Eternal Refuge

I'm sure you've seen this all over your various f-lists by now, but I'm going on the record:

I do have FaceBook account, but I don't really want RL friends stumbling here .
 
I don't Twitter. 

Please don't mark your comments to my posts for either. Much love and thanks!

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And therefore - any of my f-list can be reassured that I won't be linking my stuff back to Facebook.

James Marsters - The Official Page (FaceBook)
To all my American fans have a very safe and happy Fourth of July holiday. To all my French fans here's to a great upcoming Bastille Day. To all my UK fans happy St. Swithun's Day (what is that?) and to the rest of the universe - much peace and love.
James


Now you know why I still go to Facebook occasionally - great to see a message from James. 

Funny that USA and France have days of celebration and holiday ... Britain has a day discussing the weather!

And, so I continue with my Picture Meme that I snagged from hell0kittyangel ...

Day 1 — Your Best Friend ... Toni
Day 2 — Your crush ... James Marsters
Day 3 — Your Parents ... Mum and Dad
Day 4 — Your sibling ... Nick & Tim
Day 5 — Your dreams ... here
Day 6 — A Stranger ... here

Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush

When I posted a picture of my dreams (as well as over the last few years) people said sweet things ... but the reason I think I will always be single is that this space has to stay blank ... there is no ex-boyfriend to post a picture of ... there is no X

Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend

This is hard to decide, as one or two of my LJ friends are truly special people ... and mean so much to me - more than they probably realise.  However I again don't want to either decide a favourite (I have a few!) ... or post a picture of them.

So, I decided to post a picture of someone that I am now back in contact with due to the "awful" FaceBook!!  Annemarie is 3 years younger than me, her brother, Stefan, is 1/2 way between the 2 of us - and we have known each other for ever.

Her parents were missionaries, and used to come to us when they were on furlough.  When she married in 1989, I (and M&D) travelled out to Michigan, and I was her maid-of-honour.  She had spent 6 months living with us a couple of years prior and we were great friends.

I last saw her when I was in Colorado in 1994, and slowly we lost touch ... she is still married, but has had some tough year - now we are back in touch, and I hope to regain the closeness we had.  Maybe we will meet again - but as she lives in Idaho, I do doubt it, unless she gets over here.

( Annemarie and Stefan )

It's one of those debates that we all have over the years - I tend to think that a bit of both is true ... I see myself in both my brothers, and my parents; but also know that most of my reactions are due to my life as a teenager.

However on Saturday I was at my mum's cousins funeral and met a second cousin who I hadn't seen in years.  Nigel is 17 years older than me ... yet as we were chatting it was actually scary how alike we were!  He also made me laugh as he was sying how like his dad my mum was!  And, just before we left he answered me on mums behalf ... just before she said the exact same sentance!  So, although we have different lives and upbringing, we are so alike!

Life has been busy this morning - registering unemployed ... filling out forms ... and then a chat with Toni as she wanted to know how I was.

Later this afternoon I'm off to stay at Ros & Fred's as they are away overnight and they have an elderly dog ... so I am looking after Ben ... but no internet again!  So, I'm trying to catch up with my junk.

Hope you like the latest Souffy icon I have - sorry to say they remain as my #1 fandom (well, if you don't count James, of course) ... but wanted to say I really enjoyed the last 2 episodes of Dr Who ... I haven't really got into the series, and didn't like the angels last time - but these 2 episodes were great.  I also am enjoying Vampire Diaries, which is running the 1st season at present.

I still don't get FaceBook, though! ...  I still keep my FaceBook account so I can keep in vague touch with my teenage nephews, and a couple of cousins and RL friends.  I don't meet my nephews often and when we do they are ver non-communicative. However last time I saw them both the eldest two spoke of FB things ... so at least I now have a contact on their level - sad, but true.

I still don't like the layout, the games, etc ... but at present it stays and I ignore the rest.  Over the last few months, because I have a picture of myself with James, a lot of friends of friends of mine add me, as I am a fan of James - so loads of names that I haven't a clue about.  Another reason I like it here - I try to get to know my f-list, whether we ever get to meet in RL, or not. It's not just a way of filling some time .... even though I end up spending some time of each day here!!!

Oh well - that's me up to date - as well as having a small vent about my hate of FB!

Hope you all have a good day.
 

Well - maybe not the guy himself ... but at least a quote!

I still don't like FaceBook, but do try to spend about 2 mins a day there to keep up with people ... including my nephews.  However I was met by this today :-

According to a fan report, James and Gareth were signing autographs yesterday in Melbourne when Gareth asked to hold someone's nine-day old baby that they had brought with them. He was cradling it and cooing, and James leant over and said "best fan gift ever!"

Hope you all have a good week.

BTW - was it just me, or did LJ log you out this morning ... or do they have it in for me at present??