Him: "Everyday is Valentines day when I'm with you."

Fyi, He is just an ordinary friend.

A sound guy that I look up to:
"I've never actually heard you sing. You did great. You need to sing more often."

I sing on the worship team at my church. Currently they're trying to make it a "Worship department", instead of just a leader. The current worship leader recently told me that the whole staff (many, many people that I look up to immensly) agrees that I'm the first person they want to train up to work under the worship leader. Music is my greatest passion, but I have some confidence issues. The fact that they have that much confidence in me and think that highly of me, basically made my week. :]

So today, I helped my friend with a paper that she was writing for a mass communications class. Once I had finished editing it, she told me to hold out my hand. I did so, and she put a handful of japanese mango gummies into my palm. "I don't know how else to repay you" she said. That was certainly more than enough to me =]

I made this dream catcher shirt for my friend out of fabric markers, and he said, "Thanks again for my shirt! It's awesome! I got compliments all day today!"

**EDIT Wed Dec 9 00:28:16 UTC 2009 **

The notification system has been fixed in the new release... we are currently processing the queue, which is upwards of 12m jobs... please bear with us while our workers chew through this large queue and get your notification / emails out. Some may come more quickly than others due to weights on the notifications themselves, but we are hoping in the next 24 hours to have all the queues cleared and all notifications delivered that had been queued up over the past few days.

Again I apologize for this inconvenience, but we are almost out of the woods as soon as we are done clear cutting some of the forest ;)

Thanks,

** END EDIT**

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

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Our drama-choir department is really well integrated, and all the seniors are pretty tight, but even so there are always divisions, right? In who hangs out together, and whatnot. I got this wall post on facebook from some girls that I don't talk to that frequently:

"i just wanna say ur super duper cute!"
~"yes yes yes"

Sweethearts <3

You look really elegant.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

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showed his aunts and uncles pictures of me at Thanksgiving, and throughout dinner he texted me:

"They think you are beautiful and are asking how I got you"
"My uncle, aunt, Granny and brother are here. My aunt wants me to marry you really soon. I just said 'we will see,' so as not to give us away."
"I love you and all I can do is smile knowing that my aunts and uncles are so impressed. My uncle keeps saying there must be something going on for me to get a girl like you"
"My aunt thought our halloween pic was Grey's Anatomy worthy, and she said you look like a new kind of movie star"
"I am so proud of us and am so glad everyone is as happy as I am. I love you, baby"

I went over to his house later on, and his granny told me even more hilarious stuff:
"Oh, Aunt Linda just could not shut up about you. All night! All through out dinner! Hilary is sooo gorgeous! Hilary is soooo beautiful! She just could not get over it."

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