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Playing Again

Nauloera — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:05:35 +0000

Well best laid plans and all of that. I have taken up playing again but I’ve moved to a different server. Though the fate of this blog is likely going to remain the same. I’m doing a bit of writing and such but the realm I’ve chosen to play with has such an awesome community site that I don’t really feel the need to keep a separate blog. It also relieves the stress of trying to keep this relevant and interesting.

Thanks to those who read so many of my goofy articles though.

<3 Nau

Shutting It Down

Nauloera — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:43:34 +0000

Hey everyone, not long ago I said I was leaving WoW to pursue my art. This is still true but it looks like my WoW days are completely done. I find I don’t miss it at all. I have too many things going on outside of WoW and even off the computer. I see sunlight on occasion! It’s bee pretty marvelous!

I’ve also taken back up sword and board with the SCA again as well. Been a long time since I did that! That takes a lot of time and gets me out among living, breathing people, which is where I really need to be. It is a great deal healthier for me in many ways.

So what it comes down to is I’m not coming back to WoW. This blog will be shutting down too. As soon as everything here runs out it will be done.

I’ve had a great time and I miss the friends I made in WoW but they know how to find me if they want to.

<3 to you all!

Nauloera and the gang.

OOC: Things and Stuff

Nauloera — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:31:22 +0000

Well I never did get quite as active again on this blog as I wanted. There’s just something missing from WoW for me now that hasn’t managed to hold me like it used to. In a way, this is a good thing.

Last night I canceled my WoW accounts. I hadn’t played in probably 3 weeks and found myself easily focused on other things. Now I have decided it is time to focus on my art more seriously rather than just dinking around with it once in a while and to do that I need time. Time that isn’t sunk into a computer game.

Eventually I will return to the WoW calendar I started but I have some other things that have moved ahead in the priority line. When I do, though, I will post pics for everyone to see.

To my readers and friends that have been so incredibly supportive, thank you. I’m sorry I wasn’t a more reliable blogger for you.

*hugs* and best wishes to you all,

-Nau

What to do?

Nauloera — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:28:16 +0000

Well I’ve been out of WoW for a couple months now. Though I wasn’t in it very much for a few months before that anyway. I don’t miss the game as much as I thought I would. I realize now that there was a constant burden of disappointment for me when I was in the game. I didn’t level as fast as my friends or my husband so I felt constantly left behind or abandoned. I felt like a “lesser” player because I didn’t have the uber lewtz that many others seem to judge a person on. I wasn’t part of a raid so didn’t get to see the cool stuff others were constantly going on about.

And there wasn’t a bloody thing I could do to change any of that. I couldn’t magically conjure up the time to accomplish all of those things so WoW had become not so much of a game as a chore. I no longer felt the freedom to just relax and enjoy the game. There was this constant internal pressure that if I didn’t accomplish these things then I wasn’t as good a person as those around me.

WoW stopped being fun. And I hadn’t realized that.

I miss my friends. That’s a damn fact. I no longer get to spend time with them. Occasionally get to speak with them in IMs, but not near as much as I used to. It sometimes feels like WoW was the only thing that held us together. That’s the only part that makes me truly sad.

I am at a loss as to what to do with this blog, however. Currently it is sitting on a friend’s server wasting his valuable space. And honestly, the only reason people read it was because it was about WoW.

So what to do now.

/sigh