Two, and three.

And we're back. Left Waco, TX at 2:30 a.m. yesterday and drove into LC at 2:30 p.m. So 13 hour drive. I cannot comment at all about our homecoming because I am being positive, not negative, and if there's nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. Highlights of our trip: 1. (I'm numbering because I like to be tidy) The Orclette, after watching LOTR with my brothers (my mom covered her eyes at the appropriate moments), picked up her new toy spatula and told us that she was going to fight the bad guys with her stick. How cute is that? 2. The Miniorc smiled his awesome cute smile at everyone and let grandparents and friends hold him (the Orclette at his age decided that only momma and daddy were worthy to hold her awesomeness). 3. Damm forgot his beret and had to buy a new suit for his brother's wedding. 50% off at Sears. And he looks smashing . I need to see about posting a picture of that ... 4. I got Kat Von D. makeup at Sephora. I LOVES IT LOVES IT LOVES IT. W...

A picture of me in my new gear: And Ruune isn't going to believe this.

Isn't that what Peter Pan said? Or something similar? Anyway, it's 6:50 a.m. here in Houston, TX. No one is stirring, except for me. I am the first one awake. It really stinks to have a house full of adults who want nothing better than to sleep in. I seem to be hardwired to wake up early no matter the day so here I am, staring at the pretty tree with all the presents. And the Miniorc just started crying. I bet he wants to open presents.

Since I can't draw on Miniorc or Orclette.

You know how lots of people gain poundage over the holidays because of all the yummy goodies that are circulated at this time of year? I have never been one of them. I have self-control. I eat the yummy desserts on Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's it. Except this year. My parents and brothers are all trying to get me fat. Which is sad because there was potential for weight-loss: One of the fun things I do with my parents is go along to their YMCA (my mom teaches yoga, is a lifeguard and triathlete coach, my dad is also a triathlete coach) and workout with them. So I've done yoga, Spinning classes, and of course running. Had to try out my spiffy new red shoes with the awesome pink socks. They (the socks) cost $14. For one pair. Worth it though. Anyway. My brother Alden and I went to see a movie last week and he, out of the kindness of his heart, bought me a pint of eggnog and smuggled it into the theater. I could not refuse, he had bought it without asking and of his own initi...

So at my in-laws house... we ran out of spoons. And I needed PBJ. So in light of recent discussions I felt I should report on the experience. It was horrible. The knife repeatedly failed to get the right amount of jelly. And then spreading it was just... wrong. No curved spoon to spread it just right... instead a silly flat surface that did -nothing- for me. Fortunately PBJ is such a great food that it overcame these huge glaring problems and I had a respectible sandwich. But IMAGINE. I could have had an amazing sandwich. Sigh.

Came a bit early. But I'm really grateful for my inlaws buying me new running shoes. My previous ones had a huge hole in the right foot.

I gained a ton of honor. I think about 4-5k worth. I -know- I gained about 700k xp off of two dailies and then battlegrounds. I ran AV and AB over and over for about 4 hours. And I healed my everliving heart-out. I'm no longer feeling invincible... enough rogues and mages ate me up to dispell that feeling...but I -am- feeling awesome. I was complemented several times and happily lead healing in every BG where I was there from the start. The last one is always the most memorable but this one more so then some. Picture this: AV score 250 to 250 or so. Alliance charges drek. Gets him to about 40% and then the tank drops... a wipe... except? Every single one spawns ... at Dun Blargrhrjmmdjklj way the heck up north. Yeah.... The furthest graveyard from drek...and 30 alliance players find themselves there.... zero near drek. So we say screw it and just mass out and meet them on the road. And for 40 min or so it seemed slug it out. We win on points...after we get 250 points 1 k...

The Orclette in an outfit her mother once wore. She is in a marvelous mood this morning wanting "some more" and "to run with mommy"(after I showed her mommy's toon and she saw it running through SW). And yay 8/8 of my Battlecaster set! I have a FULL SET THAT MATCHES. I have arrived.

But don't panic. Anyways. Love the tree. Love 3 hordies(hunter, rogue, warlock) trying to kill me for 5 min while I sat and healed through their dps. Just them...and me.... and my treeness. Walked away with a 1/0 WG win. Yay for us healers(there were 3-5 of us) and our indomitable healyness. Oh and I rocked the charts with double the healing of anyone else. Those first 5 min may have helped I think. Innervated twice. Happy days. Anyways... I hate the fact that the LFG tool won't let me create a party with level 80's and join the random dungeon. Any time we've tried we've ended up just sitting and being told over and over that one or more members do not match the requirements for the dungeon. And yes we are NOT on heroic. Ended up doing Occulus by me being leader and selecting it(not random) and ToC by walking to the instance and jumping in.

I got to heal a regular ToC. I've healed some Drak'a'ma'blah'blah instance. And I continue to heal battlegrounds. I can actually claim to be a healer. Parallel has been a wonderous guild so far very relaxed. I'm fairly happy with staying on server. My druid now has 5/8 Overcaster Battlegear and has over 1k spellpower in treeform unbuffed. And thats it. I've got to hold munchkins and do holiday things.

We made it to Houston visitin Ishvi on the way. His fiance is charming and the orclette and Wulfa both fell in love with her. My priesty is level 8 now. Yay! Watched Alien. It was interesting as I had already read the book and watched a few of the other books. I'm enjoying vacation even if Texas is making us cry tears of longing. We really wish we had stayed but there isn't any way now we could be back in the next four years. Going running tomorrow and doing a lot of pushups. Spent a lot of time talking with my brother-in-law about the US and our world cup draw and possible crazy situations(like US meeting Mexico in the final which is theoretically possible but so incredibly NOT happening). And now I have to give wulfa the laptop.

We will be logging in a lot less frequently until after the holidays. My brother is getting married and we will be driving about 1700 miles round trip to visit him and wulfa's family. We will still log in and will be back after this but until then.... Enjoy your holidays. New blog looks continue to sneak in as well.

The Orclette has been sick very infrequently. At least until we moved here. The Miniorc has been to the doctor more times than the Orclette already in the 4 months since he's been born. And last night he got croup. I had noticed he had a lot of junk in his nose so I cleaned it out (a process he hates) and then he coughed. A nice, barking sound. Hadn't heard it before. I knew it was croup so we got the humidifier going and I looked it up on the interweb to see if we needed to rush him into the ER. Answer was no but sitting in the bathroom with the hot water running was recommended. I did that. We were having fun. He thought the whole being awake thing was awesome. Then a geyser of spit-up came out all over me. Fun time over. After that he seemed to be breathing without laboring so we went back to sleep. And he seems fine this morning. Due to a lack of sleep this post is a bit choppy in tone. At least it seems so to me. I also seem to have morphed into my dad and type two letters...

We made another fort. I have been instructed to stay "in here daddy with me". Shaman changed a lot in the time I've been playing alliance. I like the new totem thing. I also like wind shear... I don't remember having it anyways. All in all very happy with it(ele right now). Really want to play my shaman again but on Lightninghoof I know no one anymore now that Herk has gone idle. Playing without friends is blehg. Really wish my bonus would come in so I could make my shaman alliance and move him wherever I am going to be.

As a treat this post we will offer two versions. My version(with royal we): To everyone who has been commenting and reading about our guild situation: We are still trying to decide between looking for a new guild on our server and transfering off. We are still talking with friends who are in the guild to see what is happening there. In short... we have not decided anything. Dear Stephi and Fio. We are currently deep in negotiations with the Wulfa. We have several close friends on the server we are on and do not wish to just abandon them(some of them even came to our server because we were there)(some means one that we know of). At the same time we've found in our visits that Hidden Flame is a fun guild and we don't want you to feel like we are ignoring you. Oh and she has no excuse... she kinda surprised me mid thought and I thought the dress was "cute". How was I supposed to know that wasn't the response she wanted... my mouth was on auto and doesn...

Quoted from gchat: me: WHAT WAS THAT GUILD NAME? Ishvi: Huh? me: the guild that you were going to recommend Ishvi: Ah right Kung Fu Ninja Bang me: you serious? that name is horrible Ishvi: Yeah Talk to Meatbeef me: o.0 Ishvi: Yell BEEFCAKE at him and then tell him Ishvi sent you me: I'll... try that... maybe In their defense Ishvi said they were really fun smart people.

"I need to hold chu"(translated: I need to climb in your lap) Drill this weekend was slow but fun. Wulfa got to meet most of my new chain of command and there was a christmas party. "Daddy I'm coming to get you! Daddy I coming."(translated: I need to climb on your lap again) "I know"(without any response from me = I'm in your lap) In WoW, Kitsen(who doesn't have a blog I think)(I hope because I'll be embarrased not to link her if she did), forced me to level by explaining how fun sholozar is. 90% of that fun is nessingwary. I tried to find an old post explaining my love for his expiditionary force but couldn't. "I wish I need food"(Translated: I smell the food mommy is cooking and I want it now) Which led me to: Can anyone help me add a search thingy to my blog so that I could search my blog for items without having to click all the way through the addons? PLEASE TELL ME. "da da da da da uuuuuuuuh"(translated: co...

So I was watching People Magazines little Time videos of stars/starlets and how they've changed over the years. The Orclette was watching as well. Turns out she likes Britney Spears and Katie Holmes but does NOT LIKE Lindsey Lohan. Go figure.

I have drill this weekend. My two year old daughter upon seeing me pull out my uniform ran over and started crying and yelling "don't leave me don't leave me". We had a long hugging session and explained that I wasn't leaving her. Everything is happy now. As an update to my previous note we now own: Peta abbit. and Max and Wuby. To go with Poo Beh so I don't have to overdose on Poo Beh so much.

POOH I have watched this every day since I got back. Sometimes 3 times a day. My birthday present is a new movie.

Me and Wulfa are now guildless. This came as kinda a shock and with no communication from the deciding party. I'm currently looking for a guild for us. We are not "raiders" and will never be. We do research our gear and fights and in general our classes. We are looking for a guild that we can be a part of, chat with, and not be expected to raid or be on specific times. I think that means we're looking for a "social" guild. We are primarily alliance but once finances get squared away(aka my bonus arrives) we could possibly convert to horde. If anyone knows of any guilds that they would recommend please let us know.

TJ interviewed Pajamas and Pajamas said: MM: Not being afraid to look like a nutjob? Check. And can I say? Your blogroll? Reads like some kind of Blogger Rock Star Hall of Fame. I want to be on it, and not just because being on the same Blogroll with the Bloggess gives me a bloggasm. I'm on that I just want everyone to know. I'm a BLOGGER ROCK STAR HALL OF FAME. Pajamas seems cool even if she sounds very much like a Wulfa blog. BUT... her comment under her blog title?.... AMAZING. And I quote: Pajamas and Coffee Where mediocrity kicks perfection's ass.

Sunfei is my newest toon. A human DK on Kael'thas. I love wearing plate. I love chopity big weapons... until I start doing things with lots of people... melee dps or melee pvp sucks. Sorry. But until I try that again I'll be happily loving my DK. My hunter... my dear sad stuck hunter. Level 52... is the suck. You aren't in Outlands yet... your gear looks horrific. You simply have no where fun to kill. Life is suck. I've been too afraid of the suck to even spend your talents. Yeah. Even though I WANT A RANGED DPS TOON SO I CAN DO FIVEMANS. (Balance druids are UGLY ELK-CHICKEN-BEARS and have healing spells which constantly I feel the desperate need to use.... too bad no one brings along undergeared extra healers....) Dear Bell, this is the one nice thing about being a dps.... when you are 3 levels too small... people invite you because you are still better than nothing. An extra low level dps in a 5 man... is -almost- as good as another hunter pet.... an extr...

For my birthday so far we have made a fort! And washed Dishes! And found our silly sunglasses! And sung along to Skillet, Within Temptation, Nickleback, 'pocket full of sunshine', and Jars of Clay. I've had so many ideas for posts in the past 48 hours that never made it to writing because I was too busy being a dad. Even as I write this miniorc is fussing. That is him in the picture above. Dammerung should always check the history of payments before freaking out. When he did rent had been paid up for the next two months already. This was pointed out to the landlord and the previous posting stuff deleted out and edited. School scheduling is great. I have EXACTLY the classes I wanted to take this semester: Chem I, Calculus I, Physics II, and a class that looks like the engineering version of C++.... not really sure but it is the base requirement for all my EE classes. Speaking of EE... I still haven't actually changed my major. The lady I need to talk to hasn't...

I've seen New Moon twice now. Oh, I'm sorry-I've seen Twilight Saga New Moon twice now. At least the very long name gives me a legitimate reason to say "ticket for one, Twilight please" without looking like a forgetful idiot. The first time through my first and oft repeated thought was "wow this is slow ." But then I got home and remembered that the book itself is slow. The scenes with Aro and his posse were pretty awesome though. And the wolves. They did a really nice job with the wolves, in my opinion. And the changing from human to wolf was believable and not super-obviously graphics (I need to work on my adjectives. Super-obviously? I need to re-enroll in college. Oh wait, I did. /squeel of glee). They also made the whole diamond skin thing more obvious. The first movie it looked like he had put on some glimmer makeup whereas in this one he is SPARKLING. And the eyes? SO much better. And the super-fast movement and lightning reflexes had by both va...

I have only one tactic: 1)Gently bounce crying kid. 2) Sing the following: Hush little baby don't you cry. Daddys going to sing you a lullaby. If that lullaby won't sing. Daddies going to buy you a diamond ring. If that Diamond ring won't shine. Daddies going to buy you a lowing kine. If that lowing kine won't low. Daddies going to buy you a buffalo If that buffalo won't roam. Daddies going to buy you a brand new phone. If that brand new phone won't ring. 3) Repeat the italics until kid is asleep. I will do this for up to an hour before I find the need to try and come up with new lyrics or swap tanking with Wulfa.

This is thanks to the AllPlayed addon from ace addons that Tobold mentioned in his post today.

Lessee.... where to start. First... I know a certain hunter... who recently hit 80... who asked me to clean up her bags because she hadn't played in so very long. And when I did... I saw she was still wearing all her gear from level 70. 0% upgraded. I whined about this. She's in the process of upgrading now :P(this was going to be a much more detailed and longer post.) Second. I respecced Balance and am fidgetting around with it. My talent tree. is... ick. even for a 'just for leveling' tree. I just sped through it slapping down points in things that looked shiny. Third. My bonus still hasn't come in from the Army. I'm saddened by this and can only hope it hits soon. Fourth. Texas A&M lost and didn't get blown out. I am sad and happy at the same time. We only lost the game because of a few key mistakes. The interception we threw in the endzone. The fumble after we stopped TU and made them go 3 and out. The missed fieldgoal at the end. Thr...

This is all of us after a long and triumphant battle against the forces of the universe that were conspiring to destroy "picture day".

Damm and I missed quite a few movies while he was away at basic/AIT. I managed to see Star Trek , Transformers 2 , and GI Joe but I missed everything else. Including the movie Up . But I need to include some info you might need. We watched GI Joe last night. Just ourselves-kiddos were with grandma. It was wonderful. And Damm was talking about the movies he'd like to see and they were action films so the Orclette wouldn't get scared, right? Haha. Just haha. So he compromised and we rented Up . We thought it was going to be funny, uplifting, etc. I mean, Doug the dog saying "I have just met you and I love you." Funny. Old man + young boy=funny. Supposedly anyway. But instead=poignant story of two young kids falling in love and spending their lives together. Then she dies. And not only dies but dies when he was going to present her with tickets to their lifelong dream vacation destination. IT IS SO WRONG WHEN TWO TOUGH ADULTS ARE BROUGHT TO TEARS BY A KID'S MOVIE. ...

Coming back from Basic I thought it would be really easy when I got home because I was used to waking up early and I had so much more energy from being in much better shape. All the married people with kids who are reading this... check that again: I thought it would be -easy- to come home to my wife and two year old and 3 month old and fall into a nice routine where everything was organized. So now that that has failed to happen I'm stuck trying to get something that works. I've thrown off my wife's organization and I've utterly failed to bring anything to the table. Well, she carries the kids less than she used to. To add to this Orclette has been SICK. She has thrown up a couple of times, is on antibiotics for stuff in her breathing areas, has a fever every other day etc. So keeping the house clean is considered a good day. And it shouldn't be. Wulfa was keeping the house clean with sick kids even. With me here we should have increased what we were gettin...

Thanks to dubiously awesome hunter sources: Wulfa go to: http://www.wow.com/2009/07/08/hunter-gear-for-the-level-80-beginning-raider/ Whee. One more item off my list of things to do for Wulfa now that I'm back.

And hasn't posted anything so... I'm one uping him. Ishvi(who is fully retired from WoW). Ishvi asked someone. Someone said yes. So yeah. If you know him via other means.... you should congrats him. (my mother fussily pointed out he's only had 22 hours to spread the news)

So Damm came home late Thursday night. It was and is wonderful. Both Miniorc and Orclette seemed to bond right away and last night I caught him fussing over Miniorc's cold head (I don't know if anyone but a mother would understand but it was really endearing to me). As for myself ... I think I learned a lot during his absence: mainly how to be independent. I lived with my parents until I got married and then lived with Damm. And during his training not only was I by myself but I was the sole caretaker of not one but two kids. Hooah (or however you spell that. I still can't say it right)! I be Army Strong. And so it's a bit difficult for me on some levels to adjust to not being alone anymore. On the other hand, having someone to take out the trash so you don't have to: priceless. And it was a HUGE relief to hand over the reins of responsibility. Not all responsibility, you understand, just the bits I didn't like :D And now life can resume. It's really odd loo...

It is so easy to top the healing charts in battlegrounds. This tells me that I'm effectively the only one healing. Because I'm not good at this and I'm always at the top(3 of 3 battlegrounds). Just got done with AV. Someone capped? a FW? and this led to the game taking forever? I dunno. We were up 430 to about 100. We won 202 to 0. The last bit from 430 to 202 was a long long stretch of me running into this tower thing.... healing for long times... then getting wiped out by a sea of red. I'd ask what to do to keep myself alive more but.. when you suddenly have 8 curses and 4 of whatever the DK thing is and 5 pets on you and this beast of a warrior thing... well you stop asking what killed you. Pike . I'm going to just point Wulfa at this and tell her to copy the talents seen there. She was wanting a BM build. And I trust you enough that I figure yours is the best I'll find. Also based on your latest post thingy on the subject I've recomended wol...

I get to go to -my- church. At Ft. Gordon we had a chapel but I didn't feel comfortable going there. Not sure why. I'll be glad to get back to church. After church is dinner at my mom's house. Currently watching Winnie the Pooh with the Orclette. She is fascinated. Yep thats all. oh yeah. i just figured out why I didn't have nourish. :)

So my account is now active once more. People can see my armory page again. I played one EotS game. I was top on healing. We lost despite being up by more than 100 points for the vast duration of the game.... I was too busy healing to really know what went wrong. I'm sure that once I get used to the game again I'll be able to do more than just wander around and heal heal heal. As for healing I'm going to have to adjust my buttons a bit. I have all my keybindings so that at least 15 if not more of my spells are simply a button press for my left hand. Shift/ctrl add to that number. However the choices of spells for those keys are NOT optimaized and that will simply take a few more battlegrounds. For example I had completely not used lifebloom because it wasn't keybound at all just sitting in my spellbook. Same with swiftmend?(the spell that burns the duration of regrowth and other hots to instantly heal someone). Getting xp for the battleground was a dream come tr...

I feel kinda sick still and am tired from sitting at the airport ALL DAY yesterday. BUT I'M SO HAPPY TO BE HOME YOU JUST DON'T KNOW. WULFA IS SO AMAZINGLY GORGIOUS AND ORCLETTE IS CUTE LIKE CRAZY AND TALKS SO MUCH AND MINIORC IS FAT AND CUTE AND HAS A SMILE OF AWESOME. Anyways this post is about my utter fail at redesign of blog. I was going to actually come up with colors that matched and swirly design things and stuff like that. Instead. Well you have the blue. I hate the blue but am not going to try and fix it on this computer so it will wait until Wulfa gives me back the laptop. Which is never. But that is okay because we are GOING ON A DATE tonight. Yeah we really are. I'm excited and stuff. Uhm thats all.

AT 835 TONIGHT DAMM SHALL BE HOME.

(Orclette. Or Elflette since we are now Alliance): "Mama I need salad." (Me): "I don't think you'll eat it so I'm not going to give you any." (After a moment's thought by me): "You know what? I'll give you vegetables. Since you're actually asking for them." And of course she eats it. I'm having guilt thoughts that I almost deprived my child of nutrients. It's hard being a mother.

I've read many books about personalities over the years. Well, read is maybe too strong of a word. Perused would be better. And I've taken the tests to determine what mine was and also went through those checklists to determine what my family was. For those of you who haven't spent valuable time on personality research there are four categories (that I've read of anyway): 1. Sanguine: people person, difficulty in keeping focus, they like shinies, etc. 2. Melancholic: pessimistic, sensitive, prone to withdraw, really likes schedules. 3. Choleric: born leaders, tendency to stomp over obstacles, not compassionate, always right. 4. Phlegmatic: easy-going, needs direct motivation, basically is perfectly happy sitting on the sidelines watching life happen. My hubby is sanguine-melancholic. I am choleric-melancholic. And I was talking to a friend the other day and she was describing her personality. And I said: "I've got the ability to lead. I'm really good at it...

I commented like 5 times this week. So I'm totally a comment-a-tee r. Also I've linked someone like every other post. Seeing as I'm me and sitting in the library on post with wet shoes and no Wulfa I feel obligated to let everyone know.

Okay. So I cannot currently call myself a healer as I haven't played in ages. But when I play, and when I group/pvp healing is what I do. DPS/tanking is never as satisfactory as keeping someone alive to taunt the enemy. And since Bell pointed me at Miss M------- . I saw this thing . And decided to answer it. Also Miss M. I plan on leveling a holy priest first when I get back thanks to spending my bored library time reading your blog. Well, after I get Dampanza squared away which hopefully won't take that long. Then after that happens(if I don't get stricken by the alt-it-is that is so common to me) I shall move over my Shaman into dwarfness and have THREE HEALIES. What is the world coming to? I dunno. Its not like I'll ever have time to raid. Heck Damp won't even get to 80 until about 3 weeks after cata-mis-im comes out most likely. But THREE HEALIES. A me can dream. * What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Dampanza -----Druid --...

It is raining. Thats all I really have to say :P. I'm going to go back to waiting for Thursday.

I ran all over the post today trying to get my outprocessing done as fast as humanly possible. I was completely done with everything but the very last briefing at 1400 today. At which point I was informed I have to wait until 0700 on Thursday for the briefing. I am not a happy person regarding this news.

I really really want to change up our blog's design and name and am torn about how is best to do this. I want to shift from the Horde based color/name that we have now to a much more druid/wild/night based one. I've mentioned this before in the last couple of weeks and am only coming back to it because I'm getting ready to go home and trying to plan out everything I want to get done. For those of you who have swapped blogs before or changed major themes any thoughts? Any steps to make it less work? Please pipe up. As for coming home here is a brief run down of my schedule(posted here for my benefit more than anything else) Day 1: Hang out with Wulfa, Orclette, and Miniorc. Wait for Orclette to get used to me again so that she'll let me hold her. Try to adjust to Miniorc. Wait for dinner when I get two hours alone with Wulfa. Day 2: Report to unit?(not sure on exactly when this has to happen but will know before I leave). Clean house and unpack. Day 3: Sit down w...

"I'm terrified of being an adult while at the same time I really, really want to stop being a dependent." - That rings terribly true to me. I have 8(19 yay for 15 min extra) min remaining on my computer session at the library here. So I don't really have time to come up with anything deeply interesting. Being at home with infinite computer time(if not infinite free time) will make writing things easier. I danced around Bell's blogs today which was yay. She's fun reading. Life here at Basic and AIT has slammed into my soul the need for music. One of my hopes and dreams for my upcoming BIRTHDAY AND CHRISTMAS is a music playing thing that everyone else in the world seems to have. One of the ones with buttons that have headphones. And that is about it. I'm off to go find something better to do now... like stare boredly at the ceiling and call Wulfa to whine about not being home yet. Falling in the black, slipping through the cracks Falling to the depth...

So I'm about 6 days away from home. I've got my shiny shamshield badge(I'd show you if I had a way of getting that picture to the interweb). I passed my PT test on monday(I saw that Wulfa posted about it). I finished up my dental on Friday(no longer a dental class three and am cleared to go home). So as long as all the rest of my paperwork is good on this upcoming Monday I will be out of here thursday night or friday morning. Graduation itself is Thursday. So I went out last night. Something I generally am loath to do and avoid thanks to a deep aversion to watching other people drink. I don't. Drink that is. I just don't like the taste of that stuff. So I'm out. With people. At a restaurant. Eating what Georgia calls mexican food. Generally having a good time. I sipped a Bud Light(I'd never tried one)(It tasted nasty like all drinks of that nature). My battles were amazingly upset about the fact that I don't drink. Shock and astonishment ...

It's not even December but already I'm summing up this past year. Last night my opinion was this: 2009 STUNK! But that's because I woke up FREEZING and achy which are symptoms of the flu. I was not happy. And taking a nice hot shower at 2 a.m. with two young ones is not fun. It did, however, raise my temperature and now I feel like I'm running a fever. Before 2009 I got sick maybe once a year. Usually it was a doozy of a sickness. But again, just once a year. This year I got sick with upset stomach/flu in January, February, and March. And then the whole pregnancy thing. I know it's not a sickness but you sure don't feel at the top of your game those last 3 months. And then getting mastitis, then thrush, and then waking up last night feeling crappy. Oh and taking care of the Orclette and Miniorc who also got bouts of sickness. But ... I started school again. The Miniorc smiles ALL the time and constantly looks around for me (which is very endearing). Damm is maki...

The cousin who was ill is on the upswing I think. His parents are on their way down to see him/talk to doctors and all that good stuff. Damm passed his PT test :D He was on Cloud 9 this morning when he called me (really early in the morning). Everything is set for him to graduate now. The Orclette is scared of Land Before Time . I figured "Sharptooth" might be a bit scary but I wanted to see her reaction: "Momma it scary. Turn it off. We don't watch it!" I'm stepping up my efforts to filter what she watches. But when you consider Bambi to be a lovely kid's film and forget that there is a tragic death scene ... sigh. I hate that I've accidentally given my kiddo bad images that are now dancing around in her head. Miniorc is 15 pds and not quite 3 months old. He's currently fitting into 6-9 month clothing. At least he's not too fat to sit upright like his daddy (Damm was 6 months and 25 pds? I think. Huge. Which frequently happens with breastfe...

I have a cousin I'm fairly close to who currently has ' Toxic Shock Syndrome ' or TSS. He is extremely ill and despite being an overly outgoing person is now turning down hospital visits because he simply isn't up to talking with people. Any and all prayers would be greatly appreciated. The good news is: He is not in the ICU (which means that multiple organs have not failed- probably no organs have failed); he's in a big hospital which is better for someone who has this sort of thing and lots of people are praying .

The dental stuff has gone much better than expected. I got a tooth pulled today and two fillings and was given an appointment for Tuesday to get the final three fillings. I was expecting to get two fillings, get told I had to do a root canal(three appointments all told for just that) and having to spend about 1-2 weeks showing up at 7:30 for "on call" to try and get in when someone didn't show to their appointment. This is obviously much better. PT... well I was on track kinda but haven't gotten any today or most of yesterday. Can't do PT again until after tomorrow because dentist is afraid I will burst open whatever he did when he pulled my teeth. I think I'll just ask the Sargents to smoke me when I go to my final FTX. That should be enough. I'm off profile tomorrow tomorrow. This is very yay. I'm praying that nothing will happen to jack me up again. Being a PT stud was one of my dreams for basic but due to the three month hernia profile th...

So I'm proceeding decently on the PT front. My PT test is on Monday the 9th of November. I graduate the following day and HOPEFULLY go home. Any and all prayers are welcome. The end of the training is so much better as Sgt's are finally starting to treat us like well... people. So if my classmates don't manage to screw it up for us by abusing this treatment life should be pretty chill until the end of training. (And if I do get held over for Dental or PT then I don't have to deal with the Sgt's so much as just constantly be working to get those two things fixed). Hmm... its $30 to change Faction. And $25 to change servers. So to move my Orc Shaman over to Kael'thas would cost me $55 + tax. hmm. No longer certain that it is worth it. *quiet whimper* Maybe... I really really want to have access to a bookstore and be able to read certain new books that are out. Uhm... bother. That is it for now. I've got a battle buddy waiting on me so I'll be ...

When I was 6 I think I had fun playing with my brother. That means I only have to make it another 3 years til the Orclette and the Miniorc start to have fun together. At the moment, their day goes like this: 6 a.m.: Miniorc wakes up, needs food. I feed him then meander out to the living room because my awesome coffee maker has made my coffee for me (the preset option:). 6:10 a.m.: The Orclette wakes up, discovers that I'm not in the room with her and proceeds to wake the entire apartment building with her bellows. Oh, she also woke up the Miniorc who was sleeping peacefully in his bassinet. 6:30 a.m.: Miniorc is finally asleep again on my shoulder. The Orclette and I are watching t.v. Suddenly the Miniorc starts squirming and then starts crying. Turns out the Orclette got bored and started poking him with her cold fingers. And so on and so forth. I know it'll get easier once Damm is here to run interference (14 days), but at the moment there are many many times that I wish I co...

So this weekend I've been on lockdown with little or no time to do anything other than formations, inspections and bay maintenance. Joys. Wow is going to be starting again soon. All you friends who we've neglected so long I hope you are still around. Wulfa should be starting again this week and I should be starting again in about 2-3 weeks. We are debating a blog change to an alliance theme as the coming Worgen have forever stolen me away from the horde. Yay and stuff. And that is about it. Time to go. Laters.

As I've mentioned before, the Orclette cried the first 3-4 months of her life. And right now I'd describe her as "strong-willed," "determined," "pushes boundaries." And so on. And at the same time she's usually cheerful and adorable. Which was done on purpose by God, I'm sure, because otherwise she'd have been shipped off to grandma's house by now :D (a threat my mom used on us for years. It worked: at Grandma's house we had to help muck out the horse stalls ;) And nowadays I read several "mommy" blogs. And I am not being critical. But they'll describe their mornings and they'll mention dealing with all of it before coffee. Because of crying children. And that's one of the worst (i.e. heartbreaking) sounds in the world (unless you are the Orclette and 2 1/2. You can wait). You want to stop the crying, fulfill whatever it is they need. But that's where I thank the Orclette. I could not stop her crying (...

Some days the world crashes down on you and you're able to do nothing else but keep your head out of the deluge gasping for breath. That was yesterday. I had been experiencing some health issues that coalesced and started MAJOR SCARY THOUGHTS in my head Sunday/Sunday night. Monday morning I was like a zombie from a combination of symptoms/stress/plain tuckered-outness. So I call the doctor and they don't have room for me. Just loverly. Then Damm calls and says that he doesn't have a PT test on file which means he can't graduate which means he'll be home later than we had expected. Then I drove to m-i-l's choir performance and really scared myself with how out of it I was and how I probably shouldn't have been driving (this actually happened before Damm called but whatever). Then things started looking up. Doctor's office called to tell me they could squeeze me in. Male doctor though. I don't like going to male doctors. He tells me that nothing is ser...

But not wanting to talk. Wishing Wulfa was near a computer so we could cheerfully type at each other. Anyone else ever wished that someone would type with them but not that anyone would -talk- to them?

Today is Sunday. Incase you didn't know. I'm pondering all sorts of things. On my life here: I failed at drawing for an hour every day this week because Thurs and Friday were full of "GAAAH WE MIGHT HAVE TO MOVE AND IF EVERYTHING ISN'T CLEAN FOR AN INSPECTION IN 30 MIN THE WORLD WILL END FOR US". ... The inspections never happened. The move never happened. That didn't stop this from repeating every hour and a half those days. The one thing good out of it is I've now reached that level of not caring where you look at the newsbringer and just shrug and state that when a sargent comes up to your room to tell you to move or to clean it you will but not until then. This is a new state of being for me. I'm that nervous guy who knows all the rules and is always trying to do them. And it feels so odd to honestly no longer care. I'm not showing a lack of respect for the Sargeants I'm just not moving a finger for a private who swears he heard it s...

Ninjas.

This is my chinese dragon with wolf paw prints. If I do it again I will do the same basic idea but without the outlines for the dragon... it will simply be the pattern in the shape. I fixed the bird from a while back. This one looks okay I think. I tried to draw a dragons' head profiled from the side and only outlining... kinda like the deer. Some aspects of it turned out better than others. This is me with a horrible look on my face. I would take a better one but it is kinda wierd taking picture after picture of yourself while sitting in a library with people walking behind you. I feel self concious . So I now have a very verah nicely warm underarmor hoodie . Plain black with the UA logo. The picture is taken by my very sad little old phone that I'm borrowing from that brother over there. I needed the hoodie because it is like 52 degrees here and THAT IS FREEZING. I was cold dang it. ============================================== Story idea below ===============...