Frostina

HAPPY B'DAY PAT! Have a blast!

:D HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D Have a blast! Q-man!

I second Wayne's 'PS' btw! But, well, all i got to say, Mark, is wow! you have so much emotion rolling off of your words in that poem! it just tugs at the heart strings! A friend of mine told me, life sometimes deals us unfair cards, but, sometimes, u can with even with the oddest hand! so... Let's just hope the rest of the deck favours the cards you've been dealt! Frosty

@Cailen: Thank you, and i do apologise for the delay once again! but at least now you know.. and i'll get them done as soon as i have my 'life back on track'! @ Jian: Thank you for the best wishes, and you really didn't need to thank me for editing for you! i do it mainly because i love it! seriously, i love to edit! and i really really enjoy it! also, not to mention that ii get to read the chapters before anyone else sees them! lol Thanks for the offer, and yes, if needed i'll take you up on it! Cheers, Frosty!

everyone And thank you for the wishes! @ Stu: sweet talker... lol, But, yes, i do appreciate the concern! and like i said, i'll bounce back eventually, and knowing me it will be pretty soon! @ Nephy: Yes, yes i am worried, and not to mention, i'm scared too! i mean, i know the high chances of cure, and i KNOW that things will probably be just fine, but, somethings your mind just doesnt process! I know how stressed my ma is, and thats the reason i cannot take offense at what she says, nonetheless, it hurts! As for remedies to sleep, yes, I've tried a lot of things, but according to the sleep doctor (lol, thats what I call him) he said, the best way for me is to wear my self out so that just a tap on the forehead knocks me flat! lol and that was after 5 years of intensive treatment! but, i'm getting there... I'm actually proud of myself at getting 3-4 hrs of sleep on a avg these days so, lets hope it'll improve, and soon! @ Nephy and Cia: i am going shopping today! lol just to get some heatly quick foods and stock my fridge, because like you said, i do need it! its so so hot here i really dont wanna go out! but, well, someone has to do it... @ Cia; thank you! the head examiners would make money then, dont you think? u think i could charge commission? lol ( i know i know.. poor joke ) @ Maria: thanks for the well wishes, and NO u were not pushing me that hard that i'd fall off! and i did tell you that i was having problems and thank fully you managed to find a solution to it! and i'm happy for that babe! so just breathe! @ Sara: like I said, Thank you. And yes, i know venting helps sometimes, but right now, it feels like, i vent and then smack, something hits me on the face the very next moment.. there fore, more venting! lol and there's a limit to the amt of stress i'm willing to put on someone else's brain! Be back SOON!

Okay, so... where to start.... Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. lol This is not a rant, merely sort of an info dump of sorts. I have been late in returning my edits and it might have seemed that I have been ‘Out of it’. Running around, and seemingly ditzy! (Well, more than normal, that is) I am sorry for causing inconvenience to those I have, and I know I have been the reason for quite a few. This is not an excuse, it’s just an explanation of sorts. It started in January, my Ma had been taken ill all of a sudden, and for some reason, my dad (who’s a Doctor BTW) was freaked. Probably because it was so unexpected, and it took turns for the worse with every passing day. I had to run around for days and hold fort there. For those who don’t know, I am not the healthiest of people(physically, I mean), I kind of have a sword hanging over my head with a a recurring auto immune disease, that rears its head at every possible chance it gets, and I am too lazy to take proper care of myself. Give me some one else to take care of, and you’ll have the job done. but me? I’m not saying that’s a good thing and I know I should be taking care of myself more, otherwise I am no good, blah blah blah. But when I get back home, I’m too tired to even lift my head, and I can’t be bothered to do anything more than get the milk out of the fridge and hope that it’s enough nutrient to keep me going for the next day. And so, I managed to fall sick once the adrenaline rush wore off! And thus began my struggles with sleep again! I have been fighting insomnia for a long long time, and being on meds to keep the relapses of the auto-immune disease at bay, I cannot take sleeping pills(prescription ones) either! Well, my curse, I’m too good at organising. Lol, yes, it sounds funny but, it’s true. My dad had taken ill when I was 17 and was in the final year of high school, and even then, with my Ma freaking out since it was a carcinogenic tumour, it was ALL me who had to do the running around with my dad. I am not saying I didn’t have help. That would be a blasphemous, but did get the job done, and I remember standing outside the OT, with the nurses, ready to give my blood to dad, and being called to the reception because they needed some paperwork signed. Omy, I don’t even know if I’m making much sense. But, oh well, that’s ancient history now, I guess. So, all that happened is I delivered a stellar performance that time, and I got better at it! Any crisis that arose, and the first person my family would call was me. And sadly that has not changed much in the last 9 years. It was not really a surprise when I got a call from my hysterical mother last week, saying my dad’s cancer is back, we had suspected it would be and we were hoping to catch it in the earlier stages so that it could be treated as soon as possible. So, there I was, on my phone again, with my uncles and their friends (did I mention ALL my uncles and aunts are doctors too?) trying to fix appointments to get further tests done, to go and check up the institutes and see if they are indeed as good as they claim. Since everyone has their own jobs, and I’m the only one ‘sitting around’, I had to do it. And I did! I swear to you I did! I did the best I could. And when the final test was being done, from the best place in the city (the 3rd test I might add), it looked like one of the earlier places had a faulty machine that had screwed up the CT scan images. That’s when the mess started. Ma’s been so upset over the mess, she just lashed out at me. What hurt the most was, “How could you let baba be taken to such a place? What if it was an invasive test, and they screwed up? Do you not care AT ALL?” And I was stunned, so were my uncles and my dad. But ma was relentless. And that hurt. Anywhoo, now, it’s confirmed that its cancer, and since its almost always multiple sites that are affected by the secondary wave of cancer, the diagnoses and the treatments are to begin shortly. A visit to the doctor that operated on my dad the first time in 2003 paved our next steps. My dad, accompanied by 2 of my uncles (doctors) and ma will be out of the city by Sunday. To go get tested and treated in the best cancer research facilities in the country! (Isn’t it cool how doctors can pull of stuff like that so easily?) And I will be at home, house sitting and fielding doctor visits and paperwork on this end; basically trying to keep up the communication link between the doctors in the two cities, and the throng of well wishers of my too large family. Believe you me, my phone has been ringing almost nonstop for the past week, since we got the news about my dad. I believe I’ve successfully managed to talk your ears off by now, so please excuse my random behaviour, and delays, if/when I make any. And I try to answer to the emails, as soon as possible. Even if I am unable to edit, I’ll be sure to let you know! If anyone who I edit for want to look for other editors, because of my irregularities, please do so, I will certainly not hold it against anyone, because I KNOW how very frustrating it can be to wait for someone not being able to keep to deadlines. Anyway... This year has not been my friend, so far and it’s already 5 months into it, so I don’t even have the motivation to say it will look up! I’ll be back a 100%, and soon! If not anything else, I’m sure about that! So, wish me luck! And I’ll be around! To those who know and have been putting up with my rants for the past few days, thank you! You have NO idea what it meant to have a listening ear when I had NO ONE to vent to! But it’s just too hard to keep giving the same explanation over and over again, mainly because it’s a long story and I do hate to type! lol I miss you guys so much that I keep peeking in the chatroom just to see some friendly faces! well, in a manner of speaking! But yes I do See ya on the other side! Frosty out!

WTF just happened? Well coop is reaching new heights! dunno good or bad, but he is! Spencer, caring? wow! did not see that coming! but, oh, well, i guess everyone has their soft sides!

Clown? rodeo clown?

'Heart of a poet'? Thank you Wayne... Also, You just summarised the poem better that i could ever have!

Thanks Sara, for reading and reviewing it! and I'm glad I made sense to you! some personal bits on here are like a jigsaw puzzle, so... till u get the whole picture (which probably doesnt even exist, lol) it's not really a problem, me thinks!

Yay! i'm sooo glad you liked this one, Thanks for the review!

Thank you for the Nice words John! I'm glad you read it and liked it.

Thank you Nephy I'm really glad you liked it. And the last lines are my favourite too! that's the reason they're at the end! Thanks for reading and reviewing it!

Really really nice imagery! ditto what Maria said. OH and, Please tell me Philip is not going to let him get away with it! How many chapters will this one be? OOOH! can u tell i like it?? lol AWESOME!

38 WPM with no mistakes I'm not too far ahead from the back of the line! lol

U're welcome! i'm really glad u liked it!

Borrowed words, loaned tunes, And stolen poems from famous bards, They hit home more than yours or mine ever could; Life’s just unfair, and so were the cards. Passion, neither of us lacked, Words... well, you had enough. Me? Well, all I had was A very soft heart, and the exterior, just as tough. Emotions rocked my core, Dealing with them, that’s another story! Scared, terrified I grabbed onto you, It felt right, and NO, I’m not even the least bit sorry!

A myriad of emotions.. stirred up by something unconventional... unconditional.. and looked down upon, just because it's different

WOW! talk about imagery! awesome visualisations Stu! and like i said, Hquaio is just a pussy cat! lmao Dan's reaction was just too cute! lol Arensha needs to be annihilated!

A Very Happy Birthday Comsie! Have a BLAST!

Beautiful.. Scary.. and powerful! In a word, awesome!

thanks so much for the nice words sweetheart! I'm really really glad you liked it

WOW! I'm so glad he did that!! its beautiful! and so so so sweet!! to both of u! and oh well! Almost brought tears to my eyes! its so sweet!

Woot Woot!! for our NEWEST couple on GA! And wow, so so many firsts!

Cursive And thankfully i write enough by hand still to have been able to maintain it! I had to work hard at it too! I had a teacher who would tap mu knuckles with a pencil every time it would look even close to printed! so.. me likes cursive writing! and I'd hate if it goes away too!