I’ve been a bit out of it with a RL cold that has really kicked the stuffing out of me, so that’s why I might have seem even more quiet than usual lately. It’s also why I’m just now getting around to talking about my second rezday almost 2 weeks after the fact. The day itself was really nice. There just happened to be a Keiko concert that I could attend, so I did that and then went from there straight to a geek rock night at Pin Ups with DJ Davey Swindlehurst that was absolutely perfect and filled with some of my newest friends. I even won a bit of cash for my nerd girl look thanks to my lovely “kick me” sign on my back. While all that was going on, I was also having great IM chats with some of my favorite people, and really it was the kind of day I hope I’ll see more of during this next year in SL.

The other thing I did to celebrate was the Poppins Challenge as you can see below. I guess I kind of have a naked in public story finally even though I was on a private parcel and the sim was completely empty and I was really only naked for about 5 seconds.

I guess my biggest personal accomplishment during my second year in SL was starting Shine. I started making stuff, and I’m still making stuff, and people seem to like it because they keep buying it. It’s all pretty wild to me still even after 9 months or so. There are some really exciting things going on for Shine actually, but I can’t really talk about it all yet. I promise it will be worth the wait, and it will definitely involve that expansion to other items instead of just eyes that I’ve been talking about for months now.

Within the last year, I’ve gone from saying that I’d never make anything in SL to being really excited at all the things I can do and all the things I want to learn. That’s a pretty major brain shift, and while I’ll take some of the credit for making that leap, I also know that so much of that is thanks to my friends. I have a core group of friends that I truly do consider family in every sense of the word in both lives, and seeing that develop over the last year or so has been such a blessing. Plus, I’ve been meeting new friends and trying to be better about keeping in touch with people. I actually sometimes IM people out of the blue just to say hello. That’s something pretty new for me, but I should also say it’s still somewhat rare behavior, so please don’t feel slighted if I haven’t done that to you lately. Your time to be annoyed by me is coming!