The past couple of days have not been the best.  Ioh and I were supposed to get married this Sunday.  However technology has intervened and the wedding has to be postponed.  Ioh’s laptop died.  He’s taken it in for service but while he waits, he has no internet.  No SL.  No email.  No IM.  Nada.  He could be offline for up to 2 weeks too.  He borrows pcs when he can to email me but when you are used to seeing and talking to someone every day, when your life has become tied to theirs, you miss them when you can’t be with them or see them.  I really miss him and it’s only been a couple of days.

Last night though…. last night was awesome.  I had sooo much fun.  Doing what you ask?  Well the girls in the Pride threw me a bridal shower.  Elise asked me to meet her at the church, she wanted to talk to about Rena.  Well we did, for a few minutes but then she told me about some mysterious package left for me at the den.  What a surprise to walk in the den and see them all dressed up, big spread of food, the Congratulations banner.  To say I was choked up is an understatement. 

There was much laughter, LOTS of champagne, cupcakes and chocolate and of course the stripper.

A big Thank You to MJ for taking one for the team and getting his groove on.  Seeing your blueness shaking itself all over the den brought tears to many eyes.  No really, it did.

It was a fun wonderful evening.  So thank you ladies(and gents cause Arre was there as well) for everything.  You all mean the world to me. 

The pictures will be up on flickr later today.

If you think things look different around here you’re right.  Theme change happened last night.

A few other changes as well… the site has moved.  It’s now www.baileylongcloth.com   .  Well it’s my personal blog so that only makes sense right?  And since I moved it, time to change the look.  And just to really confuse you all, change the email address too.  Leave a comment if you want the address and I’ll send you some mail.

It’s a new beginning for the blog.  I’m going to try to write more often.  Mostly I’ll be writing about SL, may even post some pictures. 

So, there ya go.  New theme for the blog, new address.  Drop me a comment and let me know what you think.

I had an interesting conversation with someone last night.  I’ve not known them long and until recently had never really spent much time talking to them.  I don’t know how it started but we’ve talked a lot recently about everything, SL, RL you name it.  I’ve always liked her but after the discussions we’ve had lately, I’m happy and proud to call her a good friend.

So, last night we’re talking and she tells me she had been intimidated by me when we’d first met.  What???? Me??? I was shocked.  I consider myself the least intimidating person in the world.  In fact, had anyone asked me, I would have said the same about her.  I didn’t ask why she thought that and she didn’t elaborate either.  We’re beyond that, at least I think we are.  She and I will talk more, maybe I’ll ask her why she thought that, maybe not.

Well her admission to me got me thinking.  It’s not the first time I’ve had someone tell me they were intimidated by me.  It’s happened a few times come to think of it.  I didn’t understand it then, don’t understand it now.  I’m the least threatening person I know!  I know I tend to be quiet in large group chats.  Mostly cause if I’m talking I can’t keep up with everyone else. LOL  Not to mention I’m also multitasking.  There are only so many hours in the day and with most spent at work with acess to NOTHING, that means when I’m  on the PC at home, multi-tasking.  I can photoshop while in SL or do homework so just cause I’m quiet, doesn’t mean i’m sitting on my side of the monitor thinking of ways to plot your eventual downfall.  With the exception of a few people I usually/generally like everyone, talk to everyone.  I’m kind and friendly to noobs.  I don’t go off on people and get all uber bitch.   Usually after talking to me for 5 minutes they’ll say “Hey you aren’t the bitch “so and so” said you were”  or “Wow, your actually nice”.  It’s really rather odd when someone says that to you. How on earth do you respond to something like that?

So why am I intimidating?  It’s a totally serious question, for anyone who knows me in SL.

EDIT:  At Lands’ request I’ve removed her comments from this post.

This is for my other feline friends….

You Are a Black Panther

You see through people. You understand others’ motives and plans. You have a knack for predicting the future. You just know what people are going to do.People are attracted to you. You are naturally able to influence other people’s thoughts. You have the charisma to be a beloved guru or dictator. It’s all about how you handle it.

It’s that time of year again… the Relay for Life Kiosks are up, events are starting to be advertised and the teams are plotting and planning for the big Walk in July.

This is my second year participating in RFL.  Last year the Crown had a team of it’s own.  We started way late into the process and I had NO clue what I was doing.  Between Prad and I though we got stuff built(Ok he built, I watched and ran around getting stuff to be raffled off) and got people from the Crown involved.  We didn’t do too badly all things considered.  We raised money for a good cause, that’s what matters.

I don’t know too many people who haven’t been touched by Cancer.  I know my family has.  It’s an awful disease but we keep raising money and we keep fighting for a cure.

This year Dazy decided to get a team together in Midian.  Midian as a city has never participated before, at least not that I’m aware of.   Well, she got it together and created a team that I think represents all the factions in Midian.  At the end of the day, Midian is RP and IC drama should stay separate from OOC(I say should but that is another post).  Well we had our first event on the sim a week or two ago, and wow it was a success.  We raised over $100,000 lindens.  Not sure what that is in dollars but it’s a decent effort for only a few hours of time.  We crashed the sim, not hard to do in Midian and had a lot of really good, fun roleplay as well.  The best part, was seeing all the "citizens" of Midian getting in on it.  No one but the sim admins and team/participants knew about this and everyone got into it.  It was loads of fun!

There are more events planned, I’m not going to say what or when, cause that wouldn’t be fare.  Just hang around Midian, you’ll find out. 

There is a store on Angel Square selling RFL items made by members of the team.  Pretty cool stuff too so come down and take a look.  There’s a kiosk to donate too as well if your so inclined.

The team had a meeting last night.  We’ve raised a lot of money for a first year team.  Dazy is doing an amazing job!  Stay tuned for updates here and hopefully look forward to a Catwalker blog coming soon.

Alicia at Ch’know? posted this on her blog and had to give it a whirl myself.  So… how big is yours?

Your Ego is Small

You are quite humble. You try not to spend too much time congratulating yourself. You’re proud of who you are, but you’re also secure. You don’t need to brag.You see yourself and others in a pretty realistic way. You appreciate strengths and faults. You respect people and believe that you can learn from them.