Death by Bear (and hey, Fantasy Faire is almost here!)

Sometimes I like to think that if there really is a heaven, it'll end up being whatever wonderful thing we want it to be.

For instance, let's say that I die in some kind of a freak accident — like a bear flying through the air and smashing into the windshield of my car (and I'm not kidding when I say that I hope someday I too become a victim of death-by-airborne-animal because then my family could put "She never saw that bear coming" on my tombstone, which would make everyone laugh and that would make me happy) . . . ok sorry, back on point. So hypothetically speaking, let's say I die and when I get to those great pearly gates in the sky, Saint Peter greets me and says, "Hey, here are some terraforming tools and some textures and some sculpt maps and whatever else you need — knock yourself out!"


A portion of the whimsical Jungle Bungle sim at Fantasy Faire 2012

So if I could create my own heaven, it'd be a world with fairies and unicorns and griffins and centaurs and talking plants and singing flowers and gallant knights and robots — YES, ROBOTS — and spaceships and castles and chocolate lakes and big foofy dresses and an occasional visit from Lord Tyrion from HBO's "Game of Thrones" and many, many rides on Falcor from "Neverending Story." And I wouldn't necessarily have a royal title or anything, but I WOULD get to wear a big sparkly crown for the hell of it. And occasionally I would sprout wings. And all my beloved pets that have passed away would be there waiting for me. Oh, and family members too, but you know what? Let's just go ahead and assign them to a nearby kingdom or planet or something. Close enough to visit but far enough to keep my Mom from popping in to interfere with my frolicking and nag me about how I need to wear more lipstick.

I could go on and on and on about my fantasy heaven ("hey Em, you sort of already did"), but we don't have time for that right now. I really need to get to the real subject of this blog post, which is the next best thing to Emerald's Post-Bear-Tragedy Heaven . . . [drumroll] . . . FANTASY FAIRE 2012! IT'S JUST ABOUT HERE! Can you gimme hallelujah?

This magical fundraising event for the American Cancer Society is my favorite event in SL. I applied to be an official blogger and danced a little jig when I got accepted, so get ready for a few fantastical posts about the creators to which I've been assigned. (And somewhere out there, my English teacher applauds that sentence construction.)

But first, here's a rundown of Fantasy Faire 2012 basics:

• Fantasy Faire 2012 runs from Saturday, April 21 (noon SLT) through Sunday, April 29.

• The official Website, which is chockfull of useful information, schedules and maps, is HERE.

• The event includes nine days of shopping, live music, auctions, hunts and roleplaying to benefit Relay for Life and the fight against cancer.

• Avatars, clothing, furnishings, gadgets, goodies (GOODIES!) and exclusive items are available from more than 130 of SL's top fantasy creators.

• Every participating creator will have at least two RFL vendors.

• Fantasy Faire 2012 consists of eight lavishly landscaped, individually themed shopping sims, which combine to create one fabulous Fairelands fantasy continent. I went over and attempted to check them out in between MUCHOS CRASH-OS, and the stunning artistry of every sim made me wish I was a fabulous photographer so I could take awesome pictures of them. Hopefully somebody out there will. For a list of the sims, their SLURLs, themes and individual maps of each one, visit this Web page: Designers List.

• You can also access portals to the Fairelands sims, attend performances and check out the (I WANT WANT WANT THOSE) silent auction items at the Fairelands Junction HERE. There are also nifty (NIFTY!) free low-lag sets by Fallen Gods and Wasabi Pills for girls and guys to wear. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IN ALL-CAPS PUT THEM ON! Lag is such a buzz kill at these things.

• Visit the American Cancer Society in SL HERE. I'm ashamed to say I haven't been there yet. I'm putting it on my to-do list RIGHT NOW though.

If I left anything out, just give me a good whack and let me know and I'll come back and edit this post. (Hell, I usually edit my posts about 10 times after I hit "publish" anyway. I'm OCD like that.)

ZOMG KittyCatS gets cutting edge, y'all! (and more exclamation points!!)

I haven't been inworld much lately because I've actually had some RL job interviews (along with way too many OH-SO-ANNOYING bridal showers to attend). The interviews have been nothing to jump up and down about, but hey, at least a few people out there are taking an interest in my professional abilities. I'll take that over a silent phone and an empty email inbox any day.

Anyway!

I logged in today to news of the latest KittyCatS update and WAIT! I realize you might not own any, but BEFORE YOU STOP READING, DON'T! I'm pretty blown away by how groundbreaking this latest development is. Maybe you will be too.

KittyCatS has developed an online Cattery that allows owners to transfer their cats from Second Life to a Web page . . . and then bring them back inworld whenever they feel like it. And even when they're living on the Website, they can still breed and live their normal little cat lives — for instance, they also need to eat there, as you'll see in the picture below.

I'll admit, I had to read the update notecard a few times to grasp the concept, but here's a screenshot of my first tentative attempt to get my online Cattery rolling:


OK, so see those cats? They used to live on one of my parcels. NOW THEY LIVE ON A WEBSITE! All I had to do was click the new "Cattery" option on each cat's menu. But if I ever get the urge to pull one of them back in world, I'll just click the menu on a free dock that's available at the KittyCatS Main Shop and SHAZAM!


It's back! (You have to yell, "SHAZAM!" when you do it though, or it won't work.)

(Just kidding.)

Then I can send it back to the online Cattery anytime.

"BEAM HER UP, SCOTTY!" 

(YES! They need little "Star Trek" uniforms now!)

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW AWESOME LIFE WOULD BE IF WE COULD DO THIS WITH OTHER STUFF IN OUR INVENTORIES??? Well, maybe I'm the only one who can, since my inventory is currently at 185K. And yes, I realize that everything really lives on a server somewhere, but wow, how I'd love to see it organized on a Web site — with pictures! — and not have to sit around and wait for my damn inventory to load all the time.

So get on that, Linden Lab!

Anyway, I'm practically weeping with joy right now because I was actually getting ready to bid a fond farewell to all my cats. I just can't afford the rent on their pricey parcels anymore. Now I can just choose a few to live in my house and rotate them from time to time.

To read more about the new online Cattery, visit the KittyCatS Website HERE.

VISIT INWORLD
KittyCatS! Main Shop

y u so angry?

I walked into a store the other day and almost EVERY AV in there had that same look of grumpy little downturned mouth, freakishly wide hips and way too many cracks showing. I didn't know if it was some kind of April Fool's joke or what, but I got bored and tried to make that kind of shape too.

It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be and it still turned out kind of fail, so props to those chicks (a little). I cannot master the art of . . . well, hell, I don't even know what this look is called. It makes me miss the days of bling though. Back in my day, there was at least a kind of purity to the fug. *rocks in rocking chair thoughtfully*


Shudder.

I spent a day running around looking like this and it's amazing HOW GRUMPY I got after staring at myself for a while.

Speaking of grumpy, this chick wins my punctuation-less "I'm not sure if you were intentionally trying to make me laugh but you did so thank you" award of the week:


WHY U SO ANGRY, HOMELESS LADY?

She even had this "crazy angry homeless lady"-type AO that I couldn't quite capture in action. It had, like, a little foot-stomping, tantrum thing going on. I kind of want it.


At least her AV isn't boring.

And I do like her dress.

(The Dressing Room Blue is becoming my new favorite place to AV-watch.)

Poses by Wet Cat.

Easy lindens, "beefs" and stuff I like

I struggled with the decision of whether to start this blog post with an egocentric picture of me wearing some stuff I like or some cow slaughtering.

I opted to follow the blogger herd and start with a picture of myself.


I like this pic because I look a little helpless and slightly disbelieving in it, like, "Oh my God, my RL checking account has only $900 in it and I can't even get a job waiting tables in this one-horse town." That is, in fact, the small RL meltdown I had today. Vodka, lots and lots of it, finally helped. In fact, tomorrow I will read this post again before I hit "publish" and make sure it actually makes sense. *hiccup*

Anyway, if you didn't grab this cute hoodie/tube top set at FFL, 1 Hundred now has it for sale in store for 100L. I only JUST figured out that the store 1 Hundred is named as such because everything in it is 100L (or less if something's on sale). The clothes there are pretty cute and I usually go a little nuts in there. I don't know if the clothes are template-based or not — I'm clueless about that stuff — but I like the colors and textures, and the prices don't break my bank, so the place gets my thumbs-up.


Another FFL item that's now available in store is my new favorite necklace-slash-timepiece, Tick-Tock Hans Hase by Bliensen + MaiTai. (BTW, the cord is not jaggedy like it appears in the first pic — I'm not sure what the hell is going on there.) I bow down before designer Plurabelle Laszlo. Almost everything she creates makes me smile. This watch is scripted so you can set it to your timezone and is available in other designs if rabbits aren't your thing.


You can still buy these Long-Cuff Will Boots — shown here in limited-edition color Peach — at *G Field* from the RFL charity vendors that are now in store. There's also a limited-edition RFL Sepia version available. The RFL colors are 200L each, and the cuff patterns and lace and sole colors are HUD controlled. Other colors are available for 300L on the second floor of the store. I think these are some of my favorite boots. In my wealthier, gainfully employed days, I would have bought the 1200L fatpack.

And nope, for the record, I didn't sign up to be an official FFL blogger. (Thank God. I have enough RL turmoil without inadvertently ending up in an SL Blogger Hall of Shame.) These are just some things I got there and really liked.

Speaking of shopping and longing for not-so-material things, if you happen to be short on lindens, here's a fast way to make 250L, followed by another 500L shortly afterward.


First Opinions, an RL/SL company that facilitates surveys about SL residents, is hosting a paid survey for Westat, a social science research firm based in Rockville, Md.

•  If you live in the U.S., you can jet over to the survey site HERE and click that blue kiosk to get a survey HUD. (Check out the picture above and note the viewers on which the HUD doesn't seem to be working.)
•  You'll answer some basic questions about your political leanings, your level of happiness with your life, whether you think rich people are a bunch of jerks, etc. Your RL identity will be kept anonymous. DEADLINE: This first survey will only be available until April 2.
•  When you finish, you'll receive instructions on how to collect your 250L and then how to take the second 500L survey. I've already taken both and I've already been paid for the first one so far.
•  Some people who complete the 500L survey will be invited to take an RL phone survey that pays $30 USD. (Obviously, you can say "no thanks" if you're not comfortable with that concept.)

I mentioned it in an earlier post and I want to reiterate again that I've been taking paid SL First Opinions surveys for a couple of years and they're totally on the up-and-up. I know there's a heightened level of wariness these days with all the new SL phishing scams popping up everywhere.

On a sad note, due to limited prim space and lindens, I've got to start slaughtering some of my breedable cows. They've gotten out of control and I need the "death points" to pay for food for the remaining living ones. I was actually sort of shocked the first time I sent a cow to heaven. I mean, at least the other breedable creators have developed comforting euphemisms for deleting animals — Meeroos owners can "release" their Meeroos into the "wild"; KittyCats can transport their kittens to the "menagerie" where they can "purr, lick their paws or sleep all day long"; and Amaretto horses get to go to Horse Haven.

But the Breedabulls? Brutal, brutal reality:


Steaks, anyone? :(

Yes, when it's time for your cow to go, you have to click "Beefs" under "Care" (ironically) on your Breedabulls' menu and watch your beloved cow dissolve into meat right before your horrified eyes.

(Make sure you set out your Points Collector Rock — available for free at the main store — when you start the slaughtering so you can at least get paid for those rib-eyes.)

OK, now I'm hungry. I have to go find food and get some real work done. Have a lovely day!

VISIT INWORLD
First Opinions Survey Panel InWorld Office
Breedabulls Main Store

ROLL CREDITS
Hoodie/Tube Top - 1 Hundred - Pullover Hoodie with resizer scripts, 100L
Jeans - League - Garage Jeans in Turquoise, 245L
Boots - *G Field* - M*sh Long-Cuff Will Boots in Peach,  HUD-driven texture/color change, 200L RFL charity item
Necklace - Bliensen + MaiTai - Tick-Tock Hans Hase, 200L
Hair - Truth - Kalle w/Roots in Champagne (NEW), menu-driven color-change headband, 250L per color pack
Skin - Sugar - prototype, not yet available in store
Eyes - Vision by A:S:S - Prestige Eyes (NEW) in Versailles, special 1L in-store group gift, 150L join fee
Shape - Standard-Sizing Mesh Shape in Medium (adjusted with my personal face and Truth hair head dimensions) - get a FREE box of standard-sizing shapes (XXS, XS, S, M, L) for mesh clothing on Marketplace HERE to make your life less complicated when wearing mesh. (Yes, I swore I would never say that word again in this blog and I just said it three times. Sigh.) Many designers who sell mesh clothing also offer this free pack in their stores. I'm only wearing mesh boots in today's post, but I feel better knowing my body sliders have now been tweaked by some of the best minds in the business (no more worrying if my arms are too long). Between us, I think the boobs are a little droopy though. Less gravity! And yes, most boxes of Truth hair include a notecard with the head dimensions he uses to design hair. My life got so much easier when I switched my skull to that shape. Wow, this paragraph is long. Sorry.

the clock is ticking (FFL, featuring Schoen's Seide)

I can't believe Fashion for Life ends today — Midnight SLT, to be exact. I went Friday and sprinted around at the last minute during that awesome 55L sale, but I didn't really get to soak up the whole FFL 2012 experience. From what I glimpsed when I was running by, all the sims look fabulous!

So hey, maybe I'll see you there tonight when I'm running around at the last minute again!

One thing I saw and loved was this Seide gown by Schoen. It's an RFL charity item for 600L. Look at the detailing on the back:


Hey, I figured out a way to fix that annoying blocky wrist syndrome that sometimes happens with certain poses . . .


Put a bracelet on it!

(That bracelet is not at FFL, BTW. I believe it was part of a Christmas group gift from Purple Moon.)

The front is lovely too.


I'll zoom in, since my MacBook Pro lies and says it's taking high-res pics when they clearly, clearly are soft-res, best-viewed-when-drunk pics.


Everything shown in this post (except the hair, which is Evelyn by Truth) is at FFL.

Gown - Schoen at DreamSeeker Vrijeme - Seide [Onyx]
Skin - [Katsucide] at DreamSeeker Vrijeme - Sandra Cendre in Empoisonnee, Light
Necklace - je suis at DreamSeeker Volta - une princesse - this may be a FFL hunt prize - sorry I didn't take notes during my last mad dash. It's menu controlled and extremely customizable, from the gem types to the colors to the metals. Right now I'm showing it in Citrine.
Eyes - Insufferable Dastard at DreamSeeker Aika - Glimmer Eyes in Green

The Seide dress also includes a short skirt prim if you're feeling kicky and a little more flirty.


Tyra Banks would tell me I'm not connecting with my audience in this pic. *bops my AV on the head* "Look at the camera or make an expression or something! SMIZE, DAMN YOU!"

Boots - G Field on DreamSeeker Zolta - "Will" Long Cuff Boots in Peach, m*sh, HUD-driven color-change
Skin - Heartsick on DreamSeeker Epoque - Desire, Muse in Golden Berry
Eyes - IKON on DreamSeeker Zeit - Sunrise Eyes in Sand

OK, I'm gonna drop some honesty on you here. So put on your honesty-protection helmets or duck under an umbrella or something. Here we go. Deep breath:

I have many fashionista friends who breathlessly rave and rave and rave about IKON eyes. I've bought several pairs and I'm still not in the raving camp. I think they're lovely though! (OMG DID SHE JUST DESCRIBE IKON EYES AS PLAIN OLD "LOVELY" INSTEAD OF "AMAZING"???)

Don't get me wrong. I like them! I like them! I especially like the Sunrise line. Maybe I just need to try a few more pairs, but right now they just don't give me the eyegasm that some other eyes do. But the color combinations and the artistry are beautiful, the creator's talent is evident, and everyone else I see looks awesome in them. I know they're very high-society and all that, so I guess you can just chalk up the lack of eye libido to me being low-brow. Plus, I'm sort of in a love triangle with Vision: Eyes by A:S:S and Banana Banshee, so maybe my judgment is clouded by those deep and complex emotions.

BUT ANYWAY, there was a point to my honesty, and that was to tell you what I DO really like about IKON eyes. (Because if I were a full-time SL eye critic, that's how I'd roll.) SIZES! Every IKON pair includes S, M, ML(?), L and XL, and I have to give major props for that. Particularly because when I saw XL I got a little giddy and thought, "WOW, what the HELL do XL eyes look like??"

They look like this:


RAWK AND ROLLLLL! That's kind of strange and awkward-looking and I dig strange and awkward-looking! (That's why my eyebrows don't match my hair!) And yes, those eyes are very striking and multidimensional. It's why I bought them.

Sorry. Anyone who knows me or reads this blog knows that I'm kind of weirdly obsessed with eyes in SL. I'm a junkie. I have more eyes than clothes. I'm kind of prone to running my mouth about them at any given moment for no apparent reason. I have all kinds of passionate thoughts and opinions about them.

OK, that's enough babbling! We're running out of time!! But wait! I do want to thank Sileny over at Free*Style for her recent post with the heads up on the photo studio by KamreK Creations that I'm using. It's loaded with 47 backgrounds and well worth the 199L it costs, in my humble opinion. There's also a 399L version that comes loaded with 18 poses.

Speaking of poses, all poses in this blog are by Label Motion (50L per pose, 180L per fatpack). I pretty much buy everything in that store because, in addition to the individual poses, the fatpacks include a pose stand AND a HUD that are both pre-loaded with all the poses. It makes my life so much easier, particularly since I'm too lazy to load my own damn pose stands.

OK — let's go!

ALL THE INFO YOU NEED
Fashion For Life 2012 Website, includes lists of all vendors and their SLURLS

ALSO MENTIONED
Truth
Label Motion
KamreK Creations on Marketplace

P.S. Sorry this post is running way later tonight than I planned. My alcoholic father is on a drunken rampage today and I'm trying to squeeze in writing and other productive things in between his random-ass tantrums and rants. Good times! :D

talls vs. smalls (y'all)

This Vintage Cotton Tunic by Malt is not part of a special event. It is not a charity item. It was not featured in a Project Super Bargain Lazy Fashionably Eventa weekend sale. I simply walked into the store, saw it, liked it, and bought it.

I know! What a concept, right? And I've been stuck on that song "HippieChick" by Soho ever since I put it on. ("No hip-hip-hip hip-hip, no hippie chick!")

I am deeply weary in my bones these days and did not have the creative energy to style this look. But hey! At least I matched my Ingenue Gatsby Heels and my wallpaper to it! Matchy matchy!

So, to completely change the subject, I'm hoping someone will make some giant, bad-ass, combat-style boots and name them "PETITE STOMPERS!"and maybe give them a Hulk Smash sound when they walk.

I run into those damn little Petites whenever I try to TP anywhere. I trip over them and then I always have to beg for forgiveness and GRRRRR!


Someday, somewhere, this picture will hang in a prestigious art exhibit.

Sorry, I got tired of waiting for their little faces to rez. And WHAT THE HELL, my shoes disappeared! I hate it when that happens. Now I will have to kick the leeeeeetle teeny fairies with my bare feets. Fairy juice in between my toes!

OK OK OK — you know I'm just fake-bitching about them because I'm jealous. I still can't afford one of those awesome petite avatars by Yabu. And I guess I'm not the only one. Creator Elvina Ewing of Caverna Obscura has made some free petite AVs, specifically because people in the VIP group were complaining that they can't afford them either. I wasn't one of them though. I save my moaning and wailing for this blog.

Thanks to her generosity, you can now grab these free Minikins in her store. They're available in 0.3 and 0.4 sizes, whatever that means. Sorry. The whole Petite thing is kind of foreign to me. I don't speak the lingo. I can talk about breedable cows until the cows come home though!


Unfortunately, I'm not smart enough to understand the "Now you can get a petite sized mesh avatar FOR FREE!" notecard that announced them. It says, "Important thing should be mentioned: Minikin avatars are NOT compatible with clothing made for Petites!!! So please, don’t buy Petite clothes for Minikins! Animations made for Petites, furniture and other non-wearable things might be well suitable for Minikins, although I haven’t tested any."

So wait, that means . . . they're not really Petites? They're nudists? Or even though they can't wear clothes, they could possibly ride little tiny horses and sit in little tiny chairs and do little tiny dances or . . . whaa? They can hang out with the Petites, but they'll be like the naked misfits of the group? I don't know. You'll have to figure it out for yourselves.

Regardless, I went to get them . . . but when I got there, I ended up stopping dead in my tracks and staring with unfettered lust at this guy for about five minutes:


HUBBA. HUBBA.

"Hi, I have some big, pesky dragons in my yard. Please come slay them. (JUST DON'T LOOK AT MY FEET!)"

WOOOO! I guess I just figured out what kind of guy I go for in SL. He got me all hot and bothered for a minute before I had to slap myself and say, "STOP THAT! HE'S NOT EVEN REAL!"

Plus, I don't really wanna think about why he was there to get some free tiny little fairy avies. :(

And then there were these two:


I have to hand it to them — they had the whole scaly, sexy thing down with the slinky AOs and everything. I was both terrified ("Please don't hurt me!") and fascinated and possibly even a little turned on. I really think they were just there looking for Petites to eat.

Oh how I love to people-watch at that place.

I don't really have a way to end this post, so let's just all sing this song together:



VISIT INWORLD
Caverna Obscura

ROLL CREDITS
Dress - Malt - Vintage Cotton Tunic in Pear
Shoes - Ingenue - Gatsby Heels in Chartreuse (previous Collabor88 item)
Hair - Truth - Dee w/Roots (NEW) in Burgundy (Rigged M*sh)
Skin - Belleza - Lily in Sunkissed (Christmas group gift)
Pose (top picture) - Label Motion

dirty pubs and talking crotches

Hey, in case you didn't know, it's St. Patrick's Day! Let's celebrate by looking at some stuff I found on Marketplace.


This Dirty Dublin Pub is a pretty sweet deal for only 10L. It includes a bar, tables, chairs, decor and a bunch of other stuff I couldn't fit in this picture. Here's the vendor pic for your viewing pleasure:


Get it TODAY because the price supposedly goes up to 100L after St. Paddy's Day. It's 36 prims without all the furniture. It's also fully modifiable, thank God, because you're gonna want to edit the linked parts and drop a scrubber script in the sign over the door outside. Otherwise you'll get smothered by big poofing cartoon shamrocks. They totally killed the whole dark, dive-bar vibe for me. C'mon, pub people! That's not dirty or grungy!

Buy it here: The Dirty Dublin Pub, 10L

Next.


This TALKING CODPIECE almost makes me wanna get an SL boyfriend so I can make him wear it and laugh my shamrocks off. Gosh, and look at all the snazzy extras you get with it! For a mere 111L, it's A STEAL, gentlemen!

Buy it here: Men's "RUB for LUCK" Talking Codpiece, 111L

Let's step away from the wild side and get domestic for a second.


If you read my post yesterday, you know that I couldn't rez anything for most of the day. That's why this post is sort of late and these are all vendor pictures. (That's probably sweet, sweet relief for you, actually.) Anyway, this cute chair is FREE and nicely done! I got it. I liked it. It includes a two-prim version and a four-prim version with shadow, and it's copy. Yay! Maybe I'll set out a bunch of them tonight and you can all come over and drink green pixelated beer with me in my badly terraformed yard.

Buy it here: Shamrock Porch Chair, FREE

Moving on.


I appreciate the fact that these shamrock eyes are the 2012 version, and I swear I'm not being sarcastic when I say that. Pretty! You get two pairs — Mint and Kelly Green — for 1L. They're more subtle than other shamrock eyes I've seen out there, so they get my seal of approval. ARF ARF! (That was a seal sound.)

Buy them here: Shamrock Eyes 2012, 1L

So hey, what're you wearing today? I'm pretty loyal to the store A Touch of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day. I realize they're not gracing the covers of high-falootin' fashion magazines everywhere, but I don't care. I'M A FAN! I love the colors and the textures in that store. And the whimsy. THE WHIMSY, I tell you! I'm wearing ATOI's Emerald Shamrock Dress in the picture up top. It looks way better on this chick, though:


I need a wind machine. Seriously, this vendor pic makes me wish I could learn how to take decent photos in SL. Beautiful.

Buy it here: Emerald Shamrock Dress, 375L

Or if you don't feel like getting all dressed up, you could always just slap on a giant shamrock:


That's not me; that's the vendor picture, and HELL YES I bought this thing! How could I not?? It's only 1L. I know you're looking at it right now and exclaiming, "THAT'S IT! THAT is what my wardrobe has been missing all this time!" At least that's what I said when I saw it. I'm being serious.

It includes pants, shirt, socks and that big damn shamrock. OK, technically it's a four-leaf clover, but whatever. SADLY, that hair is not included. DAMMIT!

Buy it here: Four Leaf Clover Costume, 1L

Or you could skip costumes and go with a completely new AV. I still can't decide if this one makes me happy or scared:


Look at his cool hat. He's 175L and includes everything you see here as well as "two silly leprechaun dances," according to the description on Marketplace.

There's also a female version of this AV. I'm not posting her picture because I care about you and your mental health. Suffice it to say, you're not going to see her as the centerfold in any leprechaun nudie magazines any time soon.

Buy it here: Male Leprechaun Avatar, 175L

The other day, my five-year-old niece asked me what the difference between a leprechaun and a fairy is. I told her fairies have wings and leprechauns have money. And fairies like flowers and leprechauns like beer. Then she ran away and asked somebody else. Oops.

I need a drumroll please for my final WTF item of the day. Or at least a suspenseful pause. Ready? drums and pause drums and pause drums and pause drums

OK. This, my friends, is called a Lucky Leprechaun Noob Pony w/Beer & Drunk MiniNoob.


"OH DANNY BOYEEEEEE!" "Now with animated barf, new sounds & green exhaust fumes!" and "still only 1L!" *gales of laughter*

I can't do the Marketplace description justice, so here it is verbatim:

"For your St. Patrick's Day pub crawl — Leprechaun Noob Pony will do the crawling for you! Hang on tight, though, he's had a few himself. Stand clear of the MiniNoob who's trapped himself in the beer-mug hat — he's completely trashed and blowing chunks. Both of them are full of beer and blarney, so proceed with caution as you ride off looking for the "end of the rainbow." NEW for 2011 — leprechaun sounds, animated barf, and green exhaust fumes added !! (Leprechaun Noob Pony is a worn attachment that you move with your regular walk, run & fly controls. Rub his feet or right butt cheek for luck.) Comes in a gift crate with festive bow."

A FESTIVE BOW! And YES, that is a PUKING NOOB in his hat:


I want my mommy.

Yes I bought it. And yes, I was slightly relieved when my rez problems prevented me from opening the "gift crate with festive bow." Maybe I don't want to see this thing in action. And maybe I secretly want to marry the guy who made it.

Buy it here: Lucky Leprechaun Noob Pony w/Beer & Drunk MiniNoob, 1L

I think I'm done now. That was a little too much excitement for me.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hey hey hey it's my rez day

It's my Rez Day and everything is going to hell.


(Hey, look at my cattle!)

It started this morning, with my RL cat Clover chewing through my laptop charger. Actually it was my BACKUP laptop charger, because she chewed through the first one a couple of months ago. So I had to drag myself to the Apple store to buy another one. Um, BAD DAY to go to the Apple store. There were about 9,000 people there buying the new iPad. OOCH. Calm down, people. SHEEEESH. You would think it was the second coming of Christ or something.

So an hour and $81 later I returned home with a new charger and logged in, only to discover that SL will not let me TP anywhere or REZ anything. Gosh, what beautiful irony. ("Happy REZ Day!") No matter how many times I logged in and out, I still couldn't rez anything. I found out the hard way by trying to rez a bowl of 1600L Meeroos food. It vanished with the message "Unable to rez an object."

**sigh and sad face**

Now I'm worried my Meeroos are going to starve and run away because I can't rez their food. That's sad, especially because when I went to check them I almost fell on the ground because OH MY GAWD THEY BAKED ME A REZ DAY CAKE!!!


They've been digging up little presents for me all day — even a birthday card! AWWW! I have to give the Meeroos creators props for that little trick. That's pretty cool.

I'm a little stunned that I've been in SL for FOUR YEARS — WOOOO! That's a little disturbing. I don't have any big plans for today, nor do I want any. Usually I go out and splurge on something fun and slightly expensive . . . LIKE OH MY GAWWWD THESE NEW UNICORNS FROM WHITE OAK EQUINES:


. . . but times are a little tight for me this year. It almost makes me wish I was one of those bold "Hi! I'm a blogger! Can I please have one of your unicorns so I can blog it?" bloggers, but I'm not. It's just not how I usually roll.

Oh well.

UPDATE: THANK YOU, MEARA!


She got me the unicorn! YAY! I love it SO MUCH! Now if I could just get rid of my robot face!

And that wasn't a hint up there, I swear!

Getting back to celebration ideas, I thought about setting up a stripper pole with a tip jar and putting on a little show for all my friends who have been begging to see me naked, and then everyone could drink champagne and hoot and holler and shove lindens in my G-string . . . but then I got scared that SL wouldn't let me rez — and would subsequently EAT — my sort of expensive stripper pole. Hey, don't judge! Every girl should have one!

So I nixed that idea.

Anyway. Enough about all that.

I had intended to include a bunch of trippy St. Patrick's Day stuff I found on Marketplace in this post but I'm just realizing that all those pictures combined with the above paragraphs full of hand-wringing would make this post 100 miles long. So watch for it in the next post, which I'll start in a second. I just need to run and make a cocktail.

ROLL CREDITS
• For my special day, I decided to deck myself out in this lovely Gentle Fairy Green Gown by Angelwing. I got it at Fashion For Life. It was a mere 100L. I love you, Angelwing, for making beautiful things that I can afford. The gown includes a head garland and wings (not pictured).
• Hair - Truth - Lykie w/Roots in Snow, rigged m*sh. I think this could be my favorite hair ever. It makes me feel like a woman. *cue Shania Twain*
• Skin - Belleza - Lily in Sunkissed (Christmas gift)
• THAT ROCKIN' UNICORN - White Oak Equines - get it on Marketplace HERE and inworld HERE. It's also available in Black and Palomino versions.