Hey Everyone! Since this is a sight related to love... I just wanted to scream out loud about how happy I am.... I just got ENGAGED to the most wonderful man on earth (Pepper ;-) and I cannot contain my happiness!
*Big Huge Grin* Thank's for listening!
Congratulations Vi---
Much Luck, Much love...and happiness always...The blender has hosted some amazing pairings...and I wish you all the best!
Gala
violet~
That's so awesome!!! Congrats!! *big smile* Yay!
Love and glimmering sunshine, Ali
B.K...wow I didn't notice you had caught the meter going to a million and a half. Let's see, looks like we hit the first million in October of last year. That means it took 4 1/2 years for the first million frontpage hits, and just over a year for an additional half million. I haven't run more numbers, but based on the submissions count I think we've leveled off somewhat, which isn't an all bad thing.
scqueen, about that car, and more specifically that one eyed monster... did you see http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2001.07.20 where I talk about how much that monster looks like my own alien bill? ( http://alienbill.com ) I also point out how much alien bill looks like the monsters from "Awful Green Things from Outer Space", an older board game. Alien bill added arms, and Monster, Inc added a mouth.
November blender out soon.
Kirk ~ I didn't see that blog from July. But I do like your car :-) Much better than this:
I inherited a 1976 Yellow GMC Pacer as my first car in college. I have never ever lived it down. It looked like a fishbowl and had many a nickname...
BlueDenim:
Thanks for replying.... you were the only member from the bblender to even read and reply. As far as musical tastes go, I have heard of NIN, but never listened to them and I have never even heard of the other band you were talking about. I usually listen to pop, rap, sometimes country... but never hard core rock..... thanks for checking out my work.....
To everyone else at the blender, can someone please read something I submitted and comment on it..... I am new at the blender and if you guys like me I'll stay, but if not I can go..... thanks, alc
Preciousprncss -- Re your comment about "if you guys don't like me I'll go." You may not see a lot of comments until you've posted for a while, but don't be discouraged by that -- after all, it's easier to make an intelligent comment about someone's work after you've seen a lot of it! But since you want some feedback now -- I thought sigh....... showed a lot of emotion; I like the part at the end about "somewhere inside there must be the real me". Is this piece autobiographical? It reminds me of another quote from a teenage mother about her baby: "When she was born, it felt like everything I loved about being young was being ripped out of me."
Misti -- loved Beguiling By Age 12 -- wish I could do these stream-of-consciousness kind of things. Mine all come out sounding like a bad imitation-Dali painting: very weird stuff with no meaning at all...
Charade -- Love is Blind is lovely -- reminds me of my grandparents, 82 years old but when he looks at her I can tell he still sees the young girl he married sixty years ago...
Gala -- Love is Blind -- amazing, the power of one single word to change everything
Kirk, hurry up and get the November issue out so we can get to last month's submissions! There was a poem posted last month I want to comment on and I can't remember who wrote it. Thanks!
Gala - sorry - that was meant to be a comment on your again. Drat that copy/paste thing!
To Preciousprncss
In response to your comment...I'm sure others have read your comments and poems besides one person. I did. Thing is, like someone said, you'll not always get comments, even though the stuff is good. Try not to see this place as a source of compliments and attention (although that may happen) think more of it as a place to release and expand. It's a bad idea to like a site, but leave it just because people may not like you or your stuff. I was just telling a friend last night, I don't understand why people look on the net for love or acceptance and why they get emotionally involved with people they've never met. I'm sure I'll get a bunch of flak for this, but man...it's weird that people become so high maitenance and they don't even know the people they're demanding from.
Wow...I gotta go back to bed.
-Teej
Ah well, I just woke up and am a grumpy
To everyone else at the blender, can someone please read something I submitted and comment on it..... I am new at the blender and if you guys like me I'll stay, but if not I can go..... thanks, alc
man, that was weird...my message was all garbled. hmmm....what's up?
Preciousprncess:
I did read "Sigh" and I have to tell you it sounds like ME a few years ago when my daughter was a baby....you do give up a huge part of yourself to these little people, but they enrich your life ten times over....you will know love in a capacity you have never experienced before. For your child, for your man and ultiamtely, for yourself. So hang in there.
I really enjoy reading everyone's work...I've only posted a few here, but you guys inspire ME to keep creating.
Sweetness
Precious...
Fishing for compliments can backfire...being snide pretty much can finish you off.I'm just a reg here, but I think you'll find TJ was pretty much on the money. And for what's it's worth, Two things influence if i comment at all---the title of the piece---and the author's name...I don't have to know someone to be interested...but i never respond to tantrums...
Just my spin...
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November Blender is here
Congrats to all the front pagers!!!!! A most excellent front page this month...*smile*
Love and shimmering sunlight, Ali
congrats to all the front pagers and kirk for his picks!!!
and lol Lady Gala, you did make comments about me trying to leave a long while ago... if i remember ..
Violet & Pepper ~
Wow, WOW, wow...congrats from Rhet. I have been reading your romance for a couple months now here at the Blender and I am so glad you two Oregonians are going legit! Many wishes of good health and happiness to you both and your families. You snagged your Birk man, didn't you Violet?
BTW - way to go on 2 front page picks. You are such a gem to have around with all your happiness and glee.
scqueen, Ali, Stephen, and Starbright,
your entries today are very well written.
scqueen - sweet, yet naughty, wrapped into one lick!
Stephen - I thought D&D was big in the 80's..is it still around?
Ali - great poem...packed full of potent similies.
B.K. - I like your entry with the contest words...steamy!
Rhetoric
Rhet~
Thank you kindly...*smile*...Glad that you liked...=)
Love and shimmering sunlight, Ali
Kirk; Thanks so much for the pick and for the wonderful place to write. With all it's strange happenings, this is the place I love to come (just to see what's going to happen next ha) I know, sometimes I am guilty of making it happen as well ha, but I was thinking, we are like one big family, we fight and make up and have bullies prey upon us that we vanquish in the name of LOVE.(and a lot of sarcasm) But hey, what is family for. You had best start planning Kirk, cause when we hit 2 million we are all coming to your house for the party. HA!
Rhet Darlin; You are a delight here you know, you give us such encouragement and I can always depend on you for a big smile one way or another and best of all your poetry makes for great reading.
SCQueen: The Keeper of My Mother's Bookcase is beautiful. What a lovely toast.
To all the Front Pagers, Bravo! Keep em coming!
bk