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Well, you’re wrong!

The biggest thing to hurt the BM hunter community just happened – Daniel Howell (BigRedKitty) has decided to remove himself from the blogging and the playing and all that to focus on what really matters – family.  There really is no better reason to move on, and it’s great to see a father wanted to take a more active role in his child’s life.

BRK was one of the first blogs I ever read, helped me learn how to play my hunter and I’ve always advocated his site as a great resource for those who want to learn to be a better overall hunter!

I will continue to recommend it, as long as it’s alive, because it’s still quite a rich resource.

I believe the rest of the hunter community would join me in thanking him for all the work and time he’s put in trying to teach us and keep us entertained.

That isn’t to say that the hunter community will now be a vacuous hole of emptiness – there are many great hunter resources out there now.  And so many of them were inspired by BRK himself that his work will continue to grow even in his absence.

And I hope he has a great time helping raise his son and growing with his family.

Best of luck, BRK!

No Stock UI is a brand new World of Warcraft magazine-style Addon and User Interface blog, originally sparked by an idea of the great Matticus of World of Matticus!  He’s invited me and a few other great writers to help out with this great undertaking to bring the World of Warcraft more information on the Addons and User Interface design you want to know about.

You can get a better idea about the site by reading Matticus’ post about it, or heck… just go to the new site and see it for yourself!

My first post is already up, it’s about how to use Recount to help improve yourself and your raid.

Check it out, subscribe, and enjoy!

This post isn’t really WoW related, it’s about me (the person, not the player) If you’re not interested in these, feel free to jump back a few posts to where I have real World of Warcraft related content.  This is PURELY to satisfy the needs of my undying fans!

Looks like Nassira and I tagged each other this morning, so I am obliged to respond to her questions.

BTW, anyone who knows me personally knows how much I would blush at some of these questions, so I have cleaned it up to be more Brajana-style (a.k.a. G-rated)!

About You –

Real Name: Sara
Age: 21
Country of Origin: Canada
Fettish Favorite Stuffed Animal: I have a cow-print butterfly that I used to sleep with, I named it Udderfly!  Aren’t I clever?

Random Things –

Guilty Pleasure Music (something you’d never listen to in public):
My “2BA Master” Pokemon Soundtrack   It’s inspirational!  I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was!

Worst Fashion Decision (I don’t care how old you were):
When I was about 11 I let my mom cut my hair from being all the way down my back to being above my shoulders.  I looked extremely ridiculous for a long time.  I try to hide every picture from that age that I find!

Proudest Moment:
Receiving a Computer Science award for excellence in my first year.  I still don’t know which professor nominated me, but it was quite exciting!

Best Misheard Words:
I am the queen of mishearing things.  However I’m also the Empress of Forgetfulness.  So instead, best mistell I overheard in guild chat:
“Yay, sister didn’t find my porn.” 

Questions for You –

Do you sing in the shower?
Not out loud!
*hums in head… To catch them is my real test… to train them is my cause!*

How much frosting do you like on your cupcakes?
It would be more appropriate to ask how much cupcake I like my frosting on. 

When was the last time you made love hugged someone? (Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, OOOOH SHIT Clarence Carter!) (Pokemon! It’s you and me, I know it’s my destiny!)
Why, I just /hugged Faulsey in my last post! /hugs Faulsey again.

What is the coolest thing you’ve ever found hidden in or under your couch?
A coin from the 1920s or something.  My parents house is really old.

What is the most disgusting thing you’ve ever put in your mouth? (be nice)
A tomato.  Yuck!

Free-for-All, Share 4 Things You Want to Share –

1. Raw tomatoes are GROSS.  Even chunks of cooked tomato are gross.  YUCK.

2. There should never have been more than 151 Pokemon.

3. Seriously, the new Pokemon are lame.  There’s like 500 of ‘em or something stupid.  How are you gonna fit all those in a Pokerap?

4. Gotta catch ‘em all!

OK.  So now that is done… I TAG NASSIRA!!  You can’t tag other without filling it out yourself!  THAT’S UNFAIR!  I am only tagging her.  Ha!

/hug Faulsey

Faulsey‘s helped with my blogger’s block by providing me with another little thingy to write about.  He’s given me this wonderful award!

“This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.”

But the award comes with a few stipulations.

1. When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.
2. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.
3. List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!

Let me start with the 10 honest things about me.

• I’m a morning person.
• I have the greatest 2 cats in the world!  Casper and Zelda (I believe I wrote a post about them (with pictures!) before) are the best cats that have ever lived.
• I believe raw tomatoes are the most disgusting food evar.
• I didn’t do the first 51 levels on my priest! *gasp* I stole him when my brother quit playing the game!
• I’m working on a secretive project that you may hear about next week!
• I’ve taken up papercrafting as a hobby recently.
• I wish my boyfriend cared enough to read my blog! (I can say this because I know he’s not reading).
• Someone else’s phone calls get rerouted through my phone at work and I’ve chosen not to have it fixed because it makes me feel like a spy.
• My trip to Las Vegas in January was my first time taking an airplane, and also my first time spending more than a couple hours in the USA.
• I hate the word ‘meme’, but I use it anyway.  Just like I always hated the term ‘toon’ for character.

ALRIGHT!  Well, that wasn’t so bad.  MOVING ON!

Since so many people are quicker than me, many of my favourite blogs/bloggers have already been given the award!  But I don’t think anyone would turn down a second Oscar, so I’ll give them out anyway.  I don’t care if they care to pass the award on… as long as they know they’re appreciated!

• Holy Dueg! I know he’s been given the award already… but I must say I love reading his posts!  They’re always very entertaining.
• Through The Eyes of Death (Arrens)  I just love the look of his blog, it’s so simple and nice to look at.  Plus it’s Arrens <3!
• Too Many Annas for her amazing creativity.  I am so jealous with the RP ideas she comes up with!  They always inspires me!
• Holy Discipline (Anea) I love her header image, it’s so cute!
• Diaries of a Marksman Hunter (Nassirra) for being my #1 resource and inspiration learning to try a new spec!
• Pink Pigtail Inn (Lasira) always has very throught-provoking posts.  When I’ve got the time, I love going through and having a good read.
• Stabilized Effort Scope (Rilgon) I don’t always agree with Rilgon.  But he is quite good at getting to the point and making short, concise points.  One of the first blogs I started reading, in fact!

So apparently I’m acquiring a backlog of memes, thanks to my dear Fausley at Master’s Call!

Better get them over with and pass them along.

What’s in a Name?

I believe the plan here is to explain the origin and meaning behind my characters names.  I kind of covered this in the previous post (7 Questions) as well as in my Cheesecake post… but there’s always more detail I can cover… repetition FTW!  I’ll go through all four of my currently active characters, from both an in-character and out-of-character perspective if applicable.  Heck, I’ll even provide a pronunciation guide!

Brajana [Brah-jah-nuh] (the j is like Rajah not Jalepeno or Adjacent)

(IC) This name was handed down from Brajana’s grandmother on her father’s side, as is tradition with the Darkspear Trolls.  It means ‘woman of the rain’, which is fitting for her striking blue hair and skin.

(OOC) Honestly, I don’t remember.  It was like… 3 years ago!  I believe it was some combination of messing with the random name generator and making something that sounded nice.  I also wanted to make sure people could shorten it without much trouble (Braj).

Ferguson [Fer-guh-sun]

(IC) Named for his father, who was lost in the war.

(OOC) I wanted a human-ish name that could be used as both a first and last name.  I had one picked out, and it was pretty perfect too… but it was taken and it’s since been expelled from my memory.  I got the name by looking over the last names of authors on my bookshelf – Ian & Ferguson were the exact source.

Alouette [Aloo-et]

(IC) Named so for her playful and trickster-like nature.  Even from a young age, it was clear that this would be a strong part of her personality.

(OOC) Her name was originally Pixxel, which was Pixel from the RNG with an extra x since the other was taken. Then her name was Brajana, for a few short levels when I transferred to Dark Iron.  Then I felt I needed her to develop her own personality, and so I started trying to think of a name.  One day I had the Canadian folk song “Alouette” in my head and I decided to just go with that, hoping it’d get it out of my head.  Of course it did the opposite, and now everytime I log into my Mage I get it once again stuck in my head!

“Alouette” means skylark in French.  skylark is named so for it’s tricksy, playful, frolicky nature.  I think it’s quite appropriate!

Ghugh [Guhh]

(IC/OOC)  Yeah, no.  Don’t ask.  I don’t know where it comes from, it just sounded good at the time for a paladin I never planned on playing past level 12.  But it’s grown on me!

Yes, it’s just pronounced like it looks.  Yes, I put 2 h’s in the pronunciation key, because just 1 didn’t do it justice.

Someone asked me the language of origin once, I said English.  They asked me if I could use it in a sentence.

“Ghugh!  I was just killed by that ret pally again!”

So, who to tag? Tagging is such a froward task for me… I have a nasty habit of tagging those who have already been tagged or already done the meme… so if you have an I somehow missed it… sorry!

Well, I’m gonna tag my GM Pilsner at From Cow to Chicken, just because I kind of already know where her name came from.   Also Cait from One Among Many… I’m sure she’s got some interesting stories for all those characters.  And also Neg/Neggles/Negathle at The Angry Butterfly!

I have a habit of tagging people who have already been tagged or done the meme… so if you have and I somehow missed it, sorry!