Updates...looks like we need updates!

Well, been a while hasn't it? Let's see...last week The Brick turned 4! That's right, 4 years old as of March 6, 2012..and I totally spaced it. Was busy planning on the party for Ganjo Mokeev's cd release! So, tomorrow, March 14th we will be partying up at The Brick(as usual, but)for our 4th anniversary party! We will be doing an 80's theme because that is where the Brick started those many years ago..ok yeah, 4 years is a longggg time in SL years, just so you know.
We updated the look of the club again, some 6 or more months ago. I added a store above as I began to create clothing. Nothing spectacular, but I finally did what I had been wanting to do since almost starting on SL.
On the rooftop is Ganjo's own venue, "Paco's at The Brick". It is for him to book his own taste in talent. I only help and manage..and host :) It's what I seem to do best, besides dance!
I was in a music video last month too. You can see it on Youtube..(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkAS-83fKHY&feature=g-like&context=G26fce34ALT1qRhAACAA). It's called "Waking Up, Pt. 2). I am one of the crowd, walking around the dancer in the first few minutes of the video.
Let's see what else? Ganjo finally release his 3rd album..named "Six String Drive". It includes the megahit "Phat Daddy"!
You can buy it here: (www.twoblackdogs.net)
So much more I'm sure I'm leaving out..but that is all for tonight. I promise to be better about keeping this blog up!
Stay tuned!

Chchchanges

Changes.
Some are good, some aren't so good.

Changes to the club, usually good.
Changes to friendships, usually not.
Changes in schedules, usually good.

My real life has taken a higher precedence in my schedule, so I'm not on SL as often as I used to be. Not only that, but there are other reasons why I choose, that's right, CHOOSE not to be inworld as often as before:

If I'm not online as often, I don't shop, therefore, I don't spend lindens.
If I don't spend my lindens, I don't have to struggle every week to pay for things I have to pay every week inworld.
If I'm not online as often, I find I am not as bored as I have been for months now. SL is simply not as fun as I found it to be the first year or so I was inworld. I find the less time I am on there, the more my absence is noted, and it makes those inworld friends want to chat you up the next time you are there.
If I'm not online as often, there isn't any drama to deal with, unless some stupid griefer decided to leave junk on my parcels.
If I'm not online as often, my friends actually miss me, and yes, I do miss them.

I expect that one change an affect the other. If I'm not online as often, I can see how some of my friendships could change. I would hope that if there are any changes to them, that they will be for the better. Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
We'll see.

I've cut down on shopping(ok, so I have the occasional splurge),how much land I own, and how many people I trust, it seems less is better.

Can it be I'm becoming boring in my 2 years inworld? Or has SL lost it's appeal..

The holidays are coming up...maybe that will put me in a better mood inworld, we'll see!

More updates!

Sorry for the lapse in posts. I've been busy inworld and off!
Funny, I know you're gonna laugh. The last post had to do with makeovers at the Brick, and today, I'm gonna sound like Polly the parrot.
I did it again, I renovated The Brick, and I do mean renovate!
I took the roof and top floor off the building. I then retextured walls and floors in adobe and brick. It looks a bit meditteranean! Added some plants, put some of the posters back, added a pavillion outside for more dance room, and added an exterior entry wall with gate. I'm quite pleased. I think I'm done renovating for a while.
Come and check it out.
As far as I go, I'm doing pretty good. I'm selling off land I don't need and cutting back on how much I spend on SL. I spend way too much.
Hanging out with the few friends I have on SL..that's what I look forward to going inworld.

Catching up....

Ok, maybe not totally "catching up" but I could try!
The Brick has been through a few renovations(I know, I know) in a few short months. I've changed the carpet and walls more than a couple of times, added lights, taken out lights, added more dances to the dance balls, added dance ball, chimeras, removed chimeras, etc. I think the people's heads are spinning from all the constant change. It isn't because I'm bored. Lately every Sunday we've been having a themed night to go along with Noma Falta's gig at The Brick every Sunday night. Some of the changes to the club are to go with the themes, other times it's just because I feel like something needs to be changed.
The themes themselves have been fun. We've had "fishing" theme once, and the last theme we had was "Football" night. People are getting into the spirit of dressing up and that makes it all worthwhile. We HAVE fun.
The Brick was moved back to the furthest wall to give way to more room in front. I have moved the building a few times in the year I've had the club there at Atlit. This time I decided that that nice sized area in back was really being wasted, although I did create a small garden back there that was originally intended to hold weddings(that idea quickly died when my first would-be client wasn't happy with the 98 prims I was allowing her to decorate with(after I had already decorated with pavillion, benches..and quite nicely, thank you)...so it was just a memorial garden of sorts with a pond for most of the remaining year. I moved the Brick back and opened up the front to add some of those flowers, and created photo stands to display some of my inworld portraits and photography. I've had a couple of friends admire my work and they encouraged me to do something about my work, so there it is. I'm still not sure if I want to do portraits full time. I don't want my time on SL to be completely about work, I am busy with The Brick as it is..but the club doesn't really earn money, and maybe my photography will.
Ah well. More soon, I promise.

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!

SL "love"

So yes, people who play on SL can and do fall "in love". Not just on SL, but the feelings do transfer onto real life. I know at least one person I know as an avatar, and got to know their real life self through other online sources that have gone that route. My first major SL boyfriend, Minnow, is now engaged IRL to the woman his avatar started dating 1 week after our avis broke up.
I think that's wonderful, but it's not what I am on SL for.
Sure, it's great to feel adored by someone else. It sometimes gets me through some rough spots in my RL marriage. Me myself, would never leave my RL husband for anyone on SL. That being said, I can elaborate on the relationships I have had with men on SL.
My first long term SL bf was Minnow. I had met him at a dance club called Blackhearts and we both hung out at the offshoot of that club, "C&C". He didn't talk much to me. I thought he was a bit snobby. Then, a month or so after I joined SL, C&C closed down. It was a GREAT club, but it was gone. I was a bit lost. I hung out at Blackhearts here and there but it didn't have the same feel as C&C, but it was there that I connected with Minnow. At the time I was dating a guy named Beowulf, who I worked with. The problem Beo and I had was that he was hardly on SL for us to nuture our relationship. Anyway, I owned a portrait studio and invited Minnow to come have some portraits done. He came, he took some rather dashing pictures, and I took a few with him in my "maiden" outfit..and sparks flew.
A few days later, Beo and I split. One or two days after that, Minnow and I were a couple. It was a great partnership. Minnow lived on the same sim I did. After a month or so he moved in with me on my parcel. After a short time our discussions started to revolve around opening up a club, similar to C&C. We both missed that club. The corner parcel next to mine was abandoned and Minnow purchased it. For me.
One or two days later, rather spontaneously, I started building..what would become what is known on SL as "The Brick".
Needless to say, Minnow and I lasted 3 months. We celebrated our 3 month anniversary, but weeks of resentment about financial issues related to the cost of maintaining the club wore on me, and I broke it off that same day. He wasn't surprised, and he wasn't that heartbroken. After all, he had already met his future RL love.
He started dating her shortly after our breakup. I had thought there would be a reconciliation but once I found out about her(she was someone I had met and befriended weeks before), it was done. I didn't speak to either of them for 4 or 5 months, I felt so betrayed. Today, I am civil with them both.