Twenty-Eighth

I had the last fortnight off, hence no posts. I'd thought about putting up a notification that I'd be off, and not to expect anything until my return, but there really didn't seem to be much point.

So - a fortnight off. I had the first week to myself, and I pretty much spent all of it playing WoW. My main, Tornik is a 66 Tauren Druid, and I spent a few days grinding Mag'Har rep - he's now exalted, and sports a Cobalt Blue War Talbuk as his new mount. It felt good, as he'd been stuck with a regular Kodo since he hit level 40, the poor guy. I took some time away from WoW after that, to try and counter burn-out, and started levelling up my Undead Priest alt that I had originally started at the same time as my girlfriend, but she gave up WoW a while back, when money started to get tight. It was fun, levelling up a different character class. Tornik was a full Restoration build, which meant that the damage he dealt out was a bit on the low side, but knowing that I'd need all the DPS I could get, I rolled him over to a full Feral build at the start of my week off, and let my guild know he wouldn't suited for healing duties, should his help be required.
So, I've ended up spending more time on my Alt, Verbatim, than my main, but I've been enjoying it, it has given me something else to think about other than our money situation, as we are going to have to declare Bankruptcy - full blown, read about it in the papers, mucho embarrassing, Bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy, maybe if I say it enough, some of the embarrassment will go away.

We won't lose out house, as my girlfriend's parents have stumped up the equity we have on it, and they couldn't have been nicer about it. No-one likes to go begging to family, even when they have very little choice in the matter, and they could have made us feel very uncomfortable, but they didn't, and I will always love them for that.

Anyway, I've been having fun on WoW, running around melting faces with Verbatim, and sneaking around slicing and dicing with Tornik. It's been cool just logging on, dropping out and just doing what I want to do, but I've felt a little guilty about it. If you look back a few posts, you'll see the post I made about how much I love being a healer, and I still do, but I was struggling with biting the bullet and rolling Tornik back to a Resto build. Verbatim doesn't really figure yet, as he's only level 51 just now, too low to be useful to the guild atm.
I just really needed for WoW to be fun and easy for me just now, even though the guild didn't actively pressure me to get Tornik rerolled, there was still talk of getting attunements done, organising raids, and posts requesting final character builds, etc. So I told them my situation, and explained to them that I'd be taking an even farther back seat than I had recently. They seem cool with it, and although I do feel a bit guilty, as we're low on healers in general, and druids in particular right now, I do feel that a weight has lifted somewhat.

OF course, I logged on last night to relax a bit after scrubbing the house clean, only to find that my pre-paid limit is up, and I have to renew my subscription. Typical that it's a couple of days until payday, so I can't afford it yet. Three days cold turkey until I can reactivate my account - at least this way my time limit will run out on payday from now on.