Egged on by delicatetruth!

Pick 15 of your LJ friends and say something about them--something you wouldn't be able to say to their faces.

I, as well, have cheated somewhat in that a fair number of these apply to more than one person, and at least two were deliberately phrased that way. It doesn't make the sentiments any less true, however.

♥ You have the most generous heart of anyone I've ever met. I sometimes wish I tell you just how awesome you are, but I'm always afraid I'll scare you off.
♥ Even though we hardly get to talk anymore, I still value your opinion over almost anyone else. I can't be selfish about you, though--even though I want to be. I miss you.
♥ I wish I could have your hugs and awesome points of view around me all the time. You live too far away!!
♥ It's probably silly of me, but I feel almost in awe that we're mutual friends. I really value your opinion and nearly every post you make is unique and interesting. I could never tell you to your face, so this is as close as I am going to get.
♥ Even though it took a mental breakdown on my part to talk to you more, I wouldn't change that for the world. Thanks for being there for me.
♥ Is it cheating to say I just like you in that I can't pick something specific because when I think of you, I just get this feeling of 'she's awesome?'
♥ There wasn't a week that went by when I was on hiatus from LJ that I didn't think about you. You are made of awesome, and I'm daily honored to be your friend.
♥ You have such an adorable cheerfulness to you that never failed to make me happy when we talked. I really miss that, now that I don't stay up late like I used to!
♥ You have done things with your life I only hope I have the guts to do someday. I miss talking to you, but I feel like I don't deserve to because I dropped off the map; I hope you forgive me for that.
♥ Your job is important, and the way you love it makes me proud to be your friend. I know we don't talk much, but I'm glad I get a glimpse into that world every so often.
♥ Reading in your journal about the amazing things you're doing with your life is inspiring--and on top of that, you have a way about you that seems to infect us all with happiness! It's a disease!!!
♥ I feel like I want to drive out to where you are and help fight your battles for you. Since I can't, know that I'm shaking my fists at the people that hurt you all the same.
♥ There's just something so awesome about liking the same things as someone I like and respect! It sounds so simple, but it means a great deal.
♥ Even before I got to talk to you and read your journal, I admired what you did and how you did it. You're an amazing writer, and I'm proud to know you.
♥ You have a really great way of saying 'this is me, take it or leave it.' You let those of us on your f-list see the good, the awesome, and the sucky, and I want you to know that all of it was worth reading.

Alice, a bridal shower, and fandom

Karnak turban'd, I hold an envelope to my head and say: a Tori Amos song.

Today I saw an icon of Ann B. Davis with some smartass remark on it with profanity and it was an incredibly surreal experience. I mean, I KNOW her, and she would *never* react like that, but... who am I to say that to somebody? Haven't I made smartass remark icons of people I didn't know and thought it was clever?

I have a bridal shower to go to tomorrow. It's for a girl I knew in college, and if it wasn't for her, I might not have met my husband the second time and ended up marrying him! She went to high school with him and in a very odd twist (as we were pretty close friends that spent quite a bit of time in each other's company during my year+ at college), was furiously angry at me without even knowing who I was, back then. She had a crush on him and he'd asked me to the prom and I'd refused, so he didn't go. She wanted him to go with her--as you can imagine, it was an interesting conversation when we'd figured all of that out three or four years later!

I don't have anything nice to wear, since I don't ever go anywhere. I don't know why I agreed to go (I don't know anyone but her and my mother-in-law, who is also invited), because I usually avoid stuff like this like the plague. To top it off I've been procrastinating about getting my license photo taken so I can't drive there myself because I refuse to risk getting a huge ticket for an invalid license. G is not pleased, but the shower isn't far from his parents' house, so he can chill there at least.

I was blatantly stalking perusing serade_black's userinfo early this morning and discovered an award issued by the host site of grangerenchant, a Hermione website and fanfiction archive. The graphics are gorgeous, and I got a pleasant surprise when I began to upload TSIK there--I got a mail from one of the two mods saying that she and her co-mod recognized me from fanfiction.net and were opening up the queue for me, so I didn't have to wait to have anything verified before it was posted. I was completely charmed and honored by that! There are some great stories on there, I would definitely check it out.

On the new site Immeritus, there's this post-count thing (muggle, first year, etc) so people can tell if you're new, as well as a karma/smite button. Of course the mods have like +15 karma but what I thought was so cool was, I found a bug in the site and posted about it (and the site is all scary about newcomers and what not to post and such), and the mod gave me +1 karma! So now I'm a Muggle with like a 9 postcount and I have karma. *feels special*