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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Life is very strange…..

Max is very happy at the group home.  We are super thrilled.  As soon as they send me pictures I’ll post some up here.

Marjorie has suddenly been home a lot more often, almost as if she still lives here though she is slowly moving things out.

Ian is still unsure of how to proceed with college.  I’m starting to think he might need to try a real college with dorms.  Transportation will be a huge issue for him here.

Cookie is freaking out.  Well, really, she’s either freaking out about Max leaving, or we’re seeing the “real” Cookie.  I’ve caught her peeing all over the place.  :(

Cliff is freaking out about Cookie, and Max too, but otherwise, exactly the same.

And then there’s me….  I’m not sure what I am at the moment.  I’m trying to figure that out.  I’ve been nothing but Max’s mom for so long that there isn’t much there for me to build on at the moment.  I know I’m not a happy person and that I really want to be.  I set goals late last year and met most of them.  Well, all but one….  I’m still grossly overweight, though I did lose 50 pounds.  But, making all those changes didn’t make me happy.  So, I think about what’s missing in my life, and honestly, I know what it is, but at this moment I don’t feel I can do anything about it, though maybe I will be able to someday.

I still play Perfect World most of my free time, and really it’s been a life saver for me.  It’s because of some of those folks that so many changes have happened for me.  So I will never regret going back to PW and starting Caius last summer and even more so, starting Snow last October.  Since then so many things have happened, most I’m not even ready to talk about here.  (Not at the moment anyway.)   Hey, at least I am very happy somewhere.

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Well, time for bed.  I’ll try to write in here more often if possible.  No promises though…..

(Wow – This clock is wrong on here…   :P  It’s only 3:18am !  )

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Monday, January 11th, 2010

The longest I’ve gone without making an entry….  Skipped Christmas even.

Reality is I never really felt much like Christmas this past year.  Everything is falling apart at home.  Max is out of control, destroying everything.  I am so tired.  All I want to do is play my game and be with my friends.

There is more to say on the home front, but as its 4:30am and I haven’t been to bed yet it’ll have to wait for another day.  I have to get up in an hour and 45 minutes.

Just one quick line or two….  I am not dead.  I am not hiding.  I am playing Perfect World and having the most fun and the best time I’ve had in years.  But of course it’s between dodging things getting thrown at the back of my head, dealing with phone calls from people on Max’s care, doing paperwork, chores, changing diapers, paying bills, etc.  Basically the usual crap.  My main character is now level 76 and she will level in morning sometime to 77.  I have so many really good and dear friends on there…  People who are just the greatest.  My very best friend of all on there is Lone, but Mew and King are next closest to me, and honestly, more are becoming closer.  I think the world of my faction leader Zem, and my favorite cleric Rez, who is about to join the ranks of best friends.  These people make my days worth getting up every morning for even though they suck very badly most of the time.  I fit in, pretty much, and that’s pretty darned cool at my age.  Anyway, more later.  Gotta get to bed.

Goodnight real world.

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Just for the record,

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I hate my life.

A kid on Max’s bus leaned over and spoke to me this morning telling me Max spits on all of them everyday.  So what do I say to that?  “Try living here and getting kicked and punched and squeezed by him everyday”?

I know the old seizure meds have yet to leave his system, and maybe that’s all this is, but therapy went horribly and the ride home from therapy, worse.

The only good things right now?  The woman I talk to on my game who has an autistic son says she considers me her best friend.  :D  That’s pretty cool.  My character also has a young man in love with her (just in the game – he’s seriously just a teen but he knows I’m an old lady with an husband and kids and he says we’re just role playing characters) so I do get virtual hugs when I need them and that’s nice.

In real life though, I have yet to spend the Amazon $$$ from Nathan because I can’t decide what item I want/need more.  I’ll figure it out.  The rest of the money I put on my game.  I’m sorry, but right now, the game is what keeps me going.  Real life is just too damned depressing.  I know it’s a phase and that eventually I’ll get tired of it and quit, but right now I really need this break from reality.

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Well, while I am really super freaked out about tomorrow,

Monday, October 5th, 2009

with the MRI actually happening and all, I am also really over excited and flustered at what happened on my video game today, so, I’m kind of wound up.  :P

All my screenshots are on the lappy though so I’ll have to wait to post them, but damn, Caenis Snow had an absolute blast this morning doing some things I have never done before in that game.  And they called her “Snow” which for personal reasons of where the name originated, tickled me pink.  :D

This is the greatest guild in the world.  I’m swearing by this.  :D

Anyway, I felt like a dunce most of the way through because it was all happening so fast, but in the end everyone was so nice and amazing to me that I’m just glowing at the moment.  :D

Unfortunately, duty has reared it’s ugly head and I must face not only evening chores and cooking dinner but also the reality of the MRI and what we are facing tomorrow.  I’ll get a short while to play tonight and then we’re off to adventure and fear in the morning.  Wish us luck.  :(

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Well….

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Everything I say I’m never going to do again, I do.  :P  Sorry, world.

Today, in the interests of trying to enjoy myself before the inevitable worry and fear sinking in for the rest of the week, I decided to create another venomancer character in Perfect World.  I remembered nearly everything I needed to do from when I played KyrilIobria earlier this year and last year.  (She’s my level 50 veno.)  Anyway, I don’t have time to go into the details right now because it’s after 2am and I should seriously be sleeping, but, long story short, I tried to help someone because no one else was.   He was shouting for help and everyone ignored him for like an hour, and I knew the answer to his question, so… And after I explained what he needed to do, he started being kind of clingy and I got nervous and this other guy stepped in and rescued me by asked me to join him and his LEVEL 83 friend for a while to run some killing quests.  In the time it took to pry myself away from the one guy the level 83 left, but the other guy remained and even though I explained I didn’t really need the help with the quest I thought it would be nice to have someone with me to keep the creepy guy away.  So we played together on different quests for about an hour, maybe two.  Of course, with thousands of interruptions from Max and the phone, etc. and all.  I explained that my child is disabled and that I would have to go often (my usual reason for never squading with anyone) and he said he would protect me while I was gone, and he did!  He was in a guild but never mentioned the guild to me and in the end added me as a friend so I felt obligated to add him.  I think he’s a teen.  Seems that way anyway.  He told Caenis she was “awesome” in the end of the adventure and promised to return and help her more tomorrow.  :oops:

I was hoping I would run into one of my guild mates, but most of them are in Archasaur so I never ran across one.

In any case, it was nice to have someone to keep the creepy guy away, and nice not to worry about anyone else bothering me.  He didn’t talk about anything personal, it was all game talk, so it seemed pretty safe.  Of course, that could change tomorrow if he comes on gushing with love for Caenis.  She’ll have to tell him she’s married to Caius or Gensi or Raven…  Though I would rather she was Raven and Caius’ sister (by adoption – they don’t look a thing alike) and Gensi’s girlfriend, or Raven’s daughter maybe.  He’s old enough to have a daughter that age.  I love the sister of Caius idea, because I named her with that in mind: Caius and Caenis.  Both Latin names.

Anyway, I got her from 0 to 15 in one day, with dozens of interruptions and about an hour of TV with Cliff and another hour of anime and taking care of Max too.  So, I think I did pretty good.  Level 20 tomorrow.  Possibly 25.  If I’m very lucky and Max behaves well, I’ll make 30.  Then I’ll contact the guild and see if they’ll let me in.  Or, who knows, maybe I’ll end up in another guild….  In any case, really fast, because I’ve talked longer than I intended to already, here some cropped screenshots:

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I was trying to go for that – if I was twenty-some years younger and didn’t wear glasses, look.  You know, no fat, no glasses, perfect skin, lovely hair.  All the stuff I WISHED I looked like back then.   :lol:

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It’s hard to tell, but she’s got a ponytail.

Of course, that’s the character creation screen.  Here’s what she looks like in the actual game, at night, even.

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By the way, the costumes are always ridiculously revealing on the women.  No choice.  They simply are.  :P

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And here, with her squad mate just as we were parting ways.  (He’s level 41 by the way.  These creature were one shot kills for him.)

After he left for the night she went to the City of the Lost because she had some business to take care of, and there in the middle of a quiet part of the city were a collection of super amazingly good looking guys.  So, rather than stare, I did a “run-by” screenshot and got at least one of them.

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Unfortunately, he had turned around before I got the shot.  :P

Oh well…  :D

And now I seriously HAVE to go to bed.  :P

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Today was a very long day….

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

It started okay and continued just fine, but then, in the evening, all hell broke loose and everything went to you know what.

Max’s doctor is changing his meds and adding a new one, added physical therapy to his schedule, the new worker is nice but I’m afraid my lack of being able to tell him just what to do is going to hinder things, next week looks like absolute shit, the child support has finally started back up again (yay – Christmas might just be saved), Max’s aggression is completely out of control, Max’s destructive tendencies are also completely out of control.  I am completely exhausted, but still managed to play Perfect World about half the day.  Today I was trying to level Caius up in all his manufacturing skills.  I also got him up to level 27.  Just three more to go and he’ll be able to fly.

I went in for a while as my veno girl, BlooMoon, and immediately got hit on hard by a barbarian who wanted to know where I was from, etc.  Great.  :P  That City of the Lost is nothing but a virtual sex den at times!  Of course they are the animal people over there, but still….

So today I was Caius:

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But tomorrow I plan to be Gensi:

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Aren’t they both just gorgeous?  :oops: :lol:

And now, I’m going to bed.

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So far, today is the second best day I’ve ever had in a guild.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

It could change later, but today has been great.  Caius made a new friend and got promoted in the guild and invited him! (Or her? Hey, you never know and I’m not asking!)  Ha!  And then he  learned to trade stuff with one of the other members which, because I played solo before, was something I had never done.  Caius is turning out to be an okay guy.  But broke.  Oh man, so broke.  :P  He’s got less than 10000 coins.  Very bad.  Anyway though, I had to make myself stop and eat so I’m off to watch Kyo Kara Maoh!.  Episode (gulp) 103 out of 117.  :(  So depressing.  I’m going to miss this one when it’s over.

You know, on a side note, Uru just never felt this fun.  Honestly EQ2 had some fun moments but nothing like this.  I wonder if it’s because I’m role playing for real this time I can be more out going than I normally am?  Usually, I’m just meek quiet me, even in games, but acting as Caius I am having a blast being the strong, mostly silent, killing machine type.  :D

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Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I have lots to worry about, lots to do, lots to think about and deal with, but tonight I just need to put it all aside and go to bed.  All I will say is, making Caius was a very good thing.  I am having so much fun and I met a very nice woman who has an autistic son who’s 24.  She’s in my guild and I am thrilled to know someone else who is living almost exactly the same way I am living, purely by accident.  I said it was fate joining this guild.  I was right.  ;)

And here’s a parting shot for tonight….

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That was the most virtual killing fun a girl could have in one day.

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Seriously.  Well, for a girl “role playing” a guy that is.  Oh my god, I never enjoyed being in a faction/guild so much.  I got just one screenshot and it’s on my laptop, so it’ll have to wait for tomorrow, but Caius had a blast with four of his fellow guildies and later Gensi (and all the other guild members lower than level 20) was issued a challenge to get to level 20 asap.  He went from 11 to 18 from about 5pm to 1am.  (Even with countless interruptions from Max, talking to the family and stopping for dinner too.) :mrgreen:

Gensi even got complemented!  The guy running the guild asked if he was the alt of another really high level player in the guild.  I said no, he’s the alt of Caius Snow.  Ha!  That was so cool.  I seriously love playing as a guy in there and I don’t think I’ll go back.   At least not in Perfect World.  :mrgreen: :lol: :mrgreen: :lol:

I don’t really have other news to tell at the moment.  The new worker guy starts with Max on Friday.  I can talk more about that then.

Oh man, I love role playing in there.  :D
That was so much fun!  :D
I can go to bed happy now.  :D

Just imagine me saying “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”!

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As promised, here’s that screenshot.   Click it to see the full size.

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Caius at level 20.

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Unfortunately, all this leveling is for naught.  Turns out the makeover scroll I was working toward cannot be traded.  Here’s hoping I can get just a tiny bit of money and rescue Raven with a store bought makeover scroll.  I am so disappointed about that.  I mean, I got him all the way to level nine before it happened.  :(  Oh well.

I revealed my terribleness at grouping in squads this evening.  Honestly though I warned the guy I wasn’t going to be able to help him.  I am too low a level…  Anyway, here Caius is tonight:

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And I never posted about him before, but here’s his best friend Gensi (level 11):

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You can’t tell there, but he’s got this super long pony tail in the back….

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While I wanted Raven and Caius to look similar, I wanted Gensi to be handsome too, but different.   Not necessarily the kind of look I would prefer as I like white hair, black hair or no hair, but still the brownish/blond isn’t too bad.  I tried to make him look younger too.

In real world news, the cake place Marjorie works for is struggling and they’re having to let some of their employees go until the holidays or next spring/summer.  I don’t know what she’s going to do.   She can usually survive on grant money (and eating at home with us) once she gets that, but it’s not due until November.  She was crying when she came home.  :(

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