*This is 2 days late, my acct was fooked for a bit!*
Today is my Rez Day! Happy Rez Day to meh! It sounded very rock & roll in my head! So, this is actually the first rez day I've been actively in SL lol. Crazy right? I decided my blog would be a little bio if you will. How I started, and how I got to be here now 3 years later in SL. We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll ...lets face it, we'll probably laugh alot. I am quite aware of how crazy I can be at times and I rather tend to embrace it. I wouldn't be me without it. Here we go! This is how it alllll began...[too dramatic?]
I was on Yahoo! Msgr, when my friend Ladybug [SL name] IM'd me. She was frantic and excited, and I was AFK. So, being incredibly impatient and annoying [love ya gurl!], she texted my phone to tell me to get my assi to my computer so she could talk to me instead of just texting me what she wanted. When I finally got back to my comp, she rambled about how I should always be at my comp when it was her and then told me she had been with a friend on Second Life. She says to me 'gurrrrl you have to dl it! go find it and get it' so I said, "dude, wtf is it" and she's like "OMG Mag [SL name] told me to dl it a few months ago and she finally got around to getting me on with her and she took me to some place and there were avatars having sex! i could hear like moaning and everything!!! LOL". So of course, my natural response was "ugh, leave it to you to find more places to be a perv". 'Shutty and go download it!' So I did, and by the time it was all said and done, it was time for sleep lol. So I had found out about it, searched it and downloaded it. Then I registered, and went to bed. A few weeks later, she tried to get me on and my laptop just couldn't handle it so I deleted it, uninstalled it and never went on again. Pretty uneventful, huh?
About 7-8 months later, I got a new Acer and I was in a very ho-hum relationship with a fewl of a man and I got an email about SL, so I recalled having made an account. I had my info re-sent to my email and I signed on. My avatar was so weird looking, but at the time I didn't know any better. I thought everyone looked like that. I spent a few weeks trying to learn how to walk, and I was stuck in between a wall and a tree somewhere on Orientation Island for about 3 weeks. I'd log in, try to get the heck out of there...fail and log off. I lost patience very fast with the game, and so I never got too far with it in the beginning. Eventually, I ran into a lovely woman who on voice, made fun of me and gave me a transferable skin and shape. Can I just pause here to tell you what I looked like? OMG I don't know who remembers the default avatars here in 07-08 but I had the one with the red dress, white shirt and black ponytails for hair. Ok so I thought manipulating the newb hair would give me an actual hairstyle I would like. So very wrong...I don't know what I did to it but it looked like zombie hair. The only claim I can give myself is it was my signature black LOL. I tried to give her pinkish nail polish, and somehow turned her whole arm up to her elbow this pinkish purple color. I attempted to give myself black tights, my whole body was black except my head which was sickly white, and of course my colorful arms. I was one hot mess let me tell you what. Had I known how to take a snapshot back then, I would have been afraid to break the camera. So, she transferred me these items and I crashed. I was so embarrassed at what she had said and the fact she wasn't actually on voice talking to me, but someone else telling them how I looked and OMG'ing it all that I didn't log back on for several more weeks. Upon reading some tutorials on how to get dressed and whatnot, I braved it once again sometime in early April or May, I believe. I put on the shape and skin she gave me, and proceeded to try to find different clothes. I learned slowly but surely, and all alone because Ladybug's computer had died, and she didn't have another one that could handle SL. My partner in crime was nowhere to be found and I was trying to learn all of this new world on my own. Luckily, I'm ridiculously intelligent and got things fairly fast now that my computer could keep me online long enough to learn some things.
I found a new skin that I liked a bit better, and I worked on making my own shape to look how I wanted. Didn't know at the time about buying shapes, and what have you. Just thought everyone made their own, so I did and I still use it to this day. Of course, I have several versions now but all with the same face and I think I'll keep it lol. When I had started to get in the swing of things, I met a sweet man just starting out himself and we became friends. He took an immediate liking [of course] to me, and we hung out whenever we were on together. We're partners in SL and RL now, and the rest of that story is for another blog lol. In between Gio and I partnering, I had another SL break due to a hectic RL and another computer malfunction. I had to get my laptop fixed, and was working 2 jobs. He looked for me everyday until I came back and I of course thought he was some sort of crazed stalker. When we were on, we explored SL together & made the most out of each minute we spent online. We danced, we shopped, we built random things that made no sense just to try out our editing skills. One day, I walked into a shop that would change my whole SL. I became the group manager @ Mythology which later became MYTH, became friends with Aeris & she actually was the one that told me I should try blogging. She taught me about clothing, where to shop and how to flick my Flickr. I did, and here I am now with my site, which I've been on for more than a year *yay* and also blogging for The Metaverse Tribune [http://metaversetribune.com - Mi Paraiso Virtual]. I am taking my own pictures and actually making them look decent enough to post *yay again!* and attempting to learn other things as well. People actually stop and tell me they like the way that I write, they like that I put so much effort into my blogs and that they actually just like reading what I ramble about here. It makes me all warm and fuzzy...I used to write poetry [well I still do...] and songs, and now I write about Virtual Fashion and I kinda adore it. Photography is a RL love of mine, and I'm excited to learn more about creating beautiful photos for SL as well. Making my own shapes led me to creating shapes for others also, which as of now I'm only doing on a 'Hey u asked, so sure I'll make one' basis. I probably do too much, but I think i'm just well rounded lol. I don't want to rule the world, or SL...I just want to be me. I don't need to be popular, I just want those that know me to view me in a good light. I'm not high and mighty, I just always try to do as good as I can! All in all, I think me is pretty ok. This is just how I wagonwheel. And even after reading all of this, I hope you do too! Hehe...if not, damn it I dunno. Lemme give u a linden...I'm poor, is 1L$ a good bribe??
She was very much into the...other side, shall we say...of 
The pretty 
The store is on the same 
[Pink Fuel] might not be one of those uber popular skin places to shop but it might just be the perfect place to highlight you in the crowd of effortlessly normal avi's.
Anyone that knows me knows I'm incredibly annoying when I'm working on something. I am like a rabid kitty on catnip clawin a curtain and out for each ribbon. Doesn't make me a bad person tho, just dedicated! I like to do my best, and so with working with Wear Gray I was stopping by every so often and checking out the sim. Making sure I saw each set-up, and snapping pics of the ones I liked. Then i'd see random things I hadn't noticed before, or that someone had just set up and had to go around again. I think I might know the sim better than the people that built it. It really was a neat experience to see as people were setting up, decorating and re-arranging all of their sale items and vendors before there were any people there. Never actually done it before, good times lol. I'm sure after awhile everyone got to wondering what the heck I was doing walking in circles, but everyone knows when there's that much to look at you miss things! Hopefully by now I've seen it all. There was one shop in particular that I had to stare at for a long time...the setup near brought tears to my eyes and I think the designer did such an amazing job.
I encourage everyone to stop by and take a look, the designer of Elymode clearly put alot of heart & soul into this setup and it would be a wonderful thing to support the time she took to do this. Also, she's got some fabulous vendors out all 100% donated to the ABTA!
This cutesy lil dress is courtesy of *Boof*, which also made the Wear Gray pin in the picture down below. The tree trunk is from {what's next} and it is one of several adorable home items available for the Wear Gray fair. This trunk has a shadow/non shadow option and 4 sit options for your convenience. They are both donated items for the ABTA.
This picture is my little collage of looks from the Wear Gray donations vendors. We have the I 'heart' SL tee from *Rezlpsa Loc* as well as the Anne Wears Gray Hair, the *Boof* Wear Gray pin and MYTH Trepid Jeans. Then, we have a White tee & Pocket Cord Shorts from *Dreams* followed by a dress from Vanita's Vestures called Opiate & the little ribbons fluttering about the pic are courtesy of Foxworth Creations Gray Ribbon Poofer. There are so many items up for sale here, as well as auctions going on for one of a kind items so please come on down to Wear Gray Fair, spend a few lindens, meet some new people and help an amazing charity!
