Happy 1 whole year Anny my heart!

It’s gonna get a lil mushy here. If you have cheese allergies, please be advised this post contains such dairy.

It’s been one year today since Hawks & I had our hammock talk (coming up in the next part of Our Story) - that means that we’ve officially been a couple for a whole YEAR! The first 7 months was purely SL. After that we entered RL to see if there was an “us” out there beyond the HawksRock & JellyBean. Lo & behold, the answer is “Yup!”

Dearest Hawks…

You have been the greatest thing that has ever happened in my SLife/Life. You gave me hope when I didn’t believe in it, inspiration when I was stuck, motivation when I felt lazy, initiative when I thought there was no cause, happiness in times I thought I’d never smile again, and in good times & bad (we’ve had some) you always stuck by me, even when I gave you an “out.” Thank you for who you are and what you mean to me. I love you more today than I did yesterday & I look forward to much more happiness with you!

Love,

*Your* Jell

For Always & Forever! Mwah!

Getting to Know HawksRock Gunawan

Yeah, okay so got the thingy, and figured we ought to just blog it.

Welcome to the 2008 edition of Getting To Know Your Friends. What you are supposed to do is copy the text on this entire note and paste it onto a new note that you’ll send out. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
6am

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds - cuz it is all about the BLING baby!!

3. What was the last film you saw in the theatre?
National Treasure (sucked btw! well at least the parts I stayed awake during…)

4. Favorite TV Show?
ESPN SportsCenter but I am too cheap to pay for cable… so I don’t get to see it very often. Heroes too, but I watch that online.

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Bagel w/ Cream Cheese and a Banananana

6. What is your middle name?
Mathew

7. What food do you dislike?
Liver, Corned Beef w/ Hash (soz Mom), Most things with slimy or paste type textures

8. What is your favorite cd at the moment?
I am pretty much a constant IPOD shuffler, I listen to hours of Music everyday. I have a rep for rocking 80’s alternative pretty hard.

9. Favorite sandwich?
Yello Sub (ie warm club from a local deli here)

10. What characteristic do you despise?
whining woe is me types

11. Favorite item of clothing?
Short skirts - errr did that mean on me?

12. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation…
Paris - is highest on my list of places I have been. New Zealand is high on my list of places I haven’t been.

13. What color is your bathroom?
White (well Jell says Eggshell whatever that means)

14. Do you make friends easily?
Yes, but only a very select few ever get the VIP all access pass.

15. Where would you retire?
French wine country

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday?
A couple of years ago (unfortunately) when my kids went all out to treat me to a day of everything they knew I liked the best.

17. Favorite sport to watch?
Kansas Basketball!!!

18. How many towns have you lived in?
More than 25, and I don’t wanna take the time to add em up… lol

19. How many people do you think will send this back?

I hereby tell every single person who reads this on our blog, that they HAVE to fill it out via blog or notecard and send it back!! (Sooo probably 2-3)

20. What is on your bedroom floor right now?
Clothes, Laundry Hamper (no the clothes are not all IN the hamper (maybe 50/50). About dare I say 6 pairs of shoes…

21. Favorite saying?
I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. - Ron Burgundy

22. When is your birthday?
June 21

23. Morning person or night person?
By preference night, by profession morning

24. What is your shoe size?
11

25. Pets?
Not atm, but I REALLY want a Lab again… soon!

26. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
Jell and I have our 1 year anniversary on Monday! Lining up the babysitter now!

27. What did you want to be when you were little?
Race car driver.

28. Which talent would you most like to have?
Play the gee-tar

29. Which words or phrases do you overuse?
lol, Jell’s lingo which I pick up too easily, ;), What a bunch of crap!

30. What is your favorite flower?
Pink Roses

31. What is the day on the calendar you are looking forward to?
May 5th

32. What color are your eyes?
hazel

33. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Big wheel

34. Summer or winter?
summer

35. Hugs or kisses?
Hugs, unless I am in the mood… which is quite often.

36. Chocolate or vanilla?
I actually love Swirl - where you get the best of both, but just one I would have to say Chocolate

37. Do you want your friends to send this back to you?
Sure

38. What is under your bed?
Nothing, unless she hid something under there I don’t know about

39. When was the last time you cried?
around a week ago

40. Who is the friend you have had the longest in SL?
Jell

41. What did you do last night?
Played LOTR, ate a masterful meal, played LOTR some more, and went to bed.

42. Favorite smell?
Scented candles, post rain freshness

43. What are you afraid of?
failure

44. Plain, sweet, or salted popcorn?
salted movie butter

45. How many keys on your keyring?
10

46. How many years at your current job?
1 year

47. Do you have any scars?
yep, and lots of good stories ranging from flipping ATV’s to campground brawls

48. Favorite day of the week?
Saturday

49. What is your worst habit?
Procrastination

50. How old were you when you got your first crush on someone?
Age 5 Heather Gentry - she would chase me, tackle me, then kiss me. What a woman she must have turned out to be.

51. How old were you when you lost your virginity? where did you lose it?
Well it depends on what the definition of IS is?? Full monty would have been age 17 in a tent.

52. Ever been arrested?
Yup

53. What is the most embarrassing celebrity/band/whatever that you’ll admit to liking?

Wow, probably a lot… lol. I actually like Britney’s latest album… lol.

54. If you could travel back in time, when would you visit?
Probably would be fun to go to the medieval times… I mean the Renaissance festival is pretty cool. lol

55. How many people are you sending this to?
All 3 of you that read the blog… enjoy!

Getting to know JellyBean Madison

Who all got *the* note card? No really, go ahead, raise your hands… don’t be shy. I received one from Dreamer & Rosie. I believe Hawks did too. He suggested we blog it, so here we go…

Welcome to the 2008 edition of Getting To Know Your Friends. What you are supposed to do is copy the text on this entire note and paste it onto a new note that you’ll send out. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
6 a.m.

2. Diamonds or pearls?
diamonds, if I have to choose

3. What was the last film you saw in the theatre?
National Treasure with Hawks (he thought it sucked btw)

4. Favorite TV Show?
Heroes (Shup! It *will* be back!!!)

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Breakfast? That’s a meal? Usually a cheese bagel & cawfee

6. What is your middle name?
Ack! Umm it’s Elaine

7. What food do you dislike?
Chicken Livers & Gizzards

8. What is your favorite cd at the moment?
CD? Oh no! I don’t buy cds. I make my own. :p

9. Favorite sandwich?
Pickle sammiches! Oh yeahhh! Yumgasm!

10. What characteristic do you despise?
Liars, cheaters, free donut givers where I am not a party too, everything Sam is and ummmm emos that bring me down or attempt too.

11. Favorite item of clothing?
SHOES! I love me a good shoe-gasm!

12. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation…
Oz - to see my buttercup, and to grab up Tim Tams & Milo!

13. What color is your bathroom?
White with penguins & stuff.

14. Do you make friends easily?
I try. Most people don’t get me or think I have an odd sense of humor.

15. Where would you retire?
Don’t care where so long as I don’t have to stress about money.

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday?
My last birthday - Hawks made it super sweet & awesome! Max performed a private show just for me & Hawks held me the whole time.

17. Favorite sport to watch?
Apparently it’s now KU Jayhawk Basketball.

18. How many towns have you lived in?
Too many to count.

19. How many people do you think will send this back?
I’m not really completely sure that I care.

20. What is on your bedroom floor right now?
my pink laundry hamper from Alysha (love you!), my chicken blood stained tennis shoes, and my bra.

21. Favorite saying?
“Crawl outta my ass! Oh my god!” - You hear this all day from me at work. :p

22. When is your birthday?
September 20th (Virgos rock hard!)

23. Morning person or night person?
Night… though I can be a very Oh what a beautiful morning kinda girl *coughs*

24. What is your shoe size?
8.5

25. Pets?
none - unless you count my kids, but I hope to get chickens, ducklings, a goose, a dog, and a miniature pony.

26. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
Hawks & I celebrate our 1 year anny on Monday! (May 5th) Wuwu!

27. What did you want to be when you were little?
independent

28. Which talent would you most like to have?
Word smithing and making money at it. Good money at it!

29. Which words or phrases do you overuse?
“mayhaps”, “no way! shup!”, “I know, right?” and refer to #21

30. What is your favorite flower?
Daffodils - One of the first flowers of spring, it is a symbol of hope.

31. What is the day on the calendar you are looking forward to?
July 2009

32. What color are your eyes?
Blue

33. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Optimus Prime

34. Summer or winter?
Winter - you can layer and no one can see your curves or lack there of.

35. Hugs or kisses?
both, though I do love Hawks’ kisses, I’ll take what I can get.

36. Chocolate or vanilla?
Chocolate tote!

37. Do you want your friends to send this back to you?
I am interested in answers from them.

38. What is under your bed?
You seriously don’t want me to go there. :p

39. When was the last time you cried?
last night - it was a really rough day.

40. Who is the friend you have had the longest in SL?
My Aka

41. What did you do last night?
Went thru hell, back & then slept it off.

42. Favorite smell?
Peaches! and Hawks.

43. What are you afraid of?
raccoons!

44. Plain, sweet, or salted popcorn?
salted and drowning in butter

45. How many keys on your keyring?
8

46. How many years at your current job?
not even a year and I’m so completely ready to rotisserie the whole lot of co-workers.

47. Do you have any scars?
yes, mostly from this job in hell where I constantly burn the shit outta my arms.

48. Favorite day of the week?
Sundays

49. What is your worst habit?
biting my nails when I’m stressed

50. How old were you when you got your first crush on someone?
6 - Jason Bouchard was my main man in kindergarten.

51. How old were you when you lost your virginity? where did you lose it?
13 - in my mom’s bed with my boyfriend Peter.

52. Ever been arrested?
No, but almost.

53. What is the most embarrassing celebrity/band/whatever that you’ll admit to liking?
Rick Astley - Never gonna give, never gonna give you up!

54. If you could travel back in time, when would you visit?
The 80’s, it was great the 1st time, I bet it’d be better the next time where I am actually old enough to drink!

55. How many people are you sending this to?
Just bloggin it!

Jelly on Fash: Renegade & Spring Fever!

You feelin it? Spring fever? It’s warming up here in Kansas. Hawks & I have been spending a lot of time outdoors in between workin & puter timeage. Though I loved the boots and winter fash that was spit out last SL® season, it’s refreshing to feel that we can officially start stripping down layers (Hawks taught me the layer system), inhale fresh breezes & sport skimpier *new* releases in SL®.

It’s no secret that I have always loved Kaejo DaSilva’s (a.k.a KO of Renegade) sense of style and/or that I’ve milked him for all the freebies that I could get. I’m a little bias but with great reason, he’s got skills, yO. Before my puter took a major dump on me two weeks ago, KO passed me a folder of “Racing Sweat Outfits”. Unfortunately I’m super late posting this but kinis are always in season.

Yes, I know I said “Racing Sweats” but in my folder I found tops, kinis, drawstrings & realized he did not pass me the pants! *gasp* No worries! I love love love love love KO’s kinis (reference: [Renegade] New Bikini Bomber Pack from the Verbal Stew archives). He is the one GUY that does them right imho.

Tsk Tsk KO, Mr. Anti-Cleavage shirts, you’re actually letting us show our hinnys in these thongs again! Yay! These kinis actually come in full outfit sets (not shown here) - Kini top, Crop top, Racing thong, Racing sweats, crew socks AND Racing Street shoes. Uh huh! Oh yah! I would tote take a pic of the entire set (since he finally gave me pants) but that would so take away from the gratuitous kini shots. :p Kidding… You can get your asses down to Renegade now & buy these babies up. You know you wanna!

“Your mileage may vary,” “for a limited time only,” and “batteries not included” or some shit. Where is my Fine Print Guy when I need him? Oh yah, I forgot to mention that KO seems to think he’s a blogger now… hah! So feel free to chickity check out his blog as well for new releases and stuff - [Renegade]

*Almost* Necessary Store Ad:

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Where’s the beef?!?

So I’ve had my puter back for a full 31 hours now… and in that time, mayhaps 6 of them have been spent in SL®. I wish I could say it was eventful, however it was not. So I’m asking you readers to get me up to speed here. Where’s the beef? What have I missed?

Aka & I did try to infiltrate the inner gaming circles of Pizza & Tringo this arvo sniffing for the lastest gossip, dramas and basic who is boinking who, but came up empty handed. Sigh.

I tried to catch up on my bloglines to see what latest have-to-haves that I missed in the SL® fashion scene, and see who was saying wha-wha-what but found it too overwhelming and felt intimidated so quickly hit “mark all read”. Sigh x2.

HALP ME! I feel so out of the loopage that I could just cry.