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So far, the get up and do dailies before work plan seems to be going well. If nothing else, it’s helping me actually get out of bed. This morning, I groaned when the alarm clock went off, shut it off, and lay back down. Two minutes later, my brain whispered “Daiiiiily quests. Moneyyyyyyy. Easyyyyy. No one’s on the Isleeeeeee.” That got me out of bed and moving. With that, I’m pushing 600g on the hunter (most broke hunter evah), and over 1200g on my banker, thanks to selling epic gems. My god, I might have money when the xpac comes out, yey! ::grin::

The lockette is still working her way up in levels. I came close to hitting 40 last night, but jsut couldn’t do it. I’m around 10-15% to dinging, if not less, but I was amazingly tired last night. Well, that and distracted by the boyfriend playing more Force Unleashed. And Mythbusters. And Bones. Damned TV. So today at lunch it’s get in a little more time on the lock. I might just find some mobs and chew my way through them to ding 40 and go train, rather than find a quest I can do quickly. We’ll see how out of it I am when I log in.

Like I said earlier in the week, reputation grinds are the bane of my existence. I just get too easily distracted and want to go do something “fun”. Sometimes though I manage to buckle down and plow through a set amount of grinding and just get it done. Don’t bother talking to me while I’m doing it, cos I’m oblivious to everything else. It’s how I made it through the Netherwing grind this past weekend: purely from gritting my teeth and saying “no, dammit, I’m finishing this TONIGHT!”

Then there are the rep grinds that I don’t even realize are happening. Violet Eye from Karazhan would be that kind of grind. I mean, yeah, my brain realized that there was grinding going on, that I was getting reputation from killing all these mobs. But it’s not til the green flash of light goes off that I realized that “Hey! I’ve been getting rep for the past two hours! Sweet!” I like those grinds.

I’ve found that the Shattered Sun Offensive is a similar rep grind for me. No, I still haven’t set foot into Magister’s Terrace, either the 5 man or 25 man versions. The only rep I’ve gotten has been from doing the dailies which I haven’t been doing daily. More like every 3 or 4 days. Maybe. Yet yesterday I still managed to hit Revered with SSO and pick up a new sword from the rep rewards for Siana. I suppose that once I get Siana Exalted, I might as well start doing them on the mage again. So I’m slow at dailies. Sue me. But I just can’t sit there for 2 hours and do them all, then do it all over again on another character. It would make my brain pop.

But I still have a list of reps that I want to grind out for Siana. I want to get a Talbuk for her. I want Exalted from the Consortium. I still need that last bit of Honor Hold rep to get Exalted. And so on. Will I get them done? Hopefully. And when I get them done, maybe I can go back and finish getting all the Alliance racial faction up. Noooo I’m not slow at all. Why do you ask? >.>

A lot of my friends can tell you I hate rep grinds.

No, wait, I loathe rep grinds. I get bored, start to get really distracted, and pretty soon I wander off in disgust from the whole thing. This is why Siana doesn’t have the original 4 Alliance races, Argent Dawn, Cenarion Circle or a thousand other old world reps at exalted. Hell, I’m lucky I have some of them at revered.

So when Blizz made all those factions in Outlands, complete with keys to buy and really really REALLY nice patterns and other goodies at various levels of reputation, I sighed and started to buckle down on getting rep for them. I was really pleased to see the faction start to climb, since it seemed like everything had faction attached to it: quests, mobs, items the mobs dropped. Perfect for the easily distractable like myself. Granted I still don’t like rep grinding. I lust after the Kurenai mounts, but have yet to grind my way to one. I still need to go grind my way through some Consortium rep. But it’s not heavily pressing on me. But the important ones, the ones for keys, those I got up. Then I got up the rep to use the Marks of the Illidari. So I do rep grind. I just bitch and moan then get distracted.

Once The Boyfriend surprised me by getting the rest of my epic flying mount, I knew I’d have to deal with the Netherwing rep grind. At least it was all in the form of quests, so I didn’t feel like I was just mindlessly killing for no reason. There was a purpose! Yes! Even if the drop rates on some of them suck (Fel Glands, you suck). But last night, I got to see something I hadn’t seen before. I got to see Illidan, at least in projection form. And right after that, I had to go see a man about a dragon.

My kitty mount is Kenshin (long running joke). My regular gryphon was Yuki (it was white, and Yuki means “snow”). The epic flappy was Kyo (another joke, one involving the manga Fruits Basket and the previously named Yuki). So now, I have Mizu. No anime connection this time (at least that I know of). This one is just Japanese for “water”. What? He’s blue! It made sense at the time! Just cos I only had 4 hours of sleep then as soon as I got him I went and passed out… :;sigh:: My dragon, my name, so nyah!

Tonight? I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m sure something will come up. Who knows, I might start working on Kurenai faction again. Mmmm Cobalt Talbuk…