Honest Scrap, eh?
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:
- 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.
- 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?)
- 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!
- 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.
- We incidentally met on a fantasy-themed MU*, so we’re both RP nerds. We met 10 years ago in fall.
- 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.
- I work in company tech support for an American company and have crappy work hours to cover American business days. Lame.
- 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.
- I have three cats: Merlin, Luigi and Jenny. I wanted to name Merlin Murloc but the missus outruled it. Bummer.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
You’re too kind, Kadomi.
I want to post more but with a move on the horizon and the fiancee graduating soon, time has become scarce. 
Durnic´s last blog post..Warrior Tanking: Buffs and Debuffs
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Ha, I adore those books as well! just brilliantly written.
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I do read lot of what you call “hardcore tanking bloggers” but I have to say I enjoy reading your blogs more than all other.
Based solely on your blogs, I think we are very similar and different. For example we are both married to a woman however I am a man
Jokes aside, like me you are very serious about tanking but in casual way. Lot of these so called “hardcore tanking bloggers” are very good but sometime they forget this is just a game even though lot of our life seems to revolve around it.
Also like me, you seem to care very much about your guild and your group of friends. It’s very rare to find people like that in WoW. I Think I can count such people in my fingers and still have some spare
I think we are both add-on freaks!
I am not sure why I decide to post this but keep on blogging
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Gratz on the Award Kadomi !
Keep up the good work, like our other friend, I read all those blogs you listed, but for some reason I always start by yours ^^
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Hey those working hours are good for something. It means you’re often the first person to read all the blogs that update at midnight American time.
>.>
Seriously though, keep on truckin’ here. If you’re true to your own voice it doesn’t matter how hardcore you are. Plus, if we all tried to compete with Veneretio we’d be out of business.
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For the spider coming out of the lake, do you mean the Shadra chain in Hinterlands? or is this some spider chain in Northrend that I missed?? http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=2707
Sadly, they nerfed her size. She’s miniscule now. I was so upset when I saw her while alt-leveling and realized they made her just another spider. Though maybe she’s been resized up since last I saw her?
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March 31st, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Yeah, I re-read that this morning and was all, WTF, Zul’Drak? I meant post-Zul’Farrak. Can’t fix posts at work, my work proxy breaks them. That spider used to be sickeningly enormous, Maexxna size. Yuck.
It’s been ages since I did this quest last.
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I’m honored. But to be honest, I don’t really speak german, my german writing is ok, but whenever I speak german on teamspeak, my fellow raiders will make fun of me.
Very agreed on the reading laziness that comes with playing WoW. In fact I have a draft waiting to be postet called: “Better than achievements Vol. I: Books”.
drug´s last blog post..When to make a Trial Member permanent
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admin Reply:
March 31st, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Is French your first language, or German? From our conversations, your German seemed just fine to me.
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$teele Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 12:03 pm
.ch = swiss, i found him thanks to this post
we (not drug!) are a swiss-only guild just so we can talk in dialect while raiding and ze germans dont have troubles understanding us.. because they are not in our raid :> trouble is.. we still have 2-3 germans in our guild and they just wouldnt understand anything.. or hardly. but were still getting along.. like after a wipe i would reexplain everything in high german haha.
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I’m pretty sure the TRUE underdog here is the Female Undead Warrior tank. Go on, find one. : D
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
How about Julez, a warrior in my guild? Hah! She frequently respecs between Arms and Prot and is an excellent tank.
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Tryna Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 am
Mandara on Llane (she just retransferred back to the server), and Uthilla, also on Llane, but I can’t find her in the armory at the moment (I heard she transferred, but if she did, she must have changed names).
Both played by women, both spent time in my guild, Iron Circle. Uthi went onto a more hardcore raiding guild, and Manda went to a less hardcore schedule and eventually guild. Both are awesome female undead warrior tanks.
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Thai food rocks as much as Indian, but I find that its a lot harder to find good Thai beyond just a couple of dishes.
logtar´s last blog post..We can use Pwn and Naxx
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Oh my. *cries a little bit* I’ve been tagged! <3! Thank you.
Naissa´s last blog post..*dies* I’ve been tagged!
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