Digits! ... Dig it?

Erm ... well ... this could (and prolly will) be a quick one for Strawberry Singh's Monday Meme 'What's your Digits?' ... I've done it in 2011 already as you can see here ... and haven't changed my digits since then ;-)

Darn ... I grabbed the wrong ruler ..............

Part 1 - Proportions Challenge Questions:

1. Do you try and keep your avatar’s body proportionate and similar to the “average” proportions pictured above?   Nope ... I don't care about proprtions neither average nor any other ... at  least not deliberately ... ;-)
2. What do you dislike the most about the SL avatar mesh?  Like many others I'm not happy about the SL hands and even worse, the feet. But I'm no fan of prim/mesh body parts so I usually just stick to what mother SL-nature gave to me and cover it with boots and clothing when needed ...
3. Does it bother you when you see other avatars that are not proportionate at all? – Nope, everyone can have the look he/she likes, that's ok. What bothers me is when ppl tell me that I should get a new, more modern/up-to-date skin/shape/outfit ... I don't like to be told what I should look like ... in neither life!!
4. Even though this is a virtual world and people can be anything they want to be, do you feel when they are in human form, they should try to keep their proportions close to average? Hell no ... if everyone would perfectly match those 'average' proportions, darn, that would be pretty boring ... and actually to have a proper 'average' you need some 'extremes' at all ends ;-)

Part 2 - Sharing my digits:
        
Sorry ... I'm lazy ... I just post the pic from 2011 ... as I said nothing's changed (since 2006 actually ... lol )

PS. I know that proportions can be pretty important and helpful ... and messing them up can make you pretty dizzy in the head ... but so do roundabouts, love and alcohol ... and we still like it ;-)

Those are weird questions?

kk ... lazy blogger-me squeezes in one of the memes from Strawberry Singh, even tho I don't have answers to all questions ... not even weird answers ;-)

1. Which was the last sim you visited? (Other than your home) Sanctuary Rock (at my last shift for a while)
2. Does your avatar look like the real you? Erm ... well ... I tried to make it look like me, which was a lot harder than I thought and didn't work as I wanted and my SL me looks a lot younger than me ... sepecially as I didn't change my shape and skin after my first weeks in SL ... but there is a slight similarity as you can see in this pic of half SL and half RL .......

   

   I know ... it looks creepy ;-)

   
   
3. Do you wear underwear/panties underneath your clothing when out and about on the grid? erm ... should I? ... I don't care much about what I wear, it's mostly the same outfit everytime I'm logged in ... and usually there was nobody around while I redressed for an event ... at least I think there was nobody ... ;-)
4. If you won a million linden dollars, what would be the first thing you buy inworld? Run to the next Linden-exchange and swap it for € ... hehe
5. Have you ever bought something in SL and then realized afterwards that you had already owned it from before? Probably not (or I never noticed) ... as I hardly go shopping.
6. Have you ever done anything in Second Life that would be considered illegal in real life? Well ... nothing too serious ... just the usual stuff ... entering private property without permission, (accidently) stealing a box of jeans from a sales-wall, killing zombies ... and asking my DJs to torture the audience ... ;-)
7. If you could go out on a date with any other avatar, who would it be? on a SL date or an RL date ??!!?? ... well ... I wouldn't go to any dates in SL anymore ... but I sure would like to have a date in RL with some of the folks I got to know in SL ... erm ... maybe not a 'date' , but just some eye to eye talking and a hug ;-)
8. Who, in your opinion, was the greatest avatar to ever slive? got no idea !!!! ... that's a really weird question !!!
9. What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done inworld? erm ... there were a few occasions were I was pretty embarrassed ... and I quickly forgot them ;-) ... Most of them happened when I was a newbie and didn't know how SL worked ... I once was exploring SL mainland together with my daughter ... we found a nice looking pool and wondered about the pink and blue balls in there ... we sat on those balls and were laughing our asses off about the 'action' that was going on, when suddenly the owner of the pool appeared and as he wasn't happy at all about us as guests, we hurried to tp out to the next place we had a lm of, some club, but we had forgotten to hop off the poseballs ... and so we were still in the action-pose, just not together ... that looked darn strange *blush* and I didn't log back in for a while ... lol ...
10. If your avatar had a mind of its own, what do you think it would say to you? My avatar got a mind of it's own ;-) ... and she said 'Maria, you might be a loony, but take a SL-break for a while and leave me alone' ... and guess what ... I'm a good girl and follow that advice ;-)

Cya ... *hugs*

Why ... damn it, WHY ... do I BLOG ?!?

 o.o ... Strawberry Singh is curious again ... ;-)
 

1. How long have you been blogging? Since Oktober 2008
    
2. Why did you start blogging? In the beginning I wanted to show the creations I did for my store 'LoonAtic Wear' .... but as I didn't want it to be a pure 'Shop-Blog', I added pics and thoughts from/about my daily SL-Life and my mood in general ...
    
3. How many times a week do you post an entry? It depends ... there have been times when I did several posts a week ... at the moment I hardly do one post  ... tho I want to post more again, if my RL releases me now and then ;-)
    
4. How many different blogs do you read on a regular basis? There are maybe 10 blogs I really read ... and maybe 20 other blogs that I look at least at the pics ;-) ... I use Google Reader and I'm already afraid of the time when it closes down in July ... I haven't found a satisfying replacement yet ...
    
5. Do you comment on other people’s blogs? I often comment in my head, but then I'm sometimes too shy to really write the comment. So I usually comment only on blogs of friends.
    
6. Do you keep track of how many visitors you have? I use statcounter, but as I don't look at it as often as I used to (it's too depressing to see several days with a ZERO in a row, lol).
    
7. Did you ever regret a post that you wrote? Well ... to be honest ... I once wrote a post when I was very sad and hurt by something that happened in my SL-Life ... but after a few hours  I edited the post to be less personal ... cause it's no use in hurting someone, just because you've been hurt yourself.
    
8. Do you think your readers have a true sense of who you are based on your blog? I don't try to be someone else than I am (apart from the fact that Mayala-me is a pixel character) ... and as I write about my RL sometimes, a reader can get a slight idea of who I am.   
   
   
    
9. Do you blog under your real name? Nope, I blog as Mayala/LoonAtic/Loony ... tho I think I might have mentioned my real first name now and then (at least in some video-clips) ... *grins* 
   
   
    
10. Are there topics that you would never blog about? I usually don't blog about other people (SL/RL) without their permission. I don't blog heavy/too serious stuff ... and I don't blog about fashion ;-p
     
11. What is the theme/topic of your blog? ... well ... I guess I do not really have a theme, it's more a bit of a mess ... I like to post pics I do for challenges like the Colour Challenge, Single Frame Stories, these memes or stuff I see in SL (tho somehow my time gets less there) ... I love to post my silly machinimas (btw. watch out ... another mad machinima coming soon with a mad hellish race ... *grins* ... ) pictures I do with my RL camera and of course I love to post clips from the concerts I've been too in RL like this clip from last weekend, when my absolute favs, the french PunkRock-Band TOXIC WASTE came over for a visit during their tour (I just LOVE them)   
     
12. Do you have more than one blog? If so, why? I actually have 2 more blogs, but both totally neglected ... my pure shop-blog LoonAtic Wear Pure  (but my shop is on hiatus ... and so is that blog) and my RL Photo Blog LoonYpix (I have tons of pics for it, but I'm too lazy to upload them)
     
13. What have you found to be the benefits of blogging? I use the blog as a kind of scrap-book ... and love to look at old blog-entries now and then ;-)
     
14. So, why do you continue to blog? It's fun ... and I like to share pics and clips and nonsense with people I don't even know (well and of course with friends too ;-p ... )

SL Names and a Rocking Week

YaY ... another meme from Strawberry Singh ... a slightly bit easier than last time ;-)

1. What’s your SL name? Mayala Loon

2. What made you choose this name? 'Mayala' sounds close to my RL name (now you can try and guess ;-p ) and 'Loon', well,  prolly because I've always been a bit of a loonatic, so it just fitted.

3. What’s your SL nickname, or what do most people call you? Loony

4. What’s your SL display name? Why do you choose to have one? I don't like display names, so I don't have one ... I like my name ;-)

5. Do you like your SL name? erm ... Yes! (took me ages to choose it ... lol)

6.  If you could change your SL name, what would it be? I wouldn't want any other name

7. What’s the craziest/funniest SL name you’ve ever seen? As a host I get to see a lot of strange and funny names  lie 'TickleMiPickle Sideways', 'Districtanticarnapping' and 'wickramasinghekosala' ... but as a pea brain I unfortunatele forgot most of them ;-(

8. What’s the coolest (your favorite) SL name you’ve ever seen? see above (I'm a very small pea brain)

and as I just don't find enough time for blogging more at the moment, I squeeze in my reason for RL-Happiness into this post ... cause this week just gets ready to become my top week of the year ;-))
2 of my absolut fav bands playing in the same week ... and I'll be there to see them ;-))
Starting tomorrow with 'Les Crevettes' , a local band that I wish had more gigs around here ...
and Friday my absolute favs, the french punkrock group 'Toxic Waste' stopping by on their lil eastern tour. I'm sure we'll have a pretty cool evening and I'm very glad to welcome them as dear guests ;-))

My 10 SL Firsts

kk ... I left out the last 2 memes suggested by Strawberry Singh ... 
- cause I'm not much into social networks (maybe I'm anti-social ... hehe) tho I have a Facebook-Account that I use rather to stay in contact with bands I like and I use Flickr rather to store pics than to interact ...
- cause I think I don't have any peeves (neither pet nor any other) ... I'm a very patient and optimistic person ;-)

but today's theme sent me on a nice memory trip thru a collection of old SL-Snapshots on my extern hd ... and even tho I won't answer all, I'll give it a try ...

not even 30 days old ;-) ...'Camping' on Bali Hai ... hard earned Lindens ... but at least with my selfmade bass

1. First SL Friend: I'm not sure who exactly my first SL-friend was ... I think I met Boss (a nice dutch guy) and Bry (a nice english guy) at almost the same time ... and as far as I remember on the same sim, Bali Hai. Bry unfortunately left SL long ago, Boss is still there and we say hello now and then or meet in RL during a vacation in the Netherlands ... always a pleasure :-))  
2. First SL Kiss: erm ...  no comment /  ... or if you insist ... here's a pic of an SL kiss with Max (my RL hubby) *sniggerz* 
   
        
3. First SLex time/place/partner: OMG good ol' wild days (drools away) ... erm ... no comment ... *grins*
4. First SL Partner/Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Wife/Husband: erm ... no comment / I felt quite close to some people ... most of them left SL quite long ago tho ... I never partnered in SL and I'm pretty sure I never will ;-)
5. First SL Job: dancer at Sanctuary Rock ... I send an application to the club sometime in October 2007 with this pic ;-)
   
   ... and a while after that I started my own shop 'LoonAtic Wear' with renting this cart ;-)

   

   The beginning of LoonAtic Wear ... and Troy,  a very close friend, who supported me a lot :-)

   I had lots of fun creating clothes and nonsense ... but it's on hiatus since more than a year now, exists only on the marketplace with my old stuff and as sponsor at Sanctuary Rock  ... I just don't find the time for it anymore ;-(
6. First SL Creation: I think I started to create within the first week ... spent a lot of time in 'Dreams' a very cool and big public sandbox ... but I don't remember what exactly my first creation was (beside the wooden cube) ... but among my first creations was my hair, nose and belly piercing ... and little devil horns for Bry and me as seen in this pic taken at a club called Little Britain (omg ... look at those textures ... and my amazing photo-shooting skills ... hehe)
   
   ... or one of my first dresses ... I was darn proud of the glimmering and shimmering effect it had when dancing ... too bad you cannot see it in the pic ;-p
   
   
   
7. First Encounter with a Linden: I never talked to a Linden, but I saw some at Sanctuary Rock ... guess they were checking how much lag an average club visitor can bear ;-) ... I even took a pic of the first Linden I saw ... a 'grid-gardener' ... but I think I deleted it as it wasn't that spectecular ;-P
8. First Encounter with a SLebrity: I don't care much about celebrities in any life ... I prolly wouldn't even know if someone is a 'celebrity' in SL. Whatever ...
9. First SL Sim you fell in love with: I don't know if I ever 'fell in love' with a sim (prolly not) ... but the first sims that were important to me were 'Bali Hai' cause it was kinda home for 'homeless me' for quite a long time ... and 'Dreams', the sandbox where I spent so much time creating nonsense ... and I think I let it crash several times with my 'skirt-generator' ... hehe
10. First SL Blog Post: Totally unspectecular ... lol: Welcome on Oct. 15, 2008

Berry made me procrastinate !!!!

Well ... I actually have quite a list of stuff to do ...
pleasant (like finishing a movie clip I'm working on for a while now, playing my bass, finishing a flyer(that one's pretty urgent)) ...
and unpleasant (darn tax stuff and better not even mentioning darn housework)
But Strawberry Singh made me procrastinate all that and answer a couple of questions instead ;-)

1. What is the rez date for your current SL Avatar that you use most often?
March 1-2007

 2.  Where was the first place you made friends as a newb and got to know people in Second Life?
On a sim called 'Bali Hai'. As far as I remember I got there because I saw the name Anakin Gallacher in an event listing, when I was searching for concerts. I thought it was an interesting name ... and I like listening to Sax-music. It was in the first weeks of my SL-Life and I was quite bored of SL, didn't know what to do there and almost ready to finish my short SL-Live. But the concert was cool and as I didn't know where else to go, I just stayed at Bali Hai ... I met my a first friend there, a nice dutch guy, actually the only person from SL that I ever met in RL too (me waves at Boss) ... and I spend quite some hours there cleaning windows, sweeping the floor and gardening (aka camping) ... and thereby earning my first Linden$ ... ah ... those memories ;-)

  3.  Where do you spend most of your SL time now?
I'm not as often in SL anymore as I used to be ... But I still keep doing my 2 hosting shifts at Sanctuary Rock (kinda the only time I talk to someone in SL now) ... Try to do a PhotoHunt every monday (that way I get to see quite interesting places )... or build nonsens and scenes for my pics and machinimason my parcel.

  4.  Who is your closest friend in Second Life? (only pick one)
There've been 2 persons that I felt very close to, but both left SL long ago. To one of them I talk everyday via msn still tho ... but I never felt that close to anyone in SL anymore, I became a kind of loner, but I enjoy talking to all kind of nice and interesting  ppl at Sanctuary Rock ... and of course I love to push around Rudh (my fav actress) for my movie clips ... ;-)

  5.   What is the most favorite thing in your inventory? (only pick one)
erm ... I got no idea ... I guess that changes with the mood ... 
maybe my hair, cause I made and scripted it, and tho it's far from perfect, posh, realisic looking or whatever ... it's kinda unique and something that makes me ME ... *grins*

  6.  The last thing you purchased in Second Life?
[AL] Promo Bare Tip Toe Foot - Foot Attach  ... I needed it for my 'Single Frame Stories - Edge' pic

  7.  What color clothing does your avatar wear most often?
Black/Grey ... and some green is cool too ;-)

  8.  Do you prefer to walk, run or fly?
I prefer to tp ... ;-) ... or I cam around till I find something I can right click/sit on ...

  9.  What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done in SL?   
I'm not sure if there's really anything crazy you can 'do' ... crazy things usually just seem to 'happen' ... guess I stick to simple fun

 10. Who would you like to play YOU, in the movie of your SLife?
Milla Jovovich  
tho she might be too cool and too good looking ;-)