HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY "A"!!!!
(PS Aunt Shelly gave you that name based on a WOW character, you were a geek before you were born heh heh)
Good Morning to the three of you who read my blog, I trust we all had a nice evening of rest and relaxation. Well at least I hope you did. I had another fun filled night of tossing and turning. I think I pissed off the fibroghouls that live inside me since they were very ornery last night. One of these days I am going to catch me one of them and blend it up in my super leet new blender and then leave it on the night table as a warning to the others. That'll show 'em, right?
Some of the problem sleeping last night was because I am four mentally most of the time. Remember when you were little and it was Christmas Eve, how hard it was to fall asleep knowing that presents were going to be there in the morning? How excited you would get to the point of insomnia the night before you were to take a trip to Disney World? I have posted a picture of what this looks like below n case a few of you cant remember feeling like this:
That was me all night last night and into this morning. Why, you ask? Well its not because my husbands step mother disappeared without a trace because that is joy that can not be expressed with pictures of a talking cat and chihuahua. Oh no, when that day comes it will be more like:
But I digress (notice that this is video from a theme park attraction since it was the only place I could get the real song and not a school play. Apparently the copy write holder for the music made YouTube remove the sound from any movie clips featuring the actual song. Greedy fuckers). Today is the day that my pickle will be popping out her gherkin! I am so excited for her, and jealous as all hell. :)
I spoke to her earlier and she was in the hospital, they had given her the pitosin and apparently sent in a circus midget to perform the internal dilation check. Why they would find someone with tiny, short fingers to go check a six foot tall blonde's cervix is beyond me. Of course she cant reach it! Someone get this nurse a step stool STAT!!! So I am waiting anxiously with baited breath until I see the picture of my new nephew AW. In a moment of celebration I will also bring you this today.
OK so what does any of this have to do with addiction? Well I will tell you. In 2006 my brother Chessco was playing this game that he absolutely loved. He would tell me about it every time we talked. He would tell me how cool it was that when you died you would have to run back to your body as a ghost so you could come back to life. He told me about killing other players and then "spawn camping" them so that you could kill them again as soon as they came back to life. He told me of epic PvP battles in a place called "Alterac Valley" that would last for hours and sometimes days with forces of good and evil battling it out. Frankly, he drove me crazy. All the time he was telling me "You gotta play this game Shell you will love it". Well eventually I upgraded the computer I had and was finally able to download this game called World of Warcraft, maybe you have heard of it.
WOW has over 8 million subscribers world wide and is to date, still the best MMO on the market. I got fully sucked in the minute I started playing and even though I cancelled my account in February of this year, I still miss the game. It holds a special place in my heart as it was the place were I met my husband AND where the pickle met her husband and in the next few hours or so, baby daddy. Yes they are the same guy my BFF is not a hooker, well I mean she is but in a good way! Warcraft inspires passion in so many people whether it be the "purists" who thought losing levels was a good punishment for accidentally walking off a cliff to your death, a la Everquest, who call the game terrible and too easy. There are also the "fanbois" who worship every move Blizzard takes with the game, even if it is breaking end game raiding to appease PvP'ers who QQ about everything all the time. I have played Everquest II, Age of Conan, City of Heroes/Villians, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean and I will still hold WoW to be the best of the bunch.
So why cancel the membership? Well, WOW is to most of us who play the game to see content, like a glass of wine to an alcoholic. Sure if we are truly recovered we should be able to have that toast at our favorite niece's wedding or just play unguilded and PUG the occasional dungeon or raid. We convince ourselves that this time will be different, this time we will have control. So in we go, knowing that in that tiny place where our brain stores addictions we have now opened the door to let the creatures out. It doesn't take long and once again its 11:30pm on a Wednesday, no one has had dinner and we are 2 hours into a 4 hour dungeon run, the house is a mess, there are no clean clothes and we have lost touch with anyone who doesn't play. I enjoy the MMO experience, I like the social aspect of it and in games like Lord of the Rings Online, the story and art are incredible to look at. LotRO is a great game, I will always end up playing when I feel like I want to play a MMO AND have a life. For now I am still battling against restarting my WOW account, I have so much going on in my life that I really cant afford to get wrapped up in the game again. It's why I closed the account in the first place and went to LotRO. I will try to be strong but in the end I am a geek and if I can manage to swing the 2 laptops I want for my husband and I for St. Martin the first thing I will do will be to install WOW. I may be hopeless lol. But I will leave you with two fan videos that utilize the game to some wonderful results. Until then you may find me in Azeroth or Middle Earth but I will be somewhere being the geek that I am.
This video is made to the song "Here Without You" by 3 Doors Down. It is an excellent use of game lore surrounding the Undead race:
This video is just funny as hell and shows a Human Mage wasting everyone in a Player vs Player battleground while crying about why he has to wear a dress:
Meh I know I said two but you can never have too many gnomes...ENJOY!
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