All Of Second Life

Well, it's only one more day now, and I am so excited I can't sleep. It's 4:00am and I've been up and down in bed for the past 7 hours. Can't sleep, having loads of weird dreams and butterflies in my stomach. I woke up and called Joe and he put on his cam, and I noticed people walking around in his house. It was his friend Cat, and Emma and Tom. Emma and Tom being from Films of Record. They were there to film him for one of the upcoming episodes of Web Lives. Cat is one of his friends who will be in the film with him today. He was just on his way out the door with them, so I was quite lucky I had a moment to say to him "One more day!" We said our goodbyes, but left our cams on and I told him have fun and I began reading my emails.

I started to think about all of the people from Second Life who we have met over the past 3 years and how over time we have met some very lovely people ( and also some not so lovely people - lol ) but we have really been lucky to have shared moments with so many of our customers and friends. Many of our customers have become close friends as well, and if only there was a way to meet everyone in person who we adore from Second Life we would. Oh well...

Tomorrow I leave to go to LAX ( Los Angeles International Airport ) and fly first to Montreal Canada, where I will then board a plane to London. The total hours from the time I leave my house at 8am PST, and arrive in London at 2:00am PST is about 18 hours. Only 15 of which is in the air actually on the plane. I will be landing after such a long flight, and as soon as I exit the plane and finish with checking in I will be immediately hooked up to a microphone and the filming will begin.

Joe will be somewhere else in the airport with another camera person and film people, media, newspaper, magazine... etc.

They will be recording us meeting for the first time. The couple from Second Life who built a shoppe out of love, using the income from every sale to help make it possible for them to meet. That's us.

I will be very emotional. Have you ever hugged someone after a long separation, to find out you unexpectedly broke into tears, because you were so happy? Well I have... and I am familiar with this emotional response, as I have lived the last 7 years of my life away from all of my friends and all of my family, and when I had reunions with them we all broke into tears...

I can only imagine what it will be like when I meet Joe, see him for the very first time. The man I have shared so much of myself with, who I have played Second Life with, and Lineage with, and RF online with, and World of Warcraft with, who I have gone on cams with and in voice chat and who I have not been separated from for more than a day since we met on January 11th, 2005.

Who I have dreamed with, created with, and hoped with. Who's life was changed when I met him on SL and who's helped change my life as well.

As shallow as it may seem for me to worry about how I will look when I get off that plane, I will worry... this is the first time he's going to see my face, in person.... though I am not giving it too much worry, as I honestly know he loves me for what's inside... I mean, he has never even met me in person... and he loves me all the same. Besides, I spent most all of my time on cam in front of him with no makeup on and my hair up a mess on top of my head in a little poof of a bun and glasses on. If he can love me looking like that, he can love me anyway.

1 more day......
1 more day......

For those of you in SL who know us and have been wishing us luck, thank you so much... for those of you in the UK who are actually watching our series of short films about us ( the series of films being documented by films of record recording us meeting etc ) please let me know, I'd love to know who's actually watching... lol, I'm happy that other's out there are looking forward to us meeting as much as we are...

If you want to watch the films about us, go to our shoppe in SL called Hearts Desire it is on the Urbane sim... and pick up an info card at the teleport spot, or go to www.itv.com and scroll down to find the link to WebLives on the bottom right... once you are on the web lives page click the title Second Lifers on the left margin... from there you can watch all of our episodes.

By the way... these are only available for people in the UK to view... so I am very sorry if you're like me and in the USA.

I'll be keeping all the articles, photos, etc...from newsweek magazine, this morning tv show, the daily mirror, closer magazine, hdnet and itv, and all the photos they give me and such so I can share them in here with you at a later date.

Oh my gosh... 1 more day.... I have so much to do today.. I have to go!

Wish me luck!!!!!

xo
Love,
Heart

Heart! thanks for your post! Your story reinforces MY love for Second Life I truly wish you all the best!!!

Ty It's awesome. It can make dreams come true!

I just want to wish you both well! This is an amazing thing and you are so kind to share it with us

You are going to have an amazing time, I am actually excited for you after reading your post!

I will also check out the episodes

Have fun!!

Thank you

Goodluck Heart and Joey!!!

Goodluck Heart and Joey!!!!

Heart? How did it go?

I finally met the girl I fell in love with 2.5 yrs ago in SL, (me-usa her-uk) it was wonderfull and we will be married in real life as soon as humanly possible. Knowing someone from the inside first can be the best foundation for a lasting relationship.

Daz is soooooooo right. The perfect thing about how you met on sl is the fact you learn about the inner person before you actually meet, and lets say if you feel you know the person you are meeting and have talked for years then it is the next step to take if that is how you both feel. some people never get the chance to feel real love, its great, dont miss a chance you never know this could be it, lol Daz and myself were not looking for love at all but we found each other I wish you both the best of luck and hope it works out just like it has with Daz and myself we now hate being apart but it is only for now that we are

Hi Everyone

Well we finally met... I'll post a photo of us together here. I just want to thank everyone again. xoxoxo

If you google our real names you can read a lot of press stories that came out about us, our real names are: Rhonda Lillie and Paul Hawkins

Here's a photo of us together in London!

Also check out my myspace. My myspace name is heartshinegirl so just go to www.myspace.com/heartshinegirl for videos of us together and more photos and stuff.

This is so sweet! Best of luck to you both-- I wish I could watch the other episodes!