| If any of you not currently playing WoW are considering it . . . |
[29th. Nov, 2009|09:46 am] |
NOW is probably a good time to act. I should have posted this yesterday, but forgot to, alas.
Just for this weekend -- meaning, until tomorrow -- World of Warcraft is on sale. The deal is: the original World of Warcraft game is available as an electronic download for only 5$. That's right, 5$. It's seldom sold in stores alone any more, but when it is, it's normally offered for $20.
Now, with this original game, you cannot go to Outland or Northrend, you can only level your character to level 60, and you won't be able to make a death knight, period. I think you also will not be able to make a blood elf or a Dranei. It's painfully limited. The only thing this original edition of the game is truly suited for is for the timid beginner who wants to spend the bare minimum of money finding out if they really, actually do want to play in the World of Warcraft -- so cautious that they are less afraid of having to spend more money on the expansions later than they are of making a mistake now. Because, trust me, if you decide you do want to play, you WILL be buying The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King.
HOWEVER, you will still be playing online with other people, and you will have ten days to play free. After that, you have to subscribe. WoW has various payment plans -- by the month, every two months, every three months, annually, or using time cards (even gift time cards). Take note of this, kiddies, as it will be a little important later on.
The other big deal, which is the one I recommend even for beginners, is this: the World of Warcraft Battlechest edition. With this, you get the original, base game, AND the Burning Crusade expansion. You'll get to make blood elves and Dranei if you want, and you can go to Outland and level up to 70. You also get two thoroughly out-of-date little game manuals, at no extra cost. You still won't ever be able to make a death knight, or go to Northrend (which is a fantastic place, if you ask me). Normally, it's $30 in stores. Supposedly only this weekend, Blizzard is selling the BOXED EDITION ONLY (not the download edition) for $20. Again, if you stick with the game, you WILL eventually be buying Wrath of the Lich King. Trust me.
Again, you'll have ten days to play for free. |
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| Retiring Prompt Free-For-All |
[28th. Nov, 2009|07:15 pm] |
As of this last ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) areyougame session, we have some prompts to retire!
So, if you are looking for a challenge or just need something to keep you occupied during the the next few months, feel free to let these bunnies take up residence with you. No claiming necessary for the free-for-all, just take, create and post here sometime during the rest of this month.
Please follow the regular posting format for the free-for-all.
Prompting will commence again on January 1. |
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| What I did today. |
[27th. Nov, 2009|09:46 pm] |
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I felt like I did nothing today and am getting nearly choked up and in tears about it. Getting choked up and in tears about my life is something that's happening distressingly often these days. Maybe it's menopause. Maybe . . . well, it gets into some personal stuff.
Today I:
1.) Leveled up my little Dranei hunter on Moon Guard, and ended up helping another player who'd never run a hunter before. She has a warlock at 80, she's just never played a hunter. We ended up talking for more than an hour and friending each other.
2.) Writing two and a half hours in Battleworld with Manya.
3.) Went to the gym and worked out.
4.) Bought food.
5.) Went home and leveled a Night Elf hunter I have Alliance-side on Feathermoon, so he'll be high enough level that I can get to Stormwind and maybe watch this roleplay event tomorrow.
6.) Sat in bed and read a bit further and did some checkmarking in the cognitive-behavior therapy book my therapist gave to me.
7.) Lay down for a nap (at around 3:30PM) despite my better judgement and the fact that the lawn desperately needs mowing.
8.) Woke up at 9PM. In my lexicon, that's known as "crashing and burning".
9.) Commented on a few people's LiveJournals. |
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| Sales Over |
[28th. Nov, 2009|12:18 am] |
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All of the IJ holiday sales have ended and prices are back to normal. We will be putting Permanently Insane accounts on sale for their regular price before Christmas. |
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[27th. Nov, 2009|11:32 pm] |
Here is my one_liners challenge set.
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Claim: Cloud/Yuffie
Table Set One |
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| Black Friday Sale is here |
[27th. Nov, 2009|08:05 am] |
I have turned on today's special Black Friday sale.
Until 4:00pm(EST) we will be holding a sale on Permanently Insane accounts, Permanent Extra Userpics, and Insane Userpics the prices are as follows.
Permanently Insane account - $30
Insane Userpics - $70
Permanent Extra Userpics - $5
At 4:00 today all prices on IJ will go back to their normal amounts. |
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| Excuse me while I scream |
[26th. Nov, 2009|05:14 pm] |
There are days when I want to kill my partner. This is one of them.
As some of you may be aware, we're under a few deadlines at the moment. For one thing, we have roughly 1 week left in our current place of residence. For another, while we've put in an option on a rental place, we haven't heard back from them yet (except for a quick call yesterday which didn't make me feel positive at all, since they were saying firstly they hadn't heard back from our one and only rental reference, and secondly they wanted whole heaps of information about what Himself does for a living). So while we do know we have to move out, we don't know whether we have somewhere else to move into at the other end of it. Stress number one.
Stress number two: The real estate agent who is attempting to sell the place has one offer, for about $110K less than we need to clear all our existing debts. We discovered today there's a potential second buyer (I discovered this when I spotted him peering in our front windows, under the impression the house was empty). Rather than refer the man to the real estate agents, Himself has decided to try and sell the place privately, and thus save the fees and commissions.
I've already warned Himself if this backfires, and we lose both buyers, he's going to be hearing about it from me on possibly a daily basis for the next twenty years at least. Other than this, I'm staying the hells out - I don't have the energy, or the stamina, to get involved in arguing with him.
Stress number three: I went for a job interview last week. I still haven't heard back from the company involved, and I'm suspecting I'll get the usual answer when I do (ie "Sorry, not interested"). So I'm busy waiting back to hear from the recruiting firm, who'll probably give me some kind of vague answer along the lines of "oh, they didn't say" rather than the truth of the matter, which is probably along the lines of me being too old, too female, and/or too fat for the job (it's a helpdesk operator position - by "too fat" they mean "not pretty enough", or "not suitable office totty". Women are under-represented in the IT industry for some reason, and none of the guys can figure out quite why...). So I have this inevitable disclosure to look forward to.
Stress number four: Himself's parents have made an offer to us of the use of a couple of rooms in their house should we find ourselves without somewhere to go. It's starting to look like we might have to take them up on this. I don't want to do this, since at present I'm stressed enough without having to wear my "public" face all the damn time.
Stress number five: I'm unemployed. Christmas is coming up. 'Nuff said?
Stress number six: Day one of my period, and I have cramps and a temper like a bear with toothache.
End result: while I'm sure my situation has a whole heap of positives in there (as per my nice rep from Commonwealth Rehab Services) I can't really see them at the moment. All I can see is the potential for things to go very badly wrong. This doesn't make me any more likely to relax, or calm down, or want to do anything other than sit in a corner and scream for a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not able to do this at the moment because Himself's folks are over doing a spot of weeding for us (and probably thinking of me as the most lazy bitch in the universe, which is probably true) and I can't really let loose until they've gone.
Small relief: I've just discovered I can suspend my health insurance rather than cancelling it, which means I've one less expense to worry about. It also means I've another $60 per fortnight to play with when it comes to rent and similar, rather than spending it on the health insurance.
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| My last post was depressing... |
[25th. Nov, 2009|01:11 am] |
So, to cheer you up, here is a 33 second clip of a bear pole-dancing!
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| Found a manga site! |
[24th. Nov, 2009|06:02 am] |
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| | The Dual Dragons - FF II Live or Die | ] |
Manga 123 has a metric ton of manga available to read.
I've been going through Claymore. Then there's a bunch more I'm going to read. Any suggestions? |
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| Prompt #68 |
[24th. Nov, 2009|02:55 am] |
Balamb slid in with 10 points and won. All other Gardens must have been crushed under huge egos. Poor dears.
This week's word prompt: #68 - 2a.m.
It's a time where bars start closing and make a last call, or where one might feel the press of the night and loneliness creeping in. It can be the time when fighting inner demons are the hardest or the sight you see when you open your eyes on a restless night - or maybe it's always that time when you open your eyes.
However your muses share the time, write it up in 100 words.
Suggestion Box |
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| Something in Nothing |
[23rd. Nov, 2009|03:45 pm] |
Title: Something in nothing
Characters: Iriving
Team: Balamb G baby
Rating: Pg
Word Count: 100.
Author's Notes: This muse doesn't talk much.
Ego. Bravado, boldness or courage. Whatever you call it, it was something that he always felt short on.
Everyone chalked him up to be some great thing, with skills that were a mile long but, he wasn't. He didn't have to skills - they were flukes. A series of lucky events that worked in his favor.
Now here he sat, being briefed by Martine about some task he now had to do and how SeeDs were coming from Balamb.
Irvine nodded. Snipe the Sorceress; that was something could do. It was something in the list of nothings he had skill in. |
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[23rd. Nov, 2009|11:00 am] |
An offline friend of line is in trouble. Deep trouble. Sunday morning, I was crying about it (as well as my own manifold problems). No, I don't think it was just the menopause.
After the initial flailing and some talking with someone else, my mind cleared and I thought of one or two ideas. I'll say more later.
Gums are still sore, but probably still healing. Still playing World of Warcraft.
My therapist gave me a gift last Thursday: a cognitive-behavioral therapy workbook, with exercises. He told me to do the first chapter. It teaches stress-coping and relief strategies. Gods, do I need that just now. |
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| Out for the count |
[22nd. Nov, 2009|02:15 am] |
I am a little slammed with end of term papers and projects at the moment. I am reading you all and will get with the comments and things soon.
But...
I'm gonna have to really enforce a week off the journaling services. I have to use what I have of my "holiday break" for getting a foothold before some of this stuff eats me alive. All days will be study days, with the exception of Thursday in which I stuff myself with free turkey and other om nom noms at mom's house.
I hope you all have a good week. Keep up the good journaling. I will need some non-textbook reading for when I come back! ^_^ v
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| "Energizer Bunny arrested... |
[21st. Nov, 2009|11:00 pm] |
charged with battery."
Yuk yuk yuk. ^_~
That was in our psychology textbook, in a chapter discussing intelligence.
I am only reading this because my brother is making me so shut up. I can't help it if I memorize thing good for the tests. :P |
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| IJ Holiday Sale |
[21st. Nov, 2009|02:30 pm] |
We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.
The prices are be as follows
Self-Committed[paid]
1 Month -> $5
6 Month -> $15 $10
12 Month -> $25 $18
Extra Userpicx
6 Month -> $10 $5
12 Month -> $20 $15
Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts. |
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| An update on my surgery |
[20th. Nov, 2009|09:32 pm] |
I'd been fearing the worst, but I went back to the oral surgeon on Thursday. He was pleased and even seemed surprised at how well the gum graft was doing. He snipped away a dangling thread from the stitches on the roof of my mouth; I think the remaining stitches dropped out later that afternoon.
I'll see him again in two weeks.
Lately, I could almost swear I can sometimes feel sensation within the transplant, although reason says that is impossible. There is no way there could be nerves there yet, although by now the blood vessels from the tissue around the graft must be growing into it. Sometimes I feel an itch around the edges for a few moments, but it goes away quickly. Other times, there's pain on one side or the other along a canine tooth. More often, though, it just feels like a piece of drying meat across the lower part of my incisors.
Afterward, I celebrated by having a mushroom burger and a chocolate shake at a restaurant called the Red Robin at a nearby mall. It's been a while since I went to a restaurant. Maybe not the smartest thing to do, but it made me happy.
It's strange how much this surgery seems to have knocked me out. Part of it may also be what has happened in World of Warcraft, but that's better left for another post. The surgery itself knocked me on my ass for two days, during which I mostly slept.
I still haven't actually dared to look at the graft.
I think there's a scar on the roof of my mouth -- a scar that's supersensitive. Hopefully it will go away in time. |
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[20th. Nov, 2009|06:55 pm] |
Chilling out, a little TV, good pizza
Good times. |
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| Can the season be over now? |
[20th. Nov, 2009|11:56 am] |
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Because... man. We suck. |
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| Daily Buddhist Wisdom |
[19th. Nov, 2009|12:54 pm] |
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| | Mai Yamane - After, in the dark ~ Torch Song | ] |
By charity, goodness, restraint, and self-control men and woman alike can store up a well-hidden treasure -- a treasure which cannot be given to others and which robbers cannot steal. A wise person should do good -- that is the treasure which will not leave one.
- "Khuddhaka Patha" |
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