This past weekend can be put in the “best moments of my life” pile. I went and got my geek on at Blizzcon 2010 in Anaheim, CA, going from “geek wannabe” to “full-on geek” and calling my self a raving World of Warcraft fan (heck, I’m a freaking Kingslayer!). I also fell in love with California, but most of all I got to spend time with awesome people and I even got an adopted family. Coming back to Chicago was hard, I miss all those palm trees!
I’m going to leave the technicalities of the convention to my husband and Daniel De Guia, but Blizzcon was an amazing experience for me. I’ve never seen so many people in line, and I never fully realized how Blizzard has brought all kinds of people together… it’s just wonderful! You’re there, standing in line, waiting for those doors to open, and you feel connected to thousands of complete strangers. You forget all about classes, race, economical status, disabilities… we’re just one big mass of human beings who love gaming and made it all the way there. Conversations are spontaneous and fun, you learn, you share, you exchange ideas and play strategies. People are happy, they don’t care about standing in line for hours or the huge crowd. It’s just happy time, geek time!
World of Warcraft is one of the things that took me a while to discover (mostly because I refused to play and spent too much time giving my husband wife aggro) but it’s become a big part of what I do during my free time. Yes, I’m addicted, I love it, my warlock rockz and rulez and there aren’t enough achievements in the game for me to get. But what I love the most about WoW is the social aspect; I have tons of fun in guild chat and talking to people over vent. I’ve made friends, great friends, and I got to meet a bunch of them in California. You think people are going to be different when you meet them in person, but I was actually amazed by the fact that personalities do show in game and every person I met is just like I imagined. Now I feel even more connected to my guildies and I’m looking forward to the next time we meet.
And last, but not least (actually the best part of it all), I finally got to meet Nathalie, my good online friend of 10 years. It was unreal, we screamed like teenagers. I just wish it wasn’t so crazy so we could spend more time together, so a trip to Calgary needs to happen. But that deserves a post of its own and I’ll work on it later.
So, who’s ready for Cataclysm? :-D
I guess I can say I’ve lived with diabetes all my life, even though I wasn’t born with it. I grew up learning that my father had diabetes. I also grew up under the discipline of a concerned and loving wife/mom. Despite the attention he gave to his condition, my father died of heart complications when I was 25 and recently married; his death split my life in two and I decided I wanted to advocate and create awareness. Two years after my father’s death I was diagnosed with type 2… It was a blessing in disguise; I knew I had a reason to work even harder for advocacy since it was my turn to be the patient.