i am so very blessed...

                                  by God,

                                  by my friends,

                                  and by my family.

thank you all.  =)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwaanza, Happy Festivus...

just for the sake of being pc... xD

it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas...

first snow of the season today!  =)  and already i'm thinking about the holidays...which are fast approaching!

during times like these when life is indifferent at best, it's nice to know that something like snowfall can cheer me up.

how about you?

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anyone remember the (in)famous "clothes-o-man-o-meter?"

i've felt strangely cut off from the online world -- except maybe for email -- for the longest time.  i dunno what prompted me to come back to life here, but i'll dash off a few short lines for your amusement...or bemusement...

i miss you!  yes, you!  whoever you are, reading this, i miss you whether i see you every day or once a month or once in a few years...i miss my sense of duty to faithful and prolonged communication via phone/email/etc with long-lost friends...

i miss being happy!  not that i'm not happy now, but i guess i miss the sense of more fulfilling contentment.  je voudrais etre heureuse, pas simplement "contente," if you will...i miss being strong.  but don't get me wrong.  i am so incredibly grateful for those of you out there who listen to me rant and rave and make up the high points of my life...i miss God...

i miss england!  the villages, the rolling hills, the stormy days, the meeting of new friends and discoveries about old ones...i miss it all, and i'll never regret my decision to go.  does someone have a countdown for when the brits come over??

and lastly, i miss childhood.  i guess this goes with the "heureuse" thing...i long for the days when happiness and sadness were governed by little whims and wishes, when innocence was intact, when everything could be solved by a cup of tea from mommy...and i miss my relationship with my parents.

i guess i don't want to grow up.  i do, but i don't. 

and you can officially call me a stressed manic-depressive.  or a "crazy mofo"...=)  or...just a typical teen girl.  but ugh.  that sounds so juvenile.

now that i'm rambling, i'll force myself to leave...xP  a last word to all of you, though -- you're special, you're beautiful, and you deserve to be appreciated.  do you know that?

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rediscovered a favorite song...

some people live for the fortune
some people live just for the fame
some people live for the power
some people live just to play the game
some people think that the physical things
define what's within
i've been there before
but that life's a bore
so full of the superficial


some people want it all
but i don't want nothing at all
if it ain't you baby
if i ain't got you baby
some people want diamond rings
some just want everything
but everything means nothing
if i ain't got you

in the mood for mellow music...marc broussard, james blunt, al green, tracey chapman, renee olstead...never heard of them?  go listen.

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http://community.webshots.com/user/sk1m24

and

http://community.webshots.com/user/sk1m24two

photos!

wow...i haven't been here for a good part of the summer, and i come back to find that my background image is gone!  =(

anyway.  hope you all have been having wonderful summers; mine's been worthwhile, definitely.  i wish real life could = gov school...hehe.  but i guess it just makes me appreciate the experience even more... 

whoa, colours...where did this option come from??

and fonts, too?  man.

recommended books:  "the jane austen club" -- seemed a letdown at first, but in the end proved worthwhile ... =D

and

"howards end" --

i can summarize this one with a few quotes:

"it is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone..."

"death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him..."

paradox?  yes.  and a fulfilling read, especially if you make it to the end...

happy september!!  time to savour the last few days before headache season rolls around again...every year, summer gets shorter...

-- p s --

those poor people in louisiana/alabama/mississippi, etc...i can't believe some of the things i've been seeing on the news!!  it doesn't look like america down there, more like a war zone...scary.  my prayers to all those suffering...