2 years old...

Saturday, Nov. 14 was my 2nd birthday inworld. Does that make me old? I
think in virtual terms I am no longer the spring chicken. It doesn't make
me a veteran either.
Last year, when I turned 1, I held a huge party at The Brick to celebrate
this milestone. I had 7 music performances scheduled, even though the first
on the schedule didn't show up...so I had 6 hours of great music provided by
some of Second Life's most talented artists.
This year, however, I didn't have a party, at least not like that first year,
and the reason being, I honestly didn't want to spend time and money on getting
the entertainment for the party set. After a busy RL day on my actual rez day,
I am glad I didn't. The plan, was not to have a party, but maybe just a few friends
over at The Brick with some funk music and dancing. No invites were sent, other than
when the time felt right to switch the stream did I decide to call on people.
I just started iming whoever was online. I wasn't disappointed in the turnout. I had 16 people show up...ok, so maybe 3 of them weren't on my invite list, they were people who just showed up at the club because, well, it is public. Still, it was great to not have one person complain about the music. They all danced, we all chatted with each other if not much, still, it was a social night.
About an hour and half into this little gathering, people started to fade out, and leave. I didn't mind it too much, because for an hour and half they stayed and "partied". It was a good time.
Later, my favorite person inworld showed up, and the night was made perfect by the 3 hours of dancing that followed.
Happy Rez day, indeed.

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..

Everybody wants to own a club...

Edited from original post.
The growing trend it seems, as far as some of my SL "friends" go towards, is to open a club on SL.
Ivan my ex dj, ex friend did it..
Minnow my first SL bf and his current woman did it..
countless others have done it too.

It isn't that they opened their clubs that pissed me off. It was the way they did it. Minnow's situation didn't bother me. Neither does most of the "others"..but the way Ivan went about it, and here again, is someone I THOUGHT was a friend(a repeating factor here), has now done the same thing.
I'm supposed to be happy for them. Maybe it's a petty thing, but nonetheless, it's there.
My reasons for not being happy for them:
It means they will not come to my club anymore, because they will have their own club to go to.
It means their friends who came with them to my club will more than likely follow them. More lost patrons.

My reasons for being happy for them:
maybe they will find within their own club what they couldnt or didn't think existed in mine.
All I can say to them now, is:
Good luck.

Wall of Fame(Shame) part 2

Actually, this was the first WOF ..the first one I posted the 2nd one 1st...anyway..
In this picture, more contributors, more betrayals...I remain "friendly" with maybe 5of the people in this picture, including Minnow