This is my first blog post ever, on any website, not counting a video blog I did a few years ago documenting the Halloween haunt I built in my garage. That was all video and very much focused on the progress of my project; this will be altogether something different. I've reached a point in my evolution where I need a medium to express my thoughts, preferably with others like yourselves who are far more likely to get where I am coming from than those well-intentioned vanilla friends in my life. Birds of a feather flock together, and you are all part of my flock, even if I don't know you yet.
There are a lot of topics that I think I want to cover here, and there is a temptation to try to cover them all right here, right now, in one epic of a post. I'll try not to do that, even if it means holding back on some of the stuff that is on my mind until a future date.
I'm not entirely sure how to get started, so I'll start with an introduction. Hi, I'm laughter_n_love, but you can call me LnL for short. Back when I joined the TMF in 2001 (that's over 15 years ago for those of you keeping count), I didn't give much thought to the use of capital letters in my screen name. I wish I could change it to Laughter_n_Love, because that sounds way more dominant and manly. But I didn't use capital letters, and now I am mistaken for a female at least once or twice every time I enter the chat room. Sorry to disappoint, fellas!
Since I've brought up my screen name as a point of introduction, I'll stick with that theme and explain what it means to me and why I chose it. Like most if not all of you here, I have a fetish for tickling (I know, crazy right? What were the odds?). I don't recall putting a ton of thought into the origin of the name (I have the world's word memory, so I'm quite prone to forgetting details), but I do remember being on Yahoo chat years ago and getting friendly with a woman who's handle was sexy_n_sophisticated (or something like that). I always thought that was a clever way to construct a screen name, and so laughter_n_love was born. It holds many meanings for me, or at least it did in 2001 when I created it. The first is loving the sound of laughter, which is one of the wonderful perks that comes with having a tickling fetish. Another is loving to laugh myself. Those of you who have gotten to know me even a little will know I'm always looking to crack a joke, and yes, I am my own best audience, so I frequently crack myself up.
But the meaning that has probably changed for me over the years is the belief that love and laughter are intertwined; that they go hand in hand. I guess I used to believe that to love someone was to laugh with them, and to laugh with someone was to love them. I don't feel that way anymore. I think I was more of a romantic in 2001 than I am in 2016. My ideas of love have changed after 14 years of marriage, and I'm sad to report that laughter isn't a big part of that relationship. That's a topic for another post, however.
I suppose the last meaning for laughter_n_love would be that laughter and love are two things that are worth striving for in life. No, they don't have to be a package deal, but they are both certainly desirable outcomes worth pursuing with a passion, and at times in my life, both have been in short supply. Good thing I'm persistent.
That feels like enough for now. More thoughts another time.
There are a lot of topics that I think I want to cover here, and there is a temptation to try to cover them all right here, right now, in one epic of a post. I'll try not to do that, even if it means holding back on some of the stuff that is on my mind until a future date.
I'm not entirely sure how to get started, so I'll start with an introduction. Hi, I'm laughter_n_love, but you can call me LnL for short. Back when I joined the TMF in 2001 (that's over 15 years ago for those of you keeping count), I didn't give much thought to the use of capital letters in my screen name. I wish I could change it to Laughter_n_Love, because that sounds way more dominant and manly. But I didn't use capital letters, and now I am mistaken for a female at least once or twice every time I enter the chat room. Sorry to disappoint, fellas!
Since I've brought up my screen name as a point of introduction, I'll stick with that theme and explain what it means to me and why I chose it. Like most if not all of you here, I have a fetish for tickling (I know, crazy right? What were the odds?). I don't recall putting a ton of thought into the origin of the name (I have the world's word memory, so I'm quite prone to forgetting details), but I do remember being on Yahoo chat years ago and getting friendly with a woman who's handle was sexy_n_sophisticated (or something like that). I always thought that was a clever way to construct a screen name, and so laughter_n_love was born. It holds many meanings for me, or at least it did in 2001 when I created it. The first is loving the sound of laughter, which is one of the wonderful perks that comes with having a tickling fetish. Another is loving to laugh myself. Those of you who have gotten to know me even a little will know I'm always looking to crack a joke, and yes, I am my own best audience, so I frequently crack myself up.
But the meaning that has probably changed for me over the years is the belief that love and laughter are intertwined; that they go hand in hand. I guess I used to believe that to love someone was to laugh with them, and to laugh with someone was to love them. I don't feel that way anymore. I think I was more of a romantic in 2001 than I am in 2016. My ideas of love have changed after 14 years of marriage, and I'm sad to report that laughter isn't a big part of that relationship. That's a topic for another post, however.
I suppose the last meaning for laughter_n_love would be that laughter and love are two things that are worth striving for in life. No, they don't have to be a package deal, but they are both certainly desirable outcomes worth pursuing with a passion, and at times in my life, both have been in short supply. Good thing I'm persistent.
That feels like enough for now. More thoughts another time.
