Details to come, but here’s Miriella wielding the Dark Herring AND Old Ironjaw. Fear the gnome armed with fish.

Now I just need to win the danged Fishing Tournament to become Salty Miriella!

Okay, started in Fort Wildervar:

• 68 Bonescale Snapper
• 18 Fangtooth Herring
• 16 Glacial Salmon
• 22 Pygmy Suckerfish
• 1 Reinforced Crate (with 2 Frostweave Cloth)

Then I moved west to Winter’s Breath Lake:

• 3 Crystallized Water
• 78 Fangtooth Herring
• 46 Pygmy Suckerfish
• 4 Reinforced Crates (14 Borean Leather Scraps, 2 Cobalt Ore)

Todays total:  234

Fjord Total: 437.

Grand Total: 1621.

On an upside, Springroll got her little sand crawler pet from the fishing treasures bag today. Yay! Now if Miriella would just get it, we’d be in better shape.

• 19 Pound Lobster >.>
• 108 Darkclaw Lobster
• 45 Large Raw Mightfish
• 28 Raw Summer Bass
• 14 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 1 Reinforced Locked Chest
• 1 Solid Blasting Powder
• 40 Stonescale Eel
• 19 Zesty Clam Meat

Today’s Total:  256 fish and other things caught.

Grand Total: 1184 fish and other things caught.  I’m going to head to Howling Fjord for a bit to try to catch the Dark Herring.

Fishing Part two: Now in the Howling Fjord, Fort Wildervar:

• 105 Bonescale Snapper
• 1 Crystallized Water
• 46 Fangtooth Herring
• 48 Glacial Salmon
• 18 Pygmy Suckerfish
• 3 Reinforced Crates (2 Cobalt Ore, 3 Frostweave Cloth, 3 Borean Leather Scraps)

Today’s Fjord Total: 203 (not counting the suckerfish)

Grand Total: 1387.

Bleh.

• 104 Darkclaw Lobster
• 1 Golden Pearl
• 21 Large Raw Mightfish
• 6 Raw Glossy Mightfish
• 2 Raw Rockscale Cod
• 8 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 66 Raw Summer Bass
• 1 Reinforced Locked Chest
• 2 Solid Blasting Powder
• 16 Stonescale Eel
• 22 Zesty Clam Meat

Today’s Current Total: 248 fish and other things caught.

Overall Total: 813 fish and other things caught. Soon, perhaps?

Session 2, before I was whisked off to VoA:

• 52 Darkclaw Lobster
• 1 Iridescent Pearl
• 11 Large Raw Mightfish
• 5 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 13 Raw Summer Bass
• 1 Reinforced Locked Chest
• 26 Stonescale Eel
• 7 Zesty Clam Meat

Today’s Current Total:  363.

Overall Total:  928 fish and other things caught.

Alright, here I am, working on the achievement for The One That Didn’t Get Away – apart from winning the Fishing Tournament, is just about the most elusive fishing achievement to get.

I’ve been trying for it on and off, but now I’m on a serious chase for it, so here goes the numbers for yesterday and today’s fishing sessions so far:

Azshara, Bay of Storms:

• 7 Pound Lobster
• 9 Pound Lobster
• 12 Pound Lobster
• 1 Black Pearl
• 1 Golden Pearl
• 174 Darkclaw Lobster
• 1 Iridescent Pearl
• 23 Large Raw Mightfish
• 5 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 89 Raw Summer Bass
• 4 Reinforced Locked Chest
• 2 Small Lustrous Pearl
• 1 Solid Blasting Powder (from 1 Venture Company Supplies Crate)
• 29 Stonescale Eel
• 32 Zesty Clam Meat

This brings it to a total of 360 catches (minus the pearls). My goal is to fish to 1000 fish here in Azshara, and after, if I still haven’t caught one of the rares, I’ll head to Howling Fjord or Grizzly Hills for the Dark Herring. Who wouldn’t want to get stabbed in the face with a fish?

Wish me luck. It’s apparent I’ll need it, though I did catch Old Ironjaw in under 2 hours of work two nights ago

Session Two Saturday night:

• 15 Pound Lobster (they’re getting bigger!)
• 92 Pound Mightfish
• 81 Darkclaw Lobster
• 1 Iridescent Pearl
• 21 Large Raw Mightfish
• 9 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• 29 Raw Summer Bass
• 3 Reinforced Locked Chest
• 3 Solid Blasting Powder
• 36 Stonescale Eel
• 21 Zesty Clam Meat

Total:  565 fish and other things caught.

In just a short amount of time I’d managed to get all 4 coin achievements, 2 sewer rats and a sea turtle mount! Miriella fished up the sewer rat a day or two before Patch 3.1, and while Miriella was pathetically trapped in Ulduar instances, I had nothing to do but to play Springroll, which I really didn’t want to do, so I decided to level her fishing instead. I started one night, and two nights later, I fished up all of the Dalaran coins. I checked the 1000 fish achievement, and I was a little over 100 away, so I thought, I have some time left to kill, so I’ll head down to the sewers and work on the rat while I get to the 1k fish achievement. Surely, I thought, I’d hit 1000 with it. Crazily enough, I head down to the sewers with Springroll – and it’s her first time ever having been in the sewers, I discover, and what do you know, the stupid priest fishes up the sewer rat in 6 casts!

The weekend came, and I was busy moving into my new apartment – and, as a result, had no internet access in my humble abode for over a week. I have no idea how I survived, but I did. Tonight was the first night I’d been back, so here’s the tonight’s total tally before I fished up the sea turtle:

7 Barrelhead Goby
1 Bonescale Snapper
17 Borean Leather Scraps
4 Borean Man O’ War
17 Cobalt Ore
10 Crystallized Water
101 Deep Sea Monsterbelly
6 Frostweave Cloth
14 Glacial Salmon
5 Imperial Manta Ray
109 Moonglow Cuttlefish
13 Musselback Sculpin
12 Nettlefish
170 Pygmy Suckerfish
4 Rockfin Grouper
8 Succulent Clam Meat

Today’s Total: 440 Fish, 58 other thingies. A grand total of 1045 fish, and lots of other various crap in reinforced crates and whatnots, so for me the average was just about 1 in 1000, which really isn’t bad at all; I thought I’d be around for much much longer, lurking the waters of the Frozen Sea for so long.

He’s very cute, and very worth it!

Okay. I know I’m insane. Let’s just document it for proof.

This includes about 10 minutes of fishing for the new Dalaran daily Fishing quest, and about 20 minutes of fishing in Elwynn Forest (I still need the One That Didn’t Get Away achievement) while the Northrend servers crashed, uncrashed, recrashed.

Today’s Fishing Daily was The Ghostfish. From the reward, I looted the Sealed Vial of Poison quest starter item, some deviate fish, a Northsea pearl, and some elixirs of water walking.

Fished up on Day 1:

8 Barrelhead Goby
3 Borean Man O’War
7 Borean Leather Scraps
7 Cobalt Ore
21 Crystallized Water
112 Deep Sea Monsterbelly
21 Frostweave Cloth
7 Glassfin Minnow
9 Imperial Manta Ray
144 Moonglow Cuttlefish
36 Nettlefish
255 Pygmy Suckerfish
12 Raw Brillian Smallfish
9 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
2 Rockfin Grouper
8 Sickly Fish

That makes 605 fish.

and a couple of other grey items that I deleted.

Bleh.

Have I really not posted since Christmas? Oops. Well, the good thing is, my life is going full speed ahead. I’m in the middle of moving to a fabulous new apartment, and today, I’m actually in a WordPress workshop taught by the super awesome Polly-Alida Farrington, so I’ll be messing around here more as I get re-inspired.

Oh, and Patch 3.1 is out for World of Warcraft! Miriella’s new goal? The sea turtle mount of course! I spent a solid 4 hours or so fishing last night, so I do believe I’ll be documenting my fishing adventures once more.

Stay posted!

I hope everyone’s had a lovely Christmas, and Santa brought you what you hoped for and more. Personally, this was a most quiet and low-key Christmas for the first time ever. My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas, and we keep the gift-giving to a very bare minimum. It makes both me and my checking account incredibly happy. Every year there’s always one little unexpected surprise though, and this year is no different. For one, I’ve learned my cousin is pregnant again, which is a blessed gift for the whole family. Two, in my other social online life, I received a most generous and kind Secret Santa gift from a guildie of mine in World of Warcraft. For the last couple of years, Emerald Dream has participated in a Secret Santa gift exchange, thanks to Anarae, a lovely guildie who’s taken over the fun and games duty since I stopped hosting events long ago.

I’d not logged in since Christmas Eve, and tonight I log in to find this mail:

It had 7 neatly wrapped packages, and I was smiling from ear to ear as I opened them all. And here are all my gifts on display:

Thank you Caregiver, for making my Christmas a very special WoWish one!

I swear I’m writing a new post soon. Someday. No really.  There’s so much to be said!  I still have to blab a little about my BlizzCon, Internet Librarian, Gaming Learning and Libraries Symposium experiences, and most definitely, Wrath of the Lich King. However…I’m busy levelling (Miriella is 80 and gearing up as best she can before Naxx, and Springroll is 72). And I’m enjoying REAL life as we know it, too! I’ve had a lot of big-ticket life-changing experiences in 2008 – new job, new apartment, new life status. There’s still a month left in 2008, but I’m hoping that’s it for the big crazy changes for now.  It’s been a whirlwind of chaos for me this year, and for the most part, it’s all been extremely positive. I’m working on settling down and enjoying the company of me, myself and I – and for the last few months I think I’ve done okay.  I’ve done a lot of things that I thought I’d never do, thought I’d never get the chance to do, or thought about doing.  I’ve met tons and tons of new people in 2008; my networking web has expanded exponentially. I’ve made a number of new friends as well, and amazingly, I’ve met an astonishing number of once-faceless friends. Thanks to Twitter, FriendFeed, World of Warcraft, Facebook, and more, our small world became even smaller for me.  I seem to have inadvertently started a small ”reflection on 2008″ post, so I’ll simply end with kind wishes to you and your dearest for a blessed, healthy and joyous 2009.