In the distant past (or so it seems now), I wrote a post in which I listed some goals I hoped to achieve. Believe it or not, I’ve been plugging away at those goals and I can now report that some of them have been achieved. And, I have one new goal to add.
I’ll start with what I’ve achieved.

One of my goals has been to acquire 50 mounts and then get the Albino Drake that comes with the corresponding achievement. As you can see from the screenshot above, Rubeola is now the proud owner of one Albino Drake. I was going to wait on this for her to become a Champion of the Alliance, because I thought I’d need all of the mounts from all races before I could get to 50. But when 3.2 hit, the cost of all racial mounts was reduced quite a bit, and I suddenly found myself going on a mount buying spree. And then I thought, what the heck, I’ll go ahead and buy the rest of the Netherwings I didn’t have (which were still 200g a pop) and the rest of the Talbuks as well. And before I knew it, I hit 50 mounts and got the achievement.
The next step, of course, would be to shoot for 100. I think that’s largely out of reach for me, though, because to get to 100 would require picking up all of the special mounts that can only be obtained from instance runs and raiding and I’m not likely to get any of those. But I’m still going to continue to add mounts to my collection and we will see where things go.
Speaking of adding new mounts to my collection, I’ve already added one important new mount: the Engineering Flying Machine mount. You might remember that another of my goals is to become an Engineer and attempt to build a Mekgineer’s Chopper. I’ve taken the first step. I’ve dropped Mining and replaced it with Engineering. And I’ve managed to level Engineering high enough (300, as of 3.2) to build a Flying Machine. With just a bit more effort, I’ll be able to build the turbo version as well. It’s going to be a while before I can build the chopper, though. First I need to get my Engineering to 450, which will be a bit of work itself. Then I need to save up something on the order of 12,000g in order to buy all the materials to build the chopper. I expect several months at least before I’m to that point.
Another goal on my list was to get to Exalted Argent Champion of the Alliance on at least one toon. I had thought I would do this on Veleni. But it now looks like I’m spending all my time working on this with Rubeola. Unfortunately, Rubeola is at something of a disadvantage with this achievement. Being a Death Knight, she doesn’t get Argent Crusade rep for completing tournament quests. She gets Ebon Blade rep instead. So to get exalted with the AC, she’s going to have to do the dippy Pa’Troll quest every day for the next several weeks. I’m not a fan of that quest and its parts. Especially the one offered by Alchemist Finklestein.

As you can see from the above screenshot, I have also achieved my goal of getting a flying carpet. I was planning to craft it with Lyune, my priest, but I ended up crafting it with Marol, my warlock. I find I’m playing Marol more than Lyune, so she just happened to get her tailoring to 410 first. I assume Lyune will get to craft a flying carpet at some point, of course, but the goal was to craft a flying carpet, and I can now check that goal off the list.
As I indicated at the beginning of this post, I’m adding a new goal to my list of goals: level at least one Horde character to 80. I’ve been struggling with this for a while, actually. I don’t quite know why it should be so hard. I enjoy leveling Horde as much as I do Alliance, but for some reason I can’t quite stick with one Horde character long enough to get all the way to 80. Lately I’ve been playing Orgaria, my warlock, quite a bit, and I think she has the best chance of making it all the way to 80. She’s already 74 and has even visited Dalaran. I’ll keep you posted on her progress.