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  1. WoW. WoW as in World of Warcraft

    November 18, 2011 by Stephanie

    I’ve been playing WoW since 30 June last year. I remember the date because my flatmate and I were intending on getting some groceries but we detoured via Dick Smith Electronics and got nowhere near my work, which is where I started working the week before! At the time, my flatmate was playing WoW and a mutual friend of ours was too and he wanted me to start playing so he could get the recruit-a-friend rocket mount. I was definitely interested because there were times when I didn’t have a job where I’d sit on my flatmate’s bed as he played WoW and he’d be explaining it to me.

    Once I got the laptop – admittedly on HP but if I’ve worked it out right, I’ll have it paid off three months ahead of schedule at the end of March – we went into EB Games because they had a sale going and I happened to get the WoW Battle Chest (the base game and the Burning Crusade EP) for $48. Once the laptop was up and running, I started installing WoW. There were a number of patches that had been released since the Battle Chest had been released so while that was happening, my flatmate Skyped our friend and gave him the news.

    It was really helpful having our friend help me with the game. Once I got Wrestlore to around level 15 or so, our friend and I would form a party in the game and we’d quest and dungeon. He would be telling me what spell to do and when and when it came to dungeon loot, whether to need or greed it.

    As for my characters, Wrestlore is a Tauren Druid. Rumbla is a Goblin Warlock. Sylvainia is a Blood Elf Mage. Phenomia is an Undead Rogue. Broska is an Orc Death Knight. And yes, all of their names are wrestling related somehow. Full credit is due to my flatmate for coming up with Wrestlore as my main’s name because I was trying heaps of names but they had all been used! Rumbla: Royal Rumble. Sylvainia: Sylvain Grenier. Phenomia: The Undertaker. Broska: the female equivalent of what Zack Ryder (who I met in Sydney, Australia in July) calls his followers. I had made another version of my Orc Death Knight that was named Blkrckbiotch and seeing that it was a dare from one of my workmates, I did it, took a screencap of it and uploaded it to my Facebook so he, and everyone else, could see it.

    Ha!

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  2. He’s made of seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeex! ;)

    November 9, 2011 by Stephanie

    I don’t know what it is about this video but if I ever need a laugh or six, I turn to this one. A mutual friend of my flatmate and I gave my flatmate the link to it once and he got me to watch it.

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  3. He came. He saw. He rocked

    October 31, 2011 by Stephanie

    Yes, I’m talking about Meat Loaf. I’ve finally seen him live in concert and I was rocking along to the songs, singing, clapping and getting in some Mexican Wave action too!

    Will add more to this later on as I’m wanting to get my Orc Death Knight to level 60 in WoW, haha!

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  4. Sprained finger: check. Sprained ankle: check. Sprained neck: say what?

    October 27, 2011 by Stephanie

    Me holding up my drugs! Two weeks ago, I was aware of pain in my neck that appeared somewhat suddenly, as most pain does. Last week, it wasn’t really going away so I filled in an accident form at work. This week, I finally went to the doctor about it because I had noticed that not only was the pain not going away, it seemed to be getting worse.

    This morning, I had my doctors appointment. For me, my doctor is a block away from work which is a six or so minute walk away from home. I explained where the pain was and what it felt like and after having the discs in my spine checked, moving my head up, down, and side to side and arm reflexes checked, and also mentioning that I had been taking Nurofen which did little more than take the edge of the pain away for me, the official verdict is that I have a sprained neck. I will have microscopic tears in the muscle and the pic is of me holding the medication that I was prescribed for the pain. I have to take the Diclofenac for two weeks to help with the pain (two tablets a day) and I swear that it’s so good, I forget that I actually have a sprained neck. Until I feel it start to wear off.

    I broke my left thumb the day before school exams when I was 16. I have sprained the ‘bird’ finger on my left hand previously. I sprained my left ankle on my birthday last year. And now I sprained my neck on the left side. Notice the recurring theme?

    And I’m a righty too!

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  5. This time next Saturday…

    October 22, 2011 by Stephanie

    I’ll more than likely be at Vector Arena in Auckland, not for wrestling this time but for the Meat Loaf concert. This will be the first concert that I have gone to in many years, as usually whenever there was a concert in New Zealand that I wanted to go to, I couldn’t because of a lack of money (either I was unemployed, a student or a working student whose hours varied literally every week). This time around, my mother is shouting me everything for the Meat Loaf concert: the ticket, the hotel, and flights.

    As for the Foo Fighters concert in Auckland (Western Springs Stadium this time) in December, I’ve paid for my flights and accommodation myself. For both of my flights, I’ll be travelling on this baby. Yes, the All Black plane. It’ll be my first time on an Airbus – previously, I’ve been on Boeings, ATR-72s and Bombardier-Q300s. And I love me some Boeings!

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  6. One year on

    September 4, 2011 by Stephanie

    At times, it seems as if time has really gone fast. 4.35am on Saturday, 4 September 2010 is the date and time that will be on my mind for a very long time to come. Even though when the 7.1 quake struck, I’d only had three hours sleep at the most.

    At that time, I was awake because of the rumbling of a quake that had hit mere minutes before the 7.1. I knew from the noise that we were going to have a quake but I wasn’t expecting it to be as bad as it was. Initially, it was 7.4 but it was downgraded to 7.1. Downgraded is always good, right?

    I love:

    • the fact that my flatmate was at home when I arrived home from work after the quake on 22 February.
    • the fact that my flatmate was literally across the road from the university when the quake hit and that he and a few other people went around the houses in the neighbourhood, checking on the people there
    • the fact that I live within a 10 minute walk from work so when we got the word that we definitely wouldn’t be open again, I could get home relatively quick
    • the fact that my work had insurance that covered our wages. Because of the quake happening on the Tuesday, and the engineers checking out the entire mall where I work on the Wednesday, and a lot of us going into work on the Thursday to help with the massive clean up, work paid us our regular wages and if we came in volunteerily, we were paid double time in addition to our regular shift on Thursday, if we worked that day
    • the fact that I still have a job. A lot of people in Christchurch don’t

    I hate:

    • the earthquakes. It will have been a year on Sunday since Christchurch was struck by the 7.1 quake
    • the media for making a big deal out of every quake over 4.0 that hits Christchurch. Unless you have been here since 4 September, you have no idea what we’ve been through
    • people getting shitty with me over the littlest thing. I seriously had a guy get shitty with me at work a few days after the quake in September because the following week’s TV Guide wasn’t in
    • people getting shitty because my work isn’t open. This happened when I arrived at work for my then usual Saturday shift because I didn’t know if we were open or not and a guy who arrived at the EXIT doors that lead out into the carpark was all “Why aren’t they open?” I didn’t say anything to him because I knew that if I did, I would’ve either been sarcastic or bitchy. Obviously, it escaped this dude’s mind that the ENTIRE mall was closed
    • family members not understanding what I’ve been through in the past year

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  7. Gonna get my Foos on…

    August 19, 2011 by Stephanie

    Well, did I get a surprise in the mail today (technically yesterday but it won’t feel like yesterday until I’ve had a sleep, haha!) or what!

    I got a bill (boo!), the book that I ordered from bookdepository.co.uk (yay – just like my last order from them, it was delayed because of snow!) and a card from my mum that had “Merry Christmas” on the top. I looked at it, thinking that we’re in August and we’re nowhere near Christmas yet but I obviously figured that what was inside was my Christmas present.

    I left the card until last to open and when I opened it, I was actually glad that my flatmate wasn’t at home because I was jumping up and down like a freaking madwoman. My Christmas present from my mum is a ticket to the Foo Fighters concert in Auckland in December!

    I’ve been a fan of the Foo Fighters for as long as I can remember and have always wanted to go to one of their concerts but never had the money to get the ticket, then the flights to and from Auckland (from Invercargill), accommodation and transfers to and from the airport. The last time they were here (apart from the concert earlier in the year to raise money for the Christchurch earthquake fund) was in 2008. The last concert I can recall going to was the Tina Turner/Jimmy Barnes concert in Christchurch in 1997. I will admit that the Foo Fighters concert won’t actually be the first concert in years that I will be going to – I’m heading back to Auckland in October with my mum for the Meat Loaf concert.

    Already, I can’t freaking wait. Is it 13 December yet?

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  8. Wouldn’t you know it?

    August 15, 2011 by Stephanie

    I’ve woken up to snow again! And I’ll be getting dressed to walk into work in the stuff that is still falling. I will be posting pics when I get home from work, depending on when that will be. Last time we had snow, we ended up closing four hours earlier than we planned but I was asked to work the extra half hour because of when I was rostered to finish and when we did finish.

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  9. Spring can’t be that far away now…

    August 5, 2011 by Stephanie

    Spring can't be that far away now

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  10. SNOW!

    July 29, 2011 by Stephanie

    The weather people in New Zealand had been reporting that at least the lower half of the South Island would be getting a dump of snow and that was what we got. Initial reports were saying that Christchurch was to expect it on Sunday and when I was at work, one of my friends and I were looking out of one of the staffroom windows and we both thought that the cloud to the south was snow cloud. Admittedly, I was expecting it to snow that afternoon.

    What I wasn’t expecting was to wake up to:

    Snow! I took this pic standing at the front door of our flat/apartment. Our driveway (we share it with five other flats/apartments) is covered in the fluffy white stuff. I even built a mini snowman!

    If I wake up before the alarm on my cellphone goes off, I generally surf the net for a while before having a shower. On Monday, I woke up about half an hour before my alarm was due to go off and I went to stuff.co.nz, where one of the headlines was something along the lines of Christchurch being blanketed in snow. This made me pull back the curtains just to verify that snow had indeed fallen and I was immediately hyper.

    I went to take photos on my digital camera but I didn’t realise that the batteries were flat until the camera died on me with the lens out (my digital camera’s lens comes out when you turn it on – and yes, I am aware of the sexual connocations [sp?] of what I’ve said) so I had to dash back inside to get my cellphone to take photos.

    These are two of the pics that I took on my cellphone. The second one was taken on my way into work (the mall you can see in that pic is where I work pretty much and it’s within walking distance) and, at the time, I loved walking in the snow. I did manage to take a few pictures on my way into work and it was worth walking in the snow with no hat on my head, no scarf around my neck and no gloves on my hands! I’m from Southland so walking around in close to 0°C/32°F temperatures is nothing to me. Admittedly, when I did actually make it into work, my hands were the only parts of my body that were freezing and I knew that I had to let them warm up gradually because a big jump in temperature wasn’t good. Work even closed four hours earlier than normal because of the weather and also due to the fact that we were somewhat short-staffed because of the snow.

    Walking home from work on Monday was more treacherous than walking in to work. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I wore a pair of sports shoes into work because they have more grip than my work shoes but even then, I was still slipping and sliding. Certain sides of streets are still somewhat covered in snow because they happen to be the side where a lot of sun doesn’t hit in winter. In saying that though, the snow has pretty much gone.

    But it is nice to be able to wake up to snow, especially when the elevation on your home city and the city where you live isn’t that much above sea level. It’s also nice to find pages such as this one on Facebook too. The Press (Christchurch’s newspaper) had a beautiful picture of the city covered in snow on the front page yesterday.

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