What I've been up to, and why I haven't been posting

[celticdragonfly]

So I haven't posted much lately, dunno if anybody noticed.

I've been busy in other new directions. And I've been having a BLAST, a lot of fun. But I've hesitated to post about it.

Because what I'm having fun with is a game. After Jamie's surgery, and a whole LOT of other chaos and stress, having heard fordprfct and mposa talk about it, I decided I wanted to try World of Warcraft, and got fordprfct to let me try a character briefly on his account. Oh my. That was FUN. Then we got me a trial account - and selenite, too - and those were VERY quickly upgraded to full accounts - and I've been having such fun ever since.

Part of me wants to geekily squee about the fun I'm having and the various odd things I pull off - odd difficult places I've gotten my character to explore at levels where she shouldn't be getting there yet, or the vagaries of the fishing tournament, and stuff like that. But - I'm expecting that many people will have no clue what I'm talking about and may be annoyed. And - in the past, I've made the mistake of sharing with friends enjoyment I was taking from a game, and pleasure in how I was doing, and got razzed for it, given a hard time for talking about the game. So - now I'm uncertain. It's like people think I shouldn't enjoy a game, that it's somehow an unacceptable pastime, a dirty secret. Yet - this is a lot of what I'm doing these days. So - not much posting.

And yet it's doing good things for me. I'm having FUN. I'm learning that my own enjoyment actually counts for something, and I can be a priority for myself, rather than just spend my life completely taking care of others. I'm learning to handle failure better, learning to be less conservative, improving situational awareness, keeping my dexterity up, finding something that challenges my thinking and keeps my mind going faster than caring for small children does. I'm making friends, deepening other relationships, and having something interesting to talk about with the others in my life who do this. And it lets me spend time with people I care about even if they can't be in the same zip code with me at that time.

So, autographedcat recently posted a poll on this, and I'm going to do the same thing.
[Poll #1179895]

Comments

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer the first question, since there wasn't a "Post it however you like" option. I'm not into WoW, partly because of being ignored for the original Warcraft game, but I'm tickled pink you're enjoying it :)

Yes, the orginal game. And please be amused by this - it's so far in the past that I honestly do laugh about it. I offered to provide wifely duties while he played and he turned me down. I didn't find out you could pause the game until years later :)