Dreams & Despair

I see a pattern in my posts

2009-10-27T15:23:00.003-05:00

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

2009-07-20T08:56:00.002-05:00

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

2009-07-10T16:30:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-30T09:37:00.003-05:00

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

2009-06-30T09:20:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-29T09:16:00.001-05:00

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

2009-06-23T13:10:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-23T13:00:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-22T09:16:00.003-05:00

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

2009-06-22T09:12:00.003-05:00

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

2009-06-17T15:14:00.001-05:00

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

2009-06-17T11:22:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-17T11:04:00.002-05:00

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

2009-06-17T10:45:00.001-05:00

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

08-28-08

2008-08-28T09:05:00.001-05:00

It is really cool watching history in the making, isn’t it? I told Scott that I really need to watch his acceptance speech tonight. He is such a wonderful speaker.

I am tired. Still. And, of course, it is all rainy and dreary outside, which is a very good nap day. Gah to be home and in my bed snoring would be absolutely wonderful right now.

That is really all that is going on at the moment. Need a nap, Obama got the nomination, and it is raining outside. Sweet.

No EQ2 post today either. Haven’t really done anything productive, lol.

EQ 08-25-08

2008-08-25T11:26:00.002-05:00

Okay, so I started working things out considering guild halls. I am hoping there will be some changes in the prices (less) and upkeep (less or reducible) but I am not holding my breath.

The guild has approx 160pp sitting in the guild bank right now, between Krys and Eyezes we have almost is not more than 15mil status saved up and that doesn’t include the 3mil from Modex that he will probably donate and whatever else gets donated from the members of the guild.

First thing I have to say is that I was crazy stupid doing writs yesterday. I wanted that damn little balck dress that needed 40k faction for that Agents of Neriak. Ya, I had about 3000 faction. So I did writs all damn day, got the guild approx 80% of a level. We had just dinged 46 on Saturday, and we were around 20% in when I started these writs. We are now 10% into 47 (turned in lots of status items as well). I am never doing that again. Of course I say that now, but we all know that one day I will do that again, lol.

Okay back to guild halls. So I figured with all the amenities that we want and a tier 2 hall, we were looking at the purchase price of 477pp and 46mil status. That doesn’t scare me one bit. I have a list of amenities and I will share in a second, we will purchase those as we accrue the status and can buy them. I have them listed in an order of want/need first to 18th. Okay, what scares me is the upkeep. 7pp a week, that is really no big deal at all. 336000 status per week. Yes, I realize that it is only 23 writs/dungeon runs/what have you, the point is to put pressure on the guildies. It will just tear the guild apart, so looking at this from my eyes; this is what I need to do to keep this place up. I know it will be worth it in the long run, but damn, lol.

Guild Translocation Beacon
Guild Hall Banker
Fuel Merchant Hireling
Tradeskill Rush Order Agent
Harvesting Supply Depot
Farseas Express Mailbox
Guild Hall World Market Broker
Tradeskill Writ Agent
Druid Portal Hireling
Teleportation Spire to the Overrealm
Mariner’s Bell: Faydwer
Magic Carpet to Sinking Sands
Mariner’s Bell: Kunark
Mariner’s Bell: Shattered Lands
Portal to Member Housing
Kunark Adventure Writ Agent
Gigglegibber Goblin Gamblin’ Game
Status Executor Hireling

That’s the list of stuff I want to put in the guild hall, in the order in which I would like to place it, so to speak. I was thinking one room to be a tradeskill room, which would also include the banker and broker and anything related to tradeskilling. I also thought of a portal type room and then a library, of course. That’s three of the rooms, so that leaves 7 rooms and the atrium. Brander said she would decorate a room or two, and I am sure I would as well.

I hope this all works out for us, it sounds like fun and I think it will be awesome.

08-25-08

2008-08-25T10:50:00.001-05:00

I have to tell you that I am quite jealous of my husband at the moment. Not due to the fact that he is unemployed (that severely sucks), but because he can be at home with the children right now. He gets up and fixes them breakfast and then takes Trenton to school. Then he and Nathan spend the morning doing things together.

This morning they folded clothes, did dishes, tore out my sunflowers and hung the heads up to dry. Then they took a bath and now they are playing games and trying to figure out lunch and dinner. Yes, I fully admit that I am jealous.

I have another zucchini growing in my garden. It was so good. This is what I did and how I will probably do it from here on out. I took some EVOO (damn that Rachel Ray =p) and drizzled that in a pan. Then I took peppers, onions, and probably about 5 cloves of garlic and started cooking that up. About 5-6 minutes. Then I added the cut zucchini’s in. After that, I added a couple tablespoons of butter, and some soy sauce (not a lot). Then when the veggies were all done, I throw in some diced tomatoes, let that sit for about 30-45 seconds, just enough to get a little heat into the tomatoes, and wa-la: heaven on a plate. Damn that was good.

School is going well for me. I believe, think, hope, lol. The math class is pretty cool. They have this set-up where there is no book needed for class as everything is done online. The studying is the best though. You can do the problems over and over and over again, as the same type of problem will change. So you have 35x^-2/xy^-3. You get that solved but want to another? Sure, no problem. The next problem it will give you is 32x^-5/x^2y^-7. So it is the same problem, just different numbers. It is awesome, I totally love it. I am going to talk to my teacher, hopefully tonight and see if this will be available for Trig for next semester. God I hope so.

The religion class is going good as well. It is very interesting, and it is so much fun, it really is. We will guest speakers throughout the semester. I think the total was 5 guest speakers. We will have a field trip into Chicago. I cannot wait for that. And, of course, there is the obligatory research paper. Yikes! I have been thinking of doing my paper on how Christmas traditions were taking from the pagans to convert them over to Christianity. We shall see.

The boys are doing wonderfully. They are enjoying school, for the most part. Well Trenton is hanging in there and Nathan is just enamored with school, of course, lol. On Friday when Scott took Nathan to school, they were playing on the playground and Nathan was being all clingy, Scott was thinking he would have to play the asshole to get him to go to class. I guess he was refusing to let go of Scott while they were out there. Well Scott was thinking all wrong, lol. When the bell rang for the kids to get in line and start heading to their classrooms, Nathan looked at Scott and said, “Bye dad!” and took off running and got in line. That had to be great, hehe.

Well I think that is it for now. Off to start working on my EQ post =p

EQ 08-22-08

2008-08-22T13:08:00.003-05:00

I am working with the guild upkeep/cost calendar at clockwork gamer. Will get back to you in a little while about that.

I do forsee it costing approx 450pp and 45million status upfront and 7pp/300k status a week thereafter for everything I want in the hall. I am going to ditch Zymeria’s house and keep all that stuff to decorate the hall with. So, ya, theres 50pp worth of crap I don’t need to purchase to decorate with. /sigh

08-22-08

2008-08-22T13:08:00.001-05:00

Well as hard as I fought for that math class, I just think it may kill me until I get it all in head, lol. We are just reviewing and yes it is driving me crazy. But with some hard work. Yeah you all know where that is going. This class is busting my ass. I know it’s just because I need to remember it all and I will be fine once we get out of the review, errr, I mean, once my brain re-comprehends it all.

The boys started school this week as well. Trenton says he wasn’t excited but he was complaining that he had to wait another 15 minutes before we could leave. Is it time yet? Is it time yet? And so forth.

Nathan is very excited to be back in school. Today is the first full day, so we shall see what happens when he comes home tonight.

EQ 08-21-08

2008-08-21T15:25:00.001-05:00

See the previous post. Too tired, no EQ. I do have news for that though.

Check back in the morning

=)

08-21-08

2008-08-21T15:23:00.001-05:00

I was going to write a post today, but due to the fact that I am fighting to stay awake, I forgot.

School is good, fun, scary, and its going to be hard.

The kids both started school as well.

Ya, will write tomorrow if I can stay awake.

EQ 08-18-08

2008-08-18T11:49:00.002-05:00

It’s announced: The Shadow Odyssey.

Feature Set:
1. Journey through more than 20 new zones, including the new overland zone, Innothule.
2. Experience nostalgic EverQuest dungeon themes, such as Najena, Mistmoore and The Sebilisian Empire, and adventure through more than 18 goal-based dungeons, such as Ruins of Guk and Befallen.
3. The Achievement Point level cap will be increased to 200 to offer new achievements for class- specific lines.
4. A new Dungeon Delving mission system for players to replay content with new and different experiences.
5. A new, mysterious group of erudites with powerful new armor and equipment will barter for void shards earned during your encounters.
6. Five new Heritage Quests with unique rewards being added.
7. Epic tales of the odyssey are told through battles with dozens of new creatures and hundreds of new quests.
8. Two new deities have been introduced into Norrath, Rodcet Nife and Anashti Sul.
9. Includes Desert of Flames™, Kingdom of Sky™, Echoes of Faydwer™ and Rise of Kunark™ expansion packs, and The Bloodline Chronicles™, The Splitpaw Saga™ and The Fallen Dynasty™ adventure packs.
10. Includes Legends of Norrath™ strategic online trading card game, digital starter deck and booster pack.

I was kind of disappointed with the lack of a level increase. But now that I have thought about it, it really doesn’t bother me all that much anymore. It gives me over a year to get my armourer (might make her a tailor with Modex being off and on) to level. It gives Krys over a year to get 24 more points in Transmuting and build up stock for the next level increase. It gives all my toons over a year to get masters, armor, and so forth. It gives the guild a chance to get more levels. It gives me a year to get the last three to level 80 adventurer =p

I also think it sounds a lot like LdoN from EQ1. Which, right now, sounds like a lot of fun. I am actually getting kind of excited about it. Didn’t think I would.

Guild halls: OMG, the price!!!!

That’s okay, the guild members are such wonderful troopers. We have 123pp sitting in the bank atm, and we are slowly working on building up more. /nods. I made over 125 adept 3’s yesterday and about 30 pieces of furniture out of all the rares in the bank. They are still over 10 loams, 10 hard metals, 30 roots, and 30 pelts sitting in there. Unforunately, we do not have a tailor (Modex) online until this weekend, so he can make those into quivers/armor/bags. If I had to gander a guess, that would probably be 100pp right there, giving the various prices things can be put up for.

I also emptied the guild collection bank and put all those up. No big ones, lol, I think the highest priced one I put on the broker was approximately 5g. But if you go through my three toons with stuff listed on them there is around 20pages. Yikes. The whole guild really came together this weekend when the price of the hall came out. I am really impressed with it.

Our goal is guild level 50 by the release of guild halls and the purchase of a Tier 2 hall. I really hope they up the item limit though. 10 rooms, I can see two rooms being dedicated to crafting, lol. With a banker, harvesting depot, the broker, and so forth. I am very excited at this prospect. I really hope that the Devs will drop the price a tad, and up the item limit on the halls. Also would like to see it on the island and not in town.

Okay I think that’s it for now. See you in game!!!

08-18-08

2008-08-18T11:48:00.000-05:00

Where do I even begin?

Okay let’s start with the job situation. It royally sucks donkey balls. Scott has been out there for 6 months now, looking and applying and just plain old beating feet, and here we sit, with him still unemployed. We thought Target had gone really well. Well we still haven’t heard anything from them. They are hiring over 100 people. The guy apparently liked Scott a lot. The interview lasted an hour. Why in the hell have they not called?? I think on Wednesday, he should call them and ask them what is going on. /nods

School for the boys starts this week. Trenton starts on Wednesday for only two hours. Parent orientation for Nathan on Wednesday night, then Nathan starts school on Thursday. Nathan is looking very forward to beginning school. He has been asking and asking for the past 6 weeks when school is going to start.

I start school tonight. I am scared, nervous, excited, and all around not sure if I am doing the right thing. I mean school is never wrong, but I am also 33, will be damn near 40/41 when I graduate. I know it is the right thing. I know it is. Now tell my body to stop acting all crazy and get rid of the nervousness.

2008-08-05T10:48:00.000-05:00

Well it’s over. My baby is now 8 years old. Can you believe that? I truly cannot believe it. Just 8 short years ago, I held this little tiny baby boy in my arms. /sigh. How time flies.

Trenton’s birthday party was quite fun. He made out like a bandit as well. He got a lovely cake from DQ. The Strawberry Cheesequake Cake, and it was rather tasty. As for the present department, he did fairly well there too. He got for the Wii, WallE and Lego Indiana Jones. He got 3 games for the playstation. A skateboard, a flat ball, a lock for his bike (Nathan was adamant that he needed one), two Magic Treehouse books, a Dinosaur Encyclopedia book, a camera and a camera carrying case.

Friday night at the Riverhawks game was pretty cool as well. Trenton’s Coach took his team to the Riverhawks (our local ball team). When they got there, they were able to go on the field. They met the players, got autographs, and the cool part is they got to run out on the field with players as they were being announced. The boys got to hang around on the field until the National Anthem was sung, then they came in and watched (ha) the game. They also got to sing the 7th inning stretch. That was amusing. The lady with the microphone came over and the boys started singing (picture 10 7-8yr olds). As the song progressed, and the boys grew less timid, they got louder. And louder. By the end of the song, the lady had passed the microphone to one of the boys and covered her ears. All us parents were laughing our asses off though, it was awesome.

Sunday was school shopping day. We got all of Trenton’s school supplies, and then clothes for both Trenton and Nathan. The only thing we forgot was a backpack for Trenton. I, even as we speak, have all my stuff for school. Two damn classes and the tuition was $460 (not too bad) but it was the books, holy crap. Books were $200 and then the calculator was $125. I fell out of my chair. So now the countdown has begun. 13 days until I start school, 15 days until Trenton starts school, and 16 days until Nathan starts kindergarten. /cries

07-31-08 EQ2

2008-07-31T09:38:00.001-05:00

Okay here it is. The EQ2 post.

Krystalea. She is sitting at 80 Wizard/80 Sage/376 Transmuting/140 aa’s/Fabled Epic/Tradeskill epic/Thuuga. I have my epic (group version) and I am working on a few pieces of armor. The Praetors Guard would be the all elusive one. Over 100 runs to Voes and nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Damn zone. The Jarseth Robe of Royalty. Now I haven’t run Maidens enough with Krys to say the zone is screwing with me. Yet. And then I want the Edict of whispering wind out of Chelshit. No, that is not a typo. It started as a typo and has remained since then. I do have to say, I will agree with our Warlock friend and zone running partner, that we are all now on a quest to kill every damn tree we see in Kunark as Chelshit has way too much wood too spare.

Master spells. Not too bad considering. I have Fission, Ring of Glaciers, Exothermicity (that is so spelled wrong, isn’t it?), and Tyrant. I think I may have one more, but I am not sure. I will have to check Krys out. It’s is not a damage spell though. No, the more I think, the more I will go with, that’s all she has.

Zymeria. 80 Defiler/80 Provisioner/400 Tinkerer/131 aa’s, possibly 130/Tradeskill epic. I love Zymeria and I feel like a healing god when I play her. She hasn’t gotten a lot of attention as of late. Seeing our guild has grown some, she is not needed as much. Kind of makes me sad. She does not have her fabled epic. Need to work on that one.

The only thing Zymeria has left that I want to push is Thuuga, and the Clan stormshield repeatable's in JW. I need to sit and do some collections or lower level quests for some AA’s.

Arzania. 80 Swashy/80 Woodworker/138 aa’s/Fabled epic/Thuuga. She just started on the tradeskill epic, so that will be incoming soon. Hell the only reason to do that is for the 45% speed boost, lol. I like to think I have geared her up fairly decently. She is wielding her epic and Anaphylaxis. She has the leviathan breastplate from Chelsith. I am happy where she sits, and anything else she gets is extra.

Zephina. 78 Bruiser/80 Jeweler/122 (?) aa’s/Tradeskill epic. Not sure if I will work on her fabled epic or not. We shall see. At level 77 I gave tanking CoA a try. I was able to tank all but the final named. Woot. I really really need gear. I really need to finish the JW quests and move on.

Attalyne. 29 Troub/80 Carpenter.

Myrinna. 42 Necro/80 Weaponsmith.

Desania. 27 Guardian/27/28 Armourer.

I have no idea what the aa count is on those three.

Hidden Agenda. God I love our guild name. It elicits all sorts of questions. We dinged level 40 on Monday. Our goal is level 50 for the guild halls. Don’t think that is too feasible, so basically, level 50 by the expansion. We have grown and added a few to our ranks. We have 8 guildies in total now. It was 10, but 2 left to go raid, but we are still hanging out with them fairly often.

There is not much else going on atm. I may be back later with something, depends on the day I have. =)