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At the end of the tunnel there's a glimmer of light... |
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Hey everyone!! So I wonder how many of your recognize the lyrics I used as my title? Kudos to whoever can...and who knows maybe a small prize... I'll give you a hint- it's form a play!!
Anyhow, life for me has been a whirlwind of stuff lately as far as romance goes. I dated someone for more than 4 years and after some events and stupidity on both our parts we parted ways and it was so sudden and hurtful. But I started to get better until I found out he dated another girl for some time. Well as you know by my last journal entry I am in Brazil and he and I had seen each other before I left and we agreed we couldn't just end things and we would figure things out when I get back, but when I found this out I felt the ground falling from my feet. But then he said he does want to be with me and that this thing he had with the other girl helped him realize that he wanted to be with me and I am so happy- still hurt and confused but happy! I know for some people this is so ...gag...but I am very happy and glad things come out and..wll that at the end of the tunnel there's a glimmer of light biggrin
Also know guys that the Lord is powerful and wonderful and amazing. He is there for us when we are down and when we need him. Prayer is strong and He rejoices when we seek Him.
Friends are also our strength, and they are there for us whenever we need them
If you are down, pray be with friends and yes have a good cry. Things will get better!
heart Phantastic Phanatic
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 Phantastic Phanatic · Sun Aug 10, 2008 @ 03:54am · 0 Comments |
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Hey everyone, so it really has been ages since I've updated my journal! Right now I;m in summer vacation from the University and am visiting some friends in Brazil. It's amazing here! It is the first time that I've come here and I am truly in awe. I'm also doing quite well with learning Portuguese. I think knowing Spanish definetly helps, but also hinders. If you dont know, I'll give you an idea - about 50% of words in Spanish and Portuguese are the same (maybe a slight change in spelling and/or pronunciation) and the other half is completely different so sometimes it helps since you understand more and kind of know whats going on but sometimes you think a word that is in Spanish will be the same in Portuguese so you aren;t even sure what language you are speaking!! But it has been great, and I;ve learned a lot!!
One of the many exciting things Im doing here is taking an art class, which really is a lot chepaer here than back in the states, since there anything related to arts or manual labor is pretty expensive. I am almost done with my first oil on canvas painting and am super extatic about it!! I've always been interested in art and have always been willing to try many different forms of it and I must say I have found yet another which I like very much and I hope to continue painting more!!
Also its been almost 3 years since I joined GAIA and since then I've collected a lot of items...so I'm slowly trying sell items I;m not interested in, or haven't really used. The problem is I'm very indecisive! I know that some, well most are just store items and some that aren't really that expensive but I think are cute and even though I don't use them much or even at all (as in I haven't touched them in more than 6 months) but still I feel that if I sell them I'm gonna want to use them shortly after I do...sigh...well we'll see how that goes! Anyhow that's all for now,
Toodlez!
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Phantastic Phanatic · Tue Jul 15, 2008 @ 09:01pm · 0 Comments |
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PHANTOM DEATH MASQUE!!!!!! |
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Carolina finally got a Phantom Death Masque, why im jumping for joy! I definetly watched the 04 movie again to celebrate. Im real happy, becaue I sold a 2007 thank you letter set and was able to purcahse the mask at a pretty good price! I was going ofr tickets but it was taking painfully long, and there are other ticket items id love to get. Probably the happiest Ive been about dishing out nearly 100k for an item. Its also a good enough reason to update my gaia journal! Woot! I shall be flaunting my mask now, and im off to listen to my other phantom soundtracks!
Love
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Phantastic Phanatic · Sun Dec 09, 2007 @ 07:49pm · 1 Comments |
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Halloween and Gaia Cash Shop |
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Wowza, its been a while! Why in my last entry I was talking about the summer festival, and about being patient until the Halloween event and here we are, right smack in the middle of it! And it is so great! I love it, its so creative and original, and the plotlines and stuff don't revolve around Jack. Not that I don't like Jack or his items I do, but we needed stuff. I really do like it much more than the alien plotline. Though that one was pretty good too, but this one really connected Gaia characters and revealed so many cool things about or beloved NPCs! The vampire idea is very, very cool. I hope we get more manga to read! On that note, I love Ian mother, shes so pretty!
And you people come on! Ive seen some of those threads in the Site Feedback saying that the animations are a piece of crap. Come on guys! Dont get me wrong, Im not saying you shouldn't voice your opinios but I think Gaia as a whole complains to much about stuff. I know, I know sometimes i do it too. But I think the most important thing is all the stuff we are learning about Gaia and its characters!
Now the Gaia Cash Shop, thats cool. Some of the items are so cool, some are ok. I know it is a bit unfair, some people might have a problem with the fact you can technically only "buy" the items, but we do have the marketplace. The prices are ok, some are a bit high for the items, but I havent seen anything too crazy yet.
Well, thats all for now!
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Phantastic Phanatic · Sun Nov 04, 2007 @ 03:05am · 0 Comments |
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Well guys, I know there is a lot of controversy amongst all of Gaia about all the new changes to the site. What do I have to say? They all aren't really necessary. I honestly think Gaia is wasting their time doing these changes.
The marketplace-yes there are cool things about it but some of it is just weird. Like all those charts, what do we need them for? I don't think too many gaians are interested in them. Honestly, why would we be interested in the marketplace's total gold revenue? It does nothing for us.
Another thing that is particularly frustrating is the pm's that are sent to us when we buy something. Yes it is nice to know if someone bought from your store. Yes its nice to know if an item you were bidding on was bought. But why, oh why do we need a pm telling us we have bought something? Please, we are not that dumb! (I hope!!)
And of course there is the biggest issue, which is the 2% tax. I know, I know there are great arguments for it, but I personally don't think it is necessary. There are plenty of ways to get gold out of the system and plenty of good user-submitted ideas for gold sinks for Gaia to have gone and pulled something like that. Firstly it goes against their promise of leaving the Marketplace to us, that it would be completely user-run and that they wouldn't interfere with pricing, etc. I just think they could have found a more accepted way of getting gold out of the system.
Now Im not saying there arent good things because there are. I love the fact that we can preview items, search for 3 letter words, have more than 4 items in our store and the little snapshots we get of the market in the front page, including our wishlist.
The other change - the forums. I think it was COMPLETELY unnecessary. Firstly, the limit our characters - wth? Then the new icons in form ot threads, I think they are more confusing than the ones we sued to have. The polls are harer to do, some of the numbers ae tiny and well I think the only good thing was that when we put an emoticon into our posts it will go directly where our cursor is rather than at the end of the psot. Honestly that is all I like about it.
But alas, like msot of the things that get changed, I doubt anything will get changed back...we can only hope but if not just cope and get used to it.
Enough rambling for now
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Phantastic Phanatic · Wed Sep 12, 2007 @ 10:16pm · 0 Comments |
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Yay Durem and New Hairstyles |
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Wow, the Waterfight event definetly rocked! Okay, Ill admit it created a rivalry among Gaians, and the glitches did not help much either, but overall it was a very fun event and Im really happy that team Durem won! (Yay, Go Durem!) It was a pretty well planned event and for its first time rolling, I think it did a good job. It also had a good amount of items, and the were not disappointing, definetly makinf up for some other not so great event items *cough, easter, cough* Anyway, Gaia is reedemed for now in my book, though lets hope next Years items are better.
Well before jumping ahead to that, I am rather excited for the Halloween and Christmas Events! Woot!
Though, the summer festival isnt over, lets see what Giaa has in store for us!
On a different topic, I am ever so excited about the new hairstyles! Very chich, cery 50's and 60's! And some modern too. I think Gaia has answered quite a few petitions with the new Salon Update, mainly the two-tone hair petition!
Aand woah, I am blonde!
Anyway, it is interesting, I had a rather hard time deciding 1) which hairstyle to choose and 2) what color. When I first started Gaia I had a ton of different haircolors, but then found that it was best to stick with brown and black for matching purposes,since I have ADD with my avi and change like every other day. But for the first time Im trying blonde and I like it so far! ^_^
Ah...though Im excited about all the hairstyles, so I might changing it more often than usual!
Talking about updates, the new manga update got me excited! I just love the plot and cant wait 'till the next update! =)...even though it probably wont be until halloween=(....o well, ill just have to be patient i guess!
And yet again, Im frustrated at the art arena for taking forever and a day to put up my art, but then I cant be too mad, since I know that the poor art arena mods must be flooded with entries every day!
Well...I finally have run out of things to say for now so goodnight my friends!
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Phantastic Phanatic · Thu Sep 06, 2007 @ 03:22am · 0 Comments |
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Well, this is definetly new! I'm pretty excited for the water balloon fight and I cant wait to see how its all gonna work out! I even have 4 different bathing suits which ill be changing into! woot! lol, sometimes i fell like i have no life but hey it is exciting! I do hope it starts soon because I have to go to class in like an hour, but then Im free...well I got other stuff to do to, so I might not get a chance to come on till later tonigh!
About the teams...hmmm, I probably will join Durem, my favorite NPC's are there!
Well thats all I got for now, tty; buddies!
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Phantastic Phanatic · Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 06:47pm · 0 Comments |
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Oh I totally forgot to write about Deathly Hallows! It was great! Tough kind of sad that the HP series is over. What did you all think? The book was pretty well paced, though seemed kind of ...odd...but i suppose that was because it wasnt all in Hogwarts like we are used to! Anyway, I was surprised that from the many theories that were circling around, some people did manage to kind of figure out what would happen.
SPOILER:
Although all the deaths saddened me, I was most surprised by Dobby's. He was definitely there for Harry until the very end
END SPOILER
Anyway, I hope JK does indeed write that encyclopedia she's been talking about. At least one more HP book to devour even if it isnt a story itself.
Now Im excited for the DH movie! even more than HBP I think, thought that one Im sure will be awesome!
Well Im disapparating for now!
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Phantastic Phanatic · Thu Aug 02, 2007 @ 10:53pm · 0 Comments |
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Ohh it has been a long itme since I changed my username. Mind you I did not mind Le_Phantom_Lover at all but this one seems so much more, well PHUNKY!
Anyway thanks to punk rock princess for that as she suggested the name. I hope you all like!
ta ta
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Phantastic Phanatic · Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 01:43am · 2 Comments |
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