I can believe that this is a busy time of year. So many people have had their birthdays come and while some are only a few days away. Some of you know that I don't celebrate my birthday...well, not quite the way most people do. I don't party hard, get drunk, or do whatever most people do becuase I'm not them. I do 'celebrate,' it's just in my own ( Read more... )

Ever realized how powerful and invigorating a simple smile can be? If you haven't, you be surprised. I wake with one every morning and it makes the day go by much more smoothly. You feel great about yourself. Your good mood spreads to others and theirs to others. It's like a disease...an incredibly healthy one ( Read more... )

I've recently discovered that anime no longer holds any interest for me. I have so much of it--there are still series that I haven't finished, mind you--that I don't know what to do with it all. I've no desire to buy more or watch anime outside of what I own, which is partly due to the declining US anime market. The only anime I was interested in ( Read more... )

You know, we live in mainly a materialistic world with money being the ultimate power and all that mumbo jumbo. I can't deny it. I've fallen into that trap on several ocassions. Heck, I've recently noticed how materialistic I actually am! Buy this, buy that, then when it comes to buying something I really need, I never have the cash! I do really ( Read more... )

You know, I've been considering the concept of friendship lately. What exactly constitutes a friendship? Is it a bond formed from a shared experience? Each person seeing a part of hisself/herself in the other? I think we all have out own answer; our own way of vaguely defining friendship beyond it's literal meaning. We all have those incredible ( Read more... )