On a whim the other day, Matt and I decided to make a trek over to Chapters and pick up some books. He got some geeky ones, I got some girly ones.

I’m in the middle of Remember Me right now and I’m loving it! It reminds me of Samantha Who? in a way. Fantastic show, by the way. I’m a fan of shows that are either narrated (like Sex and the City) or have mini-titles (like this one!). Anyway, back to the book. I’ve got all of the Shopaholic books and the Undomestic Goddess so I had to have this one when it came out. I waited a bit and got it for quite a discount! On top of that, each of the other four books (all Red Dress Ink, by the way, my favourite kind!) was $4.99 with a 10% discount! Go go bargain shopper! It made up for Matt’s fancy programming books (which I may use someday myself!) that I don’t happen to have a photo of right now.

Right now my head is killing me, but I had to blog. Why, you ask? This is why:

GM Visits Goldshire (Argent Dawn - US)

Originally uploaded by angelamaphone

I posted this screenshot last night, and meant to blog it, but forgot. It’s one of those things that, being a total nerd, I was incredibly excited about. It’s not often you see GMs in-game!

Anyway, I have been hard at work on my World of Warcraft characters lately. Thaelani (If you can even see her, since the armory is being crazy lately and awaiting refresh) is now level 61 - nine to go! I have been farming and PvPing like crazy on Kim - she has almost her whole season 1 arena set now and has 6/8 cards for the Blessings Deck. I just need to get the money to buy the last two cards and I’ll be all set!

Someone bring me some munchy food, fast! I need it! Need it, I tell you! I might go make some chicken wings or a pizza pocket or something soon. I don’t know yet. But I’m resisting eating the entire bag of Doritos over on Matt’s desk!

Speaking of chicken wings, they’re opening a Pizza Town right around the corner from us. Right around the corner! I know, I know, you’re all wondering how I’m going to eat at Pizza Town with my diet, but honestly… I’ve lightened up. Matt says I’m “falling off the wagon” but really I consider it self-acceptance. I don’t overindulge. I weigh myself and I exercise when I’m feeling up to it. Let’s face it, depression makes doing every little thing difficult, if not downright impossible at times, so I cut myself some slack. I’m getting good at watching what I’m eating and knowing what it will do to my body. So if along the way I learn to love myself as I am, power to me, I think!

Anyway, as most of my friends know, Hallow’s End has begun and World of Warcraft is full of the same costumes, candy, bobbing apples and things as always. The main event right now is hunting down the Headless Horseman. It’s a fairly quick fight, especially with a full, well-geared group, and you can do it five times per hour, assuming a different person summons him each time. It’s almost like free epics!

Right now, Kim’s gotten everything I want for her except for the Sinister Squashling pet. I’m a bit of a vanity pet collector of sorts. I don’t have the bank space (yet) for all the pets I’d like to get, but right now I have a fairly nice collection, including the very rare Captured Firefly that I managed to loot last week.

Tonight, after doing our planned Heroic Slave Pens run and running the Headless Horseman event five times, I hopped on my Swift Flying Broom and went to visit an innkeeper. She turned me into a leper gnome, which my groupmates loved. “That’s so not Kim!” I think was the exact quote. We decided to take it a bit further. I put on my Farmer’s Broom (which I have since enchanted with Fiery to go along with my Wicked Witch’s Hat and generally shadow-y appearance) and a friend of mine tossed a Weighted Jack-o’-Lantern my way, and, well… His words are the best description of this ever. “That is a lot of Halloween crammed into a very tiny little space!”

This game is addicting. And quite possibly neverending.

It’s no shock to anyone here that I love my online friends. My husband and I met online, and my best friend and I have never met in person, yet we talk every day.

It’s also no surprise to anyone who’s read my blog lately that I’ve been trying to make more connections nearby. I want to have friends to go out with sometimes, for a drink, for a movie, for pizza… anything, really. The other day, I thought I had an opportunity to do that, but it didn’t work out. Naturally, I was pretty bummed.

I logged into World of Warcraft to try and chat it up with some of my friends, and said that I was a bit upset that it didn’t work out. My friend Tibburt met me in Stormwind, told me to follow him out to the bridge, and sat down with me. He gave me a stack of drinks, and just sat and talked about water-walking and his girlfriend’s balding pet bird.

It’s things like these that make the loneliness a bit more bearable, you know?