Thanks...

When I started using SL I never thought I would make so many friends that I respect and value,

In all my ventures I have embarked on in second life, my friends have always been there giving me there opinions and most importantly there support,

This has never been more evident than in the last few weeks while have been working on my main store, and arranging the Grand Opening

No matter how busy they are or what they are doing, I message them and ask them if they could pop over and give me there opinions, with out fail they always seem to come,

Some even give me advice and let me use there expertise when arranging and setting stuff up

I still find it strange that I have this little world with all these special friends,
No wonder people with unhappy real lives find such escape and joy in SL,

I have the best of both; I have a good RL and a good SL,

The only difficulty is not confusing the two.

But I would like to say thanks to all my friends that help and support you,
What a waste of time SL would be without you all

Cher x

GET BONJOUR FASHION HOUSE ON SHOWCASE

Hello Friends please can you recommend my fahsion house for the showcase

of course only if you think its good enough x x x

https://secure-web6.secondlife.com/showcase/submissions.php

Check This Out

You have to read this so strange

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081113/tuk-woman-divorces-over-virtual-lover-45dbed5.html

Just a quick update about my flagship store

I bought the parcel of land next to mine yesterday, so my main flagship store is now roughly ¼ of a sim,

Its looking fab, its giving me the opportunity to have a bigger menswear area, while also being able to re-launch my furniture range

I can’t wait to get it filled, and get my kitchens I love back on sale,

So to Celebrate on Friday the 21st of November at 1sl time I will be having a Grand opening,
I have booked singer Maximillion Klein to perform. It should be so fantastic cant wait,

I will keep you updated with all the info about the Grand Opening

Second Life – Oh the Shame

Is anyone else out there slightly ashamed of using Second Life?

I still feel there is a view that it’s geeky and only sad lonely people would spend time doing such a thing, especially a grown adult,

Although it’s no different too just sitting in front of the television something about it still seems shameful to me, and I cant put my finger on it,

Many people I meet in SL seem to use it as an escape of real life, they also seem to really have issues from RL that they feel they can leave behind in Second Life,

I have only recently been using voice regularly in SL as it feels a little like I’m crossing the line between SL and RL, and I don’t know why I’m uncomfortable with it,

I suppose it’s that prejudice of chat rooms how they used to be seen to be used by the sad few bed bound and lonely,

I also try to justify it to a few friends and family members that know about it, I say oh its fun you can fly around and get weapons and stuff, like making it a computer game justifies me doing it,

So I try to think of why I like it and why should I justify it, I suppose I feel I must or I wouldn’t be writing this,

I use it as a way to use my creativity unlike my RL job that doesn’t give me that opportunity. It’s a hobby… and other people spend more time and money on other activities. What would I be doing instead? Watching telly?

Who knows maybe I am the one with the prejudice maybe I am the one with the problem, and from reading this back it seems I am,

I’m not sure, one thing is clear I love SL it’s the best thing I have ever found, its just I’m not sure other people understand the attraction.

Cher x

A hole in RL = A hole in SL

I would consider myself quite a kind person and most of the time very thoughtful,

But sometimes I do feel like why should I bother, ‘screw you and eat shit and die’

I have a had a bad experience lately as you may have guessed, I have had a long standing agreement with someone, business wise, I have always respected the agreement and paid my dues, but recently I have been pulled in 101 directions with the things I have going on, and I failed to do something I should have I was 2 days late, ‘So Shoot Me’

And I was greeted with a huge over reaction and treated like a piece of crap, I tried my up most to apologise and fix things yet this doesn’t seem to be enough,

So can someone tell me what I can do?

Or like the title of this blog says, if someone is a A hole in RL they are one in SL too,
I have always suspected it to be the case,

If they where not on the other side of a computer screen would they be the same, or would they whimper like the cowards they are?

So I am considering the answers to the following:
Should continue to do more than I have too?
Why do I go out of my way to help people in SL when it affects my RL?

I don’t know, maybe I should go out for myself more, maybe then I will get the respect I feel I deserve for my loyalty,

Or maybe I should be more reactive, rather than considered reactions which I usually go for like a grown up.

Maybe I should stamp my feet like a child and demand that everything goes my way,

Who knows? Because I don’t.

Cher x

Second Life Manners

There is a behaviour in second life that really annoys me, why do some people that you don’t know very well just send you a TP with out asking if you want to come or not,

What makes them think that just because you see there name with a teleport request you will jump at the chance to go wherever they are, STOP DOING IT,

And what makes it worse when your busy creating or speaking to someone you reject the TP in haste and you accidentally accept it and you go wizzing off to the location, I wish I could just kick them to death when I get there, but it being SL you cant do that,

The worst thing is its normally a relatively new person to SL, who you know a little but not enough to just get angry, so you have to stand there and listen to them and try and be polite, AHHHHHHHH!!!!

Bugs me soooo much,

Anyway just had to get it off my Chest,

Cher x