I am SO glad you're back!

[Rokket]

I shop online ... for everything.

While it definitely makes shopping for groceries much faster and easy to see what I'm spending with each item added to the cart ... shopping on amazon can take a lot more time than I'd spend in a store. Though, I end up not buying a lot of things I probably would have bought in a store because I check the reviews before buying anything. On some things, I'll even check several other review sources. I don't spend money lightly

Heck ... I even check reviews on the free books listed in bookbub. No way do I want to waste time on a book with poor writing or editing. And if it doesn't have an ending, I don't bother with it. And ... it irritates me beyond measure when an author "hides" that it's really a "romance" (aka erotica) book when it's listed as a fantasy or historical or mystery ... well then, that's the last I read from that author.

Mind you, I don't mind relationships in books. Just not the ones that add in pages upon pages of explicit sex which if removed ... changes the story not a bit.

I totally agree with you. They do that in movies too. In a lot of movies I have watched in the last few years, if you take out the explicit sex scene, there is no impact on the plot. Books, the same thing. I don't like reading that stuff nor watching it. If I want to see that, I can always go online and find a porn movie. I stay away from that stuff because it's a known factor that most of your really bad viruses are attached to those sites.
Bottom line, if you can tell the story and leave that stuff out, why put it in there?

 

[Satira Capriccio]

One of the funniest parts of the season's last episode on Galavant was when King Richard went to rescue his sweetie Roberta who was running away to the Island of Spinster (where they hand each spinster a cat and some chocolate as they board the ship). When he kissed her, all the women cheered. But then Richard and Roberta kissed again, and the women weren't so pleased. Their third kiss was accompanied by boos and Get a Room!

Which just goes to show that too much of a good thing isn't necessarily all that enjoyable when you're not participating

 

[Miss B]

 

[Pendraia]

Oh Rokket, that's sad. Think of all the FUN you are missing

I'm with you on that Lorraine...I love shopping unless it's of the supermarket kind! I used to go on shopping trips with my sister but these days it's with my daughter and I'm training my granddaughter(not that she needs any help). She loves shopping with grandma...lol

 

[sanbie]

I used to love to go to the shops and have a browse around...But with my COPD, hip and knee...it's now out of the question!
I do go and take my walker...but I don't enjoy it anymore!

 

[Rokket]

I really feel for you not being able to do things you enjoy. I am fully aware of how getting older is affecting me. Arthritis and failing eye sight are just two of the maladies that I am dealing with....

 

[Terre]

My sympathies to you both. Arthritis, extreme myopia and what may be a case of shin splints in my right leg that has recently popped up is no fun.

 

[Pendraia]

Yep...arthritis aches and pains plus multifocals not so good.

 

[Rokket]

Let's not forget that bubble popping experience of looking in the mirror first thing in the morning and wonder where the old person staring back at you hid the youth you thought you were....

 

[Pendraia]

rofl...so true.

 

[Lorraine]

Oh Rokket, that's so true. I look in my mirror and go "why is my mother looking at me?!" Ready, not ready! Not!

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Oh Rokket, that's so true. I look in my mirror and go "why is my mother looking at me?!" Ready, not ready! Not!

Except for the colors of my skin and hair, and the shape of my eyes... I could almost be spitting image of my mother, and was by the time I was a teenager. LOL I'm used to seeing my mother staring at me in the mirror... just dark hair and dark eyes instead of red hair, freckles, and blue eyes...

(When we were kids, people used to think she was full of bunk when she told them my sister and I were hers - all they saw was black hair and black/dark brown eyes, they didn't seem to see past the colors to the bone structures and body build.)

 

[Rokket]

At least you have your mother staring back at you. I am still wondering who the hell that creepy old man is in my mirror...

 

[Rokket]

I have a bunch of promo images I have to make now. I took all my freebies off renderosity and I am moving them to ShareCG. But none of them really have promo images so I have to create them. It's cool. I'll have to unzip the files and install them in Poser again, but I wanted to do that anyhow. It's time I started using my own creations. I had a policy of not doing that for the longest time. But I have a feeling I will be taking a look at some of those early models and cringing at what I see.

 

[Lorraine]

There is a possibility you will do that but if you do, remind yourself that you did the best you could at the time and had the gumption to put them out there. That's a good thing, gumption.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Rokket, our early stuff always is below snuff for our current standards. That's why it's called "early" stuff. It's part of the learning curve.

Not sure why you wouldn't use your own items... I actually think it's a good idea to use our own items at times. At least for me, it's part of how I make sure things are working right and functioning/looking the way they should before I release it.

 

[Lorraine]

I am the spitting image of my mum, Seliah...hair, skin, shape, eye colour. Not something I ever got used to and now I'm getting older, even less so. I feel like I'm losing my identity sometimes. Spooky, possums!

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

LOL. I don't have her eyes or cheeks... my eye shape and cheekbones, I definitely picked up from my sperm donor. I do have her nose and mouth, though... and jaw-line. My hands are definitely hers... it's really weird, the older I get, the more my hands look like hers. And I'm not exactly all that old yet; 36, I think. But I've noticed the hands more than anything else. Maybe it's because we see our hands all day long, whereas we mostly only see our own faces when in a bathroom or getting up and sorted for the day.

 

[Rokket]

Neither of my kids looks like me. But that's because they are adopted. Good thing too. They still look like my wife because they are technically her grand niece and nephew. The wife is struggling with having to tell them the truth. We have had them both since birth. They are 6 years apart in age, but both birthdays are in May.

 

[Rokket]

There is a possibility you will do that but if you do, remind yourself that you did the best you could at the time and had the gumption to put them out there. That's a good thing, gumption.

Yeah, but I have to fight the temptation to rework them!

Rokket, our early stuff always is below snuff for our current standards. That's why it's called "early" stuff. It's part of the learning curve.

Not sure why you wouldn't use your own items... I actually think it's a good idea to use our own items at times. At least for me, it's part of how I make sure things are working right and functioning/looking the way they should before I release it.

I modeled a bunch of stuff because people were asking for them in the forums. These were things I didn't want or need at the time. My first model was a barber chair. There are a bunch of conforming outfits (mostly sci fi and superhero stuff) for the Poser natives: Miki 4, Alyson 2, Sydney. I made a Gutenberg press for a competition on 'rosity. There was a custom motorcycle that I made just to see if I could do it. I never found a use for any of them, and figured if I ever did, I know where to get it...