Rawr!! I'm Back!!

All right!!

After my excruciating long "vacation" from the game, it feels good to be finally back!

("the game", being Final Fantasy XI Online. If you don't know what this is, just get out now. Get out to the shop, buy it, come back, and install it. Don't worry, the updates don't take that long to download....)

Anyway. My tale of adventure!! In The Real World!! Yes, it really exists!! I'm living proof!!!

I finally rescued my poor laptop from the clutches of the evil Acer overlords, and restored it to it's rightful place... In my room.

(Read: I dropped it several weeks ago and I had to take it in to be fixed... It took a week and a half for them to work out I had destroyed the internal fan AND the hard drive, good job guys!!! /end sarcasm)

SO! That mean's I'm back online, to annoy all of my lovely friends once again. You know you love me, don't you lie about it! ^.~

It was so nice to log back in to FFXI after a few weeks of being A.W.O.L. I got a very nice basket of messages ditched at my head upon my return. (Thanks guys, I love you too)

I was a bit worried the linkshell (The Rising Sun) would have fallen apart in my absence (because, you know, I'm the center of the world and it's likely to turn brown and die without me) but I'm so very glad to see a good handful of people on this morning, with reports of fun exciting times while I was gone. I'd like to mention a few things I've heard thus far : MJGone getting his Destroyers woo hoo! and ShaunMC getting his... Maat's butt? Oh, I mean he kicked it. Hard! All right! I wasn't on for long today so I haven't caught up on all the news, you'll just have to stay posted.

It took six hours to download those stupid updates... They replaced my whole hard drive with a new one, so I had to reinstall and download all the updates... /cry. It made me die a little inside. But I finally logged on... To find out that ALL my macros disappeared! (I somehow thought that my macros would have been stored in some magical crevasse of my laptop that wasn't affected by them throwing the old hard drive in the bin...)

Wiping away my tears I started the tedious process of redoing my white mage macros. I've realised I'm a bit of a gear swap whore.. Too many /equip macros in that lot.

Anyway, TRS wasn't doing too much this morning but I had a good catch up chat with everyone, and got a tell from Draako, my lovely Paladin friend, to join a merit party near Mamool Ja Staging Point. I wasn't really doing anything, (well, I was avoiding going to visit my poor starving Chocobo, poor, poor Filante Pereaux....) so I went along. She had set up the PT as PLD WHM RDM BRD WAR MNK mmm.... my favourite set up in my favourite camp, how could I say no ??

We kicked a lot of Mamool butt, I scored 2 and a half merit points during that party, which had a few player swaps (swapping in Enishi, the most awesome bardwhowouldratherbeaninjabutidontlikeninjassoshutupandsingballadforme!lol before everyone eventually had to go (including me, I had to go out before work this morning. And Why was I playing FFXI before work, do you ask? I woke up at 5am freezing cold and I couldnt sleep. WinterFTW. I love Australia and it's crazy weather. I wonder what I should spend my merit points on... I think I'm done with this tangent...)

I have so many plans for what I want to do with my character... I want to level up Black Mage, currently at 53, merit on White Mage for Imperial Standing, (and merits, of course..) go take my level 28 Clothcrafting test and level that up to 30, make some monies... The list goes on.

Speaking of lists, I made a bit of a wish list for gear and things I want to get for my various jobs in game, which is at home (I'm currently at work... not.. working... *hides from the boss*) so I will have to post that in my next update I write from home.

If you read this far then {Congratulations!} you managed to put up with me rambling for this long, you get to be my friend now. No, there's no choice here, it's mandatory.

If you're in The Rising Sun reading this, then lots of hugs to you !!

If you're not then {That's too bad} but I'll still love you anyway.

Thanks for reading thus far, I was bored this evening so felt like writing something. I'm thinking to develop this blog further, something I have been meaning to do for a while now, but never really got around to starting. I will have to play around with this blog site thing to make it a bit more personalised, but don't expect much. This is about as technical as I get.

Oh!!!! Two minutes until I can clock out!!

adios~ *sets the computer on fire and runs out of the building*