Hey, if symphonic_rp's photos evoke emotions and wonder, then I can do the same with my images:











All images above taken at Sweethearts Jazz Dance Club... :D

Please watch this...it's a more positive look on the furry aspect of Second Life. Carried away from furrymedia, some folks may not be subscribed to that group, so here you are...

Peter and the Wolfie from Shelley Matulick on Vimeo.

Current Mood: optimistic

Tags: merry christmas, second life
Current Location: at home, time off, YAHOOO!
Current Mood: cheerful

...let me show you them. [sigh]

So I'm up visiting my mom and I'm reading her books. Right now I'm in the middle of Christine Warren's Wolf at the Door, part of a paranormal series about shifters.

Now, most of the shifters are the usual type one finds in paranormal romances -- the girl is an American Foxwoman, which means she can shift back and forth from a fox at will, and the guy is an Irish werewolf, who can shift back and forth from a wolf unless the moon is full, in which case he has to be a wolf. Okay, fine. Then the girl gets this summons from a vampire who's clearly one of the bad guys, and she meets a couple of new people.

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I'm glad I put this up on my land...

[0:28] Woulfcat waves to Ans
[0:28] Ans: Hey Woulfcat.
[0:28] Woulfcat: reset list
[0:28] Visitor List Maker: Done resetting.
[0:28] Visitor List Maker: Ans has been added to your visitors list at Jaguar Valley
[0:29] Ans: Hope you don't mind if I hang out here for a minute or so.
[0:30] Woulfcat: Oh, not at all...that's what I was hoping for, it'd be a place for folks to hang out. :)
[0:30] Ans: It's really the only place I know to hang out at. All the other places I used to know are gone.
[0:30] Woulfcat: You are welcome here at any given time. :)
[0:31] Ans: You've been a neighbor of mine for awhile now and I've never really said hi to you.
[0:32] Woulfcat: I got dancing here and drinks as well as plenty of seats. From my visitor lists, this is a popular place. :D *smiles*
[0:33] Woulfcat: No worries. I'm only here occasionally to check on a few a things. Last night I built a pier landing with a deck on the end, put a chair on it in front of my beach house so I can watch the sunset or sunrise. :)
[0:33] Woulfcat: I think I"ll keep this music station, was trying to find something festive.
[0:34] Ans: No worries. You'll find nothing but 80's on my plot.
[0:34] Woulfcat: Catch ya later. Gotta sleep. Xmas party Saturday afternoon. Take care.
[0:34] Woulfcat: hehe
[0:34] Ans: Alright.

It's gotten more traffic than the other two builds I have on my land.

Tags: friends, second life, tiki bar
Current Mood: accomplished

So LJ has this holiday thing going on where people with paid or permanent accounts can send $10 discount coupons to people with basic or plus accounts who want to upgrade to a year's worth of paid account. This usually costs $19.95, so with a coupon it's only $9.95. Does anyone want one? I have ten of these things to give away, so I'll send a coupon to the first ten people who comment to ask. Please mention which journal you want upgraded, if it's not the one you're commenting with, so I can send it direct.

In other news, I'm flying back up to Reno to spend a little over a week with my mom for Christmas, yay.

One funny thing -- about ten or twelve years ago, we were at Mom's for Christmas and a family friend named Linda was supposed to come over. So I got her a couple of glass candle holders as a gift; they were popular at the time, with a narrow well in the middle you filled with water and then floated a taper in, the idea being that as it burned down, it'd get lighter and float higher in the water, keeping the flame at about the same level. I thought they were pretty, so anyway.

Well, Linda didn't come after all, so I had these two candles in boxes like twenty inches long by six square, which I took home. I figured I'd use them or something, so when I got home I unwrapped them and stuck them on top of a bookcase. We're not really into decorative stuff, though, so I never did use them, and they've been sitting there ever since, collecting dust on their boxes. We've been trying to figure out what to do with them recently, with the move coming up and all.

Then we got a note from Mom a couple of days ago, saying that her friend Linda's going to be coming up for Christmas. :D Hey, I've got a present for her already! LOL! Too bad I unwrapped them back then....

Angie

We're home now and mostly recovered, I think. Of course, I'm getting back on a plane on Sunday to go up to my mom's for Christmas, and I have to admit the timing of all this could've been better.

We put in an offer on a condo, and the counter-offer was decent. Now it's a matter of working out all financing details; we have enough money, but apparently it's not distributed in the right pots, so the husband is working on getting it shuffled around into a configuration the banks will approve of. We'll see if that comes through. If not, we're still not really behind; we weren't actually expecting to find anything on this trip; it was more to scout neighborhoods and such.

I'm not jumping up and down about the condo itself, although it's not a bad place at all. It's only a little bigger than what we have now, and I was hoping for something significantly larger. That six-bedroom house I mentioned in the previous post (four of the bedrooms plus one bathroom were part of a basement remodel, but it was done very nicely) would've been great, assuming it could've passed a home inspection. That's the problem with remodels, of course; the house itself was about fifty years old, so who knows what was behind the drywall. It was on almost half an acre, which was also very cool. Unfortunately the nearest store of any kind was half a mile away, and that was just one grocery; other necessities were farther. Good (potentially) house, less than great location for folks who don't drive. :/

The condo is new, so we don't have to worry about booby traps, and our real estate guy managed to rustle up a home inspector the very next day. He found that the place is in good shape, with just a few little things which would be easy to fix. The big selling point, though, was the location -- it's right across the street from the back of a shopping center with a grocery store, a Barnes and Noble, a Target, a post office, a bunch of low- to mid-level restaurants, plus some other stuff, AND it was near two bus lines which would take Jim downtown to work within half an hour or less. There's really nothing more we could ask of the location, and I'm willing to stay packed into something that's really too small to be comfortable in for the next few years, until Jim retires. After that, we can find a cheaper area all together and get a bigger place with a nice yard (the condo has a little bit of fenced yard, just enough for a smallish dog, which will satisfy me for now) and a good location without having to scrape change out from under the seat cushions to pay for it.

Aside from the location, which is fantastic, it's not what I was hoping. I can deal with the rest, though, and we can get something which suits us better in a few years, when Jim's retired and we're not locked into a particular location because of his work.

I have to admit, though, that having a big bookstore a two minute walk away would be very nice. Dangerous, but very nice. :)

Angie