I don’t know about this Azeroth place anymore.
I am beginning to understand why players stick with maybe one to three solid classes/specializations: truly and deeply specializing takes hours of intense scrutiny and practice. I am feeling somewhat a restoration druid ‘failure’ these days: I have the gear, and yet I still can’t produce the healing potential Momokawa possesses. One HUGE issue I had the other night was I tried to use Clique, and it was an abysmal failure. Well, it wasn’t: I was. I didn’t take the time to try to understand it, and it disrupted my targeting. That’s an understatement.
Sitting here trying to decide what kind of player I want to be, after all these years: do I want to focus on one or two characters and dig into raiding? Do I want to go more solo, play with my Garrison?
I don’t know. Don’t judge me, please –it could happen to anyone–but in my own little Matty-shack a mouse family has moved in (I have called in professionals to help them move out), and the wisteria vines engulfed over the eastern facade, growing into the crevices of shingles, denying their shoots of sunlight, producing pale whitish-yellow chlorophyll-depleted tendrils. In other words: I better look after my own garrison, instead of a make-believe one. I envision a not-too-distant-future where I’m sitting at my keyboard adding a pet or lighting sconce to pixelized castle while around me are mouse parties and Sleeping Beauty style thorny vines.
Warlords of Draenor is going to be huge. Garrisons will be awesome. The story will be fine, and Draenei will have a role to play. It’ll all work out, and is not worth any iota of stress or concern.
Then why am I starting to wake up again at 5:30AM with headaches?
Here is what I do know: summer is drawing to a fast close, and this summer has been wonderful for me. I consciously did nothing. I read one book (and I loved it, every word). I watched Game of Thrones repeats on Netflix. I played Hearthstone like a old card shark. I sat like Margot Tenenbaum (without the cigarettes) and relaxed as if it was my job.
I had a great time yesterday goofing off with Starre in Blackwing Lair on various characters, and made a Red Knight ensemble for Luperci:
So mice, take notice: pack your little cheesy bags and get the hell out of Dodge. I know you’re not like Cinderella mice and will not sew any dresses or make pearl necklaces for me, so scram. I’ve got other things to do than worry about you.
Like go get a kitten.
Sugar&Blood 
My mouse policy is to make my husband catch them in humane traps and let them out in the woods. He thinks I’m crazy but only one time did one little bugger come back and had the nerve to come upstairs! That’s just too much! Had to call in the mouse hunters!
Where’s the gamer quiz, am I missing something or did it just fall off?
Oh! Here it is!
http://www.gamerdna.com/quizzes/bartle-test-of-gamer-psychology?cobrand=
And CD Rogue is not catching any mice. Not his gig.
Mice. Now to me that would sound like a good excuse for a kitten, but then I love kittens.
Luperci’s new clothes look spiffy… and I’m with you on the character potential thing. I feel decently competent on my paladins, though I suspect I could be better. I’m a little afraid Tyl’s not quite up to potential with his dps, though.
And I just can’t decide what I’ll be doing first/most next expansion.
Luperci is fun to dress up – too bad she’s kind of a show-boater. Maybe a kitten is in order…hmmmm
I’ll see your mice and raise you a mad nest of red ants. I hate the summer.
Maybe we can get my mice and your ants together for a party and serve them special Kool-aid? It’ll knock ’em out! lol