again, and tells me that he misses him.  It’s cute.  But GET IN LINE, BUDDY.

I LOVE…  Casey and Cappie back together!!!!!!!!!!!! Srsly, they kissed, and amidst the squealing and giggling I may have semi-shouted “this is the best moment of my life!!!!” (read: I totally did).

I LOVE…  that it’s the weekend.  I can play WoW on Saturday all day if I want.

I LOVE…  that National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starts on Sunday (see my nifty little badge over there in the left hand column??)!!!  I have been waiting for this since I failed last year, and I’m totally going to win this year!!!  I’ll probably post my progress updates a few times a week, and you probably won’t get very many normal blogs from me until it’s over, since I have to focus on my word count, but I hope all y’all will stick around until it’s over.  I could use all the support I can get!

Happy Friday, everybodies!  What do YOU love today?

I would like you all to know something about me.  I’d like you to know just.how.lazy.I.am.

Andhari (from Insomniac Lolita) posted a blog about her typical day off, and she wants to know if any of us can beat that kind of laziness.

Let’s go over a typical (and by typical I mean at least EVERY OTHER WITHOUT EXCEPTION) Saturday, a day off for me, since those are my laziest of lazy days.

I wake up at some ridiculously early hour for a Saturday, like 7 or 8:30am, and stay in bed as long as I can.  If my nephew isn’t home this is easier, since the quiet often lulls me back to dreamland.  If I happen to wake up again between 8:30 and 11, I repeat the process as many times as it takes.

When I finally get up, I sit in my computer chair (maybe 4 feet from my bed, but I could be being a little generous there) to check my email even though I’ve been in my bed for at least 10 hours and my bladder is screaming some very foul bladdery words at me and basically threatening to burst through my belly button if I don’t empty it.  But I ignore it because I’m sitting down, and hey that’s enough of a reason.

My email usually tells me I have Facebook messages and blog comments, so I check them, fully intending on going to the LGR in a minute.  But once I’m on Facebook I have to check my farms and do any necessary harvesting and planting, I might as well play the 4 or 5 other Facebook applications I do real quick because I’m already logged in, and if anyone has posted anything funny in the feed since last night I need to comment on those as well.  Blog comments get replied to, but I don’t touch my Google reader.  I don’t blog or read blogs on the weekends.  I have other things to do.

Before I know it, it’s early afternoon and I still haven’t pee’d.  So I go do that, and I wonder why I didn’t do it sooner since the bathroom is right next to my bedroom.  Oh well.  Maybe tomorrow I’ll get it right.  I probably brush my teeth at this point, but sometimes I forget until right before I go to bed.

Don’t act like you’ve never done that.

Then I get some cereal, if there’s any cereal in the house.  If there’s not then I have some chocolate milk and just don’t eat anything for most of the day.  I don’t want to go through the motions of using the oven or the stove or the microwave, especially if it’s going to make a mess or require the leaving behind of extra dishes (which I don’t do).

Then I play WoW.  And I play some more.  I think I should probably do laundry and tell myself honestly that I’ll do it later, it’s more fun to do late at night anyway.  So I keep playing WoW.  It’s probably around 9:30 or 10 when I finally realize that I’ve been in my computer chair all day and I haven’t had anything to eat or drink all day, and that’s probably why my head hurts.  And it’s too late for laundry because I don’t want it to sit in the washer in the basement all night, so I’ll do it tomorrow morning instead.

On a motivated day I’ll put a personal pizza in the toaster oven or eat some more cereal at this point, but mostly I just make some chocolate milk and go into the living room, trying to decide whether or not I want to watch a movie.  I do want to watch a movie, but I’m too lazy to pick one out.  So I go sit in my room and Facebook some more, watch any TV shows I neglected online during the week, or log back into WoW until I can’t keep my eyes open anymore.  Then I go to bed.

I might pee again somewhere in there while I’m playing WoW, like if I’m on a long flight path from one town to another and don’t need to be at the keyboard, but I definitely don’t shower because I can skip that for a day if I’m not going out, which I never am.

That’s a Saturday in my world.  I’m sure Sarah will remember some lazy thing I do or don’t do daily that should be in here, but for the most part I think this is about it.  I would like to add that Sundays look relatively similar, though I usually shower and go to my mom’s for dinner.

The end.

Now, wasn’t that a fabulous story?

I LOVE…  that I got to talk to Walter for over an hour this morning.  OVER AN HOUR.  And it was beyond glorious.

I LOVE…  old school Michael Jackson.  Kids these days don’t understand.

I LOVE…  taking pictures.  One time I took this picture of a slug (I know, I’m weird) but it came out so good!!!!!

I LOVE…  living in Rhode Island.  Don’t judge me!

I LOVE…  all the Harry Potter books.  I’m half way through Deathly Hollows, and I can’t believe it’s so good!

I LOVE…  playing WoW.

I LOVE…  chocolate ice cream.  I could eat it every day!  Oh wait, I pretty much already do…  :D  He he he.

I LOVE…  the burn marks in my front bumper from my major jump start failure.  I’m so proud of them.

I LOVE…  hanging out with Sarah at the end of the day.  She’s so awesome.

I LOVE…  Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.  And Sully.

I LOVE…  you.  For real.  I’m in such a good mood!!!!

What do you love today?!!!!

I’ve played quite a few games in my time.  Quite a few indeed.  So when I announced that I was going to start playing WoW, I was irritated at all the negative feedback I got.

I heard a lot of “We’re never going to see you again”s and some  “See you in a few months”s along with quite a few “We all know where THIS is going”s.  Equip each statement with a massive eye roll and there you have it: the reaction I got from just about everyone that doesn’t already play.

I ignored it, and laughed it off.  I’ve been a gamer since I met D in high school.  I’ve been hooked on MMORPG’s (for any of you non-gamers that stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) for a good five years now.  I’ve played Oddessy, Runescape, Diablo2, Meridian 59, UltimaOnline, EverQuest, Lineage, World Of Warcraft, Endless Online, Guild Wars, Vanguard, R.O.S.E. Online, Fly For Fun, Ragnarok, and probably a few others that I’m completely forgetting.  So I’ve been around the gaming world.  I know how it is.

I know.

I don’t need people rolling their eyes at me, telling me they’re disappointed in me and telling me how it’s going to be.

Um, if you know me then you know I’m not like that.  I’m a big girl, and not everyone falls into that stereotype.

Or better yet, if you’ve known me long enough, you should know I’ve been down that road and that I learned my lesson.  Because of all the games I’ve played, no game was more addicting or life consuming than Illarion (before you click the link, remember that it was far less developed 5 years ago than it is now).

This is Illarion.  You’ll want to click to see the full images.

Illarion is a free MMORPG.  An isometric free RPG where you can only walk at one pace and all the character avatars look exactly the same, no matter what they’re equipped with.

To say that I loved this game would be the understatement of the century.  I lived this game.  I used to eat, sleep, breathe, and BATHE this game.  It dictated when I slept, when I worked, when I ate (which was rarely), and everything else I did or (more likely) didn’t do.

Probably the longest period I went without having a boyfriend was while I was playing this game.

It’s not just an MMO, it’s actual role play.  To have and keep a character you need to, like D&D, come up with a personality and character description as well as a back story, and then you need your character to blend in with the world around you and interact with other characters.  With the old account system (there isn’t one now) you had to actually apply for an account and not only answer questions, but complete a story in a few sentences to play.

There was no questing.  Power gaming was frowned upon.  All the characters looked the same with our names (and numbers!) over our heads.  85% of your in game time was spent actually role playing, not gaining skills.

It. Was. AWESOME.

For a while.  Then it started to become unfun.  I had this whole life in game.  A husband and a profession, a whole LIFE.  And when it started to get unfun, it leaked into my real life.  My unhappiness spilled over into my everyday activities.  And even then I didn’t quit.  I took it too seriously to quit.  I took it so seriously for so long that I was afraid to leave, even though I was completely miserable.  I needed the game.  It kept me awake at night.  I played for a long time this way before I finally quit.  And I quit twice.

The first time I quit, I went back after a few months thinking that all I needed was a break.  But no.  It was far worse than that.  And I played for a few more months before I quit entirely.  It’s been hard.  I’ve since even stopped going to the forums because I get sucked in that way too.  And I know better.

So when I say I know how it is to be addicted to a game, I’m not kidding.  I know how it is.  I’ve been down that road.  I’ve seen the Dark Side (they don’t really have cookies, don’t let them fool you).  It took a lot of repairing to get my life back into shape, but I’ve done it and I won’t do that to myself again.

So I ask you to please keep your snide comments to yourself.  I don’t want them.  I started playing WoW because Walter has gone to Iraq and I need something time consuming and enjoyable to do so that I don’t spend all my time worrying about whether or not he’ll come home at all.

Don’t assume anything about me based on the short-comings of other people.  I am NOT other people.  And I’ll freaking play World Of Warcraft if I want to.  So get off my case.

I LOVE… that Robert is officially a high school graduate.

I LOVE… that he graduated from the high school I went to, the one that both my parents went to.
I LOVE… my old high school.  I don’t care how it gets made fun of.  I had so much fun and I learned so much that I’ll always love it there.

I LOVE… how good and patient Robert is with John.
I LOVE… that John fell asleep last night holding my hand.
I LOVE… that Walter called me first thing this morning and that he’s going to call me randomly while I’m at work.  *swoon*
I LOVE… playing WoW with Sarah at night.  Blood elf paladins rock.
I LOVE… that I have such bizarre dreams that I think about them throughout the day.
I LOVE… that CooCoo got to take Paula to see NKOTB last night for her birthday.

Today is going by fast.

For some stupid reason I can’t stop eating.  I’m not even hungry, and all I want to do is eat.  This is getting rather annoying, as you can imagine I’m sure.

I started Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire today.  I’m taking a short break from that to bring you this fabulous blog of nothingness.

I had a pretty OK weekend.  On Saturday Sarah and I went birthday present shopping for our cousin who just turned 9, and I bought WoW (with the first expansion pack).  It took nearly half the day to install, and Alli came over to hang out for a little while.  Alli told me all about her new job, which she likes so far, and we talked about nothings and more nothings like we usually do.

Sunday was *groan* so tiring.  Sarah had to go to Logan (BLAH!) to pick up our grandmother who just flew back in from Minnesota.  She spent a few days out there for my cousin’s graduation and my uncle booked her flights in and out of Logan.  While Sarah was gone I had John and he was even more of a handful than usual.  Then we went to Cerina’s birthday party with the ridiculous amount of toys we got her on Saturday.  Then I went home and played some WoW while Sarah did laundry.

I’ll be doing laundry tonight while I catch up on The Unusuals and any other show that might have had new episodes last week.

My weekend was like a boring story.  You poor people that actually read through all this, I applaud you.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Bloggy Von Boringface – out!

I’m having a hard time deciphering my mood today.  I’m irritated, but earlier I was ready to have a good day.  The world seemed bright, and now I’m just plain irritated.  And what’s more?  I want to be in a good mood, which is also irritating.  So I’m double irritated and I don’t like it.

Did I mention that I really want to be in a good mood?

My brother turned 18 yesterday.  I went to my mom’s for dinner, like I usually do on Sundays, and the poor kid was coming down with something.  He had a fever and he felt bodily crappy.  What a way to feel on your 18th birthday.  I hope he’s not getting The Flu.

Today I don’t have much planned: survive the morning with John, then go to work and survive the work day.

Already today he’s gotten into the cookies without asking.  I don’t get it.  Some mornings he’s so good, and other days he’s so insolent from breakfast until bedtime.  It drives me up the effing wall.

I’m debating whether or not I want to start playing World of Warcraft.  I want a new game to play, something I can really get into.  I haven’t played WoW in like 3 or 4 years, and I hear it’s changed a lot.  So I’m interested.  Does anyone here play WoW?  There’s a roleplaying server, right?  I want to play a game that has an actual RP server.  I miss role playing.  I miss Illarion, too, but I won’t go back to that.  It’s far too different now for me to enjoy it anymore.

I’m looking forward to going to work today.  I actually look forward to going to work every Monday.  I love the way it feels to go back to the office after a relaxing weekend.  And my weekend was pretty relaxing.

I bought some cute shirts at the mall, and two books.  I bought some comfy pants and some new underwear, too, since all my underwear laugh at me.  OH!!!!!  And I didn’t buy ANY movies.  NOT ONE.  This. is. huge.

And lastly, I’m sick of my page design.  I want something more personalized, more me.

Happy Monday, everyone.