MMO's aren't supposed to be lonely

I've been playing Rift for quite a few months now and I really like the game. For those that don't know what it is, it's a PC game...google it if you want details. I was previously playing WOW which was my very first experience with an online MMO and I really liked it. I was in a good guild with chatty people who were always around to lend a hand.

I'm not having the same experience in Rift. I was lucky when I started WOW to have a good friend from the forums at SarcasticGamer.com to guide me through things and to lead me into the guild with the really cool people. I don't have the same thing in Rift.

So my question is, how does one make friends in an MMO? I'm really not good at it at all.

Last night, had my credit card been within reach I probably would have purchased another month of WOW and started playing again. I really do like the game, I just never have time to play so I let that subscription go in order to play Rift...which I got for free :) But I've only got a couple more "free" months to go on Rift and although I like the game, I am not liking the lonely part of it. I don't want to wander around alone, fighting monsters, riding my demon...er ember...steed around with my feather in my hat and my little doggy companion by my side...alone.

Well at least I have my pets right?

The Relay Race of Life

When did life become so much like a relay race? You start with one task, and hurry to get to the next, and the next, all in an effort to get to the end with everything done and then what? Do you win a prize? No, you wake up and run the race all over again. Sometimes we all need to slow down, to not run the race for just a day, and to enjoy life.

My days are so much like a relay race it's making me sick. Wake up, make coffee, fix breakfast, clean, juggle fussing baby, make lunch, make dinner, clean, fit in time for half-assing my schoolwork, squish in a few minutes of gaming here and there, think about writing articles, working on my podcast, trying to do SOMETHING that makes me feel like me instead of a maid and a housewife and a slave basically.

This is why I think gaming is important for me at least. It's that one time during the day where you can step out of the race and just do things that aren't that important. I like this blog for that too, but again...where's the time? I haven't been gaming very much. It seems like such a frivolous thing to do when there are more important things that "have" to be done.

I'd like to state for the record that in the five minutes I've been working on this blog entry I've had to stop once to answer a phone call for my husband (why they keep calling me I don't know), and a second time to answer the door because the power people are coming out to install a meter. The dog is still barking under her breath at the man who was at the door and if she wakes up the baby during her one nap of the day so help me....

Ahem...

Gaming. I need it, it's my hobby, it's my release and I miss it. I've been trying to game a little more this week, hopping on Rift the last two nights and playing for a couple hours. Funny thing is, it helped knock me out of the fog I've been in for the last couple weeks when I WASN'T gaming. So I guess my point is that it's important to do things you like, or else you're just another zombie housewife going through the motions.

Another thing I love and that makes me happy is the podcast I've been recording for nearly three years at SarcasticGamer.com and now I'm having to let that go. There isn't any time. I've been half-assing it and it's shown, and instead of continuing to not give it the attention it deserves, I've left...and I've killed it in the process. I feel horrible about it, but I just can't keep up with everything. I hope that some day in the future I'll have more time for podcasting, and gaming, and writing, and being JAX :) But for now...I'm so overwhelmed I can't even explain it.

We're set to move in two weeks to our new house and I'm mostly excited about it. I'm not thrilled at the prospect of the moving process and the moving in process. I've got enough on my plate as it is and the added "FUN" of a move is making me want to crawl in a hole with a bottle of Captain Morgan and my laptop and never come out.

So if you can't find me, that's where I'll be...until my next blog.