You can buy Lindens, their form of currency, or you can work to earn just as you do in real life. Jobs can range from bartender to party host to model to builder. Almost anything you can do in real life you can do in Second Life.

I have had many different accounts but three main ones. My current av’s name is Cat Later. She comes in four different forms (in world you’d call them skins or furrskins), ginger tabby (my most common furrskin), grey tabby, black and white husky and human.

I’ve been using Second Life since 2007, have had the ups and downs, taken breaks and had times here i’ve been completely obsessed with being in-world. Overall it’s great fun, you meet awesome people (even a few crazy ones too) and it’s a nice escape from real life.

I have decided I might get rid of my Twitter account. I am not using it. I installed the app on my mobile and never used it. I tend to go straight to Facebook. Anyone that I have on twitter has my email, facebook or phone number anyway. It’s just another useless account for me to track. Actually, while I am thinking about it I might go and do that now.

It’s a nice double story place with living quarters upstairs and plenty of storage, two car garages and even a little room underneath. Will be great to have parties and barbecues in. I am even considering having our wedding reception at home as there’s plenty of room out the back and downstairs.

I was really looking forward to going back to work in a couple of week until we realised that I can’t. If I did do work before the end of the financial year (31 July) then my ENTIRE 12 months of youth allowance becomes taxable income and I’d end up having to repay the tax department thousands of dollars. We decided I need to wait until after the first of July. Why the hell your youth allowance turns into taxable income once you start earning from work I don’t know. It’s a very fucked up system we have.

In saying that I have some spare time on my hands, so between my centrelink responsibilities I plan on getting a good garden started with chillies, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber etc. I also want to get my sewing room set up so I can start making things. The sooner I can get that done the sooner I can start selling my creations, doing clothing alterations etc.

Aanyway, I should keep moving along, things to pack, forms to fill out (stupid entry condition report), stuff to do etc.

Design wise I have really pushed forth on my kittish.net portfolio site. I am thinking of putting up a shop on there and selling stuff like t-shirt transfers and little prints etc. Just some ideas I am throwing around really. I am so happy with the logo and theme for the kittish site, but wish I could say the same for this site. I just don’t like it at all. I don’t mind the logo but think it needs work. As for the theme itself I have been working on it for days now. It’s all I have been thinking about and I seem to be getting nowhere. Perhaps I should give it a rest for now.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on this damn theme and logo, please let me know.

Wedding wise I have made up a list of things I am going to need to get prices on in the coming few months. I know where I want to have the reception but I won’t know until mid May as to weather I can have it there. Fingers crossed for me.

Otherwise I have been driving myself with Uni and playing EVE Online.

Life wise… not too much has happened which is nice. Uni has gone back, I am enjoying my subjects so far and really look forward to my Typography2 assignment: a Magazine. It will absorb a lot of my time but will be worth it. As usual, money is tight but one gets that when study doesn’t allow you to work. I tell people that you get used to not having money but some days it does get to me, especially when I want some new jeans and I have to budget in for a few months in order to have the money to get them.

In sad news I lost a family member to cancer. I will not be able to make the funeral but the family know I send my love.

Creatively I have done squat all over the past three months. I have been feeling down and haven’t had the urge to be arty. I am trying to bring my mood back up so fingers crossed, you might see me pump something creative like out soon.

Anyway, I am heading off to play Pharaoh for a few hours.