Sunday Secrets [26 May 2012|07:54pm] postsecret http://www.postsecret.com/2012/05/sunday-secrets_26.html PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. -----Email----- I do not believe in censorship; however, this "secret" is socially irresponsible and detrimental to the emotional and mental well-being of rape survivors. See More Secrets. Follow PostSecret on Twitter. -----Email----- I had to watch the video while my husband was sleeping so he wouldn't see me cry. He's a veteran with PTSD. PostSecret on Facebook Amazon.com Widgets -----Email----- Dear Frank, Last night, I attended your PostSecret Event at the University of Oregon. Not only was I blown away by you and everything you do and the secrets that others have shared with you, but I was blown away by the community I am lucky to be a part of. For months, I have felt so alone here. Last night, I decided to share my secret at the microphone. Right after, I received a hug from the stranger behind me. Not a pity hug, I could feel that she really meant it. After the show, I was approached again a few times and received encouraging words from people I knew and also total strangers. When I returned to my dorm room, I was Facebook messaged by an acquaintance, and emailed by a girl whom I didn't know, but recognized me from a mutual class. It was all so touching, honestly. Here I have been, in my dorm room for months thinking I'm the loneliest girl in the world, while I'm surrounded by this wonderful community of caring people. What I'm really trying to say is, thank you, Frank, for bringing me closer to my community. And GO DUCKS! -----Email----- Dear Frank, I was one of the people that got up to share my secret recently at the Stockton PostSecret event. I just wanted to share with you just how special it was for me. I knew that if I could share my secret, the deepest one of all, that I would feel better. When it came time for members of the audience to share, I almost chickened out, I was shaking; I was terrified. I got the first few words out, but I was too overcome to make a single sentence. And then a girl stood. She walked over, opened her arms, and hugged me. This total stranger, I felt, cared deeply for me. I had never seen her before, nor did I find her after you were finished. But she gave me the courage. Even now, I have goose bumps as well as a feeling of total elation. It is things like this that give me hope for the future. If a room full of total strangers can band together and support and accept one another unconditionally, then I believe that we're moving in the right direction. PostSecret is so much more than a movement. I truly think that it is a revolution. 699 comments|post comment

LIVEJOURNAL RELEASE 92: NEW SITE UPDATES AND MORE [23 May 2012|12:47am] news [theljstaff] May 23, 2012 - The official LiveJournal Release 92 has been deployed. Here’s what you’ll find in this latest site update: NEW Particularly long comment threads now collapse with the alert “...and [#] more comments.” Just click on that alert to see the rest of the comments. Here’s what this looks like: Notification emails now hide any content that was already placed inside an lj-cut instead of displaying the entire entry. Social Capital is now displayed for all communities on the profile page. You can now embed the Spotify player into your journal or community style. Personal userheads are now available for purchase. A personal userhead is of your own design and is unique to you, unavailable to anyone else. Purchase as many personal userheads as you like; each costs 5,000 LJ FunBux™, and is good for five years. Learn more. BUGS, FIXED Scheduled entries should no longer return errors or double-post. Domain mapping should no longer force redirection to the LiveJournal login page. The format=light URL modifier works on entry pages again. Comment notification emails will send even if the entry has a poll. The "Music" section on the edit entries page will let you delete the entire text field. The help link next to “Do not add to friends pages and RSS” on the update page now links to the correct FAQ. The list of journals and communities added by default for new users has changed to news and lj_releases for non-Cyrillic users. Missing navigation items in the Classic journal style have re-appeared. Notifications about expiring add-ons will now have correct subject lines. The bold/italic/strikethrough buttons in the site default commenting scheme should no longer cause cursor positioning problems in Chrome. The Calendar feature will now update properly when you edit an entry and change its date. PLANNED PARENTHOOD: HELP WITH A VGIFT! Join us in standing up for reproductive health and education. Through the end of the month, you can send a specially designed Planned Parenthood vgift to your LiveJournal friends to help support this cause. (And if you need someone to send it to frank is always happy to receive gifts!). There are three variations for you to choose from ($1, $5 and $10), but they’d all look good on your profile. Thank you for your support! Learn more. - The LiveJournal Team 620 comments|post comment

ALL-NEW SCRAPBOOK TO LAUNCH THIS WEEK; UPDATED FAQ [21 May 2012|09:38am] news [theljstaff] May 21, 2012: Three weeks ago we officially announced the plan to overhaul Scrapbook, LiveJournal’s exclusive photo-hosting feature for Plus, Paid and Perm accounts. Today we’re letting you know that the new Scrapbook will release this week; in anticipation, we want to give you a bit more information on some additional changes that have been made. The newest additions to the FAQ are under the cut; the original FAQ about the new Scrapbook is in the previous news post. ( Read more... ) 97 comments|post comment

Sunday Secrets [19 May 2012|08:31pm] postsecret http://www.postsecret.com/2012/05/sunday-secrets_19.html PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. See More Secrets. Follow PostSecret on Twitter. -----Email----- This postcard crosses the line of child porn. I'm a big fan of your site but I think this one needs to come down ASAP. -----Email----- People need to understand that breasts are only a part of the body, a picture of them is not porn. This is such a silly taboo... -----Email----- I used to cut myself. Now I draw vines, trees, & lyrics on my arms instead. -----Email----- My husband was only supposed be a rebound. -----Email----- I was a go-go dancer in college because I felt suicidal and hated myself and instead it saved me. People consider stripping or gogo dancing an ugly thing but in a way it's sensual and made me feel beautiful again. I was happy when I quit and moved on. They had called me asking to come back and I told them "thank you" but that I found what I'd been looking for. PostSecret on Facebook Amazon.com Widgets 218 comments|post comment

on being constructive [20 May 2012|09:45am] theminordetail In the middle of a heated argument, love is me, putting down the phone so we can both take a breather, calling you back after five seconds. you, putting down the phone so you can take a shower, calling me back after twenty minutes, and with a less drained heart telling me: everything will be all right. Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone. post comment

Using The Mommy Card [15 May 2012|11:13pm] zeeheehee [ mood | bouncy ] It’s so easy to get sucked into the “Mom” role, don’t you agree? It’s so easy to just wake up in the morning and know what you’re all about..take care of your child/children. Everything else has the tendency to just be at the background. Hey,you could suck at work or not do anything else productive but hey,you’re a mom. This is something we commonly hear…different variations of course. At times,not too good variations.. “I gained weight..I had 3 kids kasi,I’m a mom.” “I can’t focus at work and have to rush home..I’m a mom.” “I’ll berate and verbally abuse the darn airline ground crew because I need something for my kids..hey,I’m a mom.” And so on and so forth. People take it in so easily too. Mothers have special privileges,the same way they seem to have magic through the eyes of their loved ones. Being a mom,automatically seems to give one a certain level of maturity, and privileges by sometimes skipping a line at the restroom by whipping out that toddler..”Nanay yan. Okay lang” This is true..I don’t look like a typical mom and people treat me differently when they think I’m a “Miss” but if I have to,I whip out the mom card or tell them I have a daughter and everything just automatically gets fixed like the Red Sea suddenly parting for Moses.I use it when men try to hit on me too. Nothing like telling them about your child that makes them run the other way..Aaah,the priviliges of being a mom. I hated this when I was single,by the way. Sometimes we let that “mom” role define us..always last, always strong, always gives her arm plus leg and add on the appendix. Mother with the martyr roles and some who just use it and abuse it (Yeah..admit it. There are some..) Mothers are definitely special. In fact,the most number of text messages sent is during Mother’s Day,not Christmas,not New Year.  My Mark and Bea gave me a special Mother’s Day by not letting me work the whole day. This includes cleaning up after the new puppy, cooking and washing dishes ( I don’t have a helper on weekends..so I’m "Inday" during weekends). We also had a Mommy Day out and I had my choice of resto. So,I chose Mamou because I love their steak (and normally not supposed to have any) and plus they had free Sonja’s Red Velvet cupcakes for moms (which Bea ate). They had this grand plan of leaving me at The Spa so that they could find a surprise gift but that really didn’t pan out too well. The spa a.k.a. the mommy version of Gymboree. The massage was supposed to make me feel relaxed but being naked around other people,having strangers touch me and seeing other naked women just stresses me out. Weird phobia but it does. So for two hours my stomach was clenched and that really wasn’t relaxing. It was terribly sweet of them,though. I was so touched. I was also stressing because leaving both of them alone,usually means trouble. When I came out of The Spa,my fluffies got stuck in the rain it seems and didn’t get to find a surprise. I was fine with that of course. Just seeing them playing and laughing together was enough to make me smile. I was also still stressed over the people-nakedness-massage experience and just wanted to rest and enjoy my funny,different,silly family. See? Who wouldn’t be spoiled? Who wouldn’t love to be a mother? Some households revolve around the mother. They revolve so much around the mother that we forget that she’s a woman first and foremost. Sometimes even mom forgets she’s a woman. A woman who should be the best she could be, excels, grows, learns..physically,emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. A woman who uses her being a mother to mold and shape and not be examples of the old,famous ad “Ang ginagawa ng matanda any nagiging tama sa mata ng bata.” Sometimes as mothers we forget that being the best woman you can be can make you the best mom you can be. They say the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Let it be the best hands then.  Belated Happy Mother's Day,lovely mommies and mommies to be! post comment

State Of My Nation Address [15 May 2012|06:58pm] zeeheehee [ mood | content ] I haven’t posted in a while. In fact, most of my posts have begun with this sentence lately. I haven’t had much drive to write,I guess. Some people have asked me to update. So,I’ll post in bullet points and pictures to make things easier. I’m Still In Love Yup, everything’s fine and dandy and more than Mark and I could ever dream of. We had a trip to Cebu to plan the wedding with both families meeting for the first time. That was nerve wracking but we angled a final date and September 8,2013 is it or forever hold your peace. We Love Being Silly..All Three Of Us Bea and Mark are a handful and so much fun. They make me laugh so hard,it’s difficult to be in a bad mood when both of them are around. Lipstick Frenzy I’ve been on a terrible lipstick frenzy lately and have acquired around 10 (MAC, Lancome, Estee Lauder, Shisheido, Chanel,etc..) the past 3 months including a Bobbi Brown 20 color Anniversary palette. I don’t know,it makes me feel better. I have buyers remorse but boy,are my lips bright. Changes at Work Everything has been flat lining since I ended my community project. I just come in once in a while to consult. So,my usual hyper self has been needing an extra boost lately. Thus, I have a new job by end of May. I’m excited. Vader We bought a new puppy. Bea’s dog,Ashley and our hamster Poofy died last month. It was just so sad. I told Bea we get a dog after our wedding next year and in the meantime,I get her a long haired guinea pig. Nope..when we got to Tiendesitas,this ball of black puff just captured my heart. We named him Vader and he’s the size of a guinea pig so I guess,it’s the same thing. Though a guinea pig licking me would be just weird. I’ll post something with more substance soon..like this week. * crosses fingers * 1 comment|post comment

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