This day brought to you by Jesus...

I know, I know... I was suppose to blog skin & stuff yesterday. I've been very busy though. Oh yesh, very busy. I'll get around to it soon. I promise. I only have one more full day on the mainland before I head back to uber warm Hawaii, so later this week, I'll see what I can do. I was busy today, but less than productive. As in... I was busy screwing around. Meh. It's Sunday, what can ya do?

The pic above is posted to either:
A. Motivate Hawks to blog here already
or
B. piss him off.

Not sure which way it'll go yet. Let's sit back & watch, shall we? :D

hai der guise!

Just a little post to say that I have arrived safe & sound. Though I can def give you an earful of my airline travels over the past two days. I actually landed yesterday a.m. & spent the day deciding if I was tired or not. :) Tired won out but now I believe I'm officially caught up on sleep. Anyroo - it's cold, I'm determined to eat snow by way of falling & car seat butt warmers are noice! :D

Hawks blog something you slacker! :) kkthnxbai

Home is where the heart is... cept when she is working

Missing you baby... but NO you still shouldn't be calling in sick tmw. :)

kk a few things about Jelly that you all should know:

1) Jell amped on amp = perpetual motion machine / bizare abstract artistic genius

2) Jell is a more cunning linguist than I am, so don't go taking her on in Literati or you will get it handed to you... as in she is freaking amazing at it!! I am not even worthy to dust her dictionary.

3) Jell's handwriting is hawt

4) Jell has over 40k items in inventory, but not ONE thing to wear. She still miraculously manages to change about once an hour though somehow, someway.

5) Jell will do anything you tell her she can't ... fortunately, I have never once told her she can't do something, but I have watched others try it, and seen her pwn them

Few other randoms:

On an RL note: Jayhawks are kicking ASS!!! 4th in the nation in Football BCS standings with an undefeated record. I mean wtf is that all about? The basketball team is ranked 4th in the polls as well, and we still haven't got their star back yet for a few more games. I have been going to all the games and it is a GREAT time to live in Lawrence... There is nowhere in the country that is as fun as Allen Fieldhouse... take that you Cameron crazy punks!!

Hate that we missed Tuesday's clockworks set... :(. Hoping that at least one of us can for sure make it this Tuesday, but waiting to see how our schedules shake out, we will keep everybody posted for sure, once we know.

TE - ffs can we get Jelly to queen already... I love our family, even when they are saying gnite in the group and congratulating other people when they make princess from another line in our family's group chat cuz dammit we are the family that cares. Jell is the only one who can make a discussion on taxes sound kinda hawt... and dirrrrty.

Jell and I have become a bit of.... homebodies. :o It sounds crazy I know, but honestly we had a discussion the other night, that we have really been spending a ton of time at the house. Now granted we just bought a great new house, so we have been decorating, etc... but the short answer is that we aren't getting out like we used to. I think it is because we don't have a destination tringo spot like we did in the Bad Azz gaming days, so we are on the lookout for a new hangout. We do Kindly some of the time, but I haven't been able to really get into it in a big way. To me a lot of it is roleplayed younger than college, and it doesn't intrigue me as much in that format. Next up is I am Legend to see if we both enjoy that or not. Stay tuned for how we like it.

Prince Harlan goes AWOL. Dude where did you go? Are you okay? You don't write... you don't call... do we hafta wait for our Christmas card to arrive to find out how you are? Seriously, drop us a note... lol.

She Wants Violent Femmes Revenge

Tuesday Clockworks Set:
Okay so this week's set is going to be a sort of strange combination. I feel I have been remiss not having a Femme's set yet, but I am also sort of feeling She Wants Revenge after listening to their new CD and also revisiting some of my past fav's through our vid shoot last week. Therefore, I am going to be bringing you the She Wants Violent Femme's Revenge set this Tuesday from 6-7. 30 minutes of SWR followed by 30 minutes of Femmes action. Be there or be bored on a Tuesday night! And as always, I will be followed up by the one and only JellyBean Madison pounding out some more ska favorites.

Kindly State University:

I have been really debating as to whether I wanted to apply here or not.

Cons:
- There is one key personnel issue, where one of the players has a personal vendetta against me. Jealousy is a bitch, eh. I have been told how much he hates me many times, even though I have never talked to the dude. Sort of ties into my next point...

- I have a major issue with social cliques, especially ones founded on ideals of superficiality like beauty, wealth, or social status, which was my experience with many of the fraternity/sorority setups in college the last time around.

- I was worried the point of this was just going to be trying to recreate some sort of animal house type environment, with drunken parties and random hookups. I don't think less of others who want to rekindle this for themselves, but I have outgrown that part of my life, and don't really feel the need to relive it though my Slife either.

- I was viewing KSU as a chance for Jell to spend some QT with her female friends by having a unique experience with them. I didn't want to get in the way of that.

- KSU happens to be the "other" Kansas school, that I would not attend if they paid me... :)

Pros:
- Jelly is there and wants me to participate.

- The idea of having the opportunity to role play out a situation, where I get to meet and fall in love with Jell all over again.

- There is a chance that some of the classes might be somewhat academic in nature, and I love learning no matter the format.

- Jell won't feel like she has to split time between her time on campus, and time with me.

To make a long story short, I was still debating whether to join or not, when Jell dropped on me last night that she thought she was going to drop out after another week, because she wasn't enjoying it. I really think my reticence to embrace it has impacted her fun factor for the experience, so I decided last night to give it a college try. I submitted my app as an intelligent hard working graduate student looking to get an advanced degree in Machinima and Creative Writing, so that I can go on to be a professional script writer. We will see if I get accepted on that basis or not. If I do, then I am going to be signing up for any writing classes I can find, and being on the lookout for an attractive female of the pink haired persuasion that I might be able to seduce.

Tank Girl:

I am finding it too easy to find things to keep me from working on this project. I really hafta buckle down, and get cranking on some stuff. I have been thinking about it, and things are progressing in my head, but I have to sit down and actually write something to feel like I am making progress.

Tiny Empires family party:

Jell and I spent yesterday decorating the hangar at JH productions for the family Halloween party. I think it looks great, and I am really looking forward to getting as many of us together as can make it. We are still shooting for Friday night, but sort of waiting on Jell's work schedule to make sure that will work. We might not know for sure til Thursday, but we will send it out in notice format as soon as we know for sure. We have a really fun loving caring family, so I am sure it will be fun!

Moulin Rouge:

I was shocked to hear that Jell hadn't seen Moulin Rouge, so we remedied that on Friday night. What an awesome movie, and a great date movie I might add with the love story theme! Makes me want to see Romeo and Juliet again, after talking about it with Dreamer.

kk enough about me, back to work/procrastination on Tank Girl stuff.

Bloggity Blog Blogging time with Hawks

Alrighty then, it has been a while since I did any posting, but I am starting to feel the urge to start posting some more blogs, which ought to make the lil misses happy, if nothing else... lol.

JH productions:
Wow, Aka totally nailed the build I had in my head. In fact she took my idea, and improved upon it so that I am ecstatically happy with how it turned out. I really am loving my office, even if it is "cold and sterile." :p We are currently working this weekend on our first new shoot in "the Hangar" with the She Wants Revenge, Out of Control vid. The pressure is on to start work on our pet project of Tank Girl. Jell and I rewatched the movie last night again, and I took lots of notes of elements that we want to bring into the production we do. We are not going to recreate it scene for scene, but we do very much want to keep in the spirit of the way the film was shot. Once we get a little farther down the process of developing the script, we will be casting for the roles. These will involve a lot more of a commitment than our typical show up and shoot sort of thing, because we want to pull in voice and assorted other aspects, so you can be thinking over if you want to be part of this or not.

Tiny Empires:
Tiny Empires has been the weirdest blend of blessing and curse. On the one hand we have loved the social networking portion of it, and getting to meet all the wonderful people and their personalities that have come into our family. We really do love all y'all. On the other hand, it is starting to feel a little too much like work, and it is always popping up into our convo's and I worry that it dominates too much of our time. Jell and I have actually started scheduling non-TE time where we take the hud off and close the window on the family for a few hours here and there, just because we need a little break from the constant donging impetus to take action on something. Then it seems that there are a few that are taking it way too seriously, and getting bent out of shape about a hud game that really isn't a life or death type thing, if you know what I mean.
Yesterday we both bought the new updated hud called Tiny Empires Federation. So far it has only made me lose money faster, by throwing natural disasters and things into the equation that end up costing me gold to fix, and lower the amount of homage I make because my land is running under the maximum population capacity. The verdict is still out, since I have only used it for a couple of hours, but as we learn more about it we will pass along the info.

Clockworks:
We have been having a great crowd for our Tuesday night sets, and this has turned out to be a really fun weekly party. Everyone is welcome to attend from 6-8 pm, in the Topgol sim. This week I am really feeling a Depeche Mode set, so I am going to be pounding out an hour of my favorite Depeche Mode songs and mixes. Gillian requested it, but this is one that I am ohhh so happy to deliver, so if you are a DM fan, then be sure to make the 6-7 portion. Jell will be cranking out some great ska or assorted other tunes from 7-8 as well.

Tringo:
I have been so busy with other things, that I haven't played or hosted tringo in 2 weeks. I apologize to all you Tringo fans out there who frequent Hawk's Tringo. I think I am in a bit of a non-tringo phase atm. Dreamer is still hosting 4-5 times a week, so if your time zones work out that you can make it at midnight SL time, that is the normal kick off time. We are running a little bit low on prims on the ground at JH Productions, so we are probably going to convert the primmy couches over to bean bags. I am sure I will get the urge to play a few games now and then and I will throw out an IM to everyone, but right now my focus is on getting the Tank Girl script up off the ground.

Happy Anniversary:
Amidst all the chaos of the last couple of days, Jell and I celebrated our 4 month anniversary (although we have been a couple for 5.5 months) last night by getting in a little quiet dancing outside of Avilion. This was where we had our first "official dance" as more than just friends, so it was nice to complete the circle and come back there again. There is no more romantic spot in all of SL than Avilion for overall flavor. I actually kind of like the no script rule there as well, because it acts as an off switch on the TE hud. These have been 5.5 of the happiest months I have had, and I have got myself into all sorts of new adventures, that leaves me looking forward to the next 5.5 months to see what is in store for us next.

Hawks Weekly Update

RL Craziness

Okay, so yeah I have been slacking with the blog, and with my SL time in general lately. My RL has gotten crazy as we are running behind on a new product launch so I am pretty much working 7-6 every day plus an hour commute makes for a really long day. Then throw on top of that an RL move, and eeks things are nuts. One of the things I am having to deal with is the potential to be without internet for a week until it gets installed. :o Is that even possible? Did people really used to live that way? Freaking 35k students having the nerve to come back into town the same time I wanna move... pfft.

Missing Jelly

Yep, see note above. I miss you baby, and wish I could be here more. It sucks... :( You light up the time I am able to be here though, so thank you.

Drunken Kung Fu

You look tough. You look hawt doing it. Hawks - 4 Jelly - 0 Tie - 1. Although I am not sure the tie counts after regenerating and attacking me when I only had 80% health... but I spose we can count it. Also, Dreamer is officially off the officiating list, cuz she is SOOOO not neutral.

I soooooo need to get cracking on some place reviews that I have been sitting on...

Katching Yup!

One of the brightest, hippest (heh), honest, sincere, and truest guys I know. My Hip! He's the baddest. I adore him and I'm truly thankful for the time we do get to spend with each other. "Someone has to be quality assurance."

Surfin SL
So lately I've been surfing more in SL. Until I get my new board (yup, have it picked already - Aipa Conventional Swallowtail) in RL, surfin in SL is the next best thing. Dreamer & I have tried a couple different places - Surf City & West of Ireland. I love the waves at Epic Conditions Surf but the beach is full of blingtards & always turns into a weapon testing ground. Surf in Chi is always nice & the sim is always full of the most friendly peeps in SL.
"Surfers glow with such health and vitality and lust of life. GooSe Bumps we get when we see or ride a perfect wave! Surfer is not an athlete, but rather an artist. E pu'ili mau mea a pao i ke kai me aloha mau."

Lord of the Dance? Pshaw, I say.
I have a bunch of video ideas, one was a Pro-Macarena Campaign but that's been put on the back burner for a bit because I'm so thinking of bringing celtic to the masses. Give me time, this one may actually come to fruition. :p The key word there is: may! :D

Bloggity Funk
I haven't been in a huge blogging mOOd lately. I'm not sure why but I guess I don't have much to say. Hawks has mentioned before that our time was shortened and right now it's more so. It's only temporary but gosh I miss him. So rather than being pouty & spewing my OH LAWD I MISS MY BABY-isms all over the blog, I stay quiet. Besides I really do want to get back to making videos, I miss that too.

I guess that's pretty much my update. :p Stay tuned for more videos & if time/imagination allows an "I, Mannequin" story.

Aloha

Hawk's Random Catchup

Book em Dano
Here I am sporting my new fav accessory, the Hawaii Five-oh badge, which even plays the theme music. You can get yours in Frequency Deluxe. The fun I have had with this so far, has been well worth it. If I actually get cracking on a script for a new JH report today, then you will get to see it in action... :) We were test filming some scenes yesterday to see if my idea would work, and needless to say I was laughing too hard to walk a straight line with my av, so I hope we pull this one together.

Voice Take 12

Well, okay maybe not Take 12, but we have to be up to at least 7 or 8 by now. She loves voice (although now that she actually has it we will see if it was grass is always greener on the other side type love), but I love skype. Well we FINALLY ended up in a situation last night where there were OTHER people using voice and Jelly was able to participate! Woot woot!! Welcome to the club. Dreamer was hosting some tringo action at midnight last night (yes I took a nap cuz that was 2 am for me just to bring my A-game) and we ended up having 5 of us all together with the voice viewer in a situation where we could talk. Sooo, how did it go? It basically ended up with Jelly and I doing our normal Saturday night skype routine and everybody else typing tons of LOL's, LMAO's, and ROFL's in general chat. Well okay, we didn't do ALL of the talking just like 99.8% of it, which you can take a pretty good wager on how much of that 99.8% was Jelly and how much was me... let's just say it wasn't 50/50. But anyways, it did end up being fun... in a stranger than life SL kind of way.

TRINGO - Safe for now

Okay, so I am officially declaring Tringo as not applicable to the gambling ban... so whew on that one. Jelly and I were a tad suspect there for a while. In my opinion, LL called out tringo specifically in this typically obtuse line on their official statement, "Games of pure intellectual or physical skill, such as puzzles or other skill contests, may not fall under this definition." So breath easy peeps, we don't hafta take Tringo underground anymore.

Myg and Alex

Every once in a while you meet somebody in this game who really stands out and has the potential to become a really good friend above and beyond all the normal acquaintances that you fade in and out of over time. Well both Jelly and I are very happy to have met Myg and Alex. They officially get my "Second Most Awesome Couple in SL" award for this year. They share a lot of our interests in music, blogging, and signing up for way more stuff than they should... I love the fact that they create together, and are both extremely genuine in their interactions. Jelly has been having a blast participating in the Met A Stranger series, and I was able to donate a small sliver to the plot line by helping fill in the backstory between Jelly and Alex's characters. Needless to say we are both very happy to be able to be a part of this great project as it unfolds. But more importantly, we are happy to have been given the opportunity to get to know both of them better, and we look forward to continuing to become closer friends with them over time. Be sure to check out their blog, M is for Myg.

Hmmm, well this post is running longer than I thought, and I still have 3 more topics to cover... lol. Not to mention that Harry Potter is calling my name (yes I am just now reading it, but shup... still loving it) and I need to get cracking on a script for the JH report... so peace for now.

"Tell me something I can't get from a blog..."

Have you ever gotten to the point that you point people to your blog when they ask whats been going on? I realize that in my non-Hawks time I blog a lot but do I blog everything? Am I hiding stuffs? :o *gasp* Not Jelly, no, no , no. Pshaw! I'm shocked!
On to current events...

Laylah "Bewbs" FINALLY gets new boots.
Yes, you heard it here first folks. Haha! I'm sure if it wasn't for Wrath's unexpected absence I would have totally been scooped by The Inside Scoop®. Luckily for me I got the story first. Though we did find her Shiny Things Old Lace Up Boots fashionable for awhile, they did begin to stink and I suspect that there was fromunda cheese growing in between her toes. Everyone can finally take a deep breath (literally) now to know that she has bought FORM Klunks.

WeatherSystem 1.20
I'm not a huge fan, or err, a fan at all of the Collection Damani pre-fabs because the alphas drive me up the farking wall. However the man (Damanios Thetan) is a bleepin genius. After Hawks wrote his 101 Ways to Woo, I thought "Wow time to step up my game" in case he plans on whipping any of those out soon. Wooage retaliation tactics. Check! Check! We've already discussed setting the mood with music, but what about weather? Who doesn't love a little Metisse - Boom Boom Ba with some local lighting while the rain slides slowly down the window glass? Eep! Lost myself for a second. (song at bottom). Sl doesn't give us choice (yet) so let me introduce you to damani FX - WeatherSystem. Ever wanted to experience a heavy thunderstorm at night in SL, or that slight drizzle of a lonely day. With the WeatherSystem, you can. Offering rain, snow, thunder & lightning, you now control the weather. Check it out - it's well worth the L.
Damania - prefabs, cats, cars & more

Hot Spots for Bored Moments
If you haven't heard about it yet, you've been living under a rock. It's been a few months since I first blogged about Epic Conditions Surf in the Weather Channel sims (Epic Conditions Surf, Ski, & Bike). I went back the other day & found it to be an even more awesome experience. It seems the hype has died, and there's no more fighting for waves. There was only one other girl in the line up with me and as always the surf kept pounding us & giving us the epic wave conditions we came for. The surfboards are free on the beach. You just drop, hop on & goooo. Paddle, paddle, duck, paddle, sit, paddle, ride! See? Easy peasy!

Next is the new Straylight sim. It's a strikingly beautiful botanical sim filled with sculpted trees and water by Kriss Lehmann (3D Sculpted prim designer) that created these gorgeous trees with prim/particle foliage. When you go, be sure to stop & see the sculpted water. Not all of the water is sculpted but the streams that are, are extraordinary. I've seen some great sims but this one has definitely made it into my top 5. Unfortunately the sim is no build so you cannot plan a romantical picnic under one of it's many shaded areas. The silver lining to that dark cloud is the fact that all the trees, lighting & water are for sale. All you have to do is follow the paths to the center of the sim. You can take some home & build your own botanical romantical atmosphere. Oh yes, and take caution, a lot of the mainstream designers are running around like elves, fairies & half furries there at the moment. Please don't poke the nature folk.

Wildmutt - How YOU doin?
We've sold 6,798 square meters. Yay us! Sadly we still have 17232 square meters still left to sell until we can move to our new dream land. Wish us Gluck!

That's all I have for now... PUSH PLAY! Kisses!

“OMGWTFBBQ!!! SCANDAL!!1!!1One”

So as I catch up with all the blogs, drama, lynch mobs & scandals after the honeymoon... That one line caught my eye, so it became my title. Haha! OMGWTFBBQ! Scandal? In SL, really? Drama is everywhere... here's my favorite definition:
The Five Signs of DRAMA:
1. If you only listen to one side of a story, and then form your opinion, you might be a DRAMA member.
2. If you take sides when two of your friends are fighting, which only adds to the DRAMA, you might be a DRAMA member.
3. If you don’t talk to someone because you’re mad at them, you might be a DRAMA member.
4. If you worry more about what other people are doing, instead of focusing on yourself, you might be a DRAMA member.
5. If you continuously gossip, or talk negatively about total strangers in a social setting, or talk about someone behind their back (whether it be friend, foe, or strange), you might be a DRAMA member.
So what, we all know she was a Whitfield, and we care why? I don't. Moving on...

NO BEAN LEFT BEHIND
Here it is day 2 of voice in the main grid & *I* still don't have it. Anyone else feel the irony of this? I'm like the biggest voice supporter between me & Hawks, and who gets voice? Hawks!!! He doesn't even want it. Lmao So, here's what I think the issue is & I'm going to test my theory tonight... I believe it's because I have 2 soundcards (onboard & external) for dual dj'ing on one stream. Tonight I'm going to pop one of those suckers out & see if that works. I'm tired of not being able to eavesdrop, I mean converse with others. Tote. Wish me gluck! Ya'll won't be able to shut me up. Just ask Hawks. :p

Flickr & Snapzilla
Yay! I get it now. Thanks to all ya'll that helped me finger it out. You Rock! Oh yes, you really do! Gold stars for everyone! My Flickr stream is here if ya wanna add me. I do like the organizing, tagging & edit features over Snapzilla. Eventually Cristiano has plans of the upgrade but it is taking forever. So for now I'll send the special ones to Flickr & the run of the mill hangage ones to the Zilla.
Recent changes to Snapzilla: On Wed, August 1st, Linden Lab changed the postcard format to increase picture quality and size. Previously, no matter what your settings in SL, all postcards came out a fixed size (40X480 or so). Now, the resolution and quality settings are not ignored - the postcard images will come through in the resolution and quality that you pick. This results in much higher resolution images, without the annoying JPEG blur on them. is This also means dramatically increased storage and bandwidth requirements for me, and a change in how picture are displayed on the site to accommodate larger sizes. Please bear with me while I adapt the site to these changes. ~Cristiano
He has also removed the star ratings and in my opinion that's fucking awesome. I saw it used more for vindictiveness than for good & I think people can now live without fear of 1-star rater stalkage.

Post-Honeymoon
I have to say that I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I did miss blogging so much and when Hawks wasn't on, I did venture off our little slice of heaven but not too far. During the time he wasn't on, I was pretty occupied with my current RL stuffs so it was nice to fall into each other's arms when we both logged in after a long day. We did some fun getting to know each other better things & I just have one thing to say: I am so lucky to have married one smart & sexy man. :D Oh yah and yay for randomness... ha!

Goodbye Wildmutt
We've put our two parcels for up for sale in Wildmutt. One is on the corner of three sims (Mignon, Wellard & Lassie) and the other (our garden area) was more inland but still borders the Mignon simline. We decided that together Hawks & I would like to shop, and purchase a new place for just us to include water & all the sports that go with. :D We may settle for smaller as I believe we have almost 19000+ sqm in Wildmutt alone. I think we found where we wanna be, it's just a matter of getting there before it's gone.

Welp, that's my catch up for now. Gosh, I feel better. Kisses all!