Kaleidoscope: Oleander

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Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Limited edition.

Pose & wreath prop : [ Focus Poses ] Christmas Access Gift @ Access

I'm joined by Hayyz today, and I'm absolutely chuffed she could pop over and take a picture with me.

I've not always been the kindest person towards her, but I have always been honest... and luckily, we've come to a place where we can poke each other gently and get along rather nicely.

I'm going to drop her flickr >here< and her blog >here< and politely request you give this budding blogger and photographer a follow and show some support. I can't wait to watch her and see how she progresses.

In other news, I've been watching Youtube a LOT lately. I suppose I'm feeding my need for nonsense with that rather than SL drama... which I have mixed feelings about, and will probably be addressed some other time...

Anywho, the commentary guy was saying how he felt like anyone who could be constantly positive and wanted everyone to play happy and be nice was fake, and I wanted to talk about this.

I don't think it's 'fake' to focus on bringing people together and making things happy.

I do think it's fake when you're doing those things because you think it's the right thing to do to make people like you more, or to push you further into a community or scenario based solely on the 'good' you do for everyone else. Let's face it, doing nice things for people makes you feel good. If it didn't feel good there'd be even less of a chance of us actually attempting to please others. I think the important thing to remember in doing nice things, is that we are doing them just to be nice, without alternate motives and without expectations of reciprocation.

The commentary guy also mentioned how being spiteful and angry was a natural emotion, and I definitely agree.. but just because you are angry, or feeling spiteful or some other negative, that doesn't mean you have to follow through and hurt someone because you hurt.

If I'm on my soap box, I apologize. I'm definitely not good at any of this at the moment, but I'm hoping that by putting all my feels into words, and expressing myself I can not only understand everything a little more, but maybe encourage a discussion or thought in others, too. It'll also be a reminder to me to work on the way I deal with my own personal situations, I'm definitely not the woman I was last year, and I hope I continue to grow and learn to accept myself and others.

xoxo

Hi! I'm wearing lipsticks from Go&See here, and yes... i'm trying desperately to provide you with a pretty image when I compare shades, but I'm still working out a good way to do this and so you're left with pictures that are on-a-wonk. Sorry. Practice makes perfect tho - and it doesn't take away from the pretty lip colours, so focus on that pls, dear readers!

All of the things :

Body : Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara

Head : GENUS Project (babyface)

Skin : Go&See * Candy * For Powder Pack

Blush : Avoixs - Winter Blushes @ B U S A N

Lipstick : Go&See * AmCold * Lipstick ~ Genus @ Girl Power

Eyes : LOTUS. Nocturnal Eyes (previously at N21)

Hairbase : Just Magnetized - Essential Hairbase - set 05

Hair : !Oleander ~ Izzie.

Ears : Mug - Noel Ears

Coat : *katat0nik* Cropped Fur Coat @ Collabor88

Thursday, 26 July 2018

You don't know.

Pose : FOXCITY. Play Ball-6 (Fatpack Exclusive)

Location : Baja Cove

Today I'm going to return to the story of the odd Spaniard chasing me along the beach, briefly mentioned in this post >Here<.

I was 17, and with my Orchestra. I know automatically you're picturing a bunch of music nerds who snort when they laugh and constantly have to hike their glasses up over their noses, but I promise you, we were more a mid-range collection of teens who just happened to play musical instruments. Pinky swear!

So we'd gone on a brief tour of Barcelona, and a group of us quickly found out that the legal drinking age in Spain (at the time, not sure about now), was 16. Along with purchasing some cheap-ass Sangria for the hotel rooms, we'd sneak out after lights out and pop into a bar where we'd chug Cerveza until kick out time and then sneak back, incredibly inebriated via the back entrance of the hotel so as not to get noticed by concierge.

This one particular night we'd drank and laughed until we could barely stand, and took our regular route along the beach back to the hotel. I'm convinced this Spaniard came out of the Sea, because one moment it was just three of us arm in arm singing pop songs (WE WERE TEENS), and the next, this rather large, hairy and very naked Spaniard was chasing us, making over-the top swimming arms and shouting... "You girls, come for swim with me, no?"

For a big dude, he ran fast... and in our drunken state, trying to get anywhere fast on the unfamiliar sand wasn't a pretty sight and he started to actually catch up with us, so one of my friends took off her flip-flops and threw them at him. Which didn't deter him.

Naturally that night was the one night we'd been at the hotel that they'd decided to lock their back doors, so we're being chased by a stranger, unable to get into the hotel and things are starting to look a little bit like a bad TV Horror Movie. I'm convinced we're going to end up in a bath tub with my body parts missing, and honestly, who knows what this naked Spaniard actually wants with us, and why the fudge he's chasing - but none of us wanted to find out!

Luckily, there was one large window open, so we managed to hoist ourselves in (with a little drama, I've never been particularly sporty or agile, despite a bit of a background in dance and of course, our obvious drunken state). We slammed the window shut and lay in a heap underneath the nearest table laughing like Hyenas and praising the fact that we were all safe and sound.

Somehow, we never got found out, either!

xoxo

Have a look at some pretty eyelashes by Go&See!

Here's a lil selection of the symbol lashes by Go&See available at SaNaRae today! Click the image to get it even bigger, and uh, sorry for the wonk, I need to work out a far better system for editing these all together haha.