Jussi for Christmas

Jussi Björling (5th February 1911 - 9th September 1960), the greatest Swedish tenor ever recorded, is required to jump start me into the necessary Christmas mood.

Here Jussi sings the Swedish version of "O Holy Night".

I wish you all a safe and joyous Christmas weekend. Be jolly, be kind, drive soberly and safely and don't hit anyone or get hurt, promise me that!

P.S. Haha I am a creature of habit! As I was tagging this post I noticed that I had tagged Jussi previously, and guess what? That post was from December 24th 2010 and he is singing the same song.

I am pathetic and unimaginative, even if I have to say so myself, but please, please, treat me kindly anyway.

Brilliant Sarcasm

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Read the full story here; Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining her marriage.

Thank you John Medeiros in Minneapolis, Minnesota, you made my day by proving to me that brilliant sarcasm works!

...but I must hasten to add that I can understand why Amy Koch fell for the hunky Michael Brodkorb. (Yet another of those very delicious bad boys that have wrecked the lives of so many good women and men...)

I´m In Love

This is Siku, a polar bear cub at a Danish wildlife park. It was love at first sight for me, it usually is!

You can see some live footage of my darling here.

Mister Chase and Chris Salvatore - Baby, It's Cold Outside

(via J.M.G.)

Worrying News

The McMillan household was today reached by some worrying news. Read all about it at Vaneeesa Blaylock´s blog.

Friends should inform friends before undertaking dangerous art forms. Apmel is after all a recipient of The Bock McMillan Art Foundations (a part of the BMcM Corporation) lifetime achievement award, see this post.

Happy Holidays 2011

I thought I had better get this in before you all start leaving for where ever you are going for the holidays!

This year I made two picks and could not decide which I preferred, so I sent out both but only one per person. Here you can see the one you did not get. Now isn't that a good present?

Have a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa all of you and hopefully a great new amazing, fantastic, dazzling New Year also. Come back to SecondLife with a fresh new and relaxed view on us and our world!

I am going to spend Christmas Eve at my parents home together with my older sister and her husband but without any of the grandchildren or great grandchildren. I am looking forward to a nice, noise free and relaxed evening with lots of good food and drink followed by a nice walk home to sober up - if I don´t decide on a cab and can get one.

Hugs and kisses all around! And remember, be careful out there, first live is known to be dangerous.

Keira Linden, Where Are You?

Photography by CodeBastard Redgrave

I have a select few Lindens that I have always thought of as "my Lindens", the Linden Lab employees I would turn to if I ever ended up in serious troubles of some sort again in SecondLife.

The two on the top of the list were Belinda Linden and Keira Linden, both of them because of their helpful attitude when dealing with me at the time my Ars passed away. I was half-crazy and sometimes incoherent in my upset and worried state at the time, but they always remained calm, kind, considerate and supportive when helping me through my problems.

Belinda Linden was lost in the big purge that "the CEO who shall not be named, but who´s first name was M" brought about in June 2010 (30 % of the staff at Linden Lab was cut). As I was sending out my Holiday Greetings yesterday I wasn't able to find Keira in search, which set of all my alarms.

When I did a search on Google I came across her SecondLife profile which flatly said: "Former member of the Linden Support Team. Please visit https://support.secondlife.com for support assistance." This totally sucks!

If anyone who reads this knows Belinda Linden or Keira Linden and if any of them are still around in SecondLife (by some other name) or first life, would you please inform them that I would be ever so happy if they contacted me via e-mail lundamats@gmail.com.

Make sure they realize that I am not going to harass them in anyway, but that I just always want to maintain some kind of connection to people who have been good to me. Oh tell them also, even if they do not remember me I will always remember them!