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My SL Guilty Confessions Meme – Hail Mary, And All That Jazz

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Remind me never to complain about one of Strawberry Singh’s memes again! Last week, Berry had us write our SL haiku. While mine sucked, at least it was easy! This week, she wants us to confess all of our guilty secrets. It really would be easy to “have a headache” for the week and skip this one, but I’m going to take a deep breath (wishing I had a valium, instead) and just do it!

Here are the instructions:

Share 1 to 10 of your top second life guilty confessions. Remember to leave your link in this meme’s post so others can come by and read your answers as well!

1. I can’t find anything in my inventory without using Search. I know that a lot of bloggers will have an inventory-related confession, but I have to include this one. While I would LOVE to be one of those people who keeps a perfectly organised inventory, I just don’t have the patience to try to sort mine out. It’s much too daunting at this point to even try, so I’ve stopped fretting about it. I really wouldn’t be able to find anything if Inventory didn’t have a Search feature, and I totally abuse the Recent Items tab. In fact, I’m shocked when I find something actually filed away in it’s correct folder! I made a comment the other night that the reason I shop so much is because I can’t ever find anything I already have to wear…while this isn’t entirely true, it’s not far off the mark!

2. I love being girly. From my shabby-chic home, to my predominately pastel wardrobe, I love all things feminine. I work as a host in a rock club, and while most of the women there are wearing leather or denim, I love to rock the pink! Or pale yellow, or robin-egg blue, or any other colour besides black. Unless, of course, it’s the quintessential LBD 😉

3. I always compare my butt to other women’s. I guess you knew there would be something about my bum here. I have an obsession with my backside. I freely admit it, and I love it. But sometimes, I see another female avatar and I think to myself, “OMG! Hers is better than mine!” All I can say is I’m thrilled that with the Firestorm viewer I can tweak my shape without going into the dreaded telltale pose and broadcasting to everyone that I’m playing with my bum, because yes, I DO do it on the fly! I also always try on mesh demos, because if a dress or pair of pants gives me a flat derriere, it’s a no-go. Ironically, that’s the one thing I don’t like about my favourite LBD – as my sister Maddie said when I got it, “You got no junk!” Sighs. Well, it gives me another reason to keep searching for another one 😉

4. I’m boring. No matter how long I work on this post, I really don’t have anything earth-shattering to confess. So I’ll just stand in my garden, dressed in some pretty girly stuff I found in the Recent Items tab in my inventory. Oh…and not a bum in sight for me to compare mine to \o/

My Second Life Haiku Meme – Pink Cheeks, Oh So Warm

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Oh geez, she wants us to write poetry? She wants us to get all literary and creative and stuff? Somebody stop her!

This week’s meme challenge from Strawberry (yeah, she’d better prance!) Singh, is to write a haiku about our Second Life. I’m sure you all had to write one in school at some point – it’s a Japanese style of poetry, consisting of three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven and the third with five again.

Here are the instructions:

So the meme for this week is, write a Haiku about your Second Life. Remember to leave your link in this meme’s post so others can come by and read your answers as well!

Well, time for this buttercup to suck it up and show you just how bad I am at this!

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Usually smiles
But sometimes it rains til the
Sunshine peeps back in

Crawls into a hole
Her head hung deeply in shame
Pink cheeks, oh so warm.

If Wishes Were Horses – My Three SL Wishes Meme

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If wishes were fishes we’d all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we’d all ride.

Douglas Horton

That is a quote my Mom used quite frequently (although she usually shortened it to just include the horse part. She never liked to fish 😉 ). So I grew up understanding that wishing something wouldn’t make it happen. But that didn’t stop me from dreaming…

This week’s meme from Strawberry Singh is to blog our three Second Life wishes. You can click the link to see Berry’s and be sure to check out the others that are listed in the comments. I’ve had a ball every week reading the other memes!

Here are the instructions:
Share three things you wish for or about your Second Life. They could be things you wish from Linden Lab, things you would like to have inworld, things you would like to do, or any kind of wishes you may have. Remember to leave your link in this meme’s post so others can come by and read your answers as well!

Now, for MY three wishes!

I wish everyone would use a mesh-enabled viewer. For almost a year after mesh hit the grid, I refused to wear it when I was hosting so that people didn’t see me either as a blob or missing large parts of my anatomy. But come on, people! It’s been around for over a year now. I always wear undies under my mesh, but it annoys me when people ask me to change to system clothes when I’m working, just because they refuse to update their viewers! I had someone ask me to change a couple of weeks ago, and for the first time, I refused. You can stare at my bald head, missing legs and pastie-clad bewbies and enjoy the show, or get with the times and see me in my meshy glory!

I wish I could keep my clothes on. No, it’s not what you think!! Sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter :p Recently, I’ve been having a lot of trouble changing clothes. I can add attachments, but clothing layers just don’t seem to “stick”. This includes alpha layers, so I can’t even switch to mesh to be decent enough to leave home. While I’m grateful to no longer be wearing my hair and shoes up my bum, could I at least be able to wear a pair of panties and a bra??? This is just one of several recent glitches that have cropped up. The rest are slightly annoying, but this one is a major grrrr!

I wish people didn’t rush into relationships so quickly. I’m a romantic. I freely admit it. But I’m also a cynic. I see so many people partner – and even marry – in Second Life within a week or two of meeting. They meet, connect, feel that rush of infatuation and immediately join themselves “forever and ever, baby! You’re the only one for me! I’ll never love another!” Then the next time I see them, they’ve split up (often acrimoniously) and have a new partner. No, not just a new boyfriend or girlfriend, but a partner, with the name officially emblazoned in each other’s profiles. I have no problem with people meeting and finding love in Second Life, or any other virtual manner. I also know time seems to be condensed in SL. But please, get to know one another before you make it official. If you’ve managed to stay together for several months (real life months, that is), then consider it. Hell, go for it! I don’t expect permanence in SL any more than I do in reality, but I wish at least that people gave relationships half of the respect they have to in real life in order to make it work – not just give up so easily and move on. You have to nourish a relationship keep it going, so give it some time and make sure it’s what is right for you. Then, I’ll happily embrace your partnership and celebrate your joy 🙂

I’m actually suprised how difficult this meme was to complete. I know there are annoyances that we all suffer, but overall, I’m pretty happy with Second Life.

Now, please excuse me…I’ve grabbed my fishing net and my steed awaits!