HEEHEE:D..i could be such a immuture person. I'm really random..and so filled with energy..that's who i am. I REALLY do not wanna get old..OHBOY! I want to stay young! Today i went to the park with my friends and i found myself playing with a 5 year old..playing tag. ^_^..i forget how old i am.

I agree kara.. i LOVE to hang out with ppl who are always trying to have fun..enerjectic ppl.. i mean who can be serious ALL the time...? immpossible! oohh,..i don't wanna get old!!

Getting old is just fine as long as you don't think of "old" as a negative thing. My daughter asked me yesterday if I wished I was twenty again. I didn't hesitate to say no. I love living, and with living comes a passing of time. So, we get older. Sure beats the alternative. Well, at least for now! I'm still working on my journey to be ready to die, not quite there yet! (warning: blatant religious reference)

I agree with all of you guys. This forum is great. I am not so young and have played the flute for about 12 years until an accident made me stop playing for a lot of years. I have been starting all over again and when there were times that I am down, I just have to check out this forum and I am just happy to play again. Major topic contributors here are very supportive and informative like Kara, Patrick, Stephen, Jose Luis, Micron, etc.

I have visited other forums and felt that our forum here is the friendliest. I agree that rudeness can sometimes put us down but to me it will all depend on the way it is being perceived. There are rudeness that is just blatant and insulting and in this case we may try to just ignore it in order to prevent further confrontation. What's left for us to do anyway? We can't 'truly' ban the rude person, can we?

But there are times that some confrontations are informative such as some interchange b/w Bilbo and Micron, etc and this kind of confrontations are very enlightening.

And also there are comments that are, to my perception, really meant to help others but taken the other way like the ones made on Lera's spellcheck.

Yeah but you should see the nasty/foul email that I got from Reeni.

I have not sent any rude emails to anyone and I would appreciate it if people did not confuse Reenie and I. Thank you.

Reeni, actually if not for the lady photo of Reenie, I would also think that you are Reenie, your names sound the same.

Hi... Bilbo, Kara, Patrick, you would all remember me: I used to be Jessie before I left almost a year ago! I missed everyone and came back and nearly cried of happiness to find out that everything had changed for the better (ok, well, I didn't cry, but I got really excited) and joined again!
It is so nice that everyone is getting along (almost everyone, by the sound of it, but I won't get into that because I know nothing about it! ) and I look forward to everything!
Do any of you remember Arak? Or Jill Pole? I know Arak made ammends in the end, but I am so happy that everyone is so civilized now!

Tessa, I know! But I would appreciate it if people checked their Reeni/Reenie spelling before saying things about either of us! (I was here first by the way!)

Reeni, if I am not mistaked Reenie has been posting a long time. I am not sure if it is the same one or not, but if it is she was using the name Reenie before you joined. I was just looking through the forum. Just put in the name Reenie in the search box.

Celebrian, Arak is still hear but under a different name. A lot of us changes our names when we had to register or for other reasons. Jill pole? Hmmm.. I was wondering about her too. I haven't seen her, but maybe she is posting under a different name now.

I posted as Reeni way before we had to register. I'm not sure if I was definitely here first, I just remember seeing someone post as Reenie one day some time after I started using this site (though not posting very often) and noticing she had the same name as me (before we had to register).

To clarify: Reeni (without e) is me and I posted under that name before registration. Reenie (with e) is someone else.

Reeni, I know I wrote your name when referring to Reenie by accident. I'm sorry. But now the split personalities makes sense if you're two different people.

Reeni, so you have been on here for 3 years then?