Liz

My thought as of this moment... The acoustic version of 'Relax' is beautiful. I adore piano music.

Haha, I know, right? That was essentially my thought, too. Well, I had gone to check Brian May's website, which I do regularly (I've got that moment at the Queen/Paul Rodgers concert I went to etched in my head when he was beginning to sing Love of my Life and some guy to the right shouted wildly, "FREDDIE!" and Brian had to do a double-take... It was so funny) and read him talking about Mika being compared to Freddie so much. Then I decided to verify those comparisons and looked up the interviews... Finally I looked up Grace Kelly and I distinctly remember saying to myself, "The new Freddie, huh? We'll see about that" as I searched for the video. Then I watched it. It was not a case of love at first sight. My reaction was, "Eh. He's alright. Not something I'd go nuts over and listen to every single day." I left it alone. The next day, I woke up humming the chorus. Literally, I was asleep humming it and woke up because of it. And kept singing it all day at very very unlikely times. Then I heard the phone add on TV with Love Today in the backround which I knew from interviews was his. At last I had decided to give him a second chance and re-looked up Grace Kelly and really listened to it, then Love Today, then Lollipop. And so it happened I fell inextricably in love with his music and proceeded to go nuts over it and listen to it every single day. I haven't really looked back, after all I mean... See where it got me? This lovely forum with its unofficial family. And which of us can truly regret that?

Welcome to the forum. I first heard about Mika through reading Brian May's webpage and seeing him talk about how people were comparing Mika to Freddie. Anyway, it's nice to meet you. Have a good time!

Besides Mika? Queen Def Leppard Billy Joel Journey Hendrix Stevie Ray Vaughn Bon Jovi Kiss Twisted Sister AC-DC Aerosmith Bowie Eric Clapton Foreigner Led Zeppelin Motley Crue Guns n' Roses Mr. Big Elvis The Beatles The Temptations The Beach Boys Buddy Holly Johnny Cash Nat King Cole Jim Croce Simon & Garfunkel And that's just to name a few. There's lots others... Jazz... Blues... Classical... Gaelic... I'm not really big on rap, though. Typically I can't stand listening to it.

nn... I was never one for the 'Idol' shows. Or reality in general- the closest I get to reality shows is Ultimate Fighter. One of my friends that's a huge fan of American Idol made me watch "Queen Night"... Lightly put, I kind of think they butchered it. In any case, I hope the Queen members and Mika enjoy themselves when they go.

I don't even want to get into when my bunny or my first dog passed... So instead, I'm going to ask, how can each of you tell when someone is interested in you?

It's good to be alive.

mmmm, apple pie... I need chicken soup and medicine. I'm so tired. Goodnight, MFC.

As someone who named a decent portion of things in Mikaville, particularly streets, and who helped keep the record of all things in Mikaville (which I still have if anyone wants me to repost it for whatever reason), I don't mind you using the names of things. I doubt 1Kiwiabroad and Kavi, the originators of Mikaville, would mind either, but if they do... Well, I'm sure they'll let us know.

You know, it's weird... I was JUST thinking about that the other day. Hands, that is. And how guys with nice hands are attractive. But the first thing I look at is their face, eyes, then hair. Then everything else I see is randomized. I'm really very much a face/eye person.

First thought of the day. That song has been stuck in my head for awhile. I went to sleep with it in my head and woke up with it. Moving on. People are too hard on themselves... That includes me. I can't tell you how many times my sensei has told me to stop critisizing myself so much... What can I say? I hate getting things wrong. Detest, even. Loathe perhaps. I suppose I'm mostly thinking about this because I know a girl who, owing to her body structure, weighs about a hundred pounds. And she thinks she needs to lose weight. What does this to people? Is it really all the media influence that makes them think they aren't beautiful as they are? It's painful for me to hear people be so unaccepting of themselves. There's very little wrong with being who you are naturally but that thought just doesn't take precedence with people, and I just cannot figure out why. And I've yet to note anyone who gets all the liposuction and plastic surgeory that looks half as gorgeous as anyone that let nature do its thing or took the time to actually make a physically exercising effort to look as they do. But they still don't see themselves in a favorable light, and I think it's a very sad thing.

Mm, I think the decision to close it is a very serious thing. People really have been on edge lately and I don't think there's any one thing we can track it down to, except maybe it's just infectious? Like, how women who live together for so long start coinciding with each other's timing every month? Or when people know each other long enough, they start picking up each other's habits? Maybe since we're on here together a lot of the time, if one of us gets mad, distressed, or unhappy, it's a chain reaction born out of synchronization with one another. An odd theory, probably not even close to plausible, but this is a thoughts thread, so I voiced it... Back to the topic at hand! I don't bother opening threads that don't interest me. And that one didn't. Having read it owing to Eir a few posts back, I kind of figure it's an unnecessary thread from the point of view that it could potentially stir even more bad blood than what's already in the air right now and that it doesn't have any especially moving content but it's costing the forum money to run- which is yet another topic that's been boiling over the boards lately. We need some good news, y'know? Something big enough, like Mika getting better or something of that cheering nature, to get us all back to being happy, caring, and cooperative with everyone's differences.

Nngh, it's heat for me. Not that I've snapped at anyone (I haven't, right?) but it does leave me tired. I wish it was raining, we desperately need it. I'd be outside playing in it, oh yes. I woke up this morning with soft jazz on my radio and is was blissfully cool and I just chilled for half an hour, watching the sunrise through my bedside window. Then I made the mistake of actually going outside and discovering it was awfully hot out there. Now that I'm home- for the time being, anyway- I've got headaches and backaches and I'm just a big ball of grouch trying to unwind again rather unsuccessfully. So... Yeah. I should probably get off the boards until I'm rested a bit. Right.

He doesn't do anybody any good by letting himself remain sick... him, his fans, his would-be audiences. Poor guy. I'm sure he'll get the hint soon enough and catch up with his well-being. Actually, though, my family's motto has always seemed to be "walk it off." If you're sick, lying around the house moping won't do you any good. If you scrape your knee, sitting there crying wasn't going to help. Four of us kids in my family and each of us has only ever been to a doctor's for something serious once in our lives... Which is really amazing, given the crazy inadvisable things we used to do. Over time though, my working theory for getting better turned into "kill it before it settles in!" Which means, make sure I've had my vitamins, eat chicken soup, take some drowsy cold medicine, hit the hot shower, and crash in a nice cozy bed before it was too late. Right now, I think that'd work better for our bedraggled Mika, since walking it off doesn't seem to work for him anymore either. What do you guys do to get well, anyway?

Well, you know, I always advise new comers to take a look at Happy Endings circle... Just sayin', y'know. Throwing the option out there.

I'm a Love Today-er, too. I thought I might've ended up somewhere by Grace Kelly, but I'm okay with this. My scores seem really accurate, but I can't tell you where I sound like Love Today or not... Eir, do I have positive energy and create colorful things? By the way, excellent quiz. I like how it was worded. I love quizzes...

You just reminded me of that movie with Jack Nicholson, "As Good as it Gets" I don't know who has seen it, but in the movie, Nicholson plays a romance novel author and there's one scene where he's in his apartment trying to write this one piece and keeps getting interrupted. "At last she knew what love was! Love was..." ... "Hm. What was love?" A little random, I know, but I had the impulse to share. And good luck, Eir!

Thought(s) of the night! Nn, this'll be a long one. I've never been in love. Actually, I've never even really liked anyone, so as a result I actually haven't been kissed. There are just so many songs in the world, in all kinds of languages, all about love and how it's a wonderful experience when you're 'in' it, or that you'll pursue it, or that you've lost it. And yet there's no definition for exactly what love is or if everyone experiences it in precisely the same way. Whenever I listen to these songs, I know there's some essence of that passion interwoven with the lyrics and how the music is written, played, and sung. And it surely must be a great and powerful thing for it to resonate in the beating heart of every person in the world, generation to generation. There are people in fiction, in history, in hope, in despair who move heaven and earth and died for the sake of love... But I've never known it. So I'm left with a sort of emptiness somewhere in me that's filled with a pool of tears. Not only of sorrow for myself that lacks such perspicacity, but also with warmth and joy for everyone whose had that fortune. There are so many who've been thoroughly bitten by love, who say that they want to renounce their experiences and wish they'd never gotten involved. But for them to have been so enamoured, there must have been some perception of the relationship worthy to them. Can't they find happiness and contentment, in hindsight, of at least that one kind memory of such a time and put the bitterness behind them to live on? I'm afraid I'm just too naive myself to truly understand that. But I do understand that all humanity have some inner need for each other. An instinct that drives them to be together, a desire for protection in one another's arms... The same instinct that causes some to simultaneously hide inside themselves to avoid being scathed. I guess it could be argued that this instinct is born out of genetic patterns designed to continue procreation and further the species... But I've never been able to look at the world and existence in terms of pure science. I honestly believe there's more to life than just what we were born as. I see the complications of existence being just that as something that can be no accident in spite of how they want to say it came to be. Who is to say, afterall, that how it came to be wasn't intended to be exactly that way? And who is to say that what we do here will truly have no lasting effect? But I think this drive, this insatiable wish for our comfort and love mingling intertwined inextricably with the reciprocated feeling from whom we believe is 'the one', and that leaves us lonely and wistful when we have no such person by our side, is created from the silent realization that we just can't make it to where we're going on our own. The road is too hard, curved, and steep. And even if it doesn't last forever, maybe that's just how it was supposed to be. Perhaps you were only supposed to be supporting each other for that period of your lives alone and there's someone else for the both of you along the way. Our friends, our family- by blood or by bonding- and our love, is an important thing. It shouldn't be neglected. Chances for it shouldn't be slipping by out of shyness and self-doubt. I believe I'll find the person for me. I hope all of you believe the same about yourselves if you haven't found that person yet.

Ice from the sky... you mean hail? And I'm so tired. I'm going to end up having a very lazy week- no karate, jiu jitsu, or any sort of work. I'll probably be dead bored.

Yeah, I can understand that... I don't take kindly to it, either, or at least when it's someone I don't know. Having people come up behind you at stores or when you're in a conversation to touch your hair is more than a little disturbing at times. Sometimes they don't even ask... They just run their fingers through it and start talking about it to other people like you aren't there. I also get people who arbitrarily sniff my hair, too...

... Any of you know how if you read the same word over and over, it starts to look funny, awkward, and nonsensical? Try reading the word "smell" over so many times. I mean, it was already a bit of an odd word to begin with. Having said that, carry on!

... I, uh, try not to think about those things. So I think I'll be sitting out of that conversation. On another note, I just realized how many weapons I have in here. I pity anyone who tries to break in.

Ha. I could see it, kind of... He is a big brother already, after all, he must have some kind of experience with little people. Perhaps not much, but some. I love babies and kids. They're hilarious- my friend has a six month old and I honestly think he has to be the single most adorable baby in the whole wide world, bar none. Big blue eyes, lots of loosely curly cocoa-hued hair, a perfectly pudgy body and the cutest smile ever which he gives whenever he sees me. He's also a very snuggly baby. It's sort of odd though, watching him grow. He's only six months old, but I feel like he's been around forever. I remember when I went to go see his mom in the hospital and saw him for the first time as a newborn... She looked so happy holding him, and her husband was sitting at her side. Perfect family image, right there. Being with kids give me such a good excuse for acting like one. They give me a reason to run and jump and be generally goofy while still being considered sane by any on-lookers... Even if I'm secretly not.

Not especially. The necklace was probably the potentially most expensive thing and that was from my father and it's kind of a family heirloomy kind of gift. Most of my jewelry is actually either family stuff or select things that have meaning to me, like my cartouche.

Birthday loot: Tickets to Def Leppard/Foreigner/Styx Two fairy statues A shirt that says I've got a black belt in crazy Socks with bunnies on them that say "if you want your butt kicked, just ask" H-shaped notepads (in honor of the first letter of my first name which is not, actually, Liz) A journal and pen set A Queen DvD (Wembley Stadium) A candle Flowers A balloon A chocolate rose A windchime An oriental doll Four cards A pearl necklace A banner Three mystery presents I don't have yet because they haven't arrived A dozen and a half chocolate cupcakes A red velvet cake. A 'raincheck' for a hug from a guy that didn't today because he was sick. I don't know if he expects me to forget it later, but if he does, he's got another thing coming- he promised me and I'll see to it he goes through with it. Who thinks I got enough stuff?