I feel like I just wrote an entry, but it seems like so much has happened since then!

Here are the highlights:

+Ended up being a bit melancholy from training relentlessly, was invited to enjoy a home cooked meal from a dear, dear guild sister (an invitation which I accepted readily, I might add!), sat and talked with her as she prepared the meal in the Hall kitchen like a son would sit with his mother or older sister -- it was the most fun and therapeutic time I'd had in quite a while! The only sad part is that we didn't get a chance to eat her dish (she called it 'bear not so rare') because we had another engagement to attend.

+Attended Summer Stories, fell asleep during them (I couldn't help it -- the stories were great, I was just so tired!), awoke and saw a Peculiar Portal with many folks' footprints heading into it, jumped into the portal (I can't help myself -- portals and I are like bees to flowers), found myself in the Hall of the Archmage, and then listened to his tale about how Balthazar is developing a weapon that will destroy our Life Monuments and we probably can't do anything about it.

+Spent quite some time out and about hunting with Rae and Anu. Even searched the whole continent for a Green Guardian for Rae, but no luck.

+Got to spend a whole evening with another dear, dear companion who helped me pick out and pay for my new armor from Hilga's forge. Then we spent the rest of the night talking and enjoying a roaring fire with Summerfaire berries and lemonade.

I feel like I'm flying. What a day.