| Username: Spock Name: Spock Gender: Female Last Seen: 2 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours, 58 minutes ago |
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~ Secondly, Let me tell you a little bit about myself. ~ I love, love, LOVE to talk or chat, about pretty much anything. So, feel free to drop me a comment or mail me. I'm on and off here, so don't get discouraged if I don't respond to your comment right away. ~ Some of my favorite musical groups/artists are: Lady Gaga Franz Ferdinand Muse Depeche Mode Styx Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart S.P.O.C.K. The Sounds And many more... Trust me, I know that that's a strange - make that very strange - assortment of musical artists/groups. I'm weird like that. I like pretty much everything except for rap and all things like it, and country. I hate country. I love techno, Irish drinking songs, classical, and good ol' rock and roll. And tons of other stuff. ~ My current favorite song is Ulysses by Franz Ferdinand ~ My current favorite books are: Traitor Winds and Death Count by L.A. Graf, The Demon In The Freezer and The Cobra Event by Richard Preston, Misery by Stephen King, Mortal Fear by Robin Cook, and the Homlanders Series by Andrew Klavan. More books to be added to this list at a later date, of course. ~ My favorite t.v. shows are as follows: Star Trek (obviously); Sherlock; Elementary; Supernatural; Doctor Who; NCIS; CSI; Grimm; The Mentalist; The Dead Zone; Being Human; The Walking Dead; The Bold and the Beautiful; and Criminal Minds. ~ And of course, we can't forget the movies. My favorite movies are anything and everything Star Trek, Apollo 13, The Matrix, Independence Day, Shutter Island, Inception, Misery, all of the Harry Potter movies, The Sixth Sense, Jack Reacher, Prometheus, Spiderman movies, Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, other superhero movies, and of course, The Avengers. Also, just about any decent horror movie is good in my book, too. ~ I am 18 years old. I am not unintelligent, so please, use correct grammar when sending me a message. I love conversations in which I learn something. I absolutely love reading, writing, math, logic problems and riddles. I love playing card games, word games, and chess. I also love art. I draw pretty decently, and I do have quite a bit of fun with a box of oil pastels. When I have use of my hands, that is. For the last 6 months I've been dealing with a severe flare up of my JRA (which will be explained momentarily) ~ I am currently in 12th grade, in a medical magnet school. Personally, I LOVE school and attend as much as I possibly can. ~ My ambition is to be an Epidemiologist, and to work for the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. I study hard, and make good grades. I love to read about infectious diseases, so I can learn more about them. They fascinate me, and I plan on spending my life tracking them down and battling epidemics. Sounds fun, right? ;D I have type 1 diabetes and JRA (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis). The name for JRA has recently been altered by the medical profession to be JIA (Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis), but to the public it is most known by it's original name, so that's what I'll refer to it as. My JRA causes me a great deal of pain and trouble at times, it can get so bad as to the point where I can't walk or even hold a pencil. It sucks, but I learn from it. It teaches me empathy for others, and to enjoy life to the fullest extent, even when all I want to do is scream because of the pain. Through hardship and pain, we learn. We learn how to assess situations and help others from relating to what we've had to deal with in our lives. I take advantage of my hardship and learn from it - and I'm always learning. Flare ups are awful. I'm dealing with one now; it'll have been 6 months in duration now, this month. The type of JRA I have is some unnamed sub-type of it that only a few other teenage girls from around the world have been seen with, according to the doctor I saw up at Johns Hopkins a few years ago. And to make things even better, my JRA does not respond to medications as typical JRA does, which makes treating it terribly difficult. I've been on every medication available for pediatrics up to this point. Every doctor that I've had up to this point has given up on treating me. Quite literally. In the last 18 months I spent a total of 42 days and nights in the hospital because of the three flare ups I've had. The docs would walk into my room and tell me that they couldn't do anything for me, that they didn't know how to treat me. Unless you've been in a situation like this in your life before, you don't understand how debilitating being told that by your doctors is. It's like the worst feeling in the world - a feeling of complete and total isolation. I am currently the only type 1 diabetic in the group as well. Unlike the JRA, my diabetes is easy for me to deal with. It can be controlled via my insulin pump and through regularly checking my blood sugar and counting carbs. I say, if it can be controlled, why not control it? ~ I have visited the CDC in Atlanta, and have spent a month of my life in Italy. I live in Florida. ~ I am a self-proclaimed nerd, and proud of it! You know you're a nerd when you read the dictionary or textbooks and enjoy it. ~ I am a Christian, of the Presbyterian denomination. I am religious, but I will not force my beliefs on anyone. It is up to each and every person to decide what they believe in. And frankly, I don't follow conservative crap. ~ I am currently single - just got out of a relationship in which I felt smothered. I wanted out of it so bad. I hated the guy for virtually forcing me into a relationship with him. I had no feelings for him - and that's just how I am. I don't want to be with another guy who threatens to kill himself if I leave, or one who attempts it at all. I want to be with a girl who will love me for who I am, and whom I can truly love. ~a I love to cook, and I'm quite skilled at it. I make many meals for my family - well, sister and mother, at this point in time, since we kicked my dad out in November. He was an alcoholic OCD douche bag and a bully. He was never really involved in my sister's or my lives. Growing up, he was like a painting hanging on a wall. He just sat around in the background and didn't partake in any family activity. Ever. Unless it was something that he wanted to do - even then my mom had to convince him to take my sister and I to do anything. He's never been anything other than a self-righteous, self-centered bully. If he didn't get his way, he'd throw a hissy fit. His behavior was equivalent to that of a second grader. He would treat my sister and I disrespectfully and we learned to resent him for it, my sister more so than I. He and she are a lot alike - they'd get into massive screaming fights all the time, and I was the one left to clean up after them. They were both to pigheaded to budge even a little bit on whatever side they were on in their fights. For the few times my mom was there for the fights, she'd break them up. My mom works two jobs though - one full time and one part time. She works from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm, so much of the time it was me who had to try and remedy the situations that they'd get themselves into. He really crossed a line when he told my sister to love off. She packed a bag and left - and he knew she was leaving, and he didn't bother to go get her or even ask where she was going. He was just too self-concerned with himself to even give a damn. My sister was 15. You don't say something like that to a 15 year old, nonetheless one that is your daughter. And he didn't do crap. He's never done ANYTHING for this family unless coerced into doing so by my mom. Usually I wouldn't get into fights with him - I've taken on more of my mother's temperament than my father's, so in most cases, I could get out of the fights unscathed by his irrationality. When you communicate in a calm voice to someone who is screaming in your face, they're likely to be caught off-guard by that and stop, seeing as how their juvenile behavior doesn't affect you. But I did get into a fight with him back in September - a fight over milk. And this changed my opinion of him from "oh, he's just got some problems," to "I really, really hate this man who's supposed to give a damn about the family, but doesn't care about anyone but himself." The fights tend to be set off by the stupidest things. Here's what that one was about: I'd noticed that we were out of milk - we'd run out the night before. It was an afternoon after school, and my sister, myself, and our father was at home. I'd mention the night before how we needed milk and asked him to pick some up on the way home from work. He didn't, obviously. So I asked him if he could possibly run up to the store to get some. His response? "Oh, it would just be easier if your mother could pick it up on her way home from work." That really pissed me off - he was discounting the fact that she works TWICE as long as he does, the fact that she is the one who ALWAYS does EVERYTHING for this family, and that hey, maybe, just maybe, it would be nice to do something for her for once. I kept my cool though, for the moment. I asked if he could drive me up, or if he could come with me because I only had my learner's permit at the time. He stuck by what he said, how Mommy should just get it. After a few minutes with this and all the coaxing I could think to try, I snapped. I was ticked. And I called him out on his selfish behavior. And that was like kicking a hornet's nest. He was screaming in my face before long. I just kept repeating how she's the one who's working two jobs. His response to that? "Well, she doesn't need to work two jobs, so if she chooses to do that, she can still do everything else she was doing before." It just got worse and worse, and it was probably one of the two moments in my life that I've been so angry I was shaking or near shaking. I was livid. A while after that, he shoved me in the car. Drove us up to the corner store. I made a move to get out. He growled for me to stay there, in the car. He put me in the car for a pointless reason. The brief ride both ways was silent. When we got back home and in the driveway, he chewed me out for calling him out on all of his jackass behaviors. I was back to having a level head once again and kept my cool, diffusing his explosive behavior through calm speech. He was pissed that I'd called him selfish. He said how he does so much for the family, more than anyone else. It was a total and complete lie, but I had to play along. I explained to him how his behaviors seemed selfish to us and how it was unfair to my mother. Eventually I was able to drill that into his head and was able to go inside. It wasn't I who he'd disrespected (well, he did, but that's not what made me angry). It was my mother - the one person in the family who does everything and more for us. And he couldn't look past his over-inflated ego to see how the rest of us felt. ~ Now you know where a major source of my stress came from. Since he was kicked out in Novemeber, my mother's conditions for accepting him back in the house are that he regularly sees a theattacker, psychiatrist, and stops drinking completely. So far so good. In the past few months we have all noticed changes in his behavior from the once or so a week that we see him. There is a hell of a lot less stress. Life has been more peaceful since his extradition from our house than it has ever been. He is working on changing, and in a few months, he will be back to living with us again. Most likely. I still have problems with him internally - he doesn't know how I truly feel about him. I have not been able to see my theattacker since the summer and it has easily been the most stressful 6 months of my life. I am looking forward to being able to talk to her again soon, when I get my license. ~ Now on a completely different subject, we have a menagerie of pets here at my house. Four cats, one golden retriever puppy, a huge bunny, and four guinea pigs. ~ I make both male AND female human avatars, though they're more commonly male than female. ~ Thank you for taking your time to read about me. |
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| My username was previously Jurples. ISSed 2/19/11. |
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