Love Thursday - The Rain

Okay so it's Sunday but who is really looking at the date anymore huh?!

Anyway this week I was inspired by what I would like to happen in RL right now: a good old storm. I am melting away on my chair!

More seriously (yes I can do that sometime) I love the rain. When it's raining you can safely guess I will be on my balcony or outside enjoying it. I am not really sure why but I could spend hours watching the rain fall. So if you have a spare cloud send it my way!

Disconnected but happeh :D !

I have been kinda disconnected from a lot of things lately but I am not unhappy for it! I think that I tend to blog more when I have some free time so... It's a good thing I am not at the moment!

I will try to do a catching up blogpost but until then and just because I love you yanks...

BBBC 2009: Day 4

Too tired to blog so you get pictures :)

BBBC 2009: The Land of Cheese and Wine (day 3)

The BBBC 2009 continues! Day 3’s topic is: You've been given a sim of your very own to use for free for one year. However, there are 3 rules. It cannot be residential, it cannot be commercial, and it has to be open to the public. What do you do with it?

This theme is actually kinda funny because we were talking about something of the sort with Asthenia yesterday. Although since it was Asthe and me you know we went overboard with it…

To give you a little bit of background story we were in the Zaara sim and I was pleasantly surprised at how well Zaara had reproduced the small details of India. Asthenia told me it was normal since she was INDIAN but I had to disagree with her. If I was given a sim and asked to make it look French I would probably don’t know how to do it. So then of course Asthe said I should just decorate it with wine and cheese.

So there you have it. If I am given a sim of my own I would decorate it with wine and cheese. A giant wine fountain at the landing point where avies could get drunk off their asses. A big cheese house for Asthenia with of course a big ass mouse her kitty could chase around.

There would be a giant bottle of wine that could be used as a slide and we could drop some hawt bishes in it to do some cage dancing! I would also put a giant baguette next to Asthe’s house so people can eat pieces of it with a slice of bread.

And then get drunker in the wine fountain.

We could have cheese eater contests to see who eats the most cheese in the shortest of time.

And then of course wash it all down in the wine fountain.

So yes as you can see if I were given my own sim I would totally do something useful for the community with it…

Find enclosed a very detailed drawing of the sim. I put a lot of thought and effort into this so as you can see. Please do not feel oppressed by my humongous talent even if, to be truthful, I impress even myself sometime.

BBBC 2009: A perfect SL day Like a Boss (day 2)

So Alicia’s topic for the second day of the Big Bad Blogger Challenge is: Describe what your perfect Second Life day would be like.

Since describing my perfect SL day would be pretty boring I thought I would combine it with the lyrics for the song Like A Boss from the The Lonely Island. I posted the video at the end of the blogpost so you guys can witness the awesomeness in action.

Miss Xue, thanks for coming to your logging review.
No problem.
So you're in charge around here, is that fair to say?
Absolutely, I'm the boss.
Ok, so take us through a day in the life of, "The Boss".
Well the first thing I do is--

Enter Password (like a boss)
Clear notices (like a boss)
Open Plurk (like a boss)
Remember rezdays (like a boss)
Changes clothes (like a boss)
My own skybox (like a boss)
Clean inventory (like a boss)
Open group chat (like a boss)

Say hello (like a boss)
Catch Quaintly (like a boss)
Talk for hours (like a boss)
Make bad jokes (like a boss)
Buy shoes (like a boss)
See Asthenia (like a boss)
Try bondage bed (like a boss)
Eat lunch (like a boss)

Check Flickr Mail (like a boss)
No new mails (like a boss)
Bitch to girls (like a boss)
Curse at bois(like a boss)
Buy more shoes (like a boss)
Open boxes (like a boss)
Oh damn my inventory is full again!

Inventory sorting party (like a boss)
Dance naked (like a boss)
Laugh with friends (like a boss)
IM Sehra (like a boss)
Chat like crazy (like a boss)
Release stuff (like a boss)
In my store (like a boss)
Take pictures (like a boss)

See blue box (like a boss)
Talk with guy (like a boss)
Blush madly (like a boss)
Speak to Ch’Know (like a boss)
Get tped (like a boss)
Rez slowly (like a boss)
Freeze and crash (like a boss)
Now I'm offline (like a boss)

Uh huh. So that's an... average day for you then.
No doubt.
You crash and go offline.
Hell yeah.
And I think at one point there you said something about dancing naked?
Nope.
Actually, I'm pretty sure you did.
Nah, that ain't me.
OK, well this has been eye-opening for me.
I'm the boss.
Ya, I know, I got that. You said it about 400 times.
I'm the boss.
Ya, ya, I got it.
I'm the boss.
Okay great I heard you, bye!
(like a boss)

BBBC 2009 - On blogging and stuff (Day 1)

Here it is folks! The Big Bad Blogger Challenge 2009! And the first theme provided by our dear Ali is: “How long have you been a blogger? How has it enriched your life?”

As it turns out actually my blog’s one year anniversary is coming up real soon. I started this blog on the 18^th of June 2008, eleven days after joining SL. As you can see if you re-read that first blogpost I started blogging after reading Alicia’s blog. She brought so much life and fun in her blogposts it made me want to try it out too. Plus at that time, after 11 days of boring noob slex, I was ready to call it quit and leave SL. By starting my blog however I got to meet a lot of people that I still have the chance to know and laugh with even now a year after.

This blog was my first one ever in both lives but as it soon turned out it wasn’t going to be my last… Calista, Cailin and me launched Baking Cupcakes on the 27^th of June 2008 and I have been blogging there ever since. On the 16^th of December 2008 I joined the madness at WTFug and last but not least on the 6^th of February 2009 I started the blog for my store.

So yes a whole lot of blogging! I wouldn’t call myself a Blogger with a capital B though. I am more of a silly blogger. I sometime will update my blog daily and then not post for a whole week. My blogposts are never fascinating either; I am not the kind of blogger that thinks her blogposts through for hours I generally just go with the flow. Which of course often results in typos and badly coordinated ideas but at least I can’t be accused of censure. Plus I can totally blame it on being French right?

What has blogging brought me? Hmm… I would say most of all joy. I think we are all creative and inventive people deep down. Some of us have the chance to express it daily in their lives and some don’t. Blogging for me has been an outlet for that creativity. I often write just to write, because I want to. Granted I am no Shakespeare but it’s still a joy for me to let the words flow freely.

And… I let them flow so freely that if I don’t stop myself now I could write for hours like this without getting to the point which is… I love blogging. It’s something that entered my life only recently and even if I don’t do it on a regular basis I can’t see myself stopping now.

Love Thursday - Musicals

Nobody puts baby in a corner

I can’t believe I forgot to do my love Thursday last week! Well…. You know… And…

Okay I have no excuse; I am just lame like that.

Anyway this week Love Thursday is closely related to a previous Love Thursday: I love Musicals. To extend that even further I love all movies where dancing and music play a big role. Sadly I don’t get to see them acted often enough but I have a lot of them in DVDs and to be honest I think my favourite movies are all based on musicals.

I think the first one I ever saw and that has stuck with me ever since is Grease. I seriously love that movie and wouldn’t be surprised if I knew the lyrics to all of the songs. Along with Grease I grew up to the tunes of Dirty Dancing, not a musical per se but definitely a movie where dancing and music played a major role.

The first musical I saw live is, I believe, Dancing in the Rain when I was 14 (and in English too!). Terrific singers and dancers and the memory still remains now (yes because you know I am so old I tend to forget what happened when I was 14).

In France musicals only came (back?) to be in fashion around 1998 with a version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame which was terrific. It was a huge success but as a consequence the country was soon flooded with tons of musicals. Some of them were good but the others were mostly crap.

I can’t really say what I like about musicals, maybe it’s because I would love it if we could narrate our lives with songs and choreographies as well! Can you imagine the awesomeness it would be?

Here are some videos of my fav musicals/movies (omg I am so lame I now want to see those again...)

Surprise Rezday Party!

Omg!

I am still smiling and squealing and crying and laughing over it all!

*breathes*

So yesterday I got one of the best surprise I could ever have. I was lounging around in my skybox admiring my new Zaara dress that I had bought for my rezday and thinking of logging off for the day when I received a tp from my lovely friend Aisuru saying "Free Buttseks Nao". Of course I had to accept it!

And I landed among my favorite people in SL yelling HAPPY REZDAY!

You guys! This blogpost is not making any sense so far but that's because I am still so happy!! It was the best surprise I could ever had! And so unexpected!

It was hilarious as hell too! There were old pictures of me from the whole year and everyone was holding small Laleeta dolls made by Noel!

All this was made possible by my Best Bish Forever, Asthenia! I so owe you shoes until the end of your days woman!

And yeah like I said this post isn't making any sense but I am just so giddy I can't possibly make sense! Thank you all so much for this surprise! I had a great year with you all and I know this one will be as awesome!

Oh and I totally failed at taking pics because I was crying and bouncing and laughing so sorry if I didn't get you all! Hopefully someone did because I was useless yesterday :D

My BBF Asthenia who totally rocked in organizing this and Lia, Soph, Cloud Ali and Noel in the background

Me, Cloud Daila, Sehra and Bone dropping it like it's hot

Tymm and Aisuru being gorgeous and awesome as always

The lovely Sophia with Cloud Ali, Noel and Peter in the background

My Pumpkin of Love!

All kind of awesome people that mean the world to me (Sai mah lovah I didn't mention yet)

Ali The best DJ a girl could ask for and Noel who was nice enough to drop the top for us! *upskirts Noel*

Peter, Daila, Jensen, Bone, Me and hidden Sehra

The Giant Kahei Cutout had to make an apparition! 

Marnix cutout because he couldn't make it and Sehra, Bone and Daila cutouts even though they were there :p

Not pictured but still loved were Merrick, Elora, Emerald, Nikki, Lola, Lukas, Eva, Casandra, Lizzie and I am sure many more I forgot in the heat and craziness of the moment.

I think what I should end with is one last big:

THANK YOU!

Rezday Girl!

One year already? Time sure flew by! And what a year it has been!

I met some of the awesomest people that I can't help but call my friends.

I opened my small and useless store but which brings me so much joy.

I wrote more than I have ever written in  a long while.

I laughed and I cried but I mostly cried from laughing.

I shopped till I dropped.

I learned a lot about myself.

I loved and I hurt and then I loved some more.

I finally found someone with whom I want to share my day to day adventures in this crazy world.

I got to see some of the greatest artists I ever saw.

But most of all I lived.

Thank you all so much for this incredible year, you truly light up my SL.

And yeah it's my rezday I am allowed to do an emo blogpost!

Keep your Chicken close...

Tasteful Butt Shots

[NSFW]

So before leaving for my week-end I looked at my friend's Marnix blog and saw that he was launching a fun meme that I would have to do once I got back. However when I made it back today... Holy buttcrack! The asses had invaded, the butts had spread, the booties had been unleashed! Basically my whole blogroll has jumped into the ass wagon and is riding it into the sunset.

Without further ado here is my contribution to this fun meme... Did anyone say anything about being fully naked? *runs away*

Love Thursday - Flickr Loving

So it's been kinda slow at the internship for me and I must admit I have been shamelessly surfing the internet to pass the hours. It's very weird because some time I will be totally free and then suddenly the rhythm will speed up and I will have to be entirely focused.

In those times I have been wandering around, one thing has been keeping a smile on my face: Flickr Mails. My company has a very good firewall and therefore quickly blocked Plurk so I couldn't do it from work anymore. Flickr however remains for the moment!

Thankfully I seem to have friends who are as bored as me and nice enough to share some useless mails with me. It's been keeping me awake behind my desk all week. Gotta love the Flickr Loving!

So if you have a flickr account, send me a mail! Chances are I am bored out of my mind and waiting for something to happen. If you don't I might have to find other ways to entertain myself and you know that's never a good idea... *starts going to the copy room with guys...*

Yes people actually talk to me!

Love (lazy) Sunday

Once again a belated Love Thursday but you know that's what makes it so good. This week I was inspired by Pumpkin's very sweet Love Thursday about our common friend Lola Bear.

As I have said times and times again I have been quite blessed in both lives in the friends department. It doesn't mean that I have hordes of friends, just that I have the right ones. The ones that make me laugh, the ones that (thank god!) I make laugh, the ones that cry with me and the ones I cry with.

Among all those friends I have to have a particular soft spot for one of them because damn it we are in the same time zone and we always end up together. I tried to ditch her but she is hanging tight *sighs*

I am of course talking about Asthenia my crazy friend on whom I can always count to, say... go see sex waterfalls?

I could write paragraphs about how awesome she is but it would only result in:

1) You getting bored

2) Her getting big headed

3) Me having to buy her shoes

I will just say that I am very happy to have her among my friends to do all the crazy stuff and talking while most of our respective friend lists are sleeping.

Even if she is a bish!

Famous Last Words

Some blogposts ago I touched a topic that is very dear to my heart and makes me toss and turn in my bed every nights.

I am talking about parting lines.
*thunder clap*
I don’t know about you guys but I can write great blogposts (Ha!) and then get stuck on the last words for hours (okay so maybe minutes but you know every good blogposts needs drama, DRAMA!).

So as I am always over helpful and nice and awesome I thought I would share with you the different categories I put parting lines in. Feel free to add your part to the uselessness in the comments.

The easy ones:

“Bai bai”
“See you later my little pussies of Lurve”
“Astalavista mi amor”
“Until next I see you dumplings”
Etc…
I always feel silly using those ones, and not only because I am calling you guys after some yummy Chinese food, but because clearly there is no one there! Well except the voices in my head but you know… *twitches head to the side*
Besides it could take hours before someone actually reads it and then the effect is all gone.
However it does have the benefit of giving complete closure to the readers who otherwise might be sitting on the edge of their seats hoping for more.

Hey it could happen!

The escaping ones:

“And now I must be off to ride a bucking bronco…”
“I have to mop the floor after my drunk Uncle Henry puked on it…”
“I shall depart at once because my spaceship is waiting for me…”
You know how those work; I use them all the time myself. Throw in a RL or SL tibbit to show that yes you do something else except writing useless blogposts. Add in a little touch of humor and then voila! Perfect escape plan so your hordes of fans accept to let you go.

The Joker ones:

“Viva la Buttcrack!” (Oh hai der Bone bet you are dancing with glee at being mentioned in this awesome blogpost)
“Better out than in!”
“And that’s the way the cookie crumbles!”
Ending your blogposts with a laugh and making your readers feel like they are just like you all goofy and stuff. Of course you know that’s not true but shhh!

The picture ones:

[Insert Funny picture here]
[Insert Emo picture here]
[Insert Artsy picture here]

[Insert comments picture here]

The sly ones:

“What do you think about this?”
“Tell me your thoughts in the comments”
“What about you?”
That one is sly alright! Trying to lure in comments and create drama in them I bet (see Drama Baby). Or of course it could just be someone that wants to know what their readers think.
Meh.
I like mine better!

The Drama Baby ones:

“Oh by the way, I am pregnant…”
“Before I leave I just wanted to say that Twilight sucks…”
“Now that I think about it I don’t believe I am wearing panties today…”
Oh baby! Nothing like announcing impending doom (hey no panties crisis here!) to make people panic and take you seriously *nods with conviction*

The cliff-hanger ones:

“On the next episode of Laleeta’s Life…”
“I turned to him and his giant fun stick and said…”
“At least that’s what I thought but this clown costume sure did wonders…”
Closely related to the “Drama Baby” obviously - Evil bloggers this one is all yours.
Advantage: You can be sure people will be waiting for you next blogpost
Disadvantage: You can be sure people will be waiting for you next blogpost
So you better come up with something mind blowing because otherwise you might get stabbed, pinched, slapped, buttseksed, bonked and pretty much trampled within an inch of your life.

The Silence is bliss ones:

“…”
“…”
“…”
…………………………………………..…………………………………………..
…………………………………………..………………………………

Boring and leaves you wondering if the blogger hit the publish button by mistake but at least it’s effective!

I am pretty sure there are still tons more ways to end blogposts but you know if I did them all you guys would start taking me seriously and then where would we be?

Even more Photoshop fun

Ever since I discovered Planet Photoshop I have been grabbing tutorials and trying them out and it's been really fun so I thought that maybe some of you would like to join in on the fun! What I am gonna do is regularly post a picture and along with it the Photoshop tutorial that taught me the trick. Hopefully some of you guys will be up for it and you will link back pictures of what you managed to do with the tutorial.

Today's picture, and actually yesterday's, was done with this cool tutorial called Design Effects. Show me what you can come up with! Hopefully you can still do it on Gimp but I don't know the tool that well to say *throws glance at Banana*.

Love Saturday

A really quick one this week because I didn't think about it much. One of the things I love is playing with pictures. I am faaaaaaaaaaaaar from being a pro and I have a lot to learn but I just love to grab a picture and play around with it. 

One website that has really helped me lately and made me try new things is the Planet Photoshop one. I just love to select a tutorial, a picture and give it a go. That's actually what I did with this picture and I am quite happy about it.

What about you? Where did you learn your cool Photoshop tricks?

The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?) ...

I saw that on Merrick's blog and you know I had to do it! As usual I think it fits my personality quite well!

Take the test here!

The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF)

Quirky Liberal Alpha Female

The hardest part about being the Renn. Faire Wench is that people often mistake you for a beta female.  This is not so.  You might be quite flirtatious, but you are hardly relient on men.  You like to do things the mainstream would consider weird, (like dress in costume, perhaps?).  Eat, drink, and be merry, but make sure whoever you date respects you and does not take advantage of your laid-back attitude.  (BTW, you are likely the only type who can see That Creepy Guy (NLBM) for who he is, helping him to bring out the Manga Geek (QLBM) inside.  This does not mean you have to date one, however.  You are quite flexible and can enjoy the company of many of the types.)

You are more QUIRKY than NORMAL.

You are more LIBERAL than TRADITIONAL.

You are more DOMINANT than PASSIVE.

When picking a date, consider: The Lord of the Misfits (QLAM), The Fratt Boy (NLAM), The Snowball's Chance in Hell (QTBM), The Manga Geek (QLBM), or That Creepy Guy (NLBM).

Still Remember

System Overload

I hate it when I let myself get in over my head because my mind automatically shuts down, reboots and I end up doing not much at all.

I really have to release all the stuff I have been working on for Pffiou! (it's been two weeks since my last release AhMahGad!), set up a new kiosk (more on that when I actually set it up) and work on some custom poses I was asked to do.

Instead my brain told me "No way Jose" and I ended up spending my evening at an infohub trying to help noobs but of course I was at the only infohub I know with no noobs... 

Oh and I went to visit a very cool sim called Croquis and playing with the pictures I took there. Of course it would have been way too productive to work on all the pictures I took so I did only one so far.

As usual I overworked it but I totally luff it! I used Lia's tricks to prettify it from my usual pictures, if you have Photoshop (or whatever it is you use Lia I keep forgetting) it's definitely a neat trick to know.

Oh and this gorgeous dress, that you can't really see but is totally awesome trust me, is from Katat0nik. It's the dress in the Relay For Life vendor. It's 500 lindens but 100% of the funds go to the association so why not combine being cute and doing a nice thing?

One of those nights...

You know how on some nights nothing can go wrong? You just have fun, fun, fun? 

Well that was the case for me on Tuesday evening. I logged in to relax a bit and the first thing I saw was a group chat IM from my friend Eva. I have already said it in the past but Eva is my friend who will always drag me out to dance, ride bikes or do any of the crazy things she is doing at the moment.

Eva's offer of the day (has a nice ring to it heh?) was word for word: "Who wants to come fly penises?". 

I was shocked beyond words - penises are a very intimate part of the male body and I wouldn't dare go near one let alone ride it.

So I went.

Eva still lives on Envision so it gave me a chance to discover what people had done to their lands during the short time I was away. A pilgrimage of some sort if you please.

...

....

.....

Oh who am I kidding?! I was given the opportunity to ride a big pink penis I could have been at Armidi I would have done it anyway!

Still I dropped by some friends' houses:

Seeding Quaintly's garden

Humping Terri's house

Houston? We have a problem!

Needless to say I was crying from laughters the whole time. In case you haven't noticed yet I am a 12 year-old trapped in a 21 year-old's body...

So after I pretty much pounded against every buildings in Envision (no pun intended...) and got enough air back in my lungs I tped home thanking Eva for the ride.

I didn't stay on my own for long though, my super fun friend Lia offered to tp me and meet a friend of hers named Lukas. I went, we met, we died laughing. I just love when I meet someone and something inside my head just goes *click*. It was the same when I met Lia for the first time.

Mind you we started slowly: ogling Lukas naked chest, sitting on the floor in the middle of the store and poking each others.

It soon got crazy though.

They say I was the one who suggested it.

Don't believe them they lie.

I mean you know me better than that right?

Besides just because I said "We should go dance on those counters" doesn't mean I am responsible for what happened next right? Right. Thank you for agreeing with me.

Lia and me living the place up while Lukas is afk

Sehra joined us and we just had to introduce our boobs to each others...

... before introducing them to Lukas

Is that a roll of lindens in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?

We killed him girls! Quick hide the body!

All in all a great evening! I hadn't laughed like this in SL for so long! It reminded me of the good old days when Cailin and Calista where still in SL...

Anyway that night I went to bed at 2 am and looked like a zombie at work the next day but it was all worth it believe me!