11/365
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9/365 – random acts of kindness
9/365 – random acts of kindness
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earlier today codie plurked about this awesome pair of doc martins on xstreet. i checked them out and saw the huge pricetag and said they were awesome but expensive! seconds later BAM these shoes were sent to me via xstreetsl by amanda shinji… i was shocked, absolutely shocked, mouth hanging open and what not… i barely know this chick and she’s sending me expensive boots! i love random acts of kindness.. thank you again amanda <3
because of her i now virtually have the boots that i’ve wanted since i was 15. shiny silver doc martins.
6/365 – phases
sophia harlow issued an interesting blogger’s challenge to dig up our old selves and compare then and now. so i dug out the 3 major stages of my avatar’s look.
on the left is my orignal self from 2006. i tried to make myself resemble my rl self for some unknown reason. i guess because i was still getting used to things.
in the middle is how i started to look in late 06 and though some of 07. just started to get nice skin (that’s the panjen blood elf skin there) had a little money for clothes and shoes.. that damn green ass hair that i lived in for so long. and the original ears and tail that i made for myself because at the time no one had made rat ears and tail.
and of course on the right is how i look now. well one of my looks anyway, cause i change so often. but its the shape i use now.
i love looking back at how i’ve changed over time. its really fun
what did you get for xmas?
since i’ve been pretty much gone since all this real life stuff happened, i decided yesterday to get on briefly and check out all the amazing gifts my friends left me for xmas. i had a lot of fun smiling and opening presents. thanks to all of you who sent stuff it really lifted my spirits.
so now i present to you, the haul:
from my wonderful and adorable sl daughter i received this awesome bracelet which tells the world that i am the “best mommy” this gift actually made me cry. it was so sweet of her.
caesey also gave me a set of bat jewelry, this is the necklace from it. also wearing a candy cane made by rai blaylock, one of my newer plurk friends.
from my friend jasmine, i received this outfit from sn@tch… while i do love sn@tch, this outfit is very… um… not me lol
a plurk friend, quaintly, dropped this cupcake on me 😀 its really cute and has several poses, and will most likely serve as a throne for my daughter as she is the cupcake princess *nods*
ryker sent me things to stick in my mouth 😀 some really cute cookies, this is just one of them.
fenni got me this adorable mouse for my shoulder. i collect rodents in sl, i have a huge folder full of them, but this one is my fave at the moment.
foe sent me this weird ornament shaped lounge thing.
i tried to make a collage of all this stuff that rai blaylok sent me. you’ll probably have to click on that one to get the larger version.
autumn sent out these really awesome friendship bracelets. i love it! it reminds me of when i was a kid.
danni, one of the girls that live on the island lucas and i live on, gave me a box with a white and a black version of this corset piercing! she is so sweet and she even gave presents to the kids 😀 she also gave me a necklace but i haven’t put photos in it yet so i didn’t take a picture lol
these last two gifts are from the wonderful emerald wynn. i am so glad that i’ve met her, she is so sweet and i really admire her blogging style. she sent me a monkey.. and some sort of odd cat thing that i can lay on. that monkey has a worried look on his face >_>
so that’s my haul! i know you are saying OMG WHY DIDN’T LUCAS BUY YOU A GIFT THAT BASTARD. but no that’s my fault because he’s supposed to take me shopping for one but i can’t think of anything i want lol so i will buckle down and figure out something i want him to buy soon and then dedicated a whole blog to it *nods*
so anyway thank you people in second life who brighten my day. i have no idea how to repay you but thank you all the same.
omg shadows?!?!
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*EDIT* the shadows left as soon as i disabled them 🙁 now when i attempt to enable them again i get blackscreen.. bleh…
so today i was reenabling boob physics on emerald since i dl’ed the new optimized version of the client when they had an update, and just for the hell of it i clicked the “enable shadow rendering” box just to see if it would work this time.. shadows have been very hit and miss for me.. i got them to work once before but only in one room of the house and after i crashed they would not return. but this time i crossed my fingers and checked the box, hit apply.. got a little stall and then BAM shadows..
there are a few problems, some noticable from the screenshot. the most annoying being the fact that i cannot take a photo of the shadows using sl’s snapshot button.. i can only photograph them by killing my ui and huds and using an external image capture program.
the second problem which is glaringly obvious is the fact that my anti aliasing has gone insane and killed its self.. i have weird jaggy edges and white outlines around things definitely not what it looks like without shadows on.
other problems, my fps is taking a hit but sadly enough 3-5fps used to be my normal fps when i had my old videocard.. so i’m not really dying from it.
oh and my eyeballs are glowing like michael jackson in the thriller video.
still pretty to see light and shadow streaming from the huge windows of my enclosed balcony porch thing…
how did that happen?
i was trying to come up with a good way to introduce the blogging world to the new adventure i’ve set out on in second life, but its just for some reason really hard to explain i guess lol.
only in second life can an adoption consist of two people saying “ok you’re mine now :p” and it be binding.
last week lucas and i added a couple of new members to our family. it wasn’t planned and i’m still not sure if it was a good idea (just kidding kids) but we did it and i’m really happy to have them in our life.
so second life, these are my kids. caesey and elijah. one is 6 1/4 and one is 13 going on 21 :p both of them are completely and utterly awesome and i feel very proud to call them my kids.
to some, second life families are weird, but i’ve never felt that way. i think here in this world where we can be anything, we should be allowed to be ANYTHING. and if you wanna be a kid well be one! i think its awesome. so far i’ve gotten to tour an elementary school (hke), attend my daughter’s dj sets (she rocks), run though the kids 50L fridays (they have one too! and its great!) and go to some pretty interesting places.
on top of that i feel peaceful! yes that’s right this has been RELAXING! yeah i know real motherhood would probably be hell on wheels compared to this but this has been wonderful. always someone to hang out with and talk to and everything is so happy and light. i’m really a big kid myself so i have always gotten along with children. i’ve just always thought i would be a crappy mom. and yeah i dunno if i’m being a good mom to them or not (only had them about a week or so.. so not sure)
i do know that i am one of those annoying moms who takes 283497294 photos and makes their kids pose on every friggin poseball in the family section of glitterati.
of course there is the down side which is stupid and annoying.. you can’t take kids to formal ballrooms without the embarrassment of having them kicked out even if they are dressed formally and the club is not an adult establishment (its not like they were having sex there.. they were playing jazz..sheesh.) so we’ve had a little trouble finding things to do with the kids that don’t involve standing in the skybox looking for things to do. what they really need is a family friendly website where people can list this stuff because its so buried under the mountains of FREE SEX!!! and business in a box shops that you can’t find anything worth going to.
ok i’m done ranting. in closing this family thing is really fun. i’m enjoying it a lot 🙂 no i’m not going to lose my evil side being a mom. my kids are devils.. don’t let the cuteness fool you. the first time i met caesey she was floating around our old shop last year wearing love kills (that’s the heart balloon with a noose), and my son likes to tell people we’re rock stars… so they are just like their mommy and daddy. and its slightly inspired me to make creepy stuff that kids can wear as well as adults.
silence is not a scream
this picture is from november 15, 2006, not long after the copybot was first introduced to second life. i was a noob when this crap started and at that time i was convinced it was the end of the world. this picture is even titled “death of a world”. everyone had started putting up these signs and closing up shops. other places started adding those annoying spamming !quit boxes to their stores. designers threatened to quit making content until LL stopped the copybot threat. to my knowledge LL didn’t do anything about it back then.
that’s why today i’m blogging because i am against this silly “protest” people are doing where they are not uploading, not creating, not blogging, etc for 2 days… not doing anything is not going to get anything done. you are not shouting, you are being silent.
closing your doors shows the copybotters and texture thieves that you give up. instead i plan to go out shopping today and support creators! and of course, as a content creator myself, it is my right to say that LuNi Designs will not be closing at all during this 2 day boycott, so please do feel free to stop by and support us as well!
if you want to do something about theft, don’t shut your mouth, don’t stop supporting the content creators! instead, do something about it! report thieves! don’t accept ripped off content! make a stand by saying i will not be silent!
keeping nimi sane
mali is keeping me sane until lucas comes back on wednesday. so far i’ve had broken merchandise, and my dad took a trip to the hospital (he’s ok now). and i still have another day to go!
FML
GODart and more…
so the GODart opening party came and when and i had a great time! there was tons of lag and tons of people but everyone managed to move around enough to see the art and enjoy the music. and i even snapped some pictures.
loglady even put out the collector’s case from the twisted hunt! that was a shock but so awesome to see XD.
so later after all that happened, lucas and i went with a couple of friends to a fashion show at the DC district, which is owned by our friend drakon cortez. everything was going well and we were watching the models when some chick jumped onto the catwalk and then flew away… so we figured he bounced her or something. but moments later the entire fashion show area was covered in griefer particles! i have to admit it was kinda funny but i feel really bad for the designer, models, and most of all drak X_x but he bounced her ass out of there and the particles went with her. it was so weird though… its been a long time since i’ve seen an actual griefing lol. back when i was a noob they were everywhere… now its so rare.
speaking of fashion…
la ultima fiesta is now available at our store! this is my second dress ever and i am so proud of it. i’m really getting the hang of this clothing stuff! there’s a white version of this too but i’m partial to the black :p so go check those out at our store or on xstreet!
just some tiny notes
- we’ve added new skins to LuNi Designs, check out our store blog for pictures!
- i will be at the GODart show grand opening at 1pm slt. come and check out some awesome artwork by myself and other artists.
- if all goes right i’ll have 2 new dresses released today!
- more new skin coming soon.