Long Post is Long

(Image is of my alt, the monk -- explained below)

Yesterday’s Thankful for: Yesterday was rough on my anxiety/nerves, but I’m thankful for the support of friends and family. All I have to do is turn to a bud online or my family, and they’re there for me. I am truly thankful for that.

Planner’s QotD: “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine

I see what he means… sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we’d rather tell a lie to spare someone’s feelings, but in the end … the lies always come back to haunt us and that person usually gets hurt a LOT more in the process. I just don’t like the word ‘offend.’ To me it has the connotations of purposeful meanness and that I do not agree with.

I think this world is already so twisted up with so much hate, anger and fear. I wish I knew what it would take to heal the world, because I’d help do it in a heartbeat, but I dunno… Maybe time. We clearly never learn from our mistakes and continue to ‘solve’ problems through aggression, war, murder… I mean… when will we finally open our eyes and become a better species? We will never progress going down this path and I feel like we’re actually REGRESSING.

It’s just really a sad state of affairs and holy moly… that quote threw me down a rabbit hole…  

SIMS4

Anywho … I’m trying to plan my SIM 4 Legacy. Typically I just go nutso and take a billion screenshots and then pick out top 10 or 20 but I sort of want to actually tell a story this time. So, a lot like plotting an outline for a book, I’m hoping the same thing will work for this…haha. Which means my gameplay is on the backburner at the moment until I have at least episode one and maybe two ready. PLUS … I may actually stream this also on Twitch. Gotta think about that too.

I need a GOOD last name …. Ideas? lol

Warcraft

In Warcraft news, I’ve been trying to gear up my monk alt. At the moment, I main a hunter (hence my alter ego on twitter, tessdahunta) …but I am truly enjoying the way my monk plays and want to swap her to my main (the one I do raids, dungeons, pretty much the FULL content on).  

Last week I ran a +9 Mythic with some guild members and we were all on alts. It was painful lol. Mostly, it was due to us all being pretty low ilvl for a +9, so we died quite a bit… but in the end it was really worth it. I ended up getting a super nice cloak in this week’s chest (after you do any Mythic+, your highest key awards you an additional piece of gear on reset day—Tuesday’s). This thing has the BEST stats for the monk plus it came with a socket (which is huge, as it adds more of whatever stat I may need most).

See, so purty!

But then I tweeted it and someone ruined my joyyyyyyy lmao. Basically next week a new patch comes out (8.3) and with it a ‘Legendary’ cloak. Which is pretty much the only cloak we’ll need going forward until this expansion ends (sometime at the end of this year).  Which means, this lovely, wonderful epic cloak I just received will be utterly worthless next week *cries* LOL. I was like DOOD… couldn’t you have just let me live in bliss a little longer? GOSH! 

But YAH… I’m trying to get her ilvl up to at least 430 because the new raid drops 445. I could sneak by with 425 because the guildies are cool, but I like to pull my own weight and am trying hard to get her to that 430 mark. Right now she’s 420 but hopefully we’ll run a few more mythic +’s this week. The main post image is actually of her <3

One of my Pet Peeves

When someone says, “I never received that…” and you know you sent it, so you go to your SENT email and lookie here… sent like 3 weeks ago. CHECK YOUR EMAIL before you respond or ask for crap again, people. Just makes you look lazy. It takes literally 2 seconds to search for my name and see all the emails I’ve sent you and I always title them so there’s no confusion about what you’re getting. Arghhhh.

Photography

So I finally dug out one of my many cameras last night, charged it up, and took a few test photos. I’m so rusty at this hobby, that I figure I can start easy with just auto mode and a few tweaks here and there that I remember, to get back into the groove.  I hope to get back into this, and especially use it to catalog a lot of my niece/Goddaughter’s life. It’s weird to me because she’s now my Goddaughter, but I also still want to call her my niece lol… so I need a word that covers both like … NiecGdaughter :P 

Speaking of her … Here’s one of my most favorite photos of her that I took over the holiday break.

Mom and I were asked to watch her on Christmas Eve. She’d just gotten up from a nap, and I was making faces at her while my mom just stared down at her with a smile and caught this mid-laugh … I just happened to snap at the perfect moment and it came out great (and this was a phone shot, then instagrammed lol).