Teri Luketic

My first computer was a family computer that we were given. It was my aunt's first one as well. I ended up learning it faster than the others in the house just by trial and error and the fact that they're not usually all that hard to deal with. She knew just enough to work it because of things she had to do at work, but this was her first personal computer. She still (on our fifth computer) knows about what she did before and we're on XP now.

That's not really how it is for me. My dreams are completely and entirely crazy most of the time, there are only some (I have very few that I can remember having by morning. Usually my memory of dreams are that of black short nights that end quickly. Those that aren't crazy are very few.) that are good, though they usually have the crazy twist to them. I can rarely connect the crazy ones to anything that might have spawned them into being in my twisted brain. I think this might be because my brain bounces so much in reality anyway, that it's probably like that when I'm asleep. It doesn't quit jumping and things get as confused as they do when I'm just sitting somewhere in a daze and even when I'm trying to think of five things at once. I do agree with the Scientists though in some cases, it's just hard to tell whether the case is that or not. There are plenty of stories in the Bible of which dreams would be crazy and then have real life meaning. Thing is, there's so many people who have dreams, and no such prophets. But I'm not going to go into dreams. I just like to think of them as something I don't have to deal with much, and when I do I usually try to put them out of my memory (which doesn't take long, I can hardly remember them past various points of time unless they were really far out and reason to stick in my brain. I've got one I can remember that I had when I was eight and I'm seventeen now!) unless their good which they end up dissappearing from existance anyway. *Sigh* Only two have stuck in my mind really, one from when I was seven and the other more that of fourteen.

Okay, one thing I have to say is this: I don't think the question should have been made a poll. Religion is a pretty broad topic consisting of ALOT of different types and then their branches. Some are more up to the times in the way and reason they think than others, so it's pretty difficult to say that it hasn't. I probably answered the question wrong in the vote, I should have said yes and made my point of view one of this. Sure, it should be updated, ALL THE TIME! The quesiton might have been put this way though, do you think YOUR religion is up to date? Then again, I've got a few things popping in my mind that are comingn out funny I think.Sure there are things that are outdated. . .at least in my religion. As Seventh-Day Adventists, there are many things I think need to be put into the concept of what's going on now. I still believe that we shouldn't do meat, though not necessarily just because Ellen White said that while you're sticking with not eating what the Lord said in the Bible, how about none at all. There's a lot of diseases going around in the animals, I have no desire to go out and grub on a rack of anything. There are other things that I think are a little stupid, but they're things that you're not going to get condemned for unless it's some letter of the Ellen law abiding grandparent getting up there in their years.Women are allowed to be just about anything on the church leadership, including the pastors. In fact, it's not a wrong thing for there to be a woman President of a Conference or even of the whole thing itself! (Although, I can honestly say that I don't know for sure that we have one particular person for the whole world of Adventism. . .though I think there is.)One thing that could be updated is the belief on the theater. Back in Ellen Whilte's day, the theater was that of the plays and all, not that of the movies. Sure there are things we shouldn't see, but not all of the movies are bad. That's what ratings and reviews are for.We have some of our churches that allow trapsets and electric guitars, and we sing all kinds of Christ oriented songs, and then we have the alternatives that consist of just the piano and organ, or even just one of those. My church doesn't do much of the electric guitars and drums, though we use bongos and accoustic guitars some, the grand piano and an organ with pretty up to date songs, as well as the hyms. Most of this though is because we have a wide variety of people to appease. It's the academy's church, but a nice population attending the church are the elderly.Like I said, there are things that could always change, but at least in my religion, we're pretty on track I think.

I completely have a distaste for DBZ. My cousin is a fanatic for it, as well as other things. He has some good taste in my point of view, but this is one of the things I just can't understand. I like a lot of Japanese Anime stuff, though I must admit I haven't seen a lot of it in a while, so I don't know much on the topic really. I mostly just like the art What I don't care for is all the screaming and yelling, which the majority of the show consists of. That and all the fighting. I don't see all that much plot line in it, at least in what all I'd seen, and I like more plot than just waiting around while a few punches are thrown, one fight lasting a whole month. Plots? Gotta get the balls to bring someone back. . .woohoo! Keep the planet from being blown up. . .it's been done. . .better. And even those that people still do are better. Not much I like about the show.

Gilmore Girls (I don't know about the most recent seasons though, I haven't even seen anything from this newest one. . .is it started yet?), First Season of Everwood, Boy Meets World, Star Trek (TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise the most), and a few others that I can't really think of right now.

Currently, I work as a nursing student at a nursing home. I'm in highschool, so it's not like I'm actually wanting to become a nurse, which I most definately don't want to be! Not the area I see myself going into, although I love the type of thing I do except there's no way to go up in anything and you're often stepped all over by those above you and even those who aren't.I'd love to do something dealing with graphics once I'm out of college, but that's only part of what I want to do. I'm thinking something in advertising possibly, being some graphic person in that area for a good while. Graphic design stuff even. Don't know that area specifically, just some general things.My dream though, is to own my own pizza cafe type place with a different event going on each night like concerts and stuff. Have a hopping artistic type place, you know? And have something else to go along with it that I'm in charge of so they can kind of balance each other out. I really like the idea.

I don't know that this is an eating style we're being polled about here. I'd say it's more that of a social thing. Eating style, to me would mean how often, how healthy, those types of things. I do think that it's a good way to look at how a person is socially, find out a part of their personality.

Alright, I've got two questions I'm trying to find some good places to advertise my site, but I don't have money. Does anyone know of any great advertising sites that are free?Also, I've recently realized that there's some kind of code thing that you can put in on your database that every time you go to some page with this item as an image, it cycles through the pictures in the folder you put it in if you set everything right. Does anyone happen to have that file? I was sent it once, but I didn't have a database. So techinically it's not recently, but it's been just a few weeks before I started on here.Thanks guys!

My simm's home page, because there's really two main people who use my computer. . .me and my cousin who's also on my simm.

Mahah! My family are Trek fans. . .so our family computer's background is that of the USS Voyager though it's a package thing, so it rotates every time we turn it on to a few other various things, but that's what it is currently.

My favorite thing to do? I've actually got a couple that rank about the same, it just depends on the day and some times I can multy task and be doing them at the same time. I love making my primitive graphics, especially now that I've figured out how to make things from scratch and still have them look pretty spiffy! I love online simms, especially trek stuff, as you can tell by my avatar. I've checked out a couple of various ones, but the ones that I wouldn't mind doing are email based and I prefer forums because my email addy's are pretty cluttered as it is! I love to sing and write songs, though I don't know that I'm all that good at the latter. I love to draw and read as well, though neither I do all that much now-a-days because of school and the others actually kind of having some responsibility to them. I love to be with my closest friends, and enjoy being in school functions that are very social, though they do tax on my reserves sometimes. Most of all, I like being with this guy at my school. I really like him, and can't get enough of talking to him. *Sigh* those are my things to do in my free time, or even when there isn't any.

Mahah! My family are Trek fans. . .so our family computer's background is that of the USS Voyager though it's a package thing, so it rotates every time we turn it on to a few other various things, but that's what it is currently.

I watched our DVD's of Everwood's season one. I really haven't watched all that much this school year, hardly any in the summer either. There's not all that much on any more that I care to see, and I have so much out side of home, at school and work and anything else under the sun. Senior year is always soooo busy!

You know what I find quite interesting, how different this topic title is from the poll question itself.Sure, I believe there are other beings out there other than us. What I don't believe is that we're their offspring or anything. I believe that a devine being, the God of the universe, created many different planets and that as well as those planets and beings, he created our world. No sudden *bang* there it is, just a supernatural being deciding he was lonely and wanted people with freedom of choice, people who'd chose whether they loved him or not. Why make a species soo entirely different from all the others he'd made, when he knew this species would hurt him? Because of the end result. He'd have people with him who love him fully and not just because they weren't created to think otherwise.I think those other beings out there are probably aren't even in our solar system. One thing my religion doesn't teach, is how far out there these other beings are. The teachers used to say things like "There's creatures out there watching the story of the Earth unfold from Mars," but that's it. They were just giving examples. I think these creatures aren't even in our system because I think God wanted it so we are alone in the sense that no one else is in our solar system but His presense. I don't know that we'll ever get out of our solar system very far. Of course, I don't know what all EXACTLY we've actually done, but still. We're still having trouble even getting our people back and forth from our land to a single space station in orbit of the planet! He wants us to seek out the mystery of what lies beyond our stars, and all in all, I think He wants us to realize that we'll only know through him. The bible itself says there are other beings out there, in Hebrews in the strate translations, no paraphrases. There's an infinate amount of things out there, that's what I believe.

Sure, love does hurt. But you know what, that's a part of life. If you just curled up in a ball begging for love to stay out, then you'd be in just as much pain as you would if you were hurt. You may be upset about something right now, whatever this person you didn't mention did to you or someone you care about, but that's no reason to stop writing. Love is a beautiful thing, pain is just the thorn on the rose when you fall off the pedals. You don't need to go looking for love, it'll find you and it'll be great. Don't get so upset about one thing, or even if several things have gone sour. It'll find you when you least expect it. Don't squeeze it to hard when you find it, but don't let it go either. Don't let pain ruin it for you.

Okay, I'm raising this topic back up again, just because I've noticed similar flying around and I've got another friend in a similar situation. . .grrr. . .can't get them to have a remotely different type of relationship ever! I agree, there are unnecessary problems, but yet there are so many people like that. What's wrong with letting them know? She doesn't want to ruin her friendship with him if telling him has him suddenly feeling uncomfortable. Although it is the whole point I suppose, there are hearts on the line, and when you've damaged your own so many times, why do it again. Then again, if they don't know, then there is pain in that right there that you have brought upon yourself. In the case of marriage, my first thought was that of, "We're not worried about getting married right now, we're still kids." Then I re-thought that statement, realizing that we're both seniors in highschool. That actually could be coming right around the corner. Getting your feelings out about some one, in the open, is probably the best idea, no matter how hard it is. And for those reading this right now, including myself and my friends that I'm printing this off for, in the long run, it'll do you some good, even if it doesn't go how you want it to. If your a shy person, pull your closest friends together and talk things out with them before you talk to them. Make them your foundation for your strength to talk to this special person. If you are really as good a friend with them, or if you know you can be open with them, as you should be if your going to be in a relationship with them anyway, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. It's not like you're walking up to a stranger or anything. If they can't treat you the same after that if they don't feel the same, then they aren't really worth your time anyway.

It sounds to me like they said, you are feeling parental feelings in terms of this girl. Fathers when they are meeting their child's guy friends often have these feelings but they're used in judging the guys, seeing whether they are fit for her or not.Then again, I think I like this view on the topic better. Maybe not the father thing, maybe it's more the older brother protecting the little sister thing. You already said you treat her like you would your little sister, so this is probably what it is. It's similar to how fathers often are, but more understanding. . .or at least one would think.

Actually, I'm a fellow student. Last year I worked as a lab monitor though, and I had permission to kick trouble causers and rabble rousers out as I saw fit. I never abused that power either. I never really kicked all that many people out. Just him and a few others if they made a rucuss or something. Dude! I lived in Ohio for the first seven years of my life! That's pretty interesting. And like you said. . .it's pretty popular still here. One of my best friends says it some times, and always beats his head on the wall right after he says it. "I'm So Sorry! I'm trying! Really! I am!" I don't really plan on it. . .it was just the only term I could think of. He was like this before that though. He really has no reason. I'm close friends with his sister, and there's no family problems, and he's never lost anyone or even a pet or anything, and on and on. He's just a *BLEEP*. And thank you to those who commented, although it's not a class. I was in there working on some homework on the computer, and he was fooling around. When I'm stuck on campus and I have things I need to do on the computer, and I can't go to the dorm because there's a long line wanting on them, I can't really just go somewhere else. I ended up smacking him though, really hard. He'd started printing something out and was getting all up in my face, said something really foul and then I slapped him. Doesn't usually feel good, but it did then.

People who won't shut up and insist on saying things such as "Your Mamma" even after I've asked them several times not to say that around me and anything else like that. I also get driven mad when people insist on making noise just because they can't stand the quiet. . .especially when it is inappropriate things that are coming out of their mouths and when they say my name over and over in many different ways, including nasty ways, just to see how long it will take me untill I finally either run off at the mouth on them or get up and beat the living day-lights out of them.

You know what I don't understand. . .what the whole fascination is behind this phrase: "Your Mom." It is honestly one of the stupidest things I've ever heard come out of anyone's mouth, and so many people say it after everything that it not only makes them sound stupid, but they sound like jerks.This mostly comes up now because one of these stupid guys in here (I'm in a computer lab mostly by myself except for this nasty sophomore who won't shut up!) keeps insisting on not shutting his bad mouth! I really couldn't care that one of the computers is causing him problems. I really don't even like hearing his voice at all, and he acts so stupid and annoying. I wish he would stop saying my name and act like an immature pig. I hate the annoying guys who just won't leave well enough alone. Okay this probably doesn't make all that much sense but just think about it like this. I'm in an Adventist academy. These idiots aren't really supposed to act like how he's acting and really it's getting on my nerves. I swear I'm going to shoot him. My mother is dead and I wish he and other people wouldn't say such things as up above. I really don't like it when people act like jerks and all and even when I ask him nicely to just quit it get's worse. Back when I worked in this computer lab I'd had to kick him out three times. If I could, I would do it now. But instead, I sit here in silence. . .after the past half an hour. . .trying to ignore his stupidity! Aaaagh!

I don't know exactly what I want to do. I've got an idea, that I could very well do and enjoy but I haven't really taken much time to look into it. My sister is wanting to be a type of a bar owner. One of those where big name bands, and small name as well, come in and play on various nights. She's currently taking classes in all kinds of things for stage and then some business stuff for this. It sounds kinda cool, and if all else fails, I could do advertising stuff and various artsy stuff for her if she was to ever be successful in that area. Advertising sounds kind of interesting to me, I really don't know for sure.

I actually wasn't even looking for something like what is offered by Xisto. I was really just out looking for a place for my forums really, hoping that it would also come with the capability for an actual site for it as well. I was really quite forturnate to find Xisto. I saw it in the search engine, but I wasn't looking for it.

I agree, the best thing to do is just be there for her. She'll bounce back, most all of us do. If she doesn't realize it, (that it's going to happen), I might suggest telling her what you think is going to happen. Then again, depending on how she reacts with things like this, I may not suggest that. That in itself could turn sour for your friendship. She could end up coming back and saying she's sorry when she finds out that you were right, but that's not always a definate. I don't know exactly what you're asking, but I do suggest what the others have: just be there for her.

You know, love really isn't stupid, and it definately doesn't suck. It's just the situation that's difficult. Sure, you like someone, but the situation or circumstance is what makes you think something's wrong. Just be there for her. I'd suggest that if your good friends with her that you be there for her if things are bad. Be there both in the bad and the good and if he's really that bad, she's either going to realize it or you'll be there at just the right time to pick up the pieces. Then, I'd say don't move in to fast, wait a while till you think she's over him so you're not the rebound. Just don't try to steal her from him. That will leave him ready to damage you or her not wanting to be around you because she thinks your trying to break them up when she thinks she doesn't want to and that there's nothing wrong.

You know. . .although it's kind of funny. . .I really don't think that she was trying to deceive you. She probably just figured that she shouldn't let her hearing problem get in the way of her life. In telling you that she had one in the first place, without you asking if she had anything different or odd like that about her, it could sound more like she wasn't comfortable with herself. I think that would have been the more handicapped downside in itself than the hearing aid.