Silverthorne

Which I like driving in MUCH better than ice! ^^

Okay, so two doesn't equal a plague, but still. Another gecko has found its way into my life...and my office.

Don't think it's the same one--it's bigger and orange-tinted (The smaller guy was yellow-brown). Found him behind the coffee pot though when I moved it to put water in it.

He's kinda cute, actually. Other than chasing him off behind desk's wall partition so I don't accidentally squish him, I let him be. Outside is two wall cracks away, and it's definitely warmer in here, and I don't mind the free bug control.

...That's the second one in a month or so, though. Gecko=Lizard=Dreaming.

Wonder if I should be looking into that?

Also: a reason to actually like living in Texas:

Got to see a lovely fireworks display in the form of a huge thunderstorm cell two states to the east. Absolutely gorgeous (although the people located under the storm may beg to differ). You don't get to see that in foresty or hilly places (unless it's the foothills in Tucson, and the storm is coming in at the opposite end of the valley.).

Although, if you've been around certain places in LJ land, you already know that.

Well, I found a reason to like Texas. Got to see a whole flock of monarch butterflies headed for the Amazon fly over the hospital where I worked today.

All I have to say is: Wow. Gorgeous. Damn, those guys are BIG. They can fly really high too, and they're really, really graceful for butterflies. I mistook some of the larger, higher ones for birds at first with the way they were flying. No jerky fluttering with these insect kings. Nope.

It was certainly one way to get my dose of 'nature appreciation' in for the day. And I was glad for it.

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I haven't been updating this journal much if at all. Part of the reason is because what I used to use it for is passing and going from my life. I don't need to whine anymore. Don't need someone else holding my hand every time a funny feeling tries to whack me over the head. My daily herbal dosages finally got me all straightened out emotionally, so I'm not the insane wretch I was at the beginning of the year. So the need for freaked-out nut posts haven't even entered my mind to write down.

There's also the fact that after I took a month break from LJ RP, I went back, joined a totally frivolous site as a canon character from a John Carpenter movie that I like (Doesn't hurt that I liked the...um...'actor' playing the lead role, either. Although not in that OMGSQUEE! Way.).

If you care, the main pup I have is derek_bliss. If you check that one out, be sure to check some of the journals he has on his flist--some great talent there, from all different places. (And some great people IRL as well).

I've just been having insane fun. I'm no longer at the original site, although I have joined another similar to it (as well as been invited into and joined several others), and have just been having the time of my RPing life. No stress, no worries, no trying to prove anything. Just having FUN, which is really what RP is all about.

I think that was part of my problem. I wanted so hard to 'belong', that I was way too worried about being approved of and being part of 'The Cool Kids' rather than just sitting back and enjoying a good RP. Obviously, I wasn't in my right mind to put that ahead of just being human and enjoying myself.

I'm just glad I figured it out and got on with life.

Anyhow, so yeah. Having fun, have a lot of new friends that are just a hoot to hang out with, and are some awesome RPer's as well, whether canon, fanon, OC or just Plain Goofing Around. Actually learning a lot about different fandoms I've either abandoned over the years or never got into. Online, my life is great.

Offline, it's doing great too. *g*

Been a whole month.

Ah well, been having fun elsewhere. Suppose I should type something though...dust off the old LJ...

( Mindless rambling in a reality to forget... )

Maybe....

( Nature has the best crayons.... )

( Hint: Just because their back is to you, doesn't mean they cannot see you... )