I enjoy playing World Of Warcraft, very much infact. See previous post.

It’s gotten to the stage where I come home and play it before dinner, during dinner and after dinner until I go to bed. This happens everyday. I enjoy playing it, but I can’t help feel that i’m losing my life to this game. I never do anything else.

Recently I managed to pull myself away to finish the final Harry Potter book, but it was straight back to WoW once that was done.
I have a small pile of books I’d like to read. I have goodness knows how many cross stitch projects kicking about, some started, some not. I have a list as long as my arm of knitting things I want to learn to do.

It all gets sidelined for this game. I enjoy it but it’s becoming unrewarding for me. However if I was to do some stitching, i could work on it all night but I wouldn’t get a project finished, so no feeling of satisfaction. Whereas on WoW, I could complete quests, and the feeling of completion is powerful.

I’ve fallen into the habit. It’s not a habit I want to break, but I would like to control it more. I’d like to be able to say “No, I’m going to do something different tonight”, and I don’t mean “Oh well I’ll go to Ashenvale instead of Hillsbrad”, I mean something not WoW related.

I know that won’t happen though. I will end up going somewhere new just to make it different. I’m addicted. Maybe I should just let it run it’s course, but then again too much of one thing can sicken you of it, and I really don’t want to feel that way about WoW.

So maybe I will do something different tonight.

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BE Hunter lvl 60 - I love her, she’s my baby.
BE Priest lvl 12 - Was the surprise creation.
Troll Shaman lvl 10 - Was a good idea at the time.
Tauren Druid lvl 22 - Was a pain in the ass till I got cat form.
Undead Warlock lvl 5 - Is my secret.
Orc Rogue lvl 10 - Not as fun as I thought it would be.

Gnome Mage lvl 8 - So cute.
NE Hunter lvl 18 - My first.
Draenai Shaman lvl 14 - Great to look at, not so great to play.

Is everyone as bad as me? Please tell me so. If not…well they do say that variety is the spice of life.

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I have vanished into the World Of Warcraft…just in case you had been wondering where I am

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Some of you may know that I didn’t finish University. I left during my third year resit exams since I had screwed up the first exam there was no point in my taking the test. So I left with nothing, no qualifications, zip, zilch.

Over a year on Chris mentions that I *should* have been given some sort of something for having done first and second year successfully. I’ve always beaten myself up badly about the fact that I spent 5 years at uni to do a 3 year course and still come out with nothing. Out of vague curiosity I emailed the uni and enquired about it and it turns out that I should have been sent something.

I am now the proud owner of a Diploma in Higher Education for General Science. I have a diploma. I have a diploma. Why no one thought to tell me this earlier I have no idea.

I finished getting all the achievements for Harry Potter on the 360, so now I’m playing Overlord. It’s very fun having minions to control

I aquired some rather colourful snowflake yarn that I’m adding onto the scarf I was making with the white and pink snowflake yarn, so it’s going to be a little more colouful than was originally planned. I knitting up a small mouse and stuffed it with some left over yarn and some cat crunchie biscuits and Meeko loves it.

The Thomas Kincade cross stitch that I had started has been put away yet again. I am just not happy with it, there is something not right with it. Instead I have opted for the Country Companions Grandfather Clock design which was given to me by Chris’ mum. Took me long enough to sort the threads

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I was there bright and early waititng for the opening, 7.3-am to be exact. There were people who had been there since Friday morning, so before you go slagging me for my early appearance, it was nothing compared to some.
On arrival I was cheered and clapped by the crowd already standing the queue. People cheering and shaking my hand as I joined the queue…quite an odd but very warm reception. I was shortly joined by Gary who waited with me and you can see the photos he took here
We had a nice countdown to the opening and then more cheering and clapping Here are some pictures that I took.

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I didn’t get my scarf finished yesterday and there’s a very good reason for that. A very bit tangled reason if you catch my drift. It seems one of the balls I recreated turned into a gaint knot, probably with the help of the kitten. It took a fair amount of today to untangle it all, but I managed it and I got my scarf finished this evening. Due to it being dark outside and the inside light not really suitable for showing it’s colour I’m going to leave taking a photo until tomorrow and I’ll post it up then.
I’m very happy with the scarf this time as I cast on 30 stitches and at no point did I have any more or less than 30 and the casting off went perfectly this time. lol.

I have another scarf on the go, though the next project in my book is to make a bag, I don’t really have the yarn for it. I did get some more yarn from Chris’ mum today but again it’s more suitable for a scarf, so I’ve got yarn enough for 3 scarves, one of which I’ve already finished, one that I’ve started and one still to be done. The difference with the one I’ve not started is that I have 2 balls of yarn for it and they are different colours so I was hoping to maybe alternate the colours. For that I will need to look into how to join when it’s two different colours as I think it’s slightly different in order to make it look better.

Chris came back from Carluke at about 1130 and suggested we go into town because it was such a nice day, so we did, but 2 minutes before we left the house it started to rain and it was pretty much the same for the entire trip in town. Thankfully it’s only bad weather if you think rain is bad. We still both had a lovely afternoon. Chris treated me to 2 new tops and a pair of earrings and one of those masks you wear when you sleep which says “Grumpy…but Gorgeous” on it.

I haven’t managed to get any reading done yet, I’ll do some tomorrow. Unfortunately I’m going to have to cut this post short as the kitten has just produced a number 2 and I have to go clear it up before the smell knocks me out.

P.S. I installed World Of Warcraft and got a fresh subscription to it. Bad of me I know but hey

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I’ve gotten bored with the old theme and wanted a change, so I’ve got this simple theme on just now. I might change it again soon, or I might just alter this one to suit. I don’t like the categories and archive being at the top because I don’t think they are particularily important, but I am in work so I can’t change them from here. I’ll get round to it at some point

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Yes a music video about Murlocs for you WoW fans!
Click Here!

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I’d pay good money to have Dire Straits Calling Elvis from the On The Night album on Guitar Hero, and I mean the whole song.

Oh how I wish so much that by some miracle…

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So it’s Monday morning and I’m in work and I thought a nice way to start the week would be with some Mark Knopfler. Currently listening to Everybody Pays from the Shangri-La album. I really like the melody of the song. I must really thank Matt for making me listen to countless hours of Knopfler’s stuff. The same goes for his brother Martin and all that Thin Lizzy. It’s true, if you listen to something long enough, you start to like it

So I’ve gone on a bit of a health kick, more for my own benefit. I want to feel like I have more energy, and yeh I guess part of me wants to be a teeny bit slimmer, even though Chris likes my curves the way they are. In saying that, despite whether it’s to lose weight or not, eating more healthy and exercise is always good for you.

Also really trying very hard to increase the amount of water I drink. I began to realise how little fluid I actually drink in a day, so I’m aiming to drink at least 1.5 litres, which as it turns out is quite easily managable. Only problem is that it seems to be bring out the impurities in my skin on my face so I’ve got a spot. Grrrr.

So this weekend was pretty lazy. I spent 14 hours solid playing World Of Warcraft, which was much fun Got my new Blood Elf Hunter which I am loving so so much more than my ugly Undead character.

I was watching some Jane Austen thing on ITV last night and one of the actresses was sitting doing some embroidery while the ‘handsome fellow’ was reading some poetry aloud. Put me in the mood for doing more cross stitch. Maybe if I didn’t spend so much time playing WoW I could fit some in. In a way it would be good. While I am stitching and not playing I would be gaining rested xp to use next time I play, the longer I don’t play for the more I have, up to a point.
I am currently stitching a Lilliput Lane cottage, the kit is called Home Is Where The Heart Is. Mum use to collect the ornaments of the cottages so it would be nice if I ever finished it to get it framed for my mum.

Anyway think I’ve done enough talking…I should be working!

I should also play more of my 360…..soon when Guitar Hero II comes out, it will be all I do! Roll on April 6th.

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One and a half hours on Oblivion, time spent playing Crackdown, MotoGP, PRG and Table Tennis.

Then a rather epic (for me at least) 6 hours solid on World Of Warcraft, raising myself from a mere level 5 to level 9

So I was playing with Richie and his pooter had a random hissy fit and booted him from the game, when he came back he was naked! But only on my version of the game, in his game he was fully clothed. Although Richies character was female, you can kinda see something more what a male character should have. :-S

Oooh Err I say!

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Yesterday, and today in work I have been using Mireia`s computer. Mireia is Spanish and therefore her computer is in Spanish as is they keyboard so please excuse me if I use the wrong apostrophy or anything.

Yeh ok I *could* change Windows to English for the time I`m using it, but I felt it would be much more fun to see how I`d cope with using Windows in a different language. It`s certainly been fun. Trying to figure out how to type the `at`symbol is beyond me so writing emails has been somewhat limited.

Msn has been blocked so i`ve lost all sensible communication with the outside world and I`m also at a different desk so i`m amoungst strangers, one of whom mutters random Italian…well I hope it`s Italian.

I will be here in Monday too then I`ll be back to my usual desk, thank goodness. Though the change of scenery is all good, it also means I get to spend my day playing a 360

So in honourof my wonderful Spanish keyboard I bid you adiós. If only working by Spanish meant I could have a siesta!

¡oh yeah!
¿can i go home yet?
Ñ Ç ªªªººº

fun fun all the way.

Navigating my way around windows was fun, like connecting the network printer and setting up my email account on this version of Outlook.

yeah a siesta sounds nice.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Woo Hoo!
I managed to complete Jessica on hard, only got 80% notes hit but it’s the first time I’ve managed to get through it without a song failed.
In other news, I also managed the marjority of Sweet Child Of Mine on hard, but naturally the solo f***ed me.

I have turned to the dark side and been playing World Of Warcraft, and yes, it *is* taking up more time than it should.

Right off for a nice game of snooker on the 360 now
Byes!

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Was playing Halo 2 again last night and I *am* getting better, albeit slowly. I did reduce my average lifespan to 12 seconds on Slayer, but I also managed to get 7 kills, it was first to 25. One day I’ll reach double figures!

….
One day…

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ok i never really bothered to play animal crossing over the wi-fi much but i kinda want to now, so my friend code is
2878-3454-1669

please add me and give me you’re friend code. I hope to see your village soon!

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A Guitar Hero, well maybe not so much a hero but, meh, I dunno.
Borrowed Chris’ PS2 and Guitar Hero 1 and 2, only been playing 2 but might give 1 a wee shot tonight. Really enjoying it, getting the hang of things on medium, but not quite ready to move to hard.
Got a teeny bit of Zelda in but not too much.
Gave Call Of Duty 3 a go on the Wii too but was a bit unimpressed by it. Ok I maybe didn’t give it much of a chance but I guess it’s just not my type of game.

Bought myself 42 all time classics for my DS, enjoying that too. SO much gamage going on.
Going to the cinema this weekend though dunno what I’m gonna see.

Christmas and New Year were fab, was nice to spend time with my mum and dad and my cousin Martin and some friends. Even got in touch with some friends I’d lost touch with.

Not working at Bravissimo anymore either. What am I going to spend my Saturdays doing?!

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