a little long, but I hope you do read <3

[emothy]

I think I'm going to try and make an effort to update LJ more often again. I'm missing a lot of people I know almost solely through this site, and my circle has become way too insular in recent months. I need to expand out again, it's doing me no good. This month hasn't been kind to me so far.

It's because I hang out on plurk all the time that I've neglected LJ completely - just like twitter, you can just spam plurk all day long with short little updates, links to things. I spam mostly about tokusatsu lately - Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Kamen Rider OOO, pretty (Tenimyu) boys, and a lot of Miura Ryosuke who is just perfect. (I totally bought and now own this photobook).

But maybe I'll just consolidate all my little quick link spams and make a LJ update every day, or at least every few days so I am not driving everyone crazy. Let's try to make this a resolution, self. It doesn't need to wait until January 1st!

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Some LJ people I'd like to say hi to, because I constantly wonder if you guys know how much you mean to me, and that I totally consider you friends even if we've drifted fandoms or don't talk as much as we used to: (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, NO FAVES XD)

aliaspiral - I hope yuletide is treating you okay - no more bears! TRAP THOSE BEARS.
anenko - your comment definitely helped motivate me to make this post <3 I am so glad you're doing better, and I hope you're back for good. I think considering what an understanding person you are, and how aware you are of others feelings, you have to deal with way too much crap from fandom and I often dislike 'them' for it :|
chelshock - I am following your nailart tumblr all the time just so you know! I love following your creations, especially the free-drawn things, like the Christmas and Halloween designs :D ALSO I MISS YOUR SUGAR GLIDERS, PICSPAM SOON <3
pendingprogress - it's been a while, I hope you're doing okay! I really miss your epic updates, which I of course read completely even if I don't always have anything to comment on :) (And when I do I do that annoying thing where I just agree with all your common sense XD)
sour_kitty - if I regret one thing about falling off of LJ it's not commenting on all of your posts XD I miss us talking all the time! I miss MSN Messenger just because of you!
truntles - SO GLAD to see you back on LJ in recent weeks and months, it was not the same without you <3 I love your photos and your icons too! How is work treating you?
willowcabin - is it weird that I just find following your life insanely interesting? I think I could say this for the other people on my flist living in my country, because there's something warm and familiar about the no-nonsense British attitude. You're still one of the best fic writers ever <3

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Honestly, I've wanted to do this any number of times before now, for a long time. But I worry about who I might offend if I leave them out, things like that. This is precisely why I decided against Christmas presents this year, even small ones, because people know people, and if someone doesn't get something will they be offended? These are the things I worry about.

Also I've had the experience in the past of not just not getting any real kind of thank you, but not even getting acknowledgment that someone received their gift. I had to chase them up about it, and it's not a nice feeling. So, once bitten, twice shy - these are some reasons why I don't do holiday cards :)

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I was supposed to be ironing but I derailed myself by writing this. Never mind!

I'm going to finish off by saying hi to all the usual suspects - YOU PEOPLE, I hope you already know I care, or else I must totally suck <3

(Oh yes I am copping out on all the usernames, I have chores to do now you know! XD)

Comments

[anenko.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

I understand getting drawn in by other sites. I was using Tumblr pretty heavily for a while. It's so much easier posting nothing of importance there than on LJ.