Nephylim

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

You do make me laugh. If you can be described as 'old' what the hell does that make me? I refuse to get old REFUSE i tell you.

Glad you are enjoying it here. I am still fairly new myself and still can't believe my luck finding it. It rocks doesn't it

We all love you too pussycat... but you're still not getting out of this life alive

You are both very lucky I hope you have a wonderful day and an even better night

My headache isnt as bad as usual. My son is amazing It's raining but I dont have a wet cat on my lap. I can walk I can see i am getting a free lunch No one stole my computer when I forgot to back up my work and left the back door open all night again I am wildly excited about a new story and madly in love with a new character again. Sigh... life is sweet.

That's true. We can only change ourselves but that doesn't mean we can't help others want to change themselves too. Otherwise what't the point? If we can't change anything then we just have to accept. Accept the prejudice, accept the biggotry, accept the ignorance, accept the negativity. Well... you can but I'm not

That's a relief then

I am very sorry to hear you have been struggling of late. We all go through periods like that. If you ever need me then holler and I am here. Sometimes those who are quickest to help others are the last to ask for help when they need it themselves And don't talk to me about death.. it's stalking me at the moment, not that I am a stranger but still.... You cat was very lucky to breath its last breath in the arms of someone who loved her... at the end of the day that is something that we can all hope for when the inevitable arrives. Let's face it.... no one gets out of this life alive.

That was very thoughtful and sweet and it made me smile. Hat's off to you

Love. Simple as. Not necessarily the love of a committed partner... could be the love of a child, a friend, your family. With love around you it is posssible to cope with anything, overcome anything and happiness is assured.

Oh yeah! :)

Never apologise for being happy, excited or weird. If those things required apology I would be apologising constantly.

I bite

Good to hear from you after hearing so much about you. Looking forward to getting to know you, especially as you are now ... or soon will be the bionic man

I Will Find You by Clannad Hope is your survival A captive path I lead No matter where you go I will find you If it takes a long long time No matter where you go I will find you If it takes a thousand years (mohican) Nachgochema Anetaha Anachemowagan No matter where you go I will find you In the place with no frontiers No matter where you go I will find you If it takes a thousand years (cherokee) Hale w

One very very good thing from today... Lesson - do not go to work and leave the back door wide open Good thing - no one noticed... at least if they did the fairies kept them out of the house... I hope, haven't been upstairs yet

Oh me too, me too. I appreciate beauty wherever I find it and if it happens to be a human face/ form so much the better. As far as I am concerned the ultimate beauty is expression. I am very much an 'eye' person and I have seen plenty on this thread that have made my pulses race. Down girl :) I also have rather a strange interpretation of beauty so I find sometimes find it in unusual places. Mainstream ideals of 'beauty' are so narrowly defined. So don't discount yourself because you are not classically beautiful there is always beauty there somewhere and always someone who will see it.

I like to mix. I have been doing a lot of experimentation in this respect recently. I used to write almost exclusively in third person... telling a story. Then I started to experiment with first person and then I started to think a lot about perspective and started to experiment with showing different perspectives on the same story. It started really with To Have and to Hold where I experimented by alternating the perspective of the characters from chapter to chapter.... ie telling one chapter from the perspective of one character and the next from the second then back to the first... so there was only the two of them. Now I am going further with Death is Not and Option by having more than one character speaking in more than one tense and more than one person in random order. So you never know which character you are going to get next (I tell you at the head of the chapter who is speaking so it isn't too confusing) and sometimes they start by looking over something that the previous character has already recounted from their point of view therefore starting in the past tense and moving to the present tense as they catch up. It gets a bit complicated sometimes but I am quite pleased with the way it is working out. I think it adds dimension to a story in that you get different characters and perspectives looking at the same situation and you see a little why people do what they do and how they seem not only to themselves but to others while they are doing it. I don't know if any of this makes sense as it is just an experiment for me at the moment. i suppose only time will tell if it works or not.

Of course You can't go flying without having a ball

Cool rain Cooler wine Cold Beer Chilled me..... work finally calming down... had time to sing in the office ... probably not one of the things my colleagues will be listing as part of their good day but who cares

I'm a thoroughly modern witch ... I fly a Dyson

If you love someone you love someone and you are faithful to them. If you are happy in the relationship you don't look elsewhere... boy or girl because you love the person and not the gender. I don't think that bisexuals are any more likely to be unfaithful simply because they don't label their partners so rigidly. Speaking as someone who has had exactly 2 sexual partners in her entire life both of which I was married to and with for 15 year + each and both of whom cheated on me in the end... my personal phylosophy is that if someone is happy in their relationship they don't cheat. If they are not happy then it really doesn't matter who they cheat with... it's the state of the relationship that's important not what happens because of it. Although I could not continue a relationship with someone who cheats on me I can still apprecaite why they did it and I have remained friends with both my former partners.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

There really isn't much to add to what has already been said. The very fact that you came on here to look for help says a lot about the kind of friend you are. As a mother I can honstly say there is nothing in the world as bad as seeing your child sick or in pain and I feel for what this poor person must be going through. As someone who has lost many people in their life...not a child touch wood... I would say the most important thing is to be alert for when they want to talk about it and when they don't. People react in different ways and by and large others try to avoid the subject like the plague but sometimes it is a relief to talk to someone about the anger, fear, pain etc. Just be open hun and be there. If you need to talk, to rant, to scream and shout we are here.