Twisting Around

The big news first: Oddment is moving! I was land-hopping around last week and found a spot I just kept going back to. And... I bought it. It's a really pretty plot on the Linden road (and waterway!). I've put up a new store build, along with some new items for sale. Please do go and check it out! (And if you go exploring along the road, it's very near a cool underwater tunnel.)

Oddment new main store location

I haven't moved the lucky boards yet, or closed the Low Dryston location, as I am waiting till the end of the Twisted Hunt. Which happens to be tomorrow night! If you haven't gone by to get the Twisted items, I've made the box REALLY BIG and obvious. Heh. Go get the stuff, 'cos after tomorrow, it goes on sale.

And, I've got some new things out at the new store:







They are out at the new store, and also my Shopatorium location (I've moved to a smaller shop there: straight back from the rez point, near the Patio live music venue!).

I made a little tattoo commemorating my recent surgery. "Surgery Stars" shows where the five new holes in my body are located.

Get it for free in my subscrib-o-matic in my shop inworld. Touch the sign to subscribe, then touch it again to see the 'history' options and get the tat.

AKA, groggy, percocet-fueled ramblings on what I did for Labor Day weekend.


So on Thursday, I went to the doctor for some severe back pain. They ran some tests, got that concerned look on their faces, prodded at my back and tummy, then pumped me full of dilaudid and sent me up to have my innards looked at with the ultrasound.

An hour or two later, they admitted me for surgery.

I was groggy, and confused, and in pain, and had a million thoughts running through my head. One of which was, who's gonna tell my fake pixel friends? I had my cell phone, but it's a dinosaur--can only text, and barely that. I've never been dissatisfied with it, 'cos I've never needed more than a plain phone that can just make and receive calls.

I texted a friend and went into surgery (they removed my gallbladder, which I didn't even know was unhappy with me, but the surgeon said was 'as hot as she's ever seen without bursting').

I came home then next evening and did what any modern girl would do, I checked my email. I had messages and private plurks and offline IMs up the wazoo.

And the next day, I received flowers. Two real arrangements from two pixel friends. I am right now looking at huge sunflowers from a pixel friend I never ever thought to cross such a line with. Real, tangible flowers from a real, physical person behind the pixels.



It's overwhelming. Still.

People who know me online know that I guard my privacy religiously. I don't like sharing more than is minimally necessary.

But this... these few moments of real lives touching... it's incredibly moving.