Sideshow & Syrana

I started a new alt blog for those who may be interested.  Ok, ok, so I started Yet Another Alt in WoW, too.  But this post is to tell you about the new blog.

Remember how I said I wasn’t going to turn this into a mommy-to-be blog? Well, that’s why I ended up talking Sideshow into setting up this one for me!  (It’s even got an honest-to-goodness REAL “about” page! *gasp*)

Couldn’t help it…the urge…. it overtook me.  No, we won’t be closin’ up shop here.  Yes, I know my posting has been a bit erratic and it will likely remain that way for …. who knows how long.  But sometimes… isn’t it nice to not have a major bombardment of unread posts in your feed reader?  That’s what I thought!  Yes, you are welcome. 

Anywho, check out the other one if you want.  I don’t forsee gaming crossing onto the baby blog very much.  It’ll be more likely that some “how having spawn affects gaming” will continue to crop up here.

But I’m an emotionally charged woman who needs more baby outlets right now.

I need to go drain some souls to gather my sanity…

Last week I featured the cutest baby ever, an infant Taunka.  This week I’m bringing you an adorable human boy and elven girl.  (I told you I was excited about the upcoming Children’s Week!)

Sideshow: Before he got all Undead.

Syrana: Before her elf ears grew in.

I know I can’t be the only one that has dreams that incorporate gaming elements or dreams about games.  The game I find sneaking into my subconscious the most is World of Warcraft.  I suppose it doesn’t help that I often listen to the soundtracks while falling asleep.  (The Eversong Woods music with the cellos and haunting voices is super relaxing.)

I previously shared a very whacked out dream that involved Samodean, Chris Metzen, and a live action zombie demo.  I had a LOT of details to share since I wrote it all down as soon as I could after waking up.

More commonly I remember snippets, if that.  What I’ve noticed more lately is that waking up is part of a quest chain.

I’ve had dreams where hitting the snooze button is a repeatable quest.

I’ve also had dreams that the “A” button was the snooze button.

Dreams are weird.  And yes, that’s a scientific term.

Ya know, I think this is why I love to slow time down when my Sims are sleeping.  Usually the game will auto-speed up time when the entire household is asleep.  I mean, they are sleeping, you don’t have anything to manage after all.  But, I like to slow it down just to watch the dream bubbles.

Hmm.

I never realized just how creepy that was before.

You know, there are a lot of songs that use some variation of this post’s title in either lyrics or title.  I can think of at least 3 right now.

This is the kind of post I don’t like to write and most “how to blog” guides will warn you to never write.

Well, screw it.

I’ma do it anyway.

I apologize for my hiatus, it lasted MUCH longer than I expected.  I only anticipated being absent from the blog and Twitter for a few days while I played through Heavy Rain.  (I even had to miss an episode of Polygamerous!)

Unfortunately, a mix of work craziness (it is seriously kicking my ass right now, but I’ve complained enough through minimal tweets over the past week, me thinks) and not feeling well meant almost zero time getting intimate with my home PC.

*pats monitor* I know, baby, you were getting lonely.

Thankfully, Sideshow had my back and cranked out a few posts to keep this place from looking like a completely barren wasteland.

I’m still going to have some ups and downs until work calms back down.  I was just going to start this week off with a post and act like I hadn’t been MIA for nearly two weeks, but I love y’all more than that.

1. No matter how independent I may be (or try to be) there may be things I still depend on others for
2. Sleep is a precious commodity
3. If you have something yummy to eat, I want to try some too
4. We can be friends even if we don’t totally understand each other’s language
5. I can get your attention by being friendly
6. Sometimes we just need to whine and cuddle
7. I’d rather hold it than use a filthy bathroom
8. I’m always excited to see someone I care about
9. Curiosity and caution are actually good traits
10. Alone time is needed, as is play time with others

So… I’ve been playing around with formspring, right?

Courtesy of Wildphotons @ Flickr

Here’s what I’ve learned so far:

5 – Anonymous questions are the most risque

4 – Answering anonymous questions is fun

3 – Answering any question is fun

2 – I like to babble (wait, we knew that one already)

And the number one thing I’ve learned from formspring…

Having boobs will save me from falling into a pit of liquid hawt mag-ma.

Formspring.me is still relatively new and I thought I’d share why I think it can be valuable to use.  I know several people aren’t interested in it or don’t really know what it is.  Even if you don’t end up using if for yourself, maybe this post will at least help reveal some of its appeal.

Ease Of Use

Formspring.me is not particularly amazing in terms of it’s look or innovation.  However, it is easy to use.  Signing up is pretty straight forward.  After you sign up, you can choose to connect it to other social media networks (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr).  Once you do this, you are able to let your followers and friends know about your link.

You can also choose which networks (if any) you want to send out per question. There are check boxes allowing you to be selective.  Contrary to popular (negative) belief, using formspring.me does not equal auto spam of every question.  While I still stand by my rant the other day, I personally choose to only tweet a few questions and answers sporadically (but even that can annoy some people). (continue reading…)

Last week I let you all know that I’m open to answering questions.  I’ve gotten some through formspring and a few people left great questions in the comments.  Unfortunately, the questions left in the comments were so awesome that the answers needed to marinate in my brain for a bit and fully deserving of their very own post!

So without further adieu… I shall present a wall o’ text to you!  (continue reading…)

Honestly, think about it.

There’s achievement spam, formspring spam, location spam, picture spam, link spam, ponder spam, I’m playing X, Y, Z spam, incessant whining spam… I could go on.

It’s all there. At any given moment you can (and probably will) tweet something that one of your followers doesn’t like.

And that’s ok – if you (or they) aren’t a jerk about it. You can NOT reasonably expect that everyone you follow is going to tweet the very things only YOU want to read all the time.

If you have an issue with the “spam” and cannot accept the fact that you can just scroll past it, then you do need to re-evaluate why you are following that person.

If you really don’t find them that interesting ever… then unfollow them. You find out they don’t share a lot of beliefs that are important to you… unfollow them.

But it’s the WAY you do it.

I cannot possibly follow everyone back, I would never be able to keep up with any semblance of a timeline. But, do I ever get annoyed by what I see in my timeline? Sure!

But I don’t usually say anything and I don’t call out an individual for it. Partially because I (like ALL of us) have been guilty of creating tweet spam at one time or another. And, partially because I just don’t let that kind of stuff bother me. (Oh hai scroll button!)

So, if you insist on unfollowing – just do it. No reason to make a big deal out of it by telling someone you are going to unfollow because they said “this” or did “that.” And the threats to unfollow if people tweet X, Y, Z? Get over yourself.

No one should have to feel they can’t tweet something just because they don’t want to lose YOU. I mean, did they sign up JUST to be followed by you?

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This post brought to you by the late night rambles of a Syrana that should be sleeping but is annoyed at the unfollow threat spam she sees people receiving.

It is now time to reveal who I’ve been admiring over the weekend as part of the Secret Admirer project.  I will also include how I concluded who my secret admirer was…

Capturing My Admiration

My attention and affection was directed at Miss Jaedia of Lazy Sniper.  It was almost like a cruel twist of fate to match this warlock up with a hunter.

Here are the notes of adoration I left for her – filled with tiny clues as to who I was: