Hard worker

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I'm working from home today (due to alleged impending snow). Frances is playing with her Grandpa Ronny, who gave her this carpentry set for Christmas.

Best night evah

Last night was one of the best WoW nights I've had in a long long time. I got on, just intending to quest solo, hoping to raise the last bits of cash for my epic flyer. Instead this is what happened:

1. Started questing, did my dailies, headed to Netherstorm.
2. Got invited to a guild PUG for ZA.
3. Downed the bear boss in ZA (my first time)
4. Mentioned I had 80 gold to go for my epic flyer.
5. Got given 85 gold by Deloused, a guildie.
6. Bought my epic flyer!!!
7. Flew from SMV to Netherstorm direct, super fast. Who needs the damn taxis?
8. Did quests (zoom, zoom!) until I had enough to pay Deloused back the 85 gold.
9. Turned in heroic badges for a sweet new off-hand.
10. Bonus healing is now at 1670, unbuffed!

Best...night...evah.

Food tomorrow (and wine)

Breakfast: Heidi's delicious scones with Eggs Florentine and braised mushrooms.

For Christmas dinner, we're having a prime rib, cooked by my father-in-law. Also mashed potatoes and spinach salad with a chipotle vinaigrette. For wine, we're having a nice Barbaresco that I will open up and decant as soon as I awake in the morning.

Epic flyer, here I come!

I did my expert flying training today, all 5000g of it. Whew. Now I need to get the 200g to buy the mount. I'll get it in a day or so, for sure.

I also ran Heroic Botanica today for the first time. I died a lot, due to aggro management issues on the 4 and 5 pulls. Twas fun, however!

Almost there

Only 300 gold until I can afford both to train for my epic flying mount and purchase one. I'll have it before Hawaii, at this rate!

surprise Kara

I jumped on last night expecting to check out the Calendar and my auctions, then head to bed. As soon as I logged on, though, I got a message from Sweetroller (a druid in the guild), asking if I wanted to come to Kara. They were going to try to clear the whole thing in one night. I came along for the first 5 bosses and it was really very fun. Just as I think I'm getting sick of the whole raiding thing, I end up having a great time. I even got some loot...a purple wand from the Opera event (Wizard of Oz) which was a decent upgrade.

ZA again

Went to Zul'Aman with a bunch of people who had been in for 5 hours. We spent most of the time exploring, which was entertaining and expensive. :) They had taken down the bear boss earlier. We wiped many times exploring new territory, but didn't do any bosses.

Been a while

I have now been to SSC, which was interesting. It totally brought my computer to its knees, though. I only got about 7 fps during the fights. I think I'm going to upgrade my processor soon.

Since I last wrote, I've also downed Prince and started doing the daily cooking quests, which are fun. I still haven't gotten any t4 gear or done any heroic dailies. Ah well. From discussions during SSC last night, it sounds like the guild it going to try to move away from grinding Kara so much and start working harder on 25 man content and ZA. This will be a nice change of pace, since I feel like I know Kara pretty well at this point. Only one boss that I haven't killed at this point.

I've also been working on finishing quests. I think I only need about 2000 more gold and I can get my epic flying mount. Woot! Maybe another month and I'll be ready for it. Possibly right before we go to Hawaii, or soon thereafter.