Hmm...Suddenly Feeling the Need to...Start Wearing Purples, Wearing Purples...

    Change is in the air here at the Wizards Tower. As of the start of this week we officially have a new group we are working with. I am one of 5 people in my entire department who have been put through the training for this group. As usual at this job I have found myself having an easy time with it and have quickly gotten nearly back to where I am in my code breaking and transcribing numbers. It has been fun to learn something new and to add a new skill to my gold making work path. Hopefully I won't get confused between the two and change the way I do the original. But I don't see too much worry of that to be fair. It feels like they are gearing up to gain a couple more accounts and they have put me on a track to eventually be able to train people in these arts. So I'm getting ready for the implode, which this time will actually be good.

    In many ways it feels as though they are trying to turn me into their very own Elite mini boss. It keeps making me think I should get a little silver dragon edging to put around my name plate. Every time we start something new I am one of the first people trained and handed a bunch of it to get me started on that skill tree. I think I might be okay with this plan. Seeing it means all the more security on my position here at the Tower. Yay for actual good changes in the place that I make my gold! I will not complain about that, especially seeing I continue to make more gold every paycheck. As my pay is all based on the work that I do, and as I only seem to be ramping up my power levels on that every day. I don't see that changing any time soon.

    The way things are going at the Tower these last couple of weeks have started to make me feel like this:

   

Which is really a very good thing. As anyone who's adventured with me for any length of time can tell you with jobs, this is a rarity. I have had many jobs of horribleness and underapreciation of the work that I have done. So when I say it's really nice to breath and know that I'm doing well here, despite all the crazy days I have had, it's a good thing.

    Other things in my dailies are going as well as they have been. So I really can't complain too much about my life. So now I leave you all in peace for your day. Tune in next time for more of the silly adventures of one little Oracle who suddenly seems to be winning the game of life!

Life, the Biggest Frontier, this is the Voyage of Each of Us and the Paths we Follow.

    Our continuing mission to gain levels, gold and find our way to and through the boss fights. As the world around us ebb's and flows in it's path forward. Through days, weeks, months, seasons and years. It's really all about how we use the class skills we've been given to get from and through it all. Sometimes it takes all of us, time to figure out what each new skill does and means. But once we get there, we hopefully will use them to the best of each of our abilities. Sometimes we end up with skills, cut scenes, quest groups / adventuring partners, we never would have seen but they just are the right thing for us. I truly believe this when I quote the fantastic movie from several years ago now, Hook, "Life is the greatest adventure of them all."

    As this week marks the beginning of spring according to the calendar year, though there is still wonder why the Winter Court hasn't moved over just yet, I think about life's movement a lot. I think about the way we follow our paths and where they have lead us. I really have to say, that my re-roll path has been amazing and thoroughly fulfilling in many ways. I know that I'm not finished with my "Talent tree" and still have a ways to go. But honestly, I think that where I am is a good place to keep moving forward.

    For the first time in my life, I'm finally starting to be able to save gold and put it away for needed things. I have learned to deal with a lot of my daily challenges in a calmer way, for the most part. I have allowed myself to let someone completely in behind the armor as scary as that can be and I am so grateful to him every day. The farther down our path together we go, the more I realize how much more he means to me every day.

    Am I am still crazy? Yes, but that is in the sense that everyone is crazy in some way or another, I do fully admit to my craziness, perhaps sometimes I even revel in it. I have completely lucked out in finding other adventurers who's crazy works well with mine, lots of world bosses have been defeated together with my crew. So basically there is much world rocking involved.

    In the scheme of life, I feel like I've finally found some grounding and some peace. Like I have finally leveled to a point where there good things in my adventure story definitely outshines the bad. It's take a long journey to get here. I assure you many people who have kept adventuring with me despite my past craziness could definitely inform those who don't know.

    Have I gotten myself off the ground with my novel writing? Well no, but through writing here and all of you my wonderful adventure story readers out there, I feel that I am still allowing my creativity to flow and allow it to guide some parts of my life. A thing which I've always been fighting against and too stubborn to do or too scared of the failure that could come from it in the past to allow.

    It has been a wonderous, crazy, journey, filled with many ups and downs. Many of which were my own doing, but honestly, when things go wrong I still have to quote Rafiki, "You either learn from it or run from it."  I'm just glad most things in the more recent past, has been the former and not the later. Hurray for finally starting to fulfill my own continuing mission!

Shhh...There was a Forget Spell Cast Over Here...Making it Better!

    So...I realized something came and went about two weeks ago. I completely forgot that it had been that long and would have mentioned / made a bigger deal of this happening had I remembered. There have been so many adventures each day that I have had a scatter brain. So here it is...

 

    I am so very grateful to all of you who keep reading weekly or bi weekly now. You guys make me feel like I've rolled natural 20's on all of my writing! So thank you! This is as much a very awesome thing for you guys as it is for me. I never would have suspected I'd have so many people each week that would continue to keep my anecdotes alive a year later!

    I look back over the posts of the last year and am in awe over where I was then, where I am now and how much has happened / how much better my life is now. I have been having some pretty bad weeks lately, but even my worst week recently is worlds better then a lot of my daily adventuring a year or two ago. It's been a grand adventure and it continues to improve as time moves forward.

    Now that that has been said, onto the adventures for this week. I have been spending a lot of my time here at the Tower the last several weeks mostly speaking with adventurers who are out in the field at people's domiciles to go through their losses and relay them to me to transcribe which I then search, code them and determine how much gold these people are getting for their items. It has made for some very long days as the conversations last for hours. I do enjoy the speaking with people portion as I am a very social little Oracle. I would say my natural diplomacy / Charisma scores help with that, but I just like people. Often times I will have to have days of absolute attempting not to fall asleep while talking with the field agents, due to long periods of searching and digging through the refuse and ash that once was a person's belongings. So it's always an adventure in itself.

    It has come to my attention that I am the favored person here at the Tower with several of our field agents, as they will specifically request me every time. I enjoy this happening, as I get to build a friendship with these people and know how they work and what to write in my transcriptions for them. Even better when I am the person who gets to search and value things, as I will know what they're talking about when I go to do so. It is a bit fun at times and I enjoy helping our field agents as much as I can. Some of my most frequent agents actually have bonded with me about various things. Such as Star Wars, gaming, and general geekery. So it makes my day even better. Lots of laughter and fun.

    I know lately I have had a lot of complaints about the Tower and the things going on here. So I figured that I would finally post something positive about it. The correspondences with our field agents not only is a fun change of pace, albeit sometimes long and tiring, but rewarding both in getting to know other people and in all actuality my ability to make gold here. So it is a good thing indeed. I wanted to reassure, those who have been reading right along, this is not turning into anything like the Dungeon, where I was earring my gold last year at this time. Just there are trying days and good days. So here's to the future of them! Huzzah!

So...That Talent Tree Thing...Or Maybe A Prestige Class Is Needed...

     All is not calming down at the Tower with other things however. They are playing the lets change the rules on our adventurers game again. They have taken my job which was sometimes challenging, fun and used a lot of different skills and made it so that a person with an intelligence score of 8 could do it. It was flustering to have to go against everything I had been taught and to essentially have to stop using my brain in order to now to work here at the Tower. It made me a bit sad. It has truly made me wonder how long I actually want to keep cracking codes and finding items for people. It has definitely been making me anxious to leave each day and basically effected my whole desire to be here each day.

    I has not changed the work ethic which was taught to me between years of watching my father at work and just my general desire to help when I'm good at something. However it has made me start to really think about what I want to be doing to earn my gold in the future. Ultimately I know what I want to do, but when a lot of the life around you is preventing the creativity and inspiration needed for that particular path, it's not a path you can follow at that point.

    Don't get me wrong, I do see the good things in my life. I have never made as much gold as I am making now before, I am finally getting to the point of fixing the badness of things in my past and being able to live again. I have the most amazing questing partner I could ever have wanted and didn't know I needed. Which he is probably one of the best "surprise this is happening now" situations that has ever happened in my life, now that it's almost a year later. I have some of the most wonderful people in my life that constantly make me happy just to know them. I have a roof over my head, food to keep me from being hungry, and really I'm not as sickly as I could be. Sometimes it is just hard to keep up with all the banality and mundanity that fills this world on a daily basis and it brings even the most optimistic little Oracle down.

    I swear I will survive and conquer this stupidness that is here. It just might be a bit more ugh and fighting noises before the victory song.