In WoW news, I now have a 4th 80! >.< My first alliance in a very long time. I raided ally side way back in the day on my priest, until I got loot pissy when after months of Molten Core the 3rd eye was awarded to our brand new level 60 priest on his first run... just because he was a Dwarf (he now runs one of the top ally guilds, little bastard, he also got the server first mace!!)! Everything else was done by SK, but the eye was RL's choice. After losing that for the 3rd time, I gave up on that guild and went back to raiding on my horde lock, rolled a pally come BC, and never looked back at the ally side. My priest at 70 never even ran an instance! I just really couldn't bring myself to play on that side for any considerable amount of time.

So my boyfriend and I started over on Shadow Council with a friend's guild and powered to 80 with the hope of helping his guild with raids. Well, we hit 80 yesterday morning right before I left for work... and the guild decided to give up on raiding last night! Some luck! So I now have a level 80 druid in pretty much full 213+ epics (yes I did that in one day, yay for Ulduar 25 boe's from my main and ToC gear!) all dressed up with no where to go! Well I need new rings/ weapon/ idol, but then I'm good.

I also actually am having fun in heroics with her. We decided to do a CoT heroic yesterday with our friend's newly 80 tank, and another one of our hordie re-reoll friends, and a pugged healer in full Ulduar 25 gear who promptly dced on the first pull, and never came back. Now I am boomkin, never healed as a druid in my life unless you count the emergency heals I have to do when I pop starfall recklessly.. so like every 1.5mins. But we managed to 4 man it, with new 80's and a boomkin healer (who had to spellbook nourish), and still get to the timed boss and get a drake! Yes I know lol CoT is easy, but it still felt like a huge accomplishment to me... and I think I fell in love with druid healing, so I'm now dual specced.

But I think I need a new home for her!

So tonight's raid is going to suck. Why is it that the night I finally have my 30 fragments, and Yogg +3 on farm, and more than enough time to get to him, all my healers decide they need a night off? At this point I only have 3 available to raid tonight. We have a few people that can off spec heals, but that leaves us down a mt, or our top dps... which would probably make HM hodir an issue. Since Dest seems to be the only tank we have capable of pushing the threat we need without getting a crit cloud. And Cele is one of those crazy good ele shamans that I don't want to lose as dps. We can 3 heal Hodir easy, but not the others.

I'm really hoping we can get tribute again this week. I don't see why we won't repeat mad skill, since we got it quite easily. But, I would LOVE to see insanity. Those cloaks are amazing, and they also match!

(I should probably make a wow only journal too! >.>)

In non WoW news, the weirdest thing happened, Nimbus got better! On Sunday, I was 100%sure he had 1-2 days left, so I stopped giving him his heart meds. He hated taking them, and would do his best to run away from me when he saw me coming with them. So I figured, if he was going to die anyway, why torture him with the pills? By Monday afternoon, 24 hours with no pills, he got up and started eating like crazy, and is now almost back to normal. Well, sick normal, but still normal...er. It made Monday an insanely good night.

I also got some weird recognition thing at work. My boss just walked up to me with 3 customer service certificates and a 15 dollar starbucks gift card. Yay! I hate starbucks, but hey when you're totally broke, anything is great!

Also I get paid tomorrow, and I am going to use my birthday Fred Meyer gift card to buy the Beatles Rock Band Game. I really wanna have a rock band/ Halloween party this year! I haven't had a Halloween party since Carl left. I really used to love doing those. Hmm... I doubt anyone would come though.

Being at work when I know my dog is on his last few days is beyond stressful and heartbreaking. We got him to eat a bit this morning, but I don't think it's enough. We made the decision last night to stop his meds. Either he takes his meds and doesn't eat, or we skip them and he eats. I will give him the Furosimide if he starts to cough, but I think getting him to eat again is top priority.

This was the summer from hell where my animals were concerned. First day of summer was the day Turdie took off out the open door and we spent the night trying to coax him off a neighbors roof. He has since been over grooming, not plucking, but stripping. Spike the cockatiel died two weeks later. Then Nimbus got sick. Annie my mom's dog died. Nimbus got better, only to start coughing a week later, which we found out was congestive heart failure. And of course we were informed that large dogs with heart problems usually don't live long.

I'm not ready to let Nimbus go. He's only 5!

I also think I'm getting sick, I was up all night. Maybe I'm just stressed. I am the "strong" one in the family or something apparently. So I get stuck making all the decisions. It just leads me to internalize everything until I make myself physically ill. Ugh...

In WoW news, unless Ulduar decides to hate me again... very likely... I'll have my mace this week. I have litterly only gotten like 5 fragments that have not been from Yogg. Never seen one from any hard mode, nothing. I was at 26 when BoR still only had like 19, and they beat us too the mace, and they have 0 hard modes down! So not fair! haha.

Anyone have any tips for HM Anub 10? He ate our faces over and over last week. 45 tries to losing tribute before we gave up! I REALLY want to see him die tonight!

We're also back to recruiting! We really want an enhance shaman, but I don't think good enhance shaman exist on the horde side of our server. I want another healer too! Hell a dual specced shaman would be a dream come true!

Well, I went to PAX last weekend, and it was amazing! I'll put pictures up later I swear. We didn't get to stay as long on Sunday as I might have liked due to my ride having a wedding to go to the next morning, but I still got to see a lot of what I went for, but sadly no panels. Most of the ones I wanted to see were on Friday and Saturday anyway.

We ended up lucking out and being able to get Joe a ticket at the door despite them being sold out. We also got to meet some guildies for lunch at the Mexican restaurant in Pacific Place and the food was amazing!
Some highlights:
*Cataclysm! Got to play the starting zones of Goblin and Worgen! No idea if I will actually really roll either race when they drop, most likely not, but I will make one of each. Graphics have been ramped up quite a bit it seems. The goblin starting zone is beyond cute! Throwing exploding bananas to bomb chucking monkeys... too fun. The worgen zone seemed to be very well thought out too. The whole place shaking constantly from being under forsaken attack was fun. I can't stand the way they run or their casting animations though. I'm interested to see how the females turn out!

*Beatles Rock Band! I am horrible at guitar hero type games, but I'm learning for this one!

*Super Mario Wii! Nuff said, still fun!

*Dante's Inferno! Total God of War knock off, but still very fun.

*Joe was excited about Left for Dead, I didn't want to stand in line!

*Free Games!

*Best of all I now have an internet dickwad theory shirt!

But now the bad news, there was a confirmed swine flu case there. Normally I would just shrug that off as I get so tired of hearing about that at work. But... the friend I went with has been out of work sick all week, and called me about 15 mins ago to confirm that she does infact have it! *panic* I have been feeling crappy the last couple days, I don't have the swine flu, but I don't want it either! gah!

More on this later!

Stolen from the BL forums... sad because so many of these are so true :(