Clean(ing) Break

Yay, I felt like posting again, good times!

The plan was to open up with an RP story for World of Warcraft that I've been working on for a while, bits and pieces inbetween classes and scribbles on bits of paper from things floating around in my head before I go to sleep. Sadly, it's not quite finished yet >.< But somewhere this week for sure!

In the meantime just a quick post about what I'm doing at the moment. I've decided to take a little break from my Warcraft adventures for a few reasons. Main one being that, because I've been playing for over 11 years without a serious break at this point, I have run out of things to do. I have nearly every class at 100, nearly all non-PvP achievements, 275 mounts, 308 toys, 703 pets... so pretty much all I can reasonably farm right now. The next content patch, 7.0 Pre-Legion extravaganza, is still at least 2 weeks away and I just found myself coming up with the most idiotic things to pass the time ingame like running LFR wings 5 times a week for the CTA satchels and such. There's only so much one can do to stall before actual boredom sets in.

Another reason is that with the expansion in sight people are slowly returning again and not all of them have adjusted yet to the way I want things to be in the guild but I'm also aware they need time to adjust so instead of just getting endlessly annoyed this option works out nicely. Also I slightly feel like my safe haven, quiet retreat, zen place, whatever of the last 7 to 8 months is now being turned in the Azeroth equivalent of a tourist beach in summer. Might be some reflection on that and how I want the guild to be moving forward is a good thing.

This morning I went to the gym for the second time this week, as I promised before. I'm usually very good at starting this kinda thing but the real trick is finding the right motivation to keep it going. I think I found that this time around, or at least I hope I did. We shall see! But for now I feel pretty energetic from the workouts, I got a proper workout schedule as well which is 3 90 minute arm/leg/torso stuffs respectively that just cycle every 3 days. Mixed in is a lot of cardio to get my condition up and to get the fat burning. I must say, besides the obvious physical effects and stimulation it's also a good mental boost. Finally I'm doing something about this body I've been neglecting for a while and it's allowing me to find more reasons to ditch the PC and head outside to do stuff. All that obviously also helps with my almost instinctive need to start up WoW, Discord or Anook and check everything all the time. By being distracted and filling that void with other things I feel that this break might last a bit longer than the typical 3 days I've managed in the past. Of course it helps that, like I've pointed out in my previous post, I'm not really attached to anyone timewise or contentwise right now so it's not like anyone out there (or in there?) is waiting patiently for me to come back so they can do their thing.

Anyways that was a longer ramble than I thought it would be and though I'm still convinced no one read this, I just like writing things down. Not just because it's good to get stuff of my chest but also because it's very interesting to read back things I wrote yeeeeaaars ago (also on this blog) and to see how I've changed because it's hard to actually keep track of that in your head.
So yeah, neat RP story soon!