Today is SL Love Thursday as you may have seen around other blogs and Flickr streams today. I haven’t blogged here in a couple of weeks, so I’m using this weekly meme to jump back in and just throw love all over the place. I don’t think it’s any secret that my best friend is Kavar Cleanslate. It might seem like overkill to focus a Love Thursday entry on him since I go on about him all the time anyway, so I’m including a few other love targets too. The main focus though is Kavar because I love him to pieces.

Kavar has been a huge impact on my SL from always being willing to dress up for my photo ideas to encouraging me to try my hand at building whatever my mind can imagine. I’m not sure I’d still be in SL at all without him being there. We’ve been friends over a year now, and I still marvel at how quickly he became a very important part of both lives. When I need to talk or cry or vent or rant or all of the above plus anything else I can think of, he’s always there for me however I need him.

I know Ingrid Michaelson’s “The Way I Am” is more about romantic love, which is most definitely not the kind of love I have for Kavar, but I love the song, and its core of “you take me the way I am” is exactly how I feel about him. I’m a fairly private person with most people, but he knows everything there is to know about me by now, and he takes it all in stride. I trust him with everything. The song is also great because of the line “I’d buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair.” A certain SL hair designer is very fond of his real life mane, so it just seems like the perfect teasing line. By the way, I love this video too.

In addition to being my best friend, Kavar is also one of the guys with whom I share the beautiful Covet sim, and I love the other co-owners Kere and Ju, and I love the sim itself. In the photo of Covet, you can see signs for my shop Shine and Kavar’s shop Exile, and I love both of those too. I fell in love with Exile long ago and haven’t worn any other hair in over a year now, I guess, and Shine might just be a glimmer in my eye still without Kavar’s nagging encouragement. It’s just a big ol’ love fest in this short little post today.

Kavar, even though I’ve tried to hit a few highlights in this post, I really don’t have the words to thank you for who you are in both lives or to tell you how much you mean to me, but I hope you know, and I figure you do since I babble on like this a lot, and you seem to always be able to read my mind anyway. You’re my best friend anywhere. It’s as simple and as complex as that.