Yes, at just under one year, I started playing WoW again. I logged on to my level 70 NE healing-machine druid… looked around… and suddenly felt like I had shown up at a fancy dress party in clothes from the Thrift Store.

Wow. A lot has changed in a year. For example my sweet epic gear is about to be upgraded with blue items. OUCH. If you don’t play just know that it’s a horrible feeling. You think to yourself “Self, you are decked in purples! Blues are no way better.” Then you look at the other gear and think to yourself “Self, aww damn.”

In the gear color scheme purple is what you strive for, it’s what I have and it now sucks.

My husband and I stopped playing a while back because it is such an addictive / time consuming game. He started playing a little over a month ago and I found myself standing over his shoulder while he was in dungeons. I am a total backseat healer. I also started saying weird things like “OOH! Scalp that troll and bring me its hair, that I may wear it to fancy dress parties!”

You can’t actually scalp the trolls (lame). But it made my husband laugh so I kept saying it.

I also started planning out raids. There is a ‘No Fly Zone” and should you fly into it you are dropped from your flying mount (whatever that may be) and fall (stupidly slow) into enemy territory via a parachute. The moment my man told me about this all I could think was: 40 peeps, naked-drunk-parachute raid!!! Ha!

Idea’s like this are what made me such a fun Guild Master back in the day, no one can resist a naked drunk raid. Also why I am not going to be a GM this time around.

Then with all the new dungeons, gear, Death Knights and did I mention DEATH KNIGHTS?! Love mine. L-O-V-E her. She is bad-ass.

So what was I so worried about? Oh ya! That I would play all day, since I work at my computer. Thus far it has not been an issue. I have given my husband strict orders that should I start playing when I should be writing etc that we have to pull the plug on me… er on my game play time.

So for those fellow WoW addicts, I would say that –in my humble opinion- if you can set a time to play and stick to that you can still play WoW and have a life/job/family.

I am testing my theory this month. Granted it helps that I can only play for an hour or so before my hand hurts (I had surgery on my L hand). Wish me luck and better gear.