Retro TV Star Night!!

I've been encouraged to hold themed nights @ the club, so Sunday night was "Retro TV Star" night. Turnout for the event was great(full house). About 6-8 people, including myself dressed up for it. Great time was had. People stayed around an hour after it ended!
We'll have to see what we do next!

tired

It has been an emotionally draining day for me.
I am exhausted and ready for good dreams...

Whatever you do in life, think about those around you
Everyone wants to "matter"
No one wants to be last on a list

Circle

Maybe my stalker was right. My friends are falling off the list faster than I can say hey! Is it me? Is there something about me I'm failing to notice that chases people off, or is it them?
I don't get it.
The latest "casualty" is a long term friend. We've been through many phases in our SL lives, and I thought she was someone who I could always consider my friend..
last week she removed me from her list.
I know it has to do with the situation a couple of weeks ago involving her guy friends. She brought a few to come vote for me in the contest I later disqualified myself from, and a couple of those guy friends ended up on my friend list. One of them was pretty hunky for an avatar, and we occasionally chatted in the few days that followed meeting him.
Then I get an im from this longtime friend stating how she's hurt by my flirting with this one particular hunk...I can't believe she's saying this shit..so I send him an im letting him know that while it was nice getting to know him, that my friendship with this longterm friend was my priority..and said goodbye. Removed him, removed the other guy from my list. I guess one of them let her know what I was doing, and she asked me to stop..not nicely but to stop. So after I deleted those two, I stopped. I didn't talk to her again, and it was only 2 days ago I noticed she disappeared from my list. It's her choice.
For the record, I didn't have any interest in either of those guys. THEY were interested in ME, but our lifestyles just don't mesh. It was nice talking to them as potential friends, but that was all..and yes, I did mention this to the former friend, but what is done is done...and so my circle tightens smaller as the days go..

What I do when I'm angry

I throw on music on Project Playlist, and get creative in Paintshop Pro. Hey, at least it's something constructive. I don't claim to be Picasso, either. It's something to calm me down anyway.

Grrrr

No matter how hard I try, it just doesn't matter. One can be the nicest person inworld and still be shit on.
I've gotten to the point where I'm bored when I'm inworld. Maybe I've reached the point where the interest just isn't there to play. One can only spend so many linden, do the same things every week for a while. I don't "do" relationships anymore inworld, so what's the point? Hang out with "friends"? It has to be on their schedule.
I've always been very intune to what is going on around me. Just because I don't "know" most of the people behind their avatars, doesn't mean I don't get to know them. I get a feeling something's off or going on is not something I dismiss. It leaves me with an uneasy feeling. Other times I suspect something, and it's such a strong feeling, and if I am told by someone else something that supports my suspicions it makes me angry.
The last 3 days inworld have not been happy ones for me. Coupled with my RL stresses, it culminates into me being angry with certain people. I don't enjoy it, but it's just how it is.
I think I'm needing a break from SL. The fun has left the building, so why should I stay?
The Brick. So I can't completely leave.
Don't sign up for SL if you don't want the addiction.

Fresh off my Facebook Beach Bonanza win...

I foolishly decided to join another contest. Alli "and" Ali decided to have one. Their instructions were to take a picture with their hair, and then enter with that picture. There weren't too many rules listed. The prize was to be $500L and be the design model for the next released hair.
Sounds great, sounds easy, right? Well..
The first day the contest seemed fair and went well. The second day, obviously it became a competition between me and someone I'll refer to as Sleaze. Sleaze started to bring tons and tons of people in to vote for her. Later that day she bragged to me that her realty group had 800 clients. I think that was an intimidation thing, because it worked. I was now trying to think of all the people in my groups, and how I could get away with bugging every one of them to come vote for me so I could at least keep up.
Over the next few days I had some wonderful friends of mine show up everyday to vote. I had one friend who brought all her gorgeous man friends to vote too. I kept a relatively small distance behind Sleaze the leader.
The next day turned ugly. Ugly like Sleaze herself. The first time it happened I told her in open chat to not do it again. She acted like she didn't know what I was talking about. The next day, she did it again. She imed a friend who was clearly there for me, and asked them to vote for HER. The NERVE of Sleaze! So, again, I told her nicely in open chat to not do it again. The next day, she did it again. By then I had had enough. I told my friends present what she was doing and one of them went off on her on voice, after Sleaze said some horrid things on voice. I didn't hear any of that, as I don't use voice. It got really ugly, and someone let management know, and shortly after, they disabled voice.
Unfortunately, it didn't stop Sleaze. She resorted to creating new alts for more votes. She at one point was 100 votes ahead of me and yet she resorted to creating alts, trying to steal my votes from my friends, and it is also rumored that she was paying for people to vote for her. Pathetic!
To make a long story short, the contest was just not fair to anyone else in the competition. After a few days of drama and script issues, the managers decided, with my urging to disqualify both me and Sleaze. It was a move that I welcomed. I didn't really care to win, and I am not unhappy about losing. Now maybe the contest is fair to those left to compete!
Contests need to be arranged so there isn't any cheating involved. Right now can't be helped, but little adjustments to scripts can help.

Beach Bonanza contest

So August 3 I won the Beach Bonanza photo contest on Facebook. I had to get my facebook friends to "like" the picture to win. That's how it was voted on. I passed up the guy with the shark attack picture and stayed in the lead until the contest was over. I won 10k lindens from SLX.
I gave 2k to my friend Cen because she is the one who egged me on. She even had her FB friends vote for me. So 2k was for her-
I saved 4200k to pay for Ganjo's gig that week. That's one less thing I had to use USD for this week.
The rest I spent by going shopping for hair and some clothes.
It was a great thing..I admit it felt great to win.
Hey, the picture was worth it!