New Look

As you may be able to guess... I love changing my look, at least in SL, and I always see it as a work in progress... Well I decided I needed an update, so I went shopping... And what you see below is the result:

Some things that will never change in SL (Or at least I doubt they will): I will always be a red haired neko... I do occasionally get the urge to go purple and match a certain friend of mine in SL who is fairly famous, but I'm more a red person...

So... I tweaked my shape.... In fact it's hard to tell, but Shadey now has some fat... I updated my curves as it were, though as another things I don't plan to change I didn't touch my bust... I tweaked my legs so I'm a tad shorter (I used to tower over half of all my neko friends, no idea now). I also changed my nose... My nose always looked to big for my face up close in SL...

I went and bought a Tete a Pied skin (feline in buff type 3 makeup)... And I bought some snazzy business casual clothes from DE Designs... They are about the only thing I own that don't look odd to wear in the middle of winter... It really shows off my lavender kitty eyes.

Which is important when Midian is a winter wonderland... buried in ice and snow... Only thing it's missing is an iceberg in the harbor...

Well sleepy time now... More later...

8 Things...

Well I'm guessing most of you know abotu the whole 8 things meme floating around the SL blogsphere... Well Timothy pseudo-tagged me, so I guess I should give my 8 things... Though since I can't think of anyone who hasn't been tagged yet I won't pass it on unless I find some victims... ;)

1. One of my hobbies is Photography... Though I've always been a digital person, so my camera of choice right now is my Fujifilm S5700 in RL. Which is probably related to why I like pics in SL...

2. I run an Anime/Manga/J-Pop club in RL and that's where I am for about 4 hours every Saturday unless I feel to sick or lazy to go...

3. I'm allergic to certain foods... Including Onions, Peppers, and Mushrooms... Now you try finding foods without those from say... Everyone likes to hide their inclusion because people don't think someone may not be able to eat them... (On that note my family is full of strange food allergies, my mom can't eat grains and my dad can't eat nuts).

4. I'm an only child. Which for where I live is odd. It however didn't mean I was spoiled... In fact it usually meant my parents went out of their way to make me fight for whatever I got out of them. Mostly because we were not quite middle class, in fact their attempts to act like they were a middle class family ended with them file for bankruptcy during my first time through college...

5. I've been in college twice... & Owe $60,000 USD for the 'honor' of doing that...

6. I teach an 'enrichment' class at the school I work for called 'Computer Imaging' and I have to try manage up to 16 kids from 4th to 8th grades... Who would rather spend most of their time playing flash games where they dissect people or find creative suicide methods in office buildings... 0_o

7. I am not a red head in RL... Nor have I ever bothered to color my hair... In fact in RL I started with hair so blonde it was nearly white, but now it's just a kind of brown with natural blonde highlights... Unfortunately not where I want them and that fade to be unnoticeable by the end of a day...

8. I originally intended to be a writer and when I told my 7th grade teacher that she chose to make me hate english classes and 'traditional literature' for the rest of my life... I still however write Science Fiction, I just refuse to follow any of the 'styles' your taught to write in and do what I want...

& that's 8... ;)

Cleaning up the dust and cobwebs

Hey everyone!

I've actually stopped into SL a few times lately for the first time in awhile, but I haven't posted on here... Things feel so different when I've gone back to my usual haunts. It makes me kinda sad...

I have missed my SL friends though... Often quite alot during the ups and downs of RL. In the time since I got back together with the woman I love only to have her dump me in just over a week of being back together for a stupid guy... >_> Now they have broken up... I still haven't meet anyone else... I guess the world just doesn't appreciate introverts...

Work is still driving me nuts, but at the moment I have an intern so it somewhat lightens my load... At least until the end of the day, then I'm still the one getting called at home at all sorts of crazy hours... Oh and to make things more fun this week has started the annual snowfall here along the great lakes... Making my drive to and from work take longer.... Yeah... <_<

Back to SL... Of course the first thing I did was buy more clothes.... Lots of clothes... Like everything new from Dark Eden to start.. ^_^

I also built a new PC (Yeah for my geek girlness!)... Which laughs at SL and asks "Can't you make me work harder...?" as I've cranked up all the settings as high as they go and SL never freezes or slows like it used to... I do however still have to wait on SL's slow transfer rate and watch as the scenery and people pop into existence, but their is no helping that... My pictures should look better from now on to...

Well that's all for now I'll try to come up with some new posts over the christmas break at work if not before!

Work interfering with life

Well for the last couple weeks work has ben interfering with me having a life, yet alone a second life... I spend all sorts of time at work and then I'm so tired when I get home at night I just want to eat dinner and go to bed...

So for the time being the blog is on hold (as you probably ahve already noticed). So is my existance in SL... I hope things work out at work and I can lighten my load soon... Cross your fingers for me!

Midian Files Episode 3

First a few notes... I have the pictures done finally for my swimsuit review... In fact they've been done for 3 days now... I just need to find time to do the review posts (probably 2 as their are dozens of swimsuits). Edit: Which didn't happen, but you can see them on my flickr page.

Now to Midian for part 3 people have been asking me for since I didn't get a chance to post this week:

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Well this week hasn't been as interesting as last. Ok, maybe that's not quite correct. I did have one good night in the TZ... Which has become my usual haunt were I drink later as I still don't know what these drinks are...

Edit: And this is where it ended, I never finished this post, but since I started on Midian Files #4 I decided to at least post this much... Things are rather fuzzy for me as to what happened which week/month/etc that far back now (5 or 6 months ago), so I can't finish it now... Sorry!

Midian Files Episode 2

Week 2 has been a tad more interesting I found a place called the "Twilight Zone" look the old TV series, or 'TZ' for short. I've never been around alcohol as it was forbidden to us, but They don't seem to mind I just drink bottles of water. I did however meet this cute neko there, kind of raccoon looking facial markings which make her very unique looking. Seems she works as a dancer there, and sometimes bar tender, and her name is Rejeanne. It's to bad she seems to be involved with this cute human woman that handles security...

I also meet two other women: Catrin and Rin. Catrin is a very sexy human woman who seems awfully nice. Rin seems a bit quiet and her clothes are a bit weird, but she's cute and nice to. They introduced me to a friend of theirs this guy named Markko, who has a weird past were he was raised by nekos. I uh... I... Well I kind of got a bit kinky as they ended up going down in the subway station and started making out in a non-functional subway car... It _had_ been six months since this cute little kitten had done much of anything, so I joined in...

I also wandered the rooftops this week hoping to spot some of these nekos from the city, the 'catwalkers'. In the end I did find some as I ended up on the roof of one of the buildings in town and I sat high up on this ledge as I surveyed the city.... Until I was assaulted with rocks from below and lost my grip avoiding them... To land almost on top of this cute purple/pink haired neko girl.... Who was talking with this older male neko. They told me I was in their 'den' and that I had to leave. I tried apologizing, but they were rather annoyed, so I hopped down to the side and listened. Seemed the girl had been attacked recently, so she was not in such a good mood...

I ended up coming back to sit on the top of this warehouse across from the church. I had tried scaling the church to use as a hide out, but a very strange girl who looked like she hadn't bathed in weeks confronted me and told me I couldn't be there either... She didn't make much sense really, but I did understand that much. Anyways on top of the warehouse roof the cute neko girl from the 'den' dropped in and told me I couldn't be up there either... :(

She did however offer to show me a good place to stay... So I followed her and she lead me down by the beach. I also got her name which was Myca.

Midian Files Episode 1

Well here is the first installment of my Midian Diary of sorts... It will be told from the point of view of the character I play in Midian.

In Midian 'Shadow' or 'Shadey' is what everyone knows me as and there she's a neko who has a sort of tragic past involving the loss of her family who were part of a military project. She's been a soldier all her life (literally raised into it). And when the project was canceled the military tried to erase them all. She has no idea what happened to them, but she decided to head to Midian in hopes they would arrive there as well as a haven for those with things to hide...

Week 1:

Well I managed to get a ride into Midian and they dropped me off at the taxi hub. It wasn't easy getting here, especially and still have some cash on hand.... Good thing I have that spec ops bank account to draw on, I should be able to pull out money in small pieces from it for quite some time.

Midian is a strange place.... Enough spooky emo kids/adults with pale skin to start a town of there own... Plenty of humans walking around with guns... Which reminds em I need to replace my weapons... I hadn't having to leave them behind. Some incredibly freaky people and frankly I have no clue where to start my search for my sibs... It's been six months now, I wonder if they are even still alive...?

I found an interesting collection of people by this canal after I finished wondering over town and found a spot to secure my gear way up on a roof to one of the taller buildings. This group had not one, but four nekos in it and a human... The human was the most normal looking I'd seen in my time spent in Midian so far. While I may want to meet up with the nekos to see if they know anything about my missing family... Four at once is a bit much.... Luckily the nekos all left eventually and I went to talk to the normal looking man. He mentioned to me that their was two factions of nekos in the city: the Catwalkers and the Pack. He then suggested I set out wandering the wastelands til I found them... The wastelands is mostly dead remains of buildings... I should know since that's where I did go afterwards. Never found anything or any of these members of the 'Pack', but that's ok he still gave me useful info... Oh his name was... Jack... I think...?