Archive for July 15th, 2008

So, Lady Jess was named for my priest. Who’s name was the same as my druid’s ORIGINAL name, prior to me moving her from Bronzebeard to Khaz’Goroth. What you don’t know, is that “Jessmyn” was a typo. Those that chat with me on a daily basis won’t be shocked. If not for spell check I couldn’t blog. Even THEN I find missing letters. Her name was supposed to be Jessamyn. I realized too late that I missed the A.  Yes I could have rerolled her. But I had already done that once because I didn’t like her hair at lvl 19. I’m not telling how long it took before I noticed my typo. It’s embarrassing. Yes, even more than rerolling due to hair style. Anyhow, tonight, Jessamyn got her name back, and it’s spelled correctly.  My original toon, with her original name, and the ORIGINAL Lady Jess.

*Edit* Oh geez! WHY didn’t I do the rename when I got the forced rename on her transfer to Khaz??? I could have saved $10!!! /headdesk

I was reading my feed reader this morning and saw TJ’s post, and it reminded me of a little adventure I had about 6 years ago. Hubby had just left for basic training, leaving me alone in our little home in the woods. It wasn’t in great shape, by any means. There was a hole in the bathroom floor. At the time we had two dogs. One was a senior citizen, a Keeshond by the name of Keesha. Hey, on’t look at me, we got her from a shelter at 7 years old and she came with the name. Anyhow, Keesha had a habit of getting in the bathtub on hot days. The only problem was, she’d get in there, but couldn’t get out.  That meant someone had to go back there and pick her up and lift her out. But this was something we were used to. No big deal.

Well, one night I’m sitting at my computer, in a yahoo chat room called Mom’s N Dad’s, where we’d been chatting for a couple years, and I hear this scratching coming from the bathroom. I assume (that’ll teach me) it’s Keesha needing out of the tub again. So I get up, and start walking back there to rescue her…only to TRIP over her on the way back, dozing peacefully in the hallway. Errrr…what’s in the tub then? I see the OTHER dog on the couch, so I know it’s not her either. WTF???

I bravely walk balk to the bathroom, theme from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” playing in my head. I open the door and see…a big old gray squirrel in my tub! I don’t know why the little sucker couldn’t get himself out of there, but he was NOT at all happy to see me walk in there. He made noises I didn’t even know squirrels could make, and I’m pretty sure I heard something that started with F!!! So, I’m standing there looking at Mr Fluffy Tail, he’s standing there cursing at me, and I have no clue what the hell you do with a ticked off squirrel in a bathtub. I shut the door and looked for something to catch him in. That’s what I did. The closest thing was a cat litter bucket. So, that became my weapon of choice.

I walked back in (much to the disappointment of Fluffy), and dropped the bucket over the squirrel, luckily his tail was still sticking out, and though I still don’t understand windows being IN the bathroom, particularly the shower, I was glad we had one there. I slid open the window, popped the screen, grabbed the exposed tail and dropped Fluffy out! Oh don’t worry it wasn’t a long fall for the little guy, we had a mobile home for Pete’s sake. Not like I threw him out of the second story window.

At this point, I go back to chatting, and share the story. Six years later I’m still getting ribbing about this. About a week after I got a box in the mail. Something to protect me from the squirrel invasion army. He still sits on my desk, and he still sings “Kung Fu Fighting”

I needed to run Black Morass. I was hoping to do The Arcatraz for my kara key frag first but, my alchemy quest had to be completed. So, I grit my teeth, take a deep breath and jump in the Looking For Group channel. The last time I tried this, the group died before we even got to Tanaris. Now, I’m not in the habit of naming names on this blog. But this group was simply awesome. Not only did everyone know they’re job, they were friendly, funny, and a joy to run with. And considering I was the healer, this was a big step for me.  We had a prot pally named Mer, 2 shadow priests, Moans and Agawaateshin, me on my druid, and a dps warrior named Dreadforge. After a successful run, we turned right around, reset it, and ran it again, which got me my last two essence of infinity, and completed the quest for my elixir specialization! Thank you guys (as if they’ll read this…lol but ya never know)!! And God I love shadow priests, I’ve been one for a year+, but I never get the benefits. But on my druid tonight…I had mana coming out of my ears!