Crazy 1st and 2nd lives!

First Life First! -I missed two very important doctor appointments I thought were on Tuesday that were on Monday but were scheduled for the same time - but one they didn't have my info from the PCP anyway so oh well. Anxiety attack over a notice that the registration on our vehicle was suspended - those of you who know me understand those who don't will have to ponder and wonder and say "wha?" but today I found out it was on a truck we USED to have not the one we have now.

I love my Second Life. I love everyone in my Second Life. I really do. Honest and for true. I don't really know how to roll play and my first life rolls over into my second life and they get tangled together like threads in a tapestry. I do want to learn how to do more RP. But you will always get the essence of me.

Why? Well, I am kinda home bound due to several things that I may write about in the future. Heck I don't know if anyone even reads this now. lol I may be just writing for the sake of seeing myself on the net. (Hey if you do read can you please at least check one of the quick Reaction boxes on the bottom - Funny, smart, cool or stupid - just to let me know someone is reading? lol thanks)

But yes I am mostly house bound. I get out to go to the doctor or to the grocery store or if hubs feel up to going for a ride in the mountains. My only Adult contact in my Real Life is my husband and my Father In Law (always referred to as FIL) My doctors actually told me TO play SL as much as I want because of this. I try to balance it so I spend good quality time with Hubs and Autumn (My Daughter - she is 6 and in the 1st grade - you would think she is older she is so smart!)

Now on to my Second Life! - It was raining on Monday so that meant relatively no internet so no 2nd life. so I missed a rehearsal for a modeling show that I was to be in yesterday - I had to be replaced - I felt awful not just for myself but for letting down the company I was to do the show with. It was not a small Deelio - they are quite well known. I had a cry over that.

I am also working on some things for a magazine and it is going slow - both because my RL -SL and my brain are trying to fight each other and because I want it to be one of the best things I write.

Also I am busy working on a land project with two of my best friends Desiree Lurra and Eccoelite Swordthian - we are hoping to have it ready to go in time for the Halloween Party we have planned for Saturday October 30th - we are having this WITH our Clan's Club - Embraced - I will be sending out invitations so please drop me a note card if you would like an invite so I can get one out to you.

My Life in Land Marks!

Did you know that you can tell allot about a person in the real world just by looking at their check book registry? It’s true! Unless you put everything on credit cards!
I will prove it to you. Take a moment to run and get yours out of your wallet or pocket book or where ever you keep yours hidden.

What you mean you don't write everything down in that little paper journal for deposits and withdraws! You don't even save receipts? Oh my, that IS telling, but there is more for those of you who do keep records! Even those who use online banking like Quicken.

Ok, everyone back yet? I will wait a few more seconds for the stragglers then I have to move on. *tapping foot to the music* You can't hear the music? I can't help that. You have to put your radio on to hear music, I can't do everything for you, you know!

Now that everyone is here I want you to open your register and look at what it says - if it anything like my humans it reads something like this:

Mortgage
Wal-mart
Wal-mart
Linden Labs
gas car
Wal-mart
power
phone
movie
Wal-mart
pet store
Linden Labs
Wal-mart

Now that school has started start adding in things like PTA, Fundraiser this and Fundraiser That... Pretty much spot on, am I right?

Applying the same principle to Second Life, if we open our Land Marks folder we see practically every place we have been, have clothes or items from, or searched for. I was amazed at everywhere I had gone in the last couple years. I had been to some pretty strange places by the names!

Unfortunately for me, most of the places, on the other end of the Land Mark, no longer existed. Some of my most favorite clothing stores are gone, one of them being Wrong, and in the art division I miss A Virtual Starry Night - the Van Gogh museum.

The same thing happens in the Real Life too. Favorite stores of my human's were gone when she went on vacation to visit her mom.

I want to peek in and see what is in YOUR Land Marks!

Hello Everyone!

Does this color make my butt look FAT?

That is one good thing about Second Life is that we don't have to worry about our weight. Thank goodness. As the human frets and worries about numbers on the scale, flying buttons, the sometime sound of "RRRRIIIIIPPPPPP at the most inopportune time, and the dreaded shopping for Bathing Suit season; the SL Avatar is free to bound about trying on demos of what is the newest trend in boots or dresses and, yes, bathing suits!

Have a flat butt - just add a little number on the slider and do not spend the money on the "Booty Pop" panties they advertise on TV! Too much on top, bring it down a notch - too small on top a couple of notches up will do thank you... trying to stay young - 25 forever and nary a plastic surgeon in sight! giggle

Someone asked me how old I was so I said 7'4" there abouts in Second Life. They said no no no, In Real Life. I usually have no problem telling those things to my friends, I am pretty much an open book, but to someone I just met... not so much. I play the age I FEEL I am inside. Dakk's age varies some days I feel young and some days I am very old. I am a Vampire you know. LOL

I am so happy that we are such a diverse bunch of people on the RL side of the screen and that the SL side lets us get to learn about each other from all over the world. We may never get to meet each other in real life, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that we all make that connection of friendship that would NEVER been made with out Second Life. We get a chance to learn from each other, or just have a bunch of laughter and fun.

So, Does this color make my butt look fat?

I am sooo sorry I have been lax on blogging

my health has kept me from blogging - I WILL make it up to you I promise! I will contact my my contacts and hopefully I will be able to have some items to write about - not just clothing but items as poses and maybe appliances or something. LOL and my Plurk friends I promise to get back over there and post there again. I have been fighting migraine headaches and my usual problems I won't burden you all with. Oh I will also bog about places! really I am ready to have F


Hugs and shimmies Dakk!

I vant to suck your blood--- ha ha ha ha

For the last three months I had been toying with the idea of becoming a Vampire in Second Life. I mean, why not? I had been a Pirate, Belly Dancer, currently a Model, a blogger, mermaid, why not a Vampire?

I had been talking to different people that had vampire groups in their picks or in their groups and most of them were into all this sex & BDSM stuff that I am not into. The romance of Vampires is ok - you know the flirting the cuddling but no sex.

Yesterday I was at La Galleria, owned by my friend Pam Galleria (who, by the way makes the most amazing houses and kitchens and dining room sets I have ever seen in my LIFE), when I met a woman who had a Vampire clan in her groups - I started to ask her questions and she told me to wait for a second and she brought her Clan Liege over... Girls let me tell you - he was cute cute cute!

He explained that his clan was not about the sex. All that flirting and romance part of the vampire scene was usually as far as they go. It was funny, he said our spouses must have been talking and made the same rules for us. LOL Alas and alak, dear readers - he is partnered. Dang!

Ok back to the Vampire stuff... I asked him If I could do other things, cause you know some RP groups want you to be in character no matter what or where you are. I know that they must be the minority, but heavens to mergatroid (I bet you haven't heard that one lately) I have seen a lot of NO VAMPIRE BITING signs in some stores. Maybe I just read the sign wrong.

Since I had been thinking about this for months and they were so nice, and nice is very important, I let them turn me. now I have a some very sharp chompers (it will make eating a select grade steak a lot easier to eat.) lol

I have a lot to learn about the Blood Lines RP game but I can go at my own pace. If I don't want to bite people - he has this big wooden barrel full of blood that we can drink from... Oak aged blood. Hmmmm Vintage????

So that is what Dakk did yesterday. My human is still trying to rid herself of the migraine she has had for 2 days now. she even took out her contact lenses. Good thing she is near sighted so she can do close up work. LOL

Ok my dears - I guess that is all for now. If anything else interesting crosses my path I will be sure to let you know.

/mmmmuuuuuaaaaahhhhh big kiss to you lol

Today's Day

Today was a pretty good day. I am starting to do things on my own. I was just popping in and out of stores looking at clothes and poses Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh and SHOES! Cherry is having a 50% off sale to make room for their new styles- Fat Packs are not on sale though. I scooped up a few pairs of those bad boys for sure!

It is funny - I never really cared about shoes in SL until I went to meet Fia Bonetto for the first time. It was my interview for her agency-the first words out of her mouth were "I don't like your shoes. Make sure you get rid of those before I see you again." LOL

Since then I am very conscious of my shoes. LOL Funny.

So that was my day. Not very interesting but it was mine. :-)

Dakk

A Promise Kept!

Today, as promised yesterday, I have for you two outfits from Kissed by Lithium. I also threw in some poses from Adorkable Poses! These designers keep amazing me every time I see something from them.









First from Kissed By Lithium (KBL) we have Diazapam. A cute little number with a body suit, flexi skirt and tutu skirt. I am wearing purple but it also comes in brown, black and blue. I just loved the tutu skirt so I wore that one in the shots. . I really loved the delicate open lace between the bra top and the bikini bottom on the body suit. You will probably see me running around SL in this number a LOT this spring now I need to find me a really cute pair of flops that are NOT the kind the foam kind I usually end up getting. (Hey I am still pretty new to this Fashionista thing)



This second offering from KBL is Oxycontin, a cute little pair of short shorts and a bandeau top available in blue, green, brown, and purple. It is great for those hot summer nights for going out to the clubs or even just staying home. The satin is a beautiful material for this outfit because it shows off the curves nicely.


The pose screens are from Adorkable Poses. (See Ms Peapod! I actually was able to get one done!) Any way these screens are AMAZING! She has put several poses in them so more than
one person can have fun! Imagine one person hanging upside down while another is trying to tip it over! it is menu driven so it makes it easy to change poses too. This is super for Photograhers as well as anyone who just likes to have fun with poses. :-)

Okies I have to give my old fingers a rest. The fibromyalgia is cramping my fingers and making it a bit hard to type and if I am in SL I am going to need to use voice chat! LOL

See ya in my Second Life!

Fantasy Faire is now Over

I am sad it is. I got to sneak in today whilst the vendors started packing up. It was very sad seeing the empty booths, but I did get to see a lot of things the vendors did have as wares AND I gathered a lot of Land Marks so I can visit their shops at my leisure.

I did find this one place - totally by accident as there wasn't a sign to it - it was behind the Mer Market. There was a pirate ship back there in a lagoon. I wanted to see what was over there and into the water I jumped- and it was not a shallow lagoon either. Good thing SL we don't really breathe!

As I plummeted to the bottom of the deep lagoon I landed with a semi hard thud. (well water does slow you down a bit). When I stood up and was able to look around I was amazed! Had I known what I had seen was there guess where I would have taken ALL my photos for my blog! Yep you got it! It was actually a booth for Garden of Da Vinci, a wonderus place on Kalepa Sim created by Felixx Sheppard.

I found myself in some ruins looking directly into the eye of an octopus! He was as curious about me as I was about him!

I found the coral and got on a ride-able sea horse and took a ride around his display. I had hoped it was larger than what it was but I got the landmark to the sim and I plan on going back. His sim has more than just what is under water! There is a castle and oh so much more.

I have not been having luck with putting SLURLs in here so all you have to do is search for Gardens of Da Vinci and there it is!

now I am taking a short break my fingers are tired - tomorrow I have some outfits from Kissed by Lithium to tell you all about... giggle... I am such a tease!

Mermaid's Tale / Tail

Morgana Price has a beautiful tail for Relay for life it is called the Tulip Marrow. It is in a gorgeous color of blue with a beautiful tulip


petal design on all the fins, fin skirt and dainty faerie wings! I had to give you a back view so you could see it! This tail would be


wonderful for participating in a mermaid ballet! I can see the mermaid ballerinas dancing across the stage! Beautiful!

CelestialRay Serpente owner of Rose Princess has a very regal mermaid tail. It is actually part of a three piece set that includes the tail a gown and a bridal dress - I only have time to write about the mermaid tail. And what a tail it is. I imagine this tail is that of a queen or a princess or a good farie mermaid or someone like Glenda the Good Witch of the North.




Well with these last two Mermaids we come to the end of my Fantasy Faire Journey. It has been fun writing about these beautiful tails but I couldn't end my journey with out telling you about the beginning - the way I found out about Mer People in Second Life. And that all begins with one Photo shoot two years ago for a wonderful designer named Alice Biondi.


She is not just a mer designer - in fact this year her booth is set up in Elven Court but she let me in on two of her current tails and her RLF bracelet. I fell in love with mermaids that day 2 years ago! Alice and I have kept in touch regularly, but I had no idea mer people were this popular until this Fantasy Faire! Thank you, Alice, for that first glimpse of the wonderful world of Mermaids. If it weren't for you I would not have visited, let along blogging for, the Fantasy Fair!

This first mermaid is called the Fisherman's Wife. I need to ask her about why it is named that. I bet she has a grand story to tell. It is a brilliant shade of green with long flowing fins as well as some feather is looking fins around the bottom of the tail. Around the waist is a satchel/belt/scarf I wasn't able to tell but it was very pretty.














The Second Mer tail I tried on was even more amazing than the first. It is called Icelanta and the mer really shows the Ice part off in shades of blue and white! This one came with a skin and eyes. The hair I had in my inventory (I am not sure of the designer so if anyone out there can give me info on that I would love to have it) The tail fins move gracefully and the arm cuffs and the hip fins add a beautiful touch.

The RFL Bracelet is very beautiful. It is simple, cute, and amazing all at the same time. I really looked at it and was amazed at the detail that went into this piece. From the braided silver to the glass flower charm that lets the color behind it through (look at it - it shows my skin tone with both skins shine through!) it looks so real. I want one for my First Life!

Once Upon a Time..

... A MerVillage had been destroyed. Everyone had moved to deeper waters for their safety. It was very cold in the deeper waters. There was one mermaid who did not like it at all. Her family told her to stay away from the ruins. When she asked why she had to stay away from the ruins where the warm waters were, they explained that it was destroyed by man and they did not want to risk having her hurt or even worse, murdered! She contemplated this for a while.
She hated disobeying her family, but she was so cold the thought of warmer waters was too compelling she couldn't help it. She had to go back. Something was drawing her there. Was it just the warm water or something else? "Man? What is man?," she thought to herself, "Man cannot be all bad. We have Mermen and they are a type of man, aren't they?" Before she knew it she was at the ruins.



The warm water felt so good! She was home. She was warm!

In fact she was having such a good time that she did not see the man on the bank of the water above her. He had thought he had heard splashing and thought someone may be in trouble so he took off his boots, armor and shirt and jumped in to try to save who ever he had thought was drowning.
He was completely startled as she swam over to him to get a closer look. They stared into each others eyes for what seemed like an eternity, but was only a few moments, as humans cannot breathe under water.


She swam away as he broke the surface of the water. Did he see what he thought he saw? Did she just see a human? "too bad he cannot breathe under water," she thought at the same time he was thinking, "too bad she is a fish."


I hope you liked that little story - below are the items from that Story:


The Purple Mermaid Sleved Tail, & Ruins are from Mermaid Reef - Suki Hawker
The tail is different from any others that I have seen so far. For one it shows more skin on the legs and thighs than most tails do. it also comes with three different arm cuffs that you can wear if you want to. crab claw, star fish or plain. if you touch the fins you will get a menu with things that you (or anyone) can do to the mermaid - in words -- like hug, lick, play, etc.
The Ruins are beautiful! Much larger than I expected which is always nice! the realistic stone texture was amazing. If I were creating any kind of undersea habitat I definitely would want to use the ruins.


Pose Balls - Falling into you - Kit Jefes- Kindred Souls
This is a great pose not only for mer people but for anyone who wants a cute couple pose. I really liked it.




The following tail is by Suki Hawker - Mermaid Reef


This Mer tail is a bit more for the bad girl in most of us that wants to get out. (many of you already let her out!) It is called The Sheer Latex Tail.


It has a really flowing tail that is indeed sheer. There are two sizes of scales in the front. High and Low. Low is really low... it shows everything in the nether regions so make sure you have had your waxing done.

Arm Bands, Collar, Chains, Chain Belt - you could be a Mermaid Biker! OK, I know, driving the bike is awkward side saddle. It was just a thought.

Close up of the chains on the belt - this one has the menu driven fins as well.

Oh did I forget to mention it comes with this ball gag?
Dang I hoped you wouldn't have reminded me, Suki.




The Fantasy Faire is running until April 25th! Come out and get your Fantasy On!




A big Thank you to my friend Kevin Fielding for letting me use him in my story! :-)