I see a pattern in my posts

And it is that I don't post very often. I am not even going to make promises this time as we all know that I will not keep it. /nods

I am also at a place where I can't post right now, so hopefully shortly I will be back.

07-20-09

Trenton had a tournament (kinda) this weekend. It was in Chicago. The coach got them new uniforms for it. Bright yellow and navy blue. The kids looked awesome. They also played really well. There were different rules to play by, like full kid pitch, plus the kids could steal, have triples, have infield home runs. Plus, the pitchers mound was 2 feet closer to the plate and the bases were all 3 feet longer. So for all that, plus their first time playing anywhere but the two boys and girls club parks, they did exceptionally well. We lost both games, the first 5-4 and the second we held them off, winning 2-0 until the final inning. You could tell the boys were getting really tired. This was also their first double header. Anyways final inning, the other team hit a home run and I think that just did the boys in.

In the end, it was awesome, fun, and you can't get that kind of experience for the $4 it cost.

That was the excited that was our weekend. I got a ton of school supplies all set up, now we have to work on school clothes. This is the last week for baseball for Nathan. Trenton's last week will be next week, as his team is in the year end tournament.

Busy busy we are.

07-10-09

Ahhh. It is so nice to have work to do at work. I am loving this. Unfortunately, that also means less time to do other things. **ahem** We lost one of our employees and we are not going to replace her, which is fine by me. The days are going fast and things have been decent.

The boys are the boys. I, of course, cannot think of anything to write about, other than I am sorry that it has taken me a few days longer than I wanted to make a post. The bad thing about waiting, is you can never remember the stories so you can tell them. I will make a more valiant effort to remember these things and type them out.

As well as the pictures of my garden that I promised a while ago.

Well I suppose I should head on my way out of this post.

p.s. No EQ2 post as well, as I have been so busy I haven't played at all. :(

EQ2: 06-30-09

You know, I do not like people who think they are better than everyone else. I ran Kurns last night, finally. 1st thing: For as long as it took them to release it, I was not impressed. I was impressed that the repeatable quest in there pays out 2pp though, that rocked. 2nd: I went to run this zone with Krys, and ended on Zym, solo healing, this thing. Here's the deal, I did it, with a couple problems, but the tank was an ass.

Listen buddy, I am in T1 shard armor, all my spells are adept 3, I have my fabled epic, and I haven't played this toon in 4 months. Sorry it took me .5 seconds to hit cure curse not .1 second. Sorry even though it's frontal attacks, I can't watch the action for some reason as it lags me out, so when you start the fight out with me being positioned away from the mob, and my back is to you, and the next thing I know I die, due to frontal attacks, and you yell at me, Fuck off!! You are the one to position the mob, don't yell at me. I am sorry my healing was inept to you, but I think I did a damn fine job considering the mentioned above, and the fact that I have never been to this zone. (and a few macro's that shouldn't have been macro's)

Anyways, this dude spent the whole zone yelling at me and then as soon as the final mob died, disbanded. God I was pissed. And really, I only had a problem with one named, the second guy we killed that mem wiped. But now that I know the zone, should be no problem. Next on my list of zones to try Emperor's Anathenum.

06-30-09

Well, I just couldn't wait for Transformers to become a member of the five buck club, so we spent a small fortune and went and seen the movie on Friday night. The boys absolutely loved it. There were a few language bits that I thought were over the top and hopefully flew over the boys' head, but no comments were made. I liked it myself. Good robot fight scenes. Robot destruction. The camaro. Bumblebee will always be my favorite /nods.

One thing that we all /gasped at was one of the trailers. Avatar: The Last Airbender. We are all so excited to get see this movie. Too bad it will not be released until next summer. If you have not had the chance to catch the cartoon, I recommend it. Like 6 out of 5 stars recommend. It was an awesome cartoon. There were 3 seasons. I wish they would make more. My one request for the movie: As much as I love Aang, Katara, Sokka, Suki, Zuko, Nut Job Crazy Azula, I really hope that they do justice for Uncle.

Trenton earned his green stripe in Tae Kwon Do. I have pictures, need to upload to my computer and post them. That was our exciting weekend, Transformers and Tae Kwon Do.

In the garden world. I had around 30 stalks of corn, I am down to 15. Gives me ideas for planting for next year. I have pulled around 4-5 cups of raspberries off my two plants, so I hope all the transferred canes take next year. That would be awesome. And in other veggie news, I have about 8 zucchini's on their way. I have tomato's starting as well, and some pepper flowers but no peppers yet. Of course, while typing this, I thought of a tagline (sigline) from one of my message boards: Hope, like zucchini, springs eternal. Cracks me up.

06-29-30

Okay, we are down one person in the office, she is gone. If I don't get a chance today, but I will try this week to get an update going. /nods.

P.S. The eldest gained his green stripe yesterday. Woot!!

EQ 06-23-09

I am not a fan of repeatable, faction grind type quests. Really, I am not. But I will resign myself to doing these quests, at least on Krys, so I can if it is worth doing it for the other toons. I still have yet to find myself a group of any interest. And every Kurns group appears at about the time I decided it is bed time.

I am still not going to contemplate about the expansion. The fan faire starts this week and by Monday we should all have a good idea of what it will entail. Besides upping the level and AA cap.

It is nice to see that the stuff from the TSO instances are now tradeable. Unfortunately, the prices on these items seem to rather high at the moment. I was looking at a rather nice healing cloak that Zymeria could use and they wanted 150pp. I don't think so Tim! People have the craziest idea of what things are worth, spells and item wise. Although, I did see one nice thing last night. Bolt of Ice Master1, errrr Ice Comet III Master, was for sale for 150pp, better than the last time I saw one for sell for 500pp. I still have to buy masters. 5 level 80 toons, 2 littler toons, and only 12 masters a year. Yup, I see just getting the needed: Ice Comet, Ball of Fire, Wards, Heals, and stances. Will still have to buy everything else.

I highly doubt I will be doing anything online tonight, so hopefully tomorrow I will be able to hook up with a group and hit a zone or two. :)

06-23-09

Once upon a time..................hahahahaha

Okay, it is fricking hot outside. I mean sweltering. I really hope that the boy's baseball games are cancelled tonight. I honestly don't think that they need to be playing in over 100 degree heat.

After taking a wonderful Vicodin nap yesterday, I am not doing too bad. I am still hobbling around like an old lady. In fact, Scott kept calling me grandma last night. But I do feel a hundred times better today.

In other news, my garden is looking outstanding. I will try to get pictures of it tonight. Please don't mind the overgrown grass. It has just been too damn hot to mow. Anyways, so far I have: 7 tomato plants, 3 cucumber plants, 4 green pepper plants, one cabbage (Trenton's school project), one blueberry bush, one blackberry bush, 2 raspberry bushes, 14 million strawberry plants (bleh), 7 sunflowers, and around 30 stalks of corn, then 2 zucchini plants, 3 carving pumpkin plants, and 2 cantaloupe plants. First year doing cantaloupe and corn, so we shall see how that goes. We also about a week ago, transplanted 24 baby raspberry canes from the mother plant over to the other side of the garden. I hope that they all take, we will have a ton of raspberries, yummy!!!

I just got done talking to the lady at financial aid. I have to go in and refill out the loan paperwork. You know, seriously. This is beginning to piss me off more and more. They make it so friggin hard to get this done. It is a good thing I am really all about getting my degree. I could totally see just dropping out after all this hassle.

EQ 06-22-09

Uh, ya, I didn't really get to play this much this weekend. Actually I think yesterday was really the first time I logged in since Wednesday.

I am working on Krys again, problem I am having is finding a damn group. Then when the group is found, 9 times out of 10, the tank sucks ass.

Here's to hoping that trend turns around.

----- I realize these two posts kinda sucked the bucket. Blame it on pain pills /nods.

06-22-09

Well, for the most part it was a wonderful weekend. :)

We went out to Scott's mom's house, went swimming for the majority of Saturday and then on Sunday, while working in the garden, I tweaked my back. It still hurts. I really want to go home and just lay down. I don't think I am going to make it here at work all day. This chair is in no way comfortable.

Today is also the day to put in the A/C units. It was rather warm in the house yesterday, and it is supposed to be hotter today. Welcome Summer!!! (bout damn time too!)

Off to see about skipping out of work here shortly, before my back explodes into levels of pain I really don't want to experience.

BTW

I am trying to quit smoking. Hold me up to it. I am starting as of now, I just finished my last cigarette. I have been on Wellbutrin for 2 weeks now. So lets hope this works. I need it to work.

/cheers

EQ 06-17-09

Ahhh, good ole Everquest2.

I actually cancelled my account at the beginning of April, if you can believe that. There was just too much going on and I need to get rid of the time sink of EQ. But I re-subbed in May after school finished up, and life slowed down some. When I came back I actually sat and focused on a Coercer that I made. I didn't log into any of my higher level toons really until about last week. I just wanted to lose myself in the game and not have to worry about talking to anyone.

My goal with my Coercer, Calipso, is to see how many AA's I can get. So she is level locked and omg are there about 1 billion quests out there. At level 36, iirc, she has 71 AA's. I am actually ready to unlock her and move up to level 40, but I have to finish two zones yet, one in CL and the other in Ant.

But I need a break from her, and I am ready to play Krys and Zym. Krys does have her mythical now. I started raiding and then well that's when the shit hit the fan and I cancelled my account. I would love to go back to raiding, but the more I think about it, I really doubt I will be able to do that. I just really don't have to time, and I have being scheduled to play a game. I don't mind generally, because I am online almost every night, but there are times, I really don't care to worry about getting home by 8pm and logging in. Especially now that it is summertime and the boys are enjoying staying up late.

GU52: Interesting. I am not sure what I think about the Research Assistants. On one hand, its great not having to put out thousand of plat (Wizard and Defiler spells cost a ton) but it still feels odd. Although I have to say the first thing I did when I logged in yesterday was run to the RA and have him start researching Ball of Magma, err, Ball of Fire 14, or whatever the hell it's called now.

Ya the spell renaming is going to take a few weeks/months to get used to. Looking at the parser last night, I kept looking for Bolt of Ice. Ya, that didn't work too well.

The xp changes for those of us at cap though. ROCK ON!!!! I ran Scion of Ice last night and hell if I could remember what %AA I started out at. Its either 56% or 66% and I finished the run, after turning in the shard quest and the DD quest at 85%. Woohoo!!!!!!!!!! I don't have to do 4 million quests if I don't want too. I can grind it out!! (Never in a million years did I ever think I would be excited to grind out XP /shock!)

The Sentinel's Fate: Trademark the other day. Now we get to contemplate. Which I don't think I will except for level 90 and more AA's. But I will say, that I am torn. While I would love to go back to Odus or Velious, I would also like something that is new. I want fresh continents. But I really guess if it is Norrath, they have to use the same continents. Lets hope its a good expansion. I will comment more after SOE release the info on it.

-Krys

WB 06-17-09

Let's see how long this run of posting goes for!! lol!!

Well first off, I am having troubles with the font and the colors of the post. It won't stick. Dammit.

Let's see where to start. I am still on the train and track of going to school. This will be my third semester, I am up to Calc1, and Chemistry. I am also fighting like hell for financial aid, it sucks. Still working full-time and running after the boys. I feel like I am tired all the time. That is okay though, because in the end it will all be worth it. /nods

Trenton is doing really well in baseball and he has also taken up Tae Kwon Do. Which he enjoys immensely. He will be going into the 4th grade this year, and he is very excited about that.

Nathan just turned 6 and is doing well. He is playing baseball and hockey now. He is doing very well. We went for the speech re-evaluation and he is in the clear. He still needs to work on certain sounds, but it's not enough for him to need weekly therapy.

Scott is still unemployed. It sucks money wise, but the boys love it, because daddy is home all day with them.

Other than that, life is good, and moving by way too fast. :)

06-17-09

I am so wishy washy with this blog. Actually what happened is that I went back to school. While working a full time job and running after the boys and such. Life kinda got in the way. Still playing EQ2, not as much but still am.

This is just a quick post (getting interrupted). So I will be back with an update of life, gaming, and school.

--Krys