Breasts and Camels

Err.. let's try this again.

Blade and Soul.  The game that NCsoft is replacing City of Heroes with.  Let's talk about that shall we?

It is a fantasy based martial arts game.  I guess NCsoft's primary focus is shifting away from the family friendly Comic Book Super Hero based game to....

This. (Warning, Potentially NSFW/NotSafeForKids) 

Ok,  So it looks like that NCsoft is trying to re-focus their company to cater to, basement dwelling neckbeard weeaboos who enjoy looking at that kind of thing.  Hey, whatever floats their boat.  As a parent, I will not be buying this game.  I do not want my children exposed to this kind of material.  I had no problems with them playing City of Heroes/Villains, but I refuse to allow them to even get a glimpse of this game.  I'm far from a prude, but this is just too far.

Sure City of Heroes has the potential to make characters look pretty racy, but the GM's are pretty swift to act on any costume related complaints with a Generic Hammer and a free costume token.  Doesn't look like Breasts and Butts.. Err Blade and Soul will have that safety net.

So parents,  are you getting sick of trash like this getting shoved in your kids faces yet?  I know you have the choice to buy this stuff or not.  Seriously, I wouldn't.  This crap would NOT enter my house.  I don't care how much my kids, or even my husband begged.  (Luckily my husband thinks it's crap, too)  I would veto it, or at least make the person PROMISE to never play it with my kids awake/in the room/in the HOUSE even.

These Graphics say it all IMO

Please,  if you have kids, think twice before buying Blade and Soul.  Your kids do not need to be given any more confusing messages about sexuality as it is.  

Call To Arms: Special Needs Parents.

Inspired by This:  http://leilasledger.blogspot.ca/2012/10/save-city-of-heroeswhy-it-matters.html  blog post.

Hey, I know my blog isn't the most traffic heavy blog on the internet.  Heck I don't even know how many parents of Special Needs kids read this.  But, I'm gonna challenge you.  We are warriors for our kids.  If you play City of Heroes/Villains with your special needs kids, SPEAK OUT. Blog about it, share it with your blogsphere.  Howl it far and wide how NCsoft is taking away one of your most key tools out of your toolbox!

We all know  how challenging it is to raise kids that have needs that are out of the ordinary.  I have a daughter who has Autism.  We know that every tool is a treasure in the box when we find one that actually WORKS to help our kids be...KIDS.

City of Heroes and Villains gives these kids who have enough challenges to begin with, be kids.  They allow them to be heroes!  Villains (Without getting punished! hehe)  Or just plain free to do whatever they imagine!  These kids are housebound due to severe allergies, or other form of challenges, so they have no real friends.

Humans are social creatures, kids even more so.  This game gives these kids such a chance they never would have had otherwise.

NCsoft is taking away something very unique, from kids with special needs.  We need their parents, to really rattle some cages.  Take a game from a bunch of paying adults...no one bats an eye.  Take something from kids that have challenges, OH you got a nasty PR mess on your hands.  So please...please  Blog, share your blog with TonyV and Victoria Vitrix over on The Titan Forums  Or on TonyV's twitter https://twitter.com/thetitannetwork  Tweet you name it.

Warrior Mammas...activate.

Click here to sponsor me for Extra-Life's 24hr City of Heroes Game A thon on Oct 20th

Click here to sign the petition to keep this wonderful safe community alive!

Exhausted all options? My...rosey red...you know what.

As you all know, I play the MMO called City of Heroes. Also, you know that it's shutting down on November 30th. NCSoft wants it dead.  They also seemingly want us to shut up.  It isn't going to happen.  This game has been a part of my life for well over 7 years now.  3 of those, I was sharing my husbands account.  4 of those, I've had my own.

 This is more than a game to me.  This is a community of friends, I would not have met anywhere else.  When I was nursing my newborn son,  I did it at the keyboard while playing City of Heroes, getting the adult interaction I so sorely craved during that very isolating time.  This game also helped me spend quality time with my husband, who is in the military, when he was deployed for long periods of time.  I was hoping to introduce my daughter and son to this game in the future.

My son loves superheroes.  He loves watching Iron Man, Avengers, Thor, you name it he goes squirrely over it.  My daughter, not so much.  She has Aspergers/Autism.  We were hoping to use this game to help her social development in a controlled and virtual environment.  The community that makes up the City of Heroes world, is one that I felt, as a parent, safe enough to introduce her to.  I cannot say the same for World of Warcraft, or any other MMO community.  City of Heroes also has the Mission Architect.  It allows players to create their own mission stories, that other players can experience.  My daughter would have loved to play around with that.  Unfortunately, this is coming to an end as well.

People have spent countless hours, weaving their personal hero stories in that game.  Making their avatars uniquely theirs.  They have the ability to allow others into their heroic or villanous world.  Don't get me wrong,  The City also has a very dark side to it as well.

Villains..lurking in the darkness.  Slinking across the channel from the Rogue Isles, causing mayhem and mischief.  Even going so far as to attack the heart  of Paragon City itself.  Not everyone is a good guy, but Villains don't want this game to go, either.  We can't take over a world that doesn't exist.

This game has just so much.  This isn't a game anymore.  It's a City, a virtual city.  A City of Writers, a City of Artists.  A City of Lovers, A City of Life.

People have met their life partners in this game,  married them in real life, forged families.  This game has reached out and touched people in the depths of depression, saving them from the ultimate mistake.  We also have banded together in the past, for Extra-Life Children's Charities, to raise money for various Children's Miracle Network Hosptials across the globe.  (You can Sponsor me here for the very last Team COH run )  There's also Real World Hero  a charity that helps raise money for many organizations including Childs-Play  a charity that donates money, toys and books to various children's hospitals around the world, to brighten the lives of critically ill children.  Don't you see?  This community has touched so many lives in such a positive way!

This game hasn't just affected my family in a positive way.  It's affected MILLIONS of people..in a very positive way.  We will not give up fighting.

We are Heroes.  This is what we do.  We are Villains.  What's ours is OURS.  We will never give up.  We will never surrender.

Please sign our petition. Keep this community alive.

Ok, I'm getting kind of excited.  I was at the career counsellor today.  She kept noticing how I lit up and then went all sadface when a cook/chef position came up on the job bank, that required X certification.  She said "Looks like you have a passion for cooking"

Who what me?  Naww... I've been debating on whether or not to make my passion of cooking an actual career, like do I love doing it enough to make it a job?  I'm not sure.  It's so conflicting.

Anyway, on Friday I have an information session with the local person who handles all that stuff,  apprenticeships, certifications and all that.  So we'll see.  I'm kind of excited.  Red Seal Chef.  Chef Monique Boulanger.  Has a nice ring to it eh?

I'm pretty nervous yet excited at the same time about this prospect.   *twitch*

Oh by the way, if you're of the mind http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=37152  sponsor me for the Extra-Life City of Heroes 24hr Game-A-Thon I'm doing for the IWK Grace hospital.  that would rock.  It's a great cause too.

Help me raise money for sick kids!!!

Ok with that out of the way.  I'm going to be playing City of Heroes for a full 24hrs starting on October 20th to raise money for the IWK Grace Children's hospital.  It is my local Children's Miracle Network hospital and it's helped SO MANY of my friends and family over the years.

Anyway City of Heroes is going under.  So this is a two fold deal.  1:  Raise money to help sick kids in my general area and 2:  Raise awareness for City of Heroes and try to get NCSoft to release the IP ( Sign the petition here to help save City of Heroes  )  So I'm gonna do the best I can to get the petition link out there, AND raise money for a cool cause at the same time.

So yeah, sponsor me...I'll even livestream the whole thing.

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=37152

To those who say I don't make healthy food

Today I went to the gym.  First time in about a year.  Why?  Because it took that bloody long for my husband to get me my gym membership.  See,  It's a military gym,  so a military person has to sign up their dependants to use it.  Felt good to get back in the groove.  See, over a year I lost about 20lbs.  I want to get into a little bit better shape before I go for my surgery on the 21st of June (if that rapture shit is fake..which it is)  So most of my absence is me doing all the stuff needed to get ready for it.  Let's just say, to put it delicately,  having two kids caused things to herniate down there.  Gyns like to call it a "Rectocele prolapse"  But really it's a stupid hernia.  You know if you're a guy and you have this ingual ring in the ball area where the balls came down when you were a kid?  sometimes it gets widened and the stuff goes in?  Well that's kinda like what's up with me. It's annoying and I'm glad it's finally getting fixed.  ANYWAY recipe time.

To those who said I had too many unhealthy recipes? BAH on you I say BAH!  Tonight I made the most delish salad IN THE WORLD
First I took a chicken breast,  Put it in a bag with a little Extra virgin olive oil, Rosemarry, sage and seasoned salt.  Let it sit for a bit, then put it on my george foreman grill because I haven't dug my BBQ out of the garage yet.  I then cut up a honey crisp apple and diced up a quarter of it and put it on a bed of baby greens (ORGANIC baby greens) Then chopped up a bit of cucumber, and a few multi colored cherry tomatoes...and topped it with chopped walnuts.  It kinda looked like this:

I then took the chicken after it was cooked:

Chopped it all up and put it on top of the veggies

I then took THIS  dressing and drizzled it all over 

and the result was this:

There you go, a healthy supper.  Really tasty too.

BAH Sorry about that

Life got to me.  The whole Mommy Taxi thing...then my husband going away for a bit then..well just life.

Also this past Tues my son injured his arm pretty badly and he's now in a cast due to a dislocation that the quack at the closest hospital didn't fix.  Lady was some stupid bitch that didn't know how to set a kids dislocated elbow so she said "nothing wrong..come back tomorrow if it still hurts him"

Fuck her...I waited the 24hrs...then I went to the other hospital about 45min away.  They are more pediatric friendly anyway.  They Xrayed it (something the Punjab Quack at the other hospital didn't do) they tried to set it,  they put it in a sling and told me to come back on Friday.  Went back, more Xrays, and they splinted it in a soft cast and told me to keep him in it for 2 weeks to let the tissues heal.  If he still can't use it in 2 weeks, then it's off to the IWK Grace hospital for an MRI to see if he has some fracture in his growth plates the Xray failed to pick up.  OH YAY.

ANYWAY, just letting you guys know, my mom set up a new store, where you name your own price (within reason) for whatever you want. It's here. Seriously you name the price of what you want.  She has magazine subs and a whole bunch of stuff.  So go check it out at least.  *shrug* 

Anyway I gotta get back in the kitchen and finish up supper.  having Baked ham with Maple Bacon Glaze (the Glaze is a storebought one, President's Choice Maple Bacon Marinade...)  and some Lipton Sidekick Scalloped potatoes.  nothing too horribly difficult.  Not like I want to cook anything super involved anyway...Stress sucks so bad.