I mastered the lore in Eastern Kingdoms

Yep I got the Loremaster achievement for Eastern Kingdoms yesterday. It was amusing. After merrily smacking my way through low level quests, running Scholo and Strath cos I’d find just one more quest for them, and gritting my teeth to just buckle down and do it when I got to the last 75 quests, the last 10 quests were more like a cakewalk than anything else. Oh look, it’s a quest chain. Whee!

And what happens after I get the achievement? I suddenly remember I haven’t picked up the two pets in Blackrock forWrenn yet. /facepalm So at some point, I’ll be going back in to BRS to get them, as well as do a few more quests in there, just for giggles.

Also last night, I managed to finish the last piece to a project I’d been working on for almost 8 months now. I’d put it at the end of the list because I don’t have a sewing machine readily available to help finish it, and I had gotten amazingly tired of knitting one big line of stitches over and over. After the shawl and the baby blanket, though, finishing one last strap was cake. And since we’re going to visit my mom tomorrow, and she DOES have a readily available sewing machine, I’m going to finish out that project hopefully this weekend.

Of course, I’m hoping I’ll actually HAVE the spare time. When we get up there tomorrow around lunch, Mom and I have to go over stuff for the stores, go over stuff for the house she’s building (apparently, she had me so she could have free tech support and design/decorating services) since they’re finally putting in the foundation this week and will start framing next week, meet with her builder on other things with the house, and just chat in general. Saturday is taken up mostly with the Ole Miss/Arkansas football game, and this will be Exar’s first time at an Ole Miss game, with all it’s insanity and weirdness. Sure it’s the normal college football insanity, but then there’s the Grove, and tailgating in the Grove needs to be seen to be believed. And Sunday we drive home, hopefully early enough that I can get laundry done before hopping into game for a while.

Yeah, that’s right, I said “into game”. I still have Kalimdor to clear! A girl’s gotta have goals.

But yeah, it’s gonna be a busy weekend, and one that’s gonna leave me wanting to flop over dead at the end. I’d give anything for a real vacation, where I don’t think about the store, and don’t worry about phone calls, and don’t run around like an insane woman. Dragon*Con is lovely, but I’m so tired by the end of it, I need a vacation from the vacation! So for Christmas this year, I’d like Santa to bring me the following:

1. 10 skiens for Noro Silk Garden in 252 colorway. I have a project for all of that and want to get started nao!

2. A small beach cottage with a good internet connection, one week rental.

3. One week off to pack up Exar and I, and all of our stuff, and go to said rented cottage. I can go say hi to the beach in between knitting and gaming and he can read and game.

4. Oh wait, can I add reading to my list? Yes, reading must be added, kthxbai.

5. I’d also like a 40″+ HDTV at this mythical beach cottage so we can bring the PS3 for console gaming. Oh and I’d like a second PS3 so we don’t have to fight over who gets to play single player games on the one we have right now. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, MADDEN FRANCHISE! /sulks with my Katamari Forever disk

6. (I’m somewhat kidding about the fights over the PS3. I’m just waiting on Dragon Age: Origins right now before I start using the claws and teeth.)

7. And last but not least, a new home to come home to when this vacation-of-my-dreams is over. One without neighbors below me that we can hear talking loudly at 2am, or with neighbors next to us that have a dogs that is howling and/or screaming at 2am, making me think someone’s getting beaten and making the cats completely spaz.

… oh yeah, I could use some sleep about now. -.-