Cute Engineer

Dinnaeh

Shadowfang Keep and Blackfathom Deeps attempted to ruin this outfit.  Boy, are we glad for the ethereal that changes the appearance of our clothes!  If you want to hear how the run went, listen to the next episode of Channel Massive! 

My Vacation Vehicle, etc.

I'm just out of the shower.  The six year old hands me a handful of beautiful weeds.  Her slightly older sister is helping her put them in a tea cup, with a little water so they don't drown.  My social butterfly, athlete and scholar is out pulling weeds with a friend in my overgrown garden, getting it ready for spring.  Laundry is being washed and hung, the kitchen is halfway clean.  One of the girls is begging me to get up from the computer to take her to pick up stuff she left at a friends house last time she slept over, and begging to stay over despite the abysmal performance in the chore and homework departments.  Son is on the couch contributing lamely to any conversation that happens.  Hubby is sporting his "Dude" robe, socks and tennis shoes, looking at some videos of people playing Skyrim and New Vegas mods.  The oldest and my granddaughter are in their private trailer, getting some quiet time.

Me?  I'm cleaning my happy place.  Hubby rearranged the desks so we would again be next to each other instead of facing each other.  Facing each other sounded like a good idea until the reality of trying to peek in between two monitors past two more monitors set in. Now, he can just turn and see me, and kiss me, and I have a clear shot at him when he irks me.  I have a basket of ammunition that is tired of missing its mark.  Anyway, I said I was cleaning. I sat down to write this 3 hours ago, and since then have managed to wash my desktop, which always looks bad because it is glass, dust my shelves and reorganize them, and add art to my wall.  I know I wonder where everyone else plays from.  Wanna see mine?  Sorry, if you said no, just flip to the next article in your blog reader. No skin off my nose. :)

The command center.

My fun corner.

I have an overflow shelf on the top of the shelves in my living area that holds more geeky stuff, and I just noticed, a complete do it yourself manual and a toilet paper roll.  Since I feel like sharing, here it is.

Get your D&D books off my shelf!  I need more space!

So what does your space look like?  I'd love to see, or even read, about where you visit Azeroth from!

Preparations

Djennifer and her homeboy, Velen.

Yes, I let Djennifer woo me away for a short time from my list.  To be fair, though, Delgadita is not ready for LFR, even if her gear score shows she is.  I went to MR Robot and followed his recipe, only to find I had put the Ruby Slippers on Del when I was in Karazhan.  So, I traded them for my crafted PvP slippers and did the stats on them like he told me on all the others; change the mastery for haste. Why? Because, OMG, haste!  I'm so far away from the soft cap that I should just roll in a pile of haste and shower in haste afterward.

Now, MR Robot wants me to take the stat fix off my neck, change another, and he is insisting on a belt buckle and gem, a hella pricey staff enchant, and the purple form of shoulder and leg enhancements.  MR Robot can bite me.  Seriously.  I'm just gonna throw away those items anyhow.  I'm rolling in Elder Charms.  Try and make me do it MR Robot, try it.

Well, after I fixed my gear last night, I visited a link MR Robot gave me to check my talents and glyphs and rotation and consumables.  I had the rotation down, sort of, but added in the Mind Spike talent to increase my damage.  I had nowhere to go but up.  I bought flasks and potions but the food, well, I couldn't make it and no one had it on the auction  house.  Guess what I did last night?  No, I didn't run LFR, and I didn't do any dailies, guess again.  Yes, I worked on the farm and did my silk cool down, but that is not what I am talking about.  I went and farmed Mushan Ribs and fished up Reef Octopus.  I traded in all my cooking monies for 100 Year Soy Sauce and Juicycrunch Carrots.  I am one Banquet of the Pot away from mastering the Way of the Pot, so I can make the food I need to eat before I melt things.

My Szechuan Chicken getting in the way of a perfect picture, again.

The house was quiet, I was in Krasarang fishing up Reef Octopus.  I went over and dropped a Mimic Octopus in Nat's lap, then went to the Dread Wastes and killed many Mushan in the name of being a whole shadow priest again.  It wasn't easy, but I am committed, or should be anyway.  Maybe tonight will be the night Del dips her toes into LFR.  I did read the raid guides on the fights in Mogushan Vaults.  I should be fine.

Right?

How Do You Not Know Me?

But we spent all that time together in Dustwallow....

Hi, my name is Delgadita.  We met a long time ago, back when I was about 40.  You even gave me your fishing pole.  See? How is it you don't remember sending me to the corners of Kalimdor and even to the Eastern Kingdoms for rare fish?  OK, I get it, you like to drink almost as much as you like to fish.  Are you trying to tell me you were so drunk when you gave me your pole you don't remember?  Was that even your pole?  I'll bet you just sent me off to get me out of those luscious brown wavy locks of yours.    You didn't even expect me to get back to you with all the fish.  But I did.  So you gave me some random fishing pole off the rack, probably an abandoned pole from a forgotten girlfriend.  That would explain the pink fishing line and the shiny tackle.  Maybe it was Jaina's spare fishing pole?  I feel like I've been had.  I bet you won't even remember me after I fish up the load of rare fish it takes to make you my best friend.

Aww, heck, I'll try anyhow.  Undeath hasn't changed my appreciation of a handsome man.  This time I'd better get better than sloppy seconds, though, or I'll make you spend undeath with me.  Oh, and here is that Mimic Octopus I found.  Catch you later, Nat!

No, really, I didn't want to know.

Break's Over!

Time to punch back in.  Delgadita has been gathering cobwebs in the Lazy Turnip for a while now, and it's starting to bother me.  I got her into a level of gearing that would allow her to start in the LFR, and then didn't run any raids.  Shado-Pan and August Celestial reputations are all but untouched, and she still has a long way to go on the Klaxxi and the Golden Lotus.  She hasn't even finished working with the Anglers, and she loves fishing!

Excuses?  I have plenty.  Weekends are for the guild on Shu'halo. Anselma will tank for the guild group, and Dinnaeh the monk is sufficiently ahead of her to supply her with stone and ore for her jewel crafting.  Weekends should be enough time to play with them.  Mondays are reserved for the guys at Channel Massive.  Dinnaeh the mage is a bit ahead of her engineering, and at level 20 is just around the same level as the other toons we have been running dungeons with.  So, no need to work on her any time but Monday.  A new addition to the low level team is Djennifer (really imaginative, huh?) a draenei paladin I made to give someone a gift.  I fell in love with her and got her to 19 and her engineering up high enough to put on her first pair of goggles.  She is not a necessary toon, so no excuse there.

Delgadita has Tuesday through Friday to get some work done, and work she will.  Here is my plan of action:

1. Tuesday - Golden Lotus and August Celestials
2. Wednesday - Golden Lotus and Shado-Pan
3. Thursday - Golden Lotus and August Celestials
4. Friday - Shado-Pan and LFR

When Del has reached exalted with the Golden Lotus, I plan to make her work every day on Klaxxi in their place on the schedule.  When Klaxxi is done, then she will be working on August Celestials and Shado-Pan daily.  Since the Anglers aren't super important, I think I will just have her work on them when she has time after her other dailies, or on the weekends.  Of course, she'll still have her gardening to do.  Then there is pet nabbing and leveling.  Then Saelladrea has her auctioning to do.  She can have a little time on the weekend.

There is the short list.  I have a slightly more detailed list of things that Delgadita has been neglecting. Things like old and new achievements, holidays, and  professions.  A new transmog outfit is in need, to, even though I just love the robe she is wearing.  Hello, Friday!  Time to dust off Del and get her moving.  Yeah, right after I go play with Djennifer for a few minutes.  And then there is this thing I want to do with Dinnaeh the monk...