I caught up with Ashes to Ashes (series two) finally. omg ;_;

Will this week ever end? Want to see Harry Potter so badly. We're going on Saturday with girlboymusic and her folks (and possibly my sister). Eee!

Raid is chugging along smoothly. My shaman is over half of the way to 77. SOCLOSE. I have a full set of BoEs/crafted gear for her when she dings. Can't wait.

The current rumor at work is that Pulte is going to make us move to their NJ office. Which is a little under a two hour drive with traffic from where I live (technically an hour and fifteen, but south to north in the morning and north to south in the evening is so horrible that it would without a doubt end up being two hours one way). So, no. Not unless they literally doubled my salary. I think I'd rather suffer the stress of unemployment than the stress of being on the road four hours a day just to work some shitty admin job. Hopefully, they won't do this, or if they do they will just lay me off without offering a position.

It was officially announced today that I will be promoted to Senior come August 1st.

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A few colleagues of mine were also promoted (Senior/Manager). I couldn't help but wear a big, fat grin on my face as I got a swell of e-mails and IMs of "Congrats!" ♥ A couple of them came in before I even realized the announcement was sent out XD;

Makes working until 10 tonight a little more worth it.

Wallet was found thanks to Luisa, her friend, and this bizarre and beautiful world. Seriously, I think St. Anthony and my mom were looking out for me. Thank you so much to everyone involved.

So. Harry Potter.
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Only bummer of the day: was so stoked about the crazy random happenstance of the Great Wallet Find 09 that I was caught by a speed camera. UNCOOL.

OMG.

JUST WHO CAME BACK FROM A PRE-SCREENING OF HALF-BLOOD PRINCE?

( NO ~REAL~ SPOILERS. I THINK. )

Y'all go watch so I can squee with you :(

*RON HUGS* < It'll catch on. Trust me.

SO remember that time that I left my wallet on top of my car after getting gas and then drove away? And now my wallet is somewhere along 108? And my friend James and I couldn't find it? So now I am wallet-less?

BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TODAY. BALLS.

It's actually not a huge deal. I didn't have any cash. The only important things in there were my credit card and license, both of which can be replaced. I already called my bank and stuff. And I had a prayer card from my mom's funeral in there, but Dad said that he has another one. So I had my initial freakout, but now I'm fine. I think it's a sign that I shouldn't carry so much crap around in my wallet. Maybe I need a smaller one.

I had had that wallet since I was 13 years old, though. I LOVED that wallet. LAME. LAME DAY.

ETA
It is a small, small, wonderful, weird world. I think my wallet may have been found. Will let you all know when I know more.

BLEAVEL IS GOING TO BE IN MOTHERFUCKING MAMMA MIA!
I can't even deal. I CANNOT. EVEN. DEAL. THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO COLLAPSE IN ON ITSELF. THAT'S HOW AWESOME THIS IS.

Erin texted and told me, which is A++. She also did a meme with me and asked me to splain some fandoms. SO HERE WE GO. ( Read more... )

Also, to make this entry unnecessarily sad, we're putting the final touches on the order for Mom's tombstone. Apparently we can inscribe something on the back of it? We're trying to think of something. Dad asked me if I wanted to put a poem or something that I'd written, but I don't think my writing can do something like that justice. Hmm.

The weekend was nice. Brad and I celebrated what we've always considered our true anniversary--the day we met. We went out for a nice dinner. Remembering how it was last year, I still can't help but be amazed at how quickly our lives changed and how quickly we adapted to living with each other. Definitely an example of "when it's right, it's right". We took a huge gamble and won. ♥

On the raid front, positive news: our twelve or so active raiders decided to leave the guild. There wasn't much of a guild, anyway, just basically us.

The GM seemed okay when we joined. Really, I didn't care, we just had to leave our old guild in order to commit to the raiding alliance, and we joined the first alliance guild that offered. But then the GM took his "alt" (really, his raiding main, though he tried to convince us otherwise) to an elitist high-end raiding guild and lost interest in actually helping out his guild or running with us at all. We tried to take him to a 10 man hard mode run and he was just snotty and rude, telling us in so many words that we sucked when we fucked up, then just raid quitting when he lost patience for it. He's an ass.

So, recently our RL started talking to another one of the guilds that's in the alliance who have about 8-10 raiders of their own and he decided it'd be sweet if we joined their guild and added a few more of their members to the run. This still leaves us plenty of room for the few random puggers we enjoy running with. Same loot system, too. New group that needs a bit of training, but they seem to learn fast. We made very solid progress on the Keepers with them last night, good sign.

And the guild who ditched our alliance to pair with our old guild is totally getting theirs; their Ulduar run failed, they freaked out when they realized how badly our old guild sucks, and now they are running Naxx--AHAHAHA--to gear up fail old guild. Can I just say, LMAO? Because. Aaaaaaahahahhaa.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: my shaman is level 75! OMG. I've healed a Nexus run, as well, and it went rather smoothly. Only one death, and that was because the mage forgot to jump during Keristraza. Silly mage.

Tonight is a continuation of Ulduar 10. We are at Yogg. omf.

EVER.


I watched this clip about 3 times already: once on TV, one more cause we recorded it (XD) then I found it on YT.

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I got a wedding invitation over the weekend, which included the following question:

If you could choose 3 songs for the reception what would they be?

F-list, I'd like to know your input! :D

One year ago today, Brad moved in with me. ♥

Things that I need to stop doing:
1. Drinking a lot in the middle of four-show weekends.
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That is all.
Also, I MISS LJ AND UPDATING EVERY DAY. WHY DO I FAIL.
oh right, because my job eats my soul with ketchup and mustard. That's ok though. I love it dearly.

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Fuck you, RTD. Seriously. With something preferably large and not lubricated.

I am sure comments will get spoilery. You are warned. Also--I am unspoiled for tomorrow, so please don't discuss it here.

yo bbs. i've got a small question to you.

next monday i'll be on my way to NYC as you already know. and i'm not really sure how to get to our hotel from jfk airport. our hotel address is 79th and Columbus Ave. you can find it here.
any help will be very appreciated :)

( YESSTYLE RUN! )

Everything was 10-30% off, and quality ended up fairly good, too. The fabric on the tops aren't thin, and only the blue/white bag has an issue. Any suggestions on how to remedy that horrid smell? D:

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Work has been, in the words of my manager, HELL. I've been leaving work around 10:30pm - yep, 14 hour days. It's only going to get crazier until after October 15. I miss the slow days.

Sucky economy sucks.

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♥ ♥ ♥ and love arrows to mellowdee!! :)

TORCHWOOD IS AMAZING, THE END.

In other news, I healed a regular Utgarde Keep on my shaman last night. My first dungeon healing experience! We were all around the same level and gear type (quest blues and greens), so it was fairly appropriate. And I have to say, it could have gone worse. I was very nervous but also excited. The tank died once, which was my fault (I sort of panicked when I saw one of the DPS almost dying and let the tank get down too low), but we still managed to get that boss down. And we wiped once on Ingvar simply because the tank forgot to run out of Dark Smash, so, not really my fault, that one. In total, one death and one wipe. Not really that bad, considering I still don't have my level 80 special heal yet (and when I recall our first foray into that place on our mains and how much we wiped, it seems like a huge improvement). I went OOM a lot, but only at the very end of boss fights, which is encouraging. The group was very nice about it, said I did just fine. No loot, but we got our UK quests done, big fat experience there. I figured out a macro for an "oh shit" heal later on that I think will improve my next attempt. Huge learning curve for me.

Rather than get all emo over the random wtfery of our raiding alliance, I am just focusing on my shaman. She's halfway to 72. I hafta say, Northrend is actually fun after all the old world and even BC content. We've quested out Borean Tundra so far, and just moved onto Howling Fjord.

Brad is leveling his DK with me. It's actually kind of hilarious how untouchable a DK with earth shield is. Swear to god, his health never ticks below 90% at any point if we're together, no matter how many mobs he's got on him. LOL. Epic. My mana pool and spell power number keep getting bigger. Hopefully I'll not suck completely in my first dungeon. I've got the spec down, certainly, I just have to learn how to put all of it into action, know when to hit which heal, which oh shit buttons to use when, and so forth. Any healing advice, healers out there? I know already from chatting non-stop with a holy pally friend that I am going to go OOM a lot in the beginning, but any general tips would be useful.

Work sucks and I am almost hoping to be let go at this point. Or re-hired by our new owner. That might be cool. Either option seems equally appealing at this point. I think it's the anticipation of all the badness to come (and it's been this way for years now, a slow escalation of "blah" to higher and higher levels of it and there never seems to be a stopping point) that's crushing my spirit more than anything else. I use to love working here, love the people. Now the only thing that gets me through the day is thinking of going home to Brad.

I had today off. I have tomorrow off. HELL YES
Tomorrow I need to go to the mall and get new glasses. Because I busted my old ones when I fell on my face last week. And no, I wasn't drunk when I did it. I just tripped over my huge feet.

MEME!
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Crappy weekend for a variety of small reasons, but eh. My shaman is a couple bubbles from 71 (!!), which is pretty awesome. We managed to get General down to 30% or so on a couple attempts last night. Not bad.

( Having drama with the raiding alliance though, and it may not exist/we may not be included much longer. )