Another Year with Phin!

Phin and I have been together ever since he stumbled out of my shop two years ago. We also celebrate being partnered inworld for a year today as well. We went back to the SL Botanical Gardens where we had our first long chat two years ago and were glad to see the chairs were still there. There's a comfort in familiarity, isn't there? Even inworld...
He is very funny, smart and sweet and has become a great friend to me in both lives. Thanks Phin...You are my favorite squirrel...

Relationships & Family in SL

I have fussed in this blog before about how the press focuses on the negative, especially when it comes to relationships in SL. Yesterday, Newsweek released a really nice positive story (for once!) about a couple who met and fell in love and have made it work. If you read the comments on the SL main blog, it'll make you smile with the stories. Thing is...that's not news to me! I have always heard stories of folks with positive relationships within SL and/or in RL as well. For me for instance, yesterday marked my being with Phin for 1 1/2 years in SL. We've been together in here since Oct '07, and partnered for 6 months now. He makes SL a joy and is my favorite squirrel...Let's take Steelhead, for example. Its managers Tensai & Lunar are married in RL. Hawc & CeAire DeCosta have been married in RL for 24 years (Happy Anniversary!) and like Remington Pinion & Krystine Qinan--who are also married in RL--have a great time together in SL doing things as a couple. Rem & Krys are my neighbors and I remember watching Krys swim by in mer form as Rem followed nearby in a small boat. How often can you do that in RL?

Riding the log flume w/Baube (front)

But it's not only about partners and marriage...Family too! Phin, for instance, is Zoe Connolly's RL brother and they have a great time exploring everything aviation-related. My own RL sister (Baube Laval) comes in from time to time. In Steelhead, Tensai's dad has come in and so has Lunar's sister and mom. The Davies Sisters (Myfi & Tanarian), separated by distance in RL, have a great time together inworld. People have also made great friends inworld as well that have come to mean a lot to them in RL. I know the same is true across SL. SL is more than the stereotypical destroyed relationship stories. It's also about love, caring, friendship and family that transcends both the real and virtual worlds.

Off the Market

One year can make a huge difference, including in one's life inworld. Phin and I have been together for one year as of today, and surprised each other by showing up in what we wore during one of our earliest outings (a dance, I was in costume). It was only natural that he asked me to partner him......and I said "Yes." I scrambled to whip up a dress for the day...
I really thought about this and a lot of things regarding my life inworld. SL should be a place of peace and happiness while here and he helps to make it so for me in that grey clouds gone kind of way. He is a great guy and likes everything about me, even my "ferretty" ways--which is good, as he's the squirrel of my SL. Thank you Phin for making this such a wonderfully happy day! Here's to many, many more...
p.s.: Dia--there are your pics!
p.p.s: Zoe, aka "SL sis-in-law"...Yes, I know, "It's about time!"

Dia's Partnering Party

Dia and Dewitt threw their partnering party at their place in the Wasteslands tonight. They had three tiny party crashers from Germany who stuck around and seemed to have a great time... There was a really great turn out of their friends...
I couldn't help but take this pic of Zeroyel and a friend who was a budgie at the time. Sorry I don't remember her name! I was teasing Zero about hogging the spanakopita Greek yummy goodness that had been set out. Great fun and congrats!

Congrats Dia! And a Touch of Elven Payback...

Dia tp'd me over to Suffugium (I wish I had a pic of Gomi's von Trapp Family Victorian urchin look) where she told me "Ohmigod! I partnered Dewitt!" Yes, "ohmigod!" is right! I am happy for them both, as he's a good match for her and wish them both much happiness in their inworld future! I would also like to congratulate Eds upon her recent partnering with Zen, and I wish them much happiness as well. And um...my "Come a little closer moon elf, I won't hit you over the head with my sword hilt" trashtalking came back to haunt me when Lunar beat me twice tonight back to back. Arrgh. Here, he is just demonstrating to me what one of his Spellfire system staffs can do...