An update, a new start and a search for direction.

So, as you may have noticed, I haven't been blogging that much recently - on this blog or on Second Thought. Well, the reason for that is I guess I lost a little motivation with the whole blogging thing, not knowing what to write about or just generally not liking what I wrote.

But it's the start of a new year, the end of my university and the beginning of a couple of wonderful things so I thought, hey let's give it another go!

With regards to Second Life, at the moment I am visiting and socialising with my friends at the Crown and Pearl a lot more, as well as DJing! :O I know, go me! Apart from that, all I'm really doing is taking pictures and spending too much money. I feel like I need some kind of direction in my Second Life, but I'm not sure what. Do I revive Second Thought fully and go at it full swing again? Or do I find something new to try, or try again, in order to make a million and pay my RL rent!?

I have a lovely new skin which I have been showing off everywhere, look it's here too:

So yeah anyway, that has managed to kick start off my blogging on Second Thought again, but what I really want is some feedback on any improvements that could be made, on the writing, layout and images etc before I even consider bringing it back to full swing!

So I invite you, right now, if you want to, to write out any feedback you have in a comment. Here is the link: Second Thought

Or of course, if you have anything else random to contribute feel free :P

New Year 2010

Here's to the new year and new beginnings!

2009 has been a good year, being in a new relationship, making new friends and finally learning to live for myself rather than solely for others.

I want to say thanks to everyone this year, those who have loved me, been loyal to me, helped me and thought of me, and those who have made me a stronger person.

I'm going into this new year with a few lovely new starts - an engagement, finishing university and the beginning of my career (hopefully).

Here's to a brilliant 2010!

Meh..

So what's going in my life lately RL wise? Well I have a shiny new job and I'm just about to start a new year at uni.

I also just got myself a new phone, which I am less than pleased with now. When it came I found some of the features hard to work with but thought I just needed to get used to them.

Now I've heard that there are clones of this phone around and, apparently, mine is one of them. Looking at the pictures on the net of the real ones, the menu icons etc look different to mine and the videos on youtube seem to work so much smoother.

I've also just found out that I could have bought the real version for a few pounds more and had it shipped straight from the UK, instead of waiting around for it to be delivered from China. Now I'm stuck with this stupid lump of plastic that I've suddenly taken a hating to when I could have had a shiny new phone :(

Bit of a rant really, wouldn't really usually wind me up this much. I guess that's what you get from ebaying and getting your hopes up.

Current Happenings

So, I haven't posted for a few days and I thought it was about time I gave you an update as to what I am doing at the mo.

I have been on SL a lot less over the past few days, I'm trying to find something that holds my interest a little more and something fun I can do during the times of boredom. This hunting for something else to do has resulted in me finding and downloading a game called Shaiya - I would join the ranks of the WoWers but I am a poor student with few funds :P - which seems good at the moment, the usual MMORPG layout with elves and stuff like that. Yeah sure, I'm not sure whether getting myself into a game is such a good idea, but it's keeping me entertained.

During my brief time in SL I'm helping with work on Adeo Digital and changing my avatars clothes - that's about it really. In RL I'm waiting to hear from my new employers as to when I will be going for training etc. I'm at home a lot and enjoying the relaxing time, but am looking forward to going back to uni and getting stuck in with the nights out etc. Oh yeah, and the work..

Rezzable Black Swan

Today I took the time to go and visit the Rezzable Black Swan sim. I've never been there before so I thought, since Rezzable are soon apparently leaving Second Life, it would be a good time to go.

The layout of the sim was awesome, I loved following the path to each of the seperate statues and displays. I thought I'd show you some pictures :)

The Little Things..

This blog was originally changed and intended to be about my real life and the goings on there.

However, as you can see it's quickly changed back into a Second Life blog, with a few RL appearances here and there. Over the past 7 months I have taken a hiatus from Second Life to concentrate on my RL, returned to Second Life, began a business with my partner and also become a little lost socially.

I guess I should introduce you to the new business first. It's been a while since I last posted and so, you haven't heard anything about said business. May I introduce you to Adeo Digital (if you can't see it because of Flash, there is a non Flash version coming up soon!). We deal with providing scripting, sculpting, texturing and animation solutions for all kinds of people, something that we (both me and Hell) enjoy doing.

When I first returned to Second Life, I came back with a desire to be a fashion blogger, setting up my own fashion blog Second Thought. That blog is still going, though considerably slower than it was before. With both Adeo and Second Thought I'm never really stuck for things to do productivity wise. However, once thing I have noticed more increasingly throughout the past couple of weeks is the decline in my social activity within SL.

The places where I used to hang out, have an awesome time and feel at home at, don't feel like home anymore.. Either they are empty and quiet, and all of my friends have either gone elsewhere or aren't online as much or I just don't feel the same.

As such, I have been searching for somewhere to meet new people - or meet up with my friends that are still around - so I can have some company during the chilling times. I enjoyed wandering around exploring for a while and taking pictures but this gets very lonely, especially when some people can sit infront of you for half an hour and not even say hi. I am also finding that all of the places I am finding to hang out and meet people aren't the same - not comparing to what I miss from before.

I think SL has become a very lonely place for me, somewhere, perhaps, where I only now find enjoyment when I am working. It'd be cool if I could find a place 'for me' again, but we'll see.

Random thought of the day..

To day I realised that no matter how much work you have to do inworld, how many people you know and how many places you visit.. it can still get lonely sometimes.

Oh and I did a pic :)