Tank like a girl

I just got tagged for the latest round of blogger me-me, by both Kestrel and Tarsus. I was especially flattered by the kind words of Tarsus. Believe it or not, I often struggle with coming up with content, because there are tons more hardcore tanking bloggers out there that fill the tanking niche a lot better than I always could. It’s people like Tarsus, Veneretio and all of my commenters that keep me going. Thank you.

But now on to the me-me part, the Honest Scrap Award!

The rules of this award are as follows:

1. When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.
2. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. (Where the heck am I going to find seven untagged bloggers that I frequently read?)
3. List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!

Alright, let’s start with the easy part:

10 things about Kadomi that you never dared asking about!

1. I am a married woman, all bells and whistles, to another woman. To further inspire nerd fantasies, we are both tanks in WoW and she was the tank for our Kel’thuzad firstkill.
2. We incidentally met on a fantasy-themed MU*, so we’re both RP nerds. We met 10 years ago in fall.
3. I have traveled all over the world, but the country I’ve been to the most is the US. My next visit will be visit number 10.
4. I work in company tech support for an American company and have crappy work hours to cover American business days. Lame.
5. I have played all classes in WoW to at least level 40. Of all classes, I would never level a hunter to max level, because I find their leveling game too trivial. I do adore end-game hunters with skill though.
6. I have three cats: Merlin, Luigi and Jenny. I wanted to name Merlin Murloc but the missus outruled it. Bummer.
7. I am deathly afraid of spiders. The spider wing in Naxxramas creeps me out. My scariest moment ever in WoW was the post-Zul’Drak horde quest where you get to kill the giant spider crawling out of the lake. So seriously squicks me out.
8. I like playing underdogs, hence my two mains being female orcs. My Alliance character on the German realm Forscherliga is a female dwarf paladin. Yay for underdogs!
9. What I regret most about playing WoW is that it’s seriously reduced my reading time. I used to read a lot more, I should pick that up again. My favorite author is Tad Williams, I have read Memory, Sorrow and Thorn a million times.
10. I could kill for excellent Indian and Thai food. Best food ever. A nice Chicken Makhani or Tikka Masala makes my day. I cook a very nice Thai red chicken curry too

Now for the more difficult task, to find bloggers that haven’t been tagged yet:

• Naissa from Naissa’s Rage. She and I are so on the same wavelength, it’s scary! But her screenshots are a lot nicer than mine.
• Durnic from Orly Factor. Part of my ongoing campaign to make him post more, because he is brilliant when he posts.
• Talldar from Warrior Tanking. Another fabulous tanking blog that I always enjoy reading.
• Drug from Shields Up! Not only is he one of the few shaman bloggers, but he is an addon freak like me, and he speaks German. Big winner.
• Yasura from Heals, Smites and Prayers. She’s one of my guildies, a fantastic healer, and I adore her.
• Anexxia from Bible of Dreams. Another guildie, she’s restored my faith in shadow priests, because I had never raided with a truly excellent one before.
• Jagerbombz from Hoof’n'Healz, another rare gem from the resto shaman scene. His guides are extremely helpful for young and struggling resto shamans (like me).

I will also take the opportunity to say farewell to two of the blogging giants that are quitting: Phaelia from Resto4Life and BRK from BigRedKitty. Both were important to me as bloggers. Phaelia was the first person who ever linked to my blog and has really worked wonders for the druid community, and BRK showed me that you can be entertaining, talk about your personal game experience, and toss in some theorycrafting while you’re at it. Both will be missed.