Celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary :) Happy friendship smiles :) iced coffee cheers! :)

Celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary!!! :) Iced coffee CHEERS!!! to you all, our dear wonderful friends! :) We're enjoying a great day! :) my family and i have been enjoying the week, with some nice simple joys, and looking forward to sharing in, and celebrating lots more with you and your family's :) Today is my 11th DS Anniversary! :) i joined on January 11th, 2007 :) it's amazing, how fast the years go by. my family and i are very happy, thankful, and blessed with the wonderful joy, of the many special friendships we've made here on ds over the years :) You all bring us, lots of happiness, peace, hope, inspirational, spirited excitement, and of course, you all give us, daily strength that keeps us smiling each day :) we thank you all so very much, for your wonderfully special friendships :) i'm celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary in style, with an iced coffee, and some nice time here on ds, writing to friends, and here in my journal :) DS gives us all so much, over the years, that we will forever cherish with all of the love of our hearts :) i love sharing about my days, and adventures here in my journal :) my journal is my story, and my journey :) Thank you all for joining me, and my family for all these years :) Cheers to 11 years on DS, and cheers to the next 11! :) woot! yeah!!! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) It's a nice peaceful, and relaxing day at home :) i'm very excited, to stock up on some more writing supplies soon :) We've got a super fun baking friday adventure planned for tomorrow :) a football theme :) it's team flour vs team sugar! :) Football playoffs in full swing, we'll be baking up a gameplan tomorrow! :) We're going to bake football cupcakes! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)

Hi angel friends! :) iced coffee cheers! on this sweet relaxing, and peaceful day :) my family and i are thinking of you all :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day! :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) We've got lots of awesome joys coming up, to share with everyone, including a super fun football themed baking friday adventure, awesome football games this upcoming weekend, shopping saturday, and lots more :) the month of January is in full swing :) We're having a nice peaceful day close home today :) my sister Lisa has the day off from work :) my mom and Lisa went shopping earlier :) We're keeping a close eye on the weather, we could recieve between 2 and 3 inches of rainfall here, on friday/saturday. we have lots of snow melting too, as the weather's warmed up nicely. :) i put lots of goodies outside for our nature friends this morning :) i've been enjoying some cozy time here in my computer room, and here on ds, writing to friends :) January 11th, is a very special day to my heart :)

Today, is my 11th DS Anniversary!!! :) i'm smiling and so happy and excited, to share in the joy my heart feels every day, to be able to communicate with friends across the miles, here on ds :) from all around the states, to many countries all around the world :) my family and i have met many wonderful friends, and many special memories that our hearts will forever cherish and treasure :) it seems like yesterday, when i first joined. i use too post on the myocd.org site. i remember i was in a depression and feeling stuck with my shyness, social anxiety, and depression too. i remember when i first joined DS, and began to meet a few friends here on the site. i wasn't very active back in the early days. i use to visit DS about once a day, around 3 or 4pm, and i remember communicating :)i was hanging out in our living room, early february 2007, and talking with my mom, Lisa, Alyssa, about how i'd like to go out more, to the stores, shops, and to become more social by going out, and i posted journal about it here on ds :)

On February 10th, 2007 i went to the supercenter that day with my mom, dad, and Alyssa,and i remember going into the electronics section, and i bought my 1st cell phone! :) i was so proud! :) it was a nokia net10 phone, i still have it here in my computer room as a momento, of a time when i stood up to my social anxiety,and shyness. i was in the store for about 10 minutes, and then came back outside, but that 10 minutes gave me so much strength, and hope, i continued to go into the stores, more and more and more, and with all of the amazing love, care, support, guidance, encouragement, from family and our wonderful DS friends, i kept blossoming and blossoming to the point where i could go into places comfortably, which is an amazing feeling :) i credit my family and friends, for helping me, inspiring me to achieve the hard work, progress and never losing hope :)

During Spring, Summer that year in 2007, becoming friends with many wonderful people here on ds, and us all joining together, to share our goals, our dreams, our hopes, our ups and downs, our triumphs, and hard times, we all have come so very far, and it's incredible, all that we've been able to give to eachother, with the support, encouragement, and comforting care, with lots of understanding too, that's helped us all, to be able to grow, and blossom into days we dreamed of, and it's so good too, to have the hopes, and dreams of days ahead we still have to look forward too achieving, and enjoying to the fullest :) i'm so very proud of everyone, everyone's goal achievements, and how far we all have come, together :) it's truly amazing, and incredible, and DS and all of our beautiful friends over the years are such a blessing of hope, strength, and love, that my family and i will forever cherish, treasure, and appreciate, with all of the love of our hearts :) i'm very happy, and thankful DS has brought us all together, for many special reasons :)

To my heart, one of the most special joys, is here on ds, friends are always there :) over the years, whether it's 6am in the morning, or 12am midnight, if it's a good day, rough day, or something to share, DS is here, and there's friends here, and that's a very special blessing, a gift of hope, and comfort :) i've had many times where my family and i were going through a rough time, and to be able to share here on ds, truly is an amazing blessing :) whether it's health related, or a rough day, DS is a treasure trove of love, care, and support :) i love writing in my journals, and i really get into my writings :) i spirit write a lot :) it's a love for writing i developed, from my early days on DS, back in 2007 :) Friends and memories, stories, always remain in my heart :) i remember so much, i have a really good memory, and so many awesome stories, and special memories, of times here on ds over the years :) i could write and write for months, and months, all of the stories, and memories, and that's a wonderful feeling in my heart, knowing i could :) DS is a very special place, because of the wonderful friendships we share :)

my family and i love you all, and your family's we've gotten the wonderful chance to know, and to be able to have met DS friends in person, over the years too :) absolutely amazing! :) You all are family to us :) i look around my computer room, i see our beautiful cards, gifts, treasures, all of those special moments opening them up, and the many cherished times shared, over the years during the seasons, holiday's, birthday's, from gardening, to winterstorms, to all of the nature sharings, and lots more, including our favorite tradition, born right here on DS, baking friday! :) i love, my family loves it, we are so blessed, and thankful for so many special joys :) i'm very proud of everyone :) on this sweet day, celebrating my 11th DS anniversary, i'm beyond proud, so very extremely proud, of how far we all have come with our goals :) i love cheering everyone on, and encouraging everyone :) it means the world to me :) i will always be here for you and your family's :) You all give so much to my family and i, and we will forever cherish on, and treasure, the beautiful gift, of your wonderfully special friendships, in this amazing garden of life :) on my 11th DS Anniversary, i raise my iced coffee, and CHEERS!!! to you all, our dear and wonderful, guardian angel friends :)

With today being my 11th DS anniversary, i'm sipping an iced coffee, and enjoying one of my favorite joys, time here on ds, writing to friends :) Thank you all, for your wonderful ds anniversary wishes :) i know many friends, are reaching their anniversary day times here on ds too! :) we have lots of members here, from 2007, 2008, 2009, and on, and that's so cool! :) Cheers!!! to your anniversary days and times here on ds, and congratulations too! :) Sharing in and celebrating!!! :) this is super mega sweet awesome!!! :) cheers! to many more years, of wonderful friendships, support, encouragement, and all of the sharing :) happy friendship smiles :)

We're enjoying a great day, celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) There's lots of great things going on, as the weekend is approaching :) Today for lunch, i enjoyed some nice cabbage soup, with rice crackers :) lunch was delicious! :) i've been enjoying my iced coffee, and some nice time here on ds, writing to friends :) Thank you all again, for your awesome happy 11th DS Anniversary wishes! :) awww! :) Holly and i are gonna watch some cool videos on youtube tonight :) We love our party's :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) We're so happy and excited to bake some awesome football cupcakes :) We love sharing our adventures :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) BIG GROUP WARM HAPPY FRIENDSHIP HUG :) There's many more great things to look forward too, with family, friends, and nature :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome day, celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary :) Cheers! :) enjoying some awesome times, with family, friends, and nature :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really nice day" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) we hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) Thank you all, for sharing in, and celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary :) You all are very special, dear friends :)

CHEERS!!! to you all, our dear angel friends! :) Thank you for your wonderfully heart warming happy 11th DS anniversary wishes, for all of your sweet comments, hugs, for sharing in, and celebrating with me :) i'm enjoying the celebrations, in style, with having a nice iced coffee, some nice time here on ds, writing to friends, and also put some of our new lovely cards, around my computer room :) Thinking of you all, our dear angel friends :) Cheers to many more wonderful years of friendship :) i have some pictures i'd love to share :) Happy friendship smiles :)

This is me, December 15th, 2007 inside the big mall, during the holiday's :) This is the day we rocked it at the supercenter, the mall, and benny's store :) just months earlier, i couldn't have imagined going into the mall. i hadn't been in the mall in 15 years, and i remember we were shopping at the supercenter, then went over to the mall, and i spontaneously went in, with everyone :) it was great! :) You all were right there with us all in spirit :) This was a very special shopping adventure, that my family and i will always remember, as one of the best ever :) singing Christmas songs on the way to benny's, with it very cold outside, and an angel friend with us that day:) it was awesome :) a day to remember :) You all helped me to be able to go out, giving me strength, hope, and courage, to be able to experience a shopping adventure like this with my family :)

With DS, everyone's amazing support, it gave me lots of encouragement, hope, and strength, to go to the supercenter all of those saturday afternoon's, and pushed the cart around the whole store, to have social interaction :) this is one of those moments, of many :) the sunflower in this picture, i remember getting it for our dear friend, my lovely ds mum (Bloss) :) Love treasures shopping for everyone :)

my keychains :) i began to bring keychains with me, when going out into the stores, public places :) when i was having a hard time, i use too put my hand into my pocket to feel the keychains :) it always brings me comfort :)

the sunflowers of 2007 :) our first spring and summer gardening season on ds :)

Mr. Cool Sunflower!!! :) Celebrating my 11th DS Anniversary in style! :) CHEERS!!! :)