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Yes, it’s another gamer-chick post.  You’ll have to tolerate it, because it’s part of who I am.

Anyways.

So I had the afternoon off Friday, and D and I were able to get some gaming time in together.  (Note…I’m giving up on the “+cat” nicknames, and I’ll just use the first letter of their names.  D=Hubby.) 

How’d we get in gaming time with an infant?  Tired baby = Nap = time to do what we want.  H took a very long nap in the afternoon and another in the evening.  I opted to ignore the cleaning for a day.  So D and I logged into WoW and did some Cataclysm stuff. 

We completed the Worgen starting area.  (Worgen = Werewolf, for the uninitiated.) 

There she is.  Isn’t she CUTE?  Aren’t I CUTE as a wolf?   Notice….I did NOT say DOG. 

So I made her a druid.  I love druid stuff in real life.  So I always thought Druid would be my class.  But alas, I have tried to play a druid 5 different times in the last, er 4 years.  I can’t do it.  I loose interest around level 20.  But I always tried feral (change into powerful animals) or resto (healing) druids before.  This time…I’m going balance.  D says that’s more like a Mage.  I like mages.  So there you go. 

So D and I did the whole starting area.  We fought in the battles against the attacking Worgen as humans.  I LOVE LOVE LOVED the cinematic that explained how I became infected with the Worgen curse and turned into one.  That was so freakin cool.  We did the entire questline before bed. 

And then…and then….I felt so depressed.  I was so sad about the outcome of the questline.  And I was so sad that I’m stuck as a Worgen.  I mean, even if I ultimately like my character as the wolf chick.  I felt sad for her. 

I also had dreams overnight where I was fighting werewolves and undead.  So there you go.  Video game dreams for the win!

I noticed something about my gameplay though.  I play Alliance, because that’s what D played when he got me started.  I’ve always thought the Horde characters were ugly.  No way did I want to play ugly toons.  I mean, you spend the game basically following your character, staring at their behinds.  They should be cute behinds.  But if I look over my list of toons….they’re night elves, draeni (which I can’t spell for some reason), and now worgen.  Any humans, dwarves, or gnomes I’ve started, are extremely low level and languishing without my attention.  Hmmm.  I apparently don’t like to follow the human-looking creatures.  Hmmm.

Or maybe it’s the blue.  I like the blue skins…

Gotta go put up the Christmas Tree quick…so D and I can play through the Goblin starting zone!

Or as I like to call it, “When Mommy Actually Gets To Play.”

Ok, I can’t blame my inability to play World of Warcraft: Cataclysm on launch day solely on the baby.  The snowstorm that made my commute longer and my decision to attend my Weight Watchers meeting, are equally to blame.

But now that I’ve spent 2 hours exploring Cataclysm (what?  It’s a work night)…this is what I’ve accomplished.

1.  My Main, Suda, is now all trained up on her professions and her flying skills. 

2.  I am significantly poorer, since I bought Suda the super-fast flying skill.  Face it, there was no way I was going to ever complete something that would give me a 310 flying mount.  It just wasn’t going to happen.  I don’t have the patience to do those things. 

3.  I flew around over some of  Azeroth to see the land changes.  And I got bored.  310 flying speed isn’t lightening fast.  It should be. 

4.  I deleted 2 toons from my maxed-out 10 toon Alliance list.  I want all my Alliance toons on one server, and my Horde toons on another.  (Mind you, my max ever Horde toon is, like, 20.)  I needed to make space, and one was just a name holder anyways.

5.  I have created a Worgen.  She is CUTE.  All fuzzy and werewolfy, but with really cute hair and face.  I think they improved the Female Worgen skins alot from when they first announced Cataclysm last year.  Bigtime.  I didn’t log in with her though.  Hubby and I are going to do the starting area together.  We don’t have to level together, just do the starting.  I’m going to try a Druid yet again.  (4 th time the charm?)  Druid was the first class I tried, and I love druid stuff in real life.  Yet I can’t seem to stick with them.  I need to, though.  I’ll eventually get bored playing only Priests and Mages. 

6.  I have created a Goblin on the Horde server my uncle and cousins play on.  OMG…she’s cute TOO.  They made some fab hairstyles for the Goblin chicks.  I might actually get a Horde toon to 80.  (Provided I don’t burn out in Hellfire Peninsula again.  I hate questing there.) 

7.  I created a Night Elf Mage.  Now…ok….I have alot of mages at various levels from various races.  And I’ve played through the Night Elf starting areas probably 20 times.  What can I say?  I like their glowing eyes, and I think the areas are pretty.  So why start another one?  Simple…those areas are all blow to hell.  I want to see the different quest chains. 

Can  you tell why I only have 1 level 80 toon?  And why it’s taken me around 3 years to get my main alt to 74?  End game isn’t my thing in any game I play.  I don’t think I’ve played to complete a game since finishing the 11th Guest back in high school.  And then I was depressed because it was such a cool game and it was over.  I’m the person who plays Civilization about 2/3 of the way through and then gets bored and starts over.  Or I play a Sims family for hours…and then get bored with them and start over.  I’m always thinking of better ways to start things…not finish. 

But this is all so cool.  I can’t wait to actually have time to play.  Our family obligation for the weekend was cancelled.   It’s fate clearing the way for me.  This weekend, man….WoW…Scrapbook project…Christmas Tree…Baby Proofing…bring it on.