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It's been a week since I updated. I'm surprised I haven't heard about it yet. :-P

Today's probably not the best of days for me to be updating. My mind is far from one single thing, and the thing I most want to talk about, I won't. Makes a lot of sense right?

So instead I'll update you about what Aht's doing and maybe a few other things. :-)

Ahtabat is going to give Restro a whirl. She only needs four or five pieces to complete her resto set and she's going to attempt to heal Naxx 10 this weekend. I've got to get crackin on finishing her set out before then, but I'll admit, I've been side-tracked.

Kroff and I have been working on our alts for the past little bit. Neeuq is my hunter. She's now 74, halfway to 75 and made the switch from BM to Survival. I'm honestly a bit disappointed. I know my gear is far from anything to brag about and I definitely don't have the best arrows or pet to be putting out major dps. But with the switch, I only saw my dps go up about 50 points. I was kinda hoping for a little bit...well...more.

However! Since I've been playing Neeuq a little more these days, you can expect to see a full hunter breakdown of stats and gear and such in the upcoming future...right after that pvp druid breakdown. :-)

In other news, the guild has been having a little bit of trouble raiding as of lately. I really just thing spirits are down. I wasn't privy to the raid last night as Kroff and I had to attend our niece's graduation, but I heard they did really well! I was excited...am excited! :-) They didn't get Kel down, but this is the second week in a row we've made it to Sapp so that's good.

I'm taking a few to try Uldar and learn the first fight Thursday in hopes that we might be able to try him 25 man in one of the upcoming weeks. If it doesn't happen this week, then I'll be able to rotate a few more people in and let them learn the fight so hopefully we can go 25 man next week. We'll see what they're up for.

In any case my plan is to let them see Uldar, see what they need to work for, and hope that raises some spirits. If the subtle way doesn't help then it'll be time to break out another Ahtabat pep talk. :-0 I know everyone just loves those! hehe

A little deeper into the Bear

I mainly use this blog to focus on my life in wow. My guild, my friends, and my toons. I try to bring you information about Druid's as I find out about it because that is what I play...most of the time. Occasionally I touch on other aspects of my life and recently I delved a little into my personal beliefs.

I want to do that again...but a little deeper this time.

As I said before, I'm a Christian. There's a song that describes how I feel in my Christianity; "deep water faith in the shallow end". When I was younger I had a heart for Christ. I stayed in church, practically lived there in high school. I poured myself into activities: missions both home and away, teaching, learning, singing (even playing guitar in our praise band), VBS...well you get the idea. I never really had much of a deeper relationship at home. I prayed, but never like I should and I studied rarely on my own. I deeply regret those things now as I feel that's, in part, why I feel the way I do now.

I have been struggling with my faith, or lack thereof, off and on for a long time now. Going on three years I suppose...actually probably longer than that. I stayed mad at God for a long time. I never denied Him, but I didn't want to go out of my way to be that that I claimed to be. I didn't go to church and I never studied or prayed on my own. I even stopped reading Christian books and listening to Christian music. I faded further and further from who I am. I even tried to be someone else for a while. I never tried alcohol, drugs, or other addictions to fill the gap that I was blocking out of my life...but I might as well have. I slipped further and further from the God I call Daddy...the one Father that I have never been without. I drifted into a dark hole and while I've never been tested or treated for it, I know I have some form of depression. To what extent it would be "diagnosed" I dunno.

Please understand I'm not proud of what I've done or who I've become. I'm extremly blessed that I'm still alive and that I'm married to a wonderful, Godly man who loves me more than I deserve. I have a wonderful house, a good job, and beautiful babies (two dogs, a rabbit, and a fish). I have a good life. I write to get this off my chest and hopefully out of my head.

I won't go into detail (save that for another post :-P) but there are so many things I've been wrestling with lately. My past, my job, my morals, my goals, my dreams, my thought process, my priorities. Basically if you can think it I have been and it's definitely a little overload on my brain. I have a lot to work through.

I have a dream of one day becoming a woman worthy of calling herself a child of God...I dream of becoming this woman...

A Wife of Noble Character

¹⁰ ^b]">[b]Who can find a virtuous and capable wife?
She is more precious than rubies.
¹¹ Her husband can trust her,
and she will greatly enrich his life.
¹² She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.

¹³ She finds wool and flax
and busily spins it.
¹⁴ She is like a merchant’s ship,
bringing her food from afar.
¹⁵ She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household
and plan the day’s work for her servant girls.

¹⁶ She goes to inspect a field and buys it;
with her earnings she plants a vineyard.
¹⁷ She is energetic and strong,
a hard worker.
¹⁸ She makes sure her dealings are profitable;
her lamp burns late into the night.

¹⁹ Her hands are busy spinning thread,
her fingers twisting fiber.
²⁰ She extends a helping hand to the poor
and opens her arms to the needy.
²¹ She has no fear of winter for her household,
for everyone has warm^c]">[c] clothes.

²² She makes her own bedspreads.
She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.
²³ Her husband is well known at the city gates,
where he sits with the other civic leaders.
²⁴ She makes belted linen garments
and sashes to sell to the merchants.

²⁵ She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future.
²⁶ When she speaks, her words are wise,
and she gives instructions with kindness.
²⁷ She carefully watches everything in her household
and suffers nothing from laziness.

²⁸ Her children stand and bless her.
Her husband praises her:
²⁹ “There are many virtuous and capable women in the world,
but you surpass them all!”

³⁰ Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;
but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.
³¹ Reward her for all she has done.
Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.

Perfect isn't she? I have a lot to work on and a long way to go...but maybe one of these days I'll be like that.

Pray for me. I need lots of it. :-)

This one's for you!

I'm being bugged to update again. hehe I know, I'm way overdo. I actually just got through telling Kroff last night that I needed to update.

I just don't know what to update about. I guess I should brag on my guys. They're doing good. :-) Wednesday night last week we cleared three wings of Naxx in one fell swoop. It was an awesome night!

We were hoping to have a repeat last night, but what with it being Mother's Day and all we had a few MIA, us included :-)

I wasn't planning on staying in KTown quite as long as we did, but we had a blast. We went to church with my family then out to eat. We hung out for a while just taking it easy and then we set up some fold out chairs and a card table on the back deck at my grandmother's house and played Rook. Man oh man did we have fun! We played three games and laughed more than I have laughed in a long time. My head was starting to hurt from laughing so much when we finally had to leave. It was a lot of fun.

Let's see...what else?

One of these days I'm going to write an article about the PVP druid. I just started PVPing some again to work on a set, but I haven't really done much reading or anything on what a feral druid should be looking at for PVPing. I will get there though. :-)

Maybe next article...

That's the way to finish it out

Last night...was awesome!

My wonderful little guild charged into Naxx and we pwned face...hardcore! We started out in the plague quarter and wiped the mat with it in record time. Then we moved onto the construct quarter and one shot everything! I was completely impressed. Then we went back to the Military quarter and worked on Four Horsemen. There was some grumbling because several of our guys just wanted to go finish the easy stuff first. I thought it was a good idea because if we happened to down them, then we'd have tomorrow (today) to work on the other new stuff and we wouldn't overload everyone's learning ability. So we voted and Four Horsemen won out. Woo boy! Here we go!

We tried it a new way this time. Instead of the dps switching, we swapped out the riders. Obviously the back couldn't do it that way since their riders don't move, but that's how the front did it. Try 1 I had just switched with J, got my back in place and fell over. Ummm...okay...

Try 2! J had just switched and boom, fell over dead. Weird...

Then the arguements broke out. Our officers quareled a little bit and I had to put my foot down. One more try this way then we'll switch things up.

Try 3...down they go. We got the two up front down first then we moved everyone to the back and...lost a lot of the raid...what the heck? I'm still not sure what we did wrong. All I know is Sir Zielek's chain lighting one shotted most of my guys. But, we had a few people left up and two healers plus one who could heal. I tried to keep hopes up and we took it slow and steady and down they went.

Then there was much rejoicing!

We passed out loot and had time to finish Anub off before we called it a night.

/sigh It was a good night.

Tonight we'll finish off the Arachnid quarter and then charge in and learn Saph and Kel. Oh boy! But I'm confident in my guys and when they learn the fights, we'll be golden. I'm hopeful that we'll see a The Fall of Naxxramas achievement in our near future. :-)

After all, it seems to be a running theme this week.