• the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 22, 2006....

  I would never have guessed that about said boyfriend. :-D I don't get that, either.
  
  Cool on the socks - I like them! I have a few pairs of funky socks. They range from navy blue with kittens and yarn balls to white with green froggies (I <3 Peace Frogs!) to neon striped slipper socks. My absolute faves are this blue, uber-fuzzy pair - I call them my Cookie Monster socks. There really is a lot of fun to be had with socks!
  

• nytquill17 said on Nov 22, 2006....

  lol!  I wondered if you would pick up on that part of this post ;)  It didn't/doesn't bother me - gosh knows I took advantage of all the foot rubs! and just all the attention in general; plus life, and sex, would be so boring if nobody had any quirks like that - but it does make you wonder how a think like that gets started in someone's brain, eh?
  
  Needless to say, I owned quite a few pairs of toe-socks in college!
  

• JadeLondon said on Nov 23, 2006....

  I love funky socks. I like the cutesy ones, but I tend to lose them. I am convinced there is a wormhole at the other end of the universe where all my missing socks are (that and the powercord to my old word processor, but that is another story).

  I also like--hell, I don't know what they are called--'gentleman socks'. They are sheer, black, with pinstripes (of sorts) and reach about mid-calf. My father got a bunch of them as a Christmas gift one year and hated them, so I happily adopted them.

  I followed your link. I hope you are not leaving SoulCast for the likes of Blogger. Sorry to sound so bitter. It seems I have something of an enemy there, and seeing the title brings everything rushing, unbidden, to the forefront. But that, too, is another story.

• nytquill17 said on Nov 23, 2006....

  Jade: oh, no no no.  SoulCast is my home, and there's only enough time in my day for one blog (and one blogging community!)  Though I confess I have some friends from one of my "past lives" on Blogger and my very first-ever blog was on LJ.  But SoulCast fits me to a T, and I'm staying for as long as it lasts (hopefully a long, long time.)  The Blogger account is just to post a quick pic every now and then for you guys to see, because while I enjoy the focus on the written word that SoulCast has, sometimes you just need a picture to say what you mean :)
  

• JadeLondon said on Nov 23, 2006....

  That is what I was hoping! I am glad to hear that from the proverbial horse's mouth, though. I like it here, but I cannot expect everyone to feel the same as me. But yes, I do see your point about the pictures.

  So, did you like the other sites? Are they anything like SoulCast? This is my first and only blog.

• nytquill17 said on Nov 23, 2006....

  Hmm.  Blogger is way too random for my taste, in terms of finding other blogs to be interested in and getting any interest in return.  On the other hand, there is someone very dear to my heart that has a blog there and I like to sit in the shadows and see what's going on in that person's life.  But that has nothing to do with the site itself.
  
  LJ is pretty user-friendly, and it was a lot of fun at first.  I spent lots of time there, like I do now on SC, reading, commenting, posting, refreshing.  I was part of a community for HSP women which was a good way for me to learn more about being HSP.  But the thing is, after a couple months and several people added to my list, I still felt like a nobody.  I was lucky to get a comment or two on any of my posts, and a few months after I "disappeared" from LJ, I checked back, and there was not one single post or comment or anything asking where I went.  It's not like I think that the world should revolve around me, but I was tired of feeling like the uncool kid jumping up and down begging to be noticed.  I figure 4 years of high school was enough, you know? ;)
  
  So I wasn't really doing any blogging for a while.  I joined SC in order to have a recognizable screen name to comment on Infernal's blog and she encouraged me to start my own blog.  I know there are a lot of good blogs, old and new, that I don't read (but I've never been one to manage huge buddy lists).  I love the blogs I am reading, I love the interaction that's here.  I guess it replaces a little of the intellectual community that I enjoyed in college - I get to exchange with people that really challenge me, instead of a giant MySpace.  I get to exercise my English muscles and push my boundaries in that area.  Around here, I'm already a superior English speaker to 98% of the people I meet in a day, and while I'm thrilled with learning French, I don't want to get complacent in my English!
  
  And I like that when I'm depressed and don't feel like posting for weeks at a time, when I come back, my SoulCast friends are still here and wondering where I went and if I was okay.  It sounds egotistical, and I guess it is a little, but don't we all like to know that we matter enough to somebody to be missed when we go away?  I feel really connected here, and that means so, so much to me.
  
  So, um, I guess you could say that...Blogger was too random, LJ was too cold, but SoulCast is juuuuust right!
  

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