A New Fun Thing To Do

My last post was talking about the upcoming expansion of WoW, Cataclysm.  It got me in the mood to play a bit more again.  After getting my Ambassador Title, I decided it was time to start working on my Explorer title, as I've been pretty hesitant to raid lately, and really that's all my warlock's good for at the moment.

So, I've been wandering around Azeroth aimlessly for the last few days.  I managed to explore the whole of the Eastern Kingdoms, which is good, but I'll have to go through and get pictures of the places I missed earlier.

((CLICK HERE for the link to Calm Before The Storm, my new blog detailing Azeroth pre-Cataclysm))

Pre-Cata Excitement

First, let me apologize for my geekiness.  I have played WoW since 2007.  I've taken a few "WoW Breaks" over the years, in which I go several months without touching the thing, but I always find myself coming back to it every time.

World of Warcraft's had two expansions over the years. The first was World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, which brought to us the Draenei and Blood Elves, a level cap of 70, flying mounts in the new area called the Outlands, and the sudden realization that all that gear you worked so hard to get was now practically worthless.

The second was World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.  Much has changed in our world since the release of WotLK.  We've encountered Death Knights, ventured to level 80, Northrend, and have had so many dungeons opened up to us that we don't even know what to do with them.

Woot! A Quick Update

Our immigration agent sent our visa application this week, and when I last checked, it was on its way to its destination. Yay! I'm so happy to have all the paperwork and stress of that off my chest. Now the most we've got to worry about is the approval of the visa application and repaying the loan we had to take out to pay for all of it while staying afloat with other stuff.

We discovered a book store in Sydney by Central when we went to pay off our application fee. It's called "Basement Books" or something to that effect. It's under the street, in a pedestrian tunnel thing that go to the trams I think. I don't know for sure. But the prices there on books were AMAZING. I bought a new book, The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Practical Magic by Susan Greenwood and Raje Airey. I found it laying amongst books about dream interpretation, and figured that it would be a good read.

Blog of Shadows - Introduction/Book of Shadows

I'd like to add a feature to my (still very new) blog, to maybe spruce it up a bit and make it a little more interesting. I will call it, "Blog of Shadows." (My apologies in advance if I have unknowingly trampled upon your own blog's name.)

I've been studying Wicca for the last year and a bit (truth be told I cannot remember when I began my studies, but it feels like it's been a while). During this time I have read several books, including ones like Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham, and The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk.

While I'm not about to scan pages from my own personal Grimoire into the marvelous series of tubes known as the interwebs, I thought it would probably be interesting if I tried to share a bit of what I have learned with those of you who may be curious.

Nightscreeching

Imagine yourself sitting in a chair at night, enjoying an episode of one of your favorite shows, reading a good book, or talking to a friend on your computer. All is well, calm, and peaceful. You are sipping your favorite coffee while listening to your favorite tunes, snuggly in your jacket on a chilly Winter's night.

Now imagine that perfect moment of happiness being ripped from you like a band-aid from your skin.

Instead of listening to your favorite show or music, you are now hearing the sounds of some crazy teenagers revving their car's engines so loudly that your windows shake. They scream random profanities at your house. And to top it off, they are holding their car's horn down the entire length of your street.

This has been happening lately. Usually every weekend, at night, someone will rev their engines loudly while holding their horn down and screaming in the direction of my house (it could be a neighbor, but I have my reasons to believe it's me). It is startling, for such loud and obnoxious noises to appear from nowhere, and to be honest kind of frightening.

It's been a while...

It has been quite a while since my last post; several months in fact. I've been pretty busy with things lately, as you might have guessed... But I suppose I should start updating this more often, so here goes.

In March this year I took a flight to Australia again (hooray!) and have been living here in NSW since, with my fiancée. We have our own place (finally) and our prospective marriage visa application should be ready to send in by the end of this week, so that's exciting! We've got to head into Sydney to pay the $2,525 fee that it costs, and then afterwards we've got to bring our receipt back to our awesome agent E., and then he can send it in via courier.