Kami-no-aisuru

happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey and you smell like one too

that juvenile verse has been in my head a bit these past few days. it was my birthday yesterday, Friday the 19th, and it’s nice because its my day or whatever, but I’m not really happy about having birthdays anymore, you know? I pretty much refuse to tell the year, and I’m old enough…. to give a crap about the number. BUT thank you all for the good wishes, it was really nice and my day was really fun. Much better than last year >_<.  This pirate noise…I still don’t know what to think. A startup holiday has commandeered my day, y’all. for many years it was just my day (in my head, and sorry to sound like such a narcissist) and now everyones all like, yar. I try it a bit because it’s a fun way to talk but I’m still solidly on the Ninja’s side.

As you Hump Day partiers know, my store (or high above it) was the location for the Pirate theme
dance, and I made a party box for it. I had so much fun! Building the dance floor, decorating it, and the actual dance, seriously, I was grinning so much. I really think I got a bit of the feeling that Ali & Cen get, watching people actually show up and have a good time. I’ve never made a real party space before and I was nervous but people gave me compliments and that made me so happy. :D  I love you guys. Next week is Asian theme so you know I’m all about that. I just have to decide which kimono to wear. I really need to start wearing kimono more often, I have a ton. I also have a chim full of geisha dances to share.

oh yeah, the monthly building competition I’m in is about to start the voting round. some weirdness happened there yesterday too. I’d finished my build but went to check it, theres still a couple days left to build and I thought I might tweak something, I’m like a mother hen about stuff like that. (Virgo, now you know the full horror). ANYWAY, I get there and theres boxes all over it. a camp ball (?), pair of shoes, just crap everywhere. all belonging to an avatar who rezzed on the 18th. a noob unpacked on my build. but only mine… so that was very strange. I had to call over one of the people who runs the space there, to have all of his stuff returned to him.  She did it but last thing she said to me was “well I can’t say but you might want to give the rules a second glance”.  wtf.  I’ve read the rule card at least a dozen times… mother hen remember? So I guess theres a chance that my build will be disqualified for some arbitrary reason I don’t even know. If that does not happen, I’ll let you know where the voting is. :(   I think that a place that touts itself as an open sandbox/learning area/classrooms/creative competition  should maybe remember that whole creative bit.

oh well it’s been a weird few days, but overall, great ones.

I should have done this earlier today, but didn’t get around to sizing photos until this evening. Just like everyone else on the whole dang grid I was at CeNedra’s birthday party last night! It was a great party with awesome music and tons of cool and hawt peoples and swirly lights and starry champagne, just a fabulous time! Here’s the snaps I got:

the Woman of the Hour!

host, DJ and all around awesome person Ali (sorry I don’t know who that is on the left… )

the ever-awesome QueenKellee Kuu

people gettin’down. I’m in the purple.

Podcaster Nika Dreamscape has some wicked moves!

It was an amazing time & a legendary hump day.

I’ll be back with more stuff later I think.

I was busy doing other stuff and didn’t do my BBB question on time. I’m kinda stressing out about building my house because I don’t know how to get it to look the way I want it to. and I’m kinda hesitant to just get in there. I have this half-started thing sitting on my lawn and I’m sure the neighbors think i’m a spaz. a NO TALENT SPAZ! you should see the castle i’m next to. it can’t be any old prefab. and I like custom. maybe I’ll just turn my draw distance down so I can’t see the castle. lol.

SL Bloggers - Do you think it would be fun if we had random weather hit us in SL, like thunderstorms or blizzards?

not really, I think it would increase lag like a mofo. I can make rain & snow whenever I want and only for as long as I want right now. I remember when Sims 2 got weather and it seemed so good but then the snow would show up as a solid blue error and it wasn’t fun for me.

RL Bloggers - Have you ever been in a harsh weather situation, like a hurricane? How did you deal with it?

I live in Oklahoma… I’ve kind of seen it all. Dust storms, tornadoes, huge hail balls, the occasional flood, ice storms, blizzards, boiling heat and scorching heat (different, ne?). depends on what it is, tornadoes don’t really scare me, and I love a good banger of a thunderstorm. Ice scares the bejeebus out of me and I pretty much refuse to drive on it. I live on a high hill so the floods aren’t really a concern and mostly the hail that does fall is marble sized stuff. I love love a snow shower as long as I’m home, warm, safe & comfy with lots of hot cocoa. and I hate the summer heat. BTW I think my wall squirrel problem is fixed, but I don’t know what little scratchety creature it was. I choose to believe squirrel. >_> the squirrels…. they are behind everything.

I took a ton of pics at Cen’s birthday party tonight so I should have some of those up tomorrow. Cen if I got some really good ones of you and you+Dyami I’ll send them to you!