starinthegutter

Probably going to be using this more often than Livejournal- random musings of a Resto druid... restospect. I know, catchy, rite?

I remember once being told by a TTC driver to say "thank you" to him for waiting 10 seconds for me to get to the bus stop. There was a sheet of ice, so I was making sure not to fall and break my neck. They seem to like jumping the gun, because I was going to thank him after I'd paid my fare. Instead, I complained to a manager on the bus platform and I haven't seen that driver on the route since. I hope they fired him, to be honest. Noone needs to treat a paying customer like that. Thank god I hardly take the TTC anymore. I felt bad funding a company I totally despise.


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Aaron and I got a new cat yesterday. We were at the Humane Society downtown, checking out the kittehs- when this little cutie caught our eye.



His name is Jones, and he's a speckled Tabby. He was being examined by the vet to be put up for immediate adoption, and Aaron and I jumped at it, filled out the form and took the little baby home.

Yoda doesn't know what to make of it. Any tips on bonding a new kitten to my spoiled cat are greatly appreciated. So far I've been keeping Jones in the bedroom with Yoda having free fun of the rest of the apartment. I tied two toy balls together with a shoelace and placed one end on one side of the door and vise versa so that they can play with eachother without being completely face to face. Aaron told me to close the bedroom door and if Yoda whines to be let in, open the door and let him poke around and familiarize the scent.

I know it takes a while for them to bond or at least tolerate one another. I just hope they get along.

Oh, that and we have a third cat on the way (Aaron's) so three times the fun, three times the work and expense... but I'm prepared for it.

Okay well, I got over the whole crappy ordeal that went on with my old guild and I figured I may as well still post here. What's done is done and frankly I've moved on to bigger and better things, so far be it for that to bother me enough to stop posting here entirely. My boyfriend and I moved servers to Thrall where we're in a better, more progressed guild that raids on the weekend. No offense to old friends I had on Lothar, but unfortunately your Guild Leader stinks.

Anyway, the new guild is great, they're nice to us and we have fun there. We've cleared the first wing of ICC 25 this week and are moving on to the next wing this evening. This is only our second week and I already feel comfortable. It's a nice atmosphere and the people in our core raid group are driven to succeed and get the job done. We don't spend nights wiping on Marrowgar, we get shit done. That's not to say I don't mind wiping on new content, however. It happens, but I'm finally seeing new content at a pace I want to be at, people learn from their mistakes, and we have a group of people who pull out awesome dps, tank really well, and an outstanding group of healers.

So, I'm still going to be posting here. Sorry to people who I made add me to their friend list under another account, but I hope to god the person who decided to be a douche is reading this. :D Hay! fuck you! <3

Arg! My last journal entry didn't take for some reason. I think because I turned on the location detector thing. Anyway, like I was saying, the holidays were awesome. Aaron and I went down to Rochester for Christmas to spend time with his family. I was kinda nervous to meet his other brother and neices and nephew for the first time, but I ended up enjoying myself. :)

We ended up getting all our shopping done on Saturday. Didn't wanna cross the border and have to claim anything. Got some cool stuff for and from everyone! Kinda cool, Aaron's whole family plays WoW, mostly just casual, but oh, the WoW conversations that were had. I tried venison for the first time ever, it was good! But! I wouldn't eat it all the time, obviously.

Went to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch during the trip, had to! We don't have it in Toronto, unfortunately.

Did I mention how awesome this iPhone is? Because it is. I really think this is the best gadget I have owned to date.

Anyway! Hitting the border soon, so I'm just gonna finish this up. I hope everyone has an awesome start to 2010, I'll be sure to update soon!

A year's worth of achievements well earned.



I also got my Grunty in the mail. $40 bucks well spent. Too bad the day's gonna take a shitty turn, but it was good while it lasted.

I am two achievements away from a 310% flying mount. WOOT

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(The Troll cat form is fake btw.)

I laughed for like 10 minutes straight.

Didn't get to go this year, but the live stream is pretty much the same if not better, since I can actually see what goes on at the con instead of getting drunk off my ass with guildies and wandering around in a packed convention center with sweaty unwashed nerds.

Cataclysm has been announced and YES, the new races are Goblins and Worgen. Goblins make me feel redeemed that the Blood Elf race was ever introduced, but no, I will not be rolling one. I think I will stick to my Tauren druid, thanks, the horde have enough fruity BE running around. The Worgen are badass and 10x better than the Goblins by far. I will roll one, most definitely.

Aaron's over for a visit, finally. Feels good having him see my world for sure. Went to the zoo today, a Mongolian grill a couple days ago... fun times. We mostly sat inside due to lack of funds and played video games. Still looking for a job, the job market sucks. I'm sure I will find something soon.

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Checkit. I need the $, so help is appreciated. Thanks!

Well we downed 2 new bosses in Ulduar 25 and I couldn't be more psyched about that :) an amazing job was done by all. My friend and I are gonna be starting up a 2v2 Arena Team for shits'n'giggles, he's a rogue, I'm gonna be doin my druid thang. I'm tasked to coming up with a name for us! D: I suck at naming things! Anyway! I'm gonna post some names n'stuff here and give him a list of em once I'm done and we can agree on something! Anyone have any suggestions??

1) Ad Infinitum (was my last Arena 2v2 team name)
2) RootsNRuptures
3) I Got HoTs For Kidney Shots
4) Walks Into A Bar
5) THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING
6) She Heals He Keels
7) Trash Epics

Ugh more will come soon. I needz halp plz

Hey guys! I'm figuring out where to go on my Shaman! She's Alliance, Resto/Enhance, with decent gear. :) Leave me a server name!

Oh man thank you so much Zer <3 this icon rocks and TOTALLY cheered me up after a really rough, shitty night. Thankyouthankyouthankyou <3

I did get a new healing belt from Ulduar though... ._. <3 but man how come there's always this one asshole (who's the same freaking guy) who has to ruin my night? Buh... I just have to keep in mind it's not worth my time because I know it seriously isn't but he caught me on a BAD night when... had shit not been brought up in officer chat that I'd have rather NOT talked about, I probably would have displayed more tact.


I need to get to bed but I am all sniffly. : |

So breaking from WoW has been fun and not so fun at the same time. I got my final paid commission out of the way so now I can just finish up a few friends' pictures that I promised and I'm "back on track" so to speak. It'll be nice when I don't owe people things. I hate doing commissions because I am left drawing stuff I really don't feel like drawing (no offense to my commissioners), it's more of an inspiration thing, again. I like drawing what I want to draw when I want to draw. I think that's true of many artists actually. No artist likes being forced to draw shit, but that's the crappy thing when you bind yourself to a commission. You need to draw it because you were paid for it. You received the money, so there's no reason to put it off for so long (like I did. How long did I put Kailani on hold for.. like... 7 years or some crazy shit? Holy crap.)

Aaaaanyway... the not so fun part is, obviously, I miss my friends in game. They provide a huge support to me whether they realize it or not. WoW lifts a huge weight off my shoulders and actually relieves stress more than it causes it, or so I am realizing. BUT, I do need to prove to myself a little that WoW does not control my entire life and that I need to get out more and smell the flowers, take in the sunshine, all that fluffy crap.

One thing WoW has done wonders for me in the art world is that, I don't give as much of a flying fuck about the art scene as I used to, ie., I don't get all fucking butthurt if I don't get massive page hits or favorites or BAWWW if someone hasn't commented on my art. That was one thing I left DA and pretty much the entire art community behind for. I was watching Devtards get so fucking obsessed with favorites. Like, before DeviantArt was even online, there were no fucking favorites buttons. Sure, you got the odd email and comment, but then DeviantArt opened up the whole Favorites option, and it was all downhill from there. Favorites were now the be-all, end-all of an artist's existence on the internet. If your shit wasn't favorited like at least 50 time by the time you uploaded it, it was garbage. Which myself and the few sane people realized was bullshit.

I am happy to say that, before when I was so deep into the whole Art community, Deviantart and all that crap, I would have said I am leaving it for good, and then come back a week or two later. Now? I can leave whenever the hell I want and be satisfied with my life. I don't need that site any more to make me who I am as an artist. No, that doesn't necessarily mean I am going to start a website or join another art website, but I certainly do not hold DA as a means to convey who I am as an artist further from uploading the image and allowing others to view it.


I am still wondering how long I ought to break from WoW for. Please, before you go on saying that's all you hear me talk about, WoW, to me, is a social gathering between me and my friends. I have fun with them, and I laugh with them. The raiding and leveling characters is an aside to how social this game can be and how many amazing individuals I have met on it. I have also met many of my guildmates in real life at Blizzcon last year, and that was an amazing experience. The game is something, I have decided, I will continue to do, in moderation of course.

The MacBook's running outta battery life, and I am tired. I will more than likely gorge on leftover pizza tomorrow, watch movies, and art for a while.

I got a PS3 yesterday and bought RE5. I also bought this fricking mega collection of old Genesis games but the EBtard working gave me GT5 instead : | so I have to go back there and get the game I paid for... of course... I may just like, check to see how much Gran Turismo 5 is selling for. If it's more than $39.99 I may just keep it because I feel like being an asshole. It's probably not worth much though.

The PS3 is okay.. I didn't get to play the damn thing yet with all these updates and downloading of games and.. hurr. I had to fish for the raid and... ffff. Switching my shaman in and out from enh to resto for our 10 mans so I can be a little more help than being just another dps that signs up. We ended up killing Sarth and Malygos and the construct quarter 10 mans on Wednesday, so Alorra got her Champion of the Frozen Wastes title, finally. I managed to get her to a decent crit/mp5/+healing before the raid which I was really surprised at. I didn't know I picked up so much healing gear. I'm going to need to run a couple more heroics so I can get her the Egg trinket. It's so much more interesting to heal as a shaman since most of the heals are direct. I'm sure it will get boring after a while though.

So tonight, I plan to run heroics, drink booze, and get my damn trinket. Yay for weekends!

Iris: dan wants a date tonight
Annissa: aw
Iris: fuck that boy is all hands
Iris: I want to play wow
Annissa: LOL
Annissa: man we're so hopeless
Annissa: "fuck life, I wanna play Warcraft!"
Iris: he kept getting handsy when I was running VH H
Iris: I almost slapped him
Annissa: LOL
Annissa: "FUCK DAN I'M FIGHTING A DRAGON! CAN'T YOU SEE THIS BIG FUCKING DRAGON???"
Annissa: *SLAP*
Annissa: that would have been awesome
Iris: ROUND HOUSE KICK
Annissa: Dan Dies. You receive 50 gold and a joint.
Iris: LOL
Iris: SCREENSHOTTED
Iris: Achievement unlocked: High As a Kite
Annissa: [Epic Joint] You wield the power of Ganja. Your attack power is raised by 100. In addition, you lose 100 Hit Rating and the ability to see straight.
Iris: HAHAHA
Annissa: On Use: You feel light headed, and you automatically hearth to Dalaran. Please see an innkeeper to change your home location.
Iris: we know him too well it seems
Annissa: Special Ability: When mounted, turns your mount into a hotbox vehicle. Good times man, good times.
Iris: LMAO
Iris: god

My Shammy got to 80, in other news. I celebrated by having my guildies hijack me and take me on heroics runs. It was awesome <3 She got her T7 Chestpiece out of regular Vault too. Pretty awesome <3

Good morning internet friends!

This past weekend I went to see Watchmen, and it was good. I may have to go and see it again. I'm not a theater-goer all too much, so from me that's something. I love how a lot of people were like "I didn't get it!, it was so boring!". It's not an action movie, derp. It's got a whole bunch of underlying meaning to it, maybe they're either too stupid to understand, or they came for car crashes and explosions... and Harrison Ford.

: |

Other than that, went to Boston Pizza that evening for UFC night (not specifically for that, Steve and I were hungry @@ and wanted beers). Drank and ate yam fries with chipotle dip. Omnomnom. Got my shaman to 77, getting her epic flyer when I get home :D I'm not that good with earning money in WoW. I got enough for my druid's epic flyer and that's it. When I mine it's for the guild. I prospect it and toss the blue gems I get in the guild bank. I do keep all the eternals and titanium I get though. I need to get better about auctioning during the week days instead of the weekends. Everything goes down in price and I'm stuck not even putting my items up. I say "I'll wait until Wednesday" and never get around to it :(

I hope I can get my shaman to 80 by the end of this week. 3 more levels to go. I've started championing already, and I changed her spec to elemental. I'm not sure if I like it or not, but groups usually pick an elemental over enhance since their buffs are better for casters/healers. All I do is click 3 buttons though, it's kind of sad.

Off to work I go :O

"So, remember that strange-looking billboard at Dundas Square? You know, the one that commanded you to relieve a glutinous discharge? Well, it just got stranger. On Tuesday, Cadbury attached a teeter-totter-like lever to the billboard, with a large box on one end and a hulking one-and-a-half-metre Creme Egg on the other. According to the company, as snow, rain, and other precipitation accumulates inside the box, the Creme Egg will slowly rise towards an oversized fan that will eventually crack it open, unleashing its mucilaginous filling everywhere!"



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MIMOBOT Designer USB Flash Drive: Boba Fett.



Or hell, even Master Chief would be awesome, too.



Check out their website: http://www.mimoco.com. Booya.

Breathing in paint fumes at work is fun times. :D

Nissa got the Epic achievement :P Just had to write about that. Glad it was before Ulduar at least.

Everyone's bitching about the Resto Druid nerf to Lifebloom and Regrowth, but I am starting to see that it *may* not be as bad as I thought it was going to be. While the Lifebloom rolling thing is gonna be a bit shitty, it doesn't really do much in the grand scheme of things. I remember I thought that the 6sec cooldown on Wild Growth was going to be some huge hassle, and it didn't turn out to gimp my overall healing at all. If anything, we'll see. I can always like, roll my shaman as resto if worse comes to worst. :P Ghostcrawler doesn't seem to be paying too much attention to Resto Shammies, yet!

The baby MacBook is great; I love the fact that I can just tote it around where ever, and it isn't too heavy and doesn't run hot. <3 Runs WoW pretty good also, and is great for in front of the TV farming while relaxing on the couch. :>

I am not looking forward to work tomorrow. :| they're painting our portion of the office, so it's gonna stink! We apparently will have to move to another area for the day. Bleh :( I like my desk! (sort of)

Anyway... Yoda's resting peacefully on the bed and it's making me tired. Time to get some rest!