Eastie
I didn't like gaia after a while. Like you said, most only cared about items and who had the most gold or who was more popular. Kind of like high school all over again. I lasted on that site for two or three years I think. I started on 2008 and left sometime in 2010 I think from my last ban. I met a few friend that I keep in touch via Skype or Facebook, but only a few. Then most who were added to my MSN stopped talking to me after I quit Gaia so ended up deleting them. Not much of a loss though. Lol. All they ever wanted to talk about was Gaia this or gaia that. Even my best friend wants to talk about how cool the new items are. I don't care. D: Lol. Least that's how I feel.
Debates are fun and all when the other person doesn't get offended easily. Which in these days is hard to find. Some people are so sensitive. But it's good know, because I don't try to offend on purpose. >.<
He does have a sexy voice, I agree to that.
I remember when the books first hit our library at school, everyone wanted to read them, but there were only like three books so it was very hard to get. Well for most anyway, working at the library had it's perks. ;) Lol. I read a few chapters but never really got to finish the books.
She knows about that, it's some consolation to her. Lol.
Eastriel: Indeed, and we only realize it when someone points it out, be them big or small. Often it’s our closest companions who see it. Odd to me that it’s better for them to see it, rather than random people you have never met.
I often find that, even on those occasions I can sleep through the night at a good time, I wake with the same thought in my head: “Go away, sun! It’s not time for you yet…” Although we all had to get up early today, to get to the police station and turn in some tapes, then get off to our next job which was scheduled for just an hour afterward. Jumping right into the day, there, and it took about half an hour to even understand half of what I was saying.
I’m sorry to hear that. Parents can be either unpredictable, in which they listen and understand or wave you off completely, or are statically one or the other. The most important thing is that, even if they sit there like useless lumps, you have someone to turn to in the end. Sometimes it’s best just to let them be and hope someday they come around.
A friend of mine noted that, since a situation was in the past, it no longer has value to what is now and what will be. I countered with, even though it’s the past, it is what makes you who you are and therefore, it has relevance.
The past forms you and makes you who you are, lets you learn from the mistakes and not make them in the present or the future.
She gave me the following example: “Life is much like a river, which you float on, ever flowing towards some sea. Once you pass under a bridge, it loses its importance whether the bridge was steel or wood, but merely remains as a reference point for your personal history.”
I responded that it hardly matters what the bridge is made of; what matters is it was there, and you acknowledge that, and even if it’s left behind, the fact that you can still think back and recall that there was a bridge makes it completely relevant, even if it’s in the past.
And this is where we tied in the debate. There is much more to it, but it was held via comments in Gaia, so I cannot find all the posts…
Well, I suppose. It means we will have to ravage some poor little store for another cot, and we will apologize in advance if it’s only an army cot, which is rather uncomfortable. So I will let Danny know to get that emergency contact of his to give us chopper flying lessons, so we can personally come get you if all Hell breaks loose.
And I do apologize for not being here to make an extra little post as to not make them run together. I was already off and gone by then!
Rozalyne: I know, winters in the Midwest were getting worse and worse! The last winter we were there, our power went out for a week and a half. Luckily our house was very well-insulated, and we had a couple battery-powered heaters in each room. Frozen food we just put outside; was a cold as a freezer anyway.
No, never. People don’t easily scare me anymore.
Well, if it’s just a post-and-run, in which the poster asks a question but I don’t really expect a reply, I will check in on it every now and then rather than subscribe to it. I caught this thread as soon as it was made, since I was so-conveniently lurking in the Spy page at the time. It took a few minutes, but I decided to just post, for once, since it was new.
Distractions are never good. I have too many! Mainly manifesting from a single thing.
Yes, that does happen. Although I’ve not really incorporated what I see or think into what I’m writing at the time. I just voice it, then talk to myself for a few minutes, then it’s gone. Sometimes someone comes along and asks me what that was about. Oh, nothing… Nothing at all.
Oh, I can tone it down quite a bit. It’s only if the idea is running on and on, and I’m either a first or second post in that I go for ten pages, unless I’m going up against a formidable partner. Only two in general hold the first and second place, while a third comes close to being right up there with them. But I would never be a shark in comparison, I would rather be… Well, not a shark. A teacher. I prefer teacher, as people like to call me.
Fleetfantasy: Oh, so you are a good artist? You have no idea how much I’ve been searching for good artists! Ahem, but I’m rather well. An especially busy couple days, it’s been, but it takes up time and that is a good thing!
Dexter Morgan: Well when people are exposed to others for a long period of time then it is highly likely they notice the small things. I love noticing the small things about my friends, often they are the nicest things, just the little tiny things that no one else notices - not even them - that make them who they are.
Haha, I guess I just have a rare ability, though sadly it often gets on other peoples nerves. o.o;
I had the worst nights sleep last night though, I woke up in the middle of the night and had a panic attack, it was really horrible, I sobbed for close to an hour.
Yeah I know, but when you need some support then and there and they are not there for you it's really hard. I think my panic attack was the culmination of all the recent stress...*sigh*
Wow that is a really interesting discussion, though I am much more in your line of thinking. Even though as things go deeper in to the past they do lose some of their importance (for example a painful memory losing more and more of its impact) they're still there and whether you like it or not have impacted your life in one way or another.
Yay! n_n Awesome! I can now officially say that I have plans for the end of the world! I have my uses, as you can see I am good at debate also which will stave off madness - and as for the cot, i'm pretty used to sleeping on the floor so it won't make much difference, it will probably seem very comfortable. :D
Yeah I guessed that, it's okay hun. Hopefully we'll run in to each other for a longer chat tommorrow, you seem to be quite busy these past two days.
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Rozalyne: Yeah i only have one person I'm still friends with now from gaia, most of them were just jerks to be honest. There really did seem to be this whole 'status' thing with those who had the most expensive items on earning the most respect. I really didn't like that, I was a middle to upper person myself, my avi's normally being worth around 10mil+ but still it wasn't nice the way the ones with the devil tails or chicky slippers or whatever used to lord it over everyone else.
Yeah I got my account hacked once and it took me ages to earn everything back and by the time I had gaia had gone to crap so I really feel like I've wasted my time. It's really hard to keep up with all the items and a lot of the time they are not even that nice, I think they really just need to slow down. It'd be interesting to see how many people would still be on Gaia if they stopped releasing items compared to how many people would still be on mene if the same thing happened.
yeah people take things personally way to often. My biggest trouble is something when I put 'you' as in reffering to the general masses and not the person directly, and they get annoyed and offended and just give up.
Mhm just thinking of his voice *wibbles*
Haha yeah I remember we read the first book as a class when I was 9, and I remember thinking 'wow...' I was really in to them and read every book when they came out until it came to the order of the phoenix cause I just found the size of it overwhelming, it took me years to finally get round to it and more than one attempt. o.o;
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Fleetfantasy: I think I'd have to take it from the point of view of what I could and couldn't live with out, I think I could manage with out smell and taste. I'd struggle with out touch, but I could probably get used to it and I'm not sure how I would live with out sound or sight, as music is very important to me, as is looking at the world around me and being inspired by it.
Yeah I do find it strange they didn't get him in the films some how, especially since helena bonham carter is in it they seem to just go hand in hand in every film they are in, but then again it might have detracted from the film as pretty much all the actors in it are english and such and he'd kinda stand out like a sore thumb I think.
Bwahah oh my fleet you are a woman after my own heart hahaha! I got well in to harry potter I really did I really hoped i'd get a letter lol. I'm also a bit of an anorak when it comes to my harry potter trivia I know most of the ins and outs of the world of harry potter, which I know is quite sad but is very useful in a pub quiz situation. :D
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During extremely hot days here we have black outs. Where the company itself shuts down the electricity for a couple of hours. Dad tried explaining to me the reason, but I still don't understand. Something about saving money, but I don't know for who, us or them? Lol.
Yeah, I only answer those on my mule just for gold. Nothing much else. I'm usually shy about posting in threads that have tons of pages already. Sometimes I just dive in and hope to get noticed at least once. >.< I try to make conversation, but I'm horrible at starting one. Lol.
Oh for me it's horrible. D: When I'm typing and talking to my boyfriend on Skype sometimes I'll end up typing what he's telling me in the middle of my sentences. o.o Then I get frustrated because I forget what I was talking about. Sometimes I use my distractions as an advantage to get out of situations with my mom. Lol. But I think she's starting to catch on.
Teacher sounds good. And less scarey. Lol. Because I certainly wouldn't be able to keep up. I'd try though, but I'm not sure how that would turn out.
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I'm totally freaking out though. o.o
About 4 years or so I got bitten by spider, about an inch above my knee. At first I didn't know it was spider bite until a small pin sized hole was forming. x.x Mom ended up taking me to the doctor's and they gave me some cream and pills to take. Eventually it cleared up.. but lately I don't think it ever went away completely. D: There's a bruise forming in the exact spot where I got bitten. But I'm not sure if it's just a bruise I coincidentally gave myself or if that hole is coming back...
Eastie
Mhm, I was in the middle upper 'class' myself but it never made me the person. I started Gaia poor as hell and worked my way up. And I still was the nice person I ever was. I helped out friends, but I found it hard to donate as anyone could make an account and say they were 'new' when they were actually rich and just be using mules to scam people into donating gold. But I wasn't rude to people. When they said that my avi looked nice I wouldn't be a bitch and say how my avi was better because of so and so item. Sometimes I would tell others that their avi was nice but they'd just ignore me as if my opinion didn't matter. It was also weird how if you had certain items you automatically became 'cool' and 'accepted' by the 'rich' people. All I cared about was their personality.
I say 'you' also, but I'm not referring them personally either, unless I address them as such.
We didn't read the books in class, it would have been nice though. Oh gosh that was a big book. o.o I think now, if I set my mind to it I could probably finish all of the books but I'd have to go buy them first. Lol. Or site at a bookstore and read them there.
Ahahaha, I'm a nerd in general really! I really love science and all Sci-fi and Fantasy.
I do quite a lot of drawing and poetry dex, so I guess I am an artist! I have started to look through a lot of my pictures and scan them/ upload them. I mainly draw in a cartoon style- yet I think my heart lies in my words. I have written a detective novel, which isn't finished- yet I consider it my best piece. I'm very private about my poetry, mostly I write about myself, feeling and seem to link it with how I feel about certain things; I write about society and morals. There is a poem I wrote on here, yet I do not at all consider it to be one of my best: Aurorean Miscellanea.
I seem to blog a lot of rubbish there too, so ignore all that. There is also a piece which I wrote on deviantart, in response to a question if that particular photo was art.
I'm quite a keen musician too- I play the violin and a bit of piano... I also own a ukulele, and borrow my dad's acoustic and electric at times. I love the feel of the piano, it is a beautiful instrument.
I have an obsession with this piece:
To play that, is a goal of mine... yet the notes are all in two's... it is so fast, I can't even play it on the violin.
'Perpetuum Mobile' is such a thrilling song, I love the simplicity of it and the burst of the violins as they create that chill- the piano ultimately playing the main part, yet somehow becoming the backing. The whole feel of it is uplifting and modern.
I think I may buy the album!
I know how girly I sound when I say this, but I really love singing and songwriting too... I seem to love art and music so much. They are my hobbies, what can I say? :D
Sorry for the late reply D: I've been real busy with my family... and a hecka-headache x3
I've been reading a lot. Do you ever get the feeling of being engaged with a character in a book so well, you can relate them to yourself? I'm really into a book called Passion, the third in the Fallen series. I recommend it to you all!
Summer seems to be so busy these days, I barely have time to do anything!
Eastriel: Certainly. I’ve gotten so used to the people around me, I can pick out their tells. When they lie, that is, and that small, sometimes impossible to detect twitch or widening of the eyes, sometimes the not-so-small like leaning forward or back, twisting their hands, tapping their foot or the slightest change in their voice. Once you know someone so well, seeing these tells or these traits is second-nature.
I had an uncle who was a morning person. Awake at five in the morning and calling the whole family during the weekends: “What are we gonna do today!?” Was what he would always ask. The same thing we do every Saturday: Run around the entire state. All right, an over exaggeration, but it’s what usually happened.
I think a lot of us do that every now and then. The stress gets to be too much sometimes.
I’ve never gone to my parents for anything, so I cannot say anything about it. All I can say is there are those who do care, and in the end they are the ones who matter.
Very good then. Tomorrow we are closing our phones and taking lessons in chopper flight, which is going to be an exciting time. That way we can certainly say we will be one-hundred percent ready for any apocalypse, Z or not Z, any time it strikes (unless it’s tomorrow).
Oh, we have been, quite a bit. And to top it off? A black and white kitten got into the house and ran into the basement, and I’m trying to get it to trust me enough to come to me. It’s very trying on these patience of mine.
Rozalyne: Most likely them. If it gets too hot, the lines might overheat with the combination of weather and electricity running through, and if it blows, it would cost more to go out and fix it rather than just shutting it down for a few hours at a time to cool it off. Of course, it’s just my thought on it. I’ve seen lines in the Midwest so heavy with ice at certain times, they just snap right in half. Nothing we can do about that, either.
Oh, I saw that ‘wallflower’ corner? So many pages, it’s almost overwhelming! So I’m avoiding that despite sometimes being so bored I could try to talk to anyone about anything. At all! But I’m a lost cause that way and can never do it.
I will do that often. Someone is talking, either to me or to someone else nearby, and I type their sentence halfway through mine! Then I glare at the computer as though it was the one that did something wrong. Halfway through a sentence I can get lost in something completely off in space. It gets me in trouble a lot of times, but I’ve gotten to be better. Yet at that moment I almost wrote ‘buttered’.
It does? Well I saw a mistype right there, but I’m not in teacher mode right now, so I will let it go. And you would be able to keep up, I’m certain of it. As long as you want to get better at writing in general, and making up plotlines and adds to plots. Less scary is good.
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Hm. That seems interesting. Well, I would consider it a strange happening, yet I do not believe in coincidences. If it keeps up, I would get to a doctor to have it looked at. But after four years, I doubt it would come back to cause harm.
Fleetfantasy: Well, I would consider it rather well-going, while a tiny black and white cat got into the basement and now I’m trying to get it out. Believe me, it’s taking a long while, but it’s getting to where the cat is very slowly beginning to approach me a little at a time. I consider that a breakthrough in itself, no?
I’ve never been able to draw well. I take pride in my writing most of all, though when writing the first draft, it’s a terrible thing, so I take a very long time revising it and adding and subtracting. Poetry was never my thing either; though I’ve never directly finished a thing I’ve written yet, I’m looking to get done with the one based on my dream and worst fears mixed with quite a bit of fantasy to take away some of the realism.
Oh, and I've been able to relate to a character very well; Odd Thomas from the series of four books from Dean Koontz, the Odd Thomas books. I would certainly recommend them to anyone who appreciates supernatural, fantasy, mystery, and humor mixed with a bit of sadness. Makes for a good story.
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That's probably it. o3o
I like winters but I don't think even I could survive something that cold. D:
Oh yes, I've tried to post there a few times.. but uh I kind of drift away from the thread. >.< That thread is so big and sometimes I get shy to post and stuff. Lol.
That's happen to me many times too haha. I don't know sometimes it's not even because someone is talking to me, I could be watching tv or a random thought pops into my head. It's odd out how sometimes that happens. I also tend to write the same word twice in some cases. Lol.
Oh? Hahaha I suppose so. I'm surprised I haven't made that many, and if I have you've been really nice in not telling me. o 3o
Teacher mode? Hehehe. Thank you though for letting it slide this once. *shifty eyes*
Hrmm, you think so? I don't give myself too much credit sometimes, I try but then I feel like I sound arrogant or something. :/
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yeah, I'm keeping an eye out on it. Making sure it doesn't get bigger. So far it's stayed a pretty small bruise and hopefully it stays that way and goes away soon.
I hate winter. I always have, too cold. There are times I fantasize about living in a tree house in a tropical rainforest. Secluded, with my closest friends, with no chance of being tracked down... Yes, that would be nice...
I've never posted there. It's too huge! With so many replies, I would easily be lost, as I tend to keep still until someone says something back to me.
Ah, it's happened. I tend to watch something, then get lost in what I would have done in so-and-so's situation, or how I would have written that particular episode around the basic plot. And then I forget to see the end and have no idea what happened. Then I go and write the same sentence twice, right after the other.
No, you are quite the decent writer in itself, while a mistake here and there by presence of an extra letter or leaving out a particular ending like 'ed' or 'ing'.
But I will only tell someone if they want me to. Otherwise I will go along with it and ask, then depending on what they say, will comply. But if you know you can do something, it's natural to talk about it. It's not being arrogant because you know how to do something others cannot or have yet to learn. And yes, I do think so.
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They do tend to get worse before they get better, so watch out for that.
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I like winters but sometimes it gets a bit too cold even for me. I don't think I could live in a tree house like that. D: I'm not a fan of heights. But not being able to be tracked down would be very nice.
I agree. It's way too big, especially for someone who is very shy.. and yet that's the sole purpose of the thread.. is for shy people. D: How ironic, really. :c
Yup. Happens all the time really. My brain doesn't function well when more than one thing is trying to be processed. Like thoughts about what I'm writing, seeing and or hearing. Lol. I do hate losing my train of thought when that happens. D: It annoys me greatly because it ends up bugging me. So I have to re-read what I wrote and try to remember what I was going to say. xD
Thank you. I have my Kindergarten teacher and senior high school English teacher for that. They never gave up on me when it came to my writing 'skills'. Haha. Sometimes I tend to change words up when talking with friends who chat speak or whatever. I say 'kewl' instead of 'cool' or I'll say crazy words like 'Yarness' which means 'yes' lol. Well I don't mind being corrected if needed. So you have my permission to correct me anytime. Hrmmm, I suppose you're right. ^^ Silly thoughts enter Eli's head a lot of the time. It's nice being reassured though.
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Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.. last thing I want is for my leg to be amputated or something.
No thank you. I was not built for winter, for cold weather in general. Although I love heights, and living in a tree house is probably one of my lifetime wishes.
Indeed. It’s what I thought when I first saw it. A thread for shy people, with over a hundred thousand replies? That was a bit off-putting to me.
I can multitask as long as my mind is into it. Although if I’m listening to music and someone starts talking to me, I can only focus on one or the other, and end up asking the person what they just said even though I was nodding along. How others do it, I have no idea.
You do have skills, get rid of those suspicious quotation marks! Of course it’s not intended to write well when chatting or conversing with friends (despite my doing it anyway out of habit), but when you focus, you can make great things. And I do believe I’m right, or along the highway to right.
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I doubt it will come to that. I’ve never heard of a four-year dormant state for spider venom.
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Hahaha. I think I enjoy cold weather because I was born on a cold rainy night/ morning. But that's just a fun thought Lol. I really doubt that has anything to do with it. o3o
It was. D: When I do post I feel like my posts get lost in between everyone's conversations. That or are just ignored and since I'm not really one to force myself into a conversation I just leave it at that.
I tend to ask repeatedly what someone says and if I still don't understand I just nod and agree. Half the time they're usually telling me to do something. It's like that with my dad, he'll tell me to do something in English but sometimes I can't understand him and since half the time I'm scared to ask again I just have to second guess what he asked. D: I'd rather him ask me in Spanish though. Makes it easier on me and on him.
But I like my quotation marks! D: Hahaha. They're a force of habit. It's weird because when I put things in quotations I imagine myself doing the quotations with my fingers. Lol. Even when I say the word I imagine myself doing it. o 3o I'm odd, I know. Hahaha. I sometimes mix in proper with chat speak which makes my sentences seem odd at times.
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Hrmm, you could be right. But on the other hand I am a highly paranoid person who will take any small idea and turn it into the worse possible way. o.o I could totally play out how a situation would end up in my head and make myself believe it will happen. >.<
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I'm heading to bed! I don't advise myself to stay up late .. well later than now... <-< Well you know what I mean. =-=
Good night Demo!~ :3
I seem to spoil my work by drafting sometimes, and I'd much rather spend ages writing the sentence. That's why it took me a week to write just a paragraph of my detective novel. I think in this holiday, I may attempt to finish it. I loved writing it, yet it seemed tiring as I was doing it for a project. I love to use words which make you think: "I've heard that somewhere... but what does it mean." words which are rather crazy, even whimsical at times- leading you to note it down for another time.
I love poetry, the way it sounds almost like a song... yet I really got bored of English at school, as no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't submit my work and had to write very monotonous pieces on a set subject, which didn't end up in the grade I really wanted. I think English these days is very set, in schools- there is a monotone and no room for any creativity as I'd like.
Rozalyne: Perhaps. Or it could be the location. I was born in Brazil, in the early spring of April. Early spring is quite warm there. Although my family was of the earliest settlers in the country, originating from Brazil, so our bodies adapted to the heat to be very thin and quite tall, as to not hold much more heat than needed.
I've always felt that, in Gaia mostly. Usually I wait until a deep nighttime to set in before even getting near a big thread around here, since Gaia seems to have almost or over twenty thousand people online at all hours.
Sometimes I do understand other languages more than English. Mostly Italian, because when it comes down to my thoughts, I think in both Italian and English, and if I've gone a long while thinking in strictly Italian, if someone asks me a question in English, it takes a while to even understand what they just said. Often my mindset is so strong I reply with "Che cosa? Che cosa stai parlando?" Which prompts a good shaking.
No quotation marks. They make things look as though they second-guess themselves if used the wrong way. And there will be no second-guessing your skill of writing, which is there, and needs to be refined. And I've found myself guilty of imagining the 'in quotes' motion often also. Just a habit, really.
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Oh, believe me, I'm paranoid as well, but at the same time I try to rationalize every tiny thing, even what could, in fact, be dangerous. A pain in my left arm? A heart attack! I'm going to drop dead in moments, or minutes. Or a bone has snapped and it's not quite dislodged yet. Or it could be a blockage in the veins... A parasite? Then I shake those thoughts away and say it's only a cramp in the muscle and it will go away eventually... Eventually... Just keep thinking that and it will be true!
Fleetfantasy: Odd sometimes? How about all the time. All my cats in the past have been stupid, crazy, or a combination of both. This one is paranoid, crazy, and a little slow in the head. I got it to come close enough to bite my foot, though, which I consider more of a breakthrough!
I never particularly think of what might come next. I prefer writing on intuition, or immediate ideas that throw themselves into my conscious as I'm looking at what I've already got down. Then I go back to look at it, draft it, contemplate what could be changed, so on. In the end, it's a good way to write, because it's unexpected in both the eyes of a reader and the writer.
I've always been told I could have had better grades in school, namely English, if I had just tried to keep up with the work. But really, trapped in a room with kids you hate, staring at an adult who believes themselves to be better than you by the way their tone is and how they hold themselves, forced to read out of a book you might hate or sit in rows doing the same damn thing? No thank you, that is too much for me. I hate uniformity, the same thing every day, doing what everyone else is doing and being forced to do it. If kids were allowed to learn something the way their individual minds were wired, it would be easier for them. But that would be complicated. Still, school was on my top ten hates when I went; the only relief from the sameness of it all were the fights, which seemed to happen weekly, if not every other day.
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Location sounds a tad more reasonable than weather, but I suppose both could play a big part in it. I don't know much about my family's history. Every time I ask I never get a definite answer. All I know is that my grandfather, from my dad's side was a famous farmer in Mexico back in his day, but then when died of an illness my grandmother couldn't keep the lands they owned and she slowly had to sell everything. As for my mom's side well I don't much either, just that my grandma was adopted as a small child, and my grandfather has lied about his family countless of times. It's all just a huge mystery.
I found it hard to make friends on Gaia, too many people. If I didn't have nice items I wouldn't get talked too. So odd. Lol. I gave up on that site about 3 years or so. I started hating how items would define me, rather than my personality.
Hahaha xD Sometimes I say things in Spanish in my head to try to understand things a bit better. Even though it is my second language I understand it more. Oh god, that reminds me of my brother watching this cartoon and they go "Que cosa?!" and ever since my brother imitates it with this extremely funny accent in Spanish. xD Makes me laugh every time he says it to me.
I'll keep that in mind from now on. o 3o I used to be worse about it though. I would disagree with people when they gave compliments on stuff. Then I got annoyed at myself for it, because here they are trying to boost up my confidence and I'm bringing myself down. Sometimes I analyze myself a bit too much. I tend to be a perfectionist when it comes to certain things, but I give myself breaks when I remember too. Haha.
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I've had that same thought before when my left arm hurts. But it's usually because I slept on it. xDD I don't sleep in the most comfortable way. So I usually wake up all sore.
I got a straight answer from my parents. They really had no interest in keeping it too big a secret, or really stringing me along. Actually, I was surprised they even made the few moments to tell me who my real parents are. They gave me my parents' names and where they live now, and I managed to look them up. I found they were of a very long line of original Brazilians, not quite famous in anything and not really poor. I have eight true siblings, who have gone throughout the States and back to South America. As many adoptees want to seek out their true family, I just left it at that. I got the hint when they dropped me off in Indiana (eventually, since I was a year old then).
Too many people and too expensive to stay there, I do agree. I've got some good items, nothing over a couple million gold, though I was not sighted for what I had. Actually, one of my greatest friends, one I keep up with out of Gaia, saw me for my writing abilities when I was posting a draft in my journal and left a comment. I thought it a good idea to reply to that. Another friend I caught when we were bartering the price of an item of mine; we just stayed in contact and talked quite a bit. Now the only reason I ever go to Gaia is to talk to them. Not quite sad to be gone after eight years of false bannings and hackings.
I've always found Italian to be my favorite language, so if I'm trying to figure something out, I speak or think in that language. I suppose it's easier, or some strange reason. I've tried to get the others to learn a bit better, but have you ever heard an Australian accent try to speak Italian? Oh, I have no words to describe it.
Indeed. I take no compliment, but when it comes to something I know I can do, I'll take it as a second-nature thing and disregard anything anyone has to say about it. I think anyone without a bigoted state of mind or ego that has its own gravitational pull will wave off a compliment and talk themselves down about this or that. It's almost as though they will not take a compliment for sounding or seeming as though they know, if that makes sense....? Hm. I suppose everyone has a bit of perfectionist quality to them when it comes to a certain thing or things.
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Indeed. Although sometimes it hurts all day long, and one has to wonder if... it's going to have to be amputated! Or that would be me... Although I've slept on the stone floor more than once, and believe me, bone on floor is painful after a night of watching the front door for paranoia.
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I'd wish I would get a solid answer from either side, especially from my momma. Lol. I don't know what it's like to be adopted, but I know my grandmother had a hard life because of it. Right before her adoptive mother died she told everyone that my grandmother was adopted and ever since that day her brothers and sister looked down on her. And I think now, most of her siblings now look up to her because even though they treated her badly, she never held a grudge against them.
I talk to a few still on Skype and some on Facebook which I regret honestly. I only have about two friends that I talk to on a regular basis. I met them when I was still new to the site. The others are on Fb, I even made a new MSN because I had too many people added from Gaia.
Italian is a very pretty language. I wanted to learn it after I learned French. But I'm slow when it comes to learning new languages. Haha.
It sorta make sense. I honestly had to re-read that so I could understand though. @[email protected] My brain isn't that great at processing things. But I got it! Lol.
I'm the type of person who will start over on something even if the mistake is minor.. well minor to some people. To me it's like looking at a giant mess. >.< I think that's why I procrastinate so much, I like taking my time while doing things but I lose interest in the process. I've... claimed myself as a professional procrastinator. Whether such thing exists I don't know, but that's what I refer to myself in a joking manner. Lol.
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Oh I believe you, sleeping on the floor is no fun. Although I've slept on carpeted flooring once, and never again...
I just got a name and state, and was sent off to find out myself. I really could not tell you what it's like, I was too young, but I do know I was misplaced in my new family. While they were short and easily built for winters, with light hair and eyes, I was thin and tall and darkly-colored, so there were the obvious differences, along with subtle ones within family ties. I never connected with anyone except the young kids, who saw me as a father figure since they had none.
I never had a larger circle of friends in any avatar site. There were the ones who would come and go, usually who never talked to me or vice versa, who I would get rid of. Two I have as friends on FaceBook, the only reason I'm even there. Though a friend of mine had her mother add me, which invited a flood of others. I recently got rid of most of them.
Indeed it is, earning it the number two spot on my language list. English being first, of course. Learned Italian in middle school, and the others just followed suit.
It does? Really, I had to stop halfway through and reread what I had to figure out what I was even trying to write.
Oh, but I do that as well, and it's notorious with games. If I misstep even the smallest bit in a level I will restart, or if I read a book once, I will read it again in case I missed something, or because I had not understood some of it at points. I do hate procrastinating, though; I just look at something I'm not doing and growl at it, because I know I want to do it to get it done and gone, but I just cannot get to doing anything about it.
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Sometimes it's not bad. The floor often makes for good pain relief for my back. That would be me personally, though, I'm not sure about others.
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Oh I see. o 3o Well, I know I'll never understand the feeling, but I would guess it would feel awkward at times, when you stand out like that. Or well, I think it would be awkward I don't know what other word I would be able to describe it as. I think it's somewhat easier to connect with kids since they're young and impressionable.
I've joined many avatar sites but I've never been as active as I was with Gaia and currently with Menewsha. I join and roam around but it's really not my thing. I had 'friends' on Gaia, but no one I'd stick my neck out for. People would add me after talking to me for one day and then forget about me the next. Then when I'd delete them they'd message me asking why I deleted them. It was just annoying. And no matter how hard I tried to change accounts they managed to find me. I like Mene though, it may be a small community but it also gives the chance to get to know a person.
If only I could of learned French a little younger, then I'm sure I would have been able to be fluent in it. I can only read French, and some what speak it.. kind of poorly if I may add. Lol.
There are times where I have to read a sentence over and over before I understand what I read. Mainly because I read so quickly but like I said my brain doesn't process everything at once so some words get lost in the process to where the sentence I'm reading makes no sense. So I have to slow down and read it again. The same when I'm typing. I tend to type really slow so sometimes I end up skipping entire words, Lol. So I go back and write the extra word(s) that were missing.
I'm just extremely lazy. :c I get things done but at my own pace. It's not good when it comes to school work though. So many countless times where I leave off projects until the last minute. I remember I had to write this paper for my Government class... I was suppose to do all this research and whatnot. But no, I left it until the night before, stayed up all night and morning writing a 5 page thing on some bull that I sort of researched on. To my surprise when I got it back graded. I got a B. o 3o I think that was the last time I pushed my luck though. Hahaha.
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I don't think that would work for me. >.< I'm more of a soft bed at all times type of person. hahaha.
My sister can sleep on the floor with no problem, though.
Well, awkward was certainly one word to use. Another was agonizing, horrible, frightening, painful. It's not the story of everyone's life, but it happens often enough, know? I'm just glad I got out of there. Indeed I did love the kids. I was the most trusted to take care of them while their parents were off on vacation or work, or just had no time or desire to take care of them. Sad, really.
I've taken a look at other sites, but they seemed too... complicated. Almost as though they want to overcompensate something they might fear they lack. Or the site is too crowded. Of the two I know from Gaia, I would only risk something for one of them. The other is young, still with free time and with room to make mistakes and learn from them. I would take up for them, but not risk anything great. Oh, but I've had a few people like that. They were all right for a while, but then they dwindled away, and I deleted them. Then when they came back and asked for a reason as to why, I just tell them it was a glitch in Gaia and accepted them back. Only once, though, and they did it again. Last time, I simply told them what was what, and if they refused to leave me be, I would report them. It was enough for them to go away. Is why I love Mene so much. So easy to get to know someone quickly, as you said.
Yes, best to learn something quickly. I would have gone into learning German sooner while in high school, but it was taken up by carpentry classes. It's why German was my last language. Just practice!
I've done that countless times. I read a sentence... Then read it again. And one more time. And if I still have no comprehension, I say it out loud. Odd looks are given, but after that, I understand! It's a miracle! Although I'm rather swift with typing. I can misspell the simplest of words about ten times, but if I'm on a roll, I can type without even looking at the screen or keyboard for a good few minutes.
Laziness runs in us, I suppose. In fact, I had a packet of papers due for English class once in high school. The teacher let us know it would take at least two weeks, but I put it off until the day before, and spent the entire Sunday locked in my room and working on it. I got it all finished, but it lacked, and I knew it. Not that it stopped me from slacking, mind.
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Oh, it works so well. It's as though I can feel my spine realigning.
But some are like that. Some can sleep on the floor with no problem and wake feeling better than if they had slept in a bed, and others just cannot.
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I've heard some stories I can only imagine, though. But it is definitely something I don't hear of everyday. I don't know how some can have children and not take care of them. :/ It's beyond sad...
They do seem complicated. o.o Gaia was simple-ish, but then it got out of hand. Then the random ads. Ugh, I don't know. Also, ever since I joined Mene I got used to the avatars here. So when I got on my sister's gaia account I realized how ugly their avies are. Well they became ugly to me, anyway.
I added a select few, not everyone. Mainly because we never talked at all.
Yeah, unlike Gaia where it's so fast paced.
I try practicing when I read labels in French or instructions. Lol. But I butcher the language so much sometimes. The only thing I can say right is "Bonjour, je m'appelle Elizabeth" And "Comment allez-vous aujourd'hui?" And little simple one words. xD
I have to read out loud.. not too loud, but to myself. So I don't lose track of what I'm reading. I tend to understand things better when they're read out lout. But sometimes I still have to read a certain sentence twice or more depending how it's worded. I can type without looking at the screen to an extent. I actually type better when I'm not looking. Lol. I honestly didn't know how to type until I took classes in high school. I used to type with my index fingers. xD
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Yeah, I'm more comfortably sleeping on soft things. If I sleep on the floor I better have a body pillow with me. xD
Not sure how my sister does it, but if it works for her then okay. Lol.
I've actually lived through some of those stories. I hate to see how it is even now, with all the help that is available but the kids are still too afraid to do anything.
Yes, it certainly did. I'm not sure how people can stand to have a thousand or more friends. The site is based on gaining so-called friends and wealth with items and gold, being the most well-known 'avatar' in the site, no one really cares to get to know people anymore. In the beginning it was certainly not like that, but now... I miss the days where the site was new, and people were still getting to know both the site and the people there. It used to be slow. I hope Mene does not do that...
I used to practice with French websites when I found them, then looked for translation helper sites to understand it more. I wish that Rosetta Stone had been an option, but I had not found out about it then...
I find it rather annoying when people read aloud. Then again, they always read extremely loud, and I want to punch them out for a little quiet. It's all right if it's quiet, but anything above a light whisper or mutter, I hate. Actually, I used to type with my left hand, my right holding my head up because I hated the sound of typing; made me tired... Now since anything can make me tired, I learned to type with both hands and my word count shot up.
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Soft has never really been for me. I can almost feel my bones moving out of joint with anything soft. Whatever works for others, though.
Dexter Morgan:
There are children out there who are afraid, but then there are some who abuse the system. I honestly don't understand some parents set of mind. It seems like they just don't care anymore. And having thirteen year old kids, having kids doesn't really help either. My parents were, well are strict, but they always cared and were attentive of us.
I don't either honestly. I also don't see the point in having so many friends if you can't even remember any of them nor talk to them. Just pointless. Gaia became all about status. Which is odd, because I go to site to get away from all that in first place. Then Gaia became money hungry. And I know that personally because it drew me in and then I regretted every dollar that I spend on that site.
I really do hope Mene does not become that way. D: It would be very sad to see...I enjoy it here quite a lot. Every time my boyfriend asks what I'm doing I always tell him I'm on Mene chatting or lurking the forums. Hahaha.
When I saw the commercial for Rosetta Stone I was tempted to order it. But I never got the chance to do so. Sometimes I use translators for a quick translation or my old French book from high school with all my notes. Lol.
Yeah, I don't mind if they read quietly but if I can't even hear myself think because they're reading too loudly.. yeah they need to tone it down. I actually like the sound of someone typing. Is that weird? Hahaha. Since I type slow, my word count is not that high I admit. My highest count was in high school which was 45 wpm. Now it's like 30 - 35 words a minute. Lol. Plus I make typos galore. So I find myself using the backspace quite a lot.
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Bones moving out of joint? o3o Are you double jointed?
Rozalyne: Yes, I've seen both. Actually, I feel sorry for both. I hate to see how parents can be so inattentive. Much like my mother, who seemed to only want me when I was small because I 'looked so cute'. But what two-year-old could not be classified as cute? She could have chosen any of us! But... I'm glad I was taken rather than another innocent little kid.
I've discovered several people who have almost five thousand friends. The one who kept pestering me had four thousand some friends, and I took off mostly because I did not want to be grouped together in the mass of people who added to the fool's popularity. It seems that, every year that site is up, it got more and more intent on getting money and making us stay. I admit, I wasted a good amount. It's regretful, it is.
It's nice on Mene. I love the tiny community. Really it's the main site I'm on, this and a few humor-based sites which the entire house loves to read over my shoulder.
I was still at home when I saw the ads for it. And there was no way in Hell I was going to risk angering them by getting it. And when I last remembered it, I had already learned the rest of Spanish, French, and was finishing up German, so I saw no use for it.
There was someone near me on the plane my friends and I rode out here on (and that was the first and last time I ever trusted a plane), and a man right across the isle was reading some magazine so loud it sounded like a preschool teacher reading to a class of kids. It's just... Shut up, what are you doing? It's almost a soothing sound, the sound of consistent typing. I've got a seventy-plus word count at my best, but I've never gone higher than eighty words per minute, and that was a good day that was.
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Yes, I'm double jointed. Really, all that means is my joints are very loose and can move in more ways than were intended. I can do some strange things, believe me.
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Kids can be cute and all but shouldn't be the reason to have one. :/ I often joke and say I want a baby just because they're cute, but even I know better. Besides I'm still to young for a kid, I've not quite matured enough to care for one. I don't want to be a horrible mom, but I also know I won't be a perfect one. I just want to be sure that it's what I want not something for the heck of it.
Oh geeze. D: I don't know how people do it. I mean, I don't think I'd let it go that far. Maybe a few friends. I remember that when my friend list went over a hundred on gaia I'd go and clear up my friends list. Most of them were just random requests that I'd get from people who would add me just because I was friends with their friend. We never even spoke. I don't know how long gaia will last, but I do wonder what will happen to all those people when gaia suddenly goes down. Will some get all depressed because they lost their precious pixels? It's sad because I actually know a few who would. I always say that I can't wait for the downfall of gaia and they freak out. Quite humorous. xD Yeah, I'm mainly oh here or looking for stuff on Google. Lol. I like funny sites. Sometimes it distracts me to the point where I forget what I was doing beforehand.
Oh I see. I suppose it would be pointless to get it then, wouldn't be much of use if you already know the language. Haha.
I'd probably order Rosette Stone if I wanted to learn a new language from scratch. But I'm not making plans any time soon for it. lol. I have enough to think about at the moment.
Woah, really? D: Ughhh, I'd probably be tempted to throw a book or yell at him. Lol. My annoyance tolerance is very low. I snap so easily.
Seventy plus? o.o *attempts to type that quickly* ... ... ... Yeah not going to happen. >.> I fail at typing fast. Hahaha. I'll just stick my slow typing skills. xD Unless I decide to become a secretary or something, then maybe I'll practice typing faster.
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I've seen videos of people doing weird things... e,e I freak out though, because it's so out of the normal for me. Hahaha. But it looks cool and yet painful at the same time. Sometimes I don't know if it's okay to say "Oh wow that's amazing!" or "Omg! Is your arm okay?" o 3o
I wish my so-called mother could have been on the same page. I suppose she felt she was able to handle a kid, but after I got to a certain age, she wanted nothing to do with me. And that man she was married to... Oh, let us just say I will not be crying at his funeral. Hell, I'll dance on his grave.
I have no idea how either. Really, all they do is add people and ignore them forever. The most I've ever had at a time was ten, which quickly went down to several. I hate random requests; I mean, I have to talk to someone first before I can classify them under a 'friend' status, and even then I'm not sure about it. After an extensive talk, perhaps. I mean, I've met most of the people I know here via RolePlay conversations. Quite in-depth RolePlay conversations.
Indeed there will be people who completely break down if and when Gaia crashes and burns. Some of them have spent hundreds of dollars on that site for pixels worth millions they only wish they have in reality. It's the only sense of wealth they have, when they have something worth a hundred million gold.
I usually have ten tabs open for different sites. This one being first, followed by a string of FailBlog sites.
Indeed it would be. I'll just stay with the six languages I know, I think it's more than enough.
Well, with a thirty-hour flight ahead of us, I most certainly said something about two hours in. He had an entire arsenal of reading material, and when he got to the second magazine, I leaned over with "Shut the holy hell up or I swear, I'll shove..." I will stop there. He shut up, at least. I've got endless patience, but when it comes to idiots, I cannot suffer them.
Yes indeed, seventy-plus. Never more than the low seventies, though. I read about a man with one hand who, with massive amounts of practice, broke the eighty word-per-minute mark. Really puts a lot of people in their place, I think.
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I think what the others hate to see is when I double over backwards or forwards. They say it looks like I just broke my back. I've been known to curl into a ball, a doughnut, and quite a few other things. Makes it easy to get into very small quarters while searching for pests. It's not particularly painful, no.
