It was a great 3-day weekend. If it weren't for how I came about getting a 3-day weekend. Gotta love unexpected car troubles. Hey, at least I got some extra time getting acquainted with the new home theater system. :D So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!House and Home:
Friday morning started off like any other Friday morning. We all went about our morning routine like the clockwork it's become, until something jarring sounded from under the hood of the Vue as D tried driving it off for the morning commute. It was difficult to even start, let alone drive, and made a horrible grinding sound. I told her to take the convertible for the day, effectively leaving my workday at the mercy of the mechanic's shop.
Not that they're bad people to be at the mercy of. We got the Vue at the Saturn dealership not more than half a mile from our house, and they've always been fair to us the few times the Ion we owned had been in the shop. I was able to coax the Vue to start and limp the half mile to the shop, where they took us in immediately, despite having no appointment. Clara made a bee-line over to the duplo blocks table and started going through the large sack of blocks, picking them out one by one, inspecting them, saying "No" and promptly chucking them over her shoulder. Once she had thrown all the blocks on the floor, she brought each one to me to look at before taking them back and putting them back in the bag. Then she wanted to look at all the cars in the showroom, and I let her sit in the driver seat of each one. She called each car "mine pretty car" and played with the steering wheel and honked one of the horns on accident. >.<;
Once it was clear what I would and would not have to pay for on this repair trip (((>.<;;;))), they offered to shuttle us to wherever we needed to go. I had the option of dropping Clara off at the daycare, but I decided to spend the day with her instead of dropping her off. We watched Disney's Robin Hood and Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas together, and about halfway through Robin Hood, she curled up on the couch with me, falling into a deep snore during the Grinch. It was nice - she's not normally a cuddler. After she went down for a nap, I spent most of the rest of the day cleaning and doing laundry.
Saturday morning was our long-scheduled dentist day for the kids. The dentist we went to was kinda neat - they had a large kids play area inside the waiting room that Colin and Clara climbed around in, and several scooting options for younger kids. Clara sat in the car they had and scooted around. She also attempted to climb the water fountain. Clara's visit was just a quick brush/floss and play in the chair. Just to get her used to the office and not permanently scare her. Colin had no issue with the dentist - in fact, he's been asking when he can go for the last few months. We've been unable to go much because we had no dental insurance for a while, but now we're all caught up.
We did our WalMart run and got the oil changed in the Vue shortly after the dentist, and were more or less bums for the rest of the weekend, only doing some light laundry here and there and keeping the mess to a minimum. The only other times we went out was to get the convertible's oil changed the next day, and we didn't hang around for that.
In Game:
Surprisingly, I didn't play anything during the day on Friday. I spent the day pretty well divided between playing with Clara and cleaning the house. Soulfire was attempting another Medusa run for FNLE, as our first attempt was a valiant, but ill-fated effort. This time, though, we were much better prepared, but as it turned out, she wasn't feeling much like playing and was nowhere to be seen. -_-; Who hunts Medusa, honestly? We killed a SMN NM Lamia in there, though. Almost wiped when its avatar used its 2 hour move. Nothing to show for it. :P
We spent a bit of time after Medusa and on Saturday night leveling BST in the canal, but it didn't go so well. Toraimarai Canal is very unforgiving if you aren't paying complete attention or if you make a mistake, and Keri ended up dead several times. We both had to home point at least once. While the experience is great when you don't screw up, it is brutal in there when you do. I might start scouting some of the other areas to see if there isn't somewhere that is a little kinder to the distracted BST.
Sunday morning was our last Nyzul climb session. I say last because we beat floor 100, so all the runs we do from now on are purely for fun and farming. We can also start focusing more on assaults that we need for rank up. We did Dynamis - Valkurm later that evening, and Keri got the BLM belt and I got the BST belt, both very sexy pieces of equipment for the spot they occupy.
Version update is coming up, so my next post will either be what I think of it, or complaining about not being able to update. Or both. >.>;
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