Well I am not one for making resolutions.. but I am trying to catch up on my blog here.  So much does happen sometimes.  On the Second Life front our new full sim was dropped on Christmas Eve and true to LL's never getting anything quite right.. it was a week early.  Thankfully we had copies of all our major builds so not much was lost that couldn't be easily recreated. 

The New Sim is a joint venture between Kaye Robbianni and myself.  We merged our Open sims and have created Giverny.  Modeled after Monet's Village and estate and of course Gardens.  It has been a dream of mine to recreate the landscapes flora and fauna of the impressionists.. and the big change in policy just made it sooner rather than later.  One of those Lemons into Lemonade things.

Kaye has done a marvelous and impressive job of re creating the village of Giverny, whilst I tag behind landscaping the gardens to approximate scale and layout as the original.  My excuse is that we still have snow on the ground.  But I have developed a whole line of colorful and intreging Winter time plants. Elrik Merlin, collegue in Radio Riel has commissioned me to landscape his new 1/4 sim on Rothesay which is a nice challenge.

Also with all of the changes have come a re build at Lily's World and a new shop for me there as well as a new shop in the Portland Sim called the Portland Rose and most Shocking of all... I sold the rest of Stormhold and moved the Garden Centre in Caledon to Morgaine.  So busy busy busy.  And the more things  change the more it stays the same. 

Omicron is busily making us a new home.. a Chateau this time based on a Chateau in the Le Reine Blanche area of France.  It is quite an impressive built as once again he has designed made everything from scratch including the textures and amazing sculpted window frames, doors and sculptures.
So are we up to speed yet.....????

Well no, because in Real Life.. the black dog became vicious and horrible in November with me reaching new low depths of despair that left me contemplating suicide these visits would come and depart in a rapid cycling fashion that was not 'normal' and would last for maybe 20 - 30 min or an hour.  They left me weak, tear stained and worried for my sanity, and above all else terrified.  I tried to speak to people about it but it seemed as though I wasn't being heard.  Once again my competant and confident outer shell did not help I guess.  Well, one Saturday night late on the ISC Chat I was watching as someone talked about their Flare up with Rheumatoid Arthritis and mentioned that they had been taken Methotrexate but had a very rare neurological side effect.  So I privately Im'd her and asked.. it seems she got terribly depressed... Well I had been on Methotrexate since August and when they doubled the dose in October this was when things seemed to get very bad.  I was fortunate to have an appointment at the GP for the Monday morning.. and actually when I went in I was in the middle of the grip of one of these terrible 'things'.  Long story short.. no more Methotrexate no more of these Bizarre overwhelming attacks.  The Black Dog did come to visit over Christmas but, stayed quietly under the artifical tree, looking baleful and whining quietly.... Just a normal black dog. 

The other side effect.. an extreme sensitivity to the cold has lessened but not gone.

On the world front.. I remain  a skeptic.. but hopeful for the regime change in the USA... I watch in despair at the total disregard for human life in Gaza and Israel, in Zimbawe and the Congo, and all of the other places where a child's life is but flotsam on the storm of greed and self styled importance.  And once again the victims are the innocent.. Children and Women. 

Now I am up to date.. and will try again for a modicum of consistant blogging.

My Song today.. is from Pink.. Glitter in the Air.. and is dedicated to.. OL.