EXCITING NEWS... Plus Actual Life Updates Below

/celebrate

This is the greatest moment of my entire fake-life.

I've been hording dwarf reputation for months to buy the dwarven ram mount (the draenai elekk mount is an ugly little bugger), and until this weekend I was still several thousand points away. I haven't logged in for almost a week so I only found out about Lunar Festival on Sunday. Good thing I didn't have any other plans that day (and good thing I didn't log in on Saturday afternoon). I ran around the entire world, collected 35 of 50 ancestry tokens, resulting in a total of 2650 rep, PLUS a ton of festival dumplings, PLUS firework launcher schematics, PLUS a million freaking firework rockets, PLUS this sexy number:

She is totally working this outfit. It suits Puoko a heckuva lot better than the festival dresses did. Plus her cloak is totally color coordinated: +8 Fashion Sense!

Despite really being the longest and most complicated fedex quest ever, Lunar Festival was a lot of fun! A++ would go again. My only complaint is that the night elf booze was pretty weak sauce - I kept sobering up faster than I could drink the stuff.

(Family Members and Non-WoW players can stop skimming now)

That's all I planned on writing, but I should probably mention my real and much more complicated life. First of all, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! It was actually last Thursday, but I'm told the celebration lasts for a while. If you hurry up you can probably still use it as an excuse to eat something unhealthy or slack off in the name of celebration. The best part about this year's holiday is that this marks the beginning of the year of the rat - my year, baby! And it's going to be an excellent year. I can sense it in the cosmic karmic zen.

I've been keeping up with school, but I keep drifting between freaking out that I need to be studying every second of the day because it's my last semester, and then realizing that if I get Cs in all my classes, I will still pass and graduate from college. I'm trying to achieve a balance to minimize the stress that both sides are causing me. But my first wave of tests has arrived - I feel pretty good about most of them but we'll see how it turns out.

As always, I'm super excited about Valentine's Day! I can't believe it's only a few days away. In years past I've thrown some sort of girly singles party (with awesome results), but this year most of my college girl friends have moved, gotten married, or lost contact. My only local female pal this year is Dantzel, and I'm faaaaairly sure she'll be spending the day with her fiancee. This means no major party. But don't think I don't have plans, yon reader. Nay, I indubitably do. I've re-arranged my schedule to do all Thursday homework early and plan on an afternoon of chocolate, bubble-bath, nail polish, and yoga. I figure at this point, I'm safe from any last-minute Valentine's dates - the day has way too many connotations for a first date that isn't pretty awkward. And I'm excited enough for my girly day off that I might decline anyway.

Speaking of days off, last week I took Wednesday off when my family came down from Idaho. We dropped Sarah off at the MTC. It was a strange and unique experience - which is the same way I'll describe having a family member on a church mission. I kept teasing her about all the free blessings I'm gonna get while she's gone, but apparently God is using this as an excuse to prod me with spiritual experiences. The day after we dropped her off I got a phone call to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting. I was nervous, as always, but prepped enough cause I didn't want it to be a standard "ye same olde doctrine" talk. But then afterwards people kept coming up and saying how it was just what they needed to hear and how I was "wise beyond my years" or something so... I guess it was pretty good? I assure you, my brilliance was likely accidental. The praise almost makes me more nervous - if this keeps up they're gonna make me RS president before the end of the semester. I blame you Sarah!

Those are all the life updates I can think of right now. In closing, just remember to never give up on your dreams. You too can attain the things in this life that are truly important.

Wheeeeee!