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| juliw | | posted 22-Sep-2002 6:41pm |
Yes, because they all show how fond I am of food! Just paint me silver and write Goodyear on my side! |
| juliw | | (reply to anonymous) posted 22-Sep-2002 6:43pm |
The school pcture you posted is beautiful, and shows what a bright and friendly young lady you are. ((hugs)) |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 22-Sep-2002 6:43pm |
I photograph badly. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 22-Sep-2002 6:44pm |
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| juliw |
 I went to the doctor the other day, and got a clean bill of health, but I couldn't believe how much weight I had gained. When I got out of the hospital last Sepember, I was 189. Now, 208! Yikes! |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 22-Sep-2002 7:03pm |
Yikes is right! Do you think the stress you've been having with you-know-who might be causing you to overeat? |
Enheduanna  | | posted 22-Sep-2002 9:59pm |
It depends on the photo. |
| Bibliophile | | posted 22-Sep-2002 11:22pm |
Sometimes. I definitely know some people who always look terrible in pictures, even though they are actually attractive. I am reasonably photogenic, and also reasonably attractive, so I guess pictures capture me pretty well. But sometimes I get those photos where it looks like my body was temporarily inhabited by some alien life form. |
| mandy | | posted 22-Sep-2002 11:36pm |
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| cody | | posted 22-Sep-2002 11:59pm |
As with most people, the only 'emotion' or realistic feeling that is caught in an (expected) photograph, is my discomfort with being photographed.
You can even see this with experienced cover models. Look very closely and search for what is REALLY being felt. That face will tell you... for two reasons: 1) Insecurity is particularly difficult facial emotion to hide. and 2) Magazine editors like to use pictures (of girls anyway) where you can tell that she is 'posing'... where a little of her genuine insecurity shines through. "I like this one" they say, "You see, she is trying so hard to be sexy, but you can see if you look at it a second more, she's saying to you, "I just might be insecure,". She says, "stare at me, it's alright" but she still isn't entirely comfortable with it."
To be honest, I have a particular dis-taste for non-professional photographs of people (and even the professional ones which are staged). If you are going to have your photo taken, have an artistic photographer turn it into a work of art.
There's nothing I hate more than people running around with those cameras, snapping them at people. Ugh.
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| teatree | | posted 23-Sep-2002 1:06am |
It really depends on who is taking the photo. The DMV-absolutely not! A friend of mine whose hobby is photography-most of the time I would say yes. He's a very talented amateur photographer. |
Kristal_Rose   | | posted 23-Sep-2002 3:25am |
Yep. I used to avoid photos, now I love having them. |
| Dino | | posted 23-Sep-2002 6:44am |
loquacious? |
| Matt | | posted 23-Sep-2002 6:52am |
Some pictures do. |
| confetti | | posted 23-Sep-2002 7:52am |
I have many moods and sometimes they translate over to when my picture is being taken, sometimes not. That's why I like photos of people that are taken off-guard; you don't get reserved smiles and widened eyes and posing. |
| confetti | | (reply to juliw) posted 23-Sep-2002 7:56am |
thank you  |
| confetti | | (reply to Dino) posted 23-Sep-2002 7:56am |
I don't know either. |
| Cain | | posted 23-Sep-2002 9:25am |
I've only ever seen one photograph of myself that I liked and that was because I didn't know it was being taken. Posing for photos makes my skin crawl and my stomach gurgle. Not nice at all. |
| Cain | | (reply to mandy) posted 23-Sep-2002 9:26am |
That's nothing like the picture of you I had in my head. |
| grmbrand | | posted 23-Sep-2002 9:51am |
Sometimes. The less time I have to think about it, the better the picture. |
romkey  | | posted 23-Sep-2002 10:27am |
depends on the photographer, but generally, no, not my essence. |
| spidertea | | posted 23-Sep-2002 10:30am |
Eh, I usually look like a total dork in photos...so maybe that is my essence. |
| Biggles | | posted 23-Sep-2002 1:43pm |
Rarely. |
| juliw |
Maybe that's part of it, but I was pigging out even before that incident. No will power. I think the main problem is that I have to really watch my sodium now, so since I can't eat some of the foods I love, like pizza, I console myself with cookies and candy bars. |
| juliw | | (reply to confetti) posted 23-Sep-2002 5:50pm |
You're very welcome! |
jettles  | | posted 23-Sep-2002 6:27pm |
i think they do so as much as they can.......... nothing is the same as meeting someone in person. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 23-Sep-2002 8:00pm |
Sounds like you are going from the frying pan into the fire or exchanging one bad habit for another. I hope things work out for you. |
| Zang | | posted 23-Sep-2002 8:22pm |
Candid photos do it best. A good photographer, not necessarily professional (although it helps) is probably more important than who the subject is. Posed photos are very unlikely to capture the essence of the subject. People have a tendency to put on a special face. The worst ones are photos by people like my mother, who always seems to manage to get everyone frozen into their cheesy grins for way too long. "Whoops! Forgot to wind the film!", "Is the flash on?", "Do I need to focus this thing?", "Everybody squeeze in tighter." |
Galomorro  | | posted 23-Sep-2002 8:23pm |
No, not at all. But then I feel I am not photogenic at all and try my best to avoid photos of myself whenever possible. |
| anonymous | | posted 23-Sep-2002 11:03pm |
I don't photograph nor do I appear in mirrors. |
| kaleb777 | | posted 24-Sep-2002 2:03pm |
Photos don't show anything but what a person looked like at the time the photo was taken. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 24-Sep-2002 5:35pm |
But often you can tell vast things about their personality and temperament in general from them, like do they love life, are they quirky, can they get violent, are they confused, do they play head trips on people, etc etc.
and that's what this survey was asking. |
| juliw |
Yep, you're right! It will all work out just fine. I think this thing with Sue is going to be resolved, too, pretty soon. I almost cried with relief! |
| mandy | | (reply to Cain) posted 24-Sep-2002 6:10pm |
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| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 24-Sep-2002 7:57pm |
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| Jemmy | | posted 24-Sep-2002 8:41pm |
I don't know. Go to the SC Users website and decide. there are pictures of me there. |
| dab | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 25-Sep-2002 9:53am |
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| joachim | | posted 25-Sep-2002 11:56am |
I usually look goofy in photographs. In real life I like to think I'm only goofy about half the time. |
LindaH   | | (reply to dab) posted 25-Sep-2002 12:54pm |
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| kaleb777 |
I don't believe that. I've seen photos of people that I would try to avoid if I went by the photo alone, however when I meet them they are great people, and visa versa. Some people look like butter wouldn't melt in their mouth in a photo but they can be real butt-holes in person. |
| Jemmy | | (reply to dab) posted 25-Sep-2002 6:09pm |
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| juliw |
(sigh) The more things change, the more they stay the same. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 25-Sep-2002 9:20pm |
So true, so true. |
| romkey | | (reply to anonymous) posted 25-Sep-2002 10:07pm |
and your name doesn't show up when you post, either... |
| juliw |
I tried to send you a reply about Sue, but somehow I lost the page halfway through. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 25-Sep-2002 10:21pm |
Hmmm...I've been having some problems with SC as well. After I type a reply and hit submit it's been really sluggish loading the page. Have you been having similar problems |
| juliw |
Well, maybe I am just being paranoid, but you and I were talking about what happened in the kitchen at work today, and you asked me how old Sue is. So I answered you (almost 39) but added more stuff about her, then lost the page, and I thought that ***** spied on me and wouldn't continue. I am losing it, I know. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 25-Sep-2002 10:53pm |
I don't know how she could be spying on you. I'm more inclined to think that SC is having a little glitch problem. Zang was having problems with the SC dictionary earlier (read his post in Feedback). |
| Cain | | (reply to mandy) posted 26-Sep-2002 5:10am |
Not that that's a bad thing! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kaleb777) posted 26-Sep-2002 5:42am |
kr: Sounds like a mixed metaphor. I would expect someone too dead to melt butter to possibly be an butt-hole. Did you ever catch those photos of my drivers license, and the old one of myself as thor? They were accurate enough. I have met people with icy veneers that are warm when you get to know them, but if you have a good eye, you can tell that even in a photo, unless they were photographed on a day when they didn't have those qualities. There have been a few unconsious people who couldn't recognize me, mistaking me for a prostitute or something, and i love stunning them by zeroing in on their own religion, and what's going on within their language. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to mandy) posted 26-Sep-2002 5:52am |
kr: You're beautiful, and I love you. I wish had made an opportunity to call you. As far as I can tell, my days here are short. I've been wailing my head off in last rites, crying to starngers (hmm, think i'll keep that typo.) basically saying goodbye to all the things that I delight in that will mean little or nothing to thor. i wish I could send all sort of kaleidoscopic prayers your way, but at least for the moment, i am drained. i only appear on a brief intermittant basis now. i comment on various surveys if you want to search on abalone or hummingbird. My sucessor will have my knowledge, but that's about all i can guarantee. I really do love you. |
| Jemmy |
What do you mean your days here are short? Are you moving or something? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 26-Sep-2002 5:36pm |
The easiest way to explain is to say I have a double personality; the other one hasn't been around much at all in the last 7 years, but seems to be coming back entirely. I go back and forth thinking I'll be gone forever, or i wont, but when I swing too far to my other side, i'm someone who doesn't really recall why my things like gold humming bird mugs were all that important. All that sparkling rainbow aura goes away.
Moving would be a nice way to explain it, but where I am when i'm 'moved' is a mystery to me. You're one of my loved ones too. My fairy-god niece. When I become Thor again, I won't be a 'fairy-god' anything. It looks like I come and go. But I should give you a goodbye kiss now, just in case. |
| juliw |
Well, Sue used to work in software support, and she knows all kinds of tricks on the computer. When she used to "fudge around" with me in the chat room (she was ALWAYS just kidding, of course) she would say things like I sounded like Richard (a retarded man in our office) and threaten to blue screen me, or go into Survey Central, etc. So I get a little suspicious when I get booted from a chat room and stuff. Kind of like that recent survey about doing things to bug suspicious people or whatever. |
| kaleb777 |
I try to never smile for photos, although I have been told I have a great sense of humour. |
| mandy |
I'm frightened. Don't leave me. Please......
I need your majik |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 26-Sep-2002 9:14pm |
As long as you don't get overly paranoid! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to mandy) posted 26-Sep-2002 11:36pm |
Who know's, maybe I'll still have it. Chances are it will be different flavor though. a couple links where i've been explaining it all to kaleb: http://surveycentral.org/survey/13285.htmlhttp://surveycentral.org/?S=370246&V=13118I've made brief shifts at times to thor over recent years, but he was never the type to telepathically send aura sparkles, though he was the one doing the thunderstorms. You have your own magic, chances are when you get too much and work up the color spectrum through gold and diamond, you have to start over, as I have some times already. I could be wrong on that. Love life. Make it all magical. kiss. |
| justjulie | | posted 27-Sep-2002 8:28am |
no...hate photos of me taken.....i shapeshift far too often for a photograph...unless i "pose" for one, which isn't very often |
| Biggles |
You make me believe in things that my mind says are unbelievable.
I wish I had some words for you that were vaguely intelligent or helpful or anything. But I don't.
Just my love - for Kristal, for Thor, for *you*. I wish I was wiser and could give you something more. |
| mandy |
*kiss*
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| Jemmy |
Well, I can't say I completely understand, but I can try. If you are saying goodbye just in case, then I guess I should say goodbye as well. Thank you for all your insight and wisdom here on SC. You have helped me through many (sometimes insignificant) things in my life, and have been more of a friend to me than I ever thought an online pal could be. You'll always be my internet fairy god mother. |
| LindaH |
I cut-pasted your made-up color from justjulie's 'invent a color' into confetti's 'favorite color' survey to see if you would notice. I thought I'd tell you now, because you might be amused. I don't know Thor well enough. |
| juliw |
I kind of was for a while. Once, I even asked Kristal Rose if she thought things would ever be worked out. She said, "Everything gets resolved eventually. Just keep your senses." That was my wake-up call. Plus, I have to confess I started doing things like making up new yahoo id's and going to her favorite chat room. It was dumb, because she surely knew it was me. So I quit. Two wrongs never make a right. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Sep-2002 10:48pm |
The love is more important than anything you think up, if you're ever in a fix, and dig down for something to offer, you will never find better.
The mind is what creates this stuff in the first place by limiting infinite possibility. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to mandy) posted 27-Sep-2002 10:52pm |
Ah c'mon, you can do a hell of a lot better than that, you wimp. *flings mandy down in his arms with a wild ball-room cha-cha swing, rose in her teeth.*
Oh, I'm loving this. My line disconnected with another call frow the gal who was calling kr asking about a policemans jazz/swing ball, I told her to call later. She was surprised - 'Uh? Mr McKinstry?' I told her I'd get tickets and pass them to charity if I couldn't find a date. She responded 'OH GOD, I'll go with you!' I knew gals were going to fock to me. - er, I mean flock. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 27-Sep-2002 11:05pm |
That's true and I have to agree with what KR said too. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 27-Sep-2002 11:46pm |
Thank you. you'll make a fine internet fairy god mother too some day.
¥"Here's a toast to all those who hear me all too well. Here to the nights we spent alive... I've come to soon." |
| pepperdrinks | | posted 28-Sep-2002 1:55am |
I just wrote a diary entry about this....how odd. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to mandy) posted 28-Sep-2002 5:03am |
Thank you so much for the kiss. God, this is tearing me apart. I broke down and took over, when I noticed the cats weren't getting any attention, or more specifically, asking for it. Normally they are in the kitchen all the time with me using my feet to pet them. I'm always barefoot and wear nothing but sandals outside. Toes need to breathe, move, and express things, live, feel things, talk to grass and rocks, not be locked up in shoes and socks. I can climb rock cliffs just fine with barefeet. But the thing is, the cats weren't there to be pet anyhow, or sit in my lap. I think they just slept all day. Kaleb had a burning fever when I had burning going on in my head. That can't be right. Just after that call to get reservations to a charity ball, and if no one else, take out the gal making the calls, who was hinting that she wanted to get married, he called alaska, but the microphone on the phone went dead, but then he went to the speaker phone and that wasn't working, and then my bro's phone went dead. I couldn't tear apart olives for my nachos because all my nails are clipped short. You should see the polish I worked my way up to - gold with prisms, like the fireworks I was launching during my rehearsals for an angelica's part. Do you ever have time slow way down. I listen carefully to U2's new song it's 'electrical storm - baby don't cry', 'not, electric kristal', and certainly doesn't go on for 20 minutes each time like it seemed times before. It's not even a new song, I just hadn't heard that part before. Funny how you can not hear a song at times, and feel like the walls are crashing in on you like particle waves the next. I heard a movie ad about a guy who killed 7 people for a hotel room and a manicure.
"But then, I'm feeling fine with the sun in my eyes is his song too." I wonder hmm.. lost that thought.
I wish we had two bodies, and never met each other. Or at least I wish one of us would just vanish, totally forgotten. I go foetal with my stuffed animals. It's not good. I wish I could just get an answer from god and was going to explain why I can't, and the radio went dead for a bit. Oh, that's so chilling. 'Don't write yourself off yet. Everything will be just fine.' But just a moment before that was advice regarding a ring. - 'It's obvious you hate me, but I've done nothing wrong' other songs like that come up when ever I put down my other side.
A yes or no could suufice - do you have a clue what, why, and who conspires this change. who i gave the key to my dungeon to so long ago. where the sparkle fairy came from (i think).. Ariel, Belle. Why I felt it was the right thing to do. I loved her so much I had to be one with her yet keep her safe. In the meantime, i've made kristal into the largest sparkling diamond i could offer. I'm not even sure what i've done, but all the facts are sort of shifting into a detective novel. |
| juliw |
Yep, on both counts. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to juliw) posted 28-Sep-2002 12:07pm |
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| Biggles |
Please keep Kristal safe for everyone who loves her. |
| mandy |
*crying*
I want to help you. I love you. I'm afraid of this.
Please Please Please.....Have you talked to anyone about this?
Be strong. There has got to be a way that you can mesh this together so both of you are happy.
Promise me you'll never do anything rash. Promise me. I miss you. I support whatever comes to pass with love and understanding.
I am not ready to dance yet....I'm still grieving. |
| dora |
You made me trembling.I'm afraid for you,of you,with you.
Sometimes the meaning of the things Kristal wrote escaped me,but I got the essence.Maybe when Thor buries her entirely the meaning will be easier to grasp,but the essence less powerful and sparkling.I know you had meaning as Kristal too,and you will have essence as Thor,and I like your meaning and essence whoever you are.
Dreamed about you,about Kristal if you want,hope to dream about Thor too.
*hugs*
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| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to mandy) posted 29-Sep-2002 8:15am |
Kristal is not the one who I was keeping safe, nor the one who called Thor entirely back during threads of our combined existence. I always said there was just one secret in my life. It was someone I made arrangements with when I was 12, though she wasn't around at the time.
Another weirdness, i was in the store today, looking at some new flavors of things, and spirit said, yeah get it, she would like that. and then a friend showed up at same market and summoned her to yak at the bakery benches.
It took being kristal to discover for instance that I could still be ecstatic marrying a woman who was like a guru mother to me.
I didn't mean to make anyone cry. I don't know if it was right to publicise my electrical storm. Hopefully any understandings you gained riding along outweigh the tears, and the shock you may have met later, if you detected the difference in whatever I am still becoming. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LindaH) posted 29-Sep-2002 8:22am |
I haven't had time to look up whatever that may have been, guess I will now, something with an etheric component, no doubt.
Ok, I can't find it. Thanks for that though. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to dora) posted 29-Sep-2002 8:26am |
We shall see. You were my biggest enigma. The gal who connects with me that I know little about physically or psychically. I was delighted, intrigued, but never quite knew what to make of it. |
| monica_potter |
Well, I think they do. For me. I mean, I guess I'm a funny person, if not then a a person with a good sense of humour, and I smile in my photos.
I get what you're saying, but I don't really know. |
| monica_potter | | (reply to anonymous) posted 4-Oct-2002 6:53am |
Are you a vampire, then? ;) |
| starrpickle | | posted 4-Nov-2002 12:11pm |
My S/O slips when I view a photo of myself |
