Just when you thought I was sticking with the theme I designed for myself, I go and change it again – eh? Well, here’s the thing – 40milesfromKingston was making my own eyes blur when I read the posts – the white on black was killing me. That can’t be a good sign. It needs some work, and so until I find the time to work on it, I am going back to a simple white background theme so I (and whoever else was complaining silently) can read it without giving ourselves the worst headache of all time.
What have I been up to? Hurting myself again and again – stretching when I shouldn’t be, being energetic and doing things I shouldn’t be, and over-exerting myself when I shouldn’t be. What else is new? No worries, the doctor advised me that it was perfectly understandable, I FEEL good, so why not do the things I would normally do when I feel good – right? I got more meds and a hearty “You’re doing great” and I drove my way back home through the first snow I’ve seen in Texas.
Speaking of snow – you cannot imagine what a panic that few inches of snow (that didn’t even stick to the roadways) caused. It was amazing to see people being stupid on the roads. I thought this kind of madness was for the tropics, where people seldom see horrific weather. Nope – apparently, the psychology of odd and off-the-wall weather is universal. There were 3rd and 4th lines of traffic on roadways with only 2 painted lanes, there were people speeding down shoulders, lines of traffic backed up to beyond oblivion, stop sign breaking, stop light breaking (I wondered where the MPs or police were – so many blatant road rule breakers) and you-would-not-believe-the-number-of-stuck-cars-on-shoulders.
Snow in Texas!
It was a little sad, actually – because every single snow fall that I have experienced here (except for 1 many years ago) I have shared with the hubby and giggled with him about how “noobish” I get about snow. Like a kid in a toy store, I am. Being that he was in the field for days at this point, and not returning for another few days saddened me. Whilst this was only a small thing, it brought it home to me that there will be so many things like this that I won’t be able to share with him whilst he is down-range. So many things …
It’s part and parcel of being a military spouse, yes, I know. And while I get that, it doesn’t make me feel any better. I’ve had 2 people tell me recently that they don’t know how I do it and that they wouldn’t be able to. Each time I hear sentiments like that, I smile because I know that were they in my position, they just might find what it takes to “do it” too. It isn’t easy, it certainly isn’t even something you might choose, but when faced with it, you find the strength. I don’t deny that love is part of the fuel. For me it is the greater portion being that I don’t have that inbred fire to “defend our freedom” – where I come from, freedom is taken for granted and there is no fever to defend it because it isn’t often threatened. In this case, my friends, love IS finding a way. 
In other news, it’s been a while since I mentioned WoW. I have rediscovered my priest, thanks to the Tankspot Weekly Marmots. Watching Aliena talk about priest healing just made me go pull Quae out of the archives, and level her almost exclusively in the new LFD tool to 80. In just about 8 weeks, she’s gone from level 71 to 80 and from a gear score of 2000+ to just over 5000. I am proud of myself and I have to say that as much as I love my other toons – the warlock, the shaman and the druid et al – my priest is still fun to play. I currently have almost 80 triumph badges and no idea what to do with them. Hubby suggested a PvP or a Shadow set – but frankly, I just don’t see myself being DPS on her.
I’ve been reading the posts over at Pugging Pally and I have to say that she makes me want to write a WoW blog separate and apart from this one – simply because there aren’t too many of my readers who play and when I go off on a WoW tangent I lose most of them. In fact, I may just do that… look out, folks, a separate blog may just spring up somewhere on fyrfli.net with my forays into Azeroth. Thanks for the idea and the motivation, Vidyala. =)
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