Keeky daybirth Happer!

[Keeker]

And Happy Birthday Phase (also Niklang, though I've not noticed you posting lately.. but I am getting old and blind. )

Keekerbirth Happy, Day!!

And I need to say this, I was only goofing around with the funding thing, I want all of you to spend your bucks and pennies and sterlings to something important!
Times are hard for us all, but I still try to figure out a way to get to at least some of the London shows!
It's problematic that it's so far in the future that making plans is difficult, but on the other hand, if I got things
arranged this early, I wouldn't have to worry about anything later ..
Oh, decisions!

And Amber.
Your new avatar is Smooookkkkieennah!
(err, smoking hot in english )

[Octillus]

Wondering how many visits with my grandfather there are left, this last one was great, but bittersweet because his health has been on the long slow decline overall lately (he rebounded from near death earlier this year, but other than that... he's just not himself anymore). But I adore him, and I will visit as often as I possibly can.

Wondering how many visits with my grandfather there are left, this last one was great, but bittersweet because his health has been on the long slow decline overall lately (he rebounded from near death earlier this year, but other than that... he's just not himself anymore). But I adore him, and I will visit as often as I possibly can.

That is beautiful. I am sure he sees how much you care about him.

[djskrimp]

Wondering how many visits with my grandfather there are left, this last one was great, but bittersweet because his health has been on the long slow decline overall lately (he rebounded from near death earlier this year, but other than that... he's just not himself anymore). But I adore him, and I will visit as often as I possibly can.

I didn't want to talk about this, but my own grandfather passed weekend before last. I was so very glad that my last memories with him were in his garden and farm, letting him show me around and talk about the things he loved about the farm. I didn't want to let him go, but it was a little easier knowing that my last words to him were, "I love you, grandpa, and I'll try to come back as soon as I can."

Wondering how many visits with my grandfather there are left, this last one was great, but bittersweet because his health has been on the long slow decline overall lately (he rebounded from near death earlier this year, but other than that... he's just not himself anymore). But I adore him, and I will visit as often as I possibly can.

I didn't want to talk about this, but my own grandfather past weekend before last. I was so very glad that my last memories with him were in his garden and farm, letting him show me around and talk about the things he loved about the farm. I didn't want to let him go, but it was a little easier knowing that my last words to him were, "I love you, grandpa, and I'll try to come back as soon as I can."

I'm so, so sorry for your loss - but I'm glad you were able to say those things to him. All too often we don't tell people we love, that we love them - and then the chance is gone, and that breaks my heart. Happened to me with my grandfather and I still kick myself over it.

So now I take the time to tell folks I love 'em, it's something I feel is so important. I just wish it wasn't something that took a tragic loss to make me realise. :/

[Keeker]

Wondering how many visits with my grandfather there are left, this last one was great, but bittersweet because his health has been on the long slow decline overall lately (he rebounded from near death earlier this year, but other than that... he's just not himself anymore). But I adore him, and I will visit as often as I possibly can.

I didn't want to talk about this, but my own grandfather past weekend before last. I was so very glad that my last memories with him were in his garden and farm, letting him show me around and talk about the things he loved about the farm. I didn't want to let him go, but it was a little easier knowing that my last words to him were, "I love you, grandpa, and I'll try to come back as soon as I can."

I'm so, so sorry for your loss - but I'm glad you were able to say those things to him. All too often we don't tell people we love, that we love them - and then the chance is gone, and that breaks my heart. Happened to me with my grandfather and I still kick myself over it.

So now I take the time to tell folks I love 'em, it's something I feel is so important. I just wish it wasn't something that took a tragic loss to make me realise. :/

That makes me realise that nobody in my extended family has ever used the 'L' word to my knowledge. It's just not in our family culture I suppose. It's not a word that's thrown about lightly.

[Octillus]

My mother's side definitely does, my father's side definitely doesn't. With my grandad, it's always about the next ballgame, and during it, we talk. And from him, that's all I can ever want.

Hmm, yea well, we don't really use the L word in my family either. But I think as long as you know that you love eachother, there's no real need for it. We hug and are pretty close, it would be different if we were more emotionally distant.

Yeah, we don't L either.
But mom is very huggable and she loves to hug people so it doesn't kinda matter
And dad shows his love by giving his million dollar photographing device for me so I can take more cool photographs!

(And by cool photos, I am of course talking about this nice shot I got of my dog Dino!


Nice one, huh?)

I don't mean you necessarily have to say it in those exact words, so long as you make the person know in whatever way you're comfortable with lol. I don't tell anyone/everyone "I love you" but I do say that to my mother, because that is how we interact with each other - my papa is different, we don't use those words but we make it known in other ways. It is important to me for the reasons I said earlier - but I don't expect everyone to feel the same way.

When I say it, I mean it. I don't use it lightly either.

I didn't say L to my girlfriend for almost a year, but I didn't need to, and vice versa.
Pretty much the only one aside from her I will say it to is my youngest sister, who is still of the age where she says it to everyone (of course, once she hits adolescence, that will quickly turn to the H word methinks).

The first time I said the L word to my bf I was so drunk I couldn't sit up straight.
But then we were just fuckbuddies so it also transformed our whole relationship.

I say it when I feel it, and I feel it a lot. My parents are both very affectionate people, which is strange because their parents were not. My grandparents were loving and caring people, but they would never say it. My brothers are like that, too. The wife and I say it all the time, as does our son.