Vision in White by Nora Roberts

Vision in White by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

First of a quartet of books. The quartet being 4 best friend who grew up together & now run a wedding consulting/package business together.

As a rabid fan of Nora Robert’s Chesapeake Bay series & the In Death series, the start of this series was rather…. lackluster. It was ok enough for a romance novel, but just didn’t have that spark of characters that make me love the other series I have read.

Though I was amused by Bob’s lists & then Carter preceding to joke about the lists & the steps to dating, but in the end it was like “Are we following the forumla correctly?” A bit disconcerting to me.

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i never did national network tv interviews later on in life like the ones i did when i was twelve – WWdN: In Exile

Cover of Stand By Me (Special Edition)

i never did national network tv interviews later on in life like the ones i did when i was twelve – WWdN: In Exile

I’ve always said that Stand By Me was so successful because Rob cast four young actors who were so much like their characters, but I think it’s spooky how the four of us ended up being so much like our characters: River died too young, Corey struggled like crazy to get his personal demons under control, Jerry found success and happiness, and I’m a writer.

I’ve read this post multiple times. This is what always gets me.

From my childhood

I was raised south of Nashville, TN so I got a lot of country music & old 60′s & 70′s rock growing up. This is a video of a song I remember from my childhood. Ode to Billy Joe. I have my own theories about what/why Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge for, but the songwriter herself never wrote the reason that he jumped.

I was born a traveling (wo)man

Traveling this year. I’ve already had 6 trips. Yes some of these were quick jaunts to my parents.

One was a weekend trip to the Bahamas. A few were with S in Memphis. Last year 13 of my trips were work related (travel nurse) when I was booking a hotel every week.

Hard to believe I’ve spent 17 days on the road this year. And I found out all this from TripIt. Hadn’t really payed attention to it until last night.

Book’s Quest Log

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Felwood

• Timbermaw Ally (yellow) – Kill bunch of things & return
• Forces of Jaedenar (yellow) – Kill bunch of things & return
• The Corruption of the Jadefire (orange) – Kill bunch of things & return
• Verifying the Corruption (orange) – Explore certain area, Kill bunch of things & return
• Cleansing Felwood (red) – Collect Blood Amber

Ironforge

• A Call to Arms: The Plaugelands! (yellow) – report to Commandar Ashlam Valorfist at Chillwind Camp. I have the flight path so this should be fairly easy.
• A Little Slime Goes a Long Way (yellow, complete) – just need to turn in in Ironforge, plus gives 350 Rep for the Gnomes
• Arcane Runes (yellow) – Done in Azshara

Maraudon

• Shadowshard Fragments (green, dungeon)
• Twisted Evils (green, dungeon)
• Vyletongue Corruption (green, dungeon)
• The Pariah’s Instructions (yellow, dungeon)
• Corruption of Earth & Seed (yellow, dungeon)

Rogue

• A Simple Request (yellow) – have to go to Ravenholdt Manor & speak to someone.

Stormwind City

• Assisting Arch Druid Staghelm (yellow) – go to Darnassus & speak to someone

Sunken Temple

• The God Hakkar (orange, dungeon)

The Hinterlands

• Skulk Rock Clean-up (yellow) – I’ve gotten 7/10 of the Green Sludge oozes & 6/10 of the Jade Ooze killed. Just need to finish it up.
• The Altar of Zul (yellow) – just got to run into an area & return

Again my goals:

• Collect lots of pets
• Get Ambassador title. Already exalted with Ironforge, Stormwind & Darnassus. Still need Gnomes (17,177/21,000) & Exodar (11,209/21,000).
• Loremaster title (it will be a while yet, but I’m 446/700 for the Eastern Kingdom & for 230/700 Kalimdor)
• Level 80 (now at 50!)
• Explorer title (it will still be a while yet)
• Grand Master in professions (Master skinner already, Master Herbalist, Artisan First Aid, Expert Artisan Fisherman, Expert Artisan Cooking)

Book’s Quest Log

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Ok. Doing an update (sort of) of my previous post on my quests and their progress. Again, current goals in game for my toon Book on Earthen Ring. (WoW Armory link)

• Collect lots of pets
• Get Ambassador title. Already exalted with Ironforge, Stormwind & Darnassus. Still need Gnomes (16,209/21,000) & Exodar (9,908/21,000).
• Loremaster title (it will be a while yet, but I’m 425/700 for the Eastern Kingdom & for 215/700 Kalimdor)
• Level 80
• Explorer title (it will still be a while yet)
• Grand Master in professions (Master skinner already, Master Herbalist, Artisan First Aid, Expert Fisherman, Expert Cooking)

Badlands

• The Star, The Hand, The Heart (green, group) – I got the ones in Alterac Mountains & Theramore solo, I still need the one from Stranglethorne Vale.
• Tremors of the Earth (yellow) – I’ve gotten the Sign of the Earth, Amethyst Runestone & Opal Runestone so far. From reading when i use the 3 runestones it will spawn 2 level 50 dragons, which at this point I CANNOT solo (Level 46 Rogue). But it will give me a good leather chestpiece as a reward.

Desolace

• Down the Scarlet Path (grey) – one Bill gave me. Starts a quest chain that would give me a Sword (Sword of Serenity) or a Dagger (Black Menace) Plus a decent amount of Rep with Exodar & Gnomes. Currently using daggers Gut Ripper & Sacrificial Kris of the Monkey

Ironforge

• Arcane Runes (orange) – Actually done in Azshara. Book might get eaten alive right now in this area

Maraudon

• Shadowshard Fragments (green, dungeon)
• Twisted Evils (yellow, dungeon)
• Vyletongue Corruption (yellow, dungeon)
• The Pariah’s Instructions (yellow, dungeon)
• Corruption of Earth & Seed (orange, dungeon)

Rut’theran Village

• Favored of Elune? (yellow) – collect stuff from the Hinterlands

Stranglethorne Vale

• Stranglethorn Fever (green) – have several gorilla fangs, just haven’t been in the mood for it
• Mai’Zoth (yellow) – had trouble killing this ogre solo
• Whiskey Slim’s Lost Grog (yellow) – done up in the Hinterlands
• Cortello’s Riddle (orange) – done in Lordaeron in the Hinterlands

Tanaris

• Stoley’s Shipment (green)

The Hinterlands

• Witherbark Cages (green)

Twitter Rambling summary

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Just my random twitter scribblings for today.

• 10:12 Anybody else having trouble loading myspace? #
• 11:51 I am still awake. This sucks. #
• 12:48 SLFN: A new loft- insanely photo heavy: I’ve been bored with the last skybox we had for a little whil.. ping.fm/rhyRb #
• 19:07 I am awake now. Got about 6 hours of sleep. #
• 19:25 @devlynmoreland Ahhh, it just takes more processing in the post phase. #
• 19:45 Logged into WoW again. I keep getting killed as soon as I get back to my body cause these level 7 things gang up on me. I’m level 7. #
• 19:46 Sadly Windows Live Writer doesn’t work through CrossOver. #
• 19:53 @devlynmoreland rogue #
• 19:54 @devlynmoreland I know I should think things out better, but I get there to my body and they’re on me. #
• 19:56 @devlynmoreland yes #
• 20:40 WoW just crashed on me. The program. #
• 21:00 @demonasolace B*tch #
• 22:18 I’m off bear hunting #
• 22:28 I got the yellow woosh. Now level 9 #
• 22:39 @devlynmoreland G’night #

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Twitter Rambling summary

Just my random twitter scribblings for today.

• 02:50 Working. Got my charting caught up for the moment. #
• 10:49 SLFN: Past Life Pirate:
  Mischief has sold off all her old stuff and put out the new and WOW has her textur.. ping.fm/kskih #
• 18:22 Ahh drats. I wanted a list of twitter txt commands. #

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Twitter Rambling summary

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Just my random twitter scribblings for today.

• 07:24 I wrote 831 words in 50 minutes with Write or Die! lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html #
• 11:47 SLFN: Cupcakes: Cupcakes does beautiful dresses but occasionally it also does great seperates like this.T.. ping.fm/WkOCo #
• 23:50 Aww man. They’ve likely cancelled Middleman. is.gd/iaSk Totally bummed. (via @geekgrrl) #
• 00:03 Wilw off #

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Change We Can “Live” With // Emergiblog

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Change We Can “Live” With // Emergiblog

At the risk of sounding like a Frank Capra movie, I believe America is the greatest country on Earth. I believe it. You believe it. So, even though I did not vote for you, we have one major belief in common.

Given America’s greatness, why is our health care system so fragmented, so focused on illness, so underfunded?

So sick?

There is no one answer.

Wonderful open letter to Obama about America’s healthcare system. Written by an ER nurse.