Thank you everyone. I always try to take the serious questions seriously and give my best (although often long and detailed) answers based on my own experiences, or by offering up solutions that worked for close friends and relatives. I also try to offer suggestions on what kinds of things to avoid so that you don’t hurt yourselves or anyone else. I also try to do my home-work and my research about certain topics and not just pop off answers off the top of my head. Sometimes people don’t want the full information and that’s OK, they don’t have to read it, but I always want to offer the option of delving into the subject matter a little bit further, whether it’s by linking a recipe, or linking info from a reputable medical site.
I also try to answer the less serious questions (and games and contests) in a way that is at least slightly amusing and may give some of the other Fluthers a little laugh. I would hate to be considered boring or irrelevant.
I love words and I enjoy the verbacious inter-play we all enjoy here on Fluther. Some of you guys have given answers that have made me spit milk and I thank you for that.
I have been blessed with enjoying some very sweet and intimate (and sometimes hilarious) conversations with some of you by PM. And you know who you are. I hope that I have been able to offer some kind of insight or at least a place of comfort for you. Some things in life are really sucky, but it’s nice to be able to share the suckiness with someone else who understands what it’s like.
I also have a handful of Go-To Flutherites (and you know who you are) who I often PM to help me out with particularly tough cases. You guys always jump right onto the thread and pitch in and I thank you for that! I have learned that even though I may have a lot of information, sometimes the messenger (sometimes me) isn’t the right one, but if enough other great Fluthers get involved, they can often turn a bad situation around.
I’m also grateful to all of you for putting up with my long, detailed answers. That’s just how I operate and I can’t seem to help it. Why post one recipe when you can post 20!
And thanks to the mods, especially @Augustlan for being helpful, courteous and trying to keep us all safe and on the right track.
And thanks to those of you who have remembered that I am a vegetarian, love cheese and cooking and cats and Alan Rickman. And I especially thank those of you that have allowed me to indulge my love of The Nanny.
I hope to continue to spend a lot of quality time here on Fluther, laughing and crying and trying to do the best I can to give thoughtful, insightful and hopefully helpful answers. And to have a little bit of fun along the way.
So now, I’m going to go up stairs, slip into my hawaiian print mummu with my little flip flops with the daisies on them, attempt to get my hair up into one of those bumpits and put on a little grapefruit scent and head down to the party. So bust out the wine coolers and the Funyuns!
