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?

Blah, Blah, Blah

Blah kind of sums up the way I've been feeling lately. I completely forgot just how fun it is to chase a "pre-toddler" around. I have the feeling that Hailey is completely capable of walking. She however is a diva of a baby and figures that she has people to do that for her. It's almost as if she starts walking and then decides it's just not worth the effort and she goes back to crawling.

Sounds like she has a case of the "blah's" too.

Hubbie is off for some training in Virginia, which is probably just secret military code for some guy retreat touring the strip clubs of Las Vegas or something. Who am I to question him? While he's gone I'm enjoying a couple weeks of not shaving my legs, fixing my hair, or brushing my teeth.

I'm kidding...that's nasty...I'm totally fixing my hair.

I'm making progress on my goals, but not as quickly as I had hoped. In my defense it seems like fate, or whatever it is that throws off your plans, is screwing with me. This is no big suprise as I am all to familiar with drama. Drama and I like to take long walks on the beach and hold hands and skip and stuff...we're cool like that. But sometimes it seems like drama is being a little too suffocating in our relationship.

Take this week for example. On Monday morning I tell Hannah that we're going to start taking walks each day after school. The weather is gorgeous right now and we just had to take advantage of it. No sooner had the words come out of my mouth when I noticed we had a herd of prison workers trimming trees in our neighborhood. Who wants to walk with their families when there are prisoners with tree choppers roaming around? They've been here all week.

Then, this morning I'm in the middle of watching Hailey toss the lovely breakfast I made her onto the floor one peice at a time while she says "Uh-oh" when the power goes out. I blame the tree-trimming convicts for that one. With no power and not much else planned for the day I decided to take Hailey to daycare and hit the gym for an hour. It inspired an article that I posted today to sarcasticgamer.com...you can read that here if you'd like.

Now I'm all motivated and finally getting to the gym again. My application for drop off daycare for Hailey had just been accepted yesterday, and the power outage Gods had motivated me to go, so I was going to just keep on going. After we get home I notice Hailey is acting kind of cranky, and feeling a little toasty. Seriously...did a freaking hour at daycare make her sick? I realize it doesn't work that way, but sure enough she's got a fever of 100.

So no gym for tomorrow, and most likely we'll spend all weekend sick instead of spending it with Ethan. You're killing me here drama :{

I have been gaming more though, and writing more. I'm pretty pleased with myself on that note. Classes started up this week and I have been going crazy trying to keep up with the house and the crazy baby, helping Hannah reach her reading goal at school, sort the house out (Did I mention we're moving soon?) and watering the dead grass Bill bought for the yard that isn't our own.

Articles for this week:

1.) My gym article (See up there somewhere)

2.) Ubisoft Goes Hollywood I'm not excited about the prospect of more video game movies because they all suck to me, but I was thrilled to hear about the upcomming Raving Rabbids cartoons :)

3.) I picked up Lego Pirates of the Carribean

4.) A little Fiction Friday article complete with a hilarious bathroom interview!

5.) And yet another iPhone review

If you happen to read any of those articles please leave a random comment in the comment section on THAT website.

I've been playing a ton of RIFT. There is a new "Ascend a Friend" program so if you or someone you know has been wanting to try it please let me know and I will send you a free 7 day trial. It's a great PC game and I'd be playing it right now if my damned mouse hadn't died AGAIN. I can't game with a wired mouse, it just feels wrong.

In regards to our future moving and living arrangements we did make an offer on a house last week, and it was accepted. Of course drama isn't making it a simple and pain-free process so everyone please keep their fingers crossed that things work out well for us.

I could write more, but I figure you're bored and I could be doing more important things like playing Zuma Blitz and posting an insanely high score that my husband will never beat, because it makes me happy :)

Rain, rain go away...

I've decided to make an effort to blog at least once a week. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it or not, because I always set goals and then give up but you never know. Maybe I'll actually follow through on this one. I mean, how hard can it be to sit here and type some total crap once a week?

I left everyone with some pretty depressing news last blog. I'd like to say that immediately after I posted my blog that life got back to normal, but as it always goes when things go wrong, things just seem to keep going wrong. My "experience" didn't end swiftly and I found myself dealing with bloodtests and emotions and hormonal imbalances for an entire month after that. But finally it seems that things are getting back to semi-normal for me.

Or so I thought...

Aside from the drama surrounding family members with health issues that I'm not supposed to talk about, I got a call today that my Grandmother is in the hospital. That sucks, but I haven't heard yet as to why she's in the hospital so for now I'm going to pretend it's nothing major and that she'll come home all happy and healthy very soon.

But that's not all...

My military hubbie is up for new orders this year, right? We were hoping to get back to Jacksonville but that wasn't a reality. So we figured we'd settle for staying where we are in Pensacola for a couple more years, and that was looking really good. Until it didn't happen. You know what did happen???

Yokosuka,JAPAN...for two years.

Now we get to figure out how to work this the best way. Obviously we both have exes and kids with exes and can't drag everyone with us so where does that leave us? Who knows. There are a lot of tough decisions to be made and regardless of what we all decide is right for our family, there will be some pain and heartache associated with whatever choice is made for all of us.

So since this year has been tremendously awful for me I sat down and thought of a way to get out of my rut. I wasn't gaming much, health/emotional issues caused me to stop caring about my weight loss goals for the year, and life was just plain depressing me. So my starter plan is to do more things for me. Goals include:

1.) Blog once a week.
I really do enjoy blogging.

2.) Get back to the gym.
My weight loss goals are still attainable for the year, but I'm going to have to want it...badly.

3.) GAME MORE!
Where is the me that used to stay up until 2am playing games and laughing and chatting with friends? I miss her, I miss my games. There's no time during the day with school and baby to fit in any real gaming so I'm going to make an effor to play a little more at night time. It's hard though, because hopping in bed with hubbie always looks sooo tempting. But I'm going to try to play more...with games...not hubbie...he'll still be there in the morning.

4.) Work harder on my podcast.
If anyone doesn't know by now that I've been doing a podcast at sarcasticgamer.com for over two years now then shame on you. We lost a co-host recently (more bad news) and have been hunting a new one. So that made us stop and think about how to switch up the show and make it better because I DO love our little show and I think we could become something even more amazing. I hope we get the opportunity to prove that.

What this all means is of course I'm still going to be super mom and super student and take care of things that need to be taken care of, but I didn't die when I got remarried...I didn't stop being me...and I still need to do things that I enjoy also or else what fun is life?

Now that I have all of that out of the way I promise to at least blog next week, and this time...I'll actually talk about games some.

I am playing the heck out of Rift for PC right now, and currently have my "toon" up to level 27.