Potty Training Details!

If you aren’t interested in my daughter’s bladder control you can look away now. 😛

So I guess I didn’t mention what it was I did today with my daughter in detail with the potty training.  The website I read said I should take one of her dolls and put a pair of underwear on it and have her put it on the potty.  Then, I was supposed to keep having her check the doll to see if it was dry or wet and then she was supposed to check herself to see if she was wet or dry.

At some point you are supposed to wet the doll’s underwear so the child can see what happens when there is an accident and that it’s okay.  Then, you’re supposed to have her help change the doll.  I have to say that Kassidy didn’t seem to be falling for the doll thing until I got that underwear wet.  Her eyes got big as saucers when she touched that doll’s underwear and it was wet.  Her face went from, “Aw you’re just pulling my leg, Mom.” to O.O “OMG THIS IS REAL!”  Something just clicked in her head at that moment.

We told the doll she had to go in the potty next time and changed her underwear.  After that, I just asked Kassidy routinely the rest of the day if she was dry.  Sometimes she lied about it or wouldn’t answer cause she was playing so I’d have to go check her myself, but the biggest thing is she was always dry.  She went in the potty a total of 4 times.  She got chocolate after each time, so she was pretty excited about that.  She has equated potty with chocolate LOL.  The only problem with that is she thinks she deserves chocolate even if she just sits on the potty for a little bit and didn’t go.  She also likes doing the potty dance with Momma after she goes aka The Dance of Joy.  She likes helping me pour the pee into the big potty too and flushing it after.  She’s so weird…

I did have to tell her every time to go sit on the potty because I kind of had a timer in my head all day.  So she never ran to it herself or anything, but progress is progress and I’ll take it.  I mean just recently I would have her sit on the potty for quite a long time and then have her get up only to go immediately in her pants as soon as she walked out of bathroom.  So that was eliminated today.  And, the times she does pee she goes much quicker after sitting down now.

Jiminy Christmas, who would have ever thought I could ramble on like this about potty training of all things?  I’m not going to say enjoy, but be happy I’m trying to keep this thing updated, eh.

Real Life Happens

It’s New Year’s Eve and I think I already know what my 2 year old daughter’s resolution should be.  She went on the potty 4 times today with absolutely ZERO accidents.  I have no idea what made today different.  I read a couple different tips/ideas this morning on a website and thought I’d give them a go since we were going to be training all this week.  I am so happy for her…and myself too.  (No more diaper money!)

For me, well I think I made it just a few hours ago and it was to create this new blog and keep posting it.  I’m gonna try super super hard to keep writing.  You guys will encourage me, though, by commenting (and maybe by making your own blogs). 🙂

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year’s!  Sayonara 2012!  See you tomorrow 2013!

Basic Healing Tips

Healing isn’t that hard if you have a good set up and the fastest fingers in the west.

For basic healing: I have to encourage your hotkey placement and memorization is optimized. You must have all hotkeys memorized and be able to hit them without looking.  Mouse click healing won’t get it done because your reaction time needs to be fast and furious. You must be able to heal and run especially if you are going to PvP. Spell selection and decision making is something that takes time and practice. Seeing a chunk of health disappear and in a split second knowing how you should get that back (mana efficient way or really fast way).  As I said, practice makes perfect here so don’t be afraid to queue up on ye olde dungeon finder.  I know it’s daunting.

I’m in the dungeon…now what?

Keep your tank targeted and make sure you and them stay up at all costs.  The DPS are secondary healing targets.  The tank is the one keeping the big baddie off of you.  Love the tank and they’ll love you back. 😛  If you’re a disc priest, keep your pw:shield up on tank at all times.  There are no excuses here, it is one of the signature spells of the spec.  Also, make sure PoM is bouncing at all times.  If you’re in a boss fight and can’t be arsed to track it you can either a)get a PoM tracker mod or b)cast it on a cooldown.  Your main casting heals after that are Penance, Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal, and Prayer of Healing.  These are pretty straight forward.  Make sure you’re aware of the mana cost of Flash Heal.  It’s honestly usually not that necessary to Flash Heal anyone.  If things are going  well, I usually just sit back and use Heal to conserve mana.

It’s also important to know what your particular healing class/spec is good at:

Disc priests typically aren’t the best at healing from behind because we don’t put out big number heals. Mitigation is still our game. However, we do have a few tricks to get us through high damage situations but they aren’t as good as other classes/specs.  You absolutely need to be aware of incoming damage so you can shield prior and keep yourself from having to heal from behind which isn’t your forte.

I will add more later as I go…again this is just for basic healing.  I will get into more heavy disc priest discussion later. 🙂

I have arrived.

I’ve been posting in an online journal since 2003, but it was time to abandon the journaling of time long gone by and move on.  The times they are a changing…

If you haven’t been able to guess from the title of this blog.  I intend for it to be mainly about the World of Warcraft video game.  I have been playing for many years now and enjoy playing my Discipline Priest in a great guild on the Malygos server.  I’m a dedicated healer only whether it be PvE or PvP.

However, you’ll notice that I mention this blog being about the life of a disc priest on AND off line.  So look forward to occasional updates about my daughter, husband, friends, and my occasional vacations. 🙂  Oh yeah, I’m also a preschool teacher and damn proud of my profession.