Rank 3 obtained

I managed, with the help of some really great people,(Bones, Melpomne, Noelie, Cevout, and Anjin), I completed the Rank 3 mission for Windurst.
I started in Sandy, and I managed to kill the Warchief Vatgrit in Ghelsba, after forgetting to eat food, cast enhancing magic (like blaze spikes and Enthunder), gee I must have been so dumb. Then I forgot to go back to Sandy and talk to my consulate there before I went to Bastok, so I had to ride all the way back to do it. Luckily I do have warp so I was able to get back to Bastok quick but it was such a waste of a Republic medal usage. grrrr.
Eventually we made our way to the Palborough mines and Anjin guided me to the burning circle. I have no idea how we got there! :)
We killed the seeker and the dragon quickly, without any problems. The longest part was our deciding to go in and do the thing.

After the fights Bones, Mel and Noelie helped Cevout and I get the items for the Road to Alt Urghan quest. I finished that today so now I can get to whitegate. :)

Slowly, as I play, I am getting access to more and more areas. Now to make it to level 30 and rank 4.

An excellent party

Of course I go on game a couple of nights ago to try to level RDM. It doesn't go well. After 2 hours no invite. I suppose I could have tried to put a party together but I was not in the mood to try to lead a mix Japanese/English team. I am not that comfortable in lead to do that yet.
Still I managed to get 1 snowman out of the effort. I tried to solo also but that did not go so well.

Last night a different story altogether. I was not planning to party. I managed to get the last two snowman for my moghouse and I was placing them in, when I got an invite. I decided I would join and let the leader know I could only stay about 1 hour. I stayed longer when I waited for my replacement, but it was hard to go. The party was excellent. We had a whm, rdm, blu, sam, nin, and dnc. Everyone did their jobs, and did them well. I had not played rdm for awhile, particularly in a party situation, and I think I was able to do well because everyone else did well. For the most part I was able to enfeeble and cast a few regen on the tank, and a couple of others when they needed it. I was able to back up cure for the whm fairly well.

My only confusion was the whm would wait for me to cure him, and a couple of times he did not heal to regain his mp. It was a fun party, no PL, and no deaths. It really was hard to say goodbye, but it was time for me to get off!

Christmas Trees and leveling

Over the past month I have continued to level WHM up. It is now at 24. I died on my way back to Jeuno after a party the other night. I must be the agro queen of the area. If I can agro something I will do it!
Still some very nice people helped me out and were very, very kind to me.
I also managed to do some of the Christmas event. I got Three trees in my Moghouse, my sister sent me some furniture and I got some of the event items! All in all a pretty successful month.
I am having so much fun at the game. I wish I could play it more, and I really want to get to level 30! I want Advanced jobs!