12/19/2016 0 Comments AsthmaI talk about my asthma every now and then but I've never really explained it. I am highly asthmatic (and allergic) to perfume (synthetic fragrance, I am fine with natural fragrance its just the ones made of a bunch of chemicals that give me asthma attacks and allergic reactions).
That may not seem like a big deal, its like oh well just don't be around it, but that is really hard to do. Synthetic fragrance feels like it is in EVERYTHING, perfume, deodorant, shampoo, hair gel, laundry detergent, cleaning products, and the list goes on and on. Unfortunately not all of the chemicals in these are properly regulated (which isn't surprising seeing as things like parabens are in cosmetic products and are known to be not that great for you, as an example). So that is the why, why I have the asthma attacks. My body is just trying to protect me from bad chemicals, but that doesn't really explain how it feels. I use to only cough, the coughing was very violent and I hurt my back because of these asthma attacks multiple times, as of recently I've started wheezing too, and having it where my throat closes up like the allergic reactions I had to medications & peanuts (the type that I needed an epipen for). It makes me scared to go outside, as much as I try not to be afraid, every time I go out and do anything around people I am very likely to run into someone wearing synthetic fragrance. I have to leave when I get around people wearing too much, certain types of perfumes I can be around for a little bit others I can't, I go right into an asthma attack. I always have a plan, always on where I can go, how I can leave, what I can do if it starts getting really bad. I can't even go into certain stores, like Michaels, Bed Bath and Beyond, Abercrombie ect... (not that I would want to go into Bed Bath and Beyond or Abercrombie, but I can't even really walk past them in malls because of how much they stink). As a final example, lets put it this way, I had to leave my doctors office once (seriously my doctors office some place that is supposed to be safe, that you are supposed to go to for help) because there were so many people in there wearing really perfume stuff. I couldn't even go in the back because it was so bad. I've become a hermit because of this, I wish I could go out and be around people more, but I just don't have a solution at the moment, the asthma medications don't really work for me, and I've tried a bunch of natural stuff but it doesn't help enough either. All I really want is for the synthetic fragrance laws to be changed, so that they have to do a better job of regulating the chemicals that are put into "Fragrance" (I wouldn't want perfumes to go away, we've used perfumes since probably the beginning of time, but up until recently they were real, natural perfumes. I just want them to be natural, and overall for companies to stop adding so many chemicals to things). Parting thought, if you ever thinking something along the lines of "The Government wouldn't let them put all of those terrible things in X product". Remember that Cigarettes are legal and not only are they legal but companies are allowed to put awful chemicals in them.
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I like the idea of the bonus weeks, it gives each week a little something extra (and that the quest in new Dalaran goes with the bonus event for that week is pretty cool). My favorite is the Pet Battle Bonus Week. I have been bored of normal questing for awhile (especially on my priest that I level as a healer. I refuse to play shadow, long story). So whenever this week comes around I get really excited. Not only do I get to level my priest by doing the pet battles but I get to level one of the many many pets I have! So close! Yet so far away! Stormwing you will be mine! As you can see I keep all of my hoarding desires to video games lol (I think taking up virtual space is much better than taking up a bunch of actual space XD). It is one of my favorite things to do. I love doing the raids and am so happy that companions drop from them. I love that they keep adding more and more! The companions dropping are like another little presents (along with all the transmog gear and potential mounts, old raids are my fav!). So this bonus week gives me a change to level one of my many many pets! Plus the safari hat :D I have it on pretty much every characters action bar lol. Some of the pets I have favorited just waiting to be leveled. I know I could level them outside of the bonus week but it just goes so much faster during the bonus week, so there they are waiting patiently for their turn! Mischief is of course on the top of the list! I love Mischief and am so glad it is this years Make a wish pet!!
Needless to say if you could level mounts I would probably do that too (for mounted battles it would be so cool but that is another blog all together XD). 12/17/2016 0 Comments World of Warcraft Striped Options!I've had some people ask how I pick the colors (for the class colors especially, and mostly just asking about the Paladin one lol). Usually the colors are a mix of the colors the abilities are in game, and the class color. So for example the Paladin class color is pink (on the minimap the little dot color). Sindragosa's colors are like her rib cage (rib bones and blue frost). The Lich King (one of my favorites) The black of parts of his armor, charcoal for the rest of his armor, silver like the color of his skin, white for his long flowing hair, and blue like his frosty eyes. I changed the rogue one awhile ago to have crimson instead of red (since I assume rogues would end up pretty bloody). The city colors like Stormwind and Dalaran, go from the floor up. Stormwind, charcoal stone streets, grey bricks, warm brown and beige colored houses, and blue roofs :). I love the Lich King ones so much! They look really awesome as Extra Extra Long Gaming Gloves too! The Arcane Mage ones are so pretty, when I actually had all the balls of yarn sitting next to each other I thought "Wow these colors are so beautiful!" I knew they would be pretty but they were even more beautiful together than I expected. Sometimes I want to level an Arcane Mage just because their abilities are so pretty, then I remember that I suck as a dps XD. What a pretty dream though XD. And I love my priest enough to make myself a bright yellow hat XD. It is so freaken happy! I started liking stripes more and more (especially happy stripes :DD). And Last but not least the Tyrande stripes (there are so many other ones that I've made but didn't put pictures of here, and they all were very cool!). These are just some of my favorites, I love the Tyrande gloves turned out and the way the colors go from one to the next so perfectly!
The extremely large button takes you to the listing specifically for World of Warcraft themed striped Gaming Gloves, Extra Extra Long Gaming Gloves, and to the Beanies! There are many many other listings that have the striped options like Wrist Protectors, Wrist Warmers, Scarves, Shawls, Blankets, and other Gaming Gloves that vary in lengths! I only put buttons to the ones that I showed pictures of though! 12/16/2016 0 Comments Guild Wars 2 Spvp revampI am really excited for this. One of the biggest things I am looking forward to is the Solo/Duo Que. While a lot of bigger teams actually tended to be pretty bad, sometimes they would come up with some pretty cheesy strategies. This was normally fine for when my boyfriend and I played together but I could see how bigger groups like this could make it pretty hard to climb. I also like the new pip reward system and the Ascended loot. The fact that there are going to be more things to buy is a big improvement for people like me who had no real reason to Spvp anymore because I had gotten all the stuff I needed for the Legendary backpack. This picture they took of Skyhammer was pretty cool (even if Skyhammer is one of the things I am not looking forwards to, bad memories on that map lol, even though they've changed it a bunch since then the memories last!). While the idea of having a more standardized rank system is all well and good, I'm not a big fan of the new badges, compared to the other ones I think they are kind of ugly. I really liked my pretty Diamond gem (that also looked kind of like Superman's logo).
The idea that pips will give more rewards is nice, once you reached your skill level the rewards kind of fell off. I also think the placement matches and decay are good ideas. It would be nice if there was a certain rank you could not decay from but they will probably change that later (or at least I hope for the people in lower tiers). All and all a lot of the ranked changes are along the lines of League of Legends, which since they are trying to break into Esports more so, makes a lot sense. I like most of the changes, there are a lot of good ideas, that will hopefully help grow the Spvp community! Flex Que and Solo Que, I found being forced into Flex Que last season super annoying, so I am glad that the Solo/Duo Que option has been given back. Even though it tried to party you with teams with a similar number of players playing together that one extra person can be a big deal. If it is only two people both teams are likely to have a pairing of two, so it ends up not being that big of a deal, but if you end up with a group where it is both bottom laners and the jungle, that becomes painful. I felt like getting ganked by extra people spiked last season (I was accustom to getting ganked a lot before but it became crazy). I also think it is neat that there are extra rewards that can be earned for climbing both. I have no idea what they will be but it sounds like surprise presents to me! I am a pretty competitive person, I do competitive game modes in pretty much every game I play (except World of Warcraft, because the amount of super long CC becomes too annoying, I don't finding sitting there afk for 7 seconds over and over again very fun, if they calmed that down some I would totally do arenas). In League I do ranked, Overwatch & Guild Wars 2. I like to win and if it isn't a challenge it isn't fun to me.
In all honestly even when flex can be annoying I will probably end up trying to get Gold in both flex and solo/duo for the extra rewards! I mean who doesn't want more rewards! Excited to see how this season plays out and what those extra rewards will be :). 12/14/2016 0 Comments Happiness?I've been thinking about happiness a lot lately. What is happiness? Can it be infinite? What makes me happy? And I've come to realize that happiness is a lot of little things. I know I talked about joy in the little things but I didn't talk about the real importance of this. I've had some points in my life where I've been in really dark places, times where I haven't even wanted to be here anymore, and where I've felt hopeless. Even some where I've felt like I was dying (was I was anorexic I basically was). Which brings me to the importance of happiness, and what it is. For a long time I couldn't even fathom being the place I am in now. In a relationship with someone who truly loves, in a house that doesn't make me ill (my parents house was awful between my moms smoking, the probable mold, and stuff everywhere (they are hoarders) it was an awful environment health wise, I really wish they would leave/give up some of their crap). I wouldn't say I've been feeling great with the stuff with my tooth/jaw but It is so so so many times better than where I was. So even though things aren't always great they are still light years ahead of where I was. These are a picture of Gigi's Cupcakes, I never get tired of looking at them XD (they are my worst addiction). So with where I was in mind, I had to figure out what made me happy, what I wanted. I knew gaming made me happy but it also didn't make me feel whole. Only gaming was fun but not fulfilling. So what else was there for me? I liked talking to people (and I really enjoyed streaming, it is still something I want to get back to once I can talk for longer periods of time). The tooth/jaw stuff took a lot of the joy out of that because of the pain (and was starting to condition me to associate streaming with pain, which is all kinds of bad). I am a weird person, I am an anti-social, social person (I know that seems like a complete oxymoron but I don't know it works out for me lol). While I like talking to people, I don't like doing stuff with people as much. I'm kind of a loner I like doing stuff on my own, while talking to people (which streaming worked perfectly for this). That makes me happy. I do this normally because I have a goal in mind, like getting all of the achievements in World of Warcraft, or all of the legendaries in Guild Wars 2. At some point along this journey out of my pit of despair, I realized how much I loved making things, I knew that I loved this when I was little but there was a reawakening for me a renaissance. It really happened when I got to see how much joy I was able to bring people, how happy they were with what I made them and how much it helped them (like the gaming gloves and wrist protectors). The point of me telling you this is that it is important to find your happiness. If you know what that is, that is amazing! If you don't, if you feel lost, helpless, or alone. It will pass, and you can and will get out of that place. It is important to take the time to find what makes you happy and what makes you whole. There are many other things that make me happy but these thing are the ones I find myself going back to over and over again. CategoriesAll Crochet Guild Wars 2 League Of Legends Life World Of Warcraft 12/13/2016 0 Comments Karma in Gaming and in Life.No, I'm not talking about the League of Legends (don't even get me started I am still bitter about the rework. Old Karma used to be before anyone else). I am talking about when you go into a competitive game and talk some smack in the beginning and loose. Whether it is full on shit talking or just little jests, it always seems to come back to bite people. I don't know how many times I've had little jest (I don't really shit talk, I think of that as some of the mean/toxic stuff) and lost the game. Now there is a rule, none of that before winning, even if the other team starts something. You don't want to jinx it (gotta be careful with her she is a bit crazy XD, I joke but you know what I mean). The other thing that has come back to haunt me just recently, is when I was little I used to think people were crazy for being so afraid of the dentist (I have a very good dentist). I wasn't ever mean to anyone about it or anything but I still thought they were crazy, and now I have come to realize that fear is very valid. After having a student use the wrong tool for an hour and a half on one too & finally the teacher came in and took another half an hour with the right tool to pull it, and a different student saying she would numb my jaw more (this one took an hour on 1 tooth) after pulling the tooth (both of these teeth were badly impacted in the bone, so they had to go into that too). I have come to realize how not trying to understand someone else point of view can come to haunt you. What goes around, comes around, it might even be that soon (like with the dentist it was years and years after thinking that stuff). But it will come back to you. I hope for everyone's sake that they are putting out good into the world so they don't have things like the dentist haunting me (I can deal with a couple of ranked matches hanging over my head XD). CategoriesAll Crochet Guild Wars 2 League Of Legends Life World Of Warcraft 12/12/2016 0 Comments Spell Effects. Guild Wars 2I love a lot of the Heart of Thorns spell effects. I liked the spell effects for the original spells (especially my mesmer's shatters) but there is something about the new ones. They just seem to have a little bit more umph! I mean an Elementalist being able to make a flaming tornado, how cool is that?!?! (It also sounds like a bad syfi movie but in Guild Wars 2 it works XD). The new Elementalist's are probably my favorite but I like the "new" (since its been out awhile) ones for my Mesmer and Guardian too! The Mesmer in general is pretty cool, and something I don't really feel like I've seen in other games. Little bits here and there of things like the Mesmer but not quite the same. It looks cooler in combat XD but can also be kind of hard to see with the other spell effects going on. It is one of my favorites in Spvp because it messes people up :3. I like them not being able to move ;3 And I love the traps :3, I love them so much XD they are very evil though lol! In the first Guild Wars 2 you could mix two classes so I was an Elementalist and had Mesmer as my off spec. Which I always thought was really cool. The new to Heart of Thorns abilities kind of brought that back. I love that Guardians got traps it was something that was a Ranger/Theif thing, so to add a kind of stealthy aspect to the Guardian seems weird but some how works so well! My favorite new spell, It is so cool that she sits in a bubble healing people! I don't really have any other reason than that, traveling by bubble just seems cool maybe its because I liked The Wizard of Oz so much when I was a kid, maybe its because I like healing *shrug* who knows but whoever came up with it, it is a very cool idea! 10/10 :D CategoriesAll Crochet Guild Wars 2 League Of Legends Life World Of Warcraft 12/11/2016 0 Comments Poro OrnamentI woke up one morning and thought, you know what would be awesome? A poro ornament! (seriously that was what happened lol, I hadn't even opened my eyes yet XD) I may have thrown him a couple of times because Snowdown >.> <.< One of the great things is that they aren't really breakable though XD, not like normal glass ornaments! On our tree he is almost in camo XD, but he has his adorable place! He is easier to see in real life, and probably one of my favorite creations :3 The button takes you to the Etsy listing :)
Now my love for League of Legends is very different from Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft lol. My MMO's built me up in a magical way, where as League of Legends broke me down. I will be completely honest, I have cried more than once because of how cruel the people are in LoL. One of the times was because of playing with someone I knew who was supposed to be my friend but was really a backstabbing jerk. We were learning how to play at the time low levels not even 30 yet and she was so mean about teaching us. Not only that but she was already level 30 so playing with her meant that we would be paired with mostly other 30s when I think was only 14-15 level, something like that. And a Swain and Cass tower dove me over and over and over again. She yelled at me and I did not take it very kindly especially seeing as I was doing nothing wrong I was under my tower alone because we had a jungle and they had 2 top. Needless to say we didn't stay friends for very long after that, she wasn't a very nice person in general, and eventually I found out how much she was talking behind our backs and that was pretty much that. The other time I cried I don't really remember I just remember the person was very mean "I hope you and your family die of cancer" type. I should have just muted them but I didn't and let them get to me. You are probably wondering why the title says "A Special Place in my Heart. League of Legends" at this point lol. And even though these moments sucked, they made me care less and less about mean people (not about the person themselves mean people are normally that way because they are having issues in their own lives that they aren't coping with very well) but what they had to say. I learned to not take things so personally, because those people didn't know me personally. There were many many more moments where people said terrible things that led up to me not giving a fuck (I try not to swear too much on the internet sorrys :3, but I don't know a more perfect description than that!). Mean people will come and go but whether they have power over me is up to me. So block and muted they are without a second thought, if they are mean it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, I won't remember them in 10 years. And a report is definitely what they will be getting from me :3. If you are someone who knows they are an asshole be ware of that, because I and I hope many other people are not going to take your shit :). If you aren't remember that you don't have to just take someones harassment and report them, if they are doing something wrong they deserve to be punished for it. I have a special place in my heart for League of Legends because it made me tougher. It made me realize that an assholes words have no power here unless I let them, and I won't be letting them anytime soon :). Sometimes I feel like everyone should play League to learn how to cope with internet harassment because it is a crash course into learning that. But I am also not sure that everyone would be able to take it. Regardless ever instance I have been bullied has made me strong and I have come to a point in my life where I can handle much more than I could when I was younger, and I will only get stronger :) So even though I have a decent amount of not so great memories because of the League of Legends community it holds a special place in my heart because it made me who I am today. CategoriesAll Crochet Guild Wars 2 League Of Legends Life World Of Warcraft |
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