Cookin' with Fire: Shattering Expectations!

As I posted yesterday, I took some advice from Hayde and picked up a craft to help fill in times when I'm online and nobody else is. My final decision was to take up cooking, since there seems to be a near constant need for consumables like pet food, jug pets and skill up food... not to mention the usual staples of Pizza, Tacos and Sushi (sounds weird to list those things together).

Yesterday morning I logged on, took off all my equipment and stored everything I had on me in my mog house and set off for Windy to make application to their illustrious Culinary Institute. In no time I was cooking my way from rank 0 to whatever I could manage to accomplish. 

Early in the day, I had set myself a goal of making it to rank 20 before the night was over. Those expectations were met... and then some. After crafting my ass off from 9:00am EST all the way to nearly 1:00pm. In the end, I walked away at rank 22, having broken the first 2 tiers of the cooking guild's ranking system. 

Now as many of you know, I have the luxury of a bit of free time at work that allows me to pull out my laptop near the end of the night and do whatever I want (as long as I maintain focus on work as well). This basically translates into "perfect conditions for crafting".

At the end of my shift here at work, I was able to log on from about 9:00pm and play on and off until 1:00am or so. Sound familiar? Yep, same times I had been playing not 12 hours earlier. 

During this sessions, I casually chatted with Hayde about my progress while he participated in a Fell Cleave Party somewhere. Letting my mind wander helped to alleviate some of the monotony of the task at hand. 

In the end, I closed my laptop at 1:05am EST and looked down at my screen at the very satisfying rank 35.5 Cooking I had achieved. I never would have thought that I could break the goal I had set out for myself so quickly. 

So what did I do then? I gave myself a new goal... a goal for today. I set it cautiously at 55 given that I wasn't 100% certain what some of the recipes I would need to make were. 

This morning I got up and started playing at 10:00am and burned my way through as much as I could before I needed to walk the dog, do a few things around the house and head to work. I managed to make it to rank 47.9 in that sitting. I'm eagerly waiting to play tonight so that I can see just how much I destroy the goal i set for myself today. Who knows... maybe I could even make it to 65 or 70 if I really buckled down and went for it. 

Now I know I promised screen shots last night... but I completely forgot and didn't upload them yet. If you care... I'll be posting them later this afternoon to catch you up on some of the things I've been up to. 

Crafting is turning out to be a lot more fun... and a lot faster than I ever would have expected. <3