Celery

I think most of you know by now. The Professor, is a blatant Doctor Who spoof.

But what you might not know is that they aren't just spoofing one doctor but a good handful of them.

Observe:

Long striped scarf -- clearly Tom Baker's (the fourth doctor)

Tennis shoes -- could refer to David Tennant (ten) or Peter Davison (five) as the both wore tennis shoes

Bow tie -- while plenty of Doctors have worn the tie, it's safe to say Matt Smith (eleven) made it an icon

I thought to myself: "Cool. They picked some icons, slapped them on a dog, and called it good. Groovy."

But then I was passing by this morning and saw this.

A leaf! 

And you know what that means.

It means celery.

Snack anyone?

Peri : "Doctor, why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?"

The Doctor : "Does it offend you?"

Peri : "No, just curious."

The Doctor : "Safety precaution. I'm allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum."

Peri : "Well how does the celery help?"

The Doctor : "If the gas is present, the celery turns purple."

Peri : "And then what do you do?"

The Doctor : "I eat the celery. If nothing else I'm sure it's good for my teeth."

-- "The Caves of Androzani"

Peter Davison (the fifth doctor) my personal favorite classic doctor has been payed homage to.

Bravo.

I am happy.

~Heather

The Greenhouse Effect

I don't know where you keep you're garden, but personally I'm keeping mine in the greenhouse in my Royal Estate (the big MB house).

I have learned a few things about making this space more efficient.

Mainly:

Use pots not plots.

When you make a plot (of whatever size) in your greenhouse rows, you only have enough room for one row.

Like so:

Silver Trumpet Vines, in medium sized plots.

 However, you're greenhouse rows actually have room enough for two side-by-side pots!

Like so:

Two empty medium pots.

This is also true of the small sized pots as well.  

Pink Dandelions in small pots.

Of course if you want to be really efficient you'll arrange you're pots in a hexagon or something. I haven't really explored that yet. For now, keeping my garden confined to my greenhouse is just right for me.

~Heather

Eventful Weekend

Wow! This has been one busy weekend!

First off, I got the Spectre to Epic.

Then I gave him to Lenora. It's very useful!

Then on a whim I did a couple Briskbreeze Tower runs with Kevin Battleblood and Co, and I got my Myth ring! I think that it's going to help a ton.

Also I swear I saw this glitch at least three times.

Hehe!

Then I powered my way through Marleybone, with Miss Lenora and in Counterweight West got me a Clockwork Golem.

Off to Mooshu with her! She's level 34 now, only about half a level away from wearing a pretty new robe.

We also had the very first meeting of the Petnome Project.

This 'short' meeting only lasted about four hours. Boy, when we get talking... better pack a lunch!

Miguel summed it up very nicely on his blog.

I took gobs of photos, so here's a little slide show for you!

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Then just a few moments ago I was farming Ye Old Crazed Forest Spirit and I got my crab!

WOW! I am still in shock! I mean, I've been farming for him since it was discovered!

I named him Sebastian, which is the name of Kestrel's crab too. Ugh, I tried to name it something special...

But I'm going to keep it like that for a while because I like it.

We'll just have to have matching pets. :P

As you can see it's been a very eventful weekend!

And we've got a whole half a day left!

I wonder what's in store?

~Heather

In the world of Lenora

Here's a little photo montage of what Lenora's been up to over the last few days.

Cue the giggling Trekkies!

Woo! Only 20 more levels until grand master. Oh wait, when I put it that way...
Lenora/Heather

Wanda

Remember waaaayy back when I crafted mannequins on the test realm?
Well, guess what I just made?

Welcome back Wanda!

You'll find a lot has changed.

Oh man it's so awesome! I've wanted one for a really long time! Now, I have one. :)

Hmmm, now I need to start collecting reagents for Woody....

~Heather

Don't know why you say 'Goodbye', I say 'Hello'...

Today Lenora summed up the courage and defeated the emperor's retreat. Then she was on a roll so she proceeded to finish the rest of Krokotopia. (Sometimes things fall into place! I was luck enough to have that happen today.)

So we bid Krokotopia adieu, and venture into the treacherous lands of Marleybone.

As well as having a brand new color coordinated outfit, she also learned "Poison" and "Beguile" today!

I can't wait to kick some kitty butt! Hi-ya!

Lenora/Heather

My 'weekend'

On Thursday and Friday I had no rehearsals. So I got some ITS time! I went pet farming. I got a Life Scarab, a Dire Ghoul, a Red Banshee, and a Pixie Queen.

Also there was some pet leveling,

an 48 hybrid attempt by me and Bailey (no luck), and a couple of Mali runs.

I had a lot of fun! :)

~Heather

History

Amber and Kestrel did it and I'm going to do it too!

Talking about my past.

Yep, it's been a long time.

Okay to begin at the beginning, I started playing by not playing. My friend was playing Wizard101 and I always seemed to end up over his shoulder, watching and remarking on how dumb it was.

"You could make a wizard too!" he told me. "Nah," I said, "It looks boring and addicting."

"You can have a unicorn pet," he said. "...really? Well... maybe I'll try..."

So I took the test and got a myth wizard. I named her Heather Raven.

So then I went all the way through the free trial areas and even though I wasn't convinced it was a great game I got a subscription.

After many battles with my two real life wizard pals (Death and Fire) we progressed to Krokotopia. We were enchanted by it's beauty and lore.

Then some more battles, we advanced to Marleybone. At first it was very cool because as you all know I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. But then it got really hard.

After some more grueling battles we traveled to Mooshu.

Which made me hungry for red bean moon cakes.

But I found Mooshu boring. So I plodded through mostly because my friends were nudging me too.

Then we hit Dragonspyre, which was by far the worst of all.

But we finally finished.

Then my friend who started it all (Death) deiced he was bored with wizard101 and stopped playing.

I was kinda bored too, now that I had "finished the game" what was there to do next?

Then a truly remarkable thing happened.

KI featured a blog post by The Friendly Necromancer on the log in page.

I looked at it for a few times before caving and clicking over.

I had no idea there was a community behind Wizard101!

I started reading his blog, I started reading Jessica's blog.

I was hooked and knew I had to write my own.

Just for myself, not thinking anyone would read it, I started logging my adventures of me and my Balance alt Victoria.

Here's my first screenshot ever.

I'm not going to step you through every important thing I've learned as a blogger but here are a few milestones:

First post

First event attended

First comment

First holiday

First major fail

First documented dream about Wizard101

Gosh I love Wizard101.

~Heather

221b

You probably know this already, but I love Sherlock Holmes.

So when I saw the small Marleybone house, I fell in love with it too because it looks a lot like 221b Baker St., where the famous detective lives.

So I decided to get one on the test realm!

The decor is modest. Yet tastefully Edwardian.

Boy Sherlock sure does like his crafting.

Did you know that the real Baker St. in London is very close to Regent's Park?

Yup!

I love Marleybone....and hate it, all at the same time...

~Heather

Woot Ding!

Kestrel is a Grandmaster! Woohooo!

I would like to take a moment to thank my real life friend, "Thank you so much!"

I would also like to thank Baxter in the Ironworks. I leveled up there.

(About here I was going to put a video of that scene in Casablanca where they're in the cafe and Sam is playing a song and it's called "Knock on Wood". But I couldn't find it, so you'll have to recall that moment if you've seen the movie. If not, um.... ignore this!)

Here she is in all her glory,

the new Grandmaster on the block,

Kestrel AshBlade!

Look out she's ALL POWERFUL muhahahahahahaha!

Kestrel/Heather

News

Today I am not feeling well. Actually I am feeling pretty yucky. Anyway, I decided to take sometime and get back into the Wizard101 groove. So I took Kestrel, (who is now level 45 thanks to my friend who has been playing her along with his icy,) outfitted her in the DS crowns gear, dyed it to look nice, and went off to MB to finish some side quests. Let me just say that I love being a storm wiz. I have unlimited power! Muwahahahaha!

In other news:

• I am now judging my silly photo entries! Yay! I got more than one! :)
• I have been neglecting my Student Teacher campigan. I will be working on that! So right now my goal is for one person to vote for me. Yeah... I need to work on this.
• I have yet to make my new Life wiz, there's something fun to do on a rainy day soon!
• I haven't been reading any Wiz101 blogs or anything... so what's been happening?

I think that's about it. Yep! :)

~Heather

The Red Carpet

I like the Oscars. Mostly, I like looking at the wild fashion at the Oscars.

So in honor of the Oscars and their crazy fashion I took my wizard family on a trip to the blue carpet...

The crowd roars and you hear the clicking of a thousand cameras, as the ladies and gentlemen walk into view.

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the first annual Wizard101 blue carpet event!

First on the carpet is Victoria GriffinBane, sporting a MB look. Along with her outfit, is her new favorite pet Jasper, and complementing Jasper is her jade blade.

And here is Lenora RavenWisper, in her new Krokotopia garb. Looking very stylish.

And next is miss Kestrel AshBlade, with her back to Wizard City look. Hmmm. Not sure about that robe.

And last but certainly not least Heather Raven. "The look I am striving for this year is that of a wandering minstrel." Very nicely pulled off I must say.

Well that just about wraps up the first annual Wizard101 blue carpet event! Hope to see you all next year! Remember, stay stylish.... and never wear white after labor day! Good night folks!

***

Then the ladies and gentlemen partied the night away... at the Awesome Diviner's Birthday Party.

~Heather

Dance Lab

Yesterday evening, I went through Katzenstien's lab.

Ugh, I hate that instance.

I get caught every five steps!

But Friendly is right, it does make a sweet dance floor!

Kestrel

Back

Sorry, I've been a bit busy and haven't been giving the blog or wizards, much attention.

But here's where Kestrel is:

I finished up the Ironworks the other day and moved on through Newgate, and am now settled in Knight's Court.

Kestrel

Sherlock

You may not know this about me but I am a big Sherlock Holmes fan.

I think that is one of the reasons I like Marelybone so much.

I love his logical reasoning (much like another one of my favorites, Spock!) and his cleverness.

Also his sense of drama and his dapper victorian-ness!

He is the ultimate private consulting dective.

We should totally hang out at 221b Barker St.!

Oh yeah.

Meet Kestrel

No not Kestrel ShadowThistle,

my storm wizard Kestrel AshBlade.

I made Kestrel way before I knew about Wizard101 blogging.

I just liked that name.

It makes it a whole lot awesomer that Kestrel shares her name with a super cool blogger buddy of mine!

Kestrel is level 29, and has started Marelybone!

Anyway, so now that I'm all but finished with Victoria I'm going to be working on and blogging about Kestrel.

Heather & Kestrel

O.O

Look! Look at what I just saw in Regent's Square!

An Ice Elf pet!!!!

It even gives you Ice elf!

I've never seen one before. I went and looked on Central, but I could find no mention of it.

Where do you get one? Does anyone know?

I'd really like one. He's so cute! :)

~Heather

Fun Things

Yay! I got a Wizard101 gift card as an early Christmas gift!

Now I have an awesome Dragonblade pet!

She's a "Sneaky Piggle".

Then I got to chat with Kestrel, and see her house, which is really cool.

Then she showed me a hidden housing item location!

It's a "Framed Campsite Photo"!

I love it!

Thanks Kestrel!

And, guess what?

It's Christmas eve eve!

What a great day.

~Heather