A New, Insane, Project!

I'm bored. I paid off my debts for the chopper.

But... what about when I randomly get gear on characters? (even ones I don't play matter so STFU) I never have the enchanting mats there!

So... I have a chart of each slot for each 80 and what enchant would go best there. Added all up....

323 Infinite Dust
68 Greater Cosmic Essences
31 Dream Shards
31 Abyss Crystals

And various other crap like Eternal Earth and Titanium Bars.


I also need to buy shoulder/head things and pop them in the bank. Never know....


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Oh, and I also posted an IC explanation from my DK to her husband about what happened to cause a falling out between her and a friend:


Sharilyn snuggled up against Nayyn, putting a cold finger to his warm lips. "I'll tell you what happened, love. Should've asked me." She snuggled into him closer.

"Well, we were talking and started to disagree on Icecrown. I told her how Grandfather wanted me to live in Kalimdor, and she started telling me how terrible Icecrown was and how great the stupid trees and hot springs in Winterspring were.

She kept screaming at me about the Scourge and not listening that I wanted some things like Frostmorne only if it wouldn't hurt things. She thought a sword that looked like it would have all the things wrong with it... and just kept yelling at me about how bad the Scourge was and how horrible Icecrown is and how I shouldn't live there even though I really love it.

I kept telling her that I like it where I live, and that we're just different. She kept yelling so I left. She followed me. I kept leaving, and in one place I ran, in the sewers, someone came and tormented me a little, then a warlock came and hurt me and threw fire at me. I left and cried.

She chased me down and kept yelling at me. I screamed at her to leave over and over.... I kept backing away, trying to make her leave. I fell and started to run. She kept chasing me, and I just wanted to get away and cry... I didn't want to lead her home. I mean, if she kept chasing me and I just went home, she'd find me and know where we live....

I tried to lose her in the undead... I could normally take them but she distracted me and one got hold of me, so... they tore me up. She brought me back and I tried to explain to her why I liked Icecrown. I even tried to show her why ice was pretty when she didn't like the frostwyrms.

I showed her and she demanded I tell her why she didn't like the Scourge. I didn't really care and gave her some bad answers... she got pissed and left. That was kind of what I wanted, you know?"

Sharilyn looked into Nayyn's face and started to unlace his shirt, purring. "You're all I have, now."

Job.

I finally got a job!

As of the 10th, I will no longer have a life. I'll be working 45+ hours per week.

No more raiding, probably. We were just getting to where we could do most weeks and have some fun.

This job better be worth it.

I already hate it.

I don't really want it, but I could have actual money and my income could be sexy and naked dancing in the streets could happen.





I don't want to grow up.


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In other news, our Paladin is at 32 right now.

I want to kill him. In the face. Just used my chopper to transport him ONCE since getting it.

If he hits 60 by June 10th, I'll be happy.

New Shinies!

Trees and harbor are pretty.


I did this one of grass with a background of the harbor area... did another one focusing harbor with the grass out of focus.

Testing zoom. Did it from across campus, facing the library. Sexy camera is sexy.


Same idea. I feel like spybitch when I do this.


Boats are pretty.



Dandelions plus ultra camera of doom? Win.




The wind made this a challenge. Normally I'd hold them straight, but you can see through them to the pretty white flowers in back.



Finally in focus!




Said pretty white flowers with the wrong leaves. Too much white.


Columbine plus wind is fail.


FOCUS! (kinda)


I like this one. Pretty and abstract.



My obsession with flowers continues.


Sunday: Countless pics from the national park. Wewt! (better not be fuckin cloudy)

Recently took these with the new camera. Sex.

Vindicated

For the last little bit I've been slowly working on a machinima about my warlock using the song Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional. The first bit of it (unfinished and unpolished) is here.

Maylora- Vindicated (Not Finished) from Mairoa on Vimeo.

Ulduar! (and caramel)

We're doing Ulduar tomorrow with a frost DK and a prot warrior tanking, our healers are a resto shammy, resto druid, and a holy priest. Our DPS consists of retardin, huntard, rogue, mage, and a shadow priest.

I is excited to see what 2 and a half hours can do for us.





I realize I'd like to make caramels and other candies and cookies and treats of mine for a living. Just no idea how to actually start something up, and how much it'd cost.


And if I could run it out of a 1-bedroom.

North Cascades!

So I'm planning a trip, 2 weeks delayed, on the 31st for North Cascades National Park. It'll be a photo/BBQ trip, where we'll drive through the park taking pictures and... setting up a grill at the end. We're having hot dogs, ribs, and prawns in cajun seasoning. We're also bringing lunch sandwiches, a few snackies, and a giant-ass jar of sauerkraut. Maybe some giant things of soda in our cooler.

Looking forward to giving the camera (which is badass) another test run and spending some time in the fresh air.



Bitch.... it better not fucking rain.


<3 sunroof.






Oh, at 7,500g out of 12,500. And some mats.

I have the monies offered to be loaned to me, titansteel being loaned....

Just need the rep.

eBay Shaman?

On Venture co there's a level 80 elemental shaman running around like an idiot. He's blowing heroism when he means to mount, and using chain heal and chain lightning on single targets. It seems that he is looking to see what each spell does before casting. Sadly enough... this shaman almost defeated a retadin in PVP.

Was this shaman bought on eBay?

Nope. It's a girl trying to grind Valiance rep on her boyfriend's engineer. I'm bored, and I want my chopper. I'm halfway there on the gold, and getting there on the mats. I just need an engineer with the rep to make the damn thing. The boyfriend in question is on a break from the game, and I want to be able to drive lowbies to instances I'll grind them through. My Death Knight needs a choppa!

My boyfriend... is left handed and uses bar mods. I am almost cripplingly right handed and do not use bar mods. I am not only unable to use his keybindings for things as simple as the jousting dailies, but I also have no clue about shamans above level 10. Hell, I'm looking for rejuve on this thing.

I pop him to his off-spec of elemental, THEN after searching for ten minutes, I ask my boyfriend where riptide is. -_-

Some cynical part of me suspects these are not his actual keybindings.

He switched them around to confuse me so I'd give up and go level my rogue engineer up from 40. The man seems to want me to have an 80 rogue.






To think... people pay for this.
Really... why the headache?

Feminists Piss Me the Fuck Off.

I go to a super liberal school within a fairly liberal school. Feminists roam the plains, burning bras and telling us how much meat will kill us while they smoke their pack a day. Men are evil. They objectify us because they... they... treat us like meat?

I don't know, but most men I've ever met, if they think a woman is attractive, will look. They'll actually hide it, too. Why? Because in our culture, looking at a woman openly is supposed to objectify her and make her uncomfortable. See... I thought it was because many men like tits.

My mother goes to a gym where she and her girlfriends not only openly stare at men, but also make comments the man in question may or may not hear. This is common behaviour. Women are allowed to look, but men aren't.

This is an interesting principle that pisses my boyfriend and male friends (as opposed to my one female friend who lives in Mexico and my other female friends who I have yet to meet because they live in the internet) off. See, on the bus, many attractive women will be standing, as there is no more room to sit. This puts tits and ass at eye level.

I can openly stare, as I am female. The target of my staring does not matter. They cannot, as they are male. They are also not allowed to stare at other men. Me? I can stare and talk.

This society encourages men to be looked at as sex objects openly (using their language) and women are kept in a little bubble. This bubble can be broken by women who are brave enough to rake in the cash that porn provides, and sales tell them how attractive they are. Normal women, though, don't really get many people commenting on our bodies. It's rude and men are afraid to do so. I know 50 year old Joe in the office might still tell his secretary she has a nice ass, but he's not an example of modern culture.

Men in this modern culture are kept quiet while we stare at them.

Kind of like 100 years ago?

Cept women were silenced while men stared at them.


Damn Feminists.

The Drunken Mat List, Doughnuts, and 6am.

The plan was to go to Sonic Saturday night, and Sunday (My birthday) would be when we took one of our over 21 friends and got me drunk. This also happens to be the friend we were dropping by to take to Sonic, but he worked late. He also gets free food, and works at Round Table Pizza. We were hungry enough to just grab the free pizza and call Sonic good for another night.

He ended up getting off work a few minutes before midnight, so we went across the parking lot to Applebees and got me drunk. 5 drinks should not get me drunk. -_- But it did. I had decided at some sober point that I wanted to get the crafted PVP gear on all 4 of my 80s just to see how skirmishes were with it. When I got home, I decided to do math. The list is a bit hard to read because I was a little off my ass, but here it is:

216 Heavy Borean Leather
118 Saronite Bars
43 Bolts of Imbued Frostweave
30 Titanium Bars

20 Eternal Fire
14 Eternal Shadow
12 Eternal Water
8 Eternal Air
16 Eternal Earth

2 Scarlet Rubies
4 Twilight Opals
4 Sky Sapphires
6 Forest Emeralds
4 Autumn's Glow

16 Iceweb Spider Silk
16 Eternium Thread

131 Infinite Dust
36 Greater Cosmic Essences
10 Dream Shards

Thankfully that will make it, gem it, and enchant it.

So we decided on Sunday to load our car full and go to Sonic. But I also wanted Popeye's and doughnuts. So we drove to Burlington to grab Popeye's and Krispy Kreme, then all the way up to Ferndale for Sonic. It was epic and awesome.

I probably gained 5 pounds from it, but oh well.


I have a midterm makeup tomorrow at 8am. Joy. I also need to study for this midterm. And you know... do the reading.


I also need to lvl the paladin. I think he's 22 nao. Haven't seen him just about all weekend.

Nub.

How many licks to a lvl 60 Paladin?

He hit 20 last night.

After a few hours of stocks, we finally hit the timer at 2/3 till 20. So he went and killed shit in Duskwood.

I'm forcing him to do at least one cycle (5 runs or until we get locked out) of SM a night.

I want to help someone else with the charger quest, for some reason.

I also kind of want him to go PVP Holy.


And damn it... he needs to hit 80. Bleh.




Oooo! At least I turn 21 on Sunday!

Racist Minorities

(Warning. I'm going to be talking about race. ZOMG run away. I'm not going to be any more PC about it than I am in my own head, either.)

I'm a white woman. I'm proud to be who and what I am.

But I'm not allowed.

The most prevalent racism I see today is against white people. If it's not a crime to be born black or hispanic or asian or whatever... it's not a crime to be born white. I would love racial equality. Yes, there are some white racists in the US. But I think the thing that's hurting my primary focus in this argument, black people, the most, is their speaking out against racism. Let me explain.

I was raised in the Seattle area. I was born in 1988. This means that my childhood world was filled with liberal hippie douchebags that were so PC that it hurt. They enforced the power of minorities so hard that it became part of our culture. It has since faded, and we say Merry Christmas again. However, the culture I came into adulthood in is still very affected. I am by no means racist. My parents, even though my dad was raised by racists in a racist community, are by no means racist. I was raised in a world where the only people who used the word fag were either ignorant Christians (not to be confused with normal, decent Christians) and 12 year old boys. The N-word was not said unless you were black. It's a decent culture to live in if you're a minority who needs to get away from racism. But there's a problem.

The racism against white people in the liberal, anti-racist culture is huge.

When we moved into our house, we had neighbors. They were black. This never even came up until one day, when our windows were shaking from their kid's music, we asked them to turn it down. They got very offended and refused. After several attempts of getting them to turn it down, we called the cops. They were not told to turn it down, and the cops looked at us a little funny, even.

They told the cops that we only told them to turn it down because they were black. The race card infuriates me. The next neighbours we got were a large family of a mixed race couple (white mother black father) their kids from previous marriages, and a child or two between them. The obnoxious-ass white kid (who was 22 and still living at home without a job because he was lazy) played his music very loudly. He and his siblings were often very obnoxious, and the mother allowed it. We had used condoms thrown over our fence, even. The father worked 2 jobs to support them.

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen is their father and mine standing on the front porch of their house screaming at the kids in unison. It brought a tear to my eye. The father of that family is what I'll call "normal black person." I hate to use the label, but it differentiates him from "jackass black person." Who is normal black person? He's a guy. He doesn't use his race as a way to get ahead and put others down. He doesn't bring up race to a white person to make them feel guilty. He doesn't blame things on racism when they're caused by something else. When someone lives their life regardless of race, I don't really see color.

What makes white people nervous and causes a lot of the racist attitudes and stereotypes? I call these people jackasses. Or to refer to jackasses who are black, the "jackass black person." The jackass black guy is absorbed in the thug culture subset that is commonly associated with hip-hop music. He talks about the glory of crime (even though he may be from a middle class family) and intimidates white people because he has been taught by thug culture that he is owed something. This is where a lot of the violence and intimidation that makes white people unconsciously afraid of black people comes from. They don't want equality. They want to be superior, and they demand that we, for the crime of being white, must bow to them or pay up. This is when I see color. I meet someone who happens to be black... and I look at his clothes. Do they fit, or could a small family live in his pants with him? The dress of the thug culture tells me if I should be careful around the potentially aggressive and angry person, or if he's a normal, functioning member of society.

Why am I not afraid of thug white kid? 99% of them are Malibu's most wanted. They're lame and if they go to court over something, they can't use the race card to hurt me. They're usually lame. The only scary thug white kids are in the actual scary places. I don't go there because it's just good for all of us if my lily-white ass stays out of scary places. I can't exactly pass for anything but white, and angry people with possible gang connections scare me shitless.

Can you blame me?

So why the fuck do so many black people popularize the idea of gang activity in the media, and connect it to being black? Then they bitch about not getting treated equally and everyone thinking that black people are thugs.

I feel really sorry for the normal black people out there. The jackasses are hurting them, and they need to STFU and get on with things. Grow up and move on.

But what about reparations?

It's called white guilt. For the next generation or so, liberal white guilt will get you that extra bump up that legislation would never truly give you.

All I want? Permission to be proud of being white. Permission to not be ASHAMED of who I am.


Being proud of your racial heritage does not make you a racist.

Not being ashamed of your race does NOT make you a racist.


Thinking your race is better than others?

Then you're a racist.



Jackasses need to stop being racist towards white people.


Seriously... just because our ANCESTORS did it to you, doesn't mean you should do it to us.


Stop being racists, kay?