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Liz

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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. ... He's announced he's going for President of the United States in '08. Opinions?
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "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.
  10. 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?
  11. 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?
  12. 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...
  13. 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?
  14. I don't make friends easily. I've been pretty alone most of my life, except for my close bond to my family. When one of my brothers, the one I was closest to, got a girlfriend for the first time, I was happy for him, and I really liked the girl- she was very nice, smart, and they had a lot in common. But the more time away from him, the worse I felt, because I didn't really have anyone else. One day, his girlfriend found me crying because of it. She wrapped her arms around my shoulders and said... "Can I tell you something? When your brother first told me that you said you liked me, I was the happiest person on earth. I'm so scared, you know? Because I don't know what your father thinks of me or your mother and I haven't met your other brothers and I'm so worried about being accepted in your family. And believe me, I am not trying to take your brother away from you, and I want you to be around, I want you to be a part of this and if your brother and I get married some day, I want you to be around to be an aunt to our kids- And you know something else? People take other people for granted all the time, but I promise I will never take you for granted, because I love you and I want you to be my sister. I'll be your best friend in the whole world and you can be mine." That's word for word. I never, ever forgot it. Her whole body was shaking from trying not to cry herself either. There's only two other times in my life I ever felt so genuinely touched. That was the first time anyone ever truly poured their heart out to me and it made me realize just how human she was, and that I understood exactly how she felt, just precisely... Being frightened and wanting to be accepted by the people you admire and care about and afraid that you'll never get back what you give in return. It's that memory that was making me think tonight... Why is it so hard to find true good friends, who are willing to go the distance with you just to be there with you? And who are willing to put their heart so completely in your hands, and who won't break yours in return? Friends whose loyalty is wholly incorruptable? Trying to find one, for me at any rate, is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The odds are ridiculous. I want to be that person for somebody else, I want to be the kind of person whose friend knows that they're absolutely safe in leaving their feelings and dreams with me. Why? Because one person who is that solid and loving, even for just a single moment like that girl, can honest-to-God change any number of peoples' lives and outlooks on it completely.
  15. That would be very neat. April's a long way off though, so I can't promise my presence or lack there of... However it's two months roughly before my birthday. Maybe I'll end up going as a present to me.
  16. Have you ever sat outside and really looked at the stars before? I grew up in a city area, so you couldn't really see a lot of stars from there- which was a shame, because I was really into astronomy as a kid. A little more than a year ago, I moved into a smallish town and I can see so many stars now. They're just so pretty. And they've lived so many different lives, just through all the stories people have told about constellations over thousands of years in different cultures. It's just amazing to me. And they're never going to fail to inspire wonder in people. Just a small thought for now.
  17. "It's late in the evening, she's wondering what clothes to wear She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?" And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight." We go to a party, and everyone turns to see This beautiful lady that's walking around with me. And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?" And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight." I feel wonderful, because I see The love light in your eyes And the wonder of it all Is that you just don't realize... How much I love you It's time to go home now, and I've got an aching head So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed And then I tell her as I turn out the light, I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight." Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight." 'Wonderful Tonight' - Eric Clapton. I love that song. It always makes me smile.
  18. "So it's goodnight Why don't you take a leap of faith And ask me in? And be tempted by the moment Don'tcha think it's time To let imagination dance you from your doubts So we can fall with abandon I'll shelter you In wonder love Til the midnight skies turn blue But I won't push I'll leave it up to you Close your eyes Can you feel me whisper close against your skin? On a bed of velvet roses... Every little touch My hands could trace a path around your heart Deep into your secrets I'll shelter you In wonder love Til the midnight skies turn blue But I won't push I'll leave it up to you It's only love that is crying out It's in your hands Trust me, baby How do I prove to you somehow That you should know by how Just who I am? Baby, don't be afraid- We're just one more kiss away Don't you waste a perfect moon But I won't push I'll leave it up to you I'll be true to you, baby But I won't push I'll leave it up to you Leave it up to you." - Leave It Up to You - Mr. Big. And that's my current thought.
  19. I wear a lot of black, too... Mostly because I can't find any intriguing shirts in different colors. All the designs I think are neat tend to have a black backround. And all the pants/jeans that I find which are really comfortable tend to be in black, too. I can't say anyone's ever really called me gothic, though. Or at least, not to my face.
  20. My current thought at the moment... I'm really tired of perversion.
  21. I'm Irish. Not from Ireland, but my grandfather was. I'm also Scottish from my father's side. Yay Ireland.
  22. Y'know, I could never actually get into Green Day. One of my brothers is a big fan, and they have good music, but the lead singer's voice had something in it that aggravated me (I'm somehow really picky about voices) and I didn't really care much for the lyrical content. On the other hand, this is the same brother who I convinced to listen to some Mika and likes at least two of his songs (Grace Kelly and Stuck in the Middle) that he'll admit to me. So maybe I should give Green Day another chance...
  23. Live Free or Die Hard was a great movie. The plot had a couple holes, but Bruce Willis made up for them. His supporting actor was decent, too. So I would recommend it.
  24. Hello! There's pretty much always someone to talk to here or leave messages for... Or at least, I'm up to talk a good amount of the time, anyway. And it's nice to meet you- have a great time here.
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