Awww! Thanks guys! And Squirt...hush! I do so have a life!!!! I've just misplaced it somewhere.
Ok...I'm trying to come up with a sappy "I love you guys" post for 12,000...but..I'm like...always sappy...so I can't think of much to say that hasn't been said.
...but I will say this...
...never in my life did I ever think a WEBSITE on the internet could change my life...but it has. I never thought you could develop meaningful relationships on the internet...but somehow I've met some of the best friends anyone could ever ask for..right here. Most of the time I'm all caught up in the day to day, and I don't think about it...but on the occasion that I do step back and take the time to really think about it...I see dozens of ways in which my life is different...I see a gigantic extended family that's been through SO MUCH together. We share our life experiences here, just as a normal family would. We share births and deaths, marriages and breakups...graduations, new jobs, losing jobs...day to day stresses...and more laughs than you could ever think about counting. So maybe we don't live on the same block, or town, or even in the same country...but you've all become part of my life.
Before coming here, I had one or two people I could go to when I needed support, or advice on sensitive matters. Here, I've had dozens of wonderful people that have been there to pick me up when I was down. I almost never feel like I'm alone now. It's an amazing feeling to know that there is ALWAYS someone that will be there for me.
Ok, I'm rambling and getting TOO sappy (yeah yeah, I guess I had some sap left in me)...so I'll try and wrap it up....
I know in the past I, and several others have done milestone 'dedication' posts, thanking certain people...I'd like to do that, but it'd take hours.
So...I want to thank each and everyone here that has ever supported me, been there for me, encouraged me, taught me, inspired me, made me laugh, made my cry (happy tears, not sad ones

)...and everything else that is good in this world!
Y'all are one groovy bunch (There Daan, I said it...ya happy?

)
So uh...yeah...there...how's that for sap?