You /wave at everyone

And if you get that reference, you'll know part of the reason I haven't blogged much lately. Mostly it's been because work is sucking the ever-loving soul out of me and I'm too brain-dead to knit or write about knitting. But partly it's because Peter has got me hooked on WoW, after all. For those who don't know it, World of Warcraft (aka WoW) is a massive multiplayer online game, where you make up a D&D-esque character (dwarf, gnome, elf, etc.) and roam around doing quests and killing stuff.

Last weekend I made up a wee gnomish rogue and did a few low-level "kill the boar" quests. Meh. Then Monday I had that day at work. You know that day - where you're about 10 seconds or one careless remark from telling everyone in the immediate vicinity to drop dead, right before you quit dramatically (and loudly) and walk out the door never to be seen again? Yeah, that day. I came home. Peter had dinner on the table (love that boy!) and I rolled up a dwarf. A big chunky dwarf with a two-handed smashy smashy hammer. And I went a-killing. And it was GOOD. And I understood what the game is for. It's for making you forget about the crap, and just vent, when you're too wound up to do anything else (if I had been knitting in that state, my gauge would have been tight to the point of strangulation!). So yes, I'm playing. But I'm also knitting - I have a finished hat and some slippers and about 90% of a baby sweater OTN. Pictures to follow.

Alas, today I will be neither knitting nor WoW-ing, nor even reading the new Harry Potter (which should be in my mailbox as we speak) - I will be working. Because yesterday, I woke to an all-day thunderstorm, which meant that Fred the Bastard Migraine woke up with me. I took the new happy migraine-go-away pill, and waited for it to kick in. Within 15 minutes, the pain was starting to recede - Good! - but I was also getting equal parts stoned and sleepy - Not So Good. So, I stayed awake long enough to call in sick, and rolled back into bed. Slept half the day, killed stuff the other half, knit on the baby sweater, and went back to bed again. BUT - I was already behind on work before I took the sick day, so now it's weekend-office-time. Argh.

I figure I can do about 6 hours before I get crazy (working weekends in the office IS crazy-making), then I will come home, make my honey some dinner, and hopefully read some HP before bed. Tomorrow I have a cake decorating class (whee!) and my parents are coming for dinner so there won't be much time for leisure stuff (we need to clean, it's the parents). And then Monday I will return to the World of Hell which is my job, of late. It will get better, likely within the week, but right now it's fugly.

Wish me luck, and if you're on Kirin Tor, look for Jolietjake the dwarf or Poppypatch the gnome. And tell me how to kill Rockjaw Bonesnappers without getting killed myself. :)