It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

...Everywhere you go
Take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes that glow...

Just in case Santa forgets to drop by at the Retreat I am ready to deliver my own gifts. 

The Retreat has been entered in the annual Tour of Lights, I am just waiting for confirmation.

The Fifth Annual
Holiday Tour of Lights!

Holidays aren’t just about family, friends, giving and gifts–they’re about EXTREME DECORATING!

You are invited to take the tour starting December 14 – 17 open to the Second Life Community!

Watch the video below as Nariah and Tugs go and explore the neighborhood and find the Retreat at 46:05....

Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

The Dandy & Likka Show happens every Monday and Thursday from 8-10 PM SLT at the Club. You really don't want to miss it. It is always fun and you never know what we come up with. Mondays it is DJ Dandy and Thursdays DJ Likka.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. We hope you come and join us and renew yourself and smile and make new friends. It is just a teleport away :)

What do men really think?

Either he was bored or scared? 

It can be extremely frustrating not knowing what men think about women… or what they think about you in particular. Don 't drive yourself crazy over it.What men think about women… it’s like discovering a secret door into your guy’s brain. I am still trying to find that secret door but I believe some men have a bigger lock than others and not all secrets can be shared because that leaves them vulnerable. (and trust me you do not want to know all the tiny details of someones thoughts. You really don't!)

Does this look too girly? Women will say, this looks cute. We like cute things.

Here’s a secret: a lot of the time men really are thinking nothing. I mean, not 100% black hole or anything, but do you really want them to say "well, I was thinking that I needed to go home and do laundry or I was regretting eating that bean burrito last night."
Men want to be 100% sure you are into them before they ask you out because the absolute worst thing they can possibly imagine is that you will reject them. (someone told me that once, so I cannot verify this, I am not a man.)

When you understand what men think about women, you can see that they are simply appreciative of beauty. It could be in an art gallery. In nature. Or in a bar. They don’t discern among types of works of art!

Look, to be fair, there’s a ton of things that women think about men that you don’t want them to know. So don’t freak that what men think about women isn’t always butterflies and unicorns. They’re gross. They’re crass. They think what’s on their mind, even if they don’t always say it.

And you need to let that go, by the way. Let go of your desire to always know what’s on their minds. Because sometimes they won’t like it. And then you’ll be sad or mad, and they won’t know what to do about that. They tried to warn you!

Baby, it's cold outside....

...maybe I cannot say this anymore, since a simple holiday song is being offensive to some women.

This is absolutely ridiculous because the same women would stand in line for hours  a few years back to see 50 shades of Grey...

I think the Urban dictionary has a point here :

#MeToo, otherwise known as, "Little Red Riding Hood Syndrome." As defined by the European fairy tale about the naive, wholesome, and pure heart Little Red Riding Hood, who ignores the wisdom and warnings of her mother and impetuously ventures into the dark & dangerous world to fulfill her noble, altruistic, and self-sacrificing quest only to be accosted and consumed by the lusting, ravenous and Machiavellian Big Bad Wolf! Overtly trusting and deceived by her own cognitive dissonance, she tragically remains trapped within her own self-deception, blind to the true nature of the wolf and unable to see the wolf's true intentions for her until it is too late. Perhaps a noble and enabling woodcutter will come to her hapless rescue and maintain her dysfunctional behaviors and those of her daughters.

"What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to hug/grab you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of bed and eats her up too. 30 years later, Little Red Riding Hood Tweets a #MeToo and the Big Bad Wolf is kicked out of the forest by an angry mob.

I don't think Santa is allowed to say Ho Ho Ho anymore...the #metoo generation will cut his beard.

RED

Red is the color of extremes. It’s the color of passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure. Red is the international color for stop. Red districts sell sex and pornography in every European culture.

Red is an auspicious color for marriage. Brides in India and Nepal wear red saris; in Japan, a red kimono symbolizes happiness and good luck.

Red captures attention. It is one of the most visible colors, second only to yellow - which explains why it is used on fire engines and stop signs to trigger alertness.

I am not seeing red at all because I am blue and here I am me with me. I pretend to go on and on like it does not effect me at all. My fault truly for even say hello.

What color is rejection,

what color could it be?

Is it blue like empty skies?

or green with jealousy?

There must have been a color,

that made you feel rejection?

A color which reflects your pain,

your every imperfection?

Perhaps white shows the emptiness

the plainness and the spite,

that make you understand your place,

to find your wrong and right.

or red depicts the fire,

that burns so slow and bright,

and when rejected starts to flicker

the spark just won’t ignite.

The blue is cold, like icy ponds,

the ice wears thin and weak,

and when rejected ice may crack,

and times may feel bleak.

But rejection could be something bright,

a pink or softer tone,

A color which will calm the sting

of feeling so alone.

So does rejection mirror pain?

or does it look quite pretty?

for when rejection hits again

you’ll be left feeling shitty.

“The way we spend our time defines who we are.”

Es ist Zeit zu leben, zurückzugeben

Was zählt ist der Augenblick

Wir sind gut gefahren, weil wir's gut bewahren

Unser kleines Stück vom Glück...

Ich glaub', das nennt man Glück

Denn es kommt alles zurück

Ich glaub', das nennt man Glück

Denn es kommt alles zurück.

Don't waste time but start on what you really want. 

Sometimes I spend so much time just trying to select something. I S think the problem is that we have so many choices and they all look good. "There's no one path. There's every path. Every path starts with this one moment. Did you choose yourself for this moment? Can you be bold? Then all paths will lead to the same place. Right now."

New Basement Club and Gallery!!!!

It is time to introduce you to the new and revised Basement Club which includes my gallery (the former Galicia Art & Cultural Hall)

I hope you come and check it out and join the group so you can get a notice when the re-opening is happening. See you soon