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I am.      And I love it.  I'm there a lot.  Or at least, was until my computer crashed.  I've have internet access sporadically ever since.  But I find a lot of fun and use from it.  I enjoy the quizes, and I too like the "Top 5" app.  Gifts are fun too if they don't go overboard.  I've got a lot on my page now, thanks to my friends there.

It's been a while since I've been here, my computer is currently down.  It's in need of a new hard drive.  So for the past number of weeks I've been having to borrow friends/family/company computers to do anything.

Anyway, for anyone interested, Sean's animated project, Foster's, is airing it's last episodes this Sunday, May 3rd on Cartoon Network, starting at 4:30 pm and lasting until 7.  There's a marathon of older episodes before that starting at 1.  Sadly, I'll be working during that whole time, and will be lucky to get home in time to even see the series finale at 6:30.  I'm really sad to see the show ending.  It's been one of my favorites for the last number of years and I've gotten involved with the fanbase more with this one than I ever have with any other animated series.

So farewell, Foster's!  You'll be sorely missed.   :crying:

I posted this same Name Game on my Facebook, I'll gladly share it here, too.   

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Father& Mother's middle name)
Arthur Jeanette

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your Father's dad, Mother's dad)
Harry William

3. EXOTIC NAME: (name of your first pet plus the first street you lived on)
Tinkerbell (the) 14th (that's the first street I remember, anyway)

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Blue Cat

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Lynn Mineappolis

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Silver Tea

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Vion

8. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Brownie Batter Macadamia

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (latest pets name, current street name)
Joey Admiralty

10. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav candy,fav perfume/cologne)
Almond Joy Jasmine

11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, favorite dessert)
Tinkerbell Mousse (lol!!)

12. PEN NAME: (Favorite name- either gender, First name of favorite author)
Elise Karen

Wow, what are some of my guilty pleasures?  Cartoons, for sure.  I don't care what anyone says, I'm never going to be too old for cartoons.  Not only do I watch Cartoon Network (the station Foster's is/use to be on), but I also really enjoy PBS Kids.  I just never grew out of PBS Kids.  PBS shows in general, for that matter.  I love Masterpiece Theatre.      Among some others, I like A Walk to Remember, I especially like the soundtrack, even though the movie itself didn't do well.  I'll admit I've seen some of the Barbie movies, and rather enjoyed them.   :embarrassed:

Ugh, sounds like some not so pleasant ailments going around.  My thoughts are especially with you Anne.  I wish you a speedy recovery, and minimal discomfort until then.

I might as well share what I've been going through.  Not a sickness, per say, but an ailment for sure.  I some how, beyond my wildest wonderings, contracted Athlete's foot.      Not that I never expected women couldn't get it, but it always seemed like a man's condition, and I must admit I'm disgusted at having it.  I feel so un-feminine with this.

I first noticed it late November, with a blister in between my toes, and when it popped it just itched like CRAZY.  Didn't think much of it until the skin started peeling off, and the itch just got worse.  After a few times of the itch actually waking me up in the middle of the night, I got Gold Bond cream and hydrocortisone cream, but neither seemed to be helping much.  My mother, who's a nurse, said it sounded like Athlete's foot when I explained my condition to her.  She said that I had it once before at the age of three, and was taking swim lessons at the local YMCA.  I remember the swim lessons, but I don't remember ever having an itchy foot while being there.  Well, after hearing this from my mother, I got some anti-fungal cream and have been applying it every day for the last two weeks.  My foot is feeling much, much better.  Still peeling a little, but not itching hardly at all any more.  I'm suppose to be applying the anti-fungal cream for two more weeks just to be sure it's completely gone and to keep it from coming back.  I should scrub my tub and bathroom floor really well, too, since those are the only places I'm ever barefoot (I hate walking around barefoot, anywhere, anytime).  What baffles me is I have no earthly clue where I could have picked this up, especially since I'm never barefoot!  I'm so confused over that.

Wow, I didn't know you could use Photobucket for adding text and glitter, either.  That's awesome to know.

I like these new additions Cappu, good job on them.   

I'm horribly late, sorry about that.  But I hope everyone had a grand Christmas.  Mine was pretty good.  Here in Seattle, or at least in the little town some miles east of Seattle, we had about two feet of snow.  Not a big deal for some, I know, but for Seattle, that was a record breaker.  We're use to maybe 6 inches at a time, not two feet (24+ inches)!  We certainly got a white Christmas, and we haven't had a true white Christmas in years.  That much was certainly nice.   

As for what I got, some of the more interesting things were some flannel sheets, pajamas, slippers, a bath robe, some body mist, an electric mixer and a sweater.  I'd say it was an enjoyable Christmas over all.  Not to mention the FOOD!  I love holiday food, for little more reason than this is the only time of year we eat it.  I miss it now.     Oh well, there's only 11 more months before I start eating it again.   

There's a "Holiday Foods" thread somewhere around here too, isn't there?  While I'm here, I'll stop by there and give you a list.   

1. What aspect ratio TV do you currently own?
a) Standard size tv. In other words the old squarish tv.
(It might be an HD TV, but I can't see anything on the unit itself that suggests so.  It is however a flat screen)

2. If you don't own a HDTV or Widescreen HDTV, when do you plan on buying one.
e) Don't plan to.
(I'm happy with what I have now.  When it breaks I suppose I might get an HD.  By then likely that will be all there is anyway)

3. Regarding Widescreen ratio films and buying them on dvd.
c) You don't care which version it is.
(I do however prefer full screen, otherwise the picture is small)

4. Which films/ TV Series do you wish was released on DVD?
(The third, fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of Foster's.  I'd also like to see the rest of the "Malcolm in the Middle" series {so far, the first season is all that's out}   :clueless:)

5. How many dvds do you currently own?
(I have no idea, although not as many as most.  Maybe 80.  I doubt more than 100 though)

6. How many dvds have you recorded at home?
(I don't have my own DVD Recorder, I still record on VHS and my DVR.  I've used my parents' DVD Recorder to record two DVDs, I think)

7. How many different video formats have you owned? And how many of each?
Here are the video formats that I'm aware of.
VHS
DVD
HD-DVD
(I might have a beta or two, but I'm not sure what format they are)

8. When did you buy your first DVD player?
(I think it was in '03.  Before that, I just had my VCR.  I still have my VCR, and still have many VHS tapes.  I'll phase them out eventually as my DVD collection builds)

On the topic of friendships and keeping them over distances, my family moved around a lot when I was growing up due to my father's job, and I never managed to keep friends longer than maybe four years before moving away and losing all contact.  When I was in 6th grade, we finally moved somewhere where I'd end up spending the majority of my teen years and even my early 20s.  I established what I'd call very close "sister" type friendships with four girls, all sisters.  The youngest two were closest to my age, and twins, so I was closest to them in junior high.  We were inseparable throughout junior high and the early years of high school.  Later on in high school though we started to drift, and I couldn't help but wonder if it was because I wasn't "cool" enough all of a sudden.  They seemed to enjoy hanging out with other friends of ours rather than me because they were more popular than I was.  It hurt a lot, and I held onto that pain, and the hope of getting my "bff"s back.  With them out of the picture, I started hanging out with their oldest sister a lot more, as she was always really cool and even with the three year difference in our ages, I was proud to consider her a close friend too.  So then the two of us got "sister" close when I was in college.  We're still very close, and she's admitted to me that she feels closer and more comfortable with me than she did with two other girls whom they grew up with from toddlerhood.  To be honest, I was always a little jealous of these other two girls because I didn't really know them (they lived in another city a number of hours away), and I knew I could never be as close to anyone as they were with my friends because I had moved around way too much.  It was a depressing thought.  But my best friend admitting she's more comfortable with me than she is with them made me feel great.      So we've been there for eachother, emotionally, financially, physically, mentally, ever since.  She's awesome. 

As for her twin sisters, I held onto the pain that they no longer thought I was cool enough to hang out with into our first year of college.  I tried to talk to them to mend our differences so we could become friends again, to no avail.  It would soon turn to outright malice toward one of them, I have to admit.  She was so heartless, and didn't seem to have any feeling, and it hurt even more knowing that she simply was no longer the girl I was "bff"s with in junior high.  All hope was gone at getting her back.  As the years went by, I got over it, and we're talking again, but aside from our history, I can't really call her any more than an acquaintance now days.  And the other one?  Well, I never felt malice toward her, we kind of became friends again, but she has a very low attention span.  She just simply forgot about me after I moved away.  We emailed for a little while, and even called now and then.  But soon my emails quit getting replied to, even after I sent four or five.  And a time or two I tried "surprising" her with a phone call, and she was always distracted and wasn't even listening to me.      I still get the feeling I'm still not cool enough, and she's just not interested in keeping the friendship alive.  When she got engaged last year and I heard of it from her oldest sister rather than her, and then I didn't even get an invitation to the wedding, I finally gave up in trying to keep our friendship alive.  We're on good terms I guess, I've just quit trying.  It's not worth my time or energy to keep a friendship alive when she has no interest in it.  So those two friendships are pretty much RIP.      

As for the other sister (I did mention there were four, right?), she's real sweet, but she's very sociable and likes to keep very busy.  We've always been friends, but she has soooooooo many other friends and is always so busy.  I can't compete with all that.  So I've never gotten as close to her as I have the other three.

I have no close friends where I am now, since I moved.  I mostly just hang out with my family, and sometimes pals from work.

Wow, I think this is the longest post I've made here since I joined.   

That's a great headshot of Eric, nice find!  I know he doesn't have very many.  And oooh, Sean's got a new movie coming up?  I'm at the edge of my seat!   :dancing:   Many congrats to him on that.   

Part one: movie theaters

How many times have you been in theaters?   Wow, I really don't know.  A few dozen times I'm guessing

Do you have an oppinion about movie theaters?   I think they're fun, and they're "special".      I have however heard horror stories about what goes on in the dark, so I always sit up front and prefer not to go alone.

At what age was your first experience? Remember the movie?   The first movie I remember going to was Disney's Peter Pan when I was 4

What is your all time favorite movie seen in theater?   Probably Titanic.  It's the only movie I saw more than once in the theatre, before it came out on video

In how many theaters have you been?   Hmm, maybe 8 or 10

Do you find any differences in different theaters? If so, What? (Themes or something?)   Well, the building and layout of course.  I like how they usually have dark colors like black/blue/purple, some have more reds.  But they're always dark colors to set the mood for watching a movie.

Do you have a favorite theater? Which one?   I can't pick a favorite.  Maybe the Tinseltown ones

Do you have a specific type of movies that you just have to see in a theater, not just DVD? Why?    I can watch anything on either DVD or in the theatre, but movies with a lot of special effects or flying scenes are even more awesome in a theatre

What does the movie theater-experience mean to you?    I've always seen it as a special occasion when I go to the theatre

Are you drawn to see the movies that are very popular or most-discussed?    I only see movies I want to see, I don't let popularity sway me, unless I'm going with friends and they are seeing it because it's "popular".

What's your mood usually after you leave a theater?    When I leave?  A little sad that the "special occasion" is over.

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Part 2: DVD

Do you have a favorite place to rent or buy DVD's? If so, What is so special about it?    Blockbuster, although I haven't rented in a super long time.  I haven't tried it, but I've heard lots of good things about Netflix

A Quick look at your DVD-stand: what do you see at first?    F*R*I*E*N*D*S season sets, Roswell season sets, and all sorts of cartoons   

Have you got any favorite DVD's?    Of course, my cartoons, particularly Foster's, although I also love my F*R*I*E*N*D*S and Roswell DVDs

Do you buy a lot of DVD's?    I actually don't, only when I really want a DVD do I get it.  Friends get me a lot of my DVDs

What's your flavor when it comes to DVD's? Horror movies? Drama? TV-series?    Cartoons!      And comedy usually.

What do you do when you have a movie night at home? Snacks and all?    Got to have chips and dip.  Sometimes buttered popcorn.  And if it's hot outside, also ice cream.

Do you like to have a lot of company when watching a movie on DVD?    Not usually, sometimes a friend, maybe two.  Or my parents and sister.  But most of the time I'm actually alone.

Do you have a lot of pauses when you're watching a movie? Does it anoy you to watch with some who wants a lot of pauses?    I rarely pause, unless I get a phone call or someone comes to the door.   I don't even usually pause when I have to run to the bathroom because I've usually at least seen it before and I can at least still hear it.       And yes it does, if they pause it more than necessary.

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Part 3: TV

How many hours a day you watch TV?    Maybe 4-5

Do YOU think it's too much?    I know for a fact it's less than average now days, so I don't worry about it.

What type of TV-shows you like?    Cartoons!  (do I really need to keep saying that, lol)  And comedy.

Any favorites?    Foster's, F*R*I*E*N*D*S, That 70s Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Roswell, and many others

Do you like to watch made for TV- movies?    I can, some of them are pretty good

Do you generally watch a lot of movies on TV?   Most movies I watch are on TV rather than DVD

What's your TV-watching experience like?   Relaxing, I also like the background noise

Is there a certain moment in a day when you like to watch TV?   In the evenings

Aww, thanks for the b-day wishes everyone!   :embarrassed:   I was on vacation, or maybe it would be considered a "staycation" since it was only to my southern neighbor of a state- Oregon.  As for my birthday, it started at an aunt and uncle's house in the Portland area, and ended in a cabin on the Oregon coast.  Went to a historic lighthouse and the Tillamook Cheese Factory and Creamery where I had my b-day treat- some mouth watering ice cream!  My mother gave me some money with which I bought a jacket, a purse and a CD.  My dad got me some sweat pants (because I asked for them, I had packed only shorts and capris, yet the weather turned cold, dreary, windy and rainy, I was COLD!).  Oooh, were they cumfy!  My vacation ended yesterday.  So now I'm back at work.  Boo.   :fedup:

Thanks again for the birthday wishes you guys.  And a very happy birthday to my fellow August babies!      Whoo hoo!