Back into Warcraft

So my wife and I missed the date to cancel the renewal, and I had decided I wanted to play WoW with a friend of mine who started playing on another server. I've been grinding like mad the last week trying to catch up to 40. I'm a 1/3 of the way there, but I think I'm getting more focused on it. If I can keep my focus, then in a week I think I can catch him and roll with his elf pally. So that's been my fun time waste keeping me from doing anything else.