If Thursday is 'Little Friday' ...

... Then today is 'Big Friday' and the weekend is HERE!!! Yayayay

I can actually always tell when it's really Friday ... especially during the Spring and Summer months ... because on Fridays I always wake up early (05:20 today) because I can't wait to get the weekend started.

For as long as I can remember it has always been the same:

Monday; Alarm goes off at 06:30 - sleep in till 06:50 - rush around screaming at Neanderthal to get out of the bathroom .... leave the house in a cloud of hairspray checking that everything is straight and trying to remember if it all matches (and frankly being so grumpy I don't really care).

Tuesday; Alarm goes off at 06:30 - sleep in till 06:35 - share bathroom with Neanderthal trying to avoid groping fingers (not trying very hard of course!) ... sort out the ravages from the previous night with straighteners and leave with a cloud of hairspray settling gently in the hall ... Confident that everything is straight and (?!?) Errrmmm kind of matches.

Wednesday; Cancel alarm at 06:20 - tease Neanderthal with predictable consequences ... rush off and hide in bathroom while he cools off (lololol  - he grumbles so much!!) 06:40 tease Neanderthal a bit more while getting dressed and making sure everything is just right!! Slap Neanderthal's hands and finish makeup and hair ... Deep breath and off to work.

Thursday; Slap alarm at 06:00 and try to wake Neanderthal to persuade him to go make tea ... predictably all that happens are grunts and a big hairy arm stealing the duvet ... Go make a nice tea and sit checking through the amazing blogs of my friends and some rather nice right ups about 'Fetish Fashions' from Second Life. 06:35 the Neanderthal is still snoring so a leisurely session in the bathroom and by 06:50 getting dressed and shouting at Neanderthal to persuade it to go to work! Final touches of makeup and body spray and glide out of the door feeling very confident ... Neanderthal scrambling to get his shoes on and cram something into his face as he tries to do up his shirt and get in his car; quite funny really!

Friday; The sun is up this time of the year and the alarm clock says 05:20 ... not everyone's idea of fun but I love starting Fridays early the weekend feels so close! My hairy huggable Neanderthal looks peaceful at this time ... I pad off downstairs and make a nice cup of tea for both of us; he won't drink it but that's ok. Plenty of time to read through the overnight e-mails from Second Life and look at some of the events and new fashion announcements. By 06:15 I have a second cup of tea and am in the bathroom ... all is still peaceful in the bedroom as I get dressed - he 'Works From Home' on a Friday lmao - Bless him. I finish getting ready and leave by 06:45 with a nice leisurely drive to work .... The weekend is nearly here!!

And of course it is Bank Holiday Weekend in the UK, a nice three day weekend to relax and enjoy. I have much to catch up with in Second Life, Blue Mars, OSGrid and Entropia ... I am beginning to wonder if I can get a job 'Working From Home' ... at least I could keep up with all the Virtual World projects I  have going on then!! *S*

I think I will add a new section to the OneFinalDarkness website this weekend ... 'Virtual Worlds' ... that should be fun; with references and links to the various virtual places Babette and I currently inhabit.

Hoping you all have a wonderful weekend and if you have a Bank Holiday on Monday, as I do, then enjoy that too ... and I will see you all in Second Life or Blue Mars or OSGrid or Entropia ... LoLoLoL

*Hugs* and Byeeeeeeee


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I'm not on drugs ... I just love Mondays!! :-) ...

.... and the reason for this apparent madness is simple; Mondays mean (after dealing with the fallout from the weekend at the loonie bin, otherwise known as work!!) I get to spend some quality time with amazing people in SecondLife.

Now ... I appreciate to the casual reader that probably still seems like a very bald statement, very suggestive of the diminished mental capacity associated with the ageing process - LoLoLoL :-)  The truth though is that if you met the people I am talking about you'd be counting the days down each week till the next glorious Monday came along.

The focus of all this joy and wonderment is The Pig & Whistle pub; specifically the pub from 1pm - 3pm SLT each Monday. DJ Mericat Ireland (more famously know as - Meri  LoLoL) brings her special Indie/Alternative music choice to the pub in a two hour flawless DJ set that each week amaze me by remaining fresh and genuinely engaging.

Along with the central whirlwind of wonderful fun and energy that is Meri there are a growing number of regular and very special individuals that make up the kaleidoscope ebb and flow of conversations and laughs that Mondays always are: A few of these unique and talented individuals are; Graz Firecaster, Jellie Arrowmint, Paypabak Writer, Josielo Ceriano, Thomas Thaler (special mention here - Thom IS the light that shines for Meri !! Awwww ... he is a great guy!! ), Almo Unplugged, Serotonin Raymaker, Aston Mindes, Lucifer Bates, August Abrahams, Perl Hesse, Boo Latoe, Geert Parx,Cisa Batista, Cosmic Beres, Deatoris Toll, Dirty Adored, Filthy Adored, Dominic Nico, Duggie Rubble, EdenSky Cortes, MaeBee Tomorrow, Mars Gelber, MattG Blackbart, Piet Lundquist, Annie Anton, Sean Bernheim,  Skytour Sittingbull, Sqidly Toxx  and there are lots more who all deserve to be mentioned but hopefully they will forgive this daft, goofy old Brit Bird for not making the list exhaustive ... Pleassseeee!!!

What really stands out against the predictable, pixel perfect backdrop that SL tends to end up being; is the very 3D, interesting & interested 'Full-On' personalities behind the Avatars that all of the Monday night regulars in our pub are. There are rarely evenings when there aren't 2 or more 'Hot Topics' that fire back and forth across in local chat ... often heated but very, very, rarely out of hand. If you have an opinion you can be pretty certain that once voiced you will be challenged to support it and if there are people who share it they will wade in on your side.

I have perhaps suggested that Mondays are somehow a huge melting pot of rabid debaters .... thats would be the wrong picture to give you. What I am trying to say is there aren't many times when something isn't being talked about and all of the substantial 'News Topic Bites ...' will be layered between plenty of ribald laughter and ... I have to be truthful some very 'Adult' themes and moments!! How much fun is that!! LoLoLoL

The best way undoubtedly to understand Mondays at The Pig & Whistle is to come along and be prepared to enjoy, relax, converse and be pulled into this amazing and totally brilliant band of people I am proud and happy to call my friends!!

Yayayayayay!! It's Monday .... It's Meri .... Time to get dressed and P A R T A Y!!!

Who needs Atkins ... Not me!! Arrrgh!!

MANIC!! ... yes that would be the right word for the last 10 days. I have to admit that much of it is of my own making with planned (and unplanned!! - Woops) changes to the OneFinalDarkness Website and the work I have been doing on the Midnight Romance Website taking up large chunks of my time; all excellent fun of course but the time ticks away!

I am sure you can guess where the title comes from!! ... LMAO ... I will admit I have been a little complacent with myself since Christmas last year and it all came to a screeching conclusion (and yes!! - I did screech!!) when Charley said "Is that skirt supposed to outline your bum like that?" After I had rushed upstairs and checked out the disaster area that was my out of control rear end ... and hence the screech! ... I decided I needed to do something about it. That was 10 days ago and this morning I had enough energy to summon up the courage to check that mirror again ... Well I can't say, hand on heart, it is back where it should be yet but the rushing around (and the extra walking around at work - The only good thing about that job is the exercise I get as a result of my manager believing I am his PA!) has at least smoothed a few of the stress creases from the back of my skirts (I am still avoiding bending over too much in case I blot out the sun or clear someone's desk!! LoLoLoL).

Soooo ... with lessening fears of having to obtain my Super tankers Captains ticket for being in charge of an enormous butt; I can talk a little about some of the changes to the OneFinalDarkness site. For a while now I have been very impressed with the various features and benefits that having a Google account can provide; not least of them being the Google calendar for instance that Babette and I use to organise the events at OneFinalDarkness (and believe me ... without that calendar NEITHER of us would remember anything; except to keep track of the latest offerings from N-Core or Nyte'n'Day!).

One of the very interesting features which I stumbled across is the suite of Google 'Friends Connect' and associated gadgets. These provide a social infrastructure which peoples Google accounts stand at the centre of. Although I am sure there will be changes I have put together a new feature on the OneFinalDarkness site to take advantage of these Google applications ... you will find it on the menu listed as 'Coffee Corner'. I am pretty sure some of these gadgets will come and go but in between times they add another dimension to the site and allow you as the viewers/readers to be more directly active on the site with comments and recommendations and of course by showing your support and helping to more firmly link us all together.

I look forward to any thoughts or ideas any of you have and would encourage you to use the various feedback paths on the site including; not only the new 'Coffee Corner' and page recommendations but the general comments option on the 'Contacts' page plus the currently little known 'OFD Forum'.

As another thought; I already know that Jellie Arrowmint and Mericat Ireland have wonderful, lively and active blogs (the OFD one still needs to odd jolt from a crash cart! LMAO) sooo why not make sure I know about any blogs that any of you have and with your permission I'd like to add them to the OFD Blog Roll.

Perhaps if I am brave enough I may ask Charley tomorrow "Does my bum look big in this?" ... LoLoLoLoLoL

*hugs* to you all as I grab the Blackberry and rush of again with a list of things to do that have suddenly become urgent (in other words the idiot manager forgot he was supposed to do them!! Pfffft!!)

... And if you hear a screech it will not be me this time but it will be that damn security guard who can't get his eyes off me bum!! LMAO

Luv ya all !!


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