There's No Place Like Home ...

We go on and on about how weary Lludmila is off clothing and now she collects homes and home furnishings.  Well, the holidays have brought some brilliant additions to her collection.

The first thing she saw was the new house available from Trompe Loeil for a mere 188L.  She spent two days trying to find a time when the sim was not full.  You all know what Collabor88 can be like at normal times - well, it was crazy.  Today it looked like only 32 avs milling about, so you can probably tp in and marvel at the miniature version - if you have the patience to wait out the lag.  It comes in four colors.

Lludmila's not happy about this house or anything!

It comes with optional snow - and Awen thoughtfully
turned winter shortly after it was installed.

Collabor88

What's better than a cheap gorgeous house? A free one, of course!  Ionic has a winter house as a hunt gift and, like all of Ionic's offerings, detailed and pure delight.  Lludmila was drooling over the furnishings, but the governor in the spending portion of her brain kicked in.   She's using this as a skybox, but the functional door is also a work of art.  Sigh!

Getting all excited again over a new house - and then
she just puts the same old crap in it.

The sunsets will be fab-oo from up here.

Bathrooms should have windows.  No, really, just try
using one in RL(tm) in a power outage.

Ionic

Good old days table set - Pepto-Bismol pink waitress outfit from
FIN-Relive the Fifties, thanks to that group gift of 100L store credit.
Okay, so sometimes Lludmila likes clothes.

The above explains why the governor kicked in - it wasn't free or anything, but Lludmila just couldn't resist that knitting animation.  It's from one of our favorite places: [kusshon].  The table comes with the two chairs, a loveseat, the knitting bag, table props, and a prop-giver.  There are a few places where Lludmila would like to have everything in the shop.  Ionic and [kusshon] are two of them.*  If she doesn't want everything at Trompe Loeil it's only because that store is so big - but she would like a great deal of it.

*Here's another place: Post - holy cow!  Got that rustic chapel thing/hunt prize from there - so many houses, so little space!  Sweet mother of mercy, stop me before my inventory gets over 50,000.

Lucky Letter Listener and Boof Goodness

Boof has the most funnest things:

Suicide Piñata - you give it love taps, no really!

 If it's not in the hunts, the freebie boxes, or in the lucky chair, there's always the Midnight Mania boards at Boof.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy player - Can the Log Song be far behind?

 Or, forheavenssake, just buy something.  There's something silly for every taste and pocket.

Magic 8 Ball typer.  

So, thanks to the Virtual Vagabond, I went looking for the Lucky Letter Listener - which I had to wait to appear on the lucky board (the picture on her blog had a tantalizing "L" on it - making me think the prize was just waiting for Lludmila to show up).  I had to wait quite a while.  But there is a lot of fun stuff in the area and I won a panda bear toy from the nearby Lucky Jumpseat as soon as I got there.  Later I won some kittens.  Then there were some amusing free or dollarbie AFKs that I just had to have, not to mention a demo Harpy costume that will come in handy for the upcoming Odyssey discussion.

So I get the Lucky Letter Listener and I put the instructions through the Google translator.  I think I understand it, but the next time I'm out I plan to implement it.  Well, there's so much fun stuff at Boof that I drop by the mainstore to pick up whatever hunt prizes I haven't already gotten.  I don't know why I bother to get stuff there for free when none of the stuff costs hardly anything to begin with.  So, I finally rez and I remember, "Hey, there's a lucky chair here, I can try out the Lucky Letter Listener!" but my brain really only gets as far as "Hey, there's a lu-" before "L" comes up.  I think I won the Suicide Piñata.  See above.

If your translation didn't seem to make sense, let me try to clear it up.  

You know how Lucky Boards/Chairs announce the next letter up?  The wording might vary from one place to another, so I recommend you wait out a cycle and then copy the announcement from chat.  

"Wear" the device provided.  It is a blue pawprint and says "wait" on it and appears in the middle of the screen.  Enter the copied chat into the channel /88 but change the letter to the one you are waiting for.  The pawprint will go off, beeping and flashing red, to let you know it's cocked and ready, so just click on it and it will go back to blue.  

Basically, this device is set to listen for that announcement in chat.  You'll have to stay in the area, but you can be in a different window or sexting someone in IM and not have to keep looking ... unless you also want to keep an eye out for the wildcard round.  I don't think you can run more than one of these, so you can't wait for your letter/number and the "?".

Good Clean Fun

"Whatsamattayou?  You never see someone take a bath before?"

We love great AFKs.  Wear this bathtub, and remain idle for 5 minutes and it kicks in.  Of course, it will also kick in if you ever type "afk" or "brb" so be prepared!  This is a 60L Weekend item at DramaZone, where there are many fine and quirky items for purchase.

Such as ...

Bubble costume and tub from DramaZone.

The bubble costume comes with a bar of soap, a couples pose (men's costume sold separately), and a bathtub with multiple cute animations.  It's also 60L.

"I said, Whattareyoulookin' at?"