The Winds of Change

What a week it's been! I've been a busy, busy bear.

See, things in our guild got sour after yet another failed Naxx25 run. Yes, I know. All the "good" guilds are past Naxx25. I know this. But we're a very new guild on our server, only a few months old, and we were trying to get through Naxx25 in order to snag a few pieces of gear for our members and get them prepared for Ulduar.

Last weekend's raid didn't go that well. I ended the weekend in tears of frustration. My husband was the Guild Master, but he's not around much lately because of work schedule changes, so the weight of the world was left on my shoulders. I adore the two officers we started off with, but we needed more "cooks in the kitchen". One person can't be responsible for ensuring good conduct, getting folks geared, scheduling raids and trying to live a real life on top of that. Given the workload I'm facing at work, I just didn't have the will left to schedule raids and fail at them anymore. I'd given up.

I vented to a really amazing friend about it, declaring that I was just "done". I didn't want to be on the server anymore. I no longer wished to be the one-bear driving force behind our entire guild's activity. I didn't want to prep for raids and have my own guild members ditch anymore. I was just...DONE.

After talking with him at great length, he somehow revived the RAWR in me. He gave me a lot of priceless advice on how to get things moving in a better direction. My husband, who was also quite frustrated at how stagnant things had gotten, was open to my suggestions.

But...

He didn't know that he could really follow through on all of my requests for this change and that, so...

He gave me the guild last night. I'm now the Guild Leader for our guild. O.O Wtf have I gotten myself into?!

I spent the evening rearranging our guild ranks, reassigning permissions, and trying to figure out where to start. The High Council. That's where I started. Okay, well, it wasn't a HUGE start, but I promoted one of our guild members to the High Council.

Instantly, he scheduled a Naxx10 Gear/Badge/Learning/Morale Boosting run. I damned nearly cried tears of joy! FINALLY! Someone else willing to step in and get some momentum building with our crew! If I could have hugged him through the internet, I absolutely would have! Thank you Bel!

The winds of change have stirred up a little bit of uncertainty within our guild. Guys, relax. We're not going to become omgwtfhardkore...

Change is good. I sincerely hope that my guild embraces what we're trying to do here.

Also, I owe an immense amount of gratitude to a great friend for the tough love, advice, inspiration, encouraging words, and the revived spirit to change things. *hug* Thank you, sir.

I also owe thanks to my fellow druids for their gentle guidance and words of encouragement during some of the rougher times, and also for their help and advice and gentle push to get things turned around. *hugs you all* Thank you, guys.