Worm-turning Day...

I try to see the best in people.
Ok I'm not naive, no doormat, but when people disappoint I'm the one making excuses for them, trying to smooth things over, giving space, chances for the right thing to happen.
I won't bore anyone with the details but tonight (R/L) I had my wake up call. I reached the point of no excuses, no space.....see, it was my turn to be walked over, my goodwill thrust back at me and without detail, it hit me in a most vulnerable place.
I am deeply pissed off.
In the absence of chocolate I've had to make do with gin.
So, a new me dawns - now I look after me, my interests - time to be selfish, no longer on the receiving end of the selfishness of others - let THEM do the "understanding", the making of allowances (for me!)

Inventory Offer From....

I was intrigued and had to log on to see..

...even more puzzled I thought I had been sent a picture of the stink monster from Spirited away

...then I remembered the conversation...


Ooo u look weird
Me :?
Hair, clothes, and weirldy eyeballs!!!! but no skin

Second Life - wonderful place!!

Gripes....

At the risk of sounding a bit pissy (Oh WTF – it’s my blog anyway!), there are a few things that are bugging me atm.

Now that we can choose names seeing who is online is becoming a bit of a minefield!

First you have the hieroglyphics that gravitate to the top of your list – thankfully I only have a few of these and can remember who they are.

Then you have the completely enigmatic – “Remembrance of Things Past.....is online” flashing on-screen really? Am I going to look up a profile to work out who that is?

Then you have the ones who started with a “normal” name, change to a normal name....but then change again to another unrelated normal name, each permissible time-frame!

I had an instance last week where a very old friend wanted to test out a kidnap anim. His chat tab gave his regular name, while I was waiting for him to accept my teleport this guy started chatting to me. Before I could do my “waiting for my friend” bit, I realised it was my friend – confused? Sure was!

While I’m on a rolling rant, another thing that bugs me (and yes, I realise I may upset a friend or two here but, hell, it’s just my view right?)

You are having a quiet evening somewhere, a blue box pops up for a club event, you dismiss it...

        ...THEN...

                  ...within seconds, group chat splatters the same thing across your viewing screen! Really guys, I want to stay in touch with events......BUT!!

Confession...

Please don't laugh at this but I killed a spider.

I hate spiders, they freak me out in varying degrees according to size and movement and I can tell you that a very large spider avatar reduced me to a quivering wreck on a couch in S/L once.
Having said all that, I don't kill them. There are 2 reasons for this.

1. I don't kill things, not earwigs, not ants (no, not even when they grow wings and swarm), well ok, maybe I don't count mosquitos in this but I don't kill other things.
2. My partner has a big issue with spiders being killed (an ancient family story of his which I respect) and he is consequently more than happy to escort them to safety. In fact I can't remember killing a spider since I met him until now.

There was one on the bedroom ceiling the other day, on approach the crafty thing dropped like a stone, as they do. "It's gone" he said "It bloody well isn't!" I thought.

Well my rescuer is not here and it, or one of it's brethren, just showed up. On the floor? the ceiling? across the room? Nooooo of course not. On the bedside table that abutts my mattress, inches from my elbow. Long front leg-type too so I knew there wouldn't be much time (and I didn't have my wine glass and postcard kit to hand). There was a mug nearby and......well it's done. I would have preferred putting it outside but knew if it ran, I couldn't sleep in my bed   - it or me! I still feel bad though.

Welcome to Immersion.......

You are watching a fim on TV......
It reaches one of those black-cat-in-a-coal-hole moments where you can't see what's going on.....
You reach for the remote......
World > Environment Settings > Midday ......

......Oh!!! :(