First real post

I guess I'll make a little review about things up till now.

I started playing FFXI in June, 2004. I started as an elvaan warrior named Tanthalas -- I love elves -- but quickly learned an elvaan was not for me. I made my TaruTaru Raislin shortly after and immediately began as white mage. It was this job that I fell in love with, and even now I still love it. However, my gaming experience has been littered with account deactivations. My mom pays for the game and often forgets to pay her credit card. I made it to a level 57 white mage when I got deactivated again. When I came back, a lot of my friends had quit and those that had not were above and beyond me. I picked up ninja and thief after that. Thief is my second love (job-wise) and I took it to 25 very quickly and took a break to level ninja. I did my utsusemi quest (not realizing that I had a heck of a lot more fame than I needed at first...) and started. I was farming one night when I had to log off. The next day, I logged on to find my account disabled. I quickly forgot the game. In real life, I had a new girlfriend and my classes as a Senior were getting very demanding at the time. About a week and a half or so ago, I gave my mom about 50 dollars for her credit card to buy my girlfriend Custom M&Ms with a special message. To my dismay, I found that they would not arrive before January, and since three months for us in this christmas eve, I decided to use the money to reactivate FFXI since it no longer had a purpose on my mom's credit card and could not be removed. (I've gotten her a really nice fountain of dreams gift, instead, that I really hope she likes.)

Anyways, to get back on topic. I still had Raislin, he was safe even after four months of nothing, but something didn't feel right. It felt awkward to "start over" as a level 57 white mage. So, I sold all of my equipment (first time I've ever held over 1 million gil at once) and started a new Hume (I'm starting to miss being a Taru...) Red Mage. I leveled to 18 in a couple of days and then took a quick trip to Jeuno to do some gobby bag quests. I did one and was lacking fame for anymore. So I grabbed another 12 stacks of boyahda moss and was off on a level 1 run from Jeuno to Selbina to the mea crag to get the last gate crystal I needed. After more than half an hour of turning in moss, I left on the ship to mhaura with a friend who later helped me get my magicked skull. Immediately after that, I finished the gobby bag quests. It cost me 700k, which hurts because I've never spent so much at once, but also feels good because running around with 40 spaces on Raislin got to be a huge pain. After that I maxed my Windurst fame since I am lucky enough to spend my first week on Keijuyo with Bastok in first. Actually, I think I'm still working on that. I can only send so many Cornettes from Raislin in Bastok to Keijuyo in Windurst and turn them in so many times before I have to stop. Don't tell anyone, but I my hand started to hurt, so I made a small program that buys cornettes for me when I'm at the shop and trades them to the quest guy when I'm standing in the right spot. This way, I could watch and rest my hand. Don't worry, I know only basic programming that I learned three years ago as a freshman in high school, and wouldn't dream of making anything more than something like that.

So here I am with a rank 1, level 18 Red Mage named Keijuyo with maxed sandy and bastok fame, nearly maxed windy fame and all the gobby bag quests finished. I'm poor, but hopeful that someday I will lead a powerful LS in many events. Not before my 60s or 70s shall I make it, though. Wish me luck.