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. -.-

I also have been slowly working towards the Explorer title. Outlands, Eastern Kingdom and Northrend are all done. Kalimdor isn’t. Why not? Well cos I started working on the Loremaster stuff, and Eastern Kingdoms won the coin toss on which I started first. I’m within 25 or so quests of getting that finished, then it’s off to Kal and exploring it. Outlands, I will have quests there to do, and same for Northrend, but I’m more concerned with getting the old world done before it gets changed up. And considering my pace, I’m gonna need all the time I can get. >.>

The pet collecting has been trucking along, and I finally splurged on a few under-25g pets and got my Reeking Pet Carrier. I’m sitting at 55/75 pets now, and still have to go back into Black Rock to get the two pets there. The mounts are coming more slowly, mainly due to preoccupation with other things. I’m sitting at 45/50 with the mounts right now, and hope I can get back to mount hunting soon.

I finally decided to level up Wrenn’s cooking, and have been slowly working on achievements there. Oo wow I finally have 10 cooking awards! Wooo! My fishing is magnificently low, so once I actually get cooking “out of the way”, I will grimace and work on that next.

In a case of “better late than never”, I managed to get exalted with Argent Dawn. I’m still attempting to work on getting Wrenn Exalted with the Netherwing so she can have a space dragon of her own, but that’s gotten derailed by the “OMG OLD WORLD QUESTS!” panic I’m under. She’s sitting at just over halfway through Revered, so it won’t take that much longer.

Pretty much my goals lately have been to try to log in, get at least 1 old world quest done, if not more like 5, then see if there’s anything going on that interests me. Last night, as I was sitting in Strath using ray guns on ghosts, enough people were on that we got a Horseman group going. Sadly, no mount, and for some reason, all the guys in the guild have this tendency to eat tons of Tricky Treats then barf on me. Yeah, me, the little gnome. Even Exar barfed on me, giggling the whole while. He almost got a pillow to the face at 3am in revenge for that. ::mutter::

Tonight is raid night. Uldar. I’m hoping like hell we get to see Freya this week, after regressing and re-progressing back to the point of walking into her room and saying “ooo shiny”. Hm, that reminds me, I still need to watch a vid of her fight so I can see what’s supposed to be done, not what we’ve done, which was run around screaming like idiots.

You know those shirts that say “Life happens”? It’s a semi-sarcastic turn of phrase, for when Life comes and smacks you around. I’m this close to making ones that say “WoW Raiding: Progression Happens”. Owie.