I wanted a classy wedding with nerdy undertones since we met playing World of Warcraft. It was still conventional: I wore a white dress, I had the appropriate wedding party, and the reception consisted of eating and dancing.

Here were the more interesting parts:

• Our recessional music was to the Theme of Star Wars, adapted for cello and violin by me.
• Our drink was called “Elixir of Cherry Blossoms” (my wedding flower)

Our wedding program contained a "buff" in the corner

Guests were seated to their tables named after locations in the mmorpg World of Warcraft. Seating arrangement was attached to a wreath of cranes. We made 1,000 cranes for the wedding.

This is was 1000 cranes looks like. We made them over the course of 5 months.

Each table had a description of the location and the story behind it.

Descriptions for some of the tables. We had 11 tables.

We had R2-D2 run around the dance floor.

• The wedding party walked in to the opening music in the WoW login screen, and I walked in with my husband to “Live to Win”
• We danced to “Earth Angel” from Back to the Future and the dance scene from Pulp Fiction. The video also sliced in Robot Chicken.

• My sister-in-law made World of Warcraft papercrafts that were spread out at the headtable.

Papercraft Moonkin

Frostmourne, Moonkin, Hearthstone, Goblin statue

The grooms cake was designed as a murloc wearing a top hat. You should have seen the look on the baker's face when we tried to explain to him what we wanted.

The cake came out really nice. We were very happy at the detailed results.

We made our own cake toppers in the shape of our avatars wearing appropriate apparel.

The first floor has a small bedroom in the middle. Bathroom is on the bottom floor.

The second floor is interesting. There is another bedroom in the middle with open space on both sides of the room. Imagine living in a room where your two sides are open to the first floor. Open up a window, “hello down there! Can you bring up a coffee?” Maybe even install a pulley system with a basket to transfer food and other items (I had a friend in middle school who did actually do that with her parents. Her parents amused her. How nice!) The second floor also contains the tv. The interesting part is that the second floor bedroom and the second floor itself have their own set of stairs. The bedroom stairs led up to another private room on the third floor that has its own private balcony. The stairs on the second floor lead to a balcony that guests can enter and use. Pretty nifty! I’d love to have my own private space. So exclusive!

In the pictures, the balcony on the left is private (for painting and meditating), the one on the right is public. There is a bookcase and a lounge chair!

For sure, the person that gets the second floor bedroom should pay more rent.

The decor is really asian. Bamboo, sliding floors, paper lanterns, and asian art on the walls.

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Here is an overview of the complex!

The homes face out onto the street. The door to get in from the garden side of the complex. Everyone’s gate and column is different and matches the decor theme of the home. The garden is a maze! Detailed pictures of the garden coming up soon.

The lobby is pretty nice and has lots of amenities available. The huge aquarium on the bottom floor is nice and new. Up top there is a suana, pool table, games, and a gym. Also a barre, my favorite.

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Some uneasy times right now and I’ve finally opened up an account with SchoolsFirst. Actually they call it being a “member”. I should have done it like, last year, but oh well. Oh, and my family members can join too. There is a branch pretty close to me so I’m happy with that.

Anyone else sad that they can’t say WaMu anymore? WaMu! WaMu! Better get it out now.

Here is the front! I like the columns. It’s really too bad I can’t take pictures from building mode anymore, since I have a family moved into the penthouse, but the furniture I chose for all the homes are really luxurious. If you live on the third floor, the rooms are smaller but the furniture is better. Originally I had three homes on each side…those rooms were like…Japan tiny.

Start at the top! This is the left side of the building and open to all tenets from the recreation room two stories down. There is a bar at the bottom left corner, and lots of seats and a bubble maker (that is actually like a hookah).

This is actually the middle of the fourth floor. The elevators go up to the fourth floor, but the main door to the penthouse is right in front of the elevators, so guests have to ring the doorbell right at the elevators. I like the outdoor reclining chairs with the bookcase in the middle. The left door goes to the penthouse party room, and the right door goes to actual living space.

This is the top of the right side of the building. This floor is only available to my family that lives in the penthouse. See the stairs! Outdoor rooftop onsen > <. Gaaah. I need more decor here @_@. Plants…

The fourth floor with the walls up. The room is actually a backwards C. The space you see in the middle of the C is a balcony to the rec room. Imagine walking out and seeing the large windows and the rec room! All the railings are glass and you can go to the rooftop using the spiral stairs. This party side of the room has a bowling ball strip, disco floor, and a karaoke machine you can’t see at the top. Also a candy vending machine, (the bright green). And a bar.

Here it is with the walls down. The black and white tile flooring is the balcony.

The living space. Japanese style walls. Every room is an individually separated room. Wood floor hallways and tatami flooring in the rooms. The doors also slide. The little room in the middle is the tea room with only two walls so it is open to the third floor. Imagine being in the tea room and being able to see the third floor, the kitchen, like a loft. The spiral stairs to the third floor are right next to the main door, in that little room. I had to make it a room because those stairs go directly to the roof, and if I didn’t put the stairs in the little room, the whole floor would be freezing in the winter.

This is with the walls down. See the open space near the large windows? Loooove it. I looove lofts. The rightmost room is a sauna.

This is the third floor. See how the pent house goes down to the third floor, but only in the middle, and is occupied by other tenants on both sides. There is also no door to the third floor of the penthouse on the third floor, but there are for the other two apartment homes.

I also love this kitchen > <. Shiny stainless steel.

This is the recreational room available to all tenants. The door to here is just an open archway. Treadmills, weight lift machine, cycling, pool table, darts, and jacuzzi. Spiral staircase on the corner to go to the balcony or the rooftop. This rec room is also in between two apartment homes.

There are two elevators and also two spiral staircases, one on each side of the elevators.

View of the kitchen and the rec room.

I’d love to hang around here > <.

Second floor. Two homes on each side.

First floor walls up. I like the giant knight in the lobby @_@.

Walls down.

The outside park area. Soccer, basketball, lucky shrine, pool…

Kids big toy, and pond that is frozen over because it’s winter.

And if you still don’t really understand the pictures, here is a quick video.

Mr. S: By the way, Mrs. M (the other teacher I work under), her husband plays that game. He gets together with friends and they like…play. WoW right?

Me: Oh! Yeah. Does she play too?

Mr. S: Nooooo noooo…she…..she hates it. It’s the bane of her existence.

Me: Ooooh haha…I know how she feels…

Later on, in the second class, this kid goes

Kid: OMG you went to BlizzCon too?! What, what do you have?

Me: oh…..<sheepish> a priest…

Kid: I’m Undead Warlock! Dude! <calls out to other kid> She plays WoW!

Other kid: What?

<unintelligible shoutings back and forth of I don’t know what but it had something to do with the armory…and the fact that Kid1 was still level 72, and he was denying it…>

Then, I went to Mrs. M’s class

Mrs. M: Do you play World of Warcraft?……

Me: Yes…

Mrs. M: I’m a WoW widow…….okay???? It’s…..it’s just….wow. I catch him sneaking around to play that game…he gets together with his friends, because they work at Blizzard…

Me: >_<

Girl: ooh my brother plays too, he used to play Everquest also…

I think if you got all the WoW players together, they would be a small country…like Sweden or something. That might have changed since last year by now though. A little bigger. Soon, nobody will do anything but play in the alternate reality of WoW. Raiding is a full-time job and we’ll be fed by tubes in our chairs. And conflicts between countries will be resolved by 5-man arenas.

Trying to do the MC Hammer/ Male Orc dance. Can’t touch this! Daa na na naa. na na. nana. Can’t touch this!

Well, I didn’t intend on dressing up. I really didn’t. But I had the paper mask laying around from BlizzCon, and the tabard is something I made for last year’s BlizzCon, and the mark was laying around too….So I put it all together. I was going to wear my pirate costume…but I thought it might be a little too much. Unfortunately, I decided I wasn’t going to wear it to pass out candy because…I just didn’t think the kids would get it. So I only wore this around the house for awhile. hehe.

Aaaaand I video I threw together

Apparently this was announced earlier, but I didn’t know they took out dragoons! Here I was, looking for the unit that is supposed to be next to zealots…and it’s this….weird looking unrecognizable…thing. From the tooltip I couldn’t really tell what it did. Something with electricity. And I had to upgrade to learn it…or something. I have bad memory. I made a couple of those….

Oh! I remember. You can create a field that freezes ground units. It’s a really small field though…like…enough for only one unit to be frozen. Not so nice against the 20 or so hydralisks my friend set out on me. Ew…zerg. Anyhow, maybe I wasn’t using it correctly. Learning new units can be a pain!

So I go about my business and I hear

You must spawn more overlords!

…um….what?

You must spawn more overlords!

….are you kidding me? I can’t spawn an overlord even if I wanted to. I’m protoss…don’t you mean “you must construct additional pylons”?

So…I made a couple more pylons, even though I didn’t really need them, looking at my unit count (I’m slow)…

…maybe this a bug…a very blatant bug

and then I hear it….or actually, I only start to notice it now.

The sickening sound of something mutating or hatching out of slimy eggs.

What….the….heck…?! ewwwww zerg……I can’t stand that sound

And then…….the definite sound of zerglings destroying something very quickly. You know that sound…it sounds like “hwa hwa hwa hwa hwa” rapidly followed by your supply depot blowing up.

….what..the heck…

I turn to look at my neighbor. He is playing zerg. He is not wearing a headset.

Uh…I think I have your headset…sorry! You need more overlords btw…