I spent another selfish weekend. What can I say, sometimes it just feels so good! I DID do something I rarely ever do in Second Life, I wandered out into public. YIKES! Naw it wasn’t so bad, my besty love Skip Staheli, photographer extraordinaire had a 6th rezz day party. So not only did I attend, I was even in SL in the evening! Boy, I hope he knows what a journey that was for me. But seriously, it was a lot of fun. I saw a lot of people I don’t see very often, Frolic Mills, BlackBarbie Bravin, Cottoncandy Teardrop, Fina Ethaniel and even my bestest of all bestestesses, my little dragon Draakje Daily. There just so many people I can’t possibly name them all! I even inworld met a FB friend, Wheelerwood Oppewall. So all in all I would say it was an amazing fun way to spend a Saturday!

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10 lucky winners will be selected initially and when it’s time to rotate the posters I’ll continue to select pictures from the pool and they will receive a $1000 gift card to spend at Truth.

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Outfit I wore to Skips beach party:
Hairs: Truth, Lotus **New**
Hair piece: LaGyo, Angelie
Shirt: Tulip., Halter top
Skirt: Drift, Hangover Maxi
Handbag: Ison, Scout Boho
Necklace: Indy & Co., Peony Necklace
Bracelet: Mandala, Sitennoah
Tattoo: .::K::.
Pose: Behavior Body (BeBo) Handbag poses
SIM: L2 studio

I know most of you don’t really believe me when I say I am undateable. Only those closest to me really know what a mishap waiting to happen I truly am. But by my usual standards of measure, this week has been epic. I met his family, he met my family, both could be recipes for disaster for any relationship. But I have to be honest, I loved his family, maybe even a little more than I like him! The first time I met his grandmother, she walked into the room in her coordinated polyster “jogging” suit, giant glasses and sparkly, colorful earrings and waved her cigarette at me while exclaiming in a voice raspy enough it acknowledges her years of smoking, “What a pretty girl!” How could I not fall in love? In fact I am thinking about trading my mom in for his grandmom. The day after my birthday we had lunch with my mom. I figured since it was a work day and we only had 45 minutes tops, how much trouble could my mum get into, right? Everything was going along nicely, I saw my mom looking at me but thought nothing of it. Just about the time I put a rather large piece of lettuce and tomato in my mouth, she turns to my new beau, smiles at him and asks him if he will be in our yearly Olan Mills family photo next week! I actually couldn’t speak the rest of the lunch. I still can’t figure out whats worse, the fact that she asked him to be a part or the fact that our family does something so bizarre in this day and age.

He is amazing though. He met Katy the Jack Russell Terriorist the other day and she hates everyone. She was flopping all over him, couldn’t get enough attention from him. When I remarked how amazed I was he said he wasn’t surprised really because kids, dogs and gay guys all love him. I’m just hoping that’s not an omen. But today was the worst. I’m supposed to have a date tonight to meet with some of his friends. My cell phone has T-9 on it. You know, the thing where your phone tries to figure out what you are texting to finish it for you? It’s possessed. I’ve watched it kill relationships before. I once texted “I’m taking anap” (forgot to hit the spacebar between the two words) and it came out anal. Thank God I was chatting with a girlfriend who knows me well and knows these conversations are normal for me. Well, today Jay texted me to ask when I wanted him to pick me up. I texted back “after work I have to get a vaccine and groceries.” Well he’s pretty quick on the take, I am sure he knows what happened. I hope. He texted back, “Lol a Vaccine huh? You have something you need to tell me?” Embarrassed for the umpteenth time this week, I just texted back “I meant a sucking machine for the floor.” Mess that one up T-9!

Take from? Of course! And yes, much of this is written in gest. I love to laugh at myself! Heck some of my friends make a hobby out of laughing at me. But the point is, never take yourself too seriously. Let a person see the bad just as much as the good. When you do, you will know for sure whether they are a fair weather friend or an all weather friend. Time will tell on this one, but with the way the week shaped up, it’s looking pretty sunny in Florida. Now, I just have to find him and Katy matching outfits for the picture.

Outfit:
Hair: Tuty’s Adorable
Jacket: Purple Moon, Hana *Couturier’s Dock*
Knicker shorts: Leezu!, Glitter pants
Shoos: {{BDS}} Toiles de Joury, disco cyan **L’Accessoires**
Handbag: {Cherry}, Sage snake skin **L’Accessoires**
Necklace: NYU, Outrage! **L’Accessoires**
Pose: **Manifeste**

I know. I know. I’ve been a terrible blog friend since Friday. I’ve been taking a “breather.” No excuse really, but today, well, it’s my birthday. Where do these things come from so suddenly? And the older I get, the faster they fly. Heck, wasn’t it just Christmas for crying out loud? This is the new “Blue” outfit from Mila Tatham of *SoliDea FoliEs* It was created for Second Life model, Blue Porchers. But I think I’ll just borrow it for today. Somehow black and me acting all Emo or gothic seem to fit on this birthday.

Anyway, take from? Please know I miss you all so much, I love catching up with the glimpses of your days that you always give me. I will get up to speed tomorrow though, God willing and the creek don’t rise, that is. See Draakje Daily? I don’t always have to be all Word and Peace. SLURL’s on the “Last Known SLURL’s” page Link:.

Outfit:
Pantsuit: *SoliDea FoliEs* Blue *NEW**
Makeup: Mons, Amazon and Dominant
Hairs: Boudoir, Baroque Powder
Necklace: Finesmith, Feather Story
Poses: Diesel Works

I told my blog friend Arjun Bagga, that I was going to steal some of his titles. Almost every time I see one of his blog titles, just the title sends my brain to creating. Short blog today, it is mothers day in the US and I happen to have a mother, well, as many of you know since I blog about her. A lot. So I need to take her to lunch, or something. You know, that hour long period in which food is consumed and lack of grandchildren is bemoaned. I’m sure some of you know what I mean.

Arjun blogged with a title of “Kiosked” once. I thought what genius this fellow is. It made me think of Disney World with it’s endless kiosking lines. I don’t go to Disney just for this reason, the cattle call feel of this practice is enough to make me, erm, moo. In Second Life modeling, when you style to a theme, don’t take it at face value, that’s just boring. So break free from being kiosked. Let your building blocks be something in the chosen theme, we’ll use Baroque, like the Finesmith necklace or the ChicZafari dress, but let your wow factor pieces be the parts that highlight the theme like the wild hair from Boudoir, or the definitely not baroque, put perfectly shaded Boots from Pure Poison. This style took a little longer than usual, a few hours, but overall, I’m kind of happy with it. I hope you like it too! SLURL’s on the “Last Known SLURL’s” page Link:.

Outfit:

Hairs: Boudoir, Baroque Hair
Headpiece: Finesmith, Dola Tiara
Necklace: Finesmith, Edina Baroque
Gloves: Mimikri, Cuffed Gloves
Shoos: Pure Poison, Red Ashaki Boots
Dress: Chic Zafari, Embellished silk dress
Leggings: [Plastik] Militia Skinny Pants, gold leaf
Pose: DelMay

One style that always seems to “hang around” is Boho chic. Not complaining, I love it. In a real life and a second life. Boho is truly a style made for Florida. It’s airy and cool on the hottest of days, when the others are melting like a popsicle, you’ll look cool as a cucumber. This gorgeous Maxi-dress is from my very good heart friend Poulet Koenkamp of Purple Moon.

As you can see, I am wandering away for a bit, I’ve some real life to enjoy. But I hope you will wait for me, I’ll be back soon. Heck, I’m already dreaming up blogs for next week. Enjoy your weekend! You will love the Spring line at Purple Moon so much, I even included the taxi for you! I’m kinda nice like that. Taxi:

Outfit One:
Dress: Purple Moon, Meadow Maxi *NEW**
Hat: Baiastice, Estella
Hair: Boon, KBO906
Handbag: Baiastice, Claudia

Ah well, I don’t know how it got here, but here it got…. Again. Date night for the basically undate-able. I don’t know why I act this way. I mean, we already got the dinner part over with, so I know I can leave the spork, and the spanks, at home because I won’t be needing them. He’s even kind of a conversationalist, which works great because as a thinker and watcher, I’m kind of a quietasationalist. I was given a reprieve last week. Though to be honest it took an awful lot of cajoling and bribing to get my parents to move out of the house they’ve lived in since the 80′s just to avoid going on a date. (think about it, it’ll come to you). And of course, the days flew by to Friday. Have you ever noticed the more you are anxious about an event the faster it looms until finally the day is here and you are basically hiding under the bed wishing it was still Monday? Uh, well maybe not Monday, but Tuesday’s good. I can’t help it, as a datee, at times I am a disaster. Heck, I reckon as a woman sometimes I am too, its one of those pesky symptoms of being habitually undate-able.

Somewhere along the travels that are my life when they had the line to pick up your “womanly gracefulness and charm”, I was lost knee deep in the “gawky and likely to land on her arse at some point of the night” line. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really mind and it certainly leads to interesting conversation when I meet with my friends and we do the thirty minutes of reminiscing that always begins with “remember the time Cao..” Which is totally okay because I’d rather be laughed at than cried over. My mum does enough of that all on her own, typically right about the time one of her friends perfect children spits out another kid. Personally, I don’t know why she doesn’t just adopt one. Can that be done? I’ll have to travel on and see if I can find that line for my mum to stand in. I’ll even take a few days off to drive her there.

Take from? Sometimes you just have to roll over with the changes and let them consume you like the tidal wave they are. Kicking and screaming isn’t going to make the changes any easier, and who knows? Sometimes you can get so busy complaining about the situation that you miss the fact that the change turned out to be a very positive influence that you actually enjoyed. Did you hear that? Naw, me either. I’m too busy being miserable about a date to pay any attention to myself. SLURL’s on the “Last Known SLURL’s” page Link:. I can be nice like that. When my mama makes me.

Outfit One:

Eyelids: SLink *New**
Hair: Miamai, Luna
Sticks: Mandala, Rushana Chopsticks
Eyelids: SLink, Mesh closed eyes (for photos) *New**
Jewelry: Kunglers, Maasai
Bathingsuit: Baiastice, Metal Mesh bikini-Violet
Feet: [Gos], barefeet
SIM: Tiki Tattoo

First of all, to all those wonderful designers who have recently given me prezzy’s to consider blogging, I’m sorry I haven’t gotten around to them. I’m a retired Cao, so my attention span is rather short. Expecially when the weather is so nice outside. Besides, don’t blame me, you’ll have to blame this one on Nevery Lorakeet of *Les Petits Details* and a few others. I will explain. Mila Tatham of *SoliDea FoliEs* gave me an outfit. Which isn’t a surprise, I’m her manager. This outfit though, is the Celeste outfit. I love the Celeste outfit. It’s Blue! But as a model, I can’t wear the same thing every day right? So I could just wear it around the house or sleep in it. Um, no. Because then I’m not showing it to anyone but KT (the Jack Russell Terriorist), because, as all of you know, I’m undate-able. After being gone last Wednesday to Monday, when I returned I found a folder with a sweet note in it, the folder simply said “For Cao.” Nevery is learning to use blender to create her own mesh items and a bit ago she asked me if I wanted her to make anything specific and I told her if she was serious, she could check my Pinterest account for all of my dream items. Inside the folder was the most adorable purse. In blue! Which naturally made me think of Celeste!

It sat in the nice folder for a few days, but then today. As I was checking out my Facebook friends, I saw a post by Tabata Jewell of “Vanity Hair” for a new hair called “Diavolo.” Jaw dropped. Gorgeous. Well at this point, I knew what I had to do. When I logged in at lunch I gathered my three pieces. To make the blog “current” I swung by Collabor88 and picked up a few items from Glam Affair and LaGyo, threw in the Collabor88 “Rain or Shine” patio set from Lisp Bazaar, I can’t help it, I have a soft spot for anyone named Pandora Popstar, and zipped home for my 60 minute styling. Heck, I was pretty much done at this point. I had the style, I recolored and retextured the skirt (make sure to make a copy of the original before retexturing or you can never get it back) from Eshi Otawara’s of Eshi’s “Heather” dress and I was done. Sixty minutes, a few pics, a crop and upload later, I am done.

The take from? Of course, need I say so? There always is.. If you are feeling down, uninspired, or lacking creativity. Find one thing in a color you can’t live without. Just one thing that makes you smile, and put it on. From there move outward until you build something happier, more creative and inspiring from the one thing. It could change your entire day. I know this challenge sure brought me a smile. I hope it did for you too. SLURL’s on the “Last Known SLURL’s” page on the left of the screen. I can be nice like that. Sometimes. If I have to. I guess.

Outfit One:

Hairs: Vanity Hair, Diavolo, babyboy shade *NEW**
Hairbase: VCD, Style 2
Earrings: Glam Affair, *Collabor88**
Necklace: LaGyo, Mia *Collabor88**
Handbag: *LpD*, *Cao* *New**
Shirt: *SoliDea FoliEs*, Celeste *New**
“Belt”: *SoliDea FoliEs*, Gia neckpiece (edited) *New**
Skirt: Eshi, Heather (edited and recolored)
Chair: L.I.S.P. Bazaar, Rain or Shine *Collabor88*
Poses: DelMay