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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Expressions of Love, Part Two: Chicken Soup for the MMORPG Soul

The other day I was playing World of Warcraft (or World of War-crack, as I've heard it called). In that world, I'm a blue-haired Night Elf in leather armor, who kills monsters with a quarter staff and magic spells.

So I'm there, and I'm killing the monsters. Because that's what they pay me to do. And then, as I near the town to collect payment, I notice that my mail icon is on. "You've got mail, pre-industrial druid!"

I go to the mail box and pick up a package. It's from a stranger - someone named TerrorKnight or BloodTerror or something like that. With the package, there's a letter. The letter says:
I'm learning to cook. This will give you extra stamina.
- Josh..

Josh is my son. I open the package. It contains five herbed, baked eggs.

Now, whenever I think of my children, I see the icon of a World of Warcraft herbed, baked egg in my mind, with its properties listed underneath. And thus, it has become an icon for the love we share.

Sometimes I mail them gold, if I have extra. My character can't cook yet. But whenever I can, I skin monsters and use their hides to make my children special, enchanted armor. When they get the packages, the game shows the sender as Night Elf Xora.

But I always sign the letters "Love, Mom."

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3:35 PM #

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 That is quite possibly the cutest expression of affection between a mom and her adolescent son that I've ever heard.


# posted by Blogger girl_in_greenwood : 4:42 PM  

 Ohmigod...are you obsessed??


# posted by Blogger MissCathee : 10:52 PM  

 Girl: Thank you.

Miss Cathee: When you and B have children, you will be creating World of Warcraft addicts. Don't try to fight it. It's the dominant gene. You'll be videotaping their first steps, but B will be videotaping their first level-up. I can see it now.


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 8:21 AM  

 Oh How Sweet!
In a odd sorta way.

Janice~


# posted by Blogger Janice : 9:34 PM  

 Oh god. Sleep deprivation + having a baby boy myself = me actually getting TEARY reading your post. Nice work.


# posted by Blogger Doppelganger : 1:00 AM  

 Hee. Thanks, y'all.


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 1:15 AM  

 no sh*t, I just totally got choked up when I read that Gwen. Having a 12 year old myself and totally into the gaming world those gifts are just so romantic in the mother/son way.
omg, that has got to be the one and only post I've ever read that had Disntey 'The End' music and rainbows and Cinderella bird chirpie noises in it in between the words. ROFL
in other words. Freakin awesome.


# posted by Blogger pixielyn : 11:23 AM  

 TOO cute!


# posted by Blogger Tiffany : 5:34 PM  

 Druids in Atlanta.
Did you know we have a whole area in Atlanta/N. Decatur called Druid Hills? My daughter will attend Druid Hills High School in the fall. There is N. Druid Hills Rd. near my house, a major thoroughfare. There are Druid-this and-that stores, apts., etc. too numerous to mention. No one seems sure how or why the Druid name first got used but isn't it TOO COOL? (Maybe Gwen went back in a time machine and orchestrated it?? She is, after all, omnipresent! waa-haaa!!)


# posted by Blogger Tanya : 3:52 PM  

 Ha. I wish.

No... If I had a time machine, I would have gone back in time and named all y'all's stuff Sparkle Bunny.


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 9:20 PM  

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