Carol Belle

  Well, I’ve hit it alright. I hit the ground running and went straight into a solid stop. I’m tired of singing so much! Can you believe it? But yes, it’s happened. The weekly routine was getting to be a little too much, and so as it is, I have canceled all of my weekly shows indefinitely until further notice. Now, don’t panic, because singing is everything to me and there’s no way I’m giving that up forever. Just need to take a break from the shows for a while.

And I’m sure you guys all want to hear new stuff, so this will allow me to absorb new material for a new set of songs during a show, and then everybody’s happy.

Also, taking this break means that I’ll be able to unwind a little and focus on other stuff in Second Life to play with, as well as playing my guitar and maybe even writing a couple songs. Original songs by Carol Belle?! Why, that sounds almost preposterous! It’s no easy feat to write a song, and though I’ve done it in the past before (in a rudimentary kind of way), it’s still a bit daunting. Though how can progress be gained if I don’t at least try again?

Well, I’m sorry if this disappoints people – the hiatus thing – but it’s necessary. In the meantime, I’m still going to perform at the Festival of Singers event next week, and at the RMS Titanic for the next two shows I have scheduled there. There’s also a private party listed, and I only get to bring three of yous (if you wanted to come).

Do I still have friends? ^o^;;

In fact, I know I do. All the people who were understanding about my decision to go on hiatus because of fatigue and accepted it without question are my friends. There was one questionable reaction where the person responded with some snide remark about being able to sing up to 16 hours in one go themselves, and implying that it wasn’t completely understood why I should decide to take an extended break. How does one respond to that? And really, how dare they? Well, there, I vented at least, and mentioned my minor annoyance of the day.

Oh, wow. What a lovely time we had last night for my hubby’s b-day! This time we DID get the Beef Wellington dish, and boy is it rich! It’s a filet mignon covered in a house made duck liver pâté, sautéed mushrooms, and puff pastry. Like, OMG yummy good… I couldn’t finish it, so we took it home. There was some confusion over the check (because as we all know, filet mignon is the most expensive cut of beef), but it got sorted in the end. It ended up being a nice surprise dinner with a few of our friends, and husband was just delighted beyond words.

In other news, I’m trying to learn some new music for nice supportive listeners of my show. I got booked for a private party as well, and there’s music there that needs learning. Somehow, I will get things done without getting distracted by playing “dress-up” with my avatar in Second Life.

Showtimes Today

7pm SLT @ Frank’s Elite Jazz Club

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Franks%20Place%207/132/48/26

7pm SLT @ Frank’s Place Jazz Club

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Franks%20Place%202/240/125/24

7pm SLT @ Bogart’s Jazz Club

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Levy/125/192/27

Yes, exactly as implied in the subject up there… I needed to move on from Saturday. I felt terrible about it, yes, because I disappointed people. But it’s in the past now, and not much to be done about it, is there?

I feel like I don’t have time for all the usual stuff anymore, oddly. In between getting my wedding pictures organized, learning new songs for the show, getting in touch with new venues, and wanting to learn how to build in Second Life while also wanting to play with Photoshop and the new PlayStation 2 setup I have here now on my computer (I extracted the bios from my Playstation 2 and put it in my compy so I can use my neato monitor) . . . Reading three different books that are all equally interesting, and preparing for my husband’s birthday dinner tomorrow . . .

I’m still trying to figure out the best way to use Twitter. Is it people following me that I should aim for? Should I tweet @ people? I have no idea, but if some nice person could let me know, feel free. And that Facebook fanpage that was set up as a suggestion from a friend . . . 12 fans! Woot… Maybe we can get more?

Showtimes today -

11:30am PST @ The RMS Titanic

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Titanic/161/164/24

7pm PST @ The Drunken Drow

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elvenshire/141/90/23

Wedding Pictures

The first pic is with my sister Nikki, and the second is with my dad Skip. And I’m wearing the big chunky turquoise necklace that my husband gave to me. ^o^ The rest will be in a private gallery for members only. :)

I want to start by telling everyone who was expecting me to sing yesterday how sorry I was that I couldn’t perform. I have written a letter to the venue owners and my supporters in Second Life explaining the situation.

Yesterday before I was supposed to go on stage at Club Halo, I developed a migraine. It came on suddenly and worsened quickly, as migraines are oft prone to do. I haven’t had one in a long while, and I have the means to take care of it. I don’t want to make excuses for myself or even to garner sympathy from the good people that care for me and enjoy my singing. This is a condition that I have had all my life, and is just a matter of fact for me.

In the recent year, my condition has improved greatly and the episodes became less frequent. This was definitely an infrequent event, as it’s the first to happen in a long time. They are controlled, but incurable. So this may be the only one to occur in the whole year to come, but it’s likely that they will still happen.

It’s short notice, but unfortunately that comes with the territory of the condition.

Again, I apologize if I disappointed anyone with my lack of presence at either of the shows I was supposed to have at Frank’s Jazz Place and Club Halo.

I’m glad to report that I’m feeling better today, recovering, and will be back to work on Tuesday for the first show time of the week.

Well, I had a very lovely wedding day. We were surrounded by everyone we knew and loved, and felt their love for us. It was amazingly beautiful. There was drumming, and my husband looked fabulous, and frankly so did I . . . and what’s that, you ask? You want to see pictures?

I would totally share pictures, because we took a ton of wedding pictures with our fantastic Digital SLR Canon . . . but someone stole the memory card out of the camera before it was returned to us. This means = no pictures. They’re gone. Some evil, nefarious thief plucked the CF card right out of it, and by the time we got the camera back the next day (yes, we left it there, but we knew everybody – we thought!) there were no pictures to look at.

As soon as I get pictures from everyone else who was there, I can share them.

Until then, I wish for the thief to be plagued with misfortune until the pictures are returned . . . yeah, like that’ll happen. :-(

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I just read this on the Second Life main blog:

Due to a severe content theft bug, we are executing an emergency deploy of Server 1.36.2.20208 today.  This will be a full-grid roll starting ASAP.

• 2010-02-18, ~9:00a: Full sim roll

I’ve been having teleporting issues all day yesterday and now today. They’ve been doing rolling restarts all across Second Life, it would seem, due to this “content theft bug” . . . Well, I hope they fix the problem soon, and I hope these rolling restarts end. I hate not being able to go anywhere. No shopping, no music… I’m stuck! Grr!

This may not mean much to some people, since the magazine in question is one found only in Second Life. But it’s still quasi-serious in that they advertise fashion designers in Second Life with virtual products sold for real money. The real money part is still kind of surreal to think about in context to virtual world. Heh… I’ve been splurging with my earnings lately too . . .

I love to buy new clothes. Yes, just about as functional as Barbie clothes, but it’s all in the name of fun. So I LOVE to dress up my avatar in cute new clothes that other people designed and created. I got interviewed for my fashion sense, I guess! Here I bring you the article from Second Life!

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I would like to make a slight correction, my name does not necessarily mean brightness. The name “Selene” is used in connection to Greek mythology and the Greek Pantheon of gods involving the moon goddess of the same name. So the goddess herself was bright, but the word “Selene” is synonymous with the moon itself as well as being the name of the ruler of its domain.

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