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Post by The Restless Shadow on Dec 31, 2005 22:43:19 GMT -6
It won't be for another 15 minutes my time....but I just wanted to wish ya'll a Happy New Year seeing as I won't be on my computer when it happens. Let us all take the time to think back on all the good this year, forgive and forget the bad, and move on with a fresh start into a new year! ;D Anyone care to share some of their personal highlights from this year? (From both on-line and off-line ) Well, that's it for the night, I'll talk to you all next year!
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Post by ~Unu~The Radio-Active Bun Bun on Dec 31, 2005 23:35:19 GMT -6
"Let us all take the time to think back on all the good this year, forgive and forget the bad, and move on with a fresh start into a new year!"
Here, here, Shadow! Well said!
I'd also like to encourage everyone that in the new year to look around you and note the people that have really meant alot to you, take some time to really bask in what they've done for you and what you've done for them, and make an effort to let them know just how much they all mean to you. Life is so precious and so short. don't allow yourself to think "tommorrow's another day" because you never know what the next day might bring.
on that note, my highlight of the year, as always, was all of the precious memories I've made with all of my old and new friends alike. I can't possibly choose one particular moment because they were all too precious to me, but my friends are definately my inspiration and my support. I wouldn't have made it through the past year without some of them. They know who they are (I hope).
It is my hopes and my prayers that all of you have a happy and prosperous new year! Let's all make 2006 a great year!
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Post by Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood on Jan 1, 2006 11:42:52 GMT -6
I couldn't have said it better myself, guys! I second everything that both of you have said. This year was the hardest that I've ever experienced and if it wasn't for a select few people in my life, I couldn't have been able to get through all of it. *toasts those people and gives hugs all around* Also, for all those who are graduating this year, be it 8th grade, high school, or college (like me!), I wish all of you the best of luck in whatever path you choose. And remember, listen to what your instincts tell you because they haven't failed you yet! Enjoy the precious little time that you have with your friends and appreciate them for their talents and support. You'll never find another quite like them!
And as far as all of us at the Gathering is concerned, thank you all for another great year here! Where else can I go to rant without getting my head chopped off? haha You guys are great and I couldn't have asked for a better place to help admin for! Looking forward to yet another year of rum, dancing elmos, FEESHING, table-top dancing, and just all around craziness!
~ Nienna ;D
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Post by Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur on Jan 1, 2006 19:17:01 GMT -6
lol welllll... *takes deep breath* hehe I am grateful, first off, to Jesus for keeping me and my loved ones safe this year. We have had my dad get in a car wreck, a cousin get shot, an uncle go through surgery, three babies born (Magnolia Grace, my sister; Isabella Paige, my cousin, and Bradley Lynn, my other cousin), and numerous other things that could pose as dangerous, and yet we haven't had anyone die or be too seriously injured. So PTL for that ;D!! Secondly, I'd like to thank some very special gals in my life: Kris, Dawn, Vanessa, and Nicole, who have supported me online and off, and who I couldn't do without. I love you girls soooo much *hugs* and I'm grateful every day for the influence you've all had on my lives ;D!! (And happy birthday for January to Vanessa (the 17th) and Nicole (the 20th) - don't get old on me too fast though lol!!). I'd also like to thank my wonderful staff here at GotE; without ya'll's constant support and hard work, GotE all together would not have been possible. I thank you from the bottom of my hoppit-chopping heart ;D!!! And, of course, I can't forget the memebers, who make this whole crazy (almost two-year-old, too!) adventure worthwhile! Keep the good times coming ;D!! And I want to congradulate all marriages, babies, engagements, new loves, academic achievements, character tested and proven, trustworthiness shown, and everything else we here at GotE have gone through with ya'll. I appreciate everything everyone's done ;D ;D ;D!!!
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Post by The Restless Shadow on Jan 3, 2006 18:40:46 GMT -6
Because I 'can not be bothered' with making my own post, I'll take things from all ya'll's post's and add a few things of my own ;D
This year has been amazingly odd for me. You may not know this from reading my posts, but I am extremely reserved, and not very outgoing. It's always been hard to make friends, and being immensely self-conscious doesn't help that fact very much. But '05 has been such a change for me, I've made many new friends, become an active member of my community, went to the Catskills for a weekend with 5 friends [[**More on this in another post**]] And I truly feel that if I hadn't come out of my shell on-line, here, I wouldn't have been able to do the same off line.... So thank you all ;D
And Happy New Year to you all!
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Post by Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur on Jan 3, 2006 19:21:18 GMT -6
Awww, so you really love us, bonkers though we are?? ;D *grins and hugs her never-failing buddy* But seriously Shadow you are awesome... you always fix my 'booms', make things for me, change things that I ask you to without question, make all kinds of sweet things for me, and most of all, are... just... THERE. You're an awesome friend - I love you ;D!!!
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Post by The Restless Shadow on Jan 3, 2006 19:28:31 GMT -6
lol,yes, as strange as it is, this place has yet to make me feel the urge to spontaneously comb ust I tend to get really sentimental around the holidays, or just random days. I mean, I'm 15 and I feel like I'm waaay to old. And soon none of us will have time to post our insanity's, because we'll all be to busy growing up, moving on to. And no matter how much I hate it....I'mnot a kid anymore. Soon the pressures of life will show up, I'll either make it big, or end up alone....and die. *sigh* Me being sentimental always ends in me being depressed.
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Post by Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur on Jan 3, 2006 19:33:12 GMT -6
(Ooo, you just reached 2,00 posts - that was a really sorry way to reach it though, lol) Dearest, sentimental is one thing; mopey is another. QUIT MOPING WE LOVE YOU AND JUST BECAUSE YOU TURN 18 OR 21 OR WHATEVER DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE GOING TO KICK YOU OUT - I THINK WE HAVE MORE TWENTY-SOMETHINGS THAN ANYTHING - SO *NO LEAVING*!!!!lol, well the evil red color CAN be a good thing as a wake-up call... (And you can't die first; I'm five days older than you that's my job lol )
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Post by The Restless Shadow on Jan 3, 2006 19:38:28 GMT -6
lol, life on here and life in life are different things... I could stay on here untill I'm 50 and be the same person. But in Real life, I'll be forced to change... Ugh, I hate feeling like this, and I have been a lot lately. I need to do somthing childish....like ride the mechanical horse in front of the Food Store ;p
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Post by Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur on Jan 3, 2006 19:40:52 GMT -6
Oooo can I ride too ??? WHEEEE ;D ;D ;D!!!
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Post by The Restless Shadow on Jan 3, 2006 19:50:19 GMT -6
lol, I can always count on this place to cheer me up.......... with Insanity
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~Unu~The Radio-Active Bun Bun
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Plastic-wrap-attacking posessed singing Elmo - and Official Enlightener of all Perviness!!!
Oh how my heart longs for that forest of old!
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Post by ~Unu~The Radio-Active Bun Bun on Jan 3, 2006 22:47:44 GMT -6
[quote author=admin board=gdicuss thread=1136090599 post=1136338392 QUIT MOPING WE LOVE YOU AND JUST BECAUSE YOU TURN 18 OR 21 OR WHATEVER DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE GOING TO KICK YOU OUT - I THINK WE HAVE MORE TWENTY-SOMETHINGS THAN ANYTHING - SO *NO LEAVING*!!!![/quote] yes I changed it so that it's no longer red because that's just painfull to look at no matter the time of day... and.... <_<>_> somehow <_<>_> I get the impression that eli was also thinking of me when she said that haha! as for you Shadow, you're only 15 sweets... your life of drama is just getting started! but trust me... they'll be some years where you'll wish you could have just plain not existed, but the people you met and the experiances you had will be all too worth it. I may regret about 4 whole years since I was 15 but the relationships that I built along the way... well.... they take my breath away some times. 3 of my best friends I made durring the times when I felt lonliest. let me give you this piece of advice, something I learned the hard way just this year durring my first semester in college, when things are at their darkest and most depressing... that's when you have to say "enough" and force the good times... even when it hurts to smile, surround yourself with people, who no matter what, will always make you feel good about yourself. I'm turning 21 on the 17th of this month, I go to college full time, and yet I still always find time for my friends that I know strickly online. you will too... no matter how busy things get, you'll always come back, because you'll know that no matter what goes on in the big bad world, there will always be a place for you here. and now that I've had my mellow dramatic ramble for the night.... I think I'll go pick on the ugly gnomes under my bed haha!
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Post by Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood on Jan 4, 2006 12:48:13 GMT -6
I can really relate to everything Unu just said. And I agree with all of it!! Please don't think that you are going through this alone, Shadow, because reading over your post really brought home some of the things that I've experienced in the past few years. I can seriously relate to EVERYTHING you're talking about because it wasn't that long ago that I didn't have many friends either. In fact, I didn't have ANY friends. And I know how lonely that is, believe me. Just remember, always surround yourself with people you love and care about. For me, it took me a loooooooooong time to realize that the reason why I was always feeling so depressed all the time was because of my parents. Getting away from them by dorming at college was the single most best decision that I've ever made for myself. My friends have become my family in a way my family never has been. I don't know what I'd do without anyone of them. And I'm not talking about just my college friends. I've also met a lot of great people HERE who have helped bring me out a little more. Can you picture someone quiet, reserved, anxious, suspicious of everyone, and afraid of what other people thought of her to the point of trembling? Then you've just pictured what Nienna used to be like. And I'm not afraid to admit it now. Back then, I didn't want to admit it because it felt like a terrible weakness that only I seemed unable to overcome. I was completely ashamed of myself. But because of friendships, they transformed me into this new person who is both happy with herself, but also eager for the future. Talk about powerful and healing! And the same will be true for you too, Shadow! You just have to give it a little time, but I promise that if you've got the determination and will-power to MAKE it happen, it will!!! And don't worry, after everything I still feel like spontaneously combusting every once in a while...not to worry. That's normal. And Dr. Nienna also says that it's alright to feel down every so often. We all do. There's nothing wrong with it as long as it doesn't feel like someone's wrapped a steel anchor to your leg and thrown you off a cliff. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're all here for you and if you ever need to get something off your chest, we all understand. So don't hesitate!! We all love ya here!! ~ Nienna
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Post by Lady Elianna Tar-Minyatur on Jan 4, 2006 18:59:38 GMT -6
You know, you guys are just making me more touchy-feely... I need a hug lol.... but now for my sentimental part.... I agree with both of them so much I ought to just quote both posts and be done with it lol. Believe it or not, I have one - count, ONE - dear friend in OK you I know would do anything for me, and at a moment's notice. And sadly, she lives around where my parents do - two hours away from me . I love Noel so much.... but besides her, I have not a single friend who I can count as a friend. Sure, I know all sorts of 'older' girls (one of them is 34 - that's older than BOTH my parents ), but those were the ones my parents picked out, to be 'mentors' for me. So they've never really been friends.... in that sense... we have a strange relationship, anyways . And all of them are two hours away, too. So my only true friends (and I kid you not) are Noel, and you guys. Kris (Lily), Nicole (Nienna), Dawn (Ara), Vanessa (Unu), my dear Steven (that's Shadow, lol - now we can all STALK HIM ), Chantal (Cele), are the ones I know best, and there are also a few others who I known almost as well. (Those are just the ones I've talked to on the phone or written letters to. Except Shadow, but I have more emails, PMs, etc. (no kidding) from him than I do from all my other friends combined lol. So he counts ;D). But yeah, I know what it is to not be able to smile; to lie there on your bed and suddenly realize that the term 'fall into yourself' can be a very literal one, to be in so much pain that I even stopped breathing because it hurt so much, but I've lived through it; through all of that; through everything else in my life, and it's mostly because of all your help. This site was nothing more than a 'rant' place for me to just vent, but it turned it to something so much more... and I am more grateful for this and all of you more than I think I've been grateful for almost anything else in my life.
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Post by Nienna Greenleaf of Mirkwood on Jan 4, 2006 22:09:29 GMT -6
Oh wow yeah, it sounds like everyone here needs a hug. It's so funny that when you're experiencing these things, you think that you are the ONLY one who knows how it feels and that no one could possibly understand you. But then you meet a few special people and then things change. Maybe not overnight, but you start to realize that whatever you're feeling isn't so selfish and that you shouldn't feel ashamed. And remember, sis, you can come to me with any problem! You and I seem to have a lot in common as far as what we've had to deal with from other people, so don't hesitate to pick my brain if you need to, or if you need to vent. That goes for you too, Shadow! Oh wow, I should really start charging for my services! jk guys hehe I mean it! Life can sometimes throw you down and kick you, but at one point you learn to get up and kick back. That usually means that you have to have help, but nevertheless, it's possible! *steps off soap box*
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