Wonderful Time on Belhaven

My friend Lulu, and my alt Cookie, were rezzed one day apart, and May 23 and 22, respectively, were the anniversaries of our first year In World. We decided to throw ourselves a party, with the theme of Lewis Carroll's Alice. As usual, we got carried away, and a simple Alice party turned into an entire Sim of Down the Rabbit Hole/Through the Looking Glass decor, with an all-day party, and DJs from 8am till midnight.

We began shopping a week before the event, hitting every shop in SL that carried Alice-related paraphernalia, including fairy stores, where we found some giant mushrooms and flowers with cute poses. To round out the attractions, we set up a 7Seas Fishing area (no custom fish yet, but we're working on it), and rented an Alice carnival ride. (And if you were wondering, the build will stay up for a while, so come on over Belhaven to see it.)

Well, the response was phenomenal--much greater than we had expected, and we expected a LOT! People streamed in from beginning to end, the place never empty for a second! Thanks to the expertise of LuciferSatan Genira who coordinated the stream switching, there wasn't a moment of dead air, either. The DJs were, in order of appearance: Robot Recreant, Andy Seiling, Laureen Korhonen, Treven Zabelin, LuciferSatan Genira, Frequency Picnic, Evah Gothly, and DjOsiris Darkstone.

Lulu and I took bunches of pictures throughout the event, and I hired oxoSimplyxAmandaoxo Magic (aka Panda) to photograph the event for a couple of hours, and she put together a beautiful album, a copy of which I gave to Lulu as a RezDay gift.

Thanks to Diablo DeSantis, who owns Belhaven, for letting Lulu and me use it as our playground, and as the canvas for our creativity.

I'd like to thank a new friend for coming early to the event and keeping me entertained. Thanks, also, to an old friend who took time out of his busy weekend to pop in and accompany me on a much-needed spin on the Alice ride.

And, finally, thanks to Lulu, for being my BFF this past year, and for years to come. We have our tense moments (says the queen of understatement), but I know that we will always get through them with our friendship intact. I lovers you, Lulu.

Our intrepid heroine encounters a tornado...

My friend Lulu recently turned me on to "Rob Breszny's Free Will Astrology." There has been a common theme in my horoscopes lately: even though I am surrounded by chaos and upheaval, I must see beyond, or even through, the chaos, and find inspiration there. Now, it could be that the position of the planets is guiding me, or maybe it's the suggestion by Rob Breszney that I get off my duff and start being creative again. Either way, I have found myself in the midst of 3 or 4 projects in recent weeks. Lulu and I have been brainstorming a lot and have come up with some great ideas for projects to work on together. I've also been writing more lately, as well as thinking up stories/articles/poetry in my head. (I started a haiku about an avocado I had bought that was so beautiful, it caused me to literally gasp when I cut it open and saw its perfection.)

So here I am, back again after a few weeks of lollygagging and goldbricking, attempting to get my thoughts down. I'm fighting the chaos in my home and the upheaval at work, and hope to come through it all with a decent short story, essay, or poem to show for it.