Padfoot's Goddess

So... Now that I have flip-flopped this journal more than a politician on a heated issue, I have reached a decision about good ol' padfootsgoddess.

The time has come to end this journal. She has served her purpose well. Now, I am ready to move on to a new journal, a new chapter in my life.

Now, several of my good friends have accused me of polluting the good world of LiveJournal by adopting numerous journals. Perhaps I am. However, for me, each journal represents a certain aspect of my life, a certain era gone by. This one came at a time when I was searching for things in my life - friendships, self-esteem, a sense of direction. I have found those things now, and thus, the mission of this journal is fulfilled.

Now I move on to new journeys in my life. My education, my career, my continued transition into this world in which we live.

You are all welcome to come along if you wish, although I forewarn you that I am not in front of a computer all that often, so updates will be sporadic at best, and I will never be able to comment the way I used to.

But I can be found at glassdolphin for those of you who are interested, feel free to add her on if you desire to do so. There are a few of you I will be dragging over regardless, you guys are stuck with me ;)

And to those of you whom I part with... It has been a wonderful delight getting to know you all. I wish you the very best in life, and keep smiling - it really is the best medicine in the world.

Much love to everyone, and I will see you... well, when I see you!

Padfoot's goddess, signing off!


You're so ordinary, you're my sanctuary in the morning, darling
New sensation, love vibration, heart to heart and a long goodbye
You go your way, I'll go my way, life is truer than fiction in this
Crazy land of milk and honey, life is just an illusion

~~~*~~~ THIS JOURNAL IS CLOSED FOR REPAIRS~~~*~~~

As you all know me so well, you know I will probably be back again someday soon, in some form. I need to evaluate just how much LJ means to me right now.

My contact info is in my profile for those of you who wish to get in touch with me.

I love you all, and will be keeping you in my thoughts.


There's an apprehensive naked little trembling boy
With his head in his hands
There's an underestimated and impatient little girl
Raising her hand

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So... I think I owe you all an update, I can't believe how many of you have stuck around! You guys are the awesome <3 (Oh, and thank you all for the birthday wishes! *grin*)

Well, where to begin? My life has been a rollercoaster this past month. Bad at times, but good more often than not.

Let's see... After nine years, I finally got a chance to see Erasure perform - and on my birthday, nonetheless! The show was amazing, I had such a good time, as did my mother (who was my company for the evening!) I hope they come around here again soon, because if they do, I'm going to go venue-hopping and see them a couple of times ;)

Okay, and for the more serious news... First of all, Lea and I were "together," but for a very short time. We dated for a few weeks, and then I got upset with her for something stupid, and then she shut down emotionally (if she was even ever very open emotionally), and we "broke up" two days later. We would not have meshed well together in a relationship at all...

And it was a good thing we broke up... One of those happenings of fate that led me to the new person I am seeing ;) I am seeing one of the most wonderful woman in the world right now. I will give more details about her in my next post (whenever that may be!), but she is an amazing person, and she makes me very happy... And I feel like I am at least one of the luckiest people alive right now :)

Other than that, things have been going well overall - work is going well (though still work, nonetheless), I've been getting out and doing things with friends (I <3 you guys!!), I've been seeing more of my family... Life is just good right now :)

I haven't read most journals in ages, I'm sorry to be so out of touch with you guys! I must say, I have not missed LJ itself that much in these past weeks... I don't know when I will be back (or if I will ever be back the way I was), or in what capacity I will be back... But I do think of you guys often. I still have to e-mail a few of you (and return e-mails from a few of you!) once I have more time to spend in front of a computer, just know that you are not forgotten!

Much love to everyone, and I hope you are all doing well! <3

WARNING: This is a LONG entry... Important to me, but the only part that everyone who reads my LJ should read is the last part (which I will not LJ cut)

So one week has passed since I started on my break from LJ. I must say, it's been a nice week overall, despite the strange and at times painful things that have happened.

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So I guess ultimately where I'm going with this is that I'm going to be continuing my LJ break indefinitely. I may resume someday with this journal. I may start a new journal. I may never come back to LJ again (though I doubt this). I may still comment here and there, I may not. I honeslty don't know exactly what is going to happen.

But my main plea is this - just because I'm gone from LJ doesn't mean I'm gone from you guys, especially if we have met or have planned on meeting someday. Obviously, there are some of you I deal with more in real life than LJ, so I'm not worried about you guys (at least I hope not!) But if not, please don't lose touch! Hopefully I'll get to send out some e-mails to some of you guys this week or next.

I hope to come back someday, and I apologize for this long, rambling, perhaps-not-totally-coherent passage... If any of you have read this all the way through, you deserve both a medal and a cookie :)

Until we meet again my friends...

So I've made a decision about LJ, to help me discover whether my heart is still in it or not...

I'm going to take a one week hiatus.

Not that this will be very different for most everyone, as I haven't been around lately, but I'm going to take one full week off of all journals - from updating, from commenting, from replying, from reading, from even visiting livejournal's website. After a week (or possibly a bit more, depending on work), I'll come back and see how I feel about things...

You all know the ways to contact me by now... I'm not shutting out people, just LJ the website... Maybe I'll be able to find the sense of peace I've been craving so desperately...

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I think this could be slightly tainted, as I just got home a little while ago from the Red Sox game ;) lol

However, it cracked me up, so it's all good!

Tried and True You scored 64 Bostonian points!

You are 100% Bostonian. Your accent is probably as thick as molasses (and this cliche kind of makes you laugh, since you know all about the molasses flood). But um, you should consider living somewhere else for a while. This place can harden you, and you don't it to become your main identifying characteristic. Take a vacation.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Bostonian

Link: The How Bostonian are you? Test written by gwentastic on Ok Cupid

I've gotten a few invites to this SMS.ac thing, does anyone know what exactly it is, or does anyone here use it? The info I have seems a bit vague, and I want to make sure I know what it is before I sign up for anything...

Thanks in advance :D

A few people have been coming to my journal wondering why I am mentioned in their spam e-mail. This is the best answer I can come up with:

Apparently someone is sending around a spam e-mail for some stocks in China or something, and there's a whole mess of gibberish that follows the ad. I have a feeling that someone just copied and pasted a bunch of random stuff so that the ad will get past spam filters (as many people I have found that have received this e-mail have spam filters set up and it gets past them every time). The gibberish at the bottom looks like journal entries / quiz results that have been copied and pasted from people's LJs, including that of one of my friends, so my name is a part of this e-mail.

At any rate, if you see this thing, just delete it, and if it keeps being an issue, I'll report it to... well, whoever it is you report to when you have spam issues :)

I haven't figured out how I'm feeling yet today...

I'm doing well overall, just a bit... blah, I suppose...

I've been working a lot... Paying bills, putting money aside...

I think I need to spend a bit more time at home... Not be on the go so much...

Or better yet, I think I need more sleep... Yep, that must be what I need...

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Hopefully a real entry to come one of these days...