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Liz

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  • Birthday 06/28/1990

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    Mika fan
  1. Yay floridian

  2. What makes me who I am... - My hair. Probably my most defining physical feature... I express myself a lot through how I style my hair. - My practicing martial arts. When I started, I'd already read these things about how they integrate into your life and whatnot and I didn't believe it... Until I started doing it. It's a big part of who I am. - The way I write. I don't... think I really need to elaborate on that. I feel like a lot of what I write comes out stiff and snobbish sounding, but I'll just leave that to everyone else's judgment. - I'm loyal to a fault. I love people very easily, which is also a great detriment to me at the same time. It often ends up with my heart being broken, by friends or otherwise. - Because I love easily and it often ends less-than-happily, it's difficult to earn my trust for anything. - I don't lie to spare someone's feelings, but I don't go out of my way to voice a contrary opinion. If someone asks me what I think, I'll tend to be blunt about it. If they don't ask and I don't feel they need someone to tell it to them, I keep it to myself. - I have a strange way of communicating affection. Or at least, a non-socially typical way. It often turns out with people misinterpreting my feelings for them (usually they'll assume a romantic intent when it's not). However, I'm unwilling to comprimise my behavior for society's sake, when I feel that society is flawed in that many signals, expressions, and customs are so unnecessarily complicated and seem to aim more to keep people away from one another rather than draw them together.
  3. I was just wondering... Has anyone here had an experience where they distinctly thought something along the lines of, "There is a god" and that you're here for a reason? Back in April, I had a really bad accident (not car or anything type accident)... But I guess I should say, potentially bad- because I walked away with only some deep bruising when I honestly should have broken bones or even my head open. And yes, literally walked away... Though admittedly, that wasn't super easy. When I got up and we determined I was okay, one of the people I was with came up to me, completely shaken and deathly white and told me, "You must really have some angels watching out for you." Until he said that, I hadn't really thought about it... But wow, have I gotten out of some messes alive. And now I thank whatever god is out there for it every day. This is kind of part of the reason for my earlier statement about miracles and telling people you love them and how things can happen under a second that could change everything. So, yeah. Have any of you had moments like that, either about yourself or someone else that makes you really feel like something is taking care of you?
  4. The things that can happen in under a second are amazing. The greatest of tragedies and the sweetest of gestures take so little time to touch life. Miracles and change are everywhere, and they happen every day. Take time to tell people you love them. Try not to give up on them, even when your heart has taken quite a beating as it is. Just some stuff I've drawn from personal experiences I've had in the last couple months. It's been a really interesting time. ... I'm back, by the way.
  5. My thought right now, is that I wish it was easy to express affection verbally and physically without it being mistaken for romantic love. I'm friends with a man who is one of the sweetest people I've ever known, and neither of us have romantic feelings for the other... And as it goes on, he just becomes more incredible to me. Lately, I keep wanting to just hug him tight and tell him how amazing he is, yet with the laws of societal propriety I've been raised in, I don't think I could ever do it without it being taken the wrong way. On the other hand, I never liked holding back on saying things and showing affection; life is short and time is always going. Every minute you let go by without confessing what you think and feel about someone is a minute you never said a word, and such chances will not wait around forever. And so, inevitably, I have to have the classic argument with myself about that same propriety versus what I'm feeling in my heart. I consistently find it sad and disappointing when propriety wins. It's not a very inspirational thought, but it's late, and I feel so inarticulate. That being said, maybe I'll have some more interesting thoughts tomorrow. I think I'll end this with some lyrics that've been sticking with me lately- maybe some of you guys will appreciate them, too. "Got my dreams, got my life, got my love Got my friends, got the sunshine above Why am I making this hard on myself When there's so many beautiful reasons I have to be happy." - 'Happy', by Natasha Bedingfield.
  6. Well... I'm back, sort of. I guess technically, I never left, but I haven't been following the forums too much lately... Busy, busy. So if they're still welcome, maybe I'll post a thought or two sometimes soon.
  7. ... He's announced he's going for President of the United States in '08. Opinions?
  8. It's good to feel exhausted. Karate was full of stationary exercises tonights. It went sideways hopping over bars, to turkish get-ups, to the stretching machine, heavybag for hands, twisting lunges, punches with handweights, tricep stretches, squats with a medicine ball, heavybag for variety kicks, crunches on a stability ball, push ups, bicep stretches, heavy bag for hands and feet, reverse crunches with a medicine ball, jump rope, heavybag for alternating roundkicks, repeat. My body is worn out, and right now, a full glass water is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen in my life- but I'm so content to have made true physical effort and extending my thresh hold for endurance. Good times, noodle salad. And that's my thought for the night. That, and the idea Mika would have to change his name because of another spiteful and jealous artist is a bit ridiculous.
  9. Yeah, go, Nation, go! I love the Colbert Report- there's only two shows on TV I watch regularly and that's one of them. If any of you gets a Wrist Strong band and meets Mika, you should give it to him. Bet he'd wear it.
  10. "Another red letter day So the pound has dropped, and the children are creating The other half ran away Taking all the cash And leaving you with the lumber Got a pain in the chest Doctor's on strike What you need is a rest It's not easy, love, But you've got friends you can trust Friends will be friends When you're in need of love They give you care and attention Friends will be friends When you're through with life And all hope is lost Hold out your hand Cause friends will be friends- Right til the end Now, it's a beautiful day The postman delivered a letter from your lover Only a phone call away You tried to track him down But somebody stole his number As a matter of fact, You're getting used to life Without him in your way It's so easy now Cause you've got friends you can trust Friends will be friends When you're in need of love They give you care and attention Friends will be friends When you're through with life And all hope is lost Hold out your hand Cause friends will be friends... Right til the end." 'Friends Will Be Friends' - By Queen.
  11. Oh, not everybody has to like everybody else. I trust enough that the majority of people on this forum have the sense to say what they think without being insulting- otherwise I never would've posed the question. I think we all understand from our own diversities that some similarly distasteful (and I'm using the term lightly, should anyone who have had any seriously horrible encounters think it's not nearly enough emphasis) people don't represent every other single person in a foreign country as a whole. ... Personally, I don't think I've actually met a British person I got along well with, but I know there's plenty of good ones out there, so it doesn't really sour my whole outlook. I just hope I have the pleasure of meeting the more pleasant ones someday. What about your own places you come from? What's it like there and what traditions and things do you have?
  12. I was thinking the other day, that Mika's the first person I've ever heard refer to themselves as American as part of their heritage, like it's a culture. For example, though I was born in America, if someone were to ask me, I would tell them I'm mostly German, Irish, and Scottish. So what does it mean for someone to be half-American? Or whole, for that matter. For someone who's always lived here, I'm surprisingly drawing a blank because it seems to me that the inheritence of America is that it's one big gooey melting pot of peoples, their cultures, and mixing them up and seeing what happens. Not that it's a necessarily bad thing, it just suddenly seems unusual to me. So how do you, other people born and raised in a different country, perceive America from an outside view, as well as your own cultures and heritage?
  13. I actually had no headache! Or ringing ears! Which is a first- the last time I saw Def Leppard, I left with my ears ringing, fell asleep with it, and woke up that way. It didn't stop until that night... It worried me so much (my precious, precious hearing) that I brought earplugs this time. I didn't wear them much except during high pitch guitar solos and in between concerts when they tore down and rebuilt the stage for the other bands, but I guess taking a little break like that from all the noise around me worked pretty well. Styx was pretty good, their keyboard player is funny. They had a lot more energy than I expected. Foreigner rocked the place, they were amazing- When they started on Juke box Hero, the lead singer was silouetted and when they got to the line, "He heard the roar of the crowd, he could picture the scene!" the whole amphitheatre just imploded with said roar... Halfway through the song, they switched the melody to Whole Lotta Love (because their drummer now is Jon Bonham's son) and played part of that before finishing Juke box Hero. Def Leppard played some of their older songs, which was awesome because in order to please the majority crowd, bands that have been around longer tend to play their better known hits... They did Excitable (I was so thrilled they did that), Mirror, Mirror, Another Hit and Run... They did one of the songs off their last album, which was a covers album, and played Rock On. Rick Savage did a bass intro to it, which was cool. I detest the original version, but love theirs. For a song called Rock On, the original did not do much rocking. They also did some acoustic stuff, with Two Steps Behind and an intro into Bringin' on the Heartbreak which turned into Switch 625 at the end. And they had all their major hits like Rock of Ages, Animal, Armageddon It, Photagraph, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Rocket, and such. Those songs are endlessly fun and great to hear. But I was most happy to hear the older stuff. So much happiness. One day, I'd really like to see them do stuff from their newer-but-not-so-much albums, like X and Slang and Eurphoria, but I doubt I will unless they do a tour with playing from those albums specifically in mind. Some of my favorite songs ever come off those albums. I got home late, which is no surprise, but I got out of bed willingly at seven in the morning on a Saturday following a concert. What kind of weirdo am I...
  14. I've literally just got home from the Styx/Foreigner/Def Leppard concert. Do you think it's possible to die from too much awesome?
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