Woot. Blizz came through. They returned the 5k they forgot to send me, and returned the 15k from the guild bank, along with an extra 15k. I put in a ticket letting them know they gave us 30k instead of 15. Maybe we’ll get lucky and be rewarded for honesty, eh eh? It only took 2ish years but I finished leveling my hunter to 80 earlier this year. The past couple of months I’ve been working on my Priest who is almost 80! Woot she’s 77 as we speak. We’re in the process of trying to come up with a good guild name. We want to start fresh with a new guild due to drama involving past leadership. It no longer feels like home, but leaves a bad taste in your mouth. So if anyone can think of anything funny/amusing let me know! My current vote is Hello Kitty’s Litter Box, or Hello Squidy which our dear Kinon(Benji) came up with. Hehehe I generally don’t talk about gaming here, but I think I shall start. It is a part of our life, after all Kai and I met when we first starting playing World of Warcraft. We’ve been married for almost three years this November.

For starters right now we are running a guild along with the rest of our wonderful and amazing class leaders, named Iliad on Stormrage. Which as I’ve said we’re looking to change. Clan Tata, comprised of Tieria, Cliche, Kinon and Bismol, are a group of friends we met when we started playing again. We’re going to have the chance to actually meet up with them and hang out when we go to California for Thanksgiving. They live in the same area as Kai’s family. Our main toons are both druids. I play a doomchicken named Lunaspire and Kai plays a resto druid named Zaltak. We truly enjoy playing with the people in our guild. We’ve got a really good group of people who are all different and interesting. So this ended up being a bit of a ramble and disconnected I think. Anyways, looking forward to the new xpac immensely. It reminds both Kai and I of EQ. Something we miss but could never go back to. The new xpac is going to be super fun I think.

Now if I could just get a beta key for Hello Kitty online…. PLEASE! I BEG OF THEE! ALSO you must check out Kinon’s comic Dubious Company and Georgia’s nerdalicious game and miscellaneous updates at NerdSalad! They are guildies and awesome peeps.

Someone remind me I must take new photos of Kai. I either forget or he doesn’t let me! I also need a card for my camera. I can’t seem to find one of them. Poop. I’m so, so glad my camera doesn’t use micro sd cards. With the way I lose things, I’d lose them and never find them. I also need a camera bag. I’ve never used the one that I got free. It was oddly shaped and annoying. Now if I could just find one I like that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

OH also. My mom talked to Gerry today. Odd conversation. She left it on speakerphone so I could hear. He was happy as a Lark. Apparently there was a prophecy today and today is the day for all believers. He never elaborated. Also he closed out their bank account because he insists my mom is transferring us all of their funds. Which she is not, and in fact has never transferred money to us from that account. He kept saying he forgave her for what she did to him, and that God was shooting power through his body and was pushing him forward and backwards. It was seriously strange. A lot of it made no sense, the stuff that made sense, still made no sense. Fortunately his doctor moved his appointment up to this Thursday. The nurse called him and told him it was just an appointment to see how much better he’s gotten since he stopped drinking alcohol. They figured he would still refuse if they called it an evaluation. Which is probably true. So as of now, I don’t know how things are going to work out, or when we’ll be moving. But hopefully things work out and he voluntarily goes to Michigan to be with his daughter. No one wants to force him out. But he definitely can’t stay there, and my mom can’t afford to stay there alone.

Yup I think that’s it for the night. Off to play my priest since the children’s are in bed! Woot!

So I’ve been growing exceedingly frustrated with my current camera: Kodak Z740. I’ve had it for a few years now. It seems like in the past year it’s been slowly breaking. Out of let’s say two hundred fifty photos I have maybe ten decent photos. When I first got it I had more like two hundred decent photos. Over the past year the images have been getting horribly blurry, the colour has been doing funny things, I’ve been getting weird red/blue lines, and the settings aren’t working properly. My flash seems like it’s going out as well. I can take the same photo five times and have five drastically different photos. One will come out practically completely white, another will be so dark you can’t see any thing and then a couple will be too dark or too light. It’s just weird. And it’s slowly getting worse.

I’ve missed so many great shots of Sascha and Fumiko because of it, and it’s depressing. You can’t re-capture a memory. So I’ve been looking at cameras lately. Desperately hoping we’ll have enough left over from our stimulus check, IF we get our stimulus check, to get a camera. I’ve pretty much decided I want to go with the Nikon D60. I wanted the D40x, but they’ve replaced it with the D60, and that’s fine. I’ve been going over reviews on it, reviewing photos taken with it, talking to people with Nikon cameras. I really think it’s the one I want. One of the big reasons is because, thanks to Miss Stacey I want the D300. If I get the D60 and learn it I won’t have any difficulties in using the D300, one day, when I can afford it, or a similar camera to it.

But yes. My dream is to have my own studio, and be able to do this as more than just a hobby. And gosh darn it I want to stop being upset because I’m missing capturing memories of my babies. So here’s to hoping we get our check soon and have enough left over to get it. It’s around $600.00-$800.00 depending on where you go.

Also for any of you out there with Nikon dslr’s if you have any input or comments, feel free to leave a comment. I welcome any input about the camera.