Aw thanks:happy:

He puts up with so much from me lol

How's it going with you?

:stunned:wow you've been to so many cool places! Which one was your favorite? Aww you were at Devon once:happy: lol I've been to some places when I was really young too and only remember tiny bits of it. Like Disney World (Land?) in Florida. I can't remember if Disney World is in California or if it's Florida...but either way, I was in the one in Florida:LOL: Same with Chicago, I was super young when i first went there, but then went back again a couple years ago. The only place outside of the US I've been to is Mexico. Other than that just some random states like South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa (LAME), Florida, Washington DC, Wisconsin, ehh I think there's more but I'm drawing a blank:$

And I love traveling, I have so many places I want to visit also (Australia, Italy, and Japan would be so cool). Flying doesn't bother me too much, luckily...but it's so expensive all the time and my family and I definitely don't have the budget to go on international vacations whenever we feel like:LOL: I need to go to England though, my brother, sister, and dad all went there and said they had the time of their lives! And you should come to Minnesota when you go to America! lol I'm partially kidding...the main attractions here are California and New York, but Minnesota has snooowwww! (And moose hahaha)

Our schools go pre-school, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, college lol. Which I have found out is the same as university over there (it's optional, but highly recommended in order to get a better job). And we have mostly public boy/girl schools, although there are options like all boy and all girl schools around, they're really uncommon. And I've never been to a school where we have to wear uniforms..that sounds like a real pain:( And your rules?! My goodness they enforce even nail polish and make up?! The only rules we had to worry about were acting appropriate and being respectful lol. Otherwise the teachers basically let us do whatever we wanted. Do you like your school besides the ridiculous rules they enforce there?

And it's not like people don't like alternative music, it's just no one knows about Muse or cares to know about them. Plus, just other things they do for fun are just not my cup of tea, so it's kind of hard to always act enthused when they want to do something and I'm like ahhhhhh okay......lol. But yes, I actually do enjoy being different:happy:

Our malls are pretty big. We have the Mall of America in Minnesota and that place is enormous. But then we have smaller malls but they're still like a couple hundred shops all within one big building. And you can get practically anything there lol, you name it they probably have it!

Our messages keep getting longer and longer:LOL:

Oh God tell me about it! When I haven't been working on homework or barely studying for finals I've been on here:LOL: I like it though so it doesn't bother me! I have a lot more fun on here talking to people about things I actually enjoy rather than listening to other people around me talk about things I have no idea about!

Peanut butter on toast = SOOO GOOOD! That was my favorite after school snack when I was younger. My mom would draw hearts in the middle of the peanut butter before she gave them to me too <3 awwww:LOL:

YES COME SAVE ME! hahaha anywhere where there is less Britney I would happily travel to! Us Americans are making such a huge deal about her new album and the fact that she's "come back":rolleyes: I could seriously care less about her highly synthesized voice in songs and slutty barely-there clothing mixed with cheap mental hooker dance moves.....

I laugh every time I see that! They did such a good job with it I'm really impressed! And it's true, when I saw the real trailer after watching the spoof I just cracked up at all the parts they mimicked. Ahh it was priceless!

I WILL TRY TO GO TO CANADA!!!

Hmm, I don't know, I'll have to google it and see if there are any places with bubble tea in my area! If there are, you know I'll be there:p

Oh, buy my own plane! Why didn't I think of that!? Jess I should just hire you to solve all my life problems:LOL:

I guess what I find scary about them is driving next to them...It's kind of overwhelming and I always just speed up so I can pass them and not have that huge truck right next to me anymore lol. I don't know why it freaks me out so much but I just get nervous everytime:rolleyes:

When do you get to start driving again?!

Aww..slushy snow is the worst too:( You should come to Minnesota and see real fluffy white snow!

Yeah, Absolution was probably my favorite last week or so:rolleyes: I'm sure it'll change from OoS to something else soon enough too....haha oh well! I have favorites on each album so it's always bound to change!

Christmas cookies are the bestttttt<3 I should find a way to send some to you:happy: We make all sorts of cookies, like Cinnamon thumbs, sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms (which I think you would love) gingerbread cookies, you name it. It's so much fun just baking for an entire day and having the kitchen smell like cookies...I can't wait!

I love decorating the house too! But it makes me sad to take everything down...plus it's just a pain and not as fun as putting everything up:happy:

Yeah they do! Plus they make us younger than everyone! hahaha which can be good or bad depending on how you feel about that lol

I know, it's like the news only focuses on tragedy and disaster...it's really rather depressing! I try to not watch it, and just look up the interesting stuff online lol.

Yeah, it's maybe not as extreme as I made it sound before, but like...everyone has different accents in almost every state, which is interesting. And there are a lot of things people do in the north that people in the south don't do and vice versa. And the same with the 2 coasts...it's amusing:happy:

Oh I meant what areas in the world have you been to lol, but now that you mention it, England also!:eek:Someone got stabbed in broad daylight? Wow, usually things like that go down around 2 or 3 AM over here....aww your shops aren't good either? So what do you do/where do you go in your free time? And do you like going to school in a different town?

There are a lot of things I like about where I'm from, but also some things I can't stand. Well, where I am right now are the biggest cities in MN, so it's kind of overwhelming, and scary to hear about how much more crime happens than back at home. I like how we get snow and it stays for a couple months, because that makes Christmas all the better:happy: and we have some pretty good shopping malls too, and a lot to choose from instead of just one or two. I guess the negatives are that a lot of the people here (in Minnesota in general) are like my complete opposite, like I don't really belong or fit in to any particular group, mainly because my hobbies and things I like are polar opposites from everyone else's. That's mainly why I joined the boards I guess:rolleyes: And it's not only that they just have complete different interests than me, but they're pretty judgmental and critical of anyone who doesn't believe what they believe. I think it's just most people in MN grow up and stay here their entire lives so they never experience anything else, and although I have only lived here, I've always been open to other things and experiences, so maybe that's what makes me so different from them *shrugs*

Sorry I didn't even realize how much I was typing until I was done:$

Well, I was thinking Psychology, but I'm really not too sure to be honest. This is only my first semester here though so I know I've got time to figure it out.

And nice to meet you Daniel, my name's Stephanie...if you couldn't tell by my username...

Well congratulations! That sounds like kind of a bitch of a major, but I'm not too into the engineering field I guess....

lol that may be true, but do many people even like MN?

btw, what's your name?

Minnesota...but looking back on it I kind of wish I would've gone to Michigan....

What was your major? And I take it you just got your Masters right?

Done with school as in completely done? Or just because finals will be done and you're going back for winter break.

I'm from MN and I'm going to school at the U of M right now.

Do you like Indiana and Virginia?

Oh so you do actually like Muse then lol....nice

It can be exciting when you don't feel like doing anything, but idk I think it's alright for the most part...where are you from?

Oh yeah I can relate to that. Being in these major cities really creeps me out...especially because whenever some sort of crime happens, all the students get e-mails explaining it:( I mean, it's good to know, but I'd almost rather not know because it just makes me paranoid walking anywhere!

I like it at times, other times not so much. It's weird because it's almost like every state in the US is like it's own little country. People are so different everywhere. So I'm way up north and most of the other states around MN are similar, but when you go South or to either of the coasts it's like I'm on a different planet.

Where have you been to? And apart from being so close to London, do you like where you live?

Oh I'm sorry! When did you first hear Muse or first start to like them?

Agreed, the original is always the best:happy:

Really? Why don't you like living so close?

I'm from Minnesota, originally Rochester but now I'm in the Twin Cities going to school at the U of M (University of MN) *unenthusiastic 'yay'*

LOL OMG IT TOTALLY DOES! (I think we've been spending too much time in the Twilight thread lol)

I know, plus the fact that it seems like peanuts or possible traces of peanuts are ingredients in almost everything these days:rolleyes: It just makes it easier to not have to worry so much about if I'm going to die eating something lol. And I agree, not a huge fan of peanuts in general, but peanut butter = yummmmm

Yeah we're the same age. Which I always thought older women liked Celine Dion:wtf: guess not lol! OH GOD, and she has the Britney Spears greatest hits DVD or whatever with all of her music videos on it and has been watching it almost nonstop since her new album has come out....save me:(

lol nice return on the lyrics;)

Oh almost an entire month after it came out over here. Ah yeah it'll probably just get worse every day:facepalm: I think if you're in the mood to just laugh at everything, then you should go see it. There are seriously so many parts where I don't think we're supposed to laugh but you just can't help it. (Like when he runs with her on his back XD) OH GOD IT'S TERRIBLE!

Aw yeah I bet Canada is beautiful....I really do want to go someday, maybe I can convince my parents to take a little family vacation to Vancouver. I don't know if either of them have even been to Canada either. It's a shame!

Oh yay! I wish there were places that just made s'mores lol. But it's actually fun making them yourself anyways so I don't mind. If only bubble tea existed here....but when/if I go to Vancouver I'll make sure to try it!

Oh no, not everyone can afford a plane everywhere:LOL: and some places it would only be a plane ride of 20 minutes! It's just a pain when you want to even go to another state, the drive can take a loonnnnng time:rolleyes: I guess that's probably another reason why I haven't traveled that much: My parents just don't feel like driving everywhere!

Well good luck with your exams and everything! Your term ends around the same time ours does too, we just have a little bit longer than you do (but that is college, so.....lol. Probably one of the only things I like about it so far: the longer breaks!)

I know, so embarrassing...people all like "you're crying?! WHAT!?" And then you get more embarrassed....ahhh, that's the worst!

lol truckers are almost kind of repulsive. How meaty they are and it's like they never look in a mirror to see if maybe they should shave/shower/cut back on those burgers/etc. lol I would hate to have a job just driving everywhere, especially because large trucks kind of scare me:$

lol "I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas!" Yeah that's really too bad...do you get any snow at all? Does it just melt right away? Christmas is coming up so soon, almost too soon! I mean I can't wait for it, but at the same time I'm like GAH I need more time to get presents and everything!

I think OoS is my favorite album...I actually really like Absolution too. I think for me it goes OoS, Absolution, BHAR, then Showbiz. But then again, it'll probably change around a bit depending on what I begin listening to more:p

YAY! Do you enjoy decorating the house? I get in such a festive mood when we start putting up decorations. I can't wait until I can go home and start baking loads of Christmas cookies....I miss baking! lol (that's a weird hobby of mine that I enjoy)

Oh the middle of the summer.... Mine is June 4th...right at the end of the school year (when I was in middle school/high school) I like having a summer birthday, do you?

And I've done that already like 3 times with this message:LOL:

Yeah I'm procrastinating too, so where are you from again? And how did you find your way to this forum?

Aw are you really gonna be gone in 2 weeks:supersad:

Hey Kirstie! Yeah I love that thread, but now it's being deemed "lame":( Oh well as long as it doesn't get shut down I don't care lol.

And I'm good, I have no classes today so I've decided instead of studying for finals I'm just going to be lazy:p

Where are you from?

Oh you made yourself a little love boat...are you on speed or just incredibly hyper?

Where did you come from and where can I find more of you:LOL:

HI,

We've posted in that Twilight thread together for ages now and I still don't even know your name:$

I'm Stephanie (If you couldn't tell:rolleyes:)

But how's it going?

AH my avatar <3 hahaha I just thought that picture was fricking hilarious and was like I MUST HAVE IT! lol Matt looks so goofy

Oh I remember Brownies and Girl Scouts but I'm not sure if we have Rainbows ( XD CUTE NAME!) haha I'm sorry I'm starting to go caps lock crazy I really don't know why....

Oh I love peanut butter....I'm allergic to almonds pistachios and cashews too so I was really worried I'd end up being allergic to peanuts, but luckily I'm not! It goes with practically anything!

I agree, it's like no one really likes their music except for us kids lol. But there's enough of us out there to count for something! (That sounded oddly uplifting)

And yes, my roommate absolutely LOVES her:facepalm: I, personally, can't stand her at all....her voice just drives me crazy. Yeah, I don't know about Nickelback they just piss me off lol. I liked a couple of their songs when I first heard them, but I really can't stand the band in general so that kind of makes me hate all of their other songs:rolleyes:

WE WON'T LET THEM TAKE MUSE!!!! YOU AND I MUST FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS!

I actually just watched the Twilight movie a couple days ago (don't worry, I didn't pay for it...I downloaded it shhhh!) And was SO glad I didn't pay for it lol. The baseball scene was the only one I liked, and the only one I thought was actually done well. Everything else was 'meh' Have you seen it yet?

I'm still embarrassed that I've lived in MN my entire life and haven't been to Canada once! I really do want to go there, and I feel like I should. But Australia is definitely up there on my list of places to go too!

Aw bubble tea! I really want to try some now!

lol celeryfail!

Yes, America is very spread out......kind of gets on my nerves sometime because it's at least an hour or 2 hour drive to any major city in MN from where I live. And Chicago is about 6 hours away driving. And you almost have to drive. You could take a bus but that can take up to 8 hours....blahhhhh.

Finals for me are starting on Friday:eek: I can't wait for them to be done....It'll be such a relief....The semester is almost over! yay! Is it almost done for you too?

OH MY GOD I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! I absolutely hate when that happens! And it's ALWAYS at the worst possible moments too! Ah, it's so embarrassing but you really can't help it! That stupid tickly-cough has happened to me so many times....and yes, of course our luck is that as soon as we have the opportunity to drink some water it's all done:mad: (I just realized I used caps a lot again, jeeze I'm in such a yelling mood right now:LOL:)

I wish we called them lorries instead of truckers! That sounds so much nicer! lol I did enjoy the parody still...and I was eventually able to figure it out, but yeah they all are stereotypically pretty heavyset lol. Thus is the nature of their job!

I still have to go Christmas shopping.....I wish I was looking forward to it but I just haven't even had a chance to think about what I want to get anyone! Stupid school and it's stupid stressfulness:mad: We keep getting more and more snow! It's amazing! I hope it all stays for Christmas and I hope we get tons more, awww I love white Christmases <3

That is pretty ironic! lol But yeah it's a good song, I'm glad Chris mentioned it to hopefully get more people listening to it. I've been starting to dig up older stuff (once again) and am listening to those songs a lot more than the recent stuff lately. I've just been in that mood I guess....but I love rediscovering old songs and appreciating them so much more, it's like listening to them for the first time again:happy:

Have you started decorating your house and stuff for Christmas yet? When I was home for Thanksgiving we put up our trees and lights and all the other little decorations up already and we usually don't take stuff down until after New Years haha....so our house is decorated for a while, but I like it...I love the winter holidays:D

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you: When is your birthday? (*Thinks* I know it's probably posted on here, but I don't want to abort my message to go look lol)

Have a good day:)

You get to take class trips to London and Australia? That would be so awesome! I'm 18 lol so just a few years older than you....when did you first get into Muse?

That's good! Aw you've been to Australia and London? *jealous* I want to go to both of those places so bad! And yeah, the USA is pretty far away from where you are haha...how old are you?

Oh fun! Do you like living in Italy? My mom visited there once and said it was absolutely gorgeous...I'm from Minnesota in the US...not quite Italy lol

Categorized piles lol my favorite kind!

Oh yeah we have Girl Scouts I just forgot you call them Guides! I never got to be in Girl Scouts *pouts* my parents had 2 other kids to raise along with me so they were constantly busy and Girl Scouts weren't a necessity I guess:rolleyes: I'm scarred for life!!!!!!

Oh Graham crackers are like a sweet version of a cracker. They usually have like hints of honey flavor in them. They're awesome with just peanutbutter on them too:happy: You could always make your own parfait, they're never as good as the ones you can buy (like always) but I've made my own before and have been satisfied lol. But you can't buy them over there? And no I've never even heard of bubble tea:stunned: it sounds cute! What's in it? Aww you remember exactly where the building is haha it must be good then!

I'm STILL craving s'mores...I'll have to make some when I go home (:

Yeah I agree, no one here at all knew them after Showbiz or OoS, (which I was completely content with!) but then Absolution came out and they got a little more popular with Hysteria, but when BH&R was released even more people heard of them and kind of caught on with their style. There still aren't that many people that I've ever run into that have heard of Muse apart from "that song on Guitar Hero" and now the ever popular, "OH that band with the Twilight songs!!!":facepalm: And I really like how they've been able to stay pretty off the radar for the most part, but still have a huge fan following. I think it's really awesome

lol pwning her is almost an everyday thing:p and tell me about it, I have some sort of Muse on nearly all of my CD's too..which also makes a lot of people complain lol. They don't even want to listen to any of their songs after they hear the first 10 seconds or so of them. They think they're "weird" but whatever! They can have their Britney Spears and Nickelback, and CELINE DION (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:mad:) I'll stick with my Muse tx:happy:

Oh yeah, I'll be careful to not get arrested! If I feel like I might be close I'll just give my bag of phones to someone to "hold for a sec" while I run in the opposite direction! Trust me, I've got this planned out muahaha

Oh ours are navy blue...it never occurred to me that passports would be different colors in different countries, but then again I guess I never thought about it! I've only used mine once too:$ I've only been out of the US one time and that was to Mexico...I've never even been to Canada and they're our neighbors upstairs!! I really need to get out more....(of the country that is...) *sigh*

Yeah celery by itself = not for me. There's no flavor in it, it's like chewing threw a handful of plant stems...because it basically is a stem...delicious

Well we don't typically travel by trains...or coaches! But we have buses and taxis, but taxis usually just take you around the same city, I'd have to catch a bus to take me back home. They're usually pretty expensive though, so my parents prefer me to just carpool back with someone or be patient for them to come get me. I wish we had more trains/buses and stuff to take us around places....

Oh I know, working around the holidays is the absolute worrrrrst....I don't think anyone feels like doing anything:LOL: There always seems to be so much going on all the time during holidays and when you have to sit down and work on homework it's just depressing!

Ew exams the first week in January? Our final exams start this week...I really need to get studying, I'm kind of nervous because they're such a big part of our grade. Which I find really unfair because we've all been working hard all semester and it's just coming to an end but NO! One more exam in every class! Bah Humbug!

I'm glad you're feeling better...hopefully you won't be sick on Christmas! I think I'm starting to get a cold too...my nose has been stuffed up for the past couple days and I'm getting headaches also....boy do I love this winter weather! And yeah I can get bored lol there's only so much you can do when you're sick, I just get sick (no pun intended lol) of stuff real easily *shrugs shoulders* maybe I have ADD or something:LOL: But listening to Muse (or watching my Muse DVD's is always a great pastime no matter how I'm feeling)

lol at that Womanizer remix song:LOL: (but what's a lorry driver?!)

Sorry I didn't respond back earlier, I totally forgot you had sent me a message and I thought I replied! But have a good weekend! Let me know how much it rains;)

(We got about 2-3 inches of snow last night! YAY!)

Nice to meet you Ilaria!! My name's Stephanie, where are you from?

I have basically a box to keep clean up at college haha (my room is pretty small) so it's either really clean because I can clean everything up in like 2 minutes, or really messy because I get way lazy and just keep piling stuff on top of each other:p

What's Guides? Oh s'mores are gooooood. That is, if you like chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers:happy: You roast the marshmallow then put it in between 2 graham cracker squares with a square of hershey's chocolate and the marshmallow melts the chocolate and it's SOO GOOOD. Really messy though, but so worth it. Did I mention that it's really good?! lol sorry. I haven't had them in forever and talking about them is making me crave one so much right now...

Oh parfaits are pretty good too. They're typically plain or vanilla yogurt with mixed fruit and granola. They're usually layered all on top of each other in some way too. You should try them sometime! (And s'mores:happy:)

I agree with the exclusivity I kind of like knowing I'm the only one who likes Muse out of my family, friends, and other acquaintances. It makes their music more special to me:happy:

And it's so funny when I listen to them in the car and pull out CD after CD with nothing but Muse on it. My mom is all like ".....seriously, ANOTHER ONE?!" I go "oh no this one has other stuff on it" Then I make her listen to it all the way through and take it out when it's done and she's like "That was all Muse wasn't it....." And I go, "YEP!:D" Then she just gets pissed because I forced her to listen to an entire CD.....again...AHA!

I wonder if anyone else has ever tried that method....if not I will be the first one and it will be successful! I know it!

Oh nice one! I'm not sure if mine is I haven't used it for 2 years though, so looks like it's just me that has to get on that hahaha

Oh! Frogs on a Log! At least that's kind of what those snacks sound like. We had those all the time in pre-school. Celery with peanut butter and either raisins or chocolate chips on them. I always just ate the peanut butter and chocolate too:happy:

It's about an hour and a half away, but during rush hour it can take up to 2 hours to get home. So it's really not that bad. But I don't have a car with me so I'm always dependent on getting a ride from a friend or my parent whenever I go home. Kind of like not having my license anymore:stunned:

And true, these next 2 weeks will probably go fast, but they will be a pain in the ass that's for sure. All studying and finals and last minute projects....grrrrrr:mad:

Awww, are you feeling better? It is starting to get to be cold and flu season that's for sure. I hate getting sick...it seems like I can never do anything except lay around and sleep and I get so bored doing that after the first day:LOL: Of course that's the only way to get better though:rolleyes:I hope you start to get better soon! *hugs*

Muse = perfect vacation:happy: