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Hello Nexians!
 
Just thought I'd send up some warm drink and delicious Canadian bacon to everyone, and an imaginary patio to enjoy them on!  :P   It's freezing cold still here in Ottawa, which is to be expected in February this far north... but I must confess, I can't ~wait~ for spring. Some chickadees were chirping away outside my window this morning and I had this huge burst of anticipation... it's all about the renewal, and being this close gives me a big smile because I know I'll soon have a nice, long stretch of time to enjoy late sunsets, balmy weather, and lots of lovely verdant life pushing through the soil!
 
It's also Family Day here in Canada (I think... this holiday is federal, right?) So I hope all of my fellow lumberjacks are enjoying the time off. ;)
 
On to Nexus news, yesterday was the last day for official entry into the NCL's first housing contest! Yay! You can still sign-up one plot if you're running late or just hearing about it, though we had to put a 'no guarantees' clause in for review time, since there are already about 50 entrants. Which means quite a few hours of judging... should be fun! :D So if you're interested in entering late, or just following the contest and checking out entrant plots, feel free to check out the deets over here  -->   http://tinyurl.com/NCLcontest16
 
In other housing news, it seems the PTR's been pushed back a bit, so we won't get to preview new decor this week. But I'm personally having a lot of fun with the Dungeon Chase decor and hope others are, too. :)  If any of you get some of the Pickleheads from today's new Protostar cases, I'm looking for a handful and would be willing to buy or trade. Just shoot me a PM or in-game mail to Proxima Dust.
 
 
To everyone else, hope your week is great. The forums have been combative and complainy of late (with some legitimate reasons) but I hope nobody is letting that interfere with their enjoyment of the game itself. Cause in the end that's what it's all about. 
 
So have fun, look forward to the future and live in the moment!
 
 
 
edit: I just learned that today is... President's Day in the US? So yay we're all off! :P
			
				
	Edited February 15, 2016 by EsperXIV	
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Looking forward to the future... yeah, definitely something I need to keep reminding myself after the crap that happened last week. @_@ Currently stinging from some unwanted drama, but I will do my best to move on.
 
Was surprised to realize the Dungeon Chase event goes on through the 18th - but also relieved! I don't have to feel pressured to get all my desired items... just yet. xD Still, ran a lot of dungeons over the weekend! Even FINALLY did Ultimate Protogames (it popped up when we queued as a group for a random). We had no idea what we were doing going in (though one of us vaguely remembered a couple bosses, he'd never finished the instance), but we managed to figure things out pretty handily. Hut-Hut gave us some problems at first until we figured out the mechanic of getting the Protostar dude across the field. But overall, it was a really fun instance and I hope to do it again sometime.
 
I have the day off today (yay), but strangely my husband still has to go in for school. So I think I'll spend the morning working on leveling my spellslinger.	
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I am looking at your house from the front yard of my house
 	
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While I am eating my typical breakfast
 
 
and drinking my hot coffee and lighting up my tabaco
 	
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Morning! 
 
I must have missed the memo that said we're doing pork this morning - I had turkey and eggs.  Circle of life, sor' of fing.
 
I wish I had either plot fit to enter, but I should have both ready for next time.  I spent all I'm comfortable spending on gamble boxes (the Torine crate had multiple items I want, so I caved,) and while I didn't get the mount, I got a few things I wanted.  Now to decide whether to use or sell the Torine soundtrack. . .	
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Good Morning!
 
Well, I am officially jealous. Here in B.C., our 'Family Day' was last week! I would love to have a second, federally mandated holiday.
 
I get a kick out of the fact we just up and decided we wanted another day off, but what to name it... mm mm.. something no one can argue with... I KNOW FAMILY DAY. :lol: Kills me every year.
 
I've had to stop wearing my jacket to work. Too hot out. Wet, but hot. Sorry Esp, I know not what it means to have this 'winter' you speak of.
 
On the topic of Wildstar... I really should be spending more time on my multiple of houses; it's just so cool, but time consuming! The housing contest though, is just what the doctor ordered. It's such an amazing strength of Wildstar.	
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We've had some garbage weather, like almost 20 degrees warmer than the average all last week, and will be again this week. It's going to be 90F on Wednesday. What the hell is this shit? I want my "winter" back. We only have like 2 cold cool months a year, and I'm not ready for awful summer weather in February. My cherry tomato plants are happy though.
 
Family day is a federal mandated holiday? Right after Valentine's day? Hahahaha. Seems like your gov wants you guys to produce more. *wink wink*	
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If you want the sky Shendorian, I have a friend who wants to trade one of her 4 skys for the soundtrack.
 
I am very happy with my "winter" down in LA. Its something like 70 degrees and sunny outside at 10 in the morning. That's winter right? El nino my ass.
 
I've been putting way too much time down on my new plot. I was originally making a swamp plot, but.... well I caved and went back to my old standards. Yay spaceships!
 
 
I have plans to try and do some basic stuff with the ground, maybe a lopp village and some mangrove swamp style stuff, but we'll see. I'm chewing up decor really fast on the ship XD, as is typical for me.	
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