So now I'm 21... Whee?

Ok So.
I'm so bored I think I'm going to die. It's taken an hour and a half for my Salvage group to get ready. Maybe I'm just noticing it because I was ready half an hour early today, spent all my tags and had my hot little Remnants Permit in my hand.

So I'm updating my blog.

As most of you know it was my birthday on the weekend. Whee? :3

I'm 21 now, time to do all that stuff you get to do at 21... Except in Australia you can do it all at 18 so I'm not really sure of the significance of this birthday.

But I got some nice gifts so it's not all bad.

I took a whole bunch of photos on the weekend in celebration of my birthday so I thought I would share some of the interesting ones with you. (when you read "interesting", think: "not out of focus or having a thumb in the way")

This one is of me, early early early in the morning after I got ready and then had to spend the morning getting my apartment ready for an open viewing (its being sold).
Not happy Jan. I had to get up early! And leave the house! zomgwtf..

Oh this is a picture of where we stayed on Saturday night, at the Hyatt.. I walked into our suite and it was so lovely.... I felt like a queen!

The bathroom was amazing.... In the morning while I was nursing my headache I had an egyptian milk bath.... Mmm.....

This is the view out the window, overlooking the Torrens River in Adelaide. I do believe that's Adelaide Oval there as well... You know... where they play sports and things...

We had our rooms on the 15th floor, and this is a pic of the floor below, which was this gorgeous garden thing... So pretty. I was going to sneak out later and visit it, but I was uhh how should I say... Incapacitated? :3

My girlfriends and I downstairs in the lobby at the Hyatt before we went out for dinner. I had been harassing the poor concierge for a lot of things that evening and I thought he wouldn't mind taking a photo for me.

From left to right: Johanna, Emma, Me, Melissa.

<3>

We went to this reallllllllllllllly nice (and really expensive) restaurant in the city called Shiki. It's a Japanese teppanyaki style restaurant. Thats where you sit around this big table and the chef prepares the food in front of you, its a bit of a fun thing they do tricky stuff with the knives and flipping things etc. A lot of fun. The food was amazing, my friends weren't too hot on the sashimi though (i think thats how you spell it). Teh raw fishes ftl? I liked it >.>

Amazing food though.

And wine.

Lots and lots of wine.

We had dessert too, it was so pretty I had to take a pic. Fruit sorbet mmm tasty.

All four of us at the Atrium after dinner, with another random person tackled into taking photos for me.

After dinner cocktails. We saw the likes of drinks such as Pina Colada's, Mango Split's and some strange green concoction with Absynthe in it...

And omg buffet breakfast <3

I had about 6 glasses of orange juice in the morning, with a ham and cheese toasted croissant and a pancacke with maple syrup and cream mmm....

I nursed a very unpleasant hang over the next day, I think I just curled up in bed mostly.

An awesome weekend though, I had the best time and spent it with my gorgeous friends whom I love with all my heart.

And I'm still sitting around in Salvage with nothing to do.

/sigh.

Well time to go start knitting that sweater.... :3

Someone save me.

*inserts random title here*

I've been working a lot lately , not had much time to do anything thats worth writing about, except levelling my lmaoninjarr!!!11 to 32 as of last night :D

When I get to 37 im putting it down for a while, I have spent wayyyyy too much monies on it. Like, wayyyyy too much. In one night, I had to restock a few ninja tools, I spent like 100k. *dies*

Anyways, Frazzle, the forum link is: http://z7.invisionfree.com/TheRisingSun/index.php
So go sign up, the community is getting bigger slowly, feel free to post whatever you like^^

Hopefully I'll be writing another blog soon, but It's my birthday on Saturday (the big two one, so I'll be out possibly getting too drunk for my own good :S)

But yeah, my apartment is up for sale, so I have the agent coming over on Saturday to bring in a few clients that are interested in having a look, so I want to be out by 12.30 then going to have coffee in town with my friends and go shopping, then going out for dinner that night to this really nice Japanese restaurant in town, then out dancing and such in town. Then we have reservations at the Hyatt.. mmm... I get to spend some of my real money for a change! How fun.

Anyway, don't expect much from me until next week, unless I find out I have to move, then Ill be packing a lot... But I'll try to do something interesting and post some pics soon.

Oh and not that it's too exciting, but I'm doing an Avatar run tonight, so about hmmm 10hours from now, if you're on you should come!

Love you all <333

Salvagey Stuff

Ok, first off..

Freakin hell yea!

1/1 !!! On 75WHM/15THF none the less hehe..

I was so proud.

/dance

Now my ninja wont suck as much :P

I'm in salvage at the moment, and i'm getting so tired of it. we had such a good run tonight, no one died (mostly because i fell asleep before and had a nice nap so im awake now) but NO DROPS!!! We even had a thief. I dont know whats wrong with it. /sigh /sigh

Okay, heres a run down of what I have so far for my Marduk set:

(see link for more information about what im talking about: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Marduk%27s_Jubbah_Set)

But basically, I have to collect three pieces of gear for each of the Marduk gear items. Theres a LV15, 25, 35 piece to collect to get the NPC to give you the Marduk gear item.

Head:
15 Anu's Tiara O
25 Ea's Tiara O
35 Enlil's Tiara X

Hands:
15 Anu's Gages X

25 Ea's Dastanas O
35 Enlil's Kolluks X

Feet:
15 Anu's Gaiters O
25 Ea's Crackows X
35 Enlil's Crackows O

Legs:
15 Anu's Brais X
25 Ea's Brais X
35 Enlil's Brayettes X

Body:
15 Anu's Doublet O
25 Ea's Doublet O

35 Enlil's Gambison X

Right now, I'm in Arrapago Remnants again farming for gear. No drops the first time, but I am hoping that the Archaic Chariot will actually drop something, and that it may be the 35 Enlil's Kolluks. (hands)

Then I will be 2/3 on Head, Hands, Feet and Body.

The last pieces for those gear items are found in Zhayolm Remnants, which we have not started doing yet. It's the hardest Salvage area, I hear. My Ea's Crackows, Enlil's Tiara, Enlil's Gambison and Anu's Brais are found there.

I still need the:

Enlil's Kolluks from Arrapago Remnants, and

Enlil's Brayettes from Bhalfau Remnants, and

Anu's Gages, and Ea's Brais from Silver Sea Remnants, and

then the aforementioned Zhayolm Remnants gear.

One day!!! Then I'll look like this:

I can't wait.
Its just so hot.


We aren't talking about how much its going to cost to get the synthesis materials to make the gear...

Okay, we'll talk about it lol.

I priced it up, its about 1.2mil for the head, 600k for the hands, 70k for the feet, 20k for the legs, and 6.5mil to 8mil for the body, depending on if i can get someone to craft the mats for me or if i just buy them outright.

I need to start farming I think...

What's in a Job?

Lord I'm bored...

Friday nights at work = teh lose.


Edit:: I've just realised how monster this post is. Aplogies in advance. *bites you* But read it, you might learn something. Like how to not be a moron. Not that you are. I think you're all equally as special. I love you all.

I have absolutely nothing to do. Oh, wait, no, thats not true. I have a report to write. It will take me a whole ten minutes to write, so really, I have nothing to do.

6:54pm and counting, my shift here finishes at 8pm.

For those of you that haven't had the decadent pleasure of meeting me, and don't know anything about me or what I do, I'm 20 years old, female, and work for a credit union in the loans area. Thats female, 20yrs old, single, and working, on a friday night. Woe is me.

I work in our call centre (awesome :\) and it's not as bad as you would imagine. I get to sit at the computer all day, (not surfing the internet, according to management) and answer the phone all day. Oh and we have a vending machine where I can buy as much Turkish Delight chocolate as I please. Now who wouldn't love my job?

It's not a bad job, it gets really busy and its a bit high stress (you know, dealing with everyone's money, and getting to decide if they are allowed to have any more or not) as there's so much work to do and we only have about 11 people in my team at the moment. The call volumes aren't too bad, but I take about 50-60 calls a day which is up to about 10 calls an hour. Now, that doesn't sound like much, but it takes 20 minutes or so to do a loan application for someone, so if I do two applications in an hour, that leaves about 20minutes to take the other eight calls. Fun times.

Mostly we have stupid people call up. You know, the ones that won't go into the branch because they think the staff will be able to see by the look in their eyes that they are trying to pull a dodgy on us? Yeah, those people.

It's amusing. It used to stress me out, but it doesn't faze me any more. You just be nice to them, smile and say thank you and hang up and laugh. I mean, some people have NFI (no fkn idea for those not down with the TLA's (three letter acronyms)) when it comes to money and loans.

Take this guy for example:

Has been working at his new job for exactly one week. I mean, he even has a payslip, thats a good thing right??

Previous to this new FULL TIME job he was unemployed for 6months. 6 months! That's not long at all.

Previous to being an unemployed bum, he was the director of his own company for 2 years. Well that's nice, but we want to know what you're doing Today. Not two and a half years ago.

Turns out his business went under due to financial difficulties. Did I put emphasis on financial difficulties? Yes, yes I think I did.

He currently has a chequing account with us, a credit card, and a Personal Loan. These were taken out before his business went under. That's nice. You're a Member with our credit union. That's sure to give you brownie points.

Oh, wait.... That's right, his chequing account is overdrawn by $23.90. And his credit card is $53.45 over its limit. And his personal loan payment is 4 days late. I'm sorry, was that brownie points you wanted?

Oh, but they are the only debts he has currently. Everything else has been paid off.

Looking at his account, I notice a direct debit for a collections agency, a Bpay to a credit card, a Bpay to a rental equipment store, a Bpay to a well known finance company, and another miscellanous regular payment. He has no other debts, remember? This must be my mistake, surely I'm looking at someone else's account. No, I'm afraid I'm not mistaken. He really told me he has no other liabilities owing. And its not like his account was with another bank where he could try to hide it from us.

And I ran a credit check for him, (you know, where we pry into your last five years worth of credit enquiries and applications) and he has no less than three defaulted payments. THREE. Yes thats three defaulted payments. A default is an unpaid account that passes three months unpaid, and the financial insti Sometimes people have one from the phone company, because they have moved and not given a forwarding address for their last bill. It usually catches up to them and they pay it. No dramas. This was one for a rental account which had been paid, late, for $355. One was for a credit card of $1200 that was on a continued contract, still being paid by this man, and the last one was a $10,000 loan that had not been paid off at all.

Oh and when I asked him at the start "Do you have any negative history that you feel we should know about?" Guess what his answer was. You dont have to guess, we already know that his answer was "No, of course not."

To top it off, not only were his accounts currently in arrears, they had been overdrawn, overlimit, and late consistently for the last 12months.

And he wanted to apply for an increase on his credit card. Of $6000.

No. Just no.

Don't call here again. Pay your gddamn account and close it.

Morons.

Well, on a brighter note, I was in a good mood today, and its Friday!!! Yeah baby.
But now you know what I do at work all day (besides reading blogs). Exciting, isn't it? Aren't you glad you asked? Now all your wonderings have been put to rest. *rolls eyes*

That's enough real life information for today.

Tonight on FFXI I plan to try level ninjar with my friend Andromida, she has a lvl 25 ninja and will be up in an hour or two I think. Oh, and Crinan is ninja LV27 also. Maybe we'll try a utsusemiburn party :\ that would rock pretty hard. No, we dont need a white mage pffft.. We have ninjapower! Mwah. Please disregard all posts where I referred to ninja as a waste of time. Its actully fun. If youre not a moron. I think my anitpathy to ninjas sprouted from my many bad experiences with ninja tanks while levelling white mage. *whm dies. again* *and again* *and again. wftninja??*

I think I'm doing ok though, I havent died in a while. And Eldoras let me borrow his shiny "blue boxed" gear aka. Federation/Kingdom gear. Mmmmmmsmexy. Gogoninjato37thenputinaboxforever!

I left my character in Crinan's party in Valkurm dunes before work, he wanted to try and camp Valkurm Emperor for me :\ I told him about eight times that he didn't have to but he was adamant. But I have like Treasure Hunter -10 on all jobs, its a Alsha-specific Trait. So I'll have to think of some way to pay him back for wasting 10 hours on my nonexistent Empress pin. Unless... I have an empress pin in my inventory when I get home. Then i'll be his slave for a week. What's that? You want a teleport? Yes of course! It's only 4.36am and I have to work in a few hours, but anything you want is fine. *shines her empress pin*

I wish.

That's all for now, time to go do something productive. Like wander through the office with no shoes on. Because I can do that after hours.

Love you all

xx

I'm too sexy for my shirt?

Or is my shirt too sexy for me?

Cleric's Briault.

Enough said.

edit:

Ok, I lied. I have plenty to say.

ZOMG!

It dropped!!! It's my unicorn, you know, that mythical dream you chase, but never really believe it exists? Yeah baby. Now we're cooking with gas.

I'm 4/5 on my White Mage Relic set. So I have my pants left that are in Jeuno, I don't think we will be going for a few weeks though, the next two are ice zones.

But omg!! It dropped!! And I was afk at the time >.> I told them the phone rang, but in all seriousness I had dozed off. I woke up and looked up at everyone yelling at me, and them going everyone pass so she gets it. And I'm like wth? omgitdroppedomgomgomg!! *falls over and mashes the keyboard trying to lot on it*

I've been waiting alllllllll year for that one. It's pretty hot. I'm never taking it off. Even when I'm on ninja. (Which by the way, is 25 >.>)

But my Noble's Tunic is the best thing for me to use while curing, but that's pretty much the only extra thing I'm getting out of it. My Cleric's has refresh, regen potency and more MP and also -2 Enmity, so that will be my main piece. I'm macro'ing in the Nobles for cures. Until my friend wants it back that is... Which I'm assuming will be soon, now that I have my Cleric's. Time to save up for a shining cloth... Or just buy the Noble's that would be cheaper to be honest. They are sooo cheap now, only 1mil or so. Hm.... I really should get that Blessed Briault for barspells too... /sigh Too much to do, too little money.

Omens: Blue Mage AF Boots

Hello again everyone!
I decided to make a new post just dedicated to the Omen's mission that I recently helped Heavensknight complete. Just cuz I can.

And because it was exciting ^.~

Pictures ahoy!

We were in Mount Zhalyom trying to find the ??? for the Cast Metal Plate that lets you through the Gates of Halvung. Needless to say, I'm not very good at dodging bombs. I ran all the way to the staging point and died right in front of the gate. Go go gadget reraise!

We ended up back at the Gate, and another person was going through the door, so after raising Heavensknight (yes, he died at the Halvung gate too; ;) we snuck through. And kept our buffs up the whole time. We were good little children.

Mount Z is such a scary zone behind those gates!!! Who in their right mind would go there?? /sea Mount Zhalyom...... *search returns 10x 75BLMs. lol...

I mean, check out the scary dragons!! Look!!! *points*

And then the inevitable happened...

Heavensknight: Oh, by the way, those Wamoura are true sight...

Alshandra: Oh. Really? I never knew that.... *puts on her imbeingrapedbyahugedisgustingflyingworm hat*

All's well that ends well though, after almost getting lost in the tunnels underneath the volcano we ended up at Navukgo Execution Chamber. Fight fight fight go!

And we pwned it really hard. 75WHM and 60somethingRDM ftw.

I even got to smack it a bit myself.

Congratulations Heaven! BLM Booties are yours!

PS Ninja update : I hit 25 tonight zomg I think I kind of like it a bit >.> shhh secret's between you and me. <.<

PS forgot to take pics of carby mitts, we got Angelise's mitts after like.... 4 hours as he didnt get the key item before the run. Divine ran out of time and had to d/c but I promise!!! You will get them soon hun. *hugs Divine*

Random pictues and things

Hmmm miscellaneous update!

I've been a bit slack, forgetting to take screenshots of things and write down what I've been up to lately.

First item!

Divine Might! Completed XD

Mmmm... *strokes her shiny Abyssal Earring*

We went with the guys that I go to sky runs with, we wiped the first time, they had some strategy about the BLMs nuking everything at once, it was kinda cool because all the Ark Angels dropped to 50% HP but then all the BLMs had the hate... And kinda died... A bit....

So we ended up wiping with only one down so we exited to try again.

Second time: Pwnt. We did it really fast too which was nice. In total, I'm 1/4 on this mission, and am glad its finally over.

Looking forward to being able to equip my earring when i get my BLM high enough. It's still 64 :\ I'm so slow.

Shiny pictures: I didnt take many and not very good ones, as I was kind of concentrating on not dying, and healing everyone.

But you get the idea.

This is our group outside the BC, preparing to go in. Out of TRS, it was me, Enishi, Crinan and Hax (who only drops in from time to time).

Here we are, walking into the BC buffing up and all that jazz.

And here we are..... Spread eagled on the floor. And not in the fun way >.>

Fun times. At least it's over.

*rubs her earring*

Here's a random picture I took of Alky when we went up to help Sonnia fight him and Pallas.

Here's a recent Assault we did before Salvage. (with sky group)

Fun times.

That'll teach me to try to make friends with Lamia no.13...

I think that's all the miscellaneous pictures I've taken lately. I've not been doing much lately due to having the flu but I'm starting to get back into things now. Planning to do some more Avatar runs this week, I need to do Shiva, Ifrit and Leviathan again for whispers to get Fenrir. Also going to do Carbuncle Mitts later today I think, so I'll have to remember to take some nice pictures.

That's all for now, have fun kids^^