I don't suffer from insanity,

I know this is an old article, but thewolfhound forwarded it to me and it made me *laugh*.

( Real Life RPG??? )

I had a good time at Anne's game on Friday. I think we're finally getting close to solving the mystery. I suck at mysteries, heh, but finari was sure on a roll! I'm logging my notes on my husband's site, as well as our LJ community. My goal is to get all my notes up before the next game, although my notes will be only from my character's point of view, so a lot of things will be missing.

Saturday I was at the Faire again, this time just with Kev and Sarah and we went in our normal clothes. I got some small trinkets for Mir, and a little necklace for Mom. Kev and Sarah got lots of garb, Sarah winning the garb-envy award again by picking up Pendragon's french court dress in burgundy and gold.

Yesterday being Mothers' Day, of course I went to my parents' house. Mom called and asked me to stop by Kid's place to see if he needed a ride, so I did. Unfortunately, Aaron was feeling sick and was passed out sleeping, so I just let him sleep. I'm very conscious about not wanting to expose Dad to any kind of illness (not that he won't get exposed as a public school teacher. Hm. Oh, well). Anyway, at Mom and Dad's, it was awesome seeing annawick and Dave and Lex, and my brother Ian showed up, too, though his wife was in Oklahoma with her own mom. My sibs are cool. I like their spouses, too! I know I've said that before, but I stand by it. ^_~

I dropped the pooch off at the vet this morning so he could get his teeth thoroughly cleaned. They're gonna knock him out. They warned me that when I pick him up this afternoon, he may be kind of groggy and want to sleep, and I couldn't help but think when is my dog not sleepy, aside from his walk time?

I had such guilt yesterday, since the vet told me to take away all his food and water after 8pm. Poor dog kept going back to his water bowl and licking the bowl even though it was dry. I also had to close the bathroom door, because he remembered water was in there, too.

He hates getting weighed, heh. Dunno why, but he is scared to death to step on that black pad. Ah, well. He clocked in at 98.7 lbs. Wonder if I should worry about his food intake? Is there such a thing as a fat greyhound? He doesn't look fat, that's for sure...

Heh. When thewolfhound asked me what I wanted to play in his Forgotten Realms D&D campaign, I was unsure. I knew I wanted to play a spell caster but not sure what to actually make.

So, I created a monster. I asked thewolfhound to twink me out.

The end goal will be a Mystic Theurge out of the DMG. However, where the twinkiness comes in to play are the classes she has before she gets Mystic Theurge at level 12.

She started out with three levels of Paladin, and one level of Favored Soul (we started at 4th level). At level 8, she has Paladin 3, Favored Soul 3, and Sorcerer 2. Favored Soul is found in the Complete Divine, and it is the divine caster's equivalent to the Sorcerer. As an ex-Paladin who maintains her vows, she gets her Charisma modifier to her saves. As both a Sorcerer and Favored Soul, she gets her Charisma modifier to her spell DCs, as well as her spells per day. Heh. I only have to raise my Charisma, which is 22 at level 8.

Anyway, she will never have the versitility of a true cleric or wizard. Her spell list will always be limited, as she has to permanently chose her spells. However, she will never have to actually prepare them and will be able to cast them all on the fly.

Oh, and to make role-play interesting, she's an ex-Paladin and currently Favored Soul of Sune, the goddess of Love, Beauty and Passion. So if the char hist is kind of .... fluffy, that's why. ^_~ Mwahahahahah!

( My D&D Character History - Alazia L'Iesran, Favored Soul of Sune )

Friday night was our all-girl World of Darkness game. lolafae set up an LJ community for us for the curious:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/wod_collegepark/

I do believe fun was had by all, heh.

Saturday was pretty relaxed. I picked up my dad from the Honda dealership where his van was getting the 150k maintenance. He stayed at my place and we watched Van Helsing and The Day After Tomorrow both of which I enjoyed. Then my sis annawick and I went to wyshadara's wedding. It was fun. She looked absolutely beautiful. I also had a great opportunity to visit with some old, dear friends (/wave, John, Dave S, & Ajit).

I also found out from my dad that my brother Chris is getting married the Saturday after Thanksgiving, hehe.

Sunday was nice and relaxing. It usually is, heh. Morning, prepping my Sunday school lesson (yes, I teach Sunday school. Have for years. ^_^ A side of me many never see), Sunday afternoon I relaxed and continued reading Heinlein's Time Enough For Love. Sunday evening we went to Arlington/Grand Prairie for our First Sunday dinner with the family. It is always fun to see the family, and first Sundays is for my immediate family.

Yesterday Matt & I watched The Incredibles, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I can very easily see why it generated such nice opening weekend totals.

In Taltos news, he's starting to feel more comfortable with us. However, he's showing a protective part of his personality that I never expected. He's growled at three different men, and I think perhaps he was feeling protective of either myself or sahve. She thinks he's getting like this because of the sheer number of new people he's been meeting in such a short time, as he's been with us only eleven days. He knows who his pack is, but everyone else (well all the other males, anyway) is a "stranger."

I think Matt and I may take to leaving him at home a little more often rather than bringing him up to work every day. At least until he's fully adjusted to his new den. ^_^

My friend Shel, who has known me since I was fourteen, invited me to play in her werewolf game that she runs every other Thursday. I was looking forward to it because it's an excellent chance for me to see her aside from our Wednesday lunches. However, now that Anne's game has been indefinitely (likely permanently) canceled, I look forward to it for the additional reason of the fact that I still get to play werewolf. It's a large game, seven players, but Shel is doing a good job of keeping everything under control. I just hope the size of the game doesn't wear on her - I know running larger games is difficult.

Excuse me while I geek out here.... ^_~

Regardless, Thursday evening I had fun role-playing my little Shadow Lord Lupus cub. The group dynamic is interesting: myself (Shadow Lord Lupus Ragabash), a Shadow Lord Metis Theurge, a Silent Strider Lupus Ahroun, a Silent Strider Homid Galliard, an Uktena Homid Ahroun, a Black Fury Homid Ragabash, and a Black Fury Homid Philodox.

I chose to play a lupus primarily because I wanted to play a Shadow Lord but couldn't see that a homid Shadow Lord would necessarily follow a lupus as alpha. Oh, and the player of the Silent Strider Ahroun is an alpha-type personality in real life, which often carries over into games. So anyway, I'm having a fun time with the little lupus. She's very shifty, heh.

Friday night, Matt and I went on a double date to Fogo de Chao. Mmmmm. Meat. I do have to say, that's the best $100 we didn't have to spend. Gogo Gadget Gift Certificate! I love that restaurant. Mmmmm. Meat.

Saturday morning Matt went flying so I got to fiddle around on World of Warcraft. My druid is level 18 now (I know, I'm geeking out again!). She still solos really well but I still prefer to group. If I'm playing a MMOG, I like to actually interact with my fellow MMOGers. ^_^ That evening, we headed out to Justin to play some D&D with friends. Matt DMed and I do believe a good time was had by all.

Ok, back to normal, non-geeky stuff....

Sunday afternoon I drove out to my parents to visit with Rob, Sioux and Kyr. My sis annawick was there, and she's looking very cute, hehe, even though "the alien" keeps kicking the crap out of her.

Finally, yesterday after work, the family (less annawick and my bro-in-law) had dinner at Logans. Even Chris and Aaron showed up, and I discovered that they play CoH on Pinnacle, although Chris has a level 20 something on Virtue where I play. I think I may have them convinced to play World of Warcraft when it comes out... I also had a good chance after dinner to really visit with Ian (my brother) and Nikki (his wife). I often forget how lucky I am to have such a cool family.

I've also possibly picked up a new hobby.

Scrapbooking.

Yeah, I know, that sounds just so....suburban.

Whatever. :P

I need to make four photo albums so far: one for my time in Italy, one for Ian with all the pictures he sent me from Micronesia, one for Matt's mom of all the pictures I can find of her and Matt's father, and the last of Matt's childhood. I even have some color schemes in mind.

Mine is set. Black with silver and red tones throughout. Very simple design. I'm certainly not ambitious. I'm about halfway through with the photo journaling. When that's finished, I'll be ready for set up.

For Ian's I was thinking turquoise and, well, sand. The kind of sand that surrounded him while he was in Micronesia, so that really beautiful white sand color.

For my mother-in-law, I was thinking gold and white with orange tones. In Buddhism, gold is representative of wealth but also sacred things, and white, though the thought is somewhat morbid, is their color of death. Orange, of course, is also a sacred color. I think since Matt's father has passed away, that it would be appropriate. I ran the idea by Matt and he agreed.

As for Matt's childhood album, I haven't really given that one much thought. However, after I've finished the other three, maybe I'll have some kind of clue. ^_~