I'm definitively right-handed. Never really tried to learn writing with my left-hand.

This is incredibly simple for me, I've always gone with Water. Except for in Yellow, of course.

Hm... Depends on the definition. My *very* first MLP toys were the first G4 set from McDonalds. However, if we're going for the official brushable toys, my first was G3 Jazz Matazz. =)

In my family we have three dogs, but I, specifically, own a cockatiel.

I got him back in fifth grade. He was the class pet, but he somehow ended up in my hands. I'm not remembering how exactly, he may have been considered too noisy for the school or something. lol

He got named by a class vote... When I was in fifth grade it was the very height of the Pokemon craze (1999/2000), and he has a yellow face and orangish-red cheek, so he got named Pikachu.  Incidentally, *I* voted his name that way, too. 

Although my parents HATE (or at least hated) Pokemon, so over the years we just started calling him "Peeky". lol

He's getting up there in the years now (I think he may have been a year old when I got him, so around 16 now), so I was nervous taking pictures, but I manged to get one =):

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I don't go around announcing it... My parents would think it childish of me "Why aren't you saving that money for school?" and would find it strange that I got into MLP as an adult and not when I was younger. So I keep it down low even around them. Although they're not completely oblivious to it.

Nevertheless, several years ago I began to keep my interests to myself aside from a few close friends. I figured I was probably just annoying every one, so I pretty much stopped talking about anything other than my interest in music/musical instruments. But even still the majority of IRL people only know that I play the bassoon. They don't even know about tenor saxophone, or much less that I got an oboe. So ultimately... I've clamped down altogether. lol

Naturally MLP was one of the interests I would keep to myself. Only about five of my friends know that I like MLP and have started collecting. With them it happened because I don't drive and when we'd go out together and I saw something pony related that would be one of my few chances to get it and I think they've probably built up this image in their minds that my whole life revolves around MLP. Surely not because they're my best friends, but I could see how it could easily make them think that way. They've unfortunately ended up being on the very receiving end of my MLP fangirling.  At least one is a childhood MLP fan so that helps me not feel so bad. xD

Oh my... Best of luck! I don't think I could do it. >.<

I thought this would never happen to me, I've always been so careful about money! I've been working for quite some time to build up money, supposedly to go back to school. That requires a lot of money, I found out.

However, recently my mom has started actually encouraging me to spend some money on myself because she says once I go back to school I won't have much money to spend ever again. >.<

In doing so, I discovered that online ordering is really neat. I began to order those things that I couldn't find at physical stores but really wanted, but kept on pushing off since I kept on telling myself I shouldn't spend my money. Turns out, those have stacked up over the years... Lol. Then I discovered ponies, and I'm afraid, I'm addicted.

I realize it as an addiction now since when I don't have anything ordered I'm feeling bad about it, like I should find something to order to look forward to! >.<

Is this what happens? lol

Depressing Stuff:


I suppose one smaller dream that I hold onto is learning the tenor saxophone and oboe. I have the instruments but have sadly not gotten around to learning them. So that's a dream I will hold onto.

The dream I would go for if I could turn things around in life would be going back to school... My dream university from since I was kid, actually, and studying musicology/music history, and becoming a music history professor.

Right now, its to figure out whats wrong with me medical wise (IBS is NOT cutting it), heal to the point where I can work full time outside again (seriously.  I get dreams of being with my 'kids' at work), and just get back on track with life.  It would be awesome to spend a whole day at a theme park, or the movies, or a convention without having to worry about getting sick, or being unstable (having to be hospitalized, yet again ><)

It might seem trivial to most people, but once you get nailed by something that's been severely effecting normality for a set number of years...it matters.  Enjoy what you have and what you are able to do while you have it.

*hug* You can say that again. Life takes a drastically different tone when medical issues are introduced.

It happened to me right out of high school... What you said in the last paragraph really speaks to me. Throughout my high school years I was somebody who really needed to understand the message of your paragraph (it's a lesson best just understand not given...). I was so dramatic and described by many as "the most depressing person [they] have ever met".

It's sad because many of the things I complained about I could have worked toward improving, instead of sitting on the computer making depressing blogs and posts all of the time.

Deep down I had a lot of hope for the future, deep down I told myself that I would sit down and start working toward my dreams. I thought it was something I could afford to procrastinate toward a time I felt was right. I was wrong.

I did start working toward one of my dreams, but I'm afraid I didn't start soon enough.

Anyway, sorry, I don't want to make this about me. It's just not something I get to go on detail about to many people, and it's something that really bothers me right down to my core. And to be honest I was shocked to see somebody else describe this in those very words.

I really hope that things can turn around for you.