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shamanicshayminThings Puri is Thankful For
1. My video games, frankly enough. XD "Pokémon" kept me alive during middle school, it was "Kirby" and "Mario" that entertained me all my life, starting from childhood... and in a way, with "Sonic", I'm seeing more of the world than I ever thought possible.
2. Winamp/My CDs/Various Artists. Without music, I wouldn't exist. They're what moves me, they're there to give me a shoulder to cry on, they're there for me to fangirl... wether it be cheerful Katamari dance or OMG DEATH METAL EMO WANGST, a dreamy piano melody or dark scrapes and screaming, something contemporary or the 70s, each song offers me something different... and they give the same thing too, and that, my friends, is inspiration. :)
3. My family, believe it or not. Much as I've often complained and wangsted and wanted to move out of the house into college, I'm grateful I have Mom & Dad for my parents. And I've never taken them for granted, not since I was dragged into foster care with my siblings a couple years or so ago. Dad gets BEYOND frustrating at times, but who else has a great sense of humor and serves as the Comic*Relief Punching*Bag for board games? (Mom and I are giving him "Phantom of the Opera" and "Scarlet Letter" DVDs in his stocking for Christmas--he HATES Andrew Lloyd Weber and Nathaniel Hawthorne, but it's HIS fault for being bad this year. ;D DON'T tell him this, okay? It'll ruin everything, and we DO have a true present for him) Mom, I'm grateful for, because she really does care, and she's often saner than Dad. My sister, despite past issues and while I'm still often afraid to approach her, you've guided me through life in many things and always pushed me to be strong/do my best when I was getting whiny, and introduced me to a lot of key interests as well (Animé, Manga, yaoi, and such), and I sincerely hope you do well in college and get yourself published~
And my brother, much as he can cause problems and annoy the HELL out of me (And be a prodigy in video games and get REAL whiny and a poor sport when you're not winning), we sort of have a mutual acceptance of each other these days--the Girl From Hell (As Mom and I called her) came to our house and started beating up poor Amanda, and I saw my brother and well... he looked as irritated as I did. And I was happy HE was MY brother. My own younger brother, I'm his older sister. (And we're both autistic by the way, though my brother's got it more severe)
Finally! I'm thankful for Amanda and Freddie, our two Bischon Frise doggies. *nodnod* Amanda's been with me since... I don't know, 1998 or when I was ten. She's been through a lot like almost dying because she swallowed one of Dad's old coins and had to undergo surgery when they FINALLY figured out what's wrong with her (and almost too late), and she's still her playful uppity self she's always been since we've first got her. And Freddie Mercury (Yes, after the lead singer of Queen. ;D) is really growing up and is almost as big as Amanda now. He hasn't had an accident in the house since forever, and we've been letting him go into our rooms. He's really sweet, and he and Amanda play with each other CONSTANTLY and it's adorable as hell (though a bit of a nightmare if you're in your room trying to play Gameboy, as they tend to jump about all around my bed). Mom said she wanted Amanda to have a doggie companion because she seemed so lonely... and well, with Freddie, her wish came true. :)
4. My friends. GUH, how can I start with you guys!? T_________T For making me laugh, participating in intelletual insight over fandom, over characters, over ships, over life... Some of the funnest times I've ever had were with you guys. Oh yeah, the artists on my flists? (You know who you are! ;D) Your range of sketches and art and paintings just inspire me and bring me so much joy, be they gorgeous, cartoony, even crapsketch*stick figures, seeing my flist fill with pictures bring me so much color in my life. And you Iconner/Fanficcer people, GUH. *____________* Your stuff all the motiviates me to work harder on mine so they're just as worthy to stand beside yours. Creativity bursts forth, and that makes me happy~
5. The Internet, for showing me life and what goes on in the real world, for helping me find my place in the world, AND my friends.
6. My appreciation for the beauty of nature and love of life. I feel SO sorry for people cooped up in their gray, dusty rooms, smoking crack and feeling either apathetic or sorry for themselves. 'Cause while YES, the world and people CAN suck, there's always another reason to keep going--unlike the unlucky emo kid or stuck-up prep, I can fall in love with a blooming rose, a hatched monarch just fluttering about my Dad's garden. How cool and wonderful the weather is, and what a nice puffy cloud up there--the simple things are just so easy to find, and they're everywhere. *_______* I even think rainy days are beautiful, because of the cool rain and the wonderful coolness around me before it downpours. Then seeing a faint rainbow somewhere in the sky... I wouldn't find life--or myself, meaningless at all. I was given something to love, something to care for... it makes it all worth it in the end.
7. Rabid fans/elitists, Archie Comix, SCARY Sonadow fangirls (and other shippers!), Christopher Thorndyke, everything else that's sucky in the world, etc. etc. Thanks, you provide me examples of what NOT to be, AND you never fail to bring me motivation and kick me in the pants when I'm feeling lost/about to give up when dealing with life and fandom. Oh yeah, and being fun dart targets. ;D
8. My broken purple Gameboy Color. It's been with me for SO long, it's my Special*Antique, dammit. (Except I can't find it ANYWHERE, and I hope it turns up when I look for it again. T-T I'm convinced it's with my other Gameboy stuff...) Cussy the Teddy Bear, since he's been with me since... well, I was REALLY young, probably a 3 or 4-year-old. Without you and ten gajillion other stuffed animals, I would've been alone and afraid in my room, without a friend. Even as a 17-year-old, I STILL feel the need to huggle something. Finally, the plushie of Shadow the Hedgehog Dad and I won together on Ebay last Christmas--I cling to him whenever I have the chance when I lie in bed to rest. He's become a Treasured*Possesion, and I don't want to lose him. @.@
9. Sonic & Shadow. For existing and bringing ten billion stuff to fangirl. XDDDD;;; *NUCLEAR WEAPON'D!* Actually, all my favorite video game/Animé/Manga/etc. characters for giving me something to squee about, and for being my friends/somewhat role models when I found myself disappointed/disgusted with people IRL. Whether it be Toadette's uppityness, Geno's intelligence, Luigi's shyness, or Bowser's softiness, you all give me a reason to smile no matter how miserable a day. :-)
10. For knowing how to laugh and have a sense of humor. Because seriously enough (Haha, 4KIDS pun. *SHOT'D!), it's laughter that's keeping us alive, and we're not doing enough of it. We'll get sick without it--I know I need all the jokes I can, and if I'm giggling over something, it's a good sign Puri's healthy and won't go scary and dead on you. XDDDD;;;
11. For being alive. Because breathing itself is beautiful.
12. Learning to love. Hating hurts and eats you up inside, while love brings you the warm fuzzies and a reason to be happy~
I was relistening to the entire "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy" CD on Winamp as I wrote this. XDDD;; (Mwee~ This is a cute song. :D)
(It's sure making me hungry, though...) Puri wishes the Turkey would hurry up and finish cooking. XDDD;;; She wants to feast~!
1. My video games, frankly enough. XD "Pokémon" kept me alive during middle school, it was "Kirby" and "Mario" that entertained me all my life, starting from childhood... and in a way, with "Sonic", I'm seeing more of the world than I ever thought possible.
2. Winamp/My CDs/Various Artists. Without music, I wouldn't exist. They're what moves me, they're there to give me a shoulder to cry on, they're there for me to fangirl... wether it be cheerful Katamari dance or OMG DEATH METAL EMO WANGST, a dreamy piano melody or dark scrapes and screaming, something contemporary or the 70s, each song offers me something different... and they give the same thing too, and that, my friends, is inspiration. :)
3. My family, believe it or not. Much as I've often complained and wangsted and wanted to move out of the house into college, I'm grateful I have Mom & Dad for my parents. And I've never taken them for granted, not since I was dragged into foster care with my siblings a couple years or so ago. Dad gets BEYOND frustrating at times, but who else has a great sense of humor and serves as the Comic*Relief Punching*Bag for board games? (Mom and I are giving him "Phantom of the Opera" and "Scarlet Letter" DVDs in his stocking for Christmas--he HATES Andrew Lloyd Weber and Nathaniel Hawthorne, but it's HIS fault for being bad this year. ;D DON'T tell him this, okay? It'll ruin everything, and we DO have a true present for him) Mom, I'm grateful for, because she really does care, and she's often saner than Dad. My sister, despite past issues and while I'm still often afraid to approach her, you've guided me through life in many things and always pushed me to be strong/do my best when I was getting whiny, and introduced me to a lot of key interests as well (Animé, Manga, yaoi, and such), and I sincerely hope you do well in college and get yourself published~
And my brother, much as he can cause problems and annoy the HELL out of me (And be a prodigy in video games and get REAL whiny and a poor sport when you're not winning), we sort of have a mutual acceptance of each other these days--the Girl From Hell (As Mom and I called her) came to our house and started beating up poor Amanda, and I saw my brother and well... he looked as irritated as I did. And I was happy HE was MY brother. My own younger brother, I'm his older sister. (And we're both autistic by the way, though my brother's got it more severe)
Finally! I'm thankful for Amanda and Freddie, our two Bischon Frise doggies. *nodnod* Amanda's been with me since... I don't know, 1998 or when I was ten. She's been through a lot like almost dying because she swallowed one of Dad's old coins and had to undergo surgery when they FINALLY figured out what's wrong with her (and almost too late), and she's still her playful uppity self she's always been since we've first got her. And Freddie Mercury (Yes, after the lead singer of Queen. ;D) is really growing up and is almost as big as Amanda now. He hasn't had an accident in the house since forever, and we've been letting him go into our rooms. He's really sweet, and he and Amanda play with each other CONSTANTLY and it's adorable as hell (though a bit of a nightmare if you're in your room trying to play Gameboy, as they tend to jump about all around my bed). Mom said she wanted Amanda to have a doggie companion because she seemed so lonely... and well, with Freddie, her wish came true. :)
4. My friends. GUH, how can I start with you guys!? T_________T For making me laugh, participating in intelletual insight over fandom, over characters, over ships, over life... Some of the funnest times I've ever had were with you guys. Oh yeah, the artists on my flists? (You know who you are! ;D) Your range of sketches and art and paintings just inspire me and bring me so much joy, be they gorgeous, cartoony, even crapsketch*stick figures, seeing my flist fill with pictures bring me so much color in my life. And you Iconner/Fanficcer people, GUH. *____________* Your stuff all the motiviates me to work harder on mine so they're just as worthy to stand beside yours. Creativity bursts forth, and that makes me happy~
5. The Internet, for showing me life and what goes on in the real world, for helping me find my place in the world, AND my friends.
6. My appreciation for the beauty of nature and love of life. I feel SO sorry for people cooped up in their gray, dusty rooms, smoking crack and feeling either apathetic or sorry for themselves. 'Cause while YES, the world and people CAN suck, there's always another reason to keep going--unlike the unlucky emo kid or stuck-up prep, I can fall in love with a blooming rose, a hatched monarch just fluttering about my Dad's garden. How cool and wonderful the weather is, and what a nice puffy cloud up there--the simple things are just so easy to find, and they're everywhere. *_______* I even think rainy days are beautiful, because of the cool rain and the wonderful coolness around me before it downpours. Then seeing a faint rainbow somewhere in the sky... I wouldn't find life--or myself, meaningless at all. I was given something to love, something to care for... it makes it all worth it in the end.
7. Rabid fans/elitists, Archie Comix, SCARY Sonadow fangirls (and other shippers!), Christopher Thorndyke, everything else that's sucky in the world, etc. etc. Thanks, you provide me examples of what NOT to be, AND you never fail to bring me motivation and kick me in the pants when I'm feeling lost/about to give up when dealing with life and fandom. Oh yeah, and being fun dart targets. ;D
8. My broken purple Gameboy Color. It's been with me for SO long, it's my Special*Antique, dammit. (Except I can't find it ANYWHERE, and I hope it turns up when I look for it again. T-T I'm convinced it's with my other Gameboy stuff...) Cussy the Teddy Bear, since he's been with me since... well, I was REALLY young, probably a 3 or 4-year-old. Without you and ten gajillion other stuffed animals, I would've been alone and afraid in my room, without a friend. Even as a 17-year-old, I STILL feel the need to huggle something. Finally, the plushie of Shadow the Hedgehog Dad and I won together on Ebay last Christmas--I cling to him whenever I have the chance when I lie in bed to rest. He's become a Treasured*Possesion, and I don't want to lose him. @.@
9. Sonic & Shadow. For existing and bringing ten billion stuff to fangirl. XDDDD;;; *NUCLEAR WEAPON'D!* Actually, all my favorite video game/Animé/Manga/etc. characters for giving me something to squee about, and for being my friends/somewhat role models when I found myself disappointed/disgusted with people IRL. Whether it be Toadette's uppityness, Geno's intelligence, Luigi's shyness, or Bowser's softiness, you all give me a reason to smile no matter how miserable a day. :-)
10. For knowing how to laugh and have a sense of humor. Because seriously enough (Haha, 4KIDS pun. *SHOT'D!), it's laughter that's keeping us alive, and we're not doing enough of it. We'll get sick without it--I know I need all the jokes I can, and if I'm giggling over something, it's a good sign Puri's healthy and won't go scary and dead on you. XDDDD;;;
11. For being alive. Because breathing itself is beautiful.
12. Learning to love. Hating hurts and eats you up inside, while love brings you the warm fuzzies and a reason to be happy~
I was relistening to the entire "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy" CD on Winamp as I wrote this. XDDD;; (Mwee~ This is a cute song. :D)
(It's sure making me hungry, though...) Puri wishes the Turkey would hurry up and finish cooking. XDDD;;; She wants to feast~!
