windandwater | ... what a weekend, and it just started

So, last afternoon/evening I was dragged out unexpectedly by my parents.

Some family friends (well, they know my parents from the Philippines) came over because they were gonna ride with us to LA. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my aunt's death, so there was a gathering at my uncle's house. Unfortunately (or furtunately depending on how you look at it), we didn't get there until 7pm, because Dad said it was at 7pm. And it was, but the church memorial service thing was at 6pm. I'm sorta glad we missed that, but it was just kind of a sad day. But there was food, so I had dinner. It was pretty busy and full in the house since our family is large and my aunt was well-loved. And my cousin's baby is seven months old! He's so big. @__@ And strong. And likes to bounce up and down. But I guess it's good, since the baby seems to make my uncle happy (now he's a grandpa), and he looked much happier than he had lately. After my aunt died, it looked like he'd aged about 10 years and his hair went all gray. ;.;

Didn't leave until 10pm, and got home around 11pm. x___X

My parents and their friends were also going to visit someone they know (a distant relative? friend?) in San Diego today too, since they heard she was sick and wanted to see her. I bowed out since I don't like going places to meet people I don't know. Too much family at once makes me cranky, and last night was sort of my fill for the month. But we just found out that she had passed away this morning. .___. My parents and their friends left about an hour ago to go to the house anyway, and I guess tomorrow I'm being dragged out? Not sure about that. That would be pretty quick for a funeral.

Bleh. Very depressing business.

In happier, non-family news, I still manage to get on Trickster intermittently. I'm sorta learning to ignore when I get dropped, and have gotten used to logging-in over and over again. Makokun finished all of the Third Part of the Summer Night Event. ♥ Man, besides the drilling for Secret Letters, the hardest part was compounding 10 each of those 2 items Marx needed. I kept failing the compounding with Nate at 60%. I finally switched out all my MA/LK gear for DA gear, and started getting 70% which helped me finally compound enough items. x.x So tedious. But I was glad that I had drilled up all those gunpowder balls, since I had to crack open a lot of them. Makokun also finished all 5 rounds of the Maro Toy quest (got a TMlevel yay!), so now he just needs to level up again for the next one -- Tritches, I think. He started the Eclipse Event, too, so now all he need to do is 4 more rounds of the Mutated Nora hunting (so annoying because they don't spawn fast), and drill up those 3 Pocket Watches. I already have craploads of Citrins -- if anyone needs them -- and getting the 10 Sand Glass will be easy since you just need to kill Sand Demons for them.

Rose Garden ahoy~

Makotochan and Makosensei have both done 1 round of the monster quests for Nate. Makoreplica needs to get his ass out of Desert Beach (he's too low-leveled to teleport), and to Mega so he can start it, too. None of them are doing the Eclipse Event because you need to be freaking lvl 40 to do them -- even the monster quests! Makosensei might make it to 40 from the Summer Event in time to do the Eclipse one, but Makotochan and Makoreplica are both lvl 25. I'll just get the supercute Summer equips set for them and be happy. :3

... and then sell any extra Pocket Watches I get. >_>;; I have a bunch of 2nds that I've been drilling up at Gate to Black Swamp. Yay monies. $___$