Hot Air Balloons and Karazhan

Winter's in the air when I drive to work in the morning, heading north on I-17, and I see no less than six hot air balloons dotting the horizon at varying altitudes. I love Arizona, I love the seasons (cool to HOT), I love seeing hot air balloons on the way to work in the morning. It'd be great to ride in a hot air balloon early some Saturday morning, Starbucks cup in hand with steam rising out from the tiny hole in the lid.

On the WoW side of life, our raid group is fully Karazhan attuned in guild, so now we're at "homework stage" where we read about all of the fights, bosses, what to expect, YouTube videos of fights. Then we'll shoot to down three bosses that first night and see how we do! Should be pretty fun :)

Here's my Kara reading homework assignments:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan

Boss Guides for Kara: http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?sid=xkKQTWlGBg&action=dungeonpage&dungeonid=37

Boss Strategies (W/Screenshots)
http://www.ampwow.com/wow/viewBCStrats/Karazhan.php

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year's eve celebration! Chuck and I went to Ninetta's Passion Bistro for a six-course gourmet dinner with everything from escargot to foie gras to truffles. We were the youngest ones there, but we didn't care. It was a nice, quiet New Year's Eve party with no drunken insanity that the average club would have.

For Christmas I got Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock for Nintendo Wii. LOVE it! We've both finished it on Easy and are now playing it through on Medium. Maybe one day I'll be really good and finish it on Hard or Expert, haha. I also got tickets to see "Annie", the Broadway musical. It was at Gammage Theater last Saturday night and I loved it! Annie was the first musical I'd ever seen, 1.2 epochs ago when I was eight years old.

Chuck's epic loot for Christmas this year was a Nintendo DS with Flash Focus and Brain Age 2. Now since we both have DS's, it should be pretty fun using the wi-fi enabled gaming features.

So... here are my New Years Resolutions:

• Read less so I can write more
• Study my Japanese more
  
• Finally finish unpacking our house
• Play a little less WoW
• Fill my Moleskine journal so I can start on my new one -- I try to go through one a year and I was nowhere close to filling my 2007 Moleskine last year. So now I have to write double-time to catch up. :)
• Work on my dog site more (when it's respectably developed with more content I'll share the link)
• Take, print out, and post more pictures from our adventures
  
• BLOG MORE! (I promise!)

I love New Year's Resolutions -- just not the "tone up and exercise more" ones. Those just go without saying. :)