I'm Back!

Due to time restraints this week and some unfortunate family medical concerns from this past weekend, I was unable to place the final finishing paragraphs on my tanking strat article. So today I will be making a short post about nothing specific.

Lately I have been feeling great pressure playing my DK, my Rogue, Redyps and my Warlock, Redfyre. I have only been on my DK for raids over the past couple weekends and of course, for my Daily Random Heroic. Redyps and Redfyre have only been logged on when I need something specific from their inventories or professions.

I have actually felt somewhat burnt out, but for some reason I was still researching and studying my DK so as to further his skills. But people in my guild and raid group knew I wasn't myself. I was getting irritable in raid. People weren't performing that way I wanted them to. I wasn't performing the way I wanted to. I stopped thinking of scenarios to different bosses. I stopped being creative with my abilities, with my tanking. I was on autopilot tanking.

These past couple weeks I have been leveling my Hunter, Redblud, and my Druid, Redwulf. Mainly through instances with a couple of guildies who were running the Recruit-A-Friend, who were mainly running through instances with no or little questing but since I wasn't a RaF toon, I was definitely questing more to keep up which has worked out so far for my hunter who is now level 71.

My guildies went ahead and made another set of toons and now my Druid, Redwulf has been keeping pace with them.

It's been nice playing these newish toons of mine and giving me a break from the 'grownups'. They are also planning on making another set of toons after the current set hits 60 so I went ahead and made another toon, a Warrior named Redrayge to prep and get ready for the next set.

All in all it has been fun, but I was still feeling the crushing burden of being run down and I didn't know why. I have thought on it and thought on it. Still nothing, then last night I got tired fast after work. I got home made dinner for my wife, my cousin and myself, got on WoW and played two instances, one on my DK and one on my warlock. After the second instance I knew I was crashing. I went to bed, my wife came with me.

Now normally I go to bed on a weekday(workday) at 12midnight or 1am. Last night I hit my pillow at 8-8:30pm. I wasn't feeling sick but just dragged-through-the-mud tired. I awoke early this morning at 5am, about two and half hours before my alarm would go off, wide awake. So I figured I would take a shower and maybe finally alter my jeans to keep from dragging the ground under my boots. (And Yes....I know how to sew....sewing machines are for suckers. Here is where all the ladies say, 'OMG! He can cook and sew!'(I'm sorry, Ladies. I'm already taken and there is no way you can beat my wife in looks.))

Well after my shower and altering my jeans, I figured I would do some WoW.com surfing. I hit to site only to find an article on Invincible. I click the links and somehow ended up on the Battlecry Mosaic site and found the 'Invincible' song that was currently unlocked. I listened to it and let me tell you. If you want my attention give me a good song to listen to. Songs get my attention, having grown up musically and trying to go through college as a music major until my college loans got to be too much for me. Music speaks to me. And this song spoke volumns.

I don't know if it was the music, or the sleep but I was feeling my old self again. I want to play all my toons. I want to try and be the best at what my toons do. My old self was bubbling to the surface. The self that was confident, the self that could stir my abilities to perform differently, the self that could have fun!!

Man!!! I cannot wait to get home tonight! What fun I will be having after work!!

Where is your fun self?