Thank you for being a friend
This post brought to you by the folks at "Golden Girls" who want to remind you that they want to "Thank you for being a friend"
As some of you may know, I use to play online games. Let’s say, I spent way too much time playing.
The first 3d graphical online game I tried playing with Ultima Online. I had played a couple of the Ultima titles on my desktop and enjoyed them. I had thought the online game would be much the same. I was wrong. It wasn’t fun to play at all. Too many “griefers” either ganking me or pickpocketing me. So I dropped the game after a month.
I then picked up Everquest. It was much nicer since you had the option of playing a non-PvP server. No ganking, although you still ran into griefers. Their main tactic is kill stealing or training (aka Monster Player Killing ).
While playing Everquest, I met Kris and her family. They were a clan of folks playing. We got bored with Everquest and moved onto World of Warcraft when it went live.
We played the PvE server for a while and I left for a bit. Kris’s family moved to a PvP server and I rerolled as a priest. I don’t want to get into a long story, but Kris met Celia and we added her to our playing group.
It was a lot of fun and we got to know each other. Then outside pressures happened and I had to stop playing for a year (changed jobs, etc).
The group sorta broke up after that. Kris went back to school, Kris and Daniel seperated (thought they are giving it another try), and Vinny started a new job and moved out on his own. But we tried to keep up.
Celia is a very interesting young lady. She grew up LDS, which to me is a bit of a mystery. Growing up in southern Arkansas, you don’t see many of them around. I can say the same for Catholics, although when we moved to south Louisiana that changed. Catholics were a huge portion of the population (or as Skyprincess jokes with me “Cat-licks” -- don’t worry.. Skyprincess is Catholic. She’s making fun of my mom. That’s another story).
Celia was fun to hang around and it was nice hearing her stories. I come from a large family, which is in no ways very close. Her background is where family is number 1 above everything else. Its refreshing and I wish my family was like that. But we tend to do everything we can to not be around each other.
I knew my time in Memphis was drawing short, and Celia and hubby had moved to the Dallas area. We decided we had an open weekend and drove to Dallas to have dinner with them. It would probably be the last opportunity we’d have for a long time.
We met up in this jazz type restaurant, which was nice. The food was good, and they had a live band. Someone didn’t do a sound check before hand and it was far too loud for conversations. I talk softly and no one could hear me. Was very frustrating for me to have to pass all my conversations thru Skyprincess since she has a voice you can hear 5 miles away. I’m not saying she’s loud, just she can project her voice when she needs to. I can’t.
I had wanted to give them a house warming present and had a tough time picking the right one. We went back and forth on what to give them. This is too impersonal. That is too expensive, they would feel terrible accepting it. They might not need that one. Oh, that’s cute but do you think it matches their kitchen? And I wanted to find something that would be in their kitchen in 10 years. So we settled on a nice knife set and a pepper mill we both love. The pepper mill has a dial on the side you can set the coarseness of the grind. Is that not the coolest thing evar?
Skyprincess and I loved them both and wished we didn’t have to move so far away. Maybe they’ll come visit sometime when they need to get away from the hot Texas heat. We have a spare room and an open door policy (hint hint). There is a ski hill here that all the locals and regional peeps come use during the winter. And ice fishing! Oh, don’t forget! All the cheese you can eat!
The night went way too fast. The food, conversation, and company was great. We’ll have to get back to Dallas sometime next year and do it again.
Mizike
As some of you may know, I use to play online games. Let’s say, I spent way too much time playing.
The first 3d graphical online game I tried playing with Ultima Online. I had played a couple of the Ultima titles on my desktop and enjoyed them. I had thought the online game would be much the same. I was wrong. It wasn’t fun to play at all. Too many “griefers” either ganking me or pickpocketing me. So I dropped the game after a month.
I then picked up Everquest. It was much nicer since you had the option of playing a non-PvP server. No ganking, although you still ran into griefers. Their main tactic is kill stealing or training (aka Monster Player Killing ).
While playing Everquest, I met Kris and her family. They were a clan of folks playing. We got bored with Everquest and moved onto World of Warcraft when it went live.
We played the PvE server for a while and I left for a bit. Kris’s family moved to a PvP server and I rerolled as a priest. I don’t want to get into a long story, but Kris met Celia and we added her to our playing group.
It was a lot of fun and we got to know each other. Then outside pressures happened and I had to stop playing for a year (changed jobs, etc).
The group sorta broke up after that. Kris went back to school, Kris and Daniel seperated (thought they are giving it another try), and Vinny started a new job and moved out on his own. But we tried to keep up.
Celia is a very interesting young lady. She grew up LDS, which to me is a bit of a mystery. Growing up in southern Arkansas, you don’t see many of them around. I can say the same for Catholics, although when we moved to south Louisiana that changed. Catholics were a huge portion of the population (or as Skyprincess jokes with me “Cat-licks” -- don’t worry.. Skyprincess is Catholic. She’s making fun of my mom. That’s another story).
Celia was fun to hang around and it was nice hearing her stories. I come from a large family, which is in no ways very close. Her background is where family is number 1 above everything else. Its refreshing and I wish my family was like that. But we tend to do everything we can to not be around each other.
I knew my time in Memphis was drawing short, and Celia and hubby had moved to the Dallas area. We decided we had an open weekend and drove to Dallas to have dinner with them. It would probably be the last opportunity we’d have for a long time.
We met up in this jazz type restaurant, which was nice. The food was good, and they had a live band. Someone didn’t do a sound check before hand and it was far too loud for conversations. I talk softly and no one could hear me. Was very frustrating for me to have to pass all my conversations thru Skyprincess since she has a voice you can hear 5 miles away. I’m not saying she’s loud, just she can project her voice when she needs to. I can’t.
I had wanted to give them a house warming present and had a tough time picking the right one. We went back and forth on what to give them. This is too impersonal. That is too expensive, they would feel terrible accepting it. They might not need that one. Oh, that’s cute but do you think it matches their kitchen? And I wanted to find something that would be in their kitchen in 10 years. So we settled on a nice knife set and a pepper mill we both love. The pepper mill has a dial on the side you can set the coarseness of the grind. Is that not the coolest thing evar?
Skyprincess and I loved them both and wished we didn’t have to move so far away. Maybe they’ll come visit sometime when they need to get away from the hot Texas heat. We have a spare room and an open door policy (hint hint). There is a ski hill here that all the locals and regional peeps come use during the winter. And ice fishing! Oh, don’t forget! All the cheese you can eat!
The night went way too fast. The food, conversation, and company was great. We’ll have to get back to Dallas sometime next year and do it again.
Mizike
posted by Mizike at 11:04 AM
3 Comments:
Ooo. Thanks for the post!! I feel so honored. You guys were INCREDIBLY generous! I've used both the knives and the pepper grinder pretty much every day since you left!
We absolutely loved meeting you guys.
As for the new banner picture...do you want me to resize it to fit your box? Or are you going to figure out how to bypass the box all together like I did with my banner picture? I'm here to please. =)
We enjoyed you guys and felt sad we didn't have the chance to visit longer.
Its the story of my life. I finally meet some incredible people and have to move. My life is littered with the corpses of friendships left behind. Fate always seems to move me to some place new. Thank goodness for the internet!
I'm not sure what to do with the banner. I like the size it is and will need to redo the box size. And I'm getting tired of the black background. Just too depressing.
If you are bored I have more image requests. I would rather send them to you by email if you are up to the challenge =)
Sure thing!! You know where to find me. =)
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