one more miracle

I was just looking at my profile and I noticed... I have exactly 300 people friended! Whee! And coincidentally enough, this is exactly my 1,400th post! That's... a lot of babbling *g*

I'll take this moment to say how much I appreciate all of you. I've found such an incredible community here, and met some of my best friends in the whole world, and I'm so grateful for everything LJ has brought to me. Even amidst all the kerfluffle (which I have completely mixed feelings on, sigh) my love for LJ, and the people I know here, is boundless. I love you all! *hugs tight*

Completely unrelatedly, my 5 year old cousin is currently watching Power Rangers, and it's pretty much hilarious. This seems to be some kind of turning point episode, so they've been recapping some history, and they showed the original Power Rangers that I watched when I was a kid. Tommy was sooooo hot, guys, and I adored Kimberly! *g* I am very amused.

Guess what I did last night? I beat the mayor of Lancaster, PA at poker! It was incredibly surreal. Oxfam held a Charity Game Night Gala to raise money, and we asked the mayor to come! His secretary said "he would try," so I was like, pffft... yeah right. And then he was THERE. I wish there had been a better turn out to the event to be a bit more impressive, but he was very gracious and nice and thanked us for caring about people. And gave a donation. And the event itself raised $800!! All that goes to a local organization that helps the homeless in Lancaster. So all in all it was quite a success, and we're very pleased. Yay Oxfam!

I bought the season 2 Stargate Atlantis official companion because I am totally a whore for this show :D It's a fun read, with comments from all the cast and producers and whatnots about each episode and character and suchforth. The most disappointing thing I came across, however, was this: Joe Flanigan was originally planning on writing what he calls a "McKay and Sheppard story," but because the idea was too similar to two SG-1 episodes, they went an entirely different direction and what we got was... Epiphany. You know, the one with the meditating space-bimbo and John in a beard chewing on hay and, oh yeah, MALP-on-a-stick! Booo. I do however find it fun that this episode led indirectly to my most favoritest McShep moment of the whole season - because John had the experience with the meditating crazy Ascended wannabes, Elizabeth assigned him to help Rodney meditate, which led to the scene in John's quarters at the end of Tao of Rodney, which, yaknow, ♥♥&hearts. So there is a silver lining! *laughs*

On a general note, I feel really disconnected from fandom right now. My extent of livejournal interaction is scrolling through my flist to get the gist, because I don't have time for any more. I have approximately 40 tabs of Supernatural fic open, and have neither the time nor the inclination to read any of them. I do read at least a SGA fic or two every day. I feel obscurely guilty about that :-/ This damned SPN hiatus needs to be over, now! But I really do miss you guys and miss being really involved... I just can't fix it right now. I'm sorry and I love you all, I really do. And to all my friends going through tough times - my heart is with you, and I wish you the very very best. *hugs everyone*

So, darling flist, I have something to ask of you. I have an assignment for my race in America class for tomorrow which is to give a four-minute presentation about our ancestry and how they came to live in America, and their experiences on that journey. However, my history is extremely boring - they came over from Scotland, the end. And that's just one quarter of my background! I have no clue about the rest of it, and no way of figuring it out.

SO! Here's where you come in. We're allowed to adopt someone else's ancestry to report to the class if ours is too boring. It's best if we can relate it to the topics we've been studying, which cover a broad range of themes throughout history, from colonization to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and everything in between. So I want you to tell me your stories! Do you have an interesting, colorful ancestry? I'd love if you would share it with me. Just a general picture, something that can be explained briefly and simply. I can leave your name unconnected with it if you prefer. You can either comment here, or email me at starlight1013@gmail.com. Either way, I might have some questions for you, and I'd like if you could answer them tonight, since it's... due tomorrow. Oops.

I'd really appreciate your help! A lot! Thanks in advance to anyone who replies! :)

I take it all back! I just talked to my daddy and my history is definitely interesting enough to fill four minutes, and it's best to go with my own story anyway, since I have more than a vague sense of it. Thank you so much to all you that replied! ♥

My LJ informs me that today is BIRTHDAYTASTIC! Oh my goodness! :O So here goes...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY lyra_wing!!! I first got to know your fic, but gradually we started to talk more through comments, and then AIM, and I'm so glad we have! You are an absolute sweetheart, and a GENIUS to boot. Seriously, I want to reside in your head right next to your Sam and Dean so I can watch them be either delightfully subtexty together or just outright porny *grins* Talking to you always brings a smile to my face, and I hope you have the wonderful birthday that you deserve. *huggles*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY femmenerd!!! You are such a unique, awesome person! I am so glad to know you. It's super fun to have a fellow Faith worshipper to squeal with, and just in general you are so smart and entertaining and talented. I'm so glad to have you on my flist. I hope you have a fantastic day, dear! *huggles too*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY notthequiettype!!! Ash! You have a heart of gold. Seriously, you are just so warm and kind and friendly, it's a joy to have you on my flist. I hope your day is totally splendiferous! *huggles even more*

Whew! I love you all! ♥

Happy Valentines Day to my beautiful flist!

There are many and sundry of you whom I need to shower love upon personally, but that will have to wait until this evening. But for now, I just want to say, that I am so grateful for you all, for this community I belong to. Without you I don't know how I would make it! You are all so joyous and fun and kind and generous and sweet and lovely and my life is far better with you in it. Thank you for being extremely awesomesauce. ♥♥♥♥♥

(On an unrelated note, my orgo teacher is CRUEL. I get an email from him a few minutes ago titled "class" and I'm like EEEEE NO CLASS!! but of course it says 'Yes. Class at 8:00.' *cries*)

ETA: Just to be clear, SOCK ME, BITCHES! :D