Slowness

A little bit of bad news:
There's nothing much to blog about lately. Not only that, work is kicking my butt lately so i do not have too big of a chunk of time to blog at work. the only time i really get to blog at work is in the morning before everyone gets settled in, and that usually gives me about half an hour before i start getting piles of emails about loan documents and rates and approvals and all of that good stuff. not only that, i havent been playing wow as much as i was. i actually play only several instances a night now and those instances are really just for the hell of it. i really dont care too much that akeelah hit 80. she was #2 in damage with all blue gear. heroics are like they once were... just automatic.

there's nothing new and no new story to unfold, at least for the casual player. everything is the same. although i could do some quests out there flying around stormpeaks (since i know theres a taunka camp a warzone where dark iron dwarves are fighting other earthen and a crash zepplin site) since i havent done most of the quests there besides hodir quests. i mean i could... just to get the story down. but im not. its not fun anymore. outland instanaces would be totally fun if it werent for the extremely long wait times and constantly getting Mechanar. i cant even use the random dungeon finder because it will give me sethekk halls all the time. all the fucking time.

So i think i will just level up Devynity to 80 and call it a good three years of playing wow.

And maybe some good news:
Or i can play with my gf. which i did set up an account for. but i do not know what's going to happen. i do not know if she will like the game or not. knowing her tho, she's more into games like bejeweled or halo. they're games where you go in, play the game and leave when you're done. there's no leveling, no building, no progressing, no gear-collecting. she just does her challenge and calls it a night. thats the difference between us i guess. which makes her perfect for pvp... but only if she has the hardened determination to level a character (or two) to 80. its ok. there will be more games out there for us to play.

and i've thought about this for a while now, whether playing this game has really caused less of a bond between us. i think she wants to be an active person and i just want to progress through a game world... in our spare time. i think its better if she just tries wow for a while. or just play once a week even. that's enough to get her to know what i like and all that. truth be told, she was the one who wanted to play the game first. i KNEW i was going to be addicted to it so i avoided it as much as possible. but she got a demo disk at walmart for $2. and, like most things we buy, end up sitting around the house for months. finally, one day, i picked it up and decided to play it because it was just "wasting" away. and there you have it. no it really hasnt been three years. almost though. three years this october. i remember it well because it happened a few weeks after my baby was born. we couldnt live the life of a young couple anymore. we had a baby. so we stayed home and there you have it. she watched ghost hunters and chatted on AIM while i played wow. now i think she's sick of it. i am too.

well i am going to plan out a few activities i guess. so that we'll have something to do. you cant just break a bad habit by doing nothing. it needs to be replaced with something else. and im hoping that this something else will be something good and something that will promote bonding. because i really think we do not get enough of that.

in any case, i am thinking of rolling a shaman with my gf. it really depends what she wants to level as. we can just be newb players and play the same class badly too. although i might have to "teach" her about her class. it might be just too much for a true social/casual player like her. Maybe i should change the name of the blog now. its not really about a tree healing anyway. although, in th beginning, this is what i wanted to blog about. a tree, healing, alone. but i guess i will never have that chance. maybe i should roll a third druid. who knows.

my server is yet to be known. i might not go back to ravenholt or ysondre. One of the best guilds in the US is on Ysondre, however, and it gives me a little pride just knowing they walk hordeside with me along the streets of dalaran. but other than that, i rarely see my friend on there. i may as well just go back to ravenholt. the economy is a lot bigger, which means i dont have to "/2 WTB xmute master, tipping" for 2 hours straight. imagine trying to get a port to dalaran. also, i have 9 characters above 60 on ravenholt, five are 80s, and one lv.1 banker. my second WoW account (oh yes i do have a second account) has four level 70s. yea, i was a bit too cheap to buy Wrath when it came out for this account. not like i play it anymore anyway. so it could be hers. and we can play together.

together. i think that is what is missing. we dont do things together as much. we need to do it more often. so with that said, in the future, i believe you'll get fewer posts from me, with less content and more rant. but ranting is fun in and of itself.


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PS. To add to this, has anyone seen the movie Click, with adam sandler? i do believe i often act like him with the remote. although my body is there, my mind is not. it is stuck in the clouds thinking of how to play a game, although not going anywhere. in the movie, he lives through several years with his wife and kids before they get a divorce. he sees nothing of it coming and every other "unimportant" event in his life gets skipped over. but that's the very point of the movie. that these very unimportant events in his life are just as important as every other moment. and when he skips these events on auto-pilot, it costs him and his family a little bit of... something. until it breaks apart. before he knows it, his life is about to end. i guess for me, playing wow gives that same "auto-pilot" effect and has been for a while. although i do function outside in real life, the time i spend with my gf is spent in front of the computer with me playing wow and with her on facebook commenting about how bored she is.

With that said, i think its time to get off auto-pilot and start living.