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Lol! I ditto Tim in his review: Who is Oscar??? As with Graeme, I know that kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve to ring in the new year, is expected. Steve was three sheets to the wind, which of course isn't REALLY an excuse, but who the hell knows -- maybe he THOUGHT he was kissing Toph! Now Steve was the one to betray Toph when Toph was really starting to fall for him. Hmm, stupid question? Why did Steve drink so much that night? He knew Toph was only drinking mineral water, so why did he feel it necessary to get totally blitzed? Like Jay said in his review, it seemed like Steve had his own reasons for going to the club. Poor Toph - he's pissed at Gary, and now he's pissed/disappointed at Steve. Not a good way to start the new year.

I thought of another set of words: decent and descent.

I finally caught up with the story late last night. Jackson's mom's an idiot. Sorry, but true. Not because she wants to impress Lucas for his parents' sake, but because she has a separate set of rules for Jack when Lucas is there and when he's not. If Jack was a lot younger, that would be sending him so many mixed signals! lol It was funny how Jackson called his mom out on what they normally do on Sunday nights! She's lucky he just didn't mention the Mickey Ds they usually have! Of course with this fight, he may be back to being grounded no matter what. Even if it wasn't his fault. That Tuley guy (is that how it was spelled?) is an idiot.

'AC and I were just talking...' Speaking of 'I or me' or...nothing. Sorry, Tim, couldn't resist! 'It's been a while since we had a Grammar Rodeo, but I find these posts to be rather informative and we hope you do to.' Sorry, Renee! Another one I see a lot is to/too/two. You forgot the other 'o' in 'to'. Maybe a comma after 'informative' and before the 'and'? Oh! Speaking of which (commas!), may I ask Cia a question? If you have more than one conjunction in a sentence, and the sentence consists of all independent clauses, shouldn't you put a comma after each conjunction? Not just the first one? As in the example above: 'It's been a while since we had a Grammar Rodeo, but I find these posts to be rather informative, and we hope you do too.' Wouldn't that be correct in putting in the second comma before 'and'? Thanks!

This was hysterical! But very sad considering it's coming from an educational facility! Never mind leaving out the comma! lol I saw something somewhere recently about a school district in Mississippi. They were so proud that their students were really learning...something along those lines, but...THEY SPELLED MISSISSIPPI WRONG!!!! IN THE ARTICLE ABOUT STUDENT EDUCATION!!!! How sad is that? And stupid. I see lose/loose a lot when I edit, along with chose/choose. It's/its drives me crazy, as does seeing apostrophe s after verbs: 'The driver honk's his horn.' 'The boy hit's the ball with his bat.' Thank you Renee and Cia for these informative Grammar Rodeos! These are my favorite blogs!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER!!!!! I hope you're having a wonderful b-day!!!

I call dibs after Emi and Nick!!!!

Ron!!!! I'm so excited to see you on GA!!!!! All your stories are terrific, and I know the readers here will love them. I'm really enjoying your new story, and I have to catch up with the latest chapter.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO EVERYONE IN THE GA COMMUNITY!!!!!

Now my 'likes' worked! Go figure! Why is Sam the only one noticing this white van? Shit, if Chuck was with David when he visited Sam, he would tell them that was the van that tried to run David over just yesterday! I'm assuming Sam wrote down the license plate number, but how will he find out who it belongs to? The police scanner can't tell him that. Unless he's waiting to hear something on the scanner about the white van? He could be waiting forever. Sam's little monologue to David had me tear up. It was really beautiful. He sounded so mature, and he's absolutely right; we all need people who are going to help us and support us when we need it. No man is an island. Who said that? I can't remember, but he was right. lol I wonder what happened with Sam that he felt he had to cut in order to be in some sort of control over his life. Isn't that why people cut? They feel their life is out of their control, but at least they have control over cutting. I'm also worried about his plot with the demon movie. I don't know what to think about that. I agree with Jess about the van; I think it will have something to do with the plot to expose the woman (formerly known as Tommy's mother), and Pig Fucker. Of course Pig Fucker is probably the one DRIVING the van! I wonder if the woman was in the van when PF (Pig Fucker) tried to kill David by running him over. She was probably yelling at him to drive faster, hit him harder! The bitch. I loved when David was trying to egg Pastor Slime on with all of Pastor Slime's religious bullshit. And those kids -- they reminded me of Stepford kids, like robots going along with everything PS (Pastor Slime) said. Morons. The only question I had was why is David sending out so many mixed signals to Twoey? He kisses him hello and goodbye (a long, sweet kiss there in front of Mom), but he won't kiss him any other time. He tells Twoey he can't. It would be nice, but he can't. Why is he kissing him at all? It's like he's leading Twoey on without realizing it, and I think Twoey's just so happy to be kissed by David, he lets him, regardless of David breaking his heart. Well, at least Twoey can laugh about Chuck being totally infatuated with David -- aren't all the gay boys in school? Well, except for Erik! Another awesome chapter, Skinny!

What an upsetting chapter for Toph and for Steve! I agree with everyone. I really did like Gary. Could it be that his father intimidates him so he doesn't really pay attention to what's going on? Why on EARTH would Pops want Toph so badly? Does he think by helping him get into Abington (read: foregoing all the paperwork and making a nice "donation" to the school so Toph can sail in), Toph will feel so obligated to him he'll agree to anything - such as giving Pops maybe like 70% of the money made from his paintings? Just a thought... I actually thought the 50K was his weekly paycheck!! lol Maybe Pops put it in there! Stupid question I just thought of: if Toph's family is so rich, why does his mother work for Pops? Well, work for Gary, but same thing - I would think with Toph's family's money, they would own their OWN company! Yeah, Toph should have asked Brenda for more info. Why didn't SHE tell him she could find out who deposited it? Does Steve think his relationship with Toph is going to go downhill because Toph will now be exposed to smarter people or more ambitious and driven people that one day Toph will realize he has nothing in common with Steve anymore? Great chapter, Skinny! I have to come back tomorrow because I ran out of likes 'liking' all the Valentine's comments. lol

Shit, I ran out of likes. I'll have to come back tomorrow. I feel so, so sad for Eli. This will always be with him. I think when people commit suicide their family and friends blame themselves, wondering if they had anything to do with it. Hopefully when/if Eli's mom and grandmother find out Jacob was actually Eli's boyfriend, they will still be so supportive and loving. Terrific start to your new story, Milos!

Love your new/revised story, dianjin! James is a pisser, and I'm looking forward to see what he gets up to in France!

I'm so glad you got the reference! I wasn't sure if anyone would.

Lol, Parker! Un-straight! I love it! This was such a cute chapter, Skinny! Well, aside from David almost getting run over by that white van. Me thinks Pig-Fucker and Mommy Dearest are behind that almost tragedy. Tommy's mother really needs help if she's ok with almost killing her son. What a wackadoodle. Chuck is adorable! lol I could just imagine his eyes bugging out when David and Twoey were kissing. Glad things went well in Syracuse. Mike was smart to have back-up. Loved when David called him on it. lol

Congratulations, Gary!! Wow, 10,000 likes! Holy crap that's a lot of likes! They like you, they really like you!!

What a chapter, Skinny! The dance was great, and David is so sweet and nice to everyone. I agree with Jess; Lanni caught on rather quickly with those kisses. From what David was trying to remember her saying before 'another one', I gather she said, "Fuck, another one.", which means to me, another one bites the dust. Another gay boy she's attracted to. That would make total sense since the last kiss was so short and totally confused David. I am TOTALLY hoping there will be some arrests! Arrests of the Pig-Fucker and Tommy's mother kind!!!! Can't wait to find out what Sam has in store for them!! Little Chuck is so cute! He totally idolizes David. David is so great to include him in his group of friends. But I still can't believe (ok, it's David we're talking about, so I correct myself), I CAN believe David is still going through with this Syracuse trip. I hope there's no collateral damage with David, Mike, and Twoey once Twoey finds out David and Mike didn't tell him about this trip. Another awesome chapter, Skinny!

I forgot to mention in my review -- I couldn't help but think of JFK. The character's name was John Fitzgerald, and he was quite the player -- unfortunately (because he was married to Jackie O), JFK was also. Was that a total coincidence?

Awwww, that was such a sweet story, SA! I loved it! I totally did not see that one coming! Not Eric, and definitely not Tony! Wasn't Tony the one who was describing John's sappy smile when they're out on double dates? Or was that Richard who said that? lol Anyway, very cute story, SA!

I absolutely LOVED how the story ended with the images of the storm and the thunder, nature cleaning the land (I'm totally paraphrasing here! ), and how people are waking up to hangovers and broken hearts, except for some lucky couples like James and Tom. I loved that! The story was very captivating and I was riveted from the first line. I did find a discrepancy though, unless it was just me not understanding: at the beginning it was mentioned that the company was doing really well and they had expanded their products or whatever. James was thrilled because he was told they were transferring him to another department. Later on in the story when he was talking to Trevor (I think), or maybe Janet?, they mentioned James was pretty new to the company, but in fact, he wasn't; he was just new to his current department. Right? Another thing that bugged me was when everyone was speculating on who the "Lady in the Flames" was and if she wanted to date Tom and if she saved him because she liked him or because she would do that for anyone. What?! lol "She" James didn't even know it was Tom until he got him out of the car! How could this "Lady in the Flames" like Tom if it was just a random save? lol Maybe I'm just focusing too much on stupid shit. lol All in all, SA, it was a great story and very enjoyable!

Brad was so despicable! I can't believe he would send those pics of Gabriel to the people at work! What a d-bag! Good riddance to bad rubbish I always say! Well, actually I never say that, but good riddance to Brad. And Abby was a bit insensitive also, IMO. I liked Denny, but Avery stole my heart. What a sweetheart he was! And I'm so glad he and Gabe became good friends first. Wow, SA, you are certainly making it VERY hard to choose just ONE story to vote for!!!!

A very cute story, SA. Terry had been through a lot, and evidently so had Michael, with that looser moocher. I hope things continue to work out between them. I also really enjoyed reading it like a 'true story' with a narrator.

I found this sad. Maybe because it hits close to home. When my douchebag of an ex-husband left I not only lost my husband, I also lost my best friend. I know how Mike is feeling. I think we all want to be THAT person in someone's life - we all want to be someone important to someone else. I think Mike will be able to move on now because he finally got his feelings out. He was so busy telling everyone he's fine, he's fine, when in fact, he wasn't fine at all. And as his friend said, it's ok not to be ok. Aiden was great to sit and listen to him get everything off his chest, He helped Mike a lot and probably didn't even realize it. My one question is: ok, now we know that Alex was Edwin's friend (best friend) before she was Mike's friend. But being Mike's friend, why on EARTH would she invite Jesse to her party? Didn't Jesse lose Mike's friends when he dumped him? lol The cad. Despite the story not having my loving HEA, I really did enjoy it. It was a very realistic and well-written story. Great job, SA!

I forgot to thank you for posting that link for the LOLcats thread. I just looked at the last page, and the pics were hysterical.

LOVE Roxette! Menace, how did you ever hear of Roxette? They're way before your time!!