This summer’s adventures…
Posted by: kyriemist on: June 11, 2009
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This last semister, Alex decided to slack, he slacked so much that his writing grade went from a B to a D…in one semister. Mainly that’s because Alex is not all that fond of writing. He’d rather hurry through it and his work is…abismal at best. So we decided that he would be writing a story a week for the rest of the summer. This is the first installment of his summer homework. After some decussion Alex asked if he could write one large story for the whole summer. We agreed and so this is the first part of his story. It doesn’t have a title yet as he’s still working on that. But here we go…
“Hello, what is your name?”
“Alex.”
“Well hello Alex. Welcome to Desert Breeze. My name is Cloe.”
“Hey why don’t you put your lunch box on your group table, in the gym.”
“Ok.”
When I got in the gym everybody was free playing. The first thing I played was wall ball with a leader then I shot some hoops after awhile we had to line up for snack. For snack I had a cookie, gummies and a banana. After snack we went back to the gym.
But when we got there something with wings grabbed me and flew off with me. At that moment I realized two things, one I was hungry and two I needed to know what is carrying me. All of a sudden I was dropped into a pool of water. When my head got out I was in a whole new place.
When I realized that I started to hear some laughing. When I looked up I saw harpies laughing at me bacause I was soaking wet and that made me mad and suddenly I realized that I had armor and a sword and beside me was a ghoul. “This much be WoW, ” I thought.
When I clearly realized that it was WoW I attacked the laughing harpies and after I gained a level and now I was completely convinced that it was WoW.
Right after I was clearly convinced I realized I was my level 58 Death Knight. Then all of a sudden a man in a black mask pounced out of the bushes and was being attacked by wolf clan men and it was technically four against one but I decided to even the odds. After the fight we introduced each other, his name was Zorro.
Guess what he got here the same way I did, harpies took us from the real world to this world. He also told me how to get back to the real world. “You just have to go to the Harpies kingdom, but to get there you will have to go through Saku’s Forest, Orgrimmar, the Dark Portal, the Never Ending Cove, Dino Kindgom and the Orc cavern.”
“So where do we start?”
“The Never Ending Cove.”
“What!”
“Don’t worry it ends…eventually.”
“Ahhh!”
“Just kidding, sorry.”
“That was not me.”
“Then what was that?”
“Why don’t you ask it?”
At that moment Zorro turned around and guess what he saw a werewolf. Right after I blinked the werewolf’s head was gone.
We pause here tune back in about two weeks for the next story. The kids are going up to their grand parents for the week, so there will be a longer pause the usual after this story.
Today we made S’mores in a campfire out back. We had a lot of fun, though I had to teach the boys S’mores etiquette. Craig doesn’t remember ever having them before and the Lost boys had never had them either. We all sat outside and watched the fire burn out and the kids and I made up a story about a knight and a dragon from what we could imagine the flames of the fire looked like. The S’mores were as yummy as I remembered. And the kids lasted until 10pm on one S’more and one roasted marshmallow. I don’t know how my mom let us eat so many of those on camping trips. Then again we spent most of the day hiking and were so worn out that the S’mores didn’t really have much effect. I couldn’t convince any of the boys to eat the Marshmallows that way I liked it…charbroiled to ash, I am telling you ash with your sugar is good….sigh they didn’t believe me.
Earlier today Kayden and I dyed his first skein of sock yarn. We both had fun dying our yarn. Kayden’s came out very well he listened to my instructions and there was only one little bit that got a bit muddied with the dye mixing together. I dyed mine a pretty light blue and Kayden did his green, red and blue. I will have pictures later when they are done drying.
How to Find A Dragon By Alex
Posted by: kyriemist on: May 15, 2009
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Below is the story that Alex just finished writing, thought I would share it all with you.
Hello to all you Dragon lovers out there. My name is Alex and I will tell you how to find a North American, African, and Asian dragons.
First if you live in North America and you live near the mountains that have a cave, ask yourself these three questions.
1. Would a dragon live in a cave?
Yes / No
2. Is the dragon hungry?
Yes / No
3. Will he/she be a baby?
Yes / No
If you are not sure about a question there are three things you can do.
A. Give up
B. Sneak in the cave and look.
C. Buy a robot to check
If none of these work that means there is no dragon. Wait! But there still could be dragon remains, below is a picture of a dragon rib I found.
As you can see it has a crack and if you are wondering what a dragon would like like.
- blue wings
- wings tattered
- breathes fire
- blue
- red and yellow eyes
Now if you are in Africa and you have elephants and you want to catch a dragon have a heat seeking missle ready because these type of dragons eat elephants. There are three week spots.
1. The head
2. Wings
3. Long neck
If you hit the head it might cause temporary blindness or it will kill the dragon. If you hit the wings the dragon will lose balance and fall. If you hit the neck it might blow some scales off or it might blow the dragons head off. Below are then dragon traits.
- Dragons are carnivors.
- Dragons are fast.
- Dragons breathe fire.
- Dragons have big meals.
- Most dragons have black horns.
- All dragons have tails.
- Most dragons live in caves.
- Baby dragons are called whlepings (well-p-lings).
- Some dragons have feathers.
- All dragons have claws.
Now you know how to find an African dragon and an American dragon.
The next dargon we are going to talk about is so evil and vile that one look will crush the living daylights out of you. Just kidding! There is no dragon that is that dangerous.
The real dragon that we are going to talk abotu is the nicest dragon alive, it is called the Asian dragon. The Asian dragon looks like it is part snake, part lion, and part lizard. It’s scales are red and at the end of the tail is hair. On its back there are some red spikes sticking out. Every dragons eye tell of its power. Below are some colors and powers.
- Green = Healing
- Purple = Singing
- Red = Sharper claws
- White = Fast Flying
- Black = Invisible
Now you know how to find three dragons. And there names are , the North American dragon, the African, and the Asian dragons. Now go and use your wisdom well.
Teasing Spring
Posted by: kyriemist on: April 16, 2009
- In: Crafts| Holidays| Humor
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The lost boys went up to visit their grandparents for spring break and then, Craig’s parents came down to visit them after they returned. Some how those lucky lost boys got two weeks of spring break…I’m not sure how that happened. I finished half of the I do Shrug and have started on the second sleeve. It’s coming along very nicely.
I know it looks kind of bloby and such, but that’s because it’s lace and I haven’t blocked it yet.
I have also been working on my Sprite DarterSocks which I finished last night just as I got my Sprite Darter in Wow! I was sooo excited
I made them extra girlie this time because Craig was threatening to steal them…though he assures me that he is secure enough that he can still wear them…sigh.
The weather was beautiful when Mel and David were here, but now it’s turned gloomy and windy. It’s looking like spring break was only a tease. Mom tells me that it’s still snowing in Montana and Mel called this morning to tell Craig it had snowed 6in. and she was moving down to live with us until spring decided to really come this year.
The lost boys enjoyed their easter gifts a great deal, and Kayden managed to break his yo-yo so while Craig was trying to fix it he decided to super glue both of his eyes. Luckily he caught it in time before they were glued shut and washed his eyes for about 10 minutes. Was any interesting few days around here.
For those of you just dying to know what a Sprite Darter looks like…here are two pictures of my character…
See even in game I hang out in the desert where it’s warm. 
And here I am dancing for the joy of a new Sprite Darter!
Me and the Murlocs go questing on Nerdabout NYC’s blog.
Posted by: kyriemist on: March 31, 2009
So I have a friend on Ravelry that runs the Nerdabout NYC’s blog, for the science channel. Basically they feature various nerdy things and post about it. She asked me if I would be willing to do an interview about playing WoW and knitting. Which I was more then happy to do for her.
So please go check out the interview and comment! The science channel bases how long they are willing to keep this project going on the comments. So please please comment as she has offered to spotlight Strangers as well just before it is published.
As to other things I’ve been up to lately…well not much. Just reading a lot. I’ve read the last to novels in the Twilight series, and four Nicole Jordan books in the last few days.
Baby murlocs…and other random knitting.
Posted by: kyriemist on: March 25, 2009
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Okay I know it’s been way to long since I did this, but I have finally gotten comfortable with my new program and it’s time to play again. I have been doing a ton of knitting lately, so I thought I’d share a few pictures with you.
Before we start with my stuff though I want to show you Lorna’s Baby Murloc of doom! He’s soo cute and he was her first project that was not a scarf, I am very proud of her. She has done such a wonderful job with the baby murloc.
It’s pictured below with Kayden’s murloc so you can see the size difference. As you can see it hasn’t quite come into his colors yet.
Here are some of the projects I have started and finished in the last month or so. First I made Craig his own Skull hat so he wouldn’t be so cold in the morning driving to work since he took the jeep top off just a bit early.
But then Kevin at work saw it and wanted one of his own so I sold him one as well. I haven’t given it to him yet so I have no pictures of him in it…so I made Craig model it for you.
Then I made another pair of toe up socks cuz, you can never have enough socks and I wanted to try out the whole toe up sock thing again, with a different heel to see if I liked that better. I have decided they are a bit baggy and so I am not sure about the whole toe up thing. However Craig has stole them…evil man that he is. This is one of the few times I have been able to get my socks back from him. He claims he doesn’t mind the girly lace stuff I put on the tops in hopes he wouldn’t wear them. Unfortunately you can’t really see it in this picuter.
My mistake of course was making him, his own pair for Valentines day ever since then he has been coveting my socks!
Then I decided to knit Indie Dyer her murloc so she could take her on to Stitches West. She turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. Indie Dyer is the wonderful lady that makes the murloc yarn.
After that I thought I had better finish the murlocs for David that I promised him, because quiet frankly its getting to the point that I don’t ever want to knit another murloc again. Ten is really quiet enough. I finished all three on the day that I took David in for his surgery and they let him pose for a picture before they took him off into the room.
I took that picture with my Blackberry so it is a bit fuzzy…sorry about that. They waited patiently with me in the waiting room while I waited for David to finish his surgery so I could take him home.
Then Alex happened to see a pair of my fingerless mitt and was very convincing in his argument that he desperately needed a pair to keep his hand warm when he rode in his Dad’s jeep.
Once Kayden saw Alex’s gloves he had to have a pair as well. So I ended up making two pairs. They both only took a day to knit.
And finally I started something for myself! I am so excited about this shrug I can’t wait to be finished with it.
Anyway that’s pretty much what we’ve been up to this last month. The lost boys are excited about spring break coming up and seeing their grandparents again. Craig and I are staying busy with work and life and overall everything is going well.
Oh yeah Kayden got to call his girlfriend today…that went…interestingly. She deigned to talk to him for all of about 30 seconds before telling him she was busy and hanging up. Of course he called her five times in one day at his mothers house…so we had to explain the whole stalking concept and that he couldn’t call more then one time a day in the future.
Strangers & Strippers
Posted by: kyriemist on: March 5, 2009
So I have been doing a lot of editing for the Strangers RPG game as well as a bit of writing. This project was started about 15 years ago, and I became involved with it about 7 years ago. I helped write the first rough rough draft and then promptly moved to Las Vegas and left it in Raven’s hands. Well I am happy to announce that the game will finally be published June 1st, through Chronocomm Games. We will be going to Gen Con in August to promote the game and debut it. I am really really excited.
I haven’t been knitting much as I have been working on the game. Today is sit and knit and I am going to try and finish that last murloc.
Yesterday I went to the Stripper 101 class, with some of the in room girls from work. We had a blast! The teacher was awesome and and very very funny. She showed us all these great stripper tricks as well as how to keep the control in a lap dance and even a few pole tricks. It was such a work out, though at the time it didn’t feel like it. I sure feel it now.
Been sooo busy
Posted by: kyriemist on: February 25, 2009
So I’ve been really busy trying to keep up with everything lately and since I got a new computer which didn’t have a photo editing program I let the blogging slide a bit. Now I have currently finished 2 pairs of socks and 3 Murlocs. I have one more to go before I am done and then I will be done with Murlocs for some time I think.
The lost boys are doing well. Alex has managed to get a score of 98 for the Gate program. Which he was very excited about until he realized that meant more classes and homework. *insert evil laughter here*
The lost boys are still filling in the very large and deep grave they dug to china three weeks ago. Currently they almost have some of their toys back, and have been allowed to do more then just stare at a wall for the last week. Which has been nice for everyone. We are hoping they can go a whole week without trying to open the grave back up. Our fingers are crossed and I think since the microwave has given up the ghost and the clock no longer changes minutes that they have fully decided that watching the clock is not as fun as it used to be. I could be wrong about that…lets hope not.
I have been editing the Strangers RPG game, while will be released June 1st and am very very excited about that. As well I am planning on attending Gen Con in Aug to watch the game be debuted.
Oh I got my Kindle today and I absolutely LOVE it. I love it more then…hmm well less then Craig and more then WoW…I think. Yeah yeah I’m almost sure that’s the right amount. I need to knit it a case so that it doesn’t get scratched up.
Okay that’s all I’ve got for now I still haven’t quiet learned my new photo editing software and I really don’t have the patience for it tonight. So here is the post with out pictures. 
Are we going IN?!?
Posted by: kyriemist on: February 4, 2009
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So yesterday E and I went to J’s house in Pahrump, to watch the second season of Carnivale which if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend. The plot is enthrallingly engaging even if the pace is a bit slow and drawn out. Some of you should know where this is going already.
We spent 4 hours watching Carnivale and knitting on the new sock pattern I have been designing I have not decided how I am going to do the cuff just yet. Here is a taste of the Fleckless Sock.
Oh yeah I also made a weighted sock bag last night because I didn’t want to wait for the ones on line to ship. It turned out pretty awesome for the prototype. I will be giving it to Kayden and changing a few things on the next one I make.
J asked if we would like to take a tour of Pahrump. Which is by the way ia way smaller then Laurel and has no side walks….at all except down town and only a block or so long.
Anyway on the way in to J’s house I saw a yarn shop *insert angelic singing here* so I was very excited to go check it out. We arrived at 3:55 and the shop closed at 4pm. The shop is basicly two trailer houses placed side by side. One side has fabric and notions along with a room for classes and then other side has the yarn….*sigh* unfortunately they only carried one brand of yarn…Red Heart. For those of you who don’t know Red Heart is seriously the crappiest of all crappy acrylic yarn.
However it was five minutes to close, and was very obvious that this shop needed all the economic stimulation it could get. So I bought some crappy Red Heart yarn…
Crappy Red Heart Yarn
I am hoping that it will make a cute baby hoodie like the last yarn I bought to help a local shop out. Some how I don’t think it will stripe like the last one did.
After the yarn shop J asked if we would like to drive by the local brothals. I’ll admit I was curious while E was…less then curious but at least willing to let us drive by them. So we wandered on down to whatever street the Chicken House and Sheri’s Ranch are on. Both of these brothals are at the edge of town and the end of the street. I mean that litterally right after Sheri’s parking lot it dead ends and it’s just desert.
So J pulled into the parking lot and E begins to tense up. The outside of the place looks like…any other large strip mall which has art work by Olivia plaster all over the outside of the building.
J slips into a parking space and shuts off the engine and E stiffens up and turns toward me with absolute panic in her face. Though you can tell she trying really really hard to not show it. J hops out and seeing the panic on E’s face I can’t help but pop my door open just to watch her eyes light up with panic. I may have an evil streak…just a small one…really. I swear it’s small.
Anyway she said…”Are we going…In?” and I say “Why not.” I’m slightly curious about the inside. J is all bubbly in that innocent way of hers and says, “They give free tours.”
At this point I’m trying really really hard not to laugh at E because she’s is screaming in her head now and smiling bravely at us. J pulls open the door to the bar and the light streams into the darkened interior.
The whole place seems to inhale and then hold their breath as we walk in. There are four Johnnies sitting around the bar getting chatted up by women of various ages in thongs and bras. The three at the end of the bar were probably in their late forties. The men are immediately uncomfortable, and yet somewhat specluative at the same time.
The bar manager comes over to find out why we are there and why we felt the need to make her customers uncomfortable. J explains that we are from out of town and want to take the tour. We order a drink…because lets be honest if you go to a whore house you better at least have a drink.
One of the girls comes out to give us a tour. E is gulping her drink and trying not to ask any inappropriate questions even though she has a ton of them. She’s pretty sure the tour guide would not have appreciated them. I think my favorite question was…”you really have sex with people…really?” She show us to the rooms you can party in which I have to say was very interesting.
They had the expesive dinner room where you pay for a steak and lobster dinner and the desert is a blow job with a Creme De Menthe shot before hand that adds to the whole desert experience. I’m pretty sure the girl gets the shot. She said it adds a hot and cooling sensation. I’m now taking notes.
They have two Jacuzzi rooms which have different decore another room which has bubbles falling from the ceiling over the top of the bubble bath tub that is set up on a pedastal. The whole time the girl is taking us around E is chugging her drink and trying not to appear uncomfortable…and failing misebly.
Then they had the S&M room which is equiped with a stage and stripper pole. A large leather covered thorne with chains and cuffs attached to it. A St. Andrews cross and a leather covered sawhorse. Along with various whips hanging on the wall.
We were told that if you wanted to rent out this room it was $500 an hour plus the two girls that were mandatory and it was required that each girl was tipped for every lap dance they performed.
At this point the tour was over and we went back to the bar dropped off our empty drinks and left. E began to breathe again and J & I teased her about the whole thing. There really is nothing better then tormenting your friends.
We’ve been telling E for a bit that we are taking her to the strip club where they have boy strippers for her birthday. I think after that we’ll have to take her to the Stripper 101 class. *smirks* I can’t wait to see her face.
Wow Humor
Posted by: kyriemist on: January 23, 2009
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Some of you won’t get this, but that’s okay some of you will.
US Democracy Server: Patch Day
Version 44.0
President
* Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence
was not being properly applied.
* A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects
of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.
* Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed loot to be
transferred from the treasury to anyone on the President’s friends
list,or in the President’s party. We are investigating.
* Messages to and from the President will now be correctly saved to
the chat log.
* Messages originating from the President were being misclassified as
originating from The American People.
* A rendering error that frequently caused the President to appear
wrapped in the American Flag texture has been addressed.Vice President
* The Vice President has been correctly reclassified as a pet.
* No longer immune to damage from the Legislative and Judicial classes.
* The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug
was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.
* Reveal Identity: this debuff will no longer be able to target Covert
Operatives.
* Messages to and from the Vice President will now be correctly saved
to the chat log.
* A rendering bug was affecting the Vice President’s visibility, making
him virtually invisible to the rest of the server. This has been
addressed.Cabinet
* There was a bug in the last release that prevented the Cabinet from
disagreeing with the President, which was the cause of a number of
serious balance issues. This bug has been addressed, and we will
continue to monitor the situation.Judiciary
* Many concerns have been raised regarding balance issues in the
Supreme Court.
This system is maintained on a different patch schedule, and will
require longer to address.
* A large number of NPCs in the Judiciary were incorrectly flagged
"ideological." We are trying to identify these cases and rectify
this situation.Homeland Security
* Homeland Security Advisory System: We have identified a bug in
this system that prevents the threat level from dropping below
Elevated (Yellow). The code for Guarded (Blue) and Low (Green)
has been commented out. We are testing the fix and hope to have
it in by the next patch.
* Torture: This debuff is being removed after a record number of
complaints.
* Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat
with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the
issue.
* Asking questions about Homeland Security was incorrectly
triggering the Chain-Jingoism debuff.Economy
* Serious on-going issues with server economy are still being
addressed. We expect further roll-backs, and appreciate your
help identifying and fixing bugs. We can’t make these fixes
without your help.PVP
* Reputation with various factions are being rebalanced. The
gradated reputation scale was erroneously being overwritten
by the binary For Us/ Against Us flag.Quests
* The” Desert Storm” quest chain was displaying an erroneous
"Mission Accomplished" message near the beginning of the chain.
* The quest chain that begins with “There’s no cake 
like
Yellow Cake” and terminates with “W-M-Denied” has been
identified as uncompletable, and has been removed.Reagents
* Many recipes that currently call for Crude Oil can now be
made with Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Ethanol reagents.
We hope to roll out even more sweeping changes in the next
patch.Events
* The “Axis of Evil” event is drawing to a close. Look forward
to the “Rebuilding Bridges” event starting in January.Note: Enjoyment of this content is covered by our Terms of Service
Requested Fudge Recipe
Posted by: kyriemist on: January 18, 2009
Here is the recipe for the fudge. It’s very simple and makes up easily in no time.
3c. Chocolate chips (I usually do half dark and half milk)
1 (14oz) can sweetened condensed milk
dash salt
1.5 tsp vanilla
In heavy sauce pan, on low heat, melt chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk and salt. Remove from heat;stir in vanilla. Spread evenly into waxed paper lined baking dish. Chill 2 hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto cutting board, peel off paper and cut into squares. Store leftovers in fridge.
Enjoy!
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