Ocean of Jade - Generation One, Chapter Four

Time came and went for Aesleng as she started the first of many in the book series she was to write, and her father couldn't have been more proud of his daughter. Life for her was going well, despite she was barely scraping by. Kenyon and she started to see one another more frequently, going out on dates, spending time at one another's places, and Aesleng was really beginning to fall for him.

"Yes, I know Papa, but you should come out for a visit, get to know him before you have such words about him." Aesleng stated to her father while on the phone on a hot, sunday afternoon. The sun was pouring through the windows as Aesleng paced her small living room floor. "That's all I'm going to say about it, Papa, get to know him first. He's a good guy." Her father and she continue to talk, but, finally let the subject die down, before he had to get ready to go to work and the two of them hung up with one another.

Ocean of Jade - Generation One, Chapter Three

After such a hard day of work at the vineyard the day before, I slept like a baby in my bed, which is saying something since the bed isn't exactly all that comfortable. Just before dawn, I turned my computer on, while making a pot of coffee, and decided to continue trying to get a publisher to take me on. I didn't know it at the time, but, my luck was about to change, because in my email inbox waiting for me was a response back from a publisher I had written to with a sample of my writing style. With my fresh, piping hot cup of coffee, sitting at the desk, I started to check my email first and to my dismay, I nearly spilled my coffee all over the computer from the last email I opened up. The publisher from Villa-Rica Publishing which was down town Cala Blanca near the City Hall Building, was wanting to talk to me today at 7am sharp.

The Life of Lancer Lum - Chapter 1

Now, I may be small, but I can do anything...Except climb the stairs.

Hi, my name is Lancer. I am a nine week old German Short-hair Pointer, and today I was finally adopted out of the shelter. I was beginning to think that I would never have a family of my own after my litter mates were each adopted out what seems like ages ago. I said good bye to my mum, who wished me good luck and told me to remember everything she's taught me so far about why being a family dog was an important role. I told her I would always remember, as well as remember her, and that I loved her very much.

Just as I was being taken away to be put in this small cage I saw a small tear form at her eye that was twinkling with pride. I wagged my tail good bye for her as I was placed into this weird thing that seemed to move us a lot faster than I ever could run. I was scared at first, but I remained brave for my momma, though she could not see me if my courage had faltered anyway. Since moving this fast wasn't actually hurting me, I decided it couldn't be all that bad, right?

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Ocean of Jade - Generation One, Chapter Two

Such a horrible bed. I woke up to the first morning light coming up over the hillside, and ocean, and had this horrendous feeling over me as if today, of all days, was going to be a very unlucky one. My back ached, the back of my head hurt, and the day was just beginning. Stumbling out of the bedroom, and a long shower to try and help my aching back, I headed to bring the paper in, and went to find something I could make myself for breakfast while trying to find part time job just until I got on my two feet.

Ocean of Jade - Generation One, Chapter One

My first day back in Cala Blanca and it hasn't changed a bit from its small town charm, and beautiful villas that I remember when my father use to bring me here. One time in particular, there was a west wind coming from the coast line while we walked hand in hand to the near by park at where we had been staying. It was the first time we had been back in Cala Blanca after my mother died from a horrible illness. Father thought it was best for the both of us if we enjoyed our time together, and tried to continue living, just like mother wanted us too. That was ten years ago.

Armando's daily life. - Legacy Challenge.

It's taken me a while to actually get around to posting about my Legacy Family Challenge like Xinaed had done with his in the last blog entry. I've been working on other things since we started this challenge but that's alright. I guess I'll start by showing who I created for the challenge we began together. We both had completely different outcomes already, which I wasn't expecting at all, but, its all about the randomization of it all I guess.

This is Armando

As you can see, mine wasn't as bad as Xinaed's but, he was definitely still ugly as his eyes are all out of wack, as well as he has a really monkey/piggish face, can't really see it with his glasses on, but, he is ridiculous looking without them. I'll have to remember to take a screenie of that the next time I actually feel up to playing him. I could have gone completely out on him, and made him as hideous as I could have, but at the same time I wanted it to be as realistic as well, if he was a real person. It seems as if I've made him almost as if he was born with birth defects or some syndrome, but, I don't know just yet. He's just ugly. lol.

The Tretheway Legacy; Alphonso the Birdman - Day 1

First of all, we really didn't feel like making a completely new blog site just to be posting our Sims Legacy challenges on. We do hope to play wizard101 in the near future but it's going slow since we are both still struggling with income and me at a point in my life where I am too sick to work, but having a difficult time getting on assisted income to help me afford my medications. Here's hoping for the future though, since asthma really isn't an illness to mess with or take lightly.

I was wanting Zaolan to be posting the first post, but he kinda burned his hand last night with some boiling water so I wont be waiting on him lol. We each have our own different families, since we each have the Sims Life Stories installed on our computers. So you will be getting two completely different variations of the same story. We found a blog site that had a legacy challenge that interested us, and also freaked us out. This person plays the Sims3 now, but she used to play sims2. 

Anyway, the challenge she was working on is a sims3 but we decided to try and make it a sims2/life stories version. Obviously somethings can't happen the way it might in sims3 so we make minor adjustments as needed. Then said person added in another challenge to that existing challenge to make it more interesting and less boring. Because some challenges can become boring over time if you don't have a good story line brewing in the mix. 

My Turn

I can't say that I have much to post on because I haven't really be playing wizard101 much lately, but I figured it was my turn to give an explaining blog post so here I am. Right now I'm struggling with having been moved to a position at work that I don't like or enjoy at all, so a lot of my concentration is going towards doing the job correctly & right so that they can say nothing bad when another position opens up and I try to go for it. Added to that is the school work I'm trying to get through & done so that I can use that to show that I'm at least working towards a degree, which again I hope will help when I try to go to another position. & on top of it all my Mema (grandma) is in town visiting right now. I will admit that yes I am playing some because I found it is a good & healthy way to help relieve stress I'm mainly running around on my youngest char who has only recently just entered Colossus Blvd. (& yes I know I probably spelled that wrong, but I don't have the game open currently and my spelling has always stunk, which is why I'm grateful to the inventors of spell check. ^_^ )

~Nina

Been a long while, I know.

Even longer since I’ve actually played Wizard and enjoyed it. Yes, I still love the game, but I’m kind of burned out. So, in the mean while, been playing other games such as the Sims, and or random facebook games here and there. Basically anything to occupy my time. Don’t really have much to comment on. Last time Z and I played wizard, we got the dream team about 1/3 the way through Mooshu. Maybe today I can convince Z to play for a couple hours.

It really depends on whether or not our computers can handle it. Being that it is summer, there is a large amount of wizards on the game at once. Causing those of us with basic dsl hookups to be left in the dust. Even in the wee hours of the night, we barely can find a time where it takes a minimum of 15 minutes running from point A to point B, when normally it would take 2-3 minutes, easily.

Hence, our newfound boredom with the game. It’s not the .games. fault, but the fact that KI still hasn’t added in subscriber only realms, or even added more realms. So, the sub that we just bought for two of our accts, two weeks ago, was a waste. Since we’ve only played a few hours since then.

Have no idea what is going on with the rest of the twizard bunch, as I can’t load my twitter page. And I used to use tweetdeck, but even that freezes me up. Haven’t checked many blogs lately. It’s kind of upsetting reading/seeing all this stuff others are posting, when I’m not able to join in the fun. So.. just thought I would post saying Hi to all our readers. We are still here, and alive.

Just not in game much.

Hope all of you are having fun, and continue to do so.

How rare is your rare?

I know that its been a while since X, Grace or myself have posted but I personally have been feeling like I've nothing to really post about. However, I'll try and update everyone what X and myself have been up to. With Wintertusk having came out, we rushed Tristan and Kieran there to work on it as much as we possibly could, but it took us a lot longer than most people due to our internet connection and the fact that my laptop isn't all that great and the crowdedness makes my computer struggle playing the game properly. But, we made it through to the last area of Wintertusk without doing it, and haven't looked back since. We haven't even thought about heading to Crab Alley since everyone states the Waterworks is very hard and we are but two people that travel around the spiral together. So we gained our new level 58 pets and worked hard to getting to where we are.

Wintertusk, Crab Alley, Krokosphinx and more

Lately, Z and I have been running around the spiral on two accounts each. Trying to level up my theurgist (first ever) and his diviner, (first ever) on our side accounts, whilst still questing on our main accounts. Now that we've caught Valdus and Karic up with Alura and Fallon, we are running the four of them, lovingly nicknamed by us "The Dream Team" together. Makes questing go so  much faster, and smoother. It also helps that we have two healers at all times making sure everyone stays alive. Currently they are in GH and KT.

100th post.

I don’t really have anything special for our 100th blog post. I only have random screenies of random battles on random characters. That, and a few screenies of Calamity, my ice alt, making master artisan and getting up to level 48 and getting the spell and pet. I won’t bore you all with a lot of chit chat, and will mainly just throw some pictures out there for you all. But, I will give you all a little update about what we have all been doing these past few days.

Hello

It had been decided that it was again my turn to post & I for one am so happy about that because it means I don't have to wait to share some news with y'all that happened last night. ^_^

That's right, that screenie isn't lying. Grace finally hit level 60 last night. Now I just need to work on getting her to grandmaster gardner because she is already grandmaster artisan (can't remember if I ever mentioned that) & then work on finishing all the other unfinished badges she has. On top of that I have to continue work on my other chars (which I don't need to list here because I now have my own page with a list of all my chars on it) and leveling my pets up to at least adult level.

Alright, now for the actual post:

First off I want to say that I am sorry for all those that are suffering due to the storms devastation. We were lucky here but only barely, and for this I am very thankful. 

Second I want to say I am thankful for #Twizards out there, because you all rock, and make this community awesome. I am sorry that some of you are being used as a way to make someone elses blog look good. I just hope that they stop, and if they ever copy anything from myself or Z, or even Grace, you can bet I will be pressing that button at the top of their blog that says "report abuse" and follow the prompt all the way to copyright violation. It's pretty sad they are doing this because they are "too lazy" their words, not mine, to post their own work.

Thirdly, I will talk about Wintertusk. Am definitely loving the world, the land and the story line. However, playing on TR only makes me sad, because I have two items on TR that I would love to have in LR but can't afford to have. That is the life amulet, for Kieran, and the lifeforce blade, for Kieran as well. I also bought some mega snacks to see possible talents my Spineyfish will manifest. Oh how I wish! It's going to take me forever to get him to Epic LOL. I probably wont get it done until well after my subscription to Wizard101 has expired, eek. That is for sure. Not to mention, I don't want to get bored of the world before I get to play it on Live.

Short post; Stay safe!

I had planned on making a blog post, all about our adventures, and even misadventures in the test realm thus far, but unfortunately weather has other plans for us. Z and I have been busy preparing for possibly multiple tornadoes in our area. Last we heard we were in direct path for the same storm cell that has produced, already an f5 tornado. The storm cell had not weakened any, and it's expected to be in our area with in some time.

Preparing the animals, preparing food, water, packing up important documents, and possibly even, haven't decided yet, putting our computers away for safe keeping.

We hope everyone, whether you are reading this or not, whether you play wizard101 or not, every life stays safe, during these severe storms. We pray for those affected, and are praying for those who have family, friends, loved ones affected, or those who might be affected. Basically, we are praying.

Troubles with the Test Realm.

It would seem that X and myself have had the most horrible time with the test realm. We had been on and off all day due to storms and no internet access because of that and when we do finally get on which was well after 8pm we find out that the test realm is up and running with the new content of Wintertusk and all the other exciting add ons that i'm sure all you bloggers have already written about.

When we finally got home and could access the internet we started to patch the test realm and it took me forever. Longer than it did for X but thats typical for me. >.< Once in I couldn't move anywhere and neither could he. We had to redownload every thing once again. Not just the new content. So, while trying to do all the downloading, we leveled up a pet with mega snacks and loaded our main houses. Still wasn't done and it really didn't seem like it was ever going to get done since it looked as if it wasn't going anywhere.

Wizard101, Runescape and More

Lots has happened in the Spiral for me, though in reality it just feels as if nothing has happened. Maybe that's because a lot of what I had wanted to achieve hasn't quite come to fruit yet. Mostly, pet leveling. I think I've managed to level up 3 pets from teen to adult, and about 6 pets from baby to teen. I have said this before, and I'm saying it again. I really wish KI would do something about the pet games. 

They are too boring (more so redundant) for the minimal rewards you get from them. I understand that's why they put the mega snacks in, but let's face it, I will never be buying any of them. $5 is just too much to pay for them. And I do have gardens full of supposed plants that drop said snacks. So far out of 50 harvests, I've gotten 3. Yes folks, just three.

Sparky that I finally leveled up to adult. Really enjoy having him along side my diviner.

Wizard vs Real Life

Ok so I'm not able to get in as much wizard101 time as I would like thanks to work, school, & now also my internet connection. My household has been having issues connecting & staying connected to the Internet the last couple of days. My dad says he is gonna give it a couple of weeks (like 1 or 2) before he once again starts calling & complaining because the problem could be somewhere in one of the fire damaged areas in town. Yea we had some fires in my city this past weekend, but no one was actually physically hurt as far as I know. & it looks like my connection is being friendly again so I can post this myself.

Here is what I worked on in wizard: Grace's garden, which contains about 7 pink dandelion & 1 silver trumpet vine. She is currently the only one of my characters that I'm doing a garden for right now because of my limited time online. I also worked on leveling up some of my baby pets because I want them to be adults so that one day I'll be able to add them to the list of pets X & Z have on here that can be hatched with. Right now I have a satyr & a fierce hound as adults & am currently working on my pet rock which is in it's teens right now. When I run out of energy for that then I can usually be found running around on Christina (my ice char) working on her quests, which currently has her in Knights Court (I think that's the name. I know it's knights something) in MB.

Random Screenies of drops by Zaolan.

Not too much to blog about on my behalf minus the issues yesterday but moving on from that specific situation X and myself have been farming a bit and since for whatever reason – my print screen hasn’t been wanting to work for me. I did, however, find four screenies that made it through from a while back in march to recent whether on Tristan or one of my other chars. So, that’s good. Most of the farming has been at the Jade Oni to try and get as many holiday drops as possible, and also the most illusive Jade Oni pet for myself.

I’ll post those here in a second but X and I are hard at work also on trying to spruce this place up, since we’re now paying for our domain. We’ll probably set up a few pages of all the drops we’ve personally made and hopefully get around to updating our pet page as well in case some of you wizards are in need of a specific pet hatch. We also are wanting to add a few other things for this place to make it unique and interesting but that will have to be talked about at a later time since we’re wanting to get it all set up first before really going to say “The new and improved Stormy skies!” Etc.

Who knew..

..that something so rewarding, could turn in to something so ugly. So, today, had a bit of confrontation from someone on twitter, who apparently is offended (at least it would seem that way by how they reacted, and then acted) about the fact that I personally received 2k crowns from KI for completing the survey. I remember perfectly it told me 2k. When my sister first told me about the survey, she told me “hey, they have a survey up to get 2k crowns. Be sure to take it.” 

And today was the day when we were supposed to get our crowns. I am in fact +2k richer. This makes me happy. I was thinking of all the things I could get with this 2k crowns. Now, I want to take it and throw it out the window. But I can’t. Because it’s a game. And I can’t really take what’s in the game and throw it away, now can I? At least not currency. Unless I bought something with it, and then trashed that item. But, what good would that do?