Dreams & Despair

07-08-09

2010-07-08T22:48:00.000-05:00

Ahhh, real life. Not as good as some would like it to be, but we are surviving. The boys are absolutely huge. Nathan just turned 7, and Trenton is about to turn 10. They really are quite a pair.

We have been busy running them around to baseball games and tournaments. Unfortunately, Nathan broke his foot the other night (playing the Wii of all things), so his baseball summer was cut short, but he will be up and ready to go for Hockey this fall.

Trenton will be going in the fifth grade (/falls over) and Nathan will be making his way into the second grade this year.

Scott is Scott. He is still unemployment and that is not from lack of trying. The job market around here sucks ass and well, what do you do? He has decided to see about pursuing a career in Radiology, which would require one year of school and a couple years of internship. So, let’s keep our fingers crossed.

I am still in school. I will graduate with my Associates of Science in May 2011. After that I will be heading to NIU to pursue my degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. It has been a hard road so far and will only get harder, but I will make it!

EQ 07-08-09

2010-07-08T22:45:00.002-05:00

Am I back?

I don’t know yet. I was reading a bunch of stuff earlier and it made me think of this lovely blog that I haven’t touched in a while. Thought maybe I would start it back up and see what happens.

Figured I would also start with EQ2, as I am still playing. Not as diligently as I was before, but I am still there.

I am not sure I like this expansion much. I know TSO let me down. TSO was fun at first and then went downhill. I ended up cancelling my account for about 6 months. Came back and leveled up a coercer, as I really didn’t want to play Krys as much. I began to play Krys again with SF came out, although, again, I am not sure I like this expansion. I am waiting for the announcement from the fan faire about what the next expansion is. (/whispers Velious) I hope we don’t have to wait until February for it either. And I do hope that there is a level increase. The expansion after Velious can go with no level increase but I would like one for Velious.

As for my lovely toonage:

Krystalea: My wizard. She is still my main and I really enjoy playing her the most. I have to say that she is really starting to gain some power. The other night in the library I think I had a 14k parse. I need to pull up ACT and will post the screen shot. That was an awesome feeling. I am also sitting consistently at around 7-8k zonewide on the parse. That is so nice. The only issue with that is of course if you have a crappy tank in front of you. At any rate, Krys is level 90, a 90 sage, 450 transmuting and adorning, 50 tinkering (or something like that) and 213 AA’s. I have yet to finish all the quests in Sundered Frontier or the Moors of Ykesha. I missed a lot of zones in TSO as well, and only have two updates left for Chapter 5. (ya still working on that, lol).

I have been running battlegrounds with Krys and having a blast. I really like those and it makes for a nice break when there are no groups to be had and when I really don’t feel like questing, which is often. I have 5 pieces of the BG armor right now, and am working on the last two pieces. After that I will be saving my tokens for my other toons, to get them geared up.

I would like to raid, but unfortunately I cannot find a guild with the time slot I need, and between working full time, going to school part time and two boys to run after, I think my raiding goals will have to wait until my life calms down some. Although I would be up for forming an alliance with another guild to get some raiding done here and there.

Gonna do just a quick rundown with the other characters.

Zymeria: 85 Defiler, 90 Provi, 160 (?) AA’s and 400 Tinkerer.

Zephina: 87 Bruiser, 90 Jeweler, 166 AA’s.

Arzania: 81 Swashy, 80 Woodworker, can’t remember AA’s.

Calipso: 81 Coercer, 66 Tailor, 160-something AA’s.

Attalyne: 30 Trouby, 90 Carpenter, maybe 15 AA’s. I rarely adventure with this toon.

Rysina: 19 Ranger, 45 AA’s and no tradeskill class yet. I was thinking Alchemist, as I have zero desire to do weaponsmithing or armoring ever again.

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. =)

07-31-08

2008-07-31T08:59:00.000-05:00

Ha!!!! Just as you would imagine, things are starting to slow down around here and I now have the chance to sit and write a few things.

Scott: Jobless, but hopefully not for long. He has three interviews next week, so lets all keep our fingers crossed that he gets one of them. He is also starting a few projects on the house in the meantime to keep his worry away when he is not out looking for work.

Trenton: My little boy will be 8 on Sunday. I cannot believe that. He has grown up so much and I am starting to see glimpses of what he will be like when he is a teenager. It scares me, lol.

He will be starting the third grade this year. He says all his friends say that the 3rd grade is boooorrrrriiiinnnnggggg. Gotta love it.

Baseball. This child has improved in baseball 1000 fold. He loves it as well. Let’s hope that he can keep it up next year too. Which I had written more over the summer, so I could use pictures and stories, /sigh

Nathan: Awww the joys of actually pining to go back to school. Is it time yet? Is it time yet? Is it time yet? Yup, that’s what I hear quite often.

As we know, fishing and baseball for Nathan are the end all be all of the summer. He now has two fishing poles, as he won one in a mini kid’s tournament at the beginning of the summer. And for baseball, well, he hit a home run, over the fence home run, coach pitch. That child just amazes me sometimes.

Me: Well even I start school in two weeks. I am going to buy my books this weekend. Can you believe it? I will be in school. I am starting with Algebra, as a refresher and then world religions as my humanities requirement. I am actually somewhat excited, scared, worried, the whole nine yards.

I will try try try to update more often and with better things as well. Like, pictures and stories. Lol. Stay tuned for the EQ2 portion that is incoming.

03-27-08 EQ2

2008-03-27T11:02:00.003-05:00

Ahh, the joy that is EQ2. I haven't posted since RoK came out, so let us do a little catching up.

Krystalea - 80 Wizard/80 Sage/135.5 aa's/352 Transmuting.
-----Ya, I really busted my butt on that transmuting gig didn't I? :) I have begun fighting in skyfire with hopes of building up my stash of cash on her so I can start working on it again. I will have it to 400 by November, I swear. /nods. I really enjoy playing Krys, she is fun. I am having fun. The only thing really bothering me is that I am having a hard time finding groups. And now that Scott is home, we are hoping to get everyone leveled up to 80 and groups should then be no problem as we can fill in just about anything. But, again, I really want to play Krys.
----I have finished up most of Krys's apartment. I have one room left and I believe I know what I want to do with it. So from here on out, it will basically be adding a few trinkets here and there as I come accross them. Come visit my house on 3 Walk of the Dead on Najena.
----Finished the Tradeskill epic, that was fun.

Zymeria - 75 Defiler/80 Provisioner/101 aa's/400 Tinkerer.
----Tinkering was the easiest as was the provi part. I need to get back into making food as that was a good money maker. Hell I have only done half the quests through fens, and I have almost 50pp on me, and that includes giving away approximately 10pp in food, and then leveling up Tinkerer and such. I think I just had way too much stuff on the broker to keep up with, I may modify my line to sell and go from there, I don't know yet.
----I was looking at purchasing a 5 br in SFP and making myself a grand restaurant. I think that would be cool, so I do need to get to moving on that plat making. I need money to buy and upkeep and well furnish the house. Can't wait. The only thing about the 5 room houses in Freeport is they suck, but I am sure flooring and wall options will help. /sigh
----Just started the tradeskill epic.

Arzania - 75 Swashy/70 woodworker/120(?) aa's
----Arzania has just finished up all the quests in Fens and is about to move to Kunzar Jungle. She is running in tandem with Gudamen. Other than playing tank a few times for T7, I really haven't played her much.

Attalyne - 23 Troub/80 Carpenter.
----She was one of my first to 80 tradeskill. And one of my best money makers without all the work. I actually need to refill her broker, as mostly everything is sold now. She has 20pp on her atm, (and I have spent approx 10pp on supplies) so I doing very well on her. Love it. Haven't done any adventuring, not sure if I will. I might get bored one day =p

Myrinna - 41 Necro/70 Weaponsmith
----I betrayed Myrinna. After beta and playing a Necro I decided that Conjy just wasn't for me and away I went and betrayed her to the bad side. Although I haven't played her since, lol. She may actually be level 42, but I am not positive.

Zephina - 62 Bruiser/80 Jeweler/81 aa's
----I said I would never level Zeph as she was level 7 and her mana management for tradeskilling was way too good to give up. But as they have changed the tradeskill function I decided to go ahead and play her and she is fun. I went from level 20 - 60 in a matter of 3 1/2 weeks, no vitality for the majority of it. Was great.

Vizera - Deleted.
----Sorry, but playing a warlock, after playing a wizard made my head bleed. Bye!!

Desania - 18 Guardian/9 aa's
----I always said I would never play a tank (don't count Zeph, she's more DPS, tank as needed). Well, I slipped to the darkside. I refused to roll another sorcerer or summoner. That left enchanter on the mage tree. Uh no. No more healers period!! The scout classes, well I had a bard and a swashy, didn't want a brig or a assassin, and ranger just didn't do it for me. So I decided tank, and said screw it, no monk (have one) no half-breeds, Scott has a Zerker, so I am going with a Guard. Ya, I went from never wanting to play a tank, to picking the tank class (in my opinion) /sigh. I confuse myself sometimes.
----As for a tradeskill class. I do not know if I will pick one up with Desania. I say that now, but at some point, Arz and Myrinna will be 80 and I will itching to tradeskill, lol.

Okay I think that is it for now. I am more busy in EQ2 than I am in RL apparently. Interesting.

03-27-08

2008-03-27T10:41:00.002-05:00

Just when you think you have the time to set and chat a bit, you end up with a honker of a project on your desk. I usually love big projects, except those that deal with Kia Rebates. Grrr. At least the lady at Kia is extremely nice and willing to help out.

The kids are doing wonderfully. They are getting way too big for my liking though. Nathan has graduated from speech class. He has to go back when he is about 6 1/2 - 7 years old to get retested for his lateral lisp, but he talks wonderfully now. Yay!!

Trenton is Trenton. Nothing new in his world.

Scott is now out of work and looking for some, but the job market in this area is pretty crappy.

Other than that it is going pretty good. It is spring break right now, so the boys are probably driving Scott up a wall.

Well that's really about it at the moment, will try to get more consistent than I have been. It's funny, I get hooked on something for several months at a time and I forget about everything else, I will try not to do that anymore, lol.

Incoming EQ2 post.

3-26-08

2008-03-26T14:11:00.001-05:00

I am so horrible. But I am consistently horrible. I do ignore this blog for a few months at a time, but I do get back into posting. Can't guarantee a full post for life and EQ2 today, but I will work on it, for tomorrow at the latest.

/nods

2007-11-12T13:49:00.000-06:00

This is the wizard fabled set.

This is the view off the docks in Kylong plains. That big castle in back? Karnors.

Here is the combine spire city, Terens Grasp.

This is the ghost image of the dragon emitting from the dragon skeleton in the Field of Bone.

Here is what the Wizard Fabled Set looks like.

Here is a picture of the docks in Kylong.

Here is the new persona window. The faction tab is really cool as well, it has a drop down box so you can choose the expansion you want. So if I want to see Kunarks faction list, just use the dropdown. Lots easier to find specific factions with that.

Beta Stuffs 11-12-07

2007-11-12T09:56:00.001-06:00

This will be huge and I am not anywhere near done, so forgive me now. =p

As I am typing these little blips up the next day while at work, please disregard the fact that I cannot remember all the names of all the places I have visited. Or the correct name of the little flying dude. I will try to go back and make name corrections as I really begin to learn them, but that is not guaranteed.

RoK – Day 1

Well I had to make a Sarnak as the character copy hadn’t happened yet. Did a few quests on Timorous Deep and then headed over to Kylong Plains. There was this nifty lady there, know your travel, was her title, I think. Hail her and away you land on the docks at Kylong. Meet the beta buffer Mike. Buffing was only up to level 72. Will check in a couple days and see if he is higher than that.

Took me about an hour or so to set up my hot bars, my aa’s, check all my gear and establish some fundage. Mike gives out crappy crappy gear. Sorry Mike. But there is a guy right next to him who gives out gear. Hail him and pick two stats. Well considering I am a wizard, I picked Intelligence and bonus spell damage. It all has +30 int and +19 spell damage. Not the greatest but will work.

I hit the broker next. Need to upgrade a few spells. The buffer gives you all adept 1’s but I did need a few adept 3’s and masters. Found a few, thank god Ice Nova was one of them. The one thing I disliked was that people were selling this stuff for a ton of plat. Hello you can buy the damn rare's off the tradeskill buffer guy. Seriously. 12 copper for a T8 Emerald (rare gem). This one guy has the rare jewelry up for 118plat. Crazy I say. Not like you get to keep the money, why not let someone have it and try it out.

Now, I noticed that the only way into Tim Deep is your call spell. So it looks like the only people allowed in Gorowan are the toons that start there, basically. FYI, Gorowan is the city that is located in Tim Deep. It is not a separate zone. Think Kelethin/GFay. If I find anything out different I will let you know.

Back to Kylong (aka Dreadlands). There is a bunch of quests right there on the docks. One will get you access to the travel things (bah I can’t remember the name right now). Walk off the docks and you see a castle ahead of you. Karnors. I did nothing but zone in. I can’t wait to actually group there. At 72 the front mobs were yellow.

If you go to the west of the docks, follow the path up the mountain, it goes from a nice green area with trees to a snow covered mountain. Follow the path a little longer and welcome to Terens (I think its terens grasp, but don’t quote me) a nice little city. If you look up, you can see the city is built at the base of the wizards spires. You have all tradeskill merchants and machines. You have a class trainer for each class. A bank/broker and so forth. Nice little town. One thing. You need to build faction. Do the quests at the docks. Its beta, so there was a beta buff faction merchant there, so I have no idea how many quests are needed, but there you go.

After that I went and wandered around a little bit. Gained 1aa plus 20% more. And around 40% into level 72 in one night. Now the Xp is worth more on beta server, but to me thinks it’s still quick, we shall see how that plays out on live.

Let’s see. The exploration was cool, as far as I made it. I got discovery for Skyfire Mountains. It looked awesome, but I turned the other way, lol. I ran into a fort where it looked like Droags and humans fighting each other. Constantly. The droags would fly down and attack the men guarding the fort. I did notice a couple dragon corpses lying around. They looked pretty cool. And big. And they still had their scales. It wasn’t bone dragons. I think I found the old Lake of Ill Omen and Fiorina Vie. At least that’s what I deduced. I could be wrong.

Faction is going to be big, big, big. One thing I noticed is that faction is playing a huge role in this expansion. Watch it closely.

Okay, I think that’s it for now. Waiting on my character copies to check tradeskills. You need to be level 20 and have selected your TS class before the TS buffer will beta buff you. I don’t feel like fudging around with that atm. Then again, I may change my mind and grab some supplies and craft in good old Terens.

RoK - Day 2

Yay, Krys finally transferred over. This made so much of a difference. I don’t particularly care for the sarnaks; there movement doesn’t suit me very well, so having Krys and her carpet back really made it much easier for me. I had a better idea of what to do/expect so I change my way around a tad. I am feeling a lot less lost and I think I am getting a good grasp on Kylong.

First off, I had to pick my new racial traits. Being a Dark Elf, I received a feather fall type buff (no falling damage, weeeeeeeeeeeee) and then I received a nice buff that increases damage, casting time, reuse time, and I think recovery time at 10% each.

Next I had to find my way to Kylong from Neriak. The docks in Commonlands and Antonica are where you need to go to get to Kylong. Woohoo, another boat ride =/

I land at the docks. First thing is first, beta buff Sage level 80. That is all I did on the tradeskill front. I will be working on those this weekend, as I will have more time. I can stay logged in all day long and play when I need a break or if the boys are outside running around.

I also have to make a stop at the faction beta buffer. Nice guy that he is makes me ally to Terens Grasp residents. Very nice.

This time, I went ahead and ran about 15 quests off the docks of Kylong. Bound and determined to get the Sorkorko (eek, I think that totally spelled wrong) travel quests finished first. Now here is where I got confused, just FYI, for future reference. You have to bind you Sork to each of the monuments before you can fly to it. So exploring areas will be a damn good thing to do.

After I finished the quests, I decided to explore, with a little more tactical precision than I had last night. Kylong Plains is huge and requires the map to turn over 3 times. As I know where the map splits I tried to stay in that one area till it was all clear and move to the next split. The first map portion covers the docks you zone in from, Karnors Castle area, a giant’s area, a wurm area, and a few places of old reminiscence. I actually had discovery for Firionas Vista. I decided to head to the east this time. As I crossed this wonderful bridge over a huge ravine of water, the map switches over to an area of drovlags, Iskar skeletons, and several other familiar mobs of old. I did happen to come across a named level 83 epic X4 in this first area.

I continued on, hitting every inch of the map. The final place that I ended up in was very much like the old Lake of Ill Omen. There are Iskar statues all around the lake front. A tower in the middle of aggro mobs that has a merchant and several quests, and I dead ended at a sork monolith. /cheers. I fly back to the docks and make my way west.

West is where you will find Terens Grasp in the snowy mountains. I continue on my path through the frozen tundra, past yeti’s, up the mountain and slowly back down the mountain. I end up coming out of the mountains into an area that looks like, well no other way to put this, burned woods. lol. Now I have two choices, go into the woods or take a right and traverse back up the mountain. I decided to head back up.

I make it through another yeti camp, and then come upon a small giant fort. Giants see invis, just FYI. I kill my way through here, the giants range from 67-70 and the mountain path climbs back down. The map flips back over to the first map with the docks. I turn around and head back to the woods.

There is a scar like marking in the land, and it’s actually deep enough you can wander into it and fight mobs. It splits this map into two and made for an easy exploration route. I travel on the west side of the scar first, and run into some wurms (uh, see invis), treants, old chardok style goblins, and of course more sarnaks. And the zone line for Jarseth Wastes. This is at the top left of the map. I continue my way to the east, following the top of the map and run into a ton more Chardok style goblins.

Follow the path north and what looks like might be another zone line. Lo and behold it is a zone line to, ba ba buh bummmmmmm, Chardok. lol. I zoned in for about 1 minute, thinking it would be a dungeon, possibly instanced. Um, wrong. The first thing I see is a sork monolith. Nice, hit that one. I then traveled further in. Pulled up my map and there is one. I don’t think is necessarily an overland zone, as much as an inside a mountain kind of type zone. Hard to explain without exploring it, which I may do tonight.

As I finish up the third and final map for Kylong I come across another giant area with a giant pit to fall into. That looks like fun. I hit evac to the docks and make my way back to Terens to camp, and the subject of harvestables comes up in chat, and the fact that there are too few. I make a few comments regarding my army of crafters and how difficult is going to be to level them all up with the lack of harvest spawns, I receive a tell from a very nice lady talking about everything, come to find out, I am speaking with Niami. The DenMother herself. It was very nice talking to her, and I hope I get to speak with her again over the next couple weeks.

Well that is it for now. Hopefully I will be able to get some more things going tonight and explore more, or maybe even craft. J

Aha, I remembered one more thing, AA’s. You cannot spend any AA point above 100 until you ding 71. Now hopefully this will change, but I think that may make a lot of people unhappy. At least it did me.

10-31-07

2007-10-31T08:47:00.001-05:00

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, Scott said he spoke with the Union Steward last night and this isnt a permanent closing of 3rd shift. Its a temporary shutdown. How nice is that? Makes you ponder the big question. Do you look for a job while shutdown, or do you sit on your duff and pray they call you back?

How Fun!! /sarcasm off

10-30-07 - EQ

2007-10-30T15:26:00.000-05:00

Been having fun. Started running with Borracho and Delusions almost every night.

Lets see, heres the character list.

Krystalea - 70 wizard 70 sage 320 transmuting 100 aa's
Zymeria - 70 defiler 70 provisioner 350 tinkerer 78 aa's
Arzania - 70 swashy 70 woodworker 98 aa's
Myrinna - 38 conjy 70 weaponsmith
Zephina - 7 bruiser 70 jeweler
Attalyne - 26 troub 70 carpenter
Vizera - 23 warlock 20 alchemist

Pardom my lack of capitialization for class/tradeskill names. As far as aa's for the last four, I have no idea, don't really pay much attention to that, as they are not really played all that often and its usually to tradeskill not adventure.

No goals set for them anymore. If they make it anywhere above what I have now, thats all the better, otherwise I am happy with it.

Okay I lied, I really would like Krys to get to 350 transmuting. /nods. I need about, uh, 15pp to do it. /nods. I need to farm, rofl.

10-30-07 v3.0

2007-10-30T15:10:00.000-05:00

Articles I have come accross.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071030/AUTO01/710300398

Okay, nothing in there about the Compass, Patriot or the Caliber, but it does show cutting about 1000 contract positions. Hmmm??

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/10856221.html

Hey, I totally understand the position you are in, but I have one question. We knew it was temp, but we all prayed with everything we had that it would become perm. So here is my question: Why on God's green earth would you purchase a house while being temporarly employed? Yes, we all though we would become permanant, but really, you couldnt have waited 2 years to find out for sure?

Sorry just had to get that out.

Chrysler LLC plans to end the third shift at its Belvidere assembly plant, which could put as many as 1,000 employees out of work, a high-level United Auto Workers official told stunned members Friday.
Chrysler would not confirm the report, but rumors have been circulating for weeks that the third shift, added in July 2006, would end by Christmas. Union officials typically are advised of such plans before company announcements to workers.
A worker who attended the meeting said Garry Mason, an executive assistant to UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, shocked them by saying that sluggish sales of the three vehicles built at Belvidere -- Dodge Caliber and Jeep Compass and Patriot -- meant "the third shift was gone," as if that news was common knowledge.
There was a gasp in the room," said the worker, who asked not to be named. "Everyone was like, 'Huh?' This was the first time there had been anything official about it. It was a real eye-opener."
Another Local 1268 member who was at the meeting said Mason displayed "a deer in the headlights look" when he realized they hadn't been told. Both workers said Mason didn't say when the shift would end or how many workers would be affected. "
After that, he backpedaled and just changed the subject and talked about why the contract is so good," one said. "He just kept avoiding the subject."
Mason's statement about the third shift appeared first on a Web site forum maintained by Local 1268 members.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_chrysler_1027oct27,1,6172106.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

That pasted horribly. I dont have access to the Trib, but I copied the link as well if you want to sign up, but I found it interesting. We shall see.

10-30-07 v2.0

2007-10-30T15:08:00.000-05:00

I won the contest at Alla's and received my beta key.

I will make posts on it, with my impressions, but unforunately I will not be able to publish them until the NDA is lifted.

/dances

10-30-07

2007-10-30T14:12:00.000-05:00

Hello. Been a long time, yes?

Life is going as usual. Well almost. We are on the verge of falling back down, but not entirely. Scott's job may be in jeopardy, so we are doing what we can to prepare for the downfall, but not so much until it is officially announced. So we shall see what happens. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Here's a story and I really need to get this out as it has been in my head for quite a while now.

January 2003: The last week of the month, Scott (Tool and Die tradesmen) gets sent home. His hands look like they had been dipped in a vat of acid. Its horrible. He hurts. He cant put his hands in water of any temp, but cool/cold is the one that hurts the least. I am 6 months pregnant.

February 2003: File for Workman's comp and find a lawyer. By the end of Feb we still haven't seen a check and its starting to hurt.

May 2003: Scott is told to return to work on the 19th. By the 21st he is sent back home. Hands are back to square one. Nathan is born on the 22nd.

June 2003-July 2004: Work with lawyer on getting everything set up, payments are coming just very sporadic. We get a monthly check, or a bimonthly check, hell we sometimes end up with a two week check. Makes for paying the bills oh so much fun.

Aug 2004: Workman's comp says you last payment was in July, we are sorry you misinterpreted our letter, but in layman's you are now released to look for a job and no more money for you.

Oct 2004: Settled. Received settlement check. Yay! Pay off my car, a few other bills and sock the rest away.

Apr 2005: Woot. Scott finally found a job. (Yes 8 months later, and no money inc. Good thing I socked some of that money away.)

Apr05-Apr06: Struggle with bills, as our savings is depleted. Scott is only making $8/hr and it is rough.

April 2006: Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scott got a job at Chrysler. That is the place to be. And its permanent too. OMG. His first paycheck with 3 1/2 weeks pay at his previous place of employment.

May 2006: Chrysler says, "We lied." Sign this 2 yr temporary contract or lose your job. That's okay we say. We can do what we need to in the next 2 years. Hopefully.

Aug/Sept 2007: Rumors start flying as the national contract is up. The rumors are the ETE's (Scott's formal position) will be hired.

Right here......this is where it all goes to hell. GM gets their contract that says temps will be hired. Woohoo. Scott and I finally let ourselves down in the respect of money, and start talking about fixing up the house, and possibly getting it ready to be put on the market. 5 years is our goal. We talk about the vacations we will be able to have, everything. We actually start to dream about the future.

Oct 2007: Contract signed for Chrysler. No temp to perm status ever mentioned. Then it starts. The rumors of the parts suppliers being told that 3rd shift is getting cut on Christmas Eve. Now the rumors are ETE's and then the extra 400 more will be let go, starting around Nov 15 through the end of the year and 3rd shift gone.

We knew it was temporary, but howdy fuck you. It was nice not having to worry about money for a damned change. It was nice being able to go out to dinner on occasion, let the boys go and do fun stuff. Not ever having to see the look on their face when you tell them you would love to do this, that or the other but you cant because we have stinking money.

Scott has a horrible time finding jobs with the tool and die maker label on there. No one wants to hire him because they feel he will leave if he finds a job back in the skilled trades line. He even tells them, I cannot go back into tool and die, I have psoriasis now and I cant work in the fluids. Doesn't matter.

It was a 2 yr contract, we are only 18 months in. The UAW or Chrysler should at least confirm or deny the rumors. Tell us the damned truth. Don't lie to us anymore. We were prepared for the boot at 2yrs. Not now. We were also hoping for a perm position after two years. Especially if 3rd was being kept open. Just confirm/deny something please. Let us know. I hate living like this.

And pray that my husband can find a decent job quickly after he has been let go. $14/hr to stay with what we have. And that will not allow us to go out to eat or anything like that. I have one out and that's the truck we purchased after Scott started at Chrysler. Got it at my work. Paid $16k for it. It was worth (blue book person to person value $20k) I owe $11.5k on it, and blue book shows $17.5k value. I really don't want to sell that truck. I hope for everything we have one of three things happens. He gets perm at Chrysler (on the line), he gets perm at Chrysler (non core), or he finds a damn decent retire from job, within a month of lay off.

For the love of all that is holy, don't make me go through hell again. Please?

10-24-07

2007-10-24T23:02:00.000-05:00

I really need to update this...so that will be my goal for tomorrow :)

It has color and a vegetable

2007-09-18T13:20:00.000-05:00

This morning on the way to the sitters, Nathan pipes up from the back seat. "Mama, I want to hear the green beans." The green beans????

"Nathan, do you mean the Black Eyed Peas?"

"Yeah mama, thats it!"

09-17-07

2007-09-17T09:33:00.000-05:00

Sometimes figuring out what to write is not as easy as it seems. I have been going through a lot this past week. I need to do a lot of changing and I will start a little at a time. I know (read: hope) that it will happen, and I don’t expect miracles.

Let’s start easy.

Trenton

He is doing okay. He is having issues at school. Issues like not being able to keep his mouth shut, lol. Those were also my issues in school. He is having a blast everywhere though. Constantly out playing, or in playing video games, usually with Andrew. He is doing well. He did lose his scooter though. He left it in the street and Terry about ran it over, so he got in trouble and can’t have it back until this weekend.

Nathan

Oh dear, where to even start with Nathan. They changed his school. They moved him from the actual pre-school to an elementary school that has one, yes one, pre-school class. He is having a little trouble with the drop off, doesn’t want to leave his friends at Parker. Otherwise it seems to be okay. Wow, that really didn’t take much to explain, although it had me up and down for over three days.

His speech is still greatly improving. He can say his “f” sound 90% of the time now, and his “s” sound is coming along nicely. If the word ends with an “s” then he nails it about every time. If the word begins with an “s” then he gets it about 30% of the time, much better.

Scott

Scott is, well, Scott. He is taking a little bit to get used to the school sleep schedule but all is going well on his end. He is counting down the days until his vacation in October.

Me

Well, we all knew it was coming at some point. I have to work on taking better care of myself. My blood pressure is astronomically high for being 32 years old. Both my parents have HBP and I had it when I was pregnant (which makes it a predictor for me) and well, lets just say I had a hard time coming to terms with all this last week.

I had an actual panic attack, where I actually thought that I was having a heart attack. It was not very much fun, but I have calmed down a lot and actually the only thinking about it this weekend was yesterday when I was making a ton of breads and muffins, and I overate. That’s okay; I will be back on the ball again this morning. I think I may start a private blog just so I can track my eating and exercising, plus my weight and blood pressure if I get it taken.

I also signed up on a website, The Daily Plate, and have been trying to keep track that way, but I forgot this weekend, so again I will start up today, and go on. The thing about changing yourself is that it is hard, and I am not going to berate myself for forgetting one day or so, and just going to start all over again. They say it takes a month to make a habit, well dammit that’s a long time.

So that’s life in my household at the moment. It’s a rough road on occasion but we will survive. /nod

EQUpate

I haven’t really been doing much in EQ. It is getting very hard to find a group especially with Arzania. She has dinged 64, just 6 more levels to go and I will be there, but hell, at the rate I am going, it might not happen before the expansion, gah. She dinged AA 86 last night as well. Go Arzania.

I need to get Krys to AA 100 as she is only 19% away from it. I need to sit and bust out a lot of food on Zymeria so I can make some money. Everyone is level 70 Tradeskiller except Arz, but she is level 60 and I plan to start working on her this week. I just need to harvest a few pelts. I will do that on Krys, so I don’t have to fight anything.

LoN held my attention all last week, but I am actually getting annoyed by it, I need a break, as I played it all. the. time. So there! =p

08-24-07

2007-08-24T10:50:00.000-05:00

I forgot to talk about Legends of Norrath, although I really have nothing to discuss about it, but am anxiously awaiting its arrival. I think it will be a fun little thing to do on occasion. Now that I have said that, I will probably end up being totally addicted to the damn thing.

I have tried to read the boards, but in order for me to learn something, I actually have to do it. Once I have done it, I can read the boards to learn the finer points and such.

At this point, I am awaiting LoN's arrival and am curious on one point. It says you can loot booster packs. Now, is that body loot or chest drop? If it's a chest drop, what kind of chest? I mean, if we are looking at only exquisite chests dropping booster packs, I think I would be better off just plunking down the $3 it costs.

8-23-07 - EQ2

2007-08-23T10:04:00.000-05:00

Whoa its been awhile. Lets start with EQ shall we.

Krystalea.

You know I haven't really been playing Krys that much at all. Scott was able to find my Cruel Innovator's Ring for fairly cheap on the broker the other day and snatched that up for me. Woohoo, what a man! And last night, I was finally able to finish up the Mark of Awakened. Woot! So I am pretty much geared up the way my pocketbook will let me be and the way I want to. Now if I can save some money, maybe I can nab a couple fabled items.

Began working on Transmuting again the other day. Hit 307/350. If you ever even thought of Transmuting, run far far far away. I really do not like it. Bleh =/

Zymeria.

Well since they are now letting us sell from every character, the only thing I have really done with Zymeria is make and sell food. Very lucrative. I need to spend oodles of time just making stuff. I need Money. /nod

Arzania.

Wouldn't you know it? She hit level 59 Swashbuckler yesterday and level 55 Woodworker. And I have 74 aa's. I am done pushing on aa's now. With SoE not adding any aa levels with RoK, I just cant push that hard anymore. Although, I have the quest lines in Loping to do, the ones in TT, SoS, New Tunaria, Barren Sky and Bonemire, and a few left in Lfay as well. Zones to visit yet: SoS, Barren Sky, The Nest, PoA, Vaults, Bonemire, HoF, The Den, Sepulcher, Loping Plains, Kaladim, Acadechism, Crypt, Oob, Unrest, Mistmoore catacombs, Mistmoore Castle, the majority of Tunaria (only been up to the big tree) and of course any and all raid zones.

I am seriously thinking, I may hit 100 without even pushing. Think of all the names, quests, and disco XP I have yet to get. Nice =)

Myrinna.

Hit 70 Weaponsmith. The new tradeskill writs that grant XP are awesome. Love it. I may start to play her a little more. I looked and I think she only has around 5% to ding 38, /sigh.

Attalyne.

Nothing. Made some furniture to sell, that's just not selling, lol.

Zephina.

Nothing there either.

Vizera.

Nope, not a damn thing.

So as you can see, I have been pushing Arzania hard the past couple weeks. I am getting to the point of being bored, lol, and Arz changes that for me. Now as soon as I hit 60, I am aiming for a group in SoS. /nod

7-23-07 EQ

2007-07-23T10:17:00.000-05:00

Even though it is not the end of July yet, lets see where we stand with my goals, shall we.

Attalyne to 70 Carpenter - Ding Ding, we have met this goal!!
Myrinna to 62 Weaponsmith - Just dinged 61 last night.
Arzania to 50 Woodworker - Dinged 46 last night. No vitality though =/
Arzania to 45 Swashy - I really surpassed this. She is level 50 with 59 aa's =)
Vizera to 30 Warlock - Havent even touched her. =(
Krys to aa 96 - Um, ya. I am 20% away from dinging aa 98.
Krys to 310/350 Transmuting. - Sitting at 304/350. Need to farm either items or money. Or both =/

Not too bad, and I still have 8 days to go. =)

07-23-07

2007-07-23T09:59:00.000-05:00

Hey hey!! Hehe. Life has just been so normal and nonchalant, I have had nothing to write about as of late. But we were on vacation last week, and it was very very fun.

Sunday the boys went to see Transformers. They said it was very good. All I now know is that Scott wants the new Camaro in yellow, lol. It said it was very sharp.

Monday night, we went to see the Rockford Riverhawks play. The boys were just absolutely entranced to see a real live baseball game. Was the most amazing. Trenton was getting all into it, learning that cheering and yelling were not a bad thing to do at a ball game.

Wednesday we went to Magic Waters. The boys had a blast and made me go down this water roller coaster ride. Never again, thank you very much. lol. I just don't do things like that. We spent all day there and then went out to dinner and window shopping. Got home just in time that night to watch the wonderful storms come in.

Scott and I took Thursday off from doing anything at all. Magic Waters had worn us out, lol.

Friday we went fishing and then went and seen Ratatouille. I thought that movie was really cute. And then on Saturday we went and seen The Fantastic Four, good movie as well, but I really wish the chase seen with Johnny and the Silver Surfer would have been better. Overall it was good.

And now I am back at work, bleh. I really need to win the lottery so I can stay at home. =)

07-03-07

2007-07-02T09:15:00.000-05:00

We went fishing yesterday. It was fun. =) Just me and the boys and my dad. Went on the boat out to Rock Cut. Ya, we decided that rock cut sucks ass for fishing, at least on Sunday before the 4th of July.

Other than that nothing much going on at all. Its summer and the boys are just running around, playing. That is about all we have been doing.

EQUpdate: Attalyne hit 70 carpenter this weekend. Myrinna is 59.5 weaponsmith now. ummmm, Arzania hit level 37.

06-26-07

2007-06-26T11:10:00.000-05:00

Lets Review:

Attalyne to 70 Carpenter.
Myrinna to 60 Weaponsmith.
Arzania to 45 Woodworker.
Arzania to level 40 Swashy.
Krys to around 93 aa's.
Krys into T7 transmuting.
Zymeria to 350 tinkering.

Those were my goals for the end of June. Well with only 4 days of the month left, lets see where I am at right now.

Attalyne is level 68.25.
Myrinna is level 57.5.
Arzania is 41 Woodworker.
Arzania is only a level 37 Swashy.
Krys is at aa 95 with 20% into it.
Krys is 300/350 for transmuting.
Zymeria is 350/350 Tinkering.

Woot.

So lets come up with some goals for July.

Attalyne to 70 Carpenter
Myrinna to 62 Weaponsmith
Arzania to 50 Woodworker
Arzania to 45 Swashy
Vizera to 30 Warlock
Krys to aa 96
Krys to 310/350 Transmuting.

Sounds good to me.

06-18-07

2007-06-19T10:08:00.000-05:00

Lets see.

Nothing much going on. We had Brendon and Sarah over for dinner on Saturday. That was fun. It was so nice to see Elizabeth open and running and playing with the boys. No more shyness. At least not at our house.

My garden is doing good finally. My sunflowers are growing fast, and I have one pumpkin left (damn bunnies). My tomato plants all have little yellow flowers on them, my onions just took off. I planted some more flowers in the front gardens (thanks again bunnies and earwigs). And with all the rain yesterday, stuff just sprung up overnight. It was really cool.

EQland:

Krys is 70% through aa 93. Pretty good I say. Transmuting at 287/350. Getting there. Also *sings* I got my hat!!! I got my hat!!! 6 of 7 pieces of Al'kabors is now equipped, woohoo. Just have them damn legs to get now. /sigh

Arzania dinged 40 woodworker and 35 swashy.

And I think that is about it. /sigh Not a very productive week, lol.

6-11-07

2007-06-11T13:10:00.000-05:00

Well you will never believe if I tell ya. But you are going to have to. We built 3 gardens over the past week and a half. Two are in front, about 12'X5' and 16'X5' and the one in back is about 17'X5'. The ones is front already had the retaining walls built on them, and the little one already had the dirt.

So the little one was easy. Terry next door was thinning out one of her 14 gardens (no exaggeration) and brought over a bunch of stuff for the one.

I started working on the second one, and had to pull these humongous weeds out. I actually had to use a regular size shovel to dig the roots out of this side. So I did that and then Scott went and got more dirt and we filled that in. We planted flowers from seeds over there, and I am patiently (more on that in a minute) waiting for them to grow.

The third garden is in back, and it is going to be my vegetable garden. We had to start that one from scratch. Fortunately, Mike next door, had a tiller and we were able to just till the grass up in that spot. Then Scott laid out railroad ties for the boundaries and we had to fill with dirt.

Now the garden (flower bed?) up front, my little seedlings started to produce tiny little sprouts as of this weekend. Yay!! It is so cool, being able to see these things grow. The garden in back, I placed vegetables. Now seeing it is kinda late in the planting season, I purchased started tomato and pepper plants. Three tomato, 2 green pepper and 2 red pepper plants. I also purchased a watermelon, just to see what would happen and a grape vine for the same reason. I did buy some seedlings. Carrots and green onions (I have ideas on how to run these next year) and then I had to do sunflowers. I think the carrots and green onions are just about to pop through, I could see two baby baby plants kinda pushing up last night. Now the sunflowers. 7 of my 10 have popped through, and it is the neatest thing. It is so cool to see this stuff growing. Whats funny about the sunflowers, is the little spudlings where popping up with the seed casings stuck on the leaves, hehe.

Scotts computer died. The motherboard fried. Not surprising considering the overheating problems we have been having. So Scott built frakenputer with the two computers (the one that died and my old one). He hopes to get a new one this winter. We shall see. The only is the old motherboard would not take the new hard drive, so we have to see if it will work on my new computer, and I will use it as a slave drive. I would not be so concerned if Scott had not just ripped all our cd's onto it, and then all our pictures are on it. bah.

EQLand:

Krys is 10% from hitting aa93. And...............She finally got the head out of Unrest. WOoHOO!!!!!! 6 piece bonus baby.

Zymeria hit 350 Tinkering, thank god.

Arzania just hit 37 woodworker and my new little one Vizera hit level 18 with 11 aa's.

Cool!!

EQ 06-08-07

2007-06-08T09:40:00.000-05:00

Krystalea

Okay lets see. Hit 92.5 aa's. Not really pushing anymore. 34% a week is what it will take for me to 100 by the time the expansion comes out. Although Scott and I found a nice place to goof off, get a named and we earned darn good XP. ^^^ drakes, and seeing they are not casters, I can solo, so I may hang out there on occasion.

My transmuting is now at 285/350. I can't wait to be out of T6. I just cant wait to be done with it totally. I was in a crafting mood, and I am starting to fall out of it. So hopefully I will get back to it, getting so close to my goals on it.

Still trying to get a Castle group for my legs, or an Unrest group (only have certain times to play) for my hat. One day.

Zymeria

Well I busted out my tinkering tools. 259/350. What really pisses me off about this is when I hit 250 I thought hooray into T6 (which I have a ton of loams for) and it was 10 more skillups of T5 crap. Bah I say. Ran out of money so stuck there for a little bit. =( Otherwise I have not been playing her hardly at all.

Arzania

Level 34 swashy now with 27 aa's. Also 36 Woodworker. My goal is too have her to 45 or so by the end of June and hopefully to 60 at the end of July. That leaves a couple months of just hanging out. hehe. When it comes to all these tradeskills, I just want them out of the way, so that the last two months or so before the expansion I can build my bank account up and get prepared.

Myrinna

Adventure level still the same. Weaponsmith at 56. Goal is 60 or better at the end of the month.

Attalyne

Carpenter level still 65. Goal 70 by the end of the month.

Zephina

She's 70 Jeweler, have no intention of leveling her adventuring side atm.

Vizera

Oh my new little Arasai. I decided not to make a sarnak and make an Arasai. I played her for a little bit last night. OMG Darklight woods little newbie area is a perfect area for shineys. Yay!! I had fun. I think she is level 6 now, lol. I haven't decided if I want to tradeskill her or not. I do not know yet. After I get all of the others to 70 I probably will. I have a feeling if I don't start her before the expansion, she will probably get started after the expansion.

So my goals for the end of June are:

Attalyne to 70 Carpenter.
Myrinna to 60 Weaponsmith.
Arzania to 45 Woodworker.
Arzania to level 40 Swashy.
Krys to around 93 aa's.
Krys into T7 transmuting.
Zymeria to 350 tinkering.

05-29-07

2007-05-29T15:07:00.000-05:00

Bullets

- The Young at Heart Fair (including Fireworks)

This was awesome. The boys had so much fun. They rode too many rides, played too many games, and had too much fun. Trenton also found out that he is big enough for all the rides now, even though I don't think I am ready for it. LOL.

- My night on Friday.

Friday night was awesome. The boys went to Scott's mom's house. So it was just Scott and I. I get home from work, and Scott has steaks cooking on the grill, salads ready and Julienne Au gratin potatoes. Oh my. When dinner was ready we turned on the movie "Pursuit of Happyness" That was a very good movie. Made me cry. After that, we went for a walk up to Dairy Depot, where I proceeded to enjoy a Strawberry Cheesecake Sundae, with no little ones to steal it from me. It was most definitely a very very nice night. I loved it.

- Trenton and his need for trouble. WTF?

Trenton was doing so well to boot. He had had a wonderful weekend. Everything was good, the fair, fireworks, spending the night and grandma's, and the grandma's and grandpa's. So why did he do it? Why did he bite Nathan? Why in holy hell did he bite Nathan in the penis? TELL ME!! I have no idea, but let me tell you. That child felt the wrath of Mama. I did not hit him, or put him in a corner or anything of the like, but he knew, he knew he was in sooo much trouble. He couldn't see straight. At any rate, he now knows the errors of his ways and will never do that again.

Nathan, btw, is just fine. It was through his jeans. I shudder to think if he was wearing just those thin shorts what would have happened.

- Krys moved to Neriak

I moved. I did the citizenship quest. Quick and easy, toured the city. Neriak is awesome. I love it. The minute I zoned in, I knew I was going to move. I had been teetering on the edge of not being sure. But hell, the zone is awesome. I think the crafting area was the all around deciding factor.

- Krys works on her new home.

I purchased myself a new home. Gotta love it. I think the address is 8 Walk of the Dead way. So I moved from a three room in Freeport, to a 5 room (6 if you count the foyer) house in Neriak. All my stuff basically fit in 2 rooms. I am going to have to make/buy more stuff. So far I have my bedroom done, save 2 items, and the library done, save two items (that was the stuff I had plenty of, lol). I started working on the dining room. I had to buy stuff for that. I would say it is 1/2 way done. I was going to buy the carbonite sconces I wanted for the hallways. T3 you would think would be cheap, hell on the broker for 34g. !5 of them, the number I want. 5 for each hallway. So now I get to make them. Then I will do an alter room, right next to the library. (which are both upstairs). The bedroom is the basement. Then next to the dining room, I will do a living room. Going to rig up a couch and such. A small fireplace. (I have will have one in every room) The the foyer, some ideas swirling around in my head for that. I hope it comes together soon. =)

- That's about it. I think.

There coming

2007-05-21T12:55:00.000-05:00

The locusts are coming!! The locusts are coming!!!!

=)

5-21-07 EQUpdate

2007-05-21T11:17:00.000-05:00

Krystalea: Lets see. 269/350 Transmuting now. And I think that's about it on her. Although I did hit 89 aa's, and about halfway through that one. The thing that sucks about the Transmuting, is I can now farm the T6 stuff, but seeing as the mobs are green, the armor drops are in the 50's but the stinking adept books are, well, 60. So I have decided to just sell all that I can't transmute and spend 3/4 of the money on buying stuff I can. Just want to be in T7 and then the trans should move nicely on that. =)

Zymeria: Finished up the hat quest. Sitting at 72 aa's now. Defiler tree is filled out the way I want, now I don't know what I want to do with the shaman tree, lol. I just can't decide. Tinkering is now at 203/350. I really really hate loams.

Myrinna: Hit 53 weaponsmith.

Zephina: Nothing there. I may decide to play her, I don't know yet. Too busy with my others.

Attalyne: Hit 65 Carpenter. No more rush on her. She will get 70 by the expansion with just a few combines a week. One day a week at lunch and she is done.

Arzania: Hit 32 woodworker. But, I have been playing her and having a really good time at it. She is now level 31, and about to ding 32. She has 21 aa's, which I just figured out one tree to spend on, lol. Still have no idea where to go after that. But I am enjoying playing her. Right now I want to play her hard and see where I end up. But we all know my streaks, and this could be one of them, where I play her for two weeks and then she doesn't see the light of day until the next expansion.

RoK: I am still really really stoked about this expansion. I just need to figure out a class to play. I really am thinking of making a tank this time around. I don't have one of those, so we shall see. As for the tradeskill class, I have no stinking clue. Only thing left between me, Scott, and Modex is an armorer. And Scott said he was going to start working on his as he is T4 I think. /shrugs. If he does that I may just go alchemist, so I don't have to grind so stinking hard.

5-21-07

2007-05-21T09:42:00.000-05:00

No more titles. Just the date only, heh.

Been a while. Lets see what I can come up with.

Mothers Day weekend went well. We didn't do anything, much. Took my mom out to breakfast. I didn't get any cards or anything. =(

Although, that Friday prior, I thought my video card had died. My monitor started acting all goofy. Lines and blacking out and such. So, I hooked it up to Scott's machine and seemed to be working fine. So we went out and purchased a 512 video card. Woohoo. Really nice picture. But as I was playing, you could see where portions of the monitor were a little dim. I was thinking that was odd. Brand new video card, picture should totally be crisp and clear. Well, the next morning, my monitor crapped out. The thing is only 5 months old. So as we stand now, my monitor should be delivered today to the company and I am using a old 17" CRT monitor and its disgusting, rofl. So used to my 19" wide flat screen. /sigh

Normal week this week. Been nice outside, so I have been sending the boys outside to play well I spring cleaned the house. Well now that I think about it. It wasn't a normal week after all. I spring cleaned because it was needed, but also because of the fact that Nathan's Birthday party was this weekend.

Anyways, I took Thursday and Friday off, and that was absolutely wonderful. I didn't do anything. Okay I lied. I played EQ for several afternoons and then took a couple naps, hehe. It was so nice. Friday was my birthday, and Scott let me sleep in. He got Trenton ready for school and took Nathan to daycare. It was so very nice.

Speaking of Nathan. His party was Sunday and he made out fairly well. Grandma made a Spiderman cake. That was really cool. She also brought me a gift, which was the silicon baking set, five pans, and then a bundt cake pan. So cool. I have to make a cake this weekend. =) Anyways, Nathan got quit a few gifts, almost all related to spiderman, and they had a friend to play with, so we rarely saw them except at cake and ice cream, and present time, lol.

Nathan also had one really bad incident yesterday. Poor guy. They were across the street playing, when I hear a little boy crying and Trenton was helping him across the street. I come running out to see what was wrong and Trenton yells Nathan got stung by a bee. Oh shit, was the first thing that came to my mind. So I forcibly set the poor child on the ground and rip off his sock and shoe (he got stung on the ankle). Well first thing I noticed (or two things at once) no stinger and he was stung twice. After my initial, I don't need to call 911 for an allergic reaction, I calmed down, took him inside and we got him all fixed up. Turns out, it is a wasp sting. Bugger nailed him twice as well. Poor little guy =(

And now here we are at Monday. Gonna run the EQUpdate on a separate post, as I sure this one is very long by now, rofl. I have to run to Nathans school today for portfolio day. Will be very fun I believe.

Catch Up

2007-05-10T08:54:00.000-05:00

Life in Krys's Household.

Trenton: I believe has finally learned to ride a bike. Yay. But he still has problems with starting and stopping, so we will see how that goes. He had a really hard time with it. The thing with Trenton is, well, he is hard to describe. He is a follower and not a leader and he really doesn't have a lot of self confidence. For him to try anything you almost always get the I cant do it whine. I try really hard to boost him up, I also do little things, like make him look around him when walking, instead of the ground. I always say hi to people we pass hoping he will pick up on that as well. Its funny, when he finally does get something, he gets really really excited. I wish he had more self confidence.

Trenton is also getting on my last nerve when it comes to sleeping arrangements. He has never been a good sleeper, and he especially likes to sleep next to someone. Which I don't mind. He starts in his bed, and always ends in mine. Fine. But the other night was the last stinking straw ever. He refused (outright refused) to sleep in his bed. So to just get him to sleep, I laid him down in the backroom, until Scott got up for work, and sent him into my bed. At 3:00am he woke up, and started throwing a hissy fit because Nathan had crawled into bed and was next to me and Trenton was not. Seriously, major fucking meltdown. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. After that and the arguments, he lost his privilege of sleeping in my bed. That was hard for him to handle last night. But in the end he survived and got a good nights sleep.

Nathan: Nathan is, well, Nathan. He is just the happiest go lucky kid. Very confident, and knows what he wants. And what he wants is anything to with baseball. OMG. The boy could play baseball approx 5-6 hours a day. I cant. And that just drives him bonkers.

He made me the cutest little present for Mothers Day at school the other day. Its a Popsicle picture frame. It has his picture in it (of course) and then glues on the Popsicle sticks are little buttons, and then at the bottom it says "I know how to push your buttons" LOL

Scott and I are doing really well. We are getting our tree in the back topped off and trimmed, hopefully to bring it back to life. The tree guy is going to take 40ft off the top of the tree. And I don't think that is half of the trees height. Bah. This month is busy busy. We have Mothers Day, my birthday, Nathans birthday, Memorial Day, and of course the Young at Heart fair. Yay.

EQLand: Got through HoF with Zymeria last night for hat updates. That's about it. =)

The Most Wonderful Pic

2007-05-09T11:07:00.000-05:00

Of Nathan Ever.

EQland

2007-05-09T10:42:00.000-05:00

Been a while so EQ first.

Krystalea has now gotten her transmuting up to 215 I believe it is. I still have quite a few combines to go, but I am lacking the ambition to tradeskill at the moment. She dinged 88 aa's and is halfway through it. I haven't touched a quest since I left Lfay about a month ago. I need to get back to that, now that the expansion has been somewhat announced. Also, I now have 5 pieces of my armor now. If I could get back to Unrest and Castle Mistmoore, I would have my chance at the rest of it.

Zymeria dinged 71 aa's last night. That finishes off the defiler tree and now I need to go back to the Shaman tree. I have no idea what I want to do there.

I started playing my little fae swashy again. I got her up to level 26 and with 14 aa's. I think what I may do is betray her from Kelethin to Neriak when that opens up and make her a brigand, as opposed to creating an Arsani, I know that is spelled wrong. But that is my plan I believe.

Nothing in tradeskills. Like I said I have had zero desire to do that as of the past few weeks.

The Guild will more than likely ding 27 with this writ night. Those are fun, especially when you get several people together and just massively maim, maul, and slaughter the mobs. When the guild hits level 30 and I can purchase the 5 room house, I may (not entirely positive) move Krys to Neriak as well. It depends.

Rise of Kunark. I am soooo excited. Epic weapons, the return of Sebilis and City of Mist. Yay. Guild levels and Class levels up to 80. A new mount, the rhino. What really intrigues me, if I am reading this correctly, is that you have the new starting city for the sarnak, which is Tim Deep, and that is level 1-20, then to progress you need to move to old world or EoF to raise up your levels. So my thought is that this expansion will hopefully be mostly T7 and T8. How much is that going to rock?

Now the question remains. What adventure class and tradeskill class is my Sarnak going to be??

Ewwww

2007-05-03T10:34:00.000-05:00

I am not your typical girly girl. I play video games, I only do my hair and makeup when the occasion calls for it, I like fishing, I like cars, and generally animals of any nature don't bother me. That is until last night. OMG.

I was getting ready to take a shower and was the clearing all the boys stuff out of the tub, when this huge ass centipede came running out. This thing was like 2 inches long. 4 billion legs. I screamed, and went running into the living room for Scott to save me. He was just sitting there, staring at me. I just turned, pointed my finger and said "Go kill it!!!"

That was not a pleasant shower to take, as all I did was look at the drain waiting for another creepy crawly to come out of it. When I get done with the shower, I go out and talk to Scott for a minute. I asked him why the hell he did not come running when I scream. I mean for the love of Pete, I don't scream that often, there is obviously something wrong. He said "Well, you never scream about crap like that, I just sat there in shock over the fact you were creeped out by a bug." /nods uh huh.

EQUpdate: Krys hit 217/350 in transmuting. Yay. Dinged aa 88 last night. I think that is all.

Quickie

2007-05-01T11:00:00.000-05:00

My two boys. Nathan is in the red and Trenton the grey.

This is a picture from the trip to Galena. Trenton is in the middle.

EQUpdate: Krys got her forearms last night. 5 down, 2 to go. /cheers

I hate coming up with titles

2007-04-30T09:40:00.000-05:00

We had a very good weekend. It started out a little slow, but really worked its way up. On Friday we didn't do much. Trenton had a dentist appointment which went very well. Although we no longer have insurance, Scott had them bill the insurance. Bah. Trenton's teeth are all nice and clean, and no cavities. Yay! I didn't need another $3k summer like last year. His enamel really sucks, so he has to be extra diligent when it comes to his teeth.

Saturday was the day. Nathan actually slept in, till 8:45. Which was good and bad. If we didn't have plans that would have rocked. But considering we should have been out of the house by 8:45, it kinda sucked. At any rate, we got up and headed out to Lori's. Nathan was going to see the horses and maybe even ride one. Oh dear me, lol. We got there and he just decided to play shy and it was really funny to watch him slowly start to warm up, but it was the horses that helped him to do that. He fed them carrots and he brushed them, and then he got to ride one. Oh my. He loved it. That's all he talked about the rest of the weekend.

We then came home to wanting to ride our bike and go go go. So we tried to go go go until I got tired. Not tired, as in wanting to take a nap, but physically tired. My legs hurt so bad, after walking around the farm, leading horses, and then having to come home and lead Nathan on the bike (so to speak). I hadn't sat down at all that day. So I made Nathan come in the bedroom and lay down with me and watch a movie. Mr. I Am Not Tired, fell asleep. It was a nice nap, lol.

Then Trenton and Scott came home. They had their trip to Galena with the boy scouts. Apparently they had a lot of fun and poor Scott had a lot of sun. He was really burnt. They didn't tell me much, well some. They had to walk a ton, and there was a parade and a water bucket race (/shrugs) and they ate constantly, and there were a ton of little shops that Scott wants to take me too, sans kids.

Lets see. We played outside a lot, enjoying the wonderful weather, and that's about it.

EQLand: Well Krys is almost through 87. Hoping to get back to Lfay tonight or tomorrow night. Have to wait for Val to get back on, he is on vacation. Got my gloves, ya baby. That's piece #4. I still need the legs, head, and forearms. Getting there. I now have 110 combines waiting on her for transmuting.

I played my swashy quite a bit. She is about 4% from dinging 26, lol. And she also dinged AA13 I think. Gotta love all these quests.

I think that is about it for now. :)

My Bike

2007-04-25T11:18:00.000-05:00

This weekend, with the boys playing outside and it was so nice, Scott decided to clean out the garage. Mostly. Well in the process, all the boys (except Nathan) were riding bikes and poor Nathan was chasing after them, Scott found Trenton's old little bike and rolled it out into the front yard. Of course Nathan sees this and wants to ride it. I tell him that he cant just yet as we need to buy some training wheels for it so he doesn't fall, and then when he gets really good we can take the training wheels and he can ride it like that all he wants.

Of course, that made him very sad. A little while later Scott declares he has to run to the store for some things and he will be right back. About an hour later he gets home, and here Nathan is sitting next to me with this bike all sad that he cant ride it.

Well Scott comes over and asks what is wrong and I tell him the story and Nathan just continues to sit there and look sad. So Scott says, "Look at this Nathan." And out of his bag he pulls a set of training wheels. This child started jumping up and down and clapping and screaming. It was great. Now all I hear is about riding his bike and that's all he wants to do, and he is already getting really good at it. Yay!!

I bought new shows for the boys this weekend. They fit really well. So I thought. I had to go out and purchase another bigger shoe for Trenton last night. Will someone please tell these children to quit growing so fast!!

Monday night was kind of wild. I was driving home (had the truck) and some guy starts waving and motioning to roll my window down. He says my rear tire is going flat and that there is a gas station up the way. I tell him thank you and mention I live maybe 5 minutes from where we were and I would be good. Well I get into the turn lane at the next light and I swear I can hear the grind of metal. I make my turn and pull onto the side road, get out, and sure as shit the tire is flat as can be.

I hop back into the truck, call Scott, then call the Hospital to say Nathan is not going to make it and wait. When Scott gets there he gets going on changing the tire, and I decide to wait about 5 minutes before I have to leave and get Trenton from school. Good thing I did. There was no freaking jack in the truck. As a side note, we bought the truck were I work at about 6 months ago. So he gets in the car and we get Trenton, run by dad's work, grab his jack and precede back to the truck. After a little bit of trouble here and there, get the tire changed and start putting everything back where it belongs. Then I notice something really goofy. The tires on the truck are 17" and the spare is 16". Just lovely. As of now, the truck is still sitting in my service department, but should be done today. Lovely.

EQUpdate: Haven't been doing much. I think I updated everything on Monday for EQ. I did get krys to 86 aa's though. Met a very nice level 19 Wizard looking for advice the other night. A little too talkative (and for me, that is weird, considering how talkative I normally am).

We are talking about hitting X2 content, a couple people in Tears have hit 60 and with them, we can pull 2 full groups together. So we were thinking of the Silent City. If you have any ideas, please help me. :)

The guild dinged 26. And we are almost 30% through it now. I have been doing writs. I am also going to set up Guild Writ Night, at least once a week. I may do twice a week, not sure yet. I also set up a page on guild portal, but seeing I am at work, I am blocked from that site. I will get it linked up here in the next day or two.

Ugh

2007-04-23T10:30:00.000-05:00

I have been so sick. Woke up on Wednesday morning with a fever that did not go away until Friday late afternoon. I am still feeling worn out. What really sucks about it, is that Wednesday was also my anniversary. 9 years. Scott and I have been married 9 years. Wow. Doesn't feel like it.

So, needless to say, I have not done much since last Wed. This weekend was beautiful and the boys played outside for the most part. I was feeling better, just needed several naps to make it through the weekend.

EQUpdate. Didn't do much here either. Lets see, Carpenter to level 64. Woodworker to level 32. Tinkering to 175/350 (halfway there, yay). We did try to go to Nizara on Saturday. Tough zone. We need to get more geared up, I believe. We also tried Nek3, which reminds I need to look for a cheat sheet, lol. Zym dinged AA 70. I think that's about it. Oh I spent all my money and purchased Vertabrack for Krys.

We did ding the guild level 26, and are now 24% through 26. We found that the writs in Kelethin (loping plains) run much quicker, and offer more status. Goal is level 30 and keep ticking. Running a couple nights a week, pulling done status for the guild and to see where we end up. :)

Title

2007-04-17T14:27:00.000-05:00

Well its the different day, same crap. Not much going on around the homefront. The boys are being boys, and Scott and I are just working and following the kids. Although tonight we the book fair at Trenton's school. Lets see how expensive it is to get out of there. lol.

Not much happening in EQland either, but will do update.

Krys is about 11% from dinging AA 86. We are hoping to hit Nizara this Saturday and we shall see what happens there. Also, Wednesday, Modex and I have a date with a guild ally to finish up the quests in LFay. So that should net some XP. Been looking at my level 60 and above quest list I built, and still have lots to do to get those last 14. Now I just have to start on Zymeria, lol.

Zymeria dinged AA 69. Now I have one of Scotts characters to mentor in Steamfont, and Modex's character to mentor in LFay. So I will have to pick up quests from the 60 list (made a second one for Zymeria) and go from there.

Now, I started leveling my Fae some, and started with the BB line of quests. I think if I do her right, she should pretty much ding 100 at the same time as 70. That would be cool. =)

Tradeskills wise.

Krys now has 68 powders waiting to turn over into skill ups. Still sitting at 185/350. Got to thinking, that when I ding that elusive 350, I should build up another 100 combines in the bank for when they raise the level cap.

Zymeria is now at about 135 or 140 tinkering. Same with her on the components. Will build about 100 combines for when the level cap goes up. I can just log in and have that done within a day of the expansion going live.

Carpenter is now 62 about halfway to 63.
Weaponsmith sitting in the middle of 51.
Woodworker dinged 30. Building up her supplies for a run though the 30's. Hope to have that set up by Friday. Whether I spend the money or not. Right now I don't care about that, I just want it done. By the end of April, I want my Carp as close to 70 as she can get. My woodworker to be at least 40 and hopefully my weaponsmith to 55. lol. Not expecting much on her =p.

Pictures

2007-04-16T11:00:00.000-05:00

Sometime today or tomorrow I will make a post, but just wanted to say I added a link to my google photo account. Now the boys pictures are marked private, but the EQ2 are public.

Testing picture link to see if it works. If not I will delete.

Haha

2007-04-13T10:03:00.000-05:00

Real quick.

My goal was 80 aa's this week. HA! I hit 85 last night.

Woot!

EQland

2007-04-10T09:57:00.000-05:00

Yes a separate post as the other one was very long.

Krystalea: Doing good, will more than likely ding AA#80 tonight. Been working on quests. Amazing how quick the aa's add up with those. Friday we finally made it to Mistmoore Catacombs. We were only able to kill one named in there, (there was another group in there) so I still have all that AA to get. But is that zone fun. :)

We did Unrest on Saturday night. We also did really well in our little group. We did not end up with much loot at all. But Sas ended up with her class hat, so all is good.

Modex and I ran around Steamfont last night, mentoring one of Scott's alts and doing the quests in there. We did the first round of quests up top, and all of watchman whats his face when you first enter SF, and ended up with over 1 aa. I did get Clockwork L&L finished as well. So we still have the second half of quests, plus we have yet to touch the ones that take us into Klak'anon. It was really fun. We were talking of after SF running over to LFay and doing those, and then I thought this morning, maybe we could run and do the ton of quests in Butcherblock as well.

Depending on Modex (if he logs in tonight) I will do the creature catalogs from DoF. There is 6 of those, and I would think that should get me around 1aa there as well. My goal for this week was to hit 80, now I am thinking 81 or 82 might actually be very feasible.

Some of my other goals, hehe.

Krys is still at 185 transmuting, but I do have 16 powders sitting on her to transmute. I know that wont get me to 200, but I still am keeping a good eye on the broker. I may stick with T4, not sure, as the adepts for T4 are the same price as T1 & T2. Until I hit T6 and I can farm Poets.

Zymeria got her tinkering to 102. Yay. BTW, I hate harvesting. Next.

Attalyne the carpenter, dinged 61 yesterday. I believe that Myrinna my weaponsmith is now level 52. And my Woodworker is level 24 now.

I am getting there. Slowly, but right now, without an announcement for the next expansion, I think I am going really well. Just now thinking, I will have to do the steamfont quests with Zymeria. She is sitting at aa68 I believe.

Happy Easter

2007-04-10T09:17:00.000-05:00

Well its been busy busy this past week or so. Easter came and went. It was fun. Saturday started out kind of bad for us. Trenton and Nathan were both really cranky. Trenton had just gotten in trouble for something, so Scott sent him to go lay in bed and calm down. I was getting ready to take a nap (had to get prepared for an Unrest run =p) and I told him to come lay with me. So then Nathan followed us, and Trenton told him to be quiet and get out as he had a headache. Next thing I know it is two hours later and we are both just starting to wake up. Trenton was in a much better mood.

Then Scott decided it was time for him to take a nap. I began fixing lunch for Trenton and myself (as Nathan had already eaten) and I take a glimpse of Nathan. He is sitting on the floor, watching cartoons and looks like he is ready to fall over asleep. So I tell him, "Why don't you climb up on the couch and get comfy, relax for a few minutes and watch your show?" Sure enough, he was out like a light, and I tossed him in bed with Scott.

Finally, everyone in the house is awake, alert and ready to go with no attitude. Now it is time to color Easter eggs, and do you think Scott picked up easy egg coloring kits? Of course not. It wasn't too bad. There was a tie dye egg kit and a glitter egg kit. The boys had a blast doing this and it was great. They could not wait to to see what the Easter bunny had brought them and find the eggs.

Now, I have hardly made comments about my Mother In Law (MIL for short) but I need to now. You see, she showed up on Saturday around 3 or so, to drop off Easter baskets for the boys, but what she failed to tell us, was that she was going to stick around, because Tom had to go to Belvidere and do some work out there. Now MIL lives in BFE (about 1 1/2 hours away) and commutes to Rockford everyday. So does Tom. They live together and have one flipping car. WTF? I cant imagine that. Anyhow. So then she ends up staying until 7:30pm. Seriously. After all the time she spent at my house over the winter, because Tom was on second and she was on first and they didn't want to drive two cars. Get the hell out of my house already. I am still salty over that.

About 5:30 she decided she needed to go over to Modex's and see his daughter and give to her, her Easter basket. She looks at Scott and asks to borrow my car (grrrrrrrrrrrr). Scott tells her, she needs to call over there first. So she does, finds out Modex is not home, and then she just tells (doesn't ask) tells Sarah that she will be there in about 5 minutes. Another WTF?

When she gets back to our house, she is all upset that she didn't feel wanted over there. That Sarah only sat and talked with her for a few minutes and then got up and started dinner. Well, hello?? You invited yourself to her house, at around dinnertime no less, and then get all pissy because she needed to start dinner. WTF? (whats that? number 3?)

Anyways, she left around 7:30, much to my relief and we started backroom night, and our trip to Unrest. Much to my surprise Nathan had fallen asleep at 10pm, even with his nap. But much to my dismay, poor Trenton didn't get to sleep til almost 1am.

Sunday morning was a blast. They ran and found all their eggs and their baskets. Then we spent the rest of our time at home, hiding and finding eggs. We went over to my Mom and Dad's for dinner, yummy. Came home and went to bed early, lol.

Last night, when I got home, Scott was in a real foul mood. Asking him what was wrong led to this: MIL called him on his cell phone, as he was picking up the boys from the sitters. It appears her truck had broken down on the other side of town. Remember her commute. 1 1/2 hours each way. The truck has over 150k miles on it, is around 10 years old, has broken down about 4 times in the past 6 months. 3 of those times, she had called Scott to come help her.

She calls and asks if Scott can come on get her. He tells her no, nicely. He has the boys and I am at work, and he is not gonna waste all this time working with getting her to work and her truck towed with the boys around. She starts to get pissy. He flips out on her. Yelling at her to call a tow truck, shes an adult and can take of this stuff herself. Tells her that he thinks Tom is ruining her and her life. Telling her that she needs to move back to town, and she is not allowed to get pissy at people for not wanting to come out to her house. Tells her to get a better vehicle, like the little Kia we showed her that got 50mpg versus that god forsaken truck and wasting near $200 a week on gas (lord that's more than my house payment). And then she hung up on him. Nice, eh?

She is on second shift this week, so lets see what happens this weekend. She if she calls, or see if she feels that both her boys are now against her. You know, I had some problems with Denny (Scott's dad) but those I could get past, lord I wish he was still with us, and we would not have to deal with this shit. He kept her in line.

Owies and Movies

2007-04-02T10:01:00.000-05:00

Remember Trenton's owie from playing basketball last week? Uh, ya, me too. Unfortunately, it has scabbed over, but there are no visible signs of healing taking place. So I told Trenton to come over and let me take a good look at it. Yuck. The damn scab, I don't think is a scab, but just a puss pocket. It was green and black and just downright disgusting looking. So Scott took some ointment and put it on there and then bandaged it up. BTW, this thing is about the size of a half-dollar.

So, before bed, Trenton decided he wanted to take the bandage off and take a look at the scab. Which was fine by me, because you could tell something was going on as the bandage on the outside was turning black. We took off the bandage and there was no scab left, just junk. Black/green junk. I have never seen a scab not be a scab after sitting in antibiotic ointment. So we cleaned all the way down to the original scrap/gash....wound. Disgusting. I am actually interested in seeing what it looks like tonight, as Scott took care of it this morning and I didn't get a chance to peek in on it. Poor kid, that's gonna be one hell of a scar.

We finally got Scott up and running on the computer. Yay. Overheating. Bah. That is all I am going to say about that.

Watched Eragon this weekend. I liked it. I may or may not have cried when Jeremy Irons died and when I thought the dragon was going to die. /glances around. I just absolutely love John Malkovich's voice. OMG. So divine. Although the ending just totally left it open for the second one. My favorite part (all girly I am) was when the boy woke up with the baby dragon all cuddled up next him.

EQLand: Well Krys is just about to ding aa 77 I think. 8% out. We had a really good night on Saturday. We hit PoA for Trol, and was able to get his hoola hat update and we snagged on the dragon. Two masters out of that zone, but they were off trash mobs. Then we went to the Crypt. Nothing to be had there unfortunately. And the we hit OoB, and Modex walked away with the signet of light and darkness. We had a blast and it was a really good weekend.

Got my carpenter to level 60, and my weaponsmith to 51. Need roots. T6 root hunting sucks, lol. Transmuting, nothing more, but have 8 powders waiting for me to go. Now that they changed the tinkering side of loams. I can start working on that again. Its funny, that stuff sells. Just takes forever. Good thing I have lots of room on my sales board.

Updates

2007-03-28T09:47:00.000-05:00

I got really really lucky last night. Went to PoA to get that update for the Hoola Hat and on the very first kill, it dinged the journal. I sincerely think it was making up for the HoF run of updates, that took the last known mob in the dungeon to ding the quest.

Had fun last night. Got the update for the Hoola Hat, and did the Wisdom of the flock quest. Tried to find the starter for the rank insignia, but to no avail. Will need to get an exact loc of where to find it. Besides running through PoA, killing a few names, did a Vaults run.

Now I can knock Vaults off my list of zones I have not visited. Yay. So, how did AA go last night? I started the night with 9% into 74 and finished the night with 70% into 75. Kick ass =)

Now I also am at a loss on how to get Scott's computer to stop crashing. Not crashing anywhere but EQ. And it doesn't matter what he is doing, he will crash. The other thing, is that his text is goofy. It looks mostly right, but boxes will begin appearing. Scott did say one thing, he can almost tell when he is going to crash as that is when the text goes really really goofy.

So I don't know. I have a ticket open with SoE. I hit reply to the email yesterday, apparently you have to go through another link. So I will send all the info again today. I really wish the email would have stated that. But if they cant figure it out, I think I may just do a complete reinstall of EQ2. Which totally sucks, but eh, you do what you gotta do.

Its Spring

2007-03-27T09:58:00.000-05:00

Well, you can now tell it is spring, and it is not the weather determining that. The determination comes when your son (or in some cases, daughter) come home from playing all day, with two knees that are so scratched and banged up, you just know.

Trenton was at the sitters yesterday (spring break time) and he was playing basketball with the other boys. It was nice enough that he was wearing shorts. Shorts, basketball, and concrete drives, do not mix. The poor boy's knees are just torn up. Wearing jeans would have made it a little better, but then we would be out a pair of jeans, as the knees would have been toast after that fall.

As I said, it is spring break this week. Trenton was extremely excited about it. He gets to go to the sitters and play with all the boys (and scrape his knees up). Nathan, on the other hand, is very upset that he doesn't get to go to school. But, with preschool, wouldn't you be sad as well? I know I would, lol.

It has been so nice here. I want to say we have been outside since Saturday morning. On Sunday we went to the park with Brendan and family. Spent over 3 hours there. It has been just so much fun, and so nice. I can clean my house, it stays clean because they are outside. I have the windows open for fresh air. I put the boys to bed and I swear they are asleep within one minute of me saying goodnight to them. It has just been so nice these past few days. Today is good temperature wise, but it is supposed to be rainy and stormy. Nothing yet, just cloudy.

EQLand: You know these quests. Good idea. I finished up the two Swords quests that are in atm. I also finally finished up Sol Ro. Got a great portion of the hoola hat quest done as well. I need the PoA and SoS updates, and then the solo nest instance. Going to try to get that this week.

Last night, I ran around and finished up, Interception I believe is the name. I did three in Felwithe. Interception, Shereths Missing Book, and the portion of Shield of the Magi. Went to work on Mushroom eating gnomes...but the guy was not up. I also started the Corruption in the Faydark Series. I did all this solo, and in about 90 minutes. Gained around 35% aa. Pretty good I say, lol.

I also did a little tradeskilling here and there. Krys is up to 183/350 Trans. My Carpenter is now level 58. And I dinged my weaponsmith to level 51.

We ran OoB on Sunday real quick for Scott, and we finally got him his boots. Yay. He is talking about doing a Crypt run tonight if the boys go down nice and quietly. lol. Now Krys still needs the wrists from there as well. So here's to hoping.

Spring Break

2007-03-23T10:05:00.000-05:00

Poor, poor Nathan. He is so sad that next week is Spring Break and there will be no school. Trenton, on the other hand, is very excited that there is no school, lol. I can see both sides. Nathan is in preschool, and of course, preschool is very fun. I think he sees it as playing. While Trenton is in 1st grade, he sees it as a week with no work and all play.

Nothing new going on in Family Land, I really though I would have something to type about, but apparently the boys have just been normal boys. Although, last night I decided not to log in EQ and I went and laid in bed and watched a movie. About 30 minutes into the movie, I hear these little footsteps, so I glance into the hall. Could have sworn I seen a little blond head. But nothing. Over the next 15 minutes I keep hearing feet shuffling. Finally caught him. Trenton. Told him to come here, and asked him what he was doing. He says he was just checking on me to make sure I was okay. Awwww. But in reality, he was waiting for me to fall asleep so he could sneak into bed with me, this is know. So I told him to go ahead and climb in, and he got this huge smile on his face and was asleep in about two minutes time.

EQland: Well I finished that second quest for the Swords of Destiny line. Boy those three sub quests were a pain in the ass, but I did get really lucky, because when I zoned into Wailing Caves, I was the only one there, and Lord Ree was just sitting there waiting for me. Yay!

While sitting there working on this quest, I kept seeing in channel Labs raid looking for healers. I honestly did not want to go in there with Zym, so I kept watching and soon there were asking for DPS. So against my better judgement (I was really tired) I decided to go, thinking if I could last for two named's I would be good, and have at least one more AA.

Backstory: I tried to go on a raid in TT (cannot remember the name of the zone, sorry) and the MT and the MA were Freaki and Mystique. Bad raid, really bad. My armor fell off on the first named. It was really screwed up.

So, here I zone into Labs, and who do I realize who the MT and MA are? Dear god. Three deaths on the first named pull. /disband Come to realize why the other raid failed as quick. Those two cannot keep aggro on the mobs. Now I realize these are epicX4, but....keeping aggro can't be that hard. I mean, I did a pickup raid with Zymeria in this zone, and the tank had zero issues with aggro. Zero! Maybe, I am viewing this wrong, and they are trying to tank these things in Mastercrafted with adept 1 spells. Who knows, lol. Just it is now on my 'Things to remember not to do' list. Pickup raids with Freaki and Mystique. /nod

Movies and Time Sinks

2007-03-21T09:18:00.000-05:00

Well I watched The Lake House last night. I thought it was really good. I just love Sandra Bullock. I cried at the end of course. And I did call the bus accident as being him. But I really thought it was done fairly well. My only problem was that after the movie was over, I had to sit and think, well if he didn't die, how can she still be there waiting for him, because you know, the time line would have changed, but then I thought only his time line changed, or maybe everything from that point forward changed for her. I don't know. But, of course, it is just entertainment, and shouldn't be analyzed. :p

Time Sinks are not fun! The second quest for The Swords of Destiny line is about to drive me nuts. I am at the part of the three sub quests. I finished two of them last night, and will probably get the third one finished today at lunch. And then after that will need to camp Lord Ree. WTF? You know, I did nothing but this quest last night. Was sitting in Antonica when I logged in at 8:30. Ran to the down below and started this thing. I went to bed at 11:15 and that was where I finished. Almost three hours for all that jazz. The sub quests were horrible. I started in New Tunaria (I woke Scott up a few after I went there) at about 9:30. So almost 2 hours for three sub quests and still not done. I may or may not finish this up tonight. I probably should just so it is over and done with. I also seriously dread doing this with Zymeria now.

Goals for EQ2

2007-03-20T13:46:00.000-05:00

Krystalea (and Zymeria):

I need to get at least Krys to 100 aa's before the expansion. Now they haven't announced it yet, but it is coming. So I need to set goals. Now if Zymeria gets there, that will be a bonus, but I am not at all concerned about her at the moment.

Get final Sol Ro quest done. Krys only. Zym has finished Inny.
Get second quest in the Swords of Destiny (and sub quests) done. Zym needs to start.
Claymore Line. Krys is on Step 6 and Zym is on Step 9.
The Ivy Shroud line of quests.
Should start thinking of doing The Cloak of Flames.
Mark of Awakened. Krys is to the Trials and Zym just grabbed the quest.
Hoola Hat - Zym and Krys have both just started. Those chains are certainly the death of me.

I also need to think about zones that I have never been too.

Nizara
Castle Mistmoore
Mistmoore Catacombs
Sepulcher (Bonemire)
Vaults (Barren Sky)
Any Raid zone. (Zym has been to a portion of Labs. Up to the third named.)

Tradeskill goals should be simple enough. I do my tradeskilling at lunch and in the mornings when the boys first get up. Krys, Zym, and Zephina are already at level 70. So here is my list. Should be simple enough (minus T6)

Attalyne to 70 Carpenter (at 55 right now)
Myrinna to 70 Weaponsmith (at 50 right now)
Arzania to 70 Woodworker (at 20 right now)
Krystalea - Transmuting - 350/350 (at 175/350 with 15 powders waiting to be combined)
Zymeria - Tinkering to 350 (at 18/350) Loams. Too. Damn. Expensive.

Okay I think that may be about it for now.

Oh, and Krys finally got her staff. Rune-Carved Bone Staff. Yay!!!!!!

2007-03-20T11:08:00.000-05:00

I just lost my post. It was a long one as well. Dammit.

Okay here is the jist, because I do not feel like rewriting it.

School pictures came in on Friday, and the boys look awesome. I was really impressed with the quality of the pictures. If I had a scanner, I would scan and post them. They are wonderful.

Saturday, Scott and the boys went to The Bass Pro Shop with my dad. They had a really good time, especially looking at all the fish in the aquarium there. Poor Nathan wanted to go fishing in there, lol. Trenton, also picked out a boat for Scott, hehe.

We had dinner with mom and dad there as well, and then we went to the video store where the boys proceded to pick out two Pokemon movies. That was the most quiet that has been in the house, while the boys were home. It was delightful. Scott and I were able to get a lot done with zero interruptions. Hell, Trenton was even explaining parts of the movie to Nathan.

Scotts computer was acting up again. So many errors, and 5 minute start-up time. So we took the ATI card back and purchased an Nvidia 7600GS. In the end, it turns out we needed a bigger power supply. So he now has a 430w power supply. Why could that not have been the first question from any tech support line. Would have saved a lot of time.

EQLand: Ran around this weekend. Finally got my ring from OoB. Signet of light and darkness. Yay. Also dinged aa72 on Krys. Did nothing on Zym. Zephina hit 70 Jeweler as well. Been working on Attalyne and she is now level55 Carpenter. The guild also dinged 25. Getting there.

I did decide to reset my AA's and went with Manaburn. My god that spell is fun, but I do see where it would have it's problems. All in all, I am having fun with it.

I may be back later to work on this more, I have typed up a bunch of goals for Krys for EQ. And Then lest not forget the Trenton realizing what April showers bring May flowers means, lol.

It is too nice outside

2007-03-13T10:45:00.000-05:00

And let me tell you, it does good to wear those two little ones out.

On Saturday, we went to the Burpee Museum here in town and caught a look at Jane, the most complete adolescent T-Rex ever found. Was pretty cool. The boys were really ecstatic over it, especially considering they had just gotten done with a book this week talking about the people who dig up the bones and how they do research on them. Apparently, our little museum, has also found a Triceratops. They had a shoulder bone on display. That thing is huge. I am going to try to keep a watch on that and see how much of the Triceratops they are able to recover. I think that would be a cool display.

I think we spent about an hour and a half there, mulling around looking at things. The only other part of the museum that really grabbed the boys interest was the part with the animals native to our area. That, and they had two live snakes in there as well. The part the fascinated me the most was the history pertaining to this area. We used to be covered in snow and ice (go figure) and that is what shaped the terrain and wore down the mountains. We also have found Mammoth bones and such around here, as well as a few dinosaur bones in the area. That is so very cool.

As for the rest of the weekend, these children did nothing but play outside. The time had no effect on them, as we had worn them out so much that they were asleep at 7:30 Sunday night. The only thing the time change affected was that Trenton yelled at me on Monday morning that it was still nighttime and that he was not going to get up. Hmmm, let me think about that okay?

Scott's comp is acting up again, or it really could just be EQ this time around. He keeps going LD. It's to the point that is about to quit playing. I told him, that I think he might want to delete a few files, let them re patch and if that doesn't work, that he should go for a complete reinstall. And make sure you do that reinstall, before you go to work, because even with cable, it takes a good 12 hours to download everything. Considering the only CD's we have are the original purchase and everything else we have done has been by download.

The other night it was time to go to bed. So I tell the boys to go to the bathroom as I get their water cups. I head into the kitchen, Nathan heads to the bathroom, and Trenton I believe was already in there. Well, no one turned on any lights, why I have no idea. So I filling the cups and I hear two screams, followed by Trenton laughing and Nathan crying. So I run over there to see what the deal is. Apparently Trenton was using the bathroom (with the lights off /boggle). As Nathan was entering the bathroom, Trenton was turning around and they scared the crap out of each other. So, Trenton is laughing his butt off, and Nathan is bawling saying "Trenton scare me" over and over. And here's mom trying not to laugh and comfort the little one, when Trenton all of the sudden pipes up with "Oh my god, Mom, did you hear me scream like a little sissy boy?" That was it, pass the little one to dad and head out where he can't hear me laughing my ass off.

EQland: Okay, Krys and Zym still sitting in the same spot. I did do Unrest the other night and didn't get anything out of it. Which makes me sad, as the run was with Zymeria and The rune-carved bone staff dropped and it was an ffa roll, and I really really want that staff for Krys. :(

Dinged 70 on my jeweler. Now on to my carpenter. I am really really not liking T6, especially for the roots. I don't want to harvest, but I am going to have to bite the bullet and go out there and do just that.

Crash

2007-03-08T10:04:00.000-06:00

Whenever you hear a loud crash and the house shakes, you should know that it is never a good thing.

Last night, Scott and I were in the front room watching House (gotta love the DVR) and the boys were in our room, supposedly watching cartoons and playing pirates. When all of the sudden we here this really loud crash and the floor and windows rattle. Now our house is older, but we honestly thought it might of been from the industrial park near us, but we were still curious. So we get up and adventure into the bedroom to check on the boys.

Upon entering the room, there is Trenton laying on the bed, my sconce is laying next to him, and there are two wonderful holes in my wall from where the sconce had been. The look of terror on Trenton's face said it all.

Upon asking (several times) exactly what happened, he finally decided to tell us. You see, the sconce, when Trenton is standing on the bed is eye to eye to him, and being the 6 year old boy that he is, he thought it would be really cool to see if he could karate kick it. Unforunately, when he tried this, his foot kinda got stuck in the fancy loops on my sconce, which then made him lose his balance, at which point his butt slammed into the wall and the force of his fall, he pulled the sconce out with his foot.

Scott and I just kinda walked out of the bedroom, told him to go hang out in his room while we talked. The both of us just shaking our heads. What to do? Well, grouding won't work as they are stuck in the house anyways, taking the playstation away wont work, he hasnt played it in a while. Scott suggests writing his spelling words several times, but I say no as then he will begin to hate his words and that would not be a good thing.

I call Trenton into the front room, and we talked to him about being curtious to things that are not yours. Theres a time and place to karate kick things, and in the house is not one of them, yada yada yada. Finally I tell him, I want him to think about what kind of punishment he should get, as Daddy and I were at a loss on what to pick. Gave him 5 minutes.

Now this whole time, this child has looked like any little boy would when getting in trouble. Not upset, just mad at the fact he got caught and really wishes it was over with.

Before his 5 minutes were up, he comes in the front room, with tears starting in his eyes. He tries to tell me all calmly what his punishment should be. "I think," /sniff /sniff "that I should" tears start pouring here, and he starts the suck in his breath thing, trying to talk "lose back room night." By now he is in full crying mode.

Now, back room night, is the boy's fun thing to do on the weekends. At 8pm (normally bedtime), we head to the back room, pick out a movie, get some popcorn, and they get to watch a movie in the dark eating popcorn. 9 times out of 10 they fall asleep halfway through, lol.

Well, I decide that back room might be too harsh, as well, its 2 days away, and I honestly don't think this one fits the crime, as he has been really good this week. So, our decision was that the time has to fit the crime. So he now has 4 additional chores (hurt the house, clean the house) and then of those 4, two he will keep permanently, as it was about time to add to the chore list anyways.

Nathan was so nice to Trenton this whole time, lol. He kept coming up to me and going "Twenton say sorry." and would then follow Trenton around, trying to tell him it was okay. That was too cute.

EQLand: Here was my night last night. Log in Krys, bah. Log in Zym, nah. Log in Arzania, nope. Log in Krys, bleh. Screw it, gonna go watch Lost.

I am hoping this weekend to get back into Unrest and get a ton of screenshots. Can you tell I like this zone? hehe. I also do have a couple little dings. Zephina made 68 Jeweler, just waiting for vitality to come back, should be an easy run to 70. Krys made 170 Transmuting. Zymeria got the new provisioner recipe from Unrest, but I need more whiskey, cant wait to try that one out.

Manaburn

2007-03-07T10:13:00.000-06:00

I would really like to discuss Manaburn and if it is viable or not. As I have not chosen it as an AA ability yet, but for some reason the SK in my group last night determined that I was not as good of a wizard as I could have been because, well, I did not have Manaburn. As for reference this comment came up after Torkler, so I will use his fight for my "numbers".

See in this group I was in last night, even if I did have MB, I would not have been able to use it. Group makeup: SK, warden, mystic, illusionist, monk, and myself. For most of the night I was fighting every inch of my life for power. I was down power and more power, hit canni, hit manastone, hit essences, and so forth. I was putting out a steady bit of DPS, and then hitting Catalyst/Ice Nova at 40% and continuing after with my other spells. No aggro, except once.

Torkler was the most mana intensive one. Now I can't tell you that I was using this mana due to group makeup (which I really do think it was) as I have never had mana issues like this before, but, well....

Okay, I don't have a parser and I should really invest in one, but here are my approx numbers for the Torkler fight. I really tried to explain this to the SK, but alas, it didn't work. So bear with me a minute here, as I rack my good ole brain.

Three glacial winds = 12000
One surging tempest = 8000 (I cant remember how many ticks this spell is, so for my sake going with 8 @ 1000)
Three Iridates = 3000
(Ack I cant remember the spell name, its the icicle debuff) 3x = 1500
Four Ball of lavas = 16000
5 sunstrikes (yes I use this very quick casting spell =p) = 5000
Incapacitate 2x = 4000
Protoflame (he never died, so pulling a number off the top of my head for this) = 2500
Ice Nova = 12500
grizzles/char/dementia (ill buff/proc) = 5000 (and I think that was the low end, as at one time all three hit at once for almost 2k)
And I sure I missed something more in there. Maybe a 5th BoL or maybe I did hit IN twice (I think I tried but was resisted).

So what does that equal? About 70000. And I really seem to think that is on the low end.

Now I have approx 7500mana. So manaburn would equal about 37500.

That's half of the damage I did on my own without it. Now, in this fight with Torkler, my mana went down with his health. Torkler @ 75% health = Krys @ 75% mana, and so forth. So if I were to wait to cast MB till half health I would hit for 18750 plus half of above (35k) = 53750 damage. Too much decrease and now I am a duck in the water with no mana to continue on with, save busting butt to health drain myself back up. If I hit MB at the beginning of the fight, you would have 37k in damage and one dead wizard.

So in my belief MB is really not as great as it sounds. Will I get it in the end, probably, but there are other abilities that are much better for me to spend my points on at the moment, to give me better steady DPS, then straight out burst DPS.

So, tell me. Right/wrong/indifferent? Show me more things, maybe I really am thinking all wrong on this ability, but maybe not. I am very interested in the different schools of thought on this one.

Woot!!!!

2007-03-05T17:53:00.000-06:00

Al'kabors Spellborn Robe!!!

Hot damn! Now Krys totally looks hot. And to think I almost left the group as were have major problems getting down to the last guy (still haven't figured out why).

But YAY!!!

That is all.

The Estate of Unrest

2007-03-02T15:41:00.000-06:00

Well, last night I swore up and down I was going to go to bed and get some sleep. I was so very tired. But as Scott had decided to stay up and not take a nap, I decided to at least stay up until he went to work. But, of course, it never works out that way.

Upon logging into EQ2, I was hit by a channel request of looking for healer and 2 more for Unrest. O.o Do I want to do that? Then Modex logged in. Asked him what he was doing and if he wanted to hit Unrest. He said sure and I sent the tell.

Get in group, zone in, and the leader says, btw hope everyone has about 4 hours to complete this. /jaw drops. Man it is 8:30 and I want to go to bed, but screw it, already committed myself, and I have been so looking forward to this zone.

Unrest. Kicks. Ass. I loved it. The puzzles, the layout, the nameds, and the rewards/loot. Over teamspeak, I kept telling Modex such things as: Omg, look at the house, it looks the same. And the hedge maze. The beetles, and the jack-o-lanterns and the ghouls, Yard Trash. We're clearing yard trash. Then of course we work our way around. Ah look the gazebo. The place to pull and avoid all the trains.

Then we go to the house. Remember pull from the left, as you don't want Torkler. (heheh) We do the puzzles, yada yada. And then the central room is opened and who do we lay eyes upon? Torkler, lol. Then of course, you go upstairs as well and clear among other things. Head to the basement. Damn, you still have to move the bookcase to get downstairs. The fog in the basement and then having to attack the doppelgangers of your group, rocked. Then we are clearing in the torture room and who should our lovely eyes see? But the festering hag of course. The number of times you could see her cast in the EQLive Unrest and in the trains, man, so cool.

The ending rocked as well. 9000k status earned (900 of it to the guild) and the class armor chest. Totally cool.

SoE, you did a really really good job on this zone, and I really hope to see more zones like it. That totally rocked!!!

Fine! I will fix it myself

2007-03-01T10:40:00.000-06:00

So, I get home on Monday night, and call ATI. Guess what? Customer support was already closed for the day. Flipping nice. So, I start google'ing(hmmm) and searching and find that the errors I am experiencing, can more or less be fixed with using the new catalyst 7.2 drivers.

Upon installing said new drivers, I get another error message, stating that I need to upgrade to .NET framework 2.0. No problem, just go to windows.com and download. So do that. After restart, I start getting an error regarding MOM.implementation. WTF???? Screw it, I am done. Log in EQ2 and see how Scott runs, and he seems fine. Crashed once, but all in all its okay.

Till last night. He crashed about every 20 minutes. So at 10pm last night, after he goes to work, I decided to see what I could do. And seeing ATI has no support (I don't want to wait for email, I am impatient) I go to microsoft and do online support. They tell me I need to contact Emachines. Fine.

Contact Emachines. What a nightmare that was. Damn. The guy spent 20 minutes asking all these questions, and told me to solve my problem, do a system restore. Umm, even if I do a system restore, I still have to upgrade to .NET framework 2.0 and install drivers for the video card. So you think I might end up with the same problem again? Anyways, I was pissed off at this. By now its 11:30 and I am frustrated and in tears and determined to fix this damn thing come hell and high water.

So, screw it. Did a little more google'ing (hmmmm) and decided my course of action. I did the system restore. If you want to believe that. Then before installing anything, I went to microsoft, went for the .net installation first. Oh do this first before downloading .net. Okay. Did that. Did .net install. Ran windows updater and had two fixes for .net to install. Done. Okay, before I mess with anything, lets restart. Restart, no errors, rock on. Create system restore back-up. :)

Next, video card. Go to ATI, download drivers, install drivers. All good so far. Restart. Then on restart the computer does some funky prepare to install, and installs something, and then states that there is new hardware (WTF???) and installs (ready??) the monitor. /boggled.

Okay. WTH, lets do another restart. Reboot like normal, and no error messages. HOT DAMN!!!! Okay, for gits and shiggles, restart again. Again, good restart and no errors, Woohooooo. Now its 1 am and I am dead tired, but again, YAY!

Now lets just see what happens tonight when Scott logs into EQ2.

Exercise: Monday, good. Tuesday, no clue what happened, but no. Wednesday, had to cover phones, so didn't get home until 8.

EQLand: Not much going on. Just been screwing around and have made zero progress on anything. :)

Weekend news

2007-02-26T12:18:00.000-06:00

Well, the weatherman was just a little off on his predictions for this weekend. Going from 1-3 in the afternoon and 6-10 overnight, to maybe an inch total. That's okay. I really didn't want to have to deal with a ton of snow right now.

We went out on Friday to the mall. Grabbed something to eat and then went to the play area where Trenton decided to terrorize his brother and get in trouble. Then, Nathan and another little girl ran head on into each other. It was horrible. Trenton did straighten out his attitude some. I don't know where it is coming from but it really needs to get out of here.

Also decided to upgrade Scott's computer. He has been having a problem crashing in EQ2, and then we noticed on a restart, that his computer was reading his video card at a 128 instead of a 256. hmmm. So we decided to just go ahead and get a new card and went with a 512. We are having some serious issues. It is not installing, keeps telling me that we need to get drivers for a VGA monitor set up. Am very confused. And instead of going with Nvidia this time around, we decided to try ATI. Did you know ATI does not have phone support on the weekends? They also do not have live customer support on the net. Really not cool. Will call them tonight and if it comes down to it, will take the damn card back and just get an Nvidia. Bah.

We also got him a 19" wide screen. (The same one I got for Christmas) God those monitors kick ass. Woohoo.

EQLand: Krys started working on Claymore this weekend. Up to keys to trust on her. Got the damn dragon language quest done (that sucked ass) and started all the HQ's that came out with EoF. Looked up the beginning of Swords of destiny quest line so I can start that when it goes live. And found another 8/9 quest line series that I want to do, but am curious as being a DE if I can. Corruption in the Faydark, I believe is the name of it. I am really needing aa's, lol. Also on Krys I still have hoolahs to do and I am on the trials portion of MoA. Also am now at 165 Transmuting. Not sure if that was mentioned last time.

With Zym, I am up to trading info on the claymore line. (don't really care about HQ's with her) I have started the dragon language. Spoke with the giant in Naggy's liar, but haven't been to Antonica yet. I really dread all the running around. Gained another AA, I think I am at 64 now. Did the nest and Vaults. Never been to vaults, I think resulted in a full AA point there.

Cant wait for Unrest, come on LU32!!!!!!!!!!

Disney on Ice

2007-02-23T13:20:00.000-06:00

OMG was that so much fun. The boys had an absolute blast. Nathan wasn't too sure about it at first though. He kind of hid his eyes and was peaking through his fingers. Once he decided that he liked it, it was great. He never stopped smiling and he clap with all his might.

Trenton liked it very much as well. Every time I got a glance at him, he had a cheesy grin on his face. hehe. The worst about it though, was leaving and not getting them any toys. I was not spending $20 for a toy that would be broken in several days. Not gonna happen, so we had a little fight about that.

Now Nathan wants to be able to skate on the ice as well. Which is fine by me, I think we might take them over to the ice arena this weekend, and see what he really thinks, lol. But I think that will be interesting as I have never been ice skating myself. hmmm

EQLand: Not a damn thing. Didn't play last night.

:(

2007-02-21T15:31:00.000-06:00

Well, yesterday was Nathan's first day at pre-school. And it was so bittersweet. I just can't believe that he is in school now. Let's see what happened. Monday night we talked about how he was going to go to school and play and have fun with all the other kids and teachers. He was also going to start to learn stuff, like numbers, colors, shapes, and the alphabet. He was so excited. Then I talked to him about the fact that momma was going to drop him off there and go back to work, and if that was all right with him. Of course he said yes.

Well off to bed they go. About an hour later I hear little footprints coming into the back room. I ask Nathan if he is too excited about school to sleep and he says he doesn't want me to leave him there, that I need to stay there with him at school. Poor baby. So he finally gets to sleep around 11pm.

The next morning he was so difficult to get up and I knew he was going to be tired. But we went about, got dressed, packed our backpacked and headed out on our way. He had to go to Mel's first, as his class is in the afternoon. So, I go and pick him up at 12:15 to get him off to school. Again, he is very excited but saying that I needed to stay with him. :(

We get to school, meet the teacher (no students in class yet) and he gets to look around. Then the bell rings and the kids start coming in. You can tell he is starting to get a little scared. But then he sees a friend of his named Dylan and things begin to calm down a little bit. He gives me kisses and hugs and says goodbye, but just stares at me with that don't leave look. Broke my heart. Took me about an hour to calm down and feel okay about it.

We go to pick him up, and there he is all little, sitting down in line, waiting for us to get him. Ask him how his day went. He says that they played shapes with the teacher, they played in the sand with the teacher, he had chocolate milk for snack, and then the teacher had to turn off the light and tell us be quiet so she could teach. After saying all that he promptly fell asleep. lol.

So all in all, his day went really well, and now I am waiting for Scott to call me and let me know how today went.

Nothing else going on in our land. Work is good, co workers suck ass. That's about it there.

EQLand: Well went on a raid to Labs with Zymeria the other night. Got a piece of armor (can't remember what it is for the life of me, right now). The raid kinda sucked. It looked like a pickup raid and boy did we do a lot of standing around. Last night I tried to work on the Claymore Quest with Krys, and well, we camped Bozar for over two hours and he never made an appearance. Suck ass. Although I did get Zephina to 65 Jeweler. YAY!!

Hi

2007-02-19T08:57:00.000-06:00

Well, I can't remember what I have typed and when, so I guess I will just start all over, lol. So what is going on? A whole lot and then some more. Let's do this the easy way :)

Nathan: Well after fighting, bitching and moaning, I finally got Nathan back into speech therapy after our insurance switch. Had to find a new therapist, and that sucked, but he is back in. I also had him tested out at the local pre-school. You have to have some sort of delay to get into this pre-school (yes I was going to use his speech, rather cheap of me, I know). Well we went for testing and they say he doesn't have a speech problem. Hmm tell that to the therapist and poor ole Han Trolo (aka Han Solo). And maybe the pretty little bubberplies (butterflies) would like some time in that sun as well.

Anyways after having a discussion with the schools therapist (a very heated one at that) they called me the other day. It appears they would like to keep an eye on Nathan's speech. So he starts pre-school tomorrow. I also spoke to Nathan's private therapist and she states what he has, besides 10 letter switches, is a lateral lisp.

Trenton: Is now a tiger cub, in the great Boy Scouts. He is liking it and having fun. 1st grade is treating him well. We had a few attitude problems, but it is getting much better now. As is his reading. He graduated his little individual reading program and is on par with the rest of the class. He is also one of the top in his class for Mathematics. Yay!!

Scott: Still working at Chrysler and still on 3rd shift. That's okay, works well for now. That's about all that's going on in his land.

Me: Not much going on here either. I quit smoking for a while. Started back up. I could not handle the voices, ARGHHHHHHH!!!! (haha) I started a work out program called T-tapp. I really really like it and it makes me feel really good. Go go me. Other that that, life around here is the same =)

EQLand: Well this might have the biggest updates. So I will just do a quick round up. Krystalea is now 70 Wizard/70 Sage/67 aa's/167 Transmuting. Zymeria is now 70 Defiler/70 Provisioner/61 aa's/18 Tinkering (just cant harvest that much, lol) Zephina - 64 Jeweler, Attalyne - 24(25?) Troubadour/53 Carpenter, Myrinna - 36 Conjuror/50 Weaponsmith and Arzania (my little fae) - 23 Swashbuckler/20 Woodworker.

Hidden Agenda (my guild) allied with another really small guild, called Tears of Blood and we have been having a blast. Its nice finally have a flippin competent group to do things. So right now we are working on claymore stuff and instances. Gonna see about getting help with Hoolah. I could use that hat, And also Mark of Awakening, really want that.

Can't wait for Estate of Unrest to go in, though. And the beginning of Prismatic 4.0. Another quest line, should bring good rewards and lots of aa's. Woohoo. I just wonder when the next expansion pack will be out. /ponders

Bah

2007-01-24T15:18:00.000-06:00

I am horrible, but I promise to not be so horrible about posting in the future. =)

Ohhhh

2006-10-09T10:09:00.000-05:00

I am still here. Rock on!!!

Happy Birthday!

2006-08-03T11:19:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday Trenton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of all the things, this boy is now 6 years old. Yay! /cry

We are doing his party in Darth Vader/Star Wars. Gotta love it. The party is Saturday.

Okay if I get the chance to talk about the summer I will, but I will just post things from here on out. Although I had to tell the lip story. God that still just breaks my heart.

Anyways, back to work. We are having a tax audit. Sounds like fun, eh??

EQUpdate: Krys is now level 70, and she is working on AA#33. Zymeria is now level 42, and has 4 AA's (maybe) I have also been working on my carpenter, i think she is about level 36/37 now. Should work on her at lunch today. Hmmm.

What fun

2006-07-25T09:12:00.000-05:00

Okay to catch up, hope I get everything.

The Young at Heart Festival. This marks the beginning of summer and never ending running, lol. It happens every Memorial Day weekend. Starts on Friday, ends on Monday. And it is about a three minute walk from the house. The boys just absolutely loved it.

So we have our game plan for the weekend. Seeing it is sooo close to the house, we have no choice but to go and go often. We get home that Friday night and you can hear the music and see some of the rides. Trenton and Nathan are just begging to go. So we tell then we have to eat dinner and clean out the wagon and we will head over. Woohoo!!! They are screaming and running and dancing, lol.

So we head over, and we tell Trenton that he needs to help Nathan here and there as this will be Nathan's first year of riding rides. We planned on riding rides, then grabbing a snack and heading home as the sun went down. So much for those plans.

The boys start riding the rides. The bouncing castle, the mini roller coaster, the elephants, the balloons, the train, the carousel, and then the teacups. Tis the teacups where all hell breaks loose. They were getting off the teacups and I was trying to get Nathan's attention as he was going the wrong way (just thinking about this makes my tummy turn). So Trenton saw that Nathan was going the opposite direction and tried to get him. As he reached for him, Nathan turned and all Trenton did was get a hold of his shirt. And then it happened. Nathan fell, and he screamed. I said "Shit!" (this is important, lol) and then I grabbed him and saw blood. Nothing else just blood, and he was screaming, I knew it was bad and the next thing I said was "Oh Shit!" really loud. Some lady says don't use that language and I think I sent about 4000 daggers her way. Lady, my kid is screaming and bleeding, fuck off. (HA! that told her)

I have no clue where first aid is, and neither did the carnis (who were dipshits anyways). So I grabbed Nathan and pressed his head to my chest and went running. I stopped for second to gather my direction and prayed that I was going the right way. Well, apparently I stopped right next to the firefighters association tent and thank god I did. I must have looked really frightened, plus I had blood all over me (was wearing a halter top type shirt, but better looking, lol. exposed much upper skin though) and they come running out. Now here is where I really freak out.

The first fireman takes Nathan (hugs him to help calm him down) from me, the second asks his name. Then they pull Nathan back so they can see his lip. OMFG his lip is totally split in half. I freaked out. They said lets go and I just start running after him. Run into Scott in this mess and yell follow me. We get to the first aid tent and I start to hyperventilate.

Anyways, they check him out, and get one of their golf cart thingys and Nathan and Scott head over to the walk-in clinic across the street. The paramedic comes over and tells me she saw no damage to his teeth or gums and that a few stitches and he will be fine. I, of course, in tears, but now a little more calm, say okay and turn to walk to go home, get the car and go to the clinic. She says wait and then says I need to be cleaned off. Huh? And I look down. I am covered, covered, in blood. Then I realize one very important thing.

Where is Trenton?

Apparently, he has been attached to my side this whole time. Poor thing. He, at this point, doesn't realize how hurt Nathan is, and asks to go on the rides, as I say we have to go home. And I say one more. He rides, I then tell him we have to go home and I have to go to the clinic to get daddy and Nathan. He looks confused. Then I tell him how bad Nathan is hurt and Trenton starts to cry. You see, he thinks he did this to Nathan.

He says that he was supposed to be watching Nathan and that he was not a very good big brother to allow him to get hurt and all that. OMG, I wanted to cry for him then. I felt really really bad for Trenton. He felt so bad, that he told me, that he did not ever wanna go bad to the festival. Ugh.

So we get home and my next door neighbor, Terry, is outside. Perfect. Terry watches Trenton while I head up to the clinic. On the way, I call my mom and dad to come over and keep Trenton busy, so not to bother Terry too long.

I got there right as they were about to start the stitches, and I could not do it. I had to sit outside of the building, so I could not hear him, then the nurse came and got me when they were done. I go inside to this little boy, with a quivering lip (5 stitches in total 3 of which are in his actual lip, not the skin around it), and hair soaked with sweat, and body drenched with sweat. So I picked him and we are getting ready to leave, doc comes in tells us how to treat it, and then Nathan pipes up.

"I wanna go ride rides!!!" This cracks us all up, nurses and doc, included. It didn't detour him one bit. We tell him its late and we can ride tomorrow and we need to go see Trenton now.

We get back to the house, where Trenton and my mom and dad are outside playing. Trenton gives Nathan a hug and then turns to my mom. My mom says the look on his face was fear and sadness. He looks at her and says "Can I spend the night?" In a kind of tone of voice of shame, scared, nervous, upset. The poor baby.

So there was our first night at the Young at Heart Festival. Good times, I tell ya, good times.

I am back

2006-07-20T13:52:00.000-05:00

I have taken a little hiatus. We have been extremely busy and on the go since Memorial Day Weekend.

Now I need to go and read where I left off, but heres a quick synopsis:

Young at Heart Festival
Nathan stiches in lip (OMG that was horrible)
Fishing, fishing, and more fishing
Lots of time at grandma's fishing and swimming
Milwaukee zoo
Scott on third shift
Me working on burnout
Krys - 70 wizard/70 sage/28 aa's
Zym - 39 Defiler/70 Provisioner/4 aa's (slowly working on getting her up before the expansion)
Trentons upcoming birthday
Trentons upcoming first day of first grade.
Nathans speech.

Been busy busy busy busy. Will be back =)

Gas prices

2006-05-24T09:13:00.000-05:00

I grabbed this off the eq2 forums. I think it is very appropriate.

Yuck

2006-05-24T08:59:00.000-05:00

I got my haircut last night. I dont like it. It is too short now. It was about mid back, now it is at my shoulders. It is too short. Think I said that already.

Babies got their hair cut as well. Nathan did much better this time around. He did not squirm or yell or hollar. He actually let Dana cut his hair. Trenton of course always does well with getting his hair cut. The thing with his hair is he has about 14000 colics in it. So it either has to be short or long. I really feel bad for this kid if he ever decides to let it grow out. Gonna be hell for a little while.

Nothing more pressing than that. Although if you watch House. OMFG. That was just totally unreal. I love that show. But the thing about this episode is it was a little more graphic than I really liked, lol. I can handle watching an open heart surgery on discovery, but that eyeball popping out, just really made my stomach turn.

EQUpdate: Didnt play last night, but I had dinged 68 on Krys, Monday night. Go go Cacotoxic Stain in Bonemire. Good place, I like.

Attack of the chocolate pudding

2006-05-23T06:11:00.000-05:00

Here is a clean Nathan:

And here he is after I had to go potty (he needs a haircut bad!!):

A few pictures

2006-05-22T16:56:00.000-05:00

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the big birthday present: The Big Wheel!!

Trenton taking the slide for the plate.

They stole my bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!! =)

This is one of my favorites, this is Nathan wanting to be like big brother and go to school.

No Internet

2006-05-22T08:13:00.000-05:00

My new goal for this next few months (like I can keep a goal ha!) is to keep this blog up. I did really really good when I first started this blog, which is commonplace for me, and then I began to trickle off, again, this is commonplace for me. And I knew it. Now I just need to work on that.

We went without interest for a total of 8 days. Insight Communications screwed up royally, so we had no net, and we got bored. So, Scott and I decided to tear a wall down. Really. Our kitchen is now 10X12 bigger, and OMG does that make a world of difference. It's wonderful.

The one thing about waiting this long to post, is I can never quite remember what the hell I did the past couple of weeks. So I guess I will just remember what I did this weekend.

My birthday was last Thursday. I am now the ripe old age of 31. =( Well, I guess its not that bad. I did end up with a new shirt, The Fifth Element (movie), Oceans Eleven (movie), The Black Eyed Peas (cd), and Kelly Clarkson (cd). Paranthesis for those not in the know.

Nathan turnes 3 today. Now that one really makes me sad /cries. He is doing very well. For his birthday, he got: 3 games for the Vsmile, baseball cards, a baseball outfit, a book, two movies, a Dora mat for the sprinkler, and then a big wheel. YAY!! I will get some pictures up tonight, actually. I still have to download them off my camera.

Trenton is Trenton. His last day of school is the 31st. I cant believe he will be out of kindergarten and on his way to first grade. Just unreal.

EQUpdate: Krys is 85% through 67. Makes me sad though, as she should be closer to 69 by now. Oh well. Worked on Zym a little bit, she is 70% through 69 Provie, no hurry though, I am sure just making food for myself will hit me to level 70 at some point in the near future.

Okay, I promise to start updating everyday =)

The snowball effect

2006-05-05T08:28:00.000-05:00

One day (actually, a week ago Sunday) my husband decided to fix a light out in the garage. Yup. Do you know what happened after that? Hahahahah

So anyways, he fixed the light, and now there was no power in the garage. So he went and started to rewire the garage. Ok. Well the washer/dryer are on the same circuit as the garage. He says no worries, we don't like the paneling in here, so I will just take that down and rewire a new circuit for the washer and dryer, and we can drywall the laundry room. Sure. Ok.

Well you know, I should fix this outlet on this wall (other side of the wall to the laundry room). Well we talked about taking this wall down anyways. Yup. Sure. Ok.

But now its almost done. We opened up the kitchen into the laundry room, which is now gonna be dining room. Will get pictures up, as soon as it is done. Gotta see if I have any before pictures. /ponder

Trenton has his root canal and crown done on Monday. No more screaming YAY. He feels much much better. Thank god. It was really starting to get very bad, the pain in this tooth. So bad to the point, that the two nights before the crown, he was up part of the night. I really wish they had a ER of Dentistry.

Nathan started his speech therapy on Tuesday, and had his hearing test on Wednesday. He passed that with flying colors. And speech I think is really gonna help. He needs to slow down. I think the majority of his problem is that he is speaking much quicker than his brain is thinking about forming the words. He slows down and you can actually understand what he is saying, even with 3 year old inflections (think thats the word).

EQUpdate: Krys is 66. Actually about 80% through, so I am hoping to see 67 this weekend. The acrylia changed for ad3's kinda pissed me off, and thats only cuz I sold three of those before the announcement on test. So actually, I am kicking myself in the ass for not saving those. =(

Zymeria hit 69 provie. Although, I never made food to sell. I think this tier I am, I was selling all my extras after handing stuff out to eyezes, modex and myself. Wow. Truly impressed. I just need to go on a harvesting session. Big harvesting session.

One other thing. Scott and I wanted to try out WoW, just check it out see what its all about. But they don't have a free trial. I guess they did at one point, but thats no more. So if you hear about another one, let me know, please? Thank you. =)

Its Coming

2006-04-26T09:18:00.000-05:00

Theres an update coming today, I can feel it. Nothing much going on, but I do need to get some pictures up. Okay one little cute story.

Last night, Nathan was eating candy. Now almost 3-yr-olds do not keep a clean face, and considering it was green candy, his face, and especially on the tip of his nose. Anyways, he has me drag him into the potty, and he does his thing. He turns around to walk out and stops. He takes two steps back, looks in the mirror, looks at me, looks in the mirror, looks back at me, and says "wat happen my nose?" Hahahahaha, remember he is a little slow on his talking (starts speech next Tuesday) But that just cracked me up, and to boot, he just really started asking lots of questiosn this week, and I mean TONS.

EQupdate: Short and sweet, Zym, 69 provie, Attalyne, now 31 carpenter. Krys is 66, and I think that about it. =)

YAY!!

2006-04-17T07:28:00.000-05:00

Well this past week has just been hell and back and ended with a bang. lol.

Let's see. A week ago Saturday was Scott's final interview with Chrysler. He called me as he got out of the interview and was on his way home. "Honey, they are gonna call me today with my schedule, pay rate, and start date" Woohoo. We both dance around and have a good day, till say, 1pm. They hadn't called. Sunday, no call. Very annoying. Scott had Tuesday and Thursday off, so he was starting to feel really anxious.

Had the phone forwarded to my cell phone on Monday, just in case. No phone call. We are making dinner and I say to him, "They are going to call you tomorrow." At this point, Scott is feeling a little sick (Worried), and I as well. To be this close to being out of Hellmart, and out of financial worries, is just too much to take.

Well about 10 on Tuesday, I call Scott to see whats going on. He says he is just playing EQ2 and is about to go take a nap. So we get off the phone and go about the rest of the day, or so I thought. He calls me back about 15 minutes later. My first question, was of course, I thought you were taking a nap? He tells me, well I was but, Chrysler just called and I have orientation tomorrow and I start work on Tuesday. WOOHOO WOOHOO.

But alas, that is a Wednesday and he has to work, oh dear, if he calls in sick he is sure to be fired, considering all the days he had taken off in the past two weeks, for Chrysler and the Post office. So he decideds to just do the right thing. He goes in and talks to the co-manager of the store and is upfront and gets things taken care of.

So Wednesdays bring orientation. 8 hours worth. I finally get to talk to him when I get home from work. He says they are in the process of switchign hours. IE going from 8 hr days to 9 hr days. And that they will call next week, and when they call, he starts the next day and of course this is all going to be second shift. Grrrrrrr. More anxiety. So then he himhaws about what to do with walmart. We get to talking and I tell him, that I think he should make Friday his last day, because he does not want to miss the phone call from Chrysler. And even if he doesnt work next week, the way paydates fall at walmart (every two weeks) versus Chrysler (every week) it wont hurt us at all.

So he going in on Thurs, tells Friday is his last day, he gets some crap about it. Hello????? $20/hr vs $8/hr. Hmmmm let me think. DuH!!! About 15 minutes later he calls me back, and says to write this down, So and so's name, h26 chassis, and then be there one hour earlier. And he starts Tuesday. "Oh and one other thing, hun. I will be on first shift" WHOOOPPPIIIIIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 20 minutes later, the whole roller coasters comes crashing, the tears finally end, the headache begins, and I want to just take a damn nap. But its all done.

He starts tomorrow. 45 hours this week. 9 hrs tues-fri and 9 and sat. Oh did I tell you that they pay overtime on a daily basis. After 8 hours a day, the rest are overtime. Did you know, that Saturdays are pure time and a half, regardless of how many hours you work that week. And Sundays are double time. Holy buckets of joy, batman. And next week, I think is 54 hours. Mon-sat. 9 hours a day. I think I am gonna cry again.
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Easter was good. Lots of candy, lots of fun. They boys were so cranky by last night, I wanted to scream, lol. But they were very good. I have a few pictures, they were being goofs. Will get them up soon.
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EQUpdate: I havent been playing much, my mind just too preoccupied with other things. This weekend went well. We grouped up Friday night and ran around Sanctum of Scaleborn, that was fun. Had a really good group as well. And I really want to group with Troubadors, a hell of a lot more.

Sunday, Scott played an alt, and he got into a group with them. I threw up LFG and went on my way. Okay, I am gonna go here and rant. Some guy in the Barren Sky was /ooc for a dps or a healer for Palance of Awakened. Now, I havent been there yet and I really wanted to go, so I sent him a tell. He says I am not high enough DPS. huh????????????????????? I am a 65 wizzy, my best damage spells are adept3 or master. and I dont have enough dps?????? Ass wipe. Ended up getting a group for the Nest, and dinging 66. Rock on, baby.

Hmmm

2006-04-07T10:40:00.000-05:00

Lots going on. Lets see.

Scotts final interview is at Chrysler tomorrow. 90% of them walk out with their schedule in hand. He also had another interview at the post office Wednesday.

Trenton had his tooth pulled yesterday. Today you would never know that the work had been done. Hes totally normal.

Nathan, well, is Nathan.

EQ, not too much going on.
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Scott has his final interview tomorrow at Chrysler. 90% of them walk out with their schedule in hand. He is so nervous. They called yesterday and said that he needed to be the walk in clinic today at 1 for a final physical and a pee test. He had to go into work today and request today and tomorrow off (on top of having Wed and Thurs off) and had a talk with his boss, stating personel problems afoot. He boss was cool with it. So thank god. He was so afraid (and I was a little as well) that he would lose his wally world job, trying to get into Chrysler.

So keep those fingers crossed.
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Trenton had his tooth pulled yesterday. He did allright. Although, he did scream and yell when we got home. I think the anestetic (lord knows I spelled that wrong) was wearing off. He was screaming, "I am never going back to the doctor again, you cant make me!!!!" Does not make you feel good.

So we put his lovely fallen (pulled) tooth under his pillow. And the tooth fairy brought him $2. Well Nathan didnt want to sleep well last night, so I went and laid with him, as I did not feel like fighting with him last night, (I was tired) and a few minutes later I here some noise coming from the top bunk. I look over and there is Trenton climbing down. He sees me look at him and begins waving his two dollars bills around, with a huge ass grin on his face. He was so excited. It was great to see.
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Nathan has been funny this past couple days. It has been very nice out as of late. So we have been playing outside alot. And the boy really loves baseball. Well Wed night, Scott was cooking a pork roast and went to add water to it, and it was cold water to a hot glass dish, so can you guess what happened? Yes yes we exploded. So I head outside and ask the boys what they wanted for dinner. Nathans answer.... "No. Play outside." Twice he said that. Bah. The whole night, thats all I heard.

Then the next morning we wake him and the first thing out of his mouth. "outside. Baseball." This is gonna be one interesting summer.

Nathan also started gymnastics last night. He did really good, except he kept wanting to do what the other kids were doing. As in, he kept taking off and going to other centers and not the ones you are not supposed to be at. He was really cute, though, and tried really hard to get everything done.
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EQupdate: Not much to update. The only day I played this week was Wed, and we went to scrawling cliffs and made a few $$.

Kids these days....

2006-04-04T14:27:00.000-05:00

"Trenton, what did you do in school today?"

"I forgot"

"I just picked you up. How could you forget that fast?"

"Mom, I took the memory card out of my brain, and put it away." (said in all seriousness)

Gotta love them =)

Ahh my poor Trenton

2006-03-31T08:22:00.000-06:00

I decided to switch dentists with Trenton, as I didnt particulary care for the dentist we currently had. Trenton has 2 fillings, and both of these kept falling out. I mean both, twice, in a six month time span. And he didnt use novacain to kill the pain, he just did the freezing gum thing and also no laughing gas. And in the 2 years he had been going, they have never taken an Xray.

So I decided it was time to switch dentist and see what a different one did. Well we chose a pediatric dentist. So his appointment was yesterday. OMG. Heres what we get to do in the next month:

Visit 1: A cleaning and flouride treatment. No big deal.

Visit 2: Extraction of tooth L, as it is abscessed and no way to save it. Joy! This was caught on the XRay, btw. This is also the tooth that has had the filling fall out twice. This will actually be done under general anestetia (god I know I spelled that wrong).

Visit 3: A Crown for tooth I. As it is abscessed, but savable. Joy! Also caught by the Xray. This tooth has filling.

Visit 4: A crown for tooth S. As it is abscessed, but savable. Joy! (notice the sarcasm in that). Also, alas, caught by Xray. This tooth has a filling. Which is not there at the moment, because the last dentist, pulled it while she was flossing his teeth, and they decided he could wait a month before it was refilled. Wha????? (That was the clencher of changing dentists) Also, at this appointment, we will have one of his molars filled.

Visit 5: We get to get two more molars filled.

Visit 6: We get fitted for a spacer for the tooth that was extracted.

Visit 7: We get the actual spacer placed, and we are all done. YAY!

Now this is gonna cost us almost $1700, and thats with insurance, covering a good portion of it. I feel so bad for this poor baby. Makes me wanny cry. Okay, well, I did cry. Dammit he is only 5, why the hell does he have to go through this, and hopefully this is not a precursor to the rest of his life and teeth. Gah.

EQUpdate: Did not play, was not in a mood too. Although I was playing Luxor on the zone.com.