SL Pregnancies

This is a blog post I've kind of been dreading. No, not because I regret my decision - because of the friends I might lose, the bad comments I might receive, or the loss of respect. I am prepared to be looked down upon for it, or possibly lose some friends over it, but its a decision Jeffry and I came to together, after discussing it often.

We decided to have a prim baby. Yeah, I know. But no - not just the prim baby, we decided to go the whole pregnancy thing and all. (But don't worry, I will never wear a talking belly in public, or around anyone else. :P) I used to hate going shopping, and seeing pregnant avatars, or hearing prim stomachs tell the world that the mother-to-be needed vitamins, or anything. It was extremely annoying, and I really didn't want to be spammed by it all while I shopped for shoes. And, I never understood why someone would want to do that, in a perfect world, where you never had to worry about getting pregnant.

However, I knew Jeffry wanted a SL marriage, and he brought the idea of a prim baby up occasionally. I skirted around the idea, because prim babies kinda scared the crap out of me (although, admitting, I had considered buying a prim baby a couple months ago for some kind of amusing pet). But, as I got to know Jeffry, my thoughts changed. I started to warm up to the idea of having a prim baby. I mean, after all - nurserys in SL are sooooooo cute, and I wanted to decorate one. And, the mix of my curiosity and being interested in how SL pregnancies worked - eventually... as I'm getting closer to booking a plane flight to meet him in RL, I agreed to have a baby with Jeffry.

I debated - should I keep it from my friends? Just hide in my house for 6 weeks? Should I come out and risk being the oddball pregnant girl who is the butt of all jokes? Should I risk losing my friends by telling them about it? I thought for several days. And, decided I will not hide, and this is how I want to spend my SL. I mean, I'm not just here to please other people, right? So, this is my blog post - saying my decision to have a baby with my partner, Jeffry.

I plan on writing about having a baby, showing pregnant pictures, writing about how crappy it is modding clothes for maternity is, making and blogging pregnancy poses I make, and even writing about lamaze and stuff. Yes, we signed up at a clinic to do the whole prenatal care, lamaze, and delivery things :P

So, if you see mah belleh growing - this is why. On August 17th, 2009, we will have a baby girl named Jasmine Arlene. :D

Home in Shadows

A couple weeks ago Jeffry and I expanded Byakuya, our land. I had around 5200sq meters previously - and when a neighbor moved... we decided to pick it up. So now - Byakuya is 8832sq meters, which is more land than I've ever had - and I'm officially paying enough tier for my home and my store to buy my own homestead. xD

But anyway. Jeffry has been on vacation for a couple days, so I've was amusing myself with playing with shadows last night. I landscaped the house earlier in the day and was so excited with how it came out... though I wish the awesome rocks I put down were phantom. Like omg - why would you make non-phantom sculpted rocks? And no mod at that? :O

I downloaded the new Kirsten's S18 viewer, hoping I can get some shadows, because her previous viewer's didn't give me any shadows at all. I downloaded it, installed it, and ran it - Yay! Shadows! And instead of getting 3 frames per second, I get 6-8 now! \o/ So I roamed around the house, looking for good shots.

I think our house is beautiful. I don't think Jeffry liked it at all when I got it, but I think he's coming around to it. xD Its a Barnesworth house - brand new, and I don't think its in the store yet. I was roaming around the sim looking at the houses when I spotted it, and it had a info board, so I bought it from there xD

I really love SL shadows, its amazing how such a normally boring picture can be brought to life with a couple shadows.

There are 2 main rooms in this house, one which is the bedroom - and another which is a huge, huge room. The huge room, I made into a hot tub area, sitting area and little mini kitchen. Sounds weird, but I think it's positioned well enough to work :D I was also so excited with this house, because I purchased one of those Intan Couple Poseball things. You load your couple's poses and dances in there, then it rezzes a set of poseballs for you when you click it. I've put some dances and some.... other couple's animations in there as well. Less clutter \o/

The bedroom. Jeffry brought this black and red bed with him when he moved in with me, which he was absolutely insistent on using. So, I had to plan the house around this bed, which is where my black and red theme came from... which is shown throughout the house. On the other side of this picture is a fireplace, and a small sitting area. ^^

Outside, with the non-phantom rocks. Seriously - WHY no mod? :O Ah well, the things we sacrifice for pretty landscaping items. :D

The pond. Jeffry wanted koi, and at one point probably had at least 20 physical koi in this tiny pond. I pleaded with him to get less laggy fish, and pleaded, pleaded, pleaded - until he eventually got frustrated with me and got some little flexi fish that swam around in circles. :D

This is where I spend most of my time. The chicken coop, where I keep my favorite chickens. I took a couple pieces from the barnesworth house - and modded a chicken coop from it - I think it turned out absolutely awesome, and I totally love it. Its perfect, and matches the house even better than I imagined it would. I just wish I could get those ugly blue lights off of the radi-o-statics. Looks like I'm breeding radioactive frogs under black lights or something :/

Ancients

My two favorite things in Second Life right now: Jeffry, and our little family of chickens. I wrote about Jeffry in my previous post - now, I'm going to write about all the things that happened with our chickens within the past couple days.

I was literally being dragged to some stupid family event on July 4th. Which, I absolutely hate going to family things... so it put me in a really bad mood for the days leading up to the Fourth, because I was really dreading it. The day came - and I was feeling extremely irritable. Jeffry logged on, and I was still really down and irritated at everything. So, I went to take a shower for the family BBQ, and when I came back - he had a couple surprises for me. :O

Two 2nd Growth Ancient SionChicken eggs! I've been itching to buy some for weeks, but he would never let me - saying to "wait" and stuff. And, with the recent sprout of Ancient eggs among my circle of friends, it wasn't really helping my impatience to get an ancient. I've been really wanting one - so I was soooooo excited he got some for me. I yelled at him a lot (the poor guy), but I was excited, and somehow didn't care anymore about the BBQ. xD

We both waited by the chicken coop for 2 hours, waiting, waiting, waiting for them to hatch before I had to leave... begging to the eggs to give us a male and female pair. We waited some more, clicking the egg every 30 seconds, and then first one hatched. A female! we were soooo excited... until the second egg hatched to be another female. So, I told him that when I come back from the BBQ, we would go out, and I'd buy a couple more (we were determined to get a male and a female at that point, and they were reasonably cheap).

So, try number 2. I picked up 2 more 2nd Growth ancients - and one original double bright ancient. Out of a total of 5 eggs, at least ONE has to be a male, right? xD

We waited and waited again. The first one hatched - female. A couple minutes later - the second one - a MALE! Yay, it was so exciting. :D And then, the original ancient hatched to be yet, another female.

So, on July 4th, we welcomed Farrah, Mai, Eve, Danielle and Tyler to our chicken family. :D

Jeffry - Partnerships

So, a lot of stuff happened within the past couple days, I'm going to be splitting this post into 2 posts - one for Jeffry, and one later for the stuff that recently happened with our chicken family :D But first, a random picture I've been hoarding.... I love this picture, its soooooo cute.

On Saturday, Jeffry and I were cuddling, which is my favorite part of the day - when he passes me a gushy love letter notecard which really made me cry - even in real life, it was very sweet. Then, shortly after that - he gave me an object and told me to put it on - which turned out to be a necklace he had gotten customized to say "I love you Sai". It was sooooooo adorable, I yelled and screamed at him for doing something like that - but inside I was totally excited and wasn't sure how I can be any happier. :D

But, next thing I knew, he was asking me to get on some poseball with him. Yay, more cuddles! I thought. But, no.

I knew he wanted to 'officially' propose to me, because he wanted me to remember the day, and for it to be special - but I didn't expect this. I loved it, and was so great. Jeffry is so important to me now in SL, I'm actually extremely excited to get married to him. He's been wanting to do the formal proposal for a while, and now we can start planning the wedding. \o/ I was sooooooo happy, I mean, can life get any better?

Yes. Before I answered a huge YES to him, he told me to check my email inbox. And there it was.... a partnership request. :O My internets was having huge fail - where every time I hit "Accept" I got a 404 Page not found error on the Second Life website. :( Even when he sent me a second one - I got the same error. So, I sent him one - and now....

I'm so excited. OMG, every time I look at it I get all girly, giggly and happy. xD He wants to start planning the wedding I think, but I really have no idea where to start :O I mean, in RL - you can look through the phone book and stuff to check out a wedding planner, or something - but SL... is not that easy. xD I'm so excited though. I mean, I never really imagined myself to get married, didn't think I wanted it - but now, I can't wait. I seem to be becoming quite the domesticated girl, aren't I? :O



And, a silly video I took of us dancing in our bedroom. And, he looks so freaking adorable in his fedora hat he picked up when we went to the hair fair together. xD

But its funny - I thought I was happy with other guys I've blogged about. But no guy ever made me feel the way Jeffry does. He is so sweet, we are looking for the same things in SL and RL - and is perfect in almost every way. :O I can say with confidence - that its been almost years since I've been this happy in SL. :D

[Featherings]

More chicken adventures! With my hen Hana, popping out eggs every day or so (sometimes even twice a day!), I've gathered quite a few eggs from her. I've stuffed them in Proteggtors, but they just keep coming, and I'm unsure what to do with them. After reading a blog entry I seen on my feed, I decided to check out the Chickens sim, to see what they have there. I came across tons of booths, and little pieces of land where people raise their chickens. However the booths caught my eye.

Wouldn't it be cool if I could set up a vendor and sell some of the eggs my chickens lay? I know my eggs are common, boring and not as pretty as anyone else's, but the booths are cheap, and it would get a few eggs out of my inventory. After thinking about it for a couple hours, I finally decided to go and rent a booth to sell a couple eggs.

Jeffry and I wandered the sim, looking for an empty booth, and he eventually found one for me. We ran over to buy a chicken egg vendor, and I spent the majority of the night, and a good portion of this morning reboxing eggs, and setting the vendor up.

I'm calling my little booth [Featherings] and it can be found here. While I don't plan to make a profit or anything from it, I do hope it pays the booth rent, gets eggs out of my inventory and lets people get more variety in their chicken coloring collections. :D

But, the best part of my night last night was cuddling with my Jeffry. Its amazing how happy this guy makes me feel, I honestly don't think I've had this happy of a Second Life in many, many, many months. I love to cuddle with him and just talk about everything that comes to mind.

I told myself I wouldn't allow my blog to become all "omg this guy is so awesome"-ish, but I'm not really sure I can help it. Jeffry is the guy I want to keep, is perfect for me, has become my happiness and is a giant part of my SL now. :D

Jeffry & Engagements

So, I'm tired of writing about guys, and them ending up not working out, for one reason or another. Its exhausting. I considered renaming this blog to like, Sai's SLex and the City, but that would be weird. I've been hurt, not taken seriously, and took on lovahs, but none has really been what I wanted, and we've broken up for some reason or another. Whether it had been by changing what I believed in, contrasting beliefs, or them not being happy. I've recently been called a player, but that's honestly not what I'm about. Really. :/

I made a decision to fully open up to someone, take a chance and see what happens. This person was Jeffry. We were friends while I was with Pnut, and he was there for me after I broke up with him. He puts up with my crazy ex boi dramaz, and laughs about it with me. And, he is probably the first guy I actually, really put my walls down for and let myself open up to.

He's extremely sweet, and told me what he wanted and believed in right up front, so I was glad there wouldn't be surprises later down the line. And, to make things even better, what he wanted in SL, was exactly what I was looking for as well. He was completely open with me in the beginning, told me how he felt, and was so patient until I allowed myself to fall for him. :P

This was taken right after we got engaged last night. :O Yes. Sai is officially engaged. He had apparently planned out this little thing - making me get all dressed up in formals, taking me somewhere romantic, and asked for me to be his fiancee. And, there was absolutely no wai that I was going to say no to this guy. It was so adorable, sweet and romantic, I loved it. I totally adore this guy. :D

I snapped this photo of the ring he gave me after he logged off. I am a little embarrassed to admit, but I was probably a lot more excited then I should have been last night. He does want to get married, and actually have a marriage ceremony on our land. I've never envisioned myself to get married in SL, but, it appears like - its really going to happen... and I wouldn't want anything different. My home has always been my most sacred place for as long as I've had one in SL, so, I'm totally ecstatic he wants a wedding in my most favorite place. :D

Happy Little Chicken Family

So, the adventures of Sai's chickens continues! Its been a little while since my last update. For a while, things were uneventful, just me waiting for my two original chickens, Hana and Ueda to reach breeding age so they could give me babies.

During that time, I was reading up on some new chickens, called "new wave" chickens, which could make glowing chickens and come in all kinds of colors. Of course, while I was at the Sion Chicken shop to grab some food, I seen 12 of these new wave chicken eggs for sale. And yes, I bought them.

I came home right after, to see my female hen, Hana, squatting , while all the male chicken was up, clucking around. Thinking she was sick, I clicked her, to see she was at 100% with an egg :O

I was so excited... until I remembered I have 12 new wave eggs I just bought. I waited, waited and waited for Hana to lay her egg, and then the grid borked - and I was suddenly logged out. When I was able to come back, she had laid her egg, and I had missed it. :(

I decided to go ahead and rez 2 of the twelve new wave eggs I bought. So, I sat and waited for all 3 eggs to hatch :D They hatched, I named them all, gave them new homes, all was good.

Until later that night, when Hana decided to punch out yet... another egg. Then another egg the next night, while I was sleeping. So, at seven chickens, I decided to get one of those Radi-o-statics, that keep eggs from hatching until you want them to.

So, my little chicken family consists of: Ueda, Hana, Sushi, Tatsuya, Kame, Sakura, and Naruto. They have several toys, I put myself a blanket to sit with them in their pen, and they are going through food like crazy. I might need to buy those breeder food packs now. XD