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mALX, how wonderful to see you’re back! I’m afraid I feared the worst. The forums haven’t been the same without you. You were sorely missed. Welcome back!!
I think I've sent you about a hundred emails since you disappeared, mALX. Yeah, it hit me really hard when that impostor decided to mess with our heads. Now I'm off to check my email to verify this.
I got the email. -sigh of relief-
I got the email. -sigh of relief-
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 10 2014, 05:47 PM) 
I have missed you all so much
Not as much as we missed you. (And Maxical, and the triplets at the Lucky Mudcrab, and ...)
Oh my god mALX I missed you so much!!!! I can hardly believe it's you!
mALX!!
I'm sorry everything took a turn for the worse
I'm glad you're back though, we've missed you!!
I'm sorry everything took a turn for the worse
I'm glad you're back though, we've missed you!!
It sounds like Scary Bird almost ate you, like it did Kobbie's sandwich! Don't feel too bad, I often cannot remember what I did 10 minutes ago, and I don't have the excuse of a stroke! 
Just glad to hear that you are getting back on your feet.
Just glad to hear that you are getting back on your feet.
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 10 2014, 04:47 PM)
I have missed you all beyond even friends I know IRL, wish I did really know you all IRL.
I have missed you all so much
I have missed you all so much
That is just how I feel about a lot of the folks here on Chorrol, too. So I can't begin to imagine how lonely you were without the Internet and without a way to get around and get in touch with us.
As for knowing us IRL, I rather suspect you do know us better than our own IRL friends do! There is a tendency to share stuff in a forum like this that we tend to keep from the people we see everyday.
I have shared in the frustration of everyone here in knowing that you were hurting and that we couldn't reach out to you except through the pixels of our screens, anger that an impostor dared con us with your name and irreplaceable spirit. Now I am delighted and tickled pink to see your avatar (and your forum stats) in a post from today. I'm sure I'm not the only one wanting to reach through the screen and give you a great big hug and a big smooch on your cheek (the upper one, not the other
)!Instead, I have to settle for this:
I am *always* here for you mALX.
I didn't know one way or the other what fate had befallen you, I hoped for the best and prepared for the worst. Time does not degrade my loyalty, and Chaos cannot rip a friend from my heart.
Any issues arise, let me know. I'll get them straightened out, one way or another.
I didn't know one way or the other what fate had befallen you, I hoped for the best and prepared for the worst. Time does not degrade my loyalty, and Chaos cannot rip a friend from my heart.
Any issues arise, let me know. I'll get them straightened out, one way or another.
*Reads*...
*Sniffles*...
*Bottom lip trembles*...
*Wails and runs around corner knocking stack of tyres over*...
*Sniffles*...
*Bottom lip trembles*...
*Wails and runs around corner knocking stack of tyres over*...
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Sep 11 2014, 12:20 AM)
*Reads*...
*Sniffles*...
*Bottom lip trembles*...
*Wails and runs around corner knocking stack of tyres over*...
Cars!
Wow. I'm amazed and relieved to see this. We all worried about you, Malx. The impostor was quickly discovered and banned after only a couple of (short) days. Although your situation sounds like a difficult one, I don't think I am alone in saying that we're just glad to see you back and get some news from you.
Stay safe and I hope things improve for you.
Stay safe and I hope things improve for you.
Welcome back to mALX (Whom I never had the pleasure of meeting)
And also, given the date (at least down here) my heart goes out to all the victims 9/11, and their families and friends. Actually, to all those who have suffered losses in any way, shape or form, due to violence and war.
And also, given the date (at least down here) my heart goes out to all the victims 9/11, and their families and friends. Actually, to all those who have suffered losses in any way, shape or form, due to violence and war.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Sep 11 2014, 08:22 AM)
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Sep 11 2014, 12:20 AM)
*Wails and runs around corner knocking stack of tyres over*...
Cars!
Finally...
D'you know, in the umpteen years I've been doing that...Well, since the film came out, anyways...You're the first person to ever get it...
...*Continues to applaud mALX heartily*...
*Thinks*...
*Is unsure who mALX Heartily is, though they should be banned!!!! DAMN THEM!!! *Shakes fist**...
*Therefore, applauds mALX...Most heartily...*
Evening all...
As English is only my second language, I cannot find the words to accurately describe how happy I am to see you back here, mALX! I´m not sure I´d manage that even in my first language 
I/we have missed you so much all this time, fearing the worst but always keeping a candle of hope burning. I must say, I did buy into the imposter but I only did so simply because I so desperately wanted to see you back here. Curse whoever it was for doing such a thing. Damn them to hell!
My dearest mALX, I´m sorry to hear about your current condition but I will continue to think about you and hope for a speedy recovery and never forget that if you ever feel down, we´re always here if you want to talk
Welcome back, mALX. Welcome back!
I/we have missed you so much all this time, fearing the worst but always keeping a candle of hope burning. I must say, I did buy into the imposter but I only did so simply because I so desperately wanted to see you back here. Curse whoever it was for doing such a thing. Damn them to hell!
My dearest mALX, I´m sorry to hear about your current condition but I will continue to think about you and hope for a speedy recovery and never forget that if you ever feel down, we´re always here if you want to talk
Welcome back, mALX. Welcome back!
@ To all of you:
You all mean so much to me. Some of us have become closer (to me) than some of my RL friends, and to hear your kind words now; to know you care back - this means the world to me.
That you know me well enough to discern me from an imposter - that is Awesome. Yesterday, when I first read that imposter's claims - I was genuinely worried they would be believed because they had obviously studied my style of hyperactive squirrel banter. I could see how easy it would be to fool someone who cared and hoped for good news; especially when so much time had passed.
One thing I was absolutely sure of, that none of you, (my friends on here) - could or would have ever done that.
After reading about that incident, I did wonder if I would have trouble convincing everyone it was really me this time, and so was glad to see my old email address still works (because I thought that address was connected to the Internet provider we aren't using anymore).
For all the pain that imposter caused in my name, I feel terrible for; and angry. I am just so relieved that many of you knew me well enough to see/feel the difference in the person behind the posts. I do not seek any revenge against them (except that they have to see the complete failure of their plot) - and maybe it will draw us closer as a community, and I hope it does.
To all of you, thank you so much for your friendship, for caring. I have missed you all tremendously. One thing about facing mortality - you see every precious moment of missed opportunities to say what you feel for another. I don't want the opportunity to pass again without speaking it to those who have touched my heart. Most of you know who you are, (but I've gushed it out in Emails, PM's, and posts anyway). ... (Still at it, I type really slow these days).
PS: Oh - and Foxy wrote me a beautiful poem, it was in my Email this morning. Now THAT was worth coming back from the dead for!
I was going to try to answer each comment individually, but would still be here typing by 10 this evening as slow as I type now, so instead I'll post this:
You all mean the world to me.
We love you mALX!
QUOTE(King Of Beasts @ Sep 12 2014, 02:00 AM)
We love you mALX!
Wut he sedd!
<33333
In celebration of mALX’s joyous return, here’s a postcard from Grits World.
Tonight I was driving The Boy back from The Girlfriend’s house. We were nearly home.
The Boy: “A clown lives in that house.”
Grits: “Oh God.” (Grits does not enjoy clowns.) “How can you tell?”
The Boy: “His big-ass clown van is parked in the yard.”
Grits: “What the hell is a clown van?” (Proximity to a clown makes me use harsh language.)
The Boy: “It’s a white van with a clown on the side.”
Grits: (speechless)
The Boy: “I don’t understand entertainers.”
Tonight I was driving The Boy back from The Girlfriend’s house. We were nearly home.
The Boy: “A clown lives in that house.”
Grits: “Oh God.” (Grits does not enjoy clowns.) “How can you tell?”
The Boy: “His big-ass clown van is parked in the yard.”
Grits: “What the hell is a clown van?” (Proximity to a clown makes me use harsh language.)
The Boy: “It’s a white van with a clown on the side.”
Grits: (speechless)
The Boy: “I don’t understand entertainers.”
...
mALX.
You're back.
...
*explodes in happiness*
mALX.
You're back.
...
*explodes in happiness*
QUOTE(Grits @ Sep 13 2014, 09:11 PM)
*snip*
“A clown.”
Urk, clowns give me the creeps! Who was mentioning watching that Millionaire dating show - can't remember who on here said it. Didn't that show have an episode where a guy insisted on going out with the girl in a clown outfit? Urk, time to pay NRA dues, lol.
QUOTE(Uleni Athram @ Sep 13 2014, 11:22 PM)
...
mALX.
You're back.
...
*explodes in happiness*
I have been looking for your avatar since I got back Uleni
*mALX squeezes Uleni like a boa constrictor*
"Stand still, I'm trying to hug you!"
I have missed you a TON my dear friend!!!
Wow. Just wow. Awesome!
Welcome back mAlx! It's good to see you're still with us! We were worried sick, you know!
Hope your health soon improves further so that you can do more on your own, and hope that your hubbie finds a good, lasting job soon!
Again, welcome back!
Welcome back mAlx! It's good to see you're still with us! We were worried sick, you know!
Hope your health soon improves further so that you can do more on your own, and hope that your hubbie finds a good, lasting job soon!
Again, welcome back!
mALX!
When I saw your name on the active users, I thought the damn forum was glitching again, but...
YAY!
Can't tell you how delighted I am, welcome back a thousand times!
Ah, hell with it. Have some more cake.
When I saw your name on the active users, I thought the damn forum was glitching again, but...
YAY!
Can't tell you how delighted I am, welcome back a thousand times!
Ah, hell with it. Have some more cake.
QUOTE(stargelman @ Sep 14 2014, 05:13 AM)
Wow. Just wow. Awesome!
Welcome back mAlx! It's good to see you're still with us! We were worried sick, you know!
Hope your health soon improves further so that you can do more on your own, and hope that your hubbie finds a good, lasting job soon!
Again, welcome back!
Thank you so much, Starge! I appreciate that, and join you in that hope!
The physical return has been slow, there are no compensations and/or work-arounds to make that progress any speedier. Lots of time and a lot of physical therapy seems to be the only avenue of recovery physically, no shortcuts there.
The worst for me is the memory issues. I can't remember a verbal conversation as I'm having it, have to keep finding ways to (hit the refresh button) prod my mind to finish a sentence.
Written communication is easier because there are work-arounds. I can re-read (repeatedly) what I am trying to answer and what I have said so far. I have trouble remembering words and spellings, but can access a dictionary/thesaurus/or ask my husband what word I'm looking for or how to spell it. It is slow, but do-able.
Catching up on the Fics is the hardest thing I'm doing right now, I have to re-read each paragraph repeatedly to absorb anything. It is limiting progress (for anyone whose Fic I haven't reached yet). Right now I am catching up page 2 of the boards, (On Vera's story, DE!).
There is one upside; at least I consider it a good thing = one thing this stroke did not take from me:
My unconquerable spirit.
There is a poem my father gave me when I was fourteen years old, I have lived by its message since. It has pulled me through every trial in my lifetime. Anyone who read my story will recognize this as Uriel Septim's inspirational message to Maxical, but the poem is actually Invictus, by William Ernest Henley.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
I hope if anyone else on here has tribulations (they are afraid may overwhelm them), that they remember these words and find the strength to come back against any adversity. They kept me going when I would have given up many times throughout my life, but most especially this past year.
The daughter, it seems, is as wise as her father. Thank you for sharing that poem, mALX. I shall keep a portion of it to remind myself of things I need to be reminded of.
mALX, I remember us talking about how important that poem is to you. It surely is relevant now! Reading it now conjured the image of a pale, small Khajiit – her ears flattened against a shock of red hair. Her tail twitching as it stirs up motes of dust from the sands of the Arena. Bravely standing against whatever challenges lay ahead.
You’re . . . AWESOME!
You’re . . . AWESOME!
mALX...For the poem... ...
Getting there...Baby steps...Always the baby steps...
...Getting there...Baby steps...Always the baby steps...
** Maybe I should write this a little clearer just to make sure I am saying what I mean:
RE: The FanFic section:
I started catching up reading on Page #2 to catch up the oldest stuff I missed first. I am working my way toward Page #1, that way the most current stories will be back on top when I am done catching up. Sorry, I should have been clearer on how I said that.
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Sep 14 2014, 12:35 PM)
mALX...For the poem...
...Getting there...Baby steps...Always the baby steps...
I'm rooting for you, McB. You actually do bounce back from adversity, I have seen you do it with my own eyes. You are like a rubber ball that bounces right up after it was thrown down - one of the things I love about you. Think about it, and you'll know I'm right. You always come back stronger, that is why people can depend on you in the long run even if in the short run you might have struggles.
That’s how I do it when I have a lot to catch up on, too. I get less confused that way. Don’t worry, mALX, I’m sure I’m not alone in saying I’m just glad you’re back and able to participate in any way at all. I know it helped me to have stories to look forward to when I was alone for hours with just pain. I hope the FanFiction pages are the same for you and not a source of stress or feeling behind. It will all still be there when you get to it.
QUOTE(Grits @ Sep 14 2014, 01:42 PM)
That’s how I do it when I have a lot to catch up on, too. I get less confused that way. Don’t worry, mALX, I’m sure I’m not alone in saying I’m just glad you’re back and able to participate in any way at all. I know it helped me to have stories to look forward to when I was alone for hours with just pain. I hope the FanFiction pages are the same for you and not a source of stress or feeling behind. It will all still be there when you get to it.
Thank you for the understanding and encouragement. I have missed the stories a lot, but since I've come back have also been feeling that "way, way behind" feeling, wanting to push myself to get caught up. I thought it would be a lot quicker than this, but I have found myself tiring too easily to catch up as quickly as I would like to do. I just hope everyone understands if it takes a while. I'm really trying not to push myself beyond my capability at this point.
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 14 2014, 07:32 PM)
Thank you for the understanding and encouragement. I have missed the stories a lot, but since I've come back have also been feeling that "way, way behind" feeling, wanting to push myself to get caught up. I thought it would be a lot quicker than this, but I have found myself tiring too easily to catch up as quickly as I would like to do. I just hope everyone understands if it takes a while. I'm really trying not to push myself beyond my capability at this point.
Aw hayle no...Do not push yourself to read stuff...
...Small chunks you should be doing, at most...They're not going anywhere...I'm having to catch up meself, but with all and every respect to any of those I need to read...I'm so not going to be able to read tons a go...Besides, if you try to do too much and start stressing out because of it...Lessens the enjoyment of the stories...
Please take it easy mALXeh...
...QUOTE(McBadgere @ Sep 14 2014, 04:06 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 14 2014, 07:32 PM)
Thank you for the understanding and encouragement. I have missed the stories a lot, but since I've come back have also been feeling that "way, way behind" feeling, wanting to push myself to get caught up. I thought it would be a lot quicker than this, but I have found myself tiring too easily to catch up as quickly as I would like to do. I just hope everyone understands if it takes a while. I'm really trying not to push myself beyond my capability at this point.
Aw hayle no...Do not push yourself to read stuff...
...Small chunks you should be doing, at most...They're not going anywhere...I'm having to catch up meself, but with all and every respect to any of those I need to read...I'm so not going to be able to read tons a go...Besides, if you try to do too much and start stressing out because of it...Lessens the enjoyment of the stories...
Please take it easy mALXeh...
...I am, I am. I am reading when I can, and as much as I can each day - not pushing myself. I have to re-read and re-read paragraphs to absorb what I'm reading, it is slow progress. But I am most def enjoying what I am reading (just as I am enjoying the PM's and Emails). It is just taking more time to get each chapter read, and I'm resting up between chapters.
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TRYING TO READ EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY!!!!!!
This site has been very stable in your absence, and will not explode and vaporize into billions of random pixels just because both of you are back.
Take your time, remember you have a life outside this forum, and most important of all, ENJOY!! No matter how long it takes you to read it all, enjoyment is key.
I value both of you and want you both to be glad to be back and to enjoy what's up here at your own paces. Sometimes it's better to just enjoy things and go slow. Right? Right?
DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TRYING TO READ EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY!!!!!!
This site has been very stable in your absence, and will not explode and vaporize into billions of random pixels just because both of you are back.
Take your time, remember you have a life outside this forum, and most important of all, ENJOY!! No matter how long it takes you to read it all, enjoyment is key.
I value both of you and want you both to be glad to be back and to enjoy what's up here at your own paces. Sometimes it's better to just enjoy things and go slow. Right? Right?
Right ...
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 04:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TRYING TO READ EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY!!!!!!
This site has been very stable in your absence, and will not explode and vaporize into billions of random pixels just because both of you are back.
Yes it will. XD
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Sep 14 2014, 05:35 PM)
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 04:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TRYING TO READ EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY!!!!!!
This site has been very stable in your absence, and will not explode and vaporize into billions of random pixels just because both of you are back.
Yes it will. XD
If it were possible to do so with sheer willpower,....I would have by now.
There is no exploding emoticon, is there?
(if there is, Kobby or Mirocu know where to find it).
I found one, but can't do it through my phone lol
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Sep 14 2014, 09:19 PM)
I found one, but can't do it through my phone lol
*taps foot*
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 10:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
Very fetching it is too...
... ...QUOTE
DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TRYING TO READ EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY!!!!!!
I did try that once, after I'd been on one of my hermitages...I learnt then that it was impossible...Mah addled brain just won't handle it...I want to...But I can't...Doesn't stop me feeling bad for not being able to though...
QUOTE
This site has been very stable in your absence, and will not explode and vaporize into billions of random pixels just because both of you are back.
*Sniffs...Looks at ground and digs toe into it...*...It might...
QUOTE
Take your time, remember you have a life outside this forum, and most important of all, ENJOY!! No matter how long it takes you to read it all, enjoyment is key.
Yeeess...It's like I said around my birthday, life outside the forum has been...Less than entirely fun...And that would have impacted on my enjoyment of the forum...Because no matter how hard I try...I am...Basically...A Git...And the only way I can safely contain Bad Robert is to take him away...And after the last appearance of him, I'm not doing that again...
I do worry (possibly over-worry) about my utterly amazing talent to be a total crap-bag on occasion...And as much as "Friends forgive the little wobbles." and all that...Dunno...I can be - as has been proved - spectacularly bad towards people who really never deserve anything like what I did dun...
There are times when I really should take myself away...I apologise for it...And I do miss you all...But this last one...Not a good few months anyways...
On enjoying the stories...
The level of writing talent in this little corner of the internet is nothing short of spectacular...That I "know" so many utterly amazing writers - all of whom should be published and making money off of how proper awesome you all are - and are able to read all of these beautiful (if occasionally also gruesome...DE...
) words...I really just want to give them the attention I feel they deserve...And I feel bad that my brain will only hold so much at any one time... ...And no, that's not just blowing smoke etc...I am constantly in awe of how brilliant the stories are...
QUOTE
I value both of you and want you both to be glad to be back and to enjoy what's up here at your own paces.
I really am really pleased to be back...I am massively pleased (totes obvs here) that mALX is back...I am very much happied that everyone *Looks left...Looks right...* meh...Pretty much everyone (
) is pleased that I'm back...As someone that has singularly managed to not have very many friends down his lifetime, it's...Strange...But an amazingly good strange...And a happiful one at that...But strange is as close to the emotion I sometimes feel at actually having friends...
...Internet ones or not...But I really am feeling much better than I was, simply by being back...
All I have to do is temper the obsessive checking that has already started again...
...QUOTE
Sometimes it's better to just enjoy things and go slow. Right? Right?
*Raises eyebrow*...
Said the actress to the bishop....
...QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 05:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
I would go for The Doctor's bowtie instead. Bowties are cool...
Failing that, a celery stalk on the lapel is always a good fashion statement...
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 05:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
Are they the pointed ones with the big "D" on them?
QUOTE(SubRosa @ Sep 15 2014, 10:16 AM)
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 05:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
I would go for The Doctor's bowtie instead. Bowties are cool...
Failing that, a celery stalk on the lapel is always a good fashion statement...
Some guys never stop wearing bow ties:
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QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 10 2014, 05:47 PM)
I know many of you have probably given me up for dead, and you were very nearly right. As you probably have already guessed, I suffered another stroke last fall. What the first one didn't take from me, the second one did.
This second stroke was a bad one. I can only use my right hand to type, "hunt and peck" style typing; (so this will say pretty much what I sent in emails to Liz/Kobby/Acadian/McB/Blackie/DE/etc. to get it posted quicker).
My hair turned white overnight, (the color has just started coming back in the last couple weeks, so I must be improving). They had me on steroids for a while, and I blew up like a balloon - hope that goes away. I can walk, but fall easy. I have a lot of trouble concentrating, remembering things I did 10 minutes ago, etc. I had some severe depression for a while - not just because I am totally disabled now, but on top of that it was hard to see myself looking this way. I don't even recognize myself in the mirror anymore.
After the second stroke everything here went all to hell. My email/internet has been shut off since last fall. My husband lost his job before all/any of this happened (some of the stress that caused the strokes), we were already living on our savings. No one was hiring then, especially not someone my husband's age.
When the savings was all gone, we lost the internet/telephone/cable TV. My husband pawned our car titles just to keep eating/mortgage/electric paid. By New Years the house was going into forclosure, by March water and electricity was shut off (for two months before a local church helped us out and got everything turned back on again at the end of May). We lost all the cars but one (Bob's SUV) to the Title Pawn. Not funny how quickly life can turn it around on someone.
Bob got a temporary job and just got the house out of forclosure July 30th - and got the internet turned back on yesterday (finally!), right before the job ended.I'm hoping Bob finds more work soon, because I won't be able to work anymore now.
So yeah, I have been depressed as hell. I have friends in other states more than in TN - friends I needed a phone or internet to contact. I felt so isolated without either, and couldn't leave the house without someone taking me till just this past month. My vision is still blurred, but I have been able to get out and about a few times on my own (going to doctor's offices, but at least I was out on my own - even if I was driving like the Brady girl that "Very Brady" movie).
The Internet installer left at 4:00PM yesterday, but they didn't get the Email working till just now. I spent all last night up reading all the posts on Chorrol (here) that I missed since I've been off here - was freaked out as hell when I saw that someone got on there pretending to be me! Who would do that?
Whoever it was, their English was really iffy, just like FlowerBoom's was (who I was instrumental in getting banned from here last year, so he was my first thought when I saw that). I was really glad most of you who know me well could see/feel the difference. That was really shocking to me, that anyone would have done that.
I hope and pray that jackass didn't hurt anyone in my name, especially not Liz. Liz said she cried when she thought I was alive - I cried when I read where she said that. I care a LOT about all of you, Liz especially because she can be hurt easier than most.
You can have no idea how much I have thought about you all this past year laying in that stupid bed - wondered and worried how you all were and wished I could contact any one of you somehow. You all were in my thoughts every single day. I have missed you all beyond even friends I know IRL, wish I did really know you all IRL.
I have missed you all so much
What. What. Oh my god!
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 15 2014, 12:28 PM)
QUOTE(SubRosa @ Sep 15 2014, 10:16 AM)
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 05:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
I would go for The Doctor's bowtie instead. Bowties are cool...
Failing that, a celery stalk on the lapel is always a good fashion statement...
Some guys never stop wearing bow ties:
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q...1uaoNMDfk_U36UI
Bow ties are cool
QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Sep 15 2014, 04:31 PM)
What. What. Oh my god!
Where have you been? I have been looking for you since I came back, Come here and get your hug! Stand still, damn you! Get back here!
*mALX chases Rohirrim down, squeezes him like a boa constrictor*
QUOTE(SubRosa @ Sep 15 2014, 05:05 PM)
QUOTE(mALX @ Sep 15 2014, 12:28 PM)
QUOTE(SubRosa @ Sep 15 2014, 10:16 AM)
QUOTE(haute ecole rider @ Sep 14 2014, 05:11 PM)
Okay, mALX and McB, I'm going to put on my Doctor's Hat here.
I would go for The Doctor's bowtie instead. Bowties are cool...
Failing that, a celery stalk on the lapel is always a good fashion statement...
Some guys never stop wearing bow ties:
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q...1uaoNMDfk_U36UI
Bow ties are cool
Wait, is that a Playboy Bunny in the background?
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q...m4wqna7ZiWF61Fc
Not sure why, but this pic reminds me of Kobby!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q...8hAMC60BYBa3cFw
OMG, Mustard is back!
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q...WAaYRuNcYVjdwkg
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Alright, so, stupid sh*t aside, I've got a few updates.
We lost our internet.
We move back into my husband's parents house at the end of this month.
Both of us plan on going to school in the spring.
I found out I had something called Chronic Appendicitis, which was where all of my stomach issues were coming from. I had an appendectomy and have not had one problem.
I got a haircut.
We lost our internet.
We move back into my husband's parents house at the end of this month.
Both of us plan on going to school in the spring.
I found out I had something called Chronic Appendicitis, which was where all of my stomach issues were coming from. I had an appendectomy and have not had one problem.
I got a haircut.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Sep 15 2014, 10:24 PM)
Alright, so, stupid sh*t aside, I've got a few updates.
We lost our internet.
We move back into my husband's parents house at the end of this month.
Both of us plan on going to school in the spring.
I found out I had something called Chronic Appendicitis, which was where all of my stomach issues were coming from. I had an appendectomy and have not had one problem.
I got a haircut.
* Oh no, what will you do for internet? GAAAAAH!! (see flowerbutt? That is how it is done).
* Bless your hearts, are you okay with this?
* Awesome on the school!
* AWESOME that the stomach issues are finally behind you!
* GAAAAAAAAAH !!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!
I'm on my phone for most of this, and go to my library.
We're moving into his old room, which is smaller than the room we have now. It's gonna suck.
We're moving into his old room, which is smaller than the room we have now. It's gonna suck.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Sep 15 2014, 11:37 PM)
I'm on my phone for most of this, and go to my library.
We're moving into his old room, which is smaller than the room we have now. It's gonna suck.
OMG, with both of you and Snuggles too? Very cramped quarters.
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