I Have Cramps

I’m just so blah today. I want to hide in my own little world. Turn off the lights. Curl fetus-like in my covers. Sleep the day away. Are these signs of depression? Or is my body telling me the time of my daughter’s birth is getting nearer and nearer? I don’t know. Even playing my regular online games isn’t amusing me. All I managed today was read a book. I don’t even know if I want to fire up my laptop right now. I might just continue reading the manga I was reading yesterday.

Speaking of books, I just found out that the 3rd book of the Inheritance trilogy written by Christopher Paolini is out. That’s on my list of books to get. I’m torn between getting the e-book version for my iPhone or just getting the hardcover. I think I might do the latter, since I have the first 2 books.

Looking forward to the Inkheart movie, and I love how they casted Brendan Fraser as the dad. I read the book once and I thought it was good. I should read it again soon.

Anyways, that’s all for now. At least I feel a little better now that I wrote stuff down. Toodles.

My guild has moved on to Order side for now. I’m in Volkmar server. I will miss my Zealot, though I might hop in on her once in a while. On the other hand, I’m enjoying the Runepriest a lot. It’s the mirror of Zealot so I don’t mind it so much. Also trying out the Swordmaster - I think I’m a tank at heart, since I like to charge at people. I’m so torn between the two now. We’ll see. I know the guild needs a healer more than a tank, though. We have enough tanks in the guild.

Nothing much else to say. See ya.

Well, I guess I should post on what I like about WarHammer Online so far. I spent like maybe 5 hours last night playing it after I got off work.

Public Quests or PQ. You can just join in this part of the map and will prompt you to do quests with others. In return, you get some good lootz from it, as well as influential rewards. You don’t even have to join a party to participate! Just kill, get lootz, and collect other rewards.

RvR Scenarios. Don’t like open PvP (people vs. people) or RvR (realm vs. realm) but like to do it every once in a while? Join a scenario, which takes you to an instance that primarily lets you kill people from the opposite realm without causing grief from other people who try to avoid it. This makes it balanced for people who love RvR and those who don’t.

No more repairing equipment. The only thing I know that will let you repair are some goody equipment you might like to use later on.

Zealots are awesome. Nuff said.

That’s it for now. I am definitely going to have trouble balancing Lord of the Rings Online and WarHammer Online. Oh no, there’s Stargate Worlds coming up, too! Whatever will I do?!

WarHammer Online is going live in a few minutes. Are you ready for it? :) WAGGHHHHH!

Seriously. We haven’t even been affected by Ike or anything. People have been asking if we’re okay and such. There was little rain and winds weren’t that bad, either, though we had a wind advisory. In fact, it’s actually sunny today.

Galveston didn’t have it so lucky, though. There has been alertness all around our workplace because we might get some transfers from other children’s hospitals from Houston/Galveston.

Thanks for your concern for us. We’re really okay.

So, I was feeling bored with doing my little quests here and there, and I saw that Margaret from Preying Mantis (PM) was looking for hunters for a Rift raid run, so I jumped to the chance, since I never really played with them before other than Helegrod.

Boy, I’m really mighty impressed with the way they ran this. No nonsense, a few explanations, kill the boss, split the loot, and on to the next boss. We did the locks 3 through 8 in a matter of two hours, compared to where it will usually last 5-6 hours from 3 through 7 on some raids I’ve joined. It was awesome. Another plus was that most of them already had Rift gear so it was easy to roll for whatever I needed for my hunter (I got the chest piece gem).

It’s easy to tag along if you know what you’re doing, and a good thing that I did. We didn’t have the +3 hope buff, they only had one LM (lore-master), who did a mighty job of keeping us powered up, wound/disease control, and stun immunity. Hardly anyone died, except for the Balrog boss, where only 2 died but was brought back up with efficiency. I hope they were impressed with me as well, hardly questioning what to do and such. I would love to do another run with them, if only just to do a quick one to get what I need.

I just wish this was the same for all the raids I’ve ever been in. Although, it’s also fun to just talk and chat while doing the run, however long it takes. But when you’re in a time crunch like I was at the time, this run was really ideal for me.

Thanks, PM, hope to do more Rift runs again with you in the future. If you’ll let me.

Some screenshots of the end part of Book 14, Chapter 15 in Lord of the Rings Online:

It’s definitely worth it to the end!

I updated WordPress and I think it screwed up my site. Oh, well. I’ll tackle it later.

I got the content up in the front page. Still working on other stuff.

I really like the new themes! I’m debating on two. We’ll see how it goes. :)

Edit: Wordpress did another update. At least this was smoother than the last one. Woot!

…and I have gestational diabetes. Well, the good news is that they just want me to watch my carb-intake and monitor my blood sugar for a month. Oh, joy. I shouldn’t complain. I’ve been given a chance to, hopefully, avoid doing insulin shots.

In other baby news, we just found out we’re having another girl, so we’re thinking up of names for her. The first name will be Lauren, but still debating on Michelle or Alexis for the second name. Luci is for Michelle, while I’m for Alexis. Maybe I’ll make a poll or something for y’all. That’d be fun.

Dani’s vocabulary is growing, but still not quite comprehensible. She can, however, tell you if she’s hungry or she’ll understand some of your questions. She hates to brush her teeth, so as soon as she hears “brush”, she says “No!” (She’s been teething again, lately, so her gums have been really swollen.) We’re still trying to get her used to potty training. We’ll get there.

That’s it for now. I know I have more news, but I’m hungry and I have to eat. Cheers!

Yes, I’m alive. I can’t really think of anything to post. But at least you know that I’m here.