Slowly gathering momentum again

I'm starting to think of playing WoW as something other than a chore again (phew!). About a week ago I decided to head to Un'Goro and grind the last third of 53 out. I've done remarkably little grinding while playing WoW; I very rarely go out to kill things just to get XP, but that's exactly what I did, and it was great. I didn't die once (and I die ALL the time), I found and completed a quest while I was engaged in senseless violence, and I managed to push over the edge.

Now that I'm 54, I can wear the nifty new helmet my blacksmith benefactor mailed me. Two more levels and I'll be able to wear the full Imperial Plate set (the last two pieces of which are now sitting in the bank)! I must say I much prefer the new helmet to the old one, which was large and green and looked very out-of-place on my tiny gnome head. The new one is silver with a blue plume, and it matches the rest of my armor and (surprisingly) both my Private's Tabard and guild tabard. I no longer feel like a jackass every time I put on my armor. A related side-note: my blacksmith friend also sent me the first piece of the Dungeon 1 set. He happened to get it while raiding, and, saints be praised, decided to send it to me rather than selling it at the auction house! Hooray! Now I actually have a post-60 goal: completing the set.

The other day I logged in and decided to solo the Deadmines. I'd never been there, and figured I could maybe make a little gold in loot, so off I went. It was actually a lot of fun, and I was at no point in danger. Good thing, too; if I, a 54 warrior, were to be unable to handle five level 19 elites at once, something would be seriously wrong with me. I ended up with a bunch of low-level greens, which all promptly sold to people twinking out their alts. I kind of wish I'd remembered to look through them to see if my own alts could have used the loot, but I can always make another run later.

My warlock is now up to 14!