♥12 years♥

 Hi everybody hope you all are doing well? As of yesterday, the 20th of May 2022, I officially have been in second life for 12 years! 12 years is astonishing to me, to be honest. I know that some people are going to say," oh, I've been here 16-17 years," 12 years is a huge deal because I never thought that I would be in second life for this long and still love it the way I do second life is such a big part of me and a big part of my everyday life that I can't really see myself without it.

The anticipation for my 12th-year Celebration started in April. I was talking with my two best friends in second life. I don't know how we got into the topic of my" Birthday" in second life, But everything landed on the fact that I felt that I really wanted a celebration for a change. all of my other years in second life, I never really set my mind on celebrating because, in the one or two years that I have tried to have a  celebration, no one ever bothered to show up, so I just stopped. but my two best friends encouraged me to have a birthday celebration because a birthday is a birthday after all.:)

So I made a simple yet eye-catching birthday invitation, and I sent it out to my friends. I sent it out in April because I wanted people to have the time to look at their real-life schedules to see if they could make it or not because of the different time zones people might be in. After all, it's literally worldwide based when it comes to second life. Hence, you meet people from all over the world, but you don't always have the same time zones.

Because I am a person who chooses not to friend every person I meet in second life, I don't have a huge friends list, so I decided to post my birthday invitation on Flickr just in case anybody wants to come that was not on my friend's list.

After I did my invitation, I felt really motivated to go out and look for food for my party. I'm not talking about food just for decoration; I'm talking about food you can actually click and interact with when it comes to eating and drinking.

I had so much fun because a lot of the stuff I managed to get was really cheap and affordable. After all, when it comes to second-life weekend sales, many items are food.

But there is one store in particular that really stands out for food: Cinoe.

The quality in detail is phenomenal. Some things can be a bit pricey, but it's worth every Linden dollar.

The day Before my birthday, I literally spent 6-7 hours decorating and getting all the food in place. In fact, I do have a little video clip!

It took me so long to set everything up mainly due to my Cerebral palsy (CP) and since I am a perfectionist and everything has to look right. I'll keep doing it until it does if it doesn't look right.

My real-life husband has worked in the restaurant business for practically half his life, and he has worked on many birthday parties and weddings, so I asked him for help with how I should put up everything.

You guys have to forgive my poor video skills, but you got to see what it looked like.♥

after the party, I took it all down, and I decided to repaint the walls and change the flooring.

To my surprise, a lot of people came by! It was so much fun! We played games and "ate" food and talked.

I really felt celebrated. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that came by and to everyone that could not come but wished me a happy birthday. It really means a lot to me.

I thought about making this blog post yesterday, but I literally had no time because I just had so much fun, and in the end, when everybody had left, I decided to make the blog post today when I had time to process it all.

Oh! The day before my birthday, I got gifted a little playground for the baby!

I will love to use that when she or he finally arrives.

The playground also has animations for the parents to sit and cuddle with their partner while you keep a close eye on the baby, which I absolutely love.

( Playground Link)

My Next Doctors appointment is on The 6th of June 2022. I will be 15 weeks by then; hopefully, my partner can come with me this time. He was so bummed out he couldn't go with me the last time, so I'm hoping that he can make it this time.

Hopefully, I will have started to feel some movement by then. I absolutely cannot wait to feel the baby move.

I think that's about it for this blog post!

stay kind

♥Tessa♥