So I sort of kept my promisse.
I stated that there would be no party. I refused requests for suprise parties. I’ve kept my end of the bargain and no posts on your rez day…
BUT…
That was yesterday already on my watch… so…
HAPPY (belated) REZ DAY SUMMER SWEETY 
Summer, my tender sweet love
Its been a week already since my SL sis first rez day party, but it’s still a memorable event to write about, especially taking in to account the great gal she is.
Katerina Manamiko, my SL sis, my great dear friend, also known as Kat, or the General Manager of the club we work at, Sweethearts, first rezzed on the 11th of November of 2007.
Through countless perils we come to meet each other at Sweethearts where we both started working around the same time there, when Sweethearts was just a brewing idea on the minds of Charity & Dilbert. We’ve been there from the early beginning, and despite not talking every day with each other, when we do talk, we tend to share deep emotions between each other.
Moments have come, hard to undertake all on your own, where we have counted on each other to wind out and spill out what was trapped inside us. I thank her for that, for being there when I needed her shoulder… I only try to be there for her as well when she needs it too…
Hmmm… well, what I mean to say is that I’m really happy to have met you Kat. Getting to know you has a person as been a amazing experiment and I hope you can keep shining your light with all of us for many many more years to come. You’re a kind, giving, selfless person, always putting other before your own interests. Sometimes people don’t understand you (way to many more then I wished for you) and fail to see what a shining star you are. My only wish is that you may find you path to happiness soon and that life will ease up the burden you often carry all by yourself…
Love ya sis
On the meanwhile, here’s some pics of the party Sweethearts setup for our beloved Katerina on her Rez Day. Me and Summer were there and hope we spiced up the party a little bit, making it a memorable day for you Kat.
*big hugs*
Katerina Manamiko
Me & Summer @ Kats Rez Party
there was CAKE!!!!
View of the party
It was last week already, but my RL as been hectic to the point of not having much time to write, or even just to sort out the pics from the party… I finally managed to get some time yesterday and pick a few pics, and today to write a small text about what was a wonderful night where me and my SL twin sister (Ana Vhargon) celebrated our very first rez day (ie: we started our second life in Second Life, one year ago… the birthday of our avatars).
I was quite doubtful about the whole thing. I tend not to like big parties with many people around, I go along well without the focus of attention on me… so… I was somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing. Happy for Ana & Summer to have organized a wonderful event to celebrate our rezparty… but expectant to how it would turn out.
One such anxious moment were the “15 minutes of mystery”! Lol… they were fun and a lovely gift and surprise from my sweety Summer. Loved it! (minus the endless suspense) 
the end of the 15min of terror ;P
Then, we ride to the party! eheh, well… not really… but you get the point.
The party was at the lovely ‘For Us’ club, owned by my sis Ana and her husband JL. Lovely place and a great night of music planned as well. With great performances by Peltzer, Orangelife Holmer, TB Andel & Pa Dacosta. We had a great time, listing to all this wonderfull portuguese musicians. Thank you all 
Orangelife @ rezparty
TB Andel @ rezparty
Pa Dacosta @ rezparty
For Us club view @ rezparty
For some reason… It seems that only me and Summer decided to dance along the lovely tunes while having a blast singing along them… or trying in some cases. eheh. It was a great reminiscence of how we ocasionaly met for the first time
Dancing & Singing with my sweetheart Summer @ rezparty
About 3 hours later the party ended with only a skeleton crew (but what a fine selection of skeletons, let me point it out!) of the large crowd that stopped by to wish an happy rezday to Ana (oh… and to me too, sometimes… lol). Poor sis, she got a sore throat from screaming over and over that it was also my rezparty as well
The final group that made it all the way to the end of the rezparty
It sure was a memorable evening.
One I didn’t expected to celebrate one year ago… but one I will deeply remember for times to come. Thanks to you all that made it possible, specially my sis Ana and my sweetheart Summer
Love ya all.
One year of my second life … And roughly the 27th of my first one.
Eh, go figure. One year ago Petros was rezzed (born) in Second Life. The fact that it was actually my already 3rd avatar doesn’t change one very crucial factor: it was with Petros that I discovered what Second Life is.
It didn’t happen immediately, though I created him to, in a way, be a extension of my real self, and thus I started to do some un-newbie things with him… But it didn’t last long and RL contingencies made him fade in to what looked like an eternum oblivion…
Then 2008 come and with it my official unemployment and hordes of free time… Being the geek and reclusive person I tend do be, computer games sounded good enough to entertain me while I was not looking for a job. Eh, soon enough, Second Life caught my attention again… It could have been a short lived return, but on the very first day of my (re)return I incidently met my first lover in SL and my first SL job.
I got hooked before I knew.
I started making friends (not just contacts), I started woring and getting linden bucks without camping, I started to love through my avatar and I rent my very first (virtual) property. I was on a high. For a few weeks my first life become my second one…
Eh… Maybe it was too much, but it was probably important to experience that in that stage of my life as well… Just like any another piece of my life coming in to place in the big puzzle of it.
Eventually things changed.
Old friends vanished, new ones were made. My inventory grew, my house got furnished, memories made, dreams shared…
I found a new job along the way. One in SL, and then quickly one in RL.
My romance ended… But Petros endured. Maybe wiser, maybe more conscious, maybe…
Then RL started to take its toll on SL. “first life comes first” we always say… Eh, yeah right… Then why do we want so eagerly to return home? I’m side-tracking now…
Anyway… Life, the second one, moved on (as well as the first one). Two jobs, a place to call home, friends and confidants, some drama, cool clothes, an identity and lindens to spare… And before I could properly rez what was coming my way, Summer arrived and a new and unexpected relationship was born out of all the wondrous coincidences that make life such a funny play to read. And here I am now. Happy, tired, richer, smiling. I have no idea what another year will bring me but… It will be unexpected for sure.
In our island now we stand together and I feel wiser with all that SL as teach me as a person, as a lover, as a friend, as a intimate confident, as an explorer, as a community member… I have seen what Second Life can be… The good and the bad… Just like first life… Only maybe at a fasten pace.
In the process of learning more about others, I got to know myself from the eyes of others… And that was truly amazing.
Thank you, to all whom have contributed to me growing up a little more in this year that went by.
See ya all next year
Parties, parties and more parties. Ever since my RL grandmother turned 80, over a week ago, it seems I’ve been spending half my evenings in SL at SL Rez Parties!
I’ve never been to a rez party until last week and now, all of the suddenly, been to 3 already. I don’t even knew very well the rez “newbies” (aka: babies), but was invited nevertheless and I had fun. Each was different it their own way and all very nice to the rezday boy or girl.
Eh, funny thing. I wonder when should I commemorate mine. I wonder if I will have anything to commemorate by then… hmm… I wonder a lot, I guess that’s why the Air Force didn’t wanted me in the first place.
But as I’ve said before in one of my first posts here, this is my 3rd incursion in to SL… which means that I had 3 different rez days (well, 4, taking in to account my following argumente). I guess I should just celebrate Petros’s rez day and be done with it, but that doesn’t feel to me like the real date, ‘cuz that wasn’t the day when I was trully rezzed in to this World.
You can come to SL to play a game. You can come out of sheer curiosity and leave out of appalling boredom. And you can innocently rez in this virtual world and suddenly realize, months later, that you can’t get out. THAT’s the day when you’re truly rezzed in here, on the day that you begin the journey that will get you addicted to this morphine of reality.
There’s caffeine in the real world (and other stuff that I don’t dwell on) … and then there’s SL. You just need to pick your drug !!
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