- that sounds lovely! I'm hoping to get to Seattle in June... beer & coffee! haha.

- I love Seattle! While you're there, you should take the train up to Vancouver.

Seattle is a wonderful city. Have you ever been? I went once for a choir trip in high school and have always wanted to go back. So green! And the Underground Tour! And Pike's Place Market! Ahhhh!

- I have been to Seattle before, but I was 14. I think it would be a different situation at 32! I do remember it being very green - we definitely did the Underground Tour and Pikes Place Market. Have never been to Vancouver, WA (I assume that's the one you mean?).

However, the trip is probably off. Just had a huge fight with my boyfriend last night and he broke up with me, so no reason to go visit him. I am a wreak today with one one to talk to about it, so here I am crying at my desk at work & telling my internet friends. I have been a wreck missing him the last month (he started a new job with Amazon & I live in Pennsylvania) and now I'm a double wreck thinking I'll never see him again. :( :( :(

Omg, I'm so sorry. D: hugs

- Thanks. I'll take all the hugs I can get. We've had big arguments before, but we usually are in the same room and talk it out, take breaks and come back and work it out in the end. This is our first long-distance argument and he just ended the phone call by saying that he wanted my address so he could send me my stuff he has. D= We sent a few really e-mail-length text messages after that, but so far nothing today. I'm such a wreck. Trying to distract myself with work and games.

~ HUGS

- thanks. hugs back

Happy Vesnali! I will try to send everyone flowers when I find them. It has been slow coming. Hope everyone is doing good and is getting lots of goodies from Esther's shop. <3

huge hugs That really stinks. :(

- Oh, no...I'm so sorry. It SUCKS to be stuck at work and dying to talk to someone to work things out. I've been there. Ugh. hugs I hope things get better.

That seems a little... sudden. But maybe he needs to do the same thing this time... take a break, cool down, maybe you can work on it the same way you did before, just in a different format (phone, skype, etc). Long distance relationships are hard, I speak from experience... but they can work out if you work for them. more hugs I hope everything turns out okay in the end, no matter what the two of you decide.

- Thank you for the kind words! I am still pretty much in shock.

- Yes! It has been so much fun so far... All of the pretty things! :D

I was reading over some of your posts. Sorry to hear your having relationship issues. I have been married for over 20 years and had quite the hiccup. I felt like the walking dead when things were bad. Thank god things are good now. But, it was rough for a long time. I am here if you need to talk. Hugs!!!

- I am definitely feeling walking-dead-like at the moment! This is my first relationship where I really felt like we were on the same page and had the same view for the future. I have felt nauseous and all tingly since Tuesday night. :(

Hugs! Love in the best thing in the world when it is good and one of the most painful things when it goes bad. I stopped eating for months and weighed almost 100 pounds. Everyone thought I had cancer. I have always been overweight, so that was an insane change. I gained alot of weight back. I definately want to lose alot more. It was nice being told I was skinny and being telling me to eat. It was odd. Since I come from a food obsessed family and everyone has extra weight on them. Most of the time things happen for a reason. So, hopefully you find your way back to him or maybe there is someone else your destined to be with. I will put you in my prayers.

- down to 100 pounds! WOW. I can't imagine what you must have been going through. I am in a similar family-dynamic - food is a reward or a punishment! Not very healthy. I know what it is like to struggle with weight.

On the plus side, I did hear from my boyfriend today & he said he wants to talk this weekend! YAY! :) Still feeling apprehensive, but also optimistic. Thanks for the prayers, hugs & good thoughts, everyone.

Good luck this weekend! Being apprehensive is very understandable but you never know! I have a friend who just got back together with a boyfriend from 13 years ago! :o And they hadn't spoken all that time and had other relationships and everything. I've been thinking about you lots. hugs again

So... Do we think there will be another component to Vesnali this year? I remember last year having to do some stuff for Esther but I thought I remember it starting later in the event. Was that a one time thing? (Sorry for all the newbie questions. It's only my second Vesnali so I'm not sure what to expect.)

- thanks, I dunno what's going to happen, but I hope we can have a nice discussion about everything & I can keep a cool disposition. I tend to get very emotional & not think before I speak!

News post just now is about a new bug-catching thing, so I think that might be the Vesnali-half-way announcement you're looking for! But, it goes until AUGUST & there's a new achivement! YAY!

I hope your talk goes well. My hubby is horrible at communicating. That is suppose to be the key to a good relationship/marriage. It is hard when your both passionate. Things get heated and then things get said that aren't real. Fingers and toes crossed for you to have extra good luck with your situation.