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At first it took me about five hours to make one of these hats, but now I can do it in about two, and sometimes I can even crotchet with one hand. I make all sorts of random designs, thick stripes, letters, whatever people ask for.
I stop making hats in the summer, but in the winter I make one every few days. I probably make two a week. I don’t think about much when I crotchet. I don’t meditate, but it’s really calming for me. It’s one of the reasons that I do it, because it’s so calming, and I like making hats.
Some of my friends think it’s weird that I like to crotchet. They say it’s what girls do, but I tell them that I can make hats, and they can’t. That’s why I like World of Warcraft (Buy wow gold ) - the game that I play online with other people. People that I meet there don’t really care if I crotchet and make hats. They just think it’s cool.
And people trade hats online. When I play World of Warcraft and I want better weapons for my characters, I’ll do a trade - I’ll make someone a hat if they give me better weapons for my characters. World of Warcraft is a game you buy and then play online with other people. I play World of Warcraft about three to five hours a day. It makes me feel really good because it’s not real, but it’s a lot like reality. The only difference is I can change it, and if I work at it I can become really good. Right now one of my characters is a level 9 paladin which means that my character can fight anybody, and he can team up with people who I meet in the game.
I do spend a lot of time on World of Warcraft because there I can control things. I don’t like what’s going on in this world, so I go and live in the World of Warcraft. If something isn’t going right in this world, I go to World of Warcraft and do whatever I want there. I go on missions, I improve my character. People in the World of Warcraft are more understanding. It seems like it. Just the idea of having medieval weapons, armor, and dungeons, and dragons is really cool. There’s also magic, wild boars, Lords, and all sorts of strange characters.
I meet so many different people from different countries, and yet we all have this game in common. I find the people I meet online playing the game with me to be really easy to get along with. I make friends because of the game. They’re from
Germany, England, China, all over the place. I have more friends online than in real life, more than people I’ve actually met. I just start talking to these people online about the game, and then I start talking to them about other things. I ask them where they live, what they do. They’re mostly my age, some are older, usually not younger. What’s cool about World of Warcraft is I can team up with other people; it’s easy to make friends that way because we’re fighting a war together.
I don’t like real wars though. I think people all over the world should fight World of Warcraft wars, not real wars, that way less people will get killed. I think President Bush should be playing World of Warcraft actually.
I am anti-war, but I play World of Warcraft because it takes away my stress. I don’t like some people that I meet in real life, they’re mean. They don’t understand me and they stress me out. I’m really tall, six-six, and people have made fun of me because of my height, but I don’t care. I’ve always been tall it seems, taller than everyone else. If I look at pictures of me in kindergarten, there was the whole class, and then there was me, taller than everyone else. At least my height has helped me in crew - I get a longer stroke, and it helps the team.
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