Christmas is truly here!

Before I forget, it's Christmas! Yes, the wonder of festive cheer has hit Second Life and you can easily spend an hour each day running between advent calendars seeing what your prize is that day. And today is a good day on two counts! Now I like aDORKable but it must be said a lot of their advent poses are slightly feminine - which makes sense, there are a lot more women out there doing the rounds than men, but today gave a powerful dynamic striding pose!

Over at 22769 they realise that I'm actually not that powerful or dynamic, but they are one of the best unisex advents around, so today's offering of some warming mesh mittens is both sufficiently masculine and very handy. It's hard to pretend you're powerful and dynamic whilst shivering let me tell you.

Yet, the biggest news of the day isn't free advent gifts - nope, it's the best answer to Black Friday the grid has ever seen. To celebrate 5 years of having the popular ASS in SL the madman that is Pho has launched RAINBOW WEEK! Yes, every day for a week this man will wander around his store knocking 50% off all the items of a certain colour. And you need to remember ASS sells pretty much everything - make-up, jewellery, underwear, outerwear, furnture, and skyboxes (probably more too but I'm hoping I won't get scolded for forgetting those). The man is completely daft - not least because I know who gave him the idea in the first place...

And what better way to celebrate a rainbow sale with... well actually one of the least colourful photos I've ever taken for a blogpost...

It's not my fault though! Today is white and beige you see, and I had the grey mittens from 22769, and their virtually white Winter Tent from a couple of days back too. And well, when I went rummaging in my ASS I pulled out this Gerard shirt in white! And it is white, not cream, don't argue.

I also have this cool long kilt in brown. Now I can tell you're wondering why I'm wearing brown on a White/Beige day? Because brown is tomorrow! Keep up. I'm trying to get ahead, it's Christmas ya know, time is precious! I mean seriously, at least some of you won't read this until it's Sunday anyway so go with it.

So this week, don't forget to make an ASS stop on your advent rounds. They may not be free but 50% off? Not to be sneezed at! Talking of which, I'm standing in a blizzard wearing a kilt and a silk shirt - those mittens may be good but there's a limit, I'm going before I freeze myself into a sickbed!

Almost there!

Something that is making me a little less bloggy than usual is the idea of newness. You see, I've become addicted to the 18th century! Sure, I had a brief flirtation with some bacon covered antlers, but basically I'm just changing my stockings and fluffing my frilly shirts lately. It's addictive! Granted, we're talking of an era in history when people thought nothing of caking their faces with so much arsenic they poisoned themselves into a stylish grave so perhaps clothes of that period have crystal meth woven into them. It would explain the need for so many wooden false teeth back then...

Anyway, I digress in a very digressing manner. I can't blog new while being so old fashioned, surely. Or can I?

Verily I can! The future is bright, the future is 1723! (I plucked it at random, it was actually a reasonably uneventful year in the grander scheme of things. But Vivaldi composed Four Seasons and we seem to have them all in a single day lately so I'm sticking with it.) But I digress, again. The point of this rambling red wine infused fun is that next week sees The 18th Century Fair! Becalm your merriment!

Now as a court gentleman I cannot expect too much. But I have been informed of something. A:S:S Decades will be there! A swanky aqua shade for the delightful Orleans breeches and vest is apparently in the works. Now obviously I can't wear partially stitched outfits, you never know when a seam will part and scare a chambermaid, but I was lounging around admiring myself in my set of Orlean creamwear earlier in the week so I thought I'd excitedly whip it out and share.

I'm not just blogging current, I'm blogging next week! And I'm still ~300 years late...