Anniversary

[mousme]

My LJ is six years old today, and it's been a little over five years since I've had a permanent account. It's hard to believe it's been that long. So much has changed since I started writing in this space, and for the better.

Happy Birthday, little LJ, and here's to many more years together. :)

Comments

[joane.livejournal.com]

Quick question, if you're still around - did you ever hear back from Conrad? I'm assuming not, but just need to confirm before I go and delete her.

[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :o)

Here's to several more happy years.

Happy Birthday, Mousme's LJ!

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just went permanent last year.

I started the year before and was sooo depressed because no one would answer my posts, not even the horde of friends I borrowed from Savant.

So I went out and made my own damn friends. :) Much chattier!

Cake in icon.

Re: Happy Birthday, Mousme's LJ!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

You have a really fun group of friends. I think you're awesome, and I'm so glad fearsclave found you.

I am also a comment whore, and so the fact that you comment on so many of my posts makes you even more awesome. ;)

Comment Whore

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

Me too. The comment whore thing; I start to pine if I get no comments.

Oddly, I have found that what always gets comments on my LJ are fashion entries. Most of my flist are gay/bi men (but not the fashion-industry kind), and gay/bi women (but only half of them are the lipstick-lesbian kind). There's a small proportion of straight men, at least one of whom wrote in to ask me to review slinky black dresses more, bless his heart. (I will, in the next few days). The proportion of straight women on my list is quite small, and about half them also have zero interest in fashion, one would think, given the contents of their closets.

But any fashion post I put up gets a hail of commentary. Odd, odd. I myself wear sweatpants every day and disapprove of most couture and all high heels on political grounds, but that has done nothing to dull my gimlet eye. I will slice and dice a red carpet until it looks like salsa!

The other thing that struck me strange: I made real connection with most of my flist last Jan-March, when I was doing a daily countdown of how friggin' sick I was. Boring! Boring! Self-indulgent and boring! But wow, I got comments out the wazoo. And some really good friends. :)

PS: I went to all that trouble to dig out my "hamster whore of babylon" icon and then forgot to change the caption!

Re: Comment Whore

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've noticed that I get more comments when I'm whining, complaining, or wallowing in self-pity. My happy posts rarely get comments. Weird. Perhaps people find it easier to express a quick bit of sympathy, or are more willing to expend the energy where they feel it will do more good, rather than "waste" it on someone who's already obviously feeling just fine. ;)

Your fashion entries were very good. I just wish I'd had the energy to comment on them myself this week. :)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY

(hee hee hee!)