WoW not again

Well I have not blogged in awhile so I figured I should post something.  Why haven't I wrote you may ask, did my fountain of rambling and nonsense dry up?  Well No I assure you I will continue to provide you the best incoherent thoughts and nonsense found on BlogSpot today.  I have simply been focusing my attentions elsewhere. 

 

Partially I can blame Erin for dragging my back to World of Warcraft, not only did she convince me to come back she convinced me to come back to her server as a horde.  So as of now I am the new owner of a level 61 Blood Elf Death Knight.  I am attempting to level before the 3.1 patch so he can participate the Argent Tournament World Event.  Erin has such an infectious happy personality that you can't resist her charms when she turns them on.  Plus heck she gave me some bags and cloth to get me started.

 

Secondly in attempt to develop my skills in character development for my novel I wish to write I have been looking into several RPGs of the pen and paper variety.  I feel nothing helps you more in developing interesting people then focusing on the full development of a character individually.  I have also actively been participating in Chaotic Pro Wresting an online based wrestling Role-playing e-federation.  The concept is you develop your character you cut promo RPs and whoever the board of judges votes on who did a better job developing the character through their role-plays, as well as who wrote the better role-play.  Once the winner is decided the match writers write matches that read like play by plays from a wrestling event with the winner of the match being the aforementioned Rp winner.  I won my first match last week against a guy who RPs as an alien wrestler and cuts hilarious promo rps at comic stores or comic cons where he acts as an alien and people think he is crazy.  This week I hope to win against a man who plays a character who is a thug.  I also pitched my idea for a self written storyline which would involve me writing the story between four characters.  I would also write two of my own matches.  If this is allowed I will keep my bloggers updated.  RPing is a fun way to see what characters come out of your mind.  I hope to spin some of these character types into my book eventually.

 

Finally, I have just spending time with my friends talking nonsense and playing the board game Zombies by twilight creations.  I just bought some glow in the dark zombies as well as the Send in the Clowns Zombie clown carnival expansion. 

 

Well that’s it for me for now

 

This blog's person is going to be my new friend Erin

 

Erin is a very successful business woman from Ontario, Canada.  She currently does a lot of things.  What I will mention here since it is what made her find me is her site Eringames.com.  She post videos and blogs about games she likes to play and review.  She is very friendly and some of her videos are pretty funny.  I especially like her passive aggressive rant towards the delay of the Sims 3.  After talking to her quite a bit I assure you she is a true geeky gamer girl at heart and a lot of fun to play with on WoW despite her various forms of mage trickery.  You can find her at any of the following links:

 

http://www.eringames.com

http://www.twitter.com/eringamesdotcom

 

She also has a MySpace but I am too lazy to look up the link I think there is a hyperlink on her webpage

 

Well as always be safe and take care of each other and if I don't blog before Happy St Patrick's day, and remember if you drink green beer that friends don’t let leprechauns drive you home drunk.  There is no pot of gold and that’s just a creepy dwarf man in an elaborate costume.

 

Cancer

Typically I do not write about things so close to my heart on the internet.  I like being a dark brooding enigma or an internet mystery as someone once referred to me.  Not that I ashamed of myself, but sometimes I like to talk about events with my honest opinion and not have everyone that I know read it.  So here (because someone that matters a great deal says I need to open up more) is an honest attempt to post something heartfelt and not be a smark for once.

 

As most people that take their time to read this will be from twitter you may or may not know that I follow a person that goes by the moniker @followheidi.  I also try to do my fair share of linking here and bringing her more views, because I really believe in what she does. Heidi (@followheidi) is a representative of the Vera Bradley Foundation and she works at promoting awareness of breast cancer.  Her twitter bio reads "A survivor who wants to build awareness for breast cancer research - and stop this disease so her children are safe"  That pretty much sums up what an amazing person she is and I know personally through @ replies and direct messages just how sweet she really is.  Every time I am feeling down and post something on twitter that relates to self loathing brooding emo Xavier I can pretty much count on seeing something positive from her about me that makes me feel better.  She always seems to find a light switch in the dark.  If you look at her messages to people you can see that I am no special case; that is just who she is; a strong person trying to prop the rest of us up when we feel bad.  The world would be a lot better place with more like Heidi.

 

Cancer is a subject that hits very hard for me.  Most people that follow me have no idea that I lost both my grandmother in 2002 and grandfather in 2006 to cancer.  In my first and last semester of college actually, and I also have a friend Emily that is still on the recovery process from blood cancer.  I have never been close with my mother and haven't seen her in over 10 years (which is another story), so I have always shared a close bond with my paternal grandparents.   Losing my grandmother was the most difficult thing I have ever endured; she was like my best friend and mother.  It changed me; it rocked my foundation to my core and I came out of that event a completely different person. 

 

The only thing that I can say has ever compared to affecting me like that is when I had Diabetic Keidoacidosis and almost died in 2007.  A week in the ICU will do that though.  The only solace that I can take in the passing of both my grandparents is the fact that I was there with both of them in the last days.  I had a conversation with my grandmother the last time I actually talked to her and I thanked her for everything she had ever done for me.  I thanked her for being there to shape me to be a good person.  For being a mother, for being my friend and I told her that I loved her and I didn't know what I would do without her.  She told me that I would have to be a strong one and I have tried my best ever since to be strong for those that need me.

 

The moral of the story is I want to help people like @followheidi get their message out so hopefully they can find a cure for cancer and even though I didn't lose anyone to breast cancer specifically I never want a family to have to feel the pain of losing someone to a terminal disease.  I don't want to have to see a twenty year old girl stay in her house for a year because her bone marrow transplant has left her with no immune system.  Kids shouldn't have to go to Chemotherapy, all cancer is bad and Heidi is out there doing something about it

 

So in closing please take the time to do something even if it is to just retweet this simple message "check out @followheidi, support those that fight against cancer, it is good for you" 

 

Who knows your one tweet could have a ripple effect that saves somebody.

 

This post the person I chose to highlight is pretty obvious so I will cut the normal chatter and here is her links

 

http://www.twiiter.com/followheidi

http://www.verabradleyfoundation.blogspot.com

 http://www.verabradley.org

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading this and take care of yourselves

 

 

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