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[Chocofreak13]

every forum with an H section is automatically full of unsavory people

HEY. >:[


@anniversaries: cool to hear about everyone's. :3 my memory is shot, so i don't remember many of mine. :\

in other news, today was going great! we went to bedford (about 20 minutes to a half hour from here) and found several cool places, so we decided that we need to go to bedford more. one of the places was a panera bread, where we got all sorts of nice, nummy things, and on a whim i bought a loaf of challah bread. (it was 3 bucks, so why the hell not! it's a whole damn loaf! also, for those unfamilar, challah is a braided jewish sweet bread coated in a honey-butter glaze before baking.)

after leaving bedford, we came back here and picked up my friend/honorary sister colleen and drove her to class in manchester (about the same distance as bedford). after that, we went to joann fabrics (which is in methuen, and is normally 20 minutes from here, so it should have taken us awhile, but when you factor in the highway and my mum's lovely driving, it only took us about 10-15 minutes). i bought a TON of stuff and saved a SHITLOAD. (go on and guess how much i saved!! >w< )

as we were enjoying the glory of sales, however, we got some horrible news: my grandmother was admitted to the ER tonight. she's been having problems with fluid building up around her heart in the past couple months, and is quite stubborn, to the point where she didn't take the heart pills she was prescribed on the drive down to florida (so it wouldn't inconvenience my grandfather by having to stop at rest stops so frequently). they both arrived home yesterday, and while she was feeling fine earlier today, she began to have severe leg pains and shortness of breath, to the point where she wasn't getting enough oxygen and was starting to become delusional. she went in, and insists that she's fine now, so is refusing to stay overnight. ><;; something similar to this happened to my other grandmother, and she's dead, so we're all rather worried. :[

on the upside, my savings at joann's:

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paid: $36.66 after tax
saved: $193.13

[IanDanKilmaster]

every forum is automatically full of unsavory people

Fix'd.

I can see where you're coming from about the hentai section, though.  By the nature of the subject, you'd expect many skeeves to congregate there, but it's honestly not really a problem here as far as I've seen.  It tends to be much worse on boards that promote sharing of vids as that leads to all sort of perverted stuff being shared and, ultimately, winds up being the main attraction of the forum.

[Chocofreak13]

wouldn't that also have to do with the forum's focus itself being weak? here, we have the broad world of the os-tans to keep us together, but for other forums, whose concepts are weaker, the pull of the perverted might be stronger. :\

[Bella]

every forum is automatically full of unsavory people

Fix'd.

I can see where you're coming from about the hentai section, though.  By the nature of the subject, you'd expect many skeeves to congregate there, but it's honestly not really a problem here as far as I've seen.  It tends to be much worse on boards that promote sharing of vids as that leads to all sort of perverted stuff being shared and, ultimately, winds up being the main attraction of the forum.

Yeah, I was young and innocent(ish). After lurking for awhile I realized that the members seemed nice for the most part (and not entirely overcome with perversion as I suspected) so I joined and just ignored the H section. ^^;

And yeah, the hentai section here is generally pretty tame / lends itself to a lot of amusing and/or insightful discussions, generally.

[Chocofreak13]

now you're a part of it. :3

makes me sad how the rest of my post got eaten up by the one little comment i made. :[

[Nichi]

I know the feeling. You mention something big that's happening to you, wither it be good or bad, and it's drown out by something else :\

[Bella]

now you're a part of it. :3

makes me sad how the rest of my post got eaten up by the one little comment i made. :[

I already commented about it when I talked to you on skype (before I passed out >>; ) so I didn't feel the need to comment again here.

It's what I generally do ... if I feel the need to question/comment on something here, I usually go straight to the source (if I can) so my comments don't get lost.

[Chocofreak13]

@pent: gotta love that here. >>;
@bella: you commented on one part of it. i'm damn proud of those savings and i wanted to share. >>;

[Bella]

Sorry about that, but I just didn't want to sound callous by being all, "HOORAY SAVINGS! And sorry about your grandmother." 

As for 

I know the feeling. You mention something big that's happening to you, wither it be good or bad, and it's drown out by something else :\

This happens to me like, ALL THE TIME. Whenever I leave a long post that has to do with something near and dear to me, it always feels like nobody notices (or at least doesn't comment). So either we all have to start commenting on what one another says without exception, or accept the fact that sometimes people don't know how to reply to/are too lazy to/don't feel the need to comment on what we say.

[Chocofreak13]

i try to comment on everyone's posts, if anyone has noticed. :3

[IanDanKilmaster]

I try to as well, but it can honestly be very emotionally-draining when there's a lot going on in your world, too.  Let it be known that if I seem to ignore something very important or very personal in your posts it's not because I don't care or are trying to keep you at a distance, it's just that sometimes when a lot of things are going in one's life, one can become very run down emotionally.  Your problems definitely matter to me, especially when they're so dear and so scary, but I feel that I'm at such a low energy level from an emotional standpoint that anything I say would come off as disingenuous and not really worthy of the moment.  The last thing I want to do is devalue your heartfelt appeal by offering a very weak and seemingly token comment without much thought to contribute.

I'm definitely in favor of this forum being a second family to one another, and I certainly think of most all of you that way (that is, the ones I've known long enough ^^; ).  So don't misinterpret this as some ITG, extra-masculine cry of "f**k your internet hugbox" or anything like that, but understand that I do care, even when I don't address something you've said, even though I'm too exhausted inside to squeak out a cry of sympathy.  If you remember, Kari-chan, there has been at least one occasion (I'm thinking more, though) where I have messaged you personally here to share in your pain and offer condolences, so you should know that your feelings matter to me.

I think we've all experienced, at some point, a truly heartfelt or deeply personal comment become washed away by a tide of some popular topic or another.  It does hurt sometimes, but it's something I've come to realize is not a personal thing or related to one's "status" on the boards.  It just happens.

[Nichi]

I know the feeling, Dan. Granted, sometimes things others may hear about on the news may have them worried, but then they see everything is fine

For instance, Pit mentioned to me that she was worried when she heard on the news about the wildfires in Texas last year (Which where close to my hometown, but not close enough to my house or work to require an evacuation)...until she saw I was still carrying on a casual conversation with everybody on here like nothing was going on; generally a universal sign of "Don't worry; I'm fine :3"

[Chocofreak13]

@pit, dan: seconded. this is my internet home, and you all are more family to me than some of my actual family. ^^;

my grandma seems to be fine now, except now my aunt's in the hospital. >>; (when it rains, it pours.) i mainly wanted you guys to know how much i saved. pattern sales are always ripe for bragging rights. -w-
also, we FINALLY watched the boondock saints last night, and my mum loved it. :3 she wants to get the sequel, which would be nice since while i've seen the first movie plenty of times, i have yet to see the sequel. :\

[NejinOniwa]

There is a SEQUEL TO IT?

WUT.

[Nichi]

@Nej: Yeah. My sister watched it, and said it was pretty good

@Kari: Nice ^_^
I still need to borrow the DVD from my sister

@Aurora: I know the feeling. I'm actually closer to you guys than my IRL friends :3