Fishing and Cooking. Priorities?

As I talked about in my previous post, I’m spending some of my time at the moment with professions.

My main profs are Mining and Skinning. And for levelling I hightly recommend this strategy - I’ve rarely struggled for money. I could make more, but… I’m a bit lazy
I also took fishing, cooking, and first aid as secondary levels. Not uncommon. But I left them completely and only now (while my enthausiasm for levelling to 70 is low) am I looking at getting them up.

First Aid is all but done. I paid my way to 365 and I’m satisfied that the payback from making bandages was actually worth my while.

But Fishing and Cooking I have dreaded getting round too. I have meagre skill in both from experimenting with them, but as with all of my proffessions (with the exception of Skinning) I neglected them as I levelled and now I’m left with touring low level areas and grinding them up. Its ok though, its pretty fun for the most part if you have no other drivers at that moment.
… but that’s just it. I’ve got lots of inspiration! I want to level to 70, of course. I want to hit those skills at 64, 66, 68, and 70 (Oh Kill Command, Snake Trap, Aspect of the Viper… how I look forward to playing with you). I want to finish off my talent build and get all those remaining points in Mortal Shots. I want to join the guild in more instance runs. I want better armour and weapons!! I want… oh the list is long, OK!

However the game isn’t going anywhere, and that list of stuff will keep me interested in the game for the forseeable future, so I see now harm in taking time out to get fishing and cooking up. Afterall, they should benefit me in the long run. I understand there are some daily quests for some easy money, and I’ll finally be able to fish and cook my own pet food without Shoryuken (my Winterspring Frostsabre Pride Watcher) turning his nose up at it for being “too low level” for him. Bah!

Having all these bits and pieces to do keeps me coming back to WoW, but it is very confusing. Everytime I log on at the moment, I have no idea what to do. Do I level profs? Do I level and gear up Lof? Do I PvP? Do I level alts? Perhaps I need some sort of plan to organise my time online, because on more than one occasion I’ve attempted to do all three within a space of half an hour and that’s just frustrating! Nothing gets done.

Maybe something like (allocating days won’t work, I never know!), weekend time levelling, early week professions or PvP, late week instances if possible.

Hmm, might put some though into that.

… oh and also, how disjointed did this post get!