Welcome back!

I am in the process of moving all the items i had on Onrez to Xstreet SL. I have a few items up, but it will take me a while to get everything up on there.

I hope that’s not in some violation of their clause or anything, I mean they are new to their market place.

It seems a nice place, but one thing I really wish they had was the ability to add merchant to favorites like onrez had. Maybe they will see this post and think to implement it. I find a lot of things I like by a merchant, and instead of having a billion different items in my favorites, you know hard to weed out that one item you plan on getting today… I also like to watch my favorite merchants for new adds to their stores like oh say… Grueling designs…

As most of you know, we bought an island in jan… it’s doing great, live concerts in the park, a lot of events going on, so been a lot of fun.

QnC got a new shop and we hope to have everyone moved in with in the next week or two. With deployments and real life, getting the shop moved over and open took a back seat to getting the island up and running.

I also would like to point out that the tarnished tinker side of QnC has put all of his older products in one of our gift shoppes…. he has a new line of a lot of cool things getting ready to come out. Some of the free items he has put up in the gift shoppe is a small hint of whats to come with his items.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I BRING YOU THE ONE, THE ONLY, TALLGUY KIDD!!!

Tallguy, if you haven’t seen him, heard him, you are missing out on one hell of an eargasim.

Dale Marsh as he is known in the real world is a very talented Texan, who has a voice as smooth as silk, incredible talent for the guitar, and original songs.  His originals are incredible, going from heart felt (Let Them In) to funny (The Yahoo Song).

You can get more information from his website DaleMarsh.com, or stop on in Second Life, look him up in the events and see him live.

Astronimus plays a mix of classical, jazz, new age and sings rock/pop and soul songs. Many of the works performed are composed by Astronimus. He also performs in theatre musicals, the last musical in which he performed as Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar.

He plays the violin, guitar, flute, keys,  AND sings!!

This man is incredible.  I was blown away just seconds into his first song.  If you haven’t had the opportunity to hear him, you really need to.  GO NOW!!

I had been having some problems with one of my neighbors at the new house.  Not a nice person at all.  Last night I got so frustrated, I took my house off my property and all that fun stuff.  Dropped my dogs and my desk for my Onrez box @ my little sister Bri’s house.  I even considered leaving SL.  I had reset my home to her front porch.  I didn’t plan on going back to my old place.

When my husband called, I asked him to set the property up for sale.  Being that it was grouped under the band group, one of the band members had to do it.  I am just a band spice, I don’t have that ability, not that I would want it.

Tonight, I logged into SL to check the market and see if things are going ok, expecting to log onto my sister’s front porch.  As things start to rez, I notice I am not at my sister’s.  I am in a sim where she holds rental property.

As it continues to load, I do the typical, check email.

“Sissy, I am not letting you leave SL because some bitch wants to be petty for what ever reason.  I am not going to let you do that, and you know as long as I have it, you will never be with out a place to go.  I built you a new house, Andy put some of your stuff into it, you need to go to my house and get your dogs. They have more room to run around now. We decided to let you do the kids’ rooms and set their stuff up because being a mom, I know how important that is for a mom to do.  I hope you like it.  I love you.  — Spawn”

There was more to that email, like how she hadn’t slept in over 72 hours and hoped all the prims aligned properly, and if not she sold it to me for 0L and full prims so it didn’t have to be moved and replace it and so that I could fix or change what ever I wanted to, Andy helped, Kyle came online to help, etc etc.

It’s a beautiful house. It’s the house I wanted to build before but didn’t have the room. I also wasn’t sure how I was going to keep it low prim. She did the whole house and front awning and deck in 48.

This particular property was supposed to go to the art museum she wanted to build. That project was important to her. In this gesture, I see that I am more important to her. I always knew she loved me, but this reminded me how much. It also reminded me that not only is she my sister, but my best friend.

Maybe later I will come back and edit this post so it makes more sense. Right now I am being overly emotional. If you knew about the ups and downs of the last 2 years of all of our real lives, it would be easier to understand the why.

There was quiet a hub bub recently when Linden Labs posted that in January they were increasing the price of the open space sims due to many people over loading them and pushing the intended use far past their limits.

I just read the post on the Second Life Official blog entitled “A Letter to Second Life Residents”.

I am very impressed with their decision on the open space pricing. Those who followed the rules are not going to be punished because of the few idiots. Here is the new ammendment in case you missed the post.

“Here is how we are amending the price change:

1. We are going to retain the Openspaces product at its original price point and its original intended use (forest, water, etc.). We will have technical limitations to help regulate their use, initially avatar and prim limit restrictions, eventually event, classified and script limits. Those of you who chose to use the Openspaces as intended may stay at the US$75 rate, but will need to contact the concierge team to do so.

2. If you want more than an Openspace, we will offer you the choice of moving to a new product called Homesteads that is intended for light use such as low density rentals. For existing Openspace owners we will phase in the price increase for this new product over the next 6 months. Homesteads will also have technical limits for avatars and prims, and eventually script limits as well.

* January 5, 2009 – non-compliant Openspaces will transition to Homesteads and the maintenance fees will go from $75 to $95 per month. We will offer an educational discount to qualified educators on the new Homestead product. The discount amount will be the same as Private Regions, roughly 30%.

* July 2009 — the maintenance fees for Homesteads will go from $95 to $125 per month”

If you haven’t read the full post yet, go to the link up at the top, and read it over.

Sash N Me riding at Halloween Island

The baby sister of the group, she is hard to keep up with so we put her on a horse to keep tabs of her, still didn’t work.   We had a good time that night, arial horsey doughnuts, horse tag in the air… well, that was once I caught up to her.

A lot of you have wondered if I had moved or not since my rant post about finding the perfect land and stuff. I have. Here is a snap of my new house. It’s a two story house, with an entery foyer, open kitchen, dining, sitting and living room, with a study and a guest room off to the side. Upstairs is mine and Andy’s room and a room each for our kids. Its big enough to have house parties and I just might do it sometime soon. I was shocked when after I built it, it only had 56 prims!!

My New House

Me and R7 hanging at Misty Acres

My favorite lion on SL, always makes me laugh no matter how crappy i am feeling. HAKA LOL

As it got closer to the Halloween Bash, we had so much to do, that we almost forgot to get our own costumes ready.

I had made a Magenta costume for a Rocky Horror Picture Show party that no one showed up to. I decided to wear it anyway at the party. Kyle decided he would be Dr Franknfurter to my Magenta, so I made him a skin, and he got the wig and lacey stuff. Ain’t her perdy??? LMFAO

Ain't he hot?? LMAO

Dr Franknfurter, Sab getting her vampire together, and me as the living dead flapper girl.

And here we are still getting costumes ready.

Later that night, Dead Magenta, starring ME!!

Scary Story Night @ My House.

Busy day in SL today.  First had a day of texturing and getting things out for the party and Sab made more new stuff for the trick or treat trail going on over at L’Quen.  Had an interesting visit by two ppl who… well lets just say don’t need to be around.   That is being nice…

Jenna Heartsdale and I are beginning to work on a Family Readiness center on SL.  The area it is housed at was generously donated by Kent Outlander.  Thank you, Kent, you are a very kind and generous man.  We plan on offering all kinds of information for military families, some of it will be things that your local FRG or KV might not tell you about.

Went to a party my friend and SL DJ, Zigi Jishnu was djing @ prim whore.  Was a lot of fun, Sab, R and I danced on the poles together. Zigi will be djing the second 2 hours of the up coming party over at the Nevemore on the 24th.  She has some really great mixes she has created.

3 on a pole

To end the night, we all went to my house and hung out and told scary stories.  Not saying the night is over yet, I haven’t gone to sleep.