Now that I have completed some of my self-imposed checklist for today, I can take a break, and bring you all up to speed on what has been going on in the life of River this week, both RL and SL.
We'll start with SL.
As we expected, it was a really quiet week in SL this week, because of Christmas. We actually decided a while back that we didn't really want to run any scheduled events at Exile on Christmas Day, because the holidays are a time for family, and I would not want anyone to have to break from holiday family celebration to log into SL and spend two hours working. I had actually thought about coming in just to stream some music, but RL got in the way of that - something I will discuss later in this post.
Friday was really good!! We had quite a few people for my 80s Flashback event - it really seems to be picking up more and more steam each week, and I am loving it. I've always said that my biggest joy in DJ'ing is to be able to find and play whatever someone asks for, and that still holds true. Especially with the 80s, there are so many obscure songs, and one-hit-wonders, that it makes it a challenge sometimes. People are always amazed at the sheer number of 80s songs that I have - I don't have to look for much - but then again, I am a true child of the 80s.
We skipped Master's event for the monthly staff meeting, and might I say, it went VERY well! We got tons of ideas and suggestions from the attending staff. Flo and Mav are going to have a static event on Thursdays called "Naked Furrsday" for nekos and furries, which should be a lot of fun! Starting the first of the year, we're also going to be switching to even times for our events, in an attempt to be more competitive, and to make it easier for our patrons to choose what events that they want to attend during the course of a day, without having to leave one or another in the middle. The staff is pretty excited about this change, as we are! You can look for lots of big changes at Exile in the new year, which I might add, will be going into its 2nd year of commercialization in 2014!!
Naked Saturday was absolutely brilliant. People just kept coming in and coming in, one after another, and the majority of them stayed around to dance and listen to the music! There was lots of great conversation - everything from food to music to (ahem) more censored topics! We gained several new members to the Exile group, also. Oh! And we had three dancers! Shanique, Lami, and our newest dancer, Reyna! I got TONS of requests, and one of those requests landed me on the SHX Top 40 Chart - I'm currently sitting at #16. I was in there twice, but my lower score has since been knocked out. A big improvement over the glitch that happened with the board last week - I would have probably charted pretty high, too. Ah well, c'est la vie! I probably would have charted top 10 this week, but we had a few board griefers that came in, and voted down several songs just to be asses.
Now, on to RL.
Christmas this year wasn't all that great. I got a call on Christmas Eve that my Mum was being ambulanced to the hospital. She's not been well for a while now, but she had taken a turn for the worse. So, I've been spending a lot of time up there, with her. She was getting a bit better, but passed out again yesterday as she was sitting on the side of the bed, and stopped breathing for a bit. They got her resuscitated, and put her on oxygen, and are still running lots of tests to see what is going on with her and how to get it corrected. As it stands, when she is released, she will probably be spending some time in an in-patient facility that does physical therapy, just to get her strength up to acceptable levels.
Its been interesting ... Keeping my kids from freaking out over this .. and then in turn, Master keeping me from freaking out over this. Kind of a trickle down effect. Except he gets to deal with me after I have been dealing with them.
It was really nice for a few days, but its gone back to being uber cold again. I was at work last night, and it was 45 degrees - then all of a sudden, the wind came out of nowhere, and it dropped to about 30 degrees, in under half an hour. Brrrr!
Today I've been working on getting a few things done in the house. The floors are all swept, and mopped with Murphy's Wood Oil Soap. It smells wonderful in here - a soft orange scent. I love that stuff. I cooked Master's Fried Rice for dinner. Yum! Next on my agenda is to finish cleaning the kitchen ... and I have decided that THIS WEEK, I am going to get most of the boxes left over from moving, unpacked. Period. No more putting it off. And, the ones that I can't unpack due to lack of shelf space, are going to be consolidated and put in Jynxx's room until I can get either a bookcase or some more shelves. (I have a lot of books and knick-knacks.)
That, ladies and gents, is my week in a nutshell.
Here's to an awesome New Year.
~R
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