I’m totally posting from Matt’s laptop right now. Why, you ask? Because my computer decided to hate me and stop working properly.

It’s been terribly slow for a while, but I just dealt with it because, well, what do you do? But today, trying to play The Movies, I couldn’t get it to work. It kept saying that I had the wrong version of Windows Media Player. Yet… I had the one higher than it required. I tried rolling it back to 9, no luck. Tried upgrading to 11, worked once, but the game didn’t work. Then I tried rolling back to 10 to roll back to 9, said that 10 wasn’t installed properly and kept trying to get me to upgrade to 11, but it wouldn’t let me. To say the least, it was frustrated. By the end of it all, I was in tears on the phone with Matt, and we decided to just reformat it and reinstall Windows.

So I spent a good part of the night backing up files for all my 80+ programs (haha, wonder why my computer was slow?) and downloading install files so that I could install it all quickly without spending too much time on it.

Oh, look, my install is done! Time to go play with it!

I’m getting in the habit of eating healthy and exercising now. I’m kinda on a roll, to be honest. I have done some form of exercise (either a walk or Turbo Jam) every day since last Sunday. I’ve done strength training for the past three days. I’ve stayed within my food intake limits every single day this week. I’ve drank upwards of 8 glasses - usually around ten! - every day. And today, I started a multivitamin.

I’m seeing progress, too. I’ve lost yet another pound, which puts me down 4 pounds from my starting weight. Slow progress is better than no progress, in my opinion.

So, since all my poor friends have heard about for the past few days is my diet/exercise/whatever, time to talk about other things!

Last night, my raiding team took on Void Reaver for the first time. What a fun fight! I was very scared, reading the strategy, when I saw this:

Threat is an issue for high-threat generating classes, particularly shadow priests, so be careful: your threat will also be increased by healing your group members that get hit by Arcane Orbs.

However, I was able to maintain my threat and survive! Well, until the tank died. Y’know. But things happen. We got him to, like, 36% or something on our second try. Sadly, the amount of trash there is and the difficult pulls only gave us two tries on Void Reaver. By the time the second time came around, we had respawns all through the instance and couldn’t go any further. Regardless, it was fantastic fun and I was so excited to see something different for a change!

Kim, my shadow priest, is doing rather well in the gear department. She needs a few more things from Karazhan and one item from Heroic badges, but she’s starting to look pretty good!

Anyway, I think I’m going to play The Movies. Haven’t played it in a while, and decided it sounded like fun!