I’m feeling a little better today so I’m able to actually blog without feeling like I’m about to go vomit…ugh. I don’t really feel like talking about the reasons why I am so sick as of now so I’ll save that for a later date. Let’s just say being in the ER is no fun!

Anyways, I’ve been playing around in SecondLife and ended up abandoning my life as a mermaid and replaced my beautiful underwater reef with my own lil’ floating boutique on the water. I already designed 2 complete outfits a pair of boots in 3 different colors (which I may design over because the sculpted leg warmers need a little more work.), 7 different eyes and a cute tunic shirt available in 4 different colors, inspired by my favorite store Body Central!

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My laptop is broken so I may not be online as much as usual because I have to use my hubby’s laptop while he is at work. I have a Toshiba laptop and for the last 2 1/2 months it has been shutting off on me randomly without any warning what so ever. I thought it was overheating, but when I was using it just yesterday, I had my laptop sitting on the window sill which is cool because it is cold out and my laptop shut off on me again. I had already called Toshiba several times beforehand and today I had to call them a total of 4 times.

My laptop wouldn’t do a System Restore or a System Recovery. After speaking to the tech the second to last time she advised me to do a System Recovery and I had her walk me through it. When I got off the phone with her my laptop was in the process of doing it until I checked on it a few minutes later and saw an error message on the screen. I then called Toshiba again and I was told it was something to do with the hardware and my computer needed to be sent in for repair – DUH! Thank God, my warranty doesn’t expire until February, but it really sucks that my computer is acting like that and I haven’t had it for a year. I’ve already made plans to purchase a desktop once February hits. To make matters worse I tried to restart my computer and my computer now fails to start. Instead I get this message

BOOTMGR Missing

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

When I did that my computer failed to load Windows and would go back to a black screen displaying that message again. Now I can’t even use my computer at all. This really sucks because I just started a new project called: Mermaidiaries.com.

I decided to create a SecondLife role play saga in my spare time and my hubby and I already played out the prologue just the other night. If you’re interested in reading it visit my newest addition to the network: Mermaidiaries.com.

Last, but not least, if you noticed my site was down earlier, it was because I asked Hostgator to switch eternally-me.com to my primary domain name. I still have over 200 days left for Sweetvanillasugar.com, but I plan on letting that domain expire and moving our wedding website to a sub-domain under eternally-me.com.

I have to say, outside my home I’ve found my own little serene sanctuary in the world of SecondLife. I’ve designed a beautiful reef that emits soothing music and beautiful sea creatures. I can go online and look at my simulated creation of corals and underwater life, listen to sweet music and be free of the chaos of our destructive world when ever I desire.

There was a time when I was actually considering giving up SecondLife because of all the perverts online. People are so sick that they even take their perversions into the online human simulation world of SL and I was getting unwanted solicitations. Ever since I decided to explore the world of  the mystical mermaids all that unwanted perversions cease to exist and from then on I’ve experienced pure serenity when I’m on SL.

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I know I haven’t been updating in a while, between work, trying to find another job, applying  for school, and being a model on SecondLife I haven’t found time to do much of anything extra. Sometimes SL is the only way I can spend time with Brian too because of work or not having anyone that wants to watch the boys without having lots of complaints about it. I’ve decided that today I’m going to write some preset articles for GrowBlackHair.NET. I think it will be easier on me if I wrote at least 3 articles on the weekend to  be posted throughout the week. That way my blog will seem like it is active throughout the week when I’m busy doing other things. GrowBlackHair.NET has been a source of income for me and I intend to keep that way and increase my revenue if I can.

Well I have to be off to update some GrowBlackHair.NET.

I’ve also decide to show you some more pics from SL:

This is mee at an amusement park Brian(Laureate) and I went to. As you can see I recently bought a new skin that looked more like my skin tone than the previous one.

Brian and I at the amusement park again.

Brian and I at the Zen Springs.

I have some model shots too that look really good, like an actually model photo, but I haven’t downloaded them to my computer yet so I’ll add them later this week!

Well this is what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I used to play this game a few years ago, but my PC couldn’t handle the program and because this game was so new there were a load of bugs that needed to be fixed. Just 2 weeks ago I decided to give Second Life another go.

Second Life is similar to The Sims, but better. It’s an online community created by it’s residents and it takes social networking and instant messaging to another level. You can create an avatar which is your form of self expression…(Mine looks as much like me as possible. I express myself with the clothes I wear, not her looks.)  You can also buy hair, clothes, accessories, and skins to make your avatar unique. If you’re good at PSP’s you can make your own hair, skin, and clothes, etc.

I used to IM Brian a lot on Myspace messenger, but since I created a SecondLife account, normal IM isn’t where it’s at with me or him anymore.

The above pic is Brian (Laureate) and I(Samara) at a beautiful garden called Apollo that has that Rome look and feel. We’ve already been to a party and out shopping together almost every day, etc.

There’s so much free stuff you can get from the malls, but 4 bucks will get you $1000 in SL money to spend which couldn’t hurt because if you really want your avatar to look a certain way 4 bucks is all that is needed to buy the perfect skin and hair. Free clothes are abundant so you don’t really need to buy clothes unless you see something in one of the malls that you really like.

Of coarse SecondLife has many perverts, people that are vampires, strippers, even slaves! Just last night I had a guy asking me to be his mistress. That was really weird. You can also own your own business(even making real money), find employment, have sex, etc. The possibilities are limitless.

Besides some of SL perversions it’s still an interesting social network/game that keeps me occupied in my spare time.

This is a photo I took of Laureate and I in my house that I built.

In other news, I will be adding the second part of my story “The Voice of an Unbroken Spirit” sometime this week.