Further proof that I am influenced by peer pressure if only when it comes to memes...

[lirazel]

Everybody else is doing it.  And I have lots of pretty icons!  Go here and pick one out.  Give me the keyword.  I'll ramble about it for a bit.  Hopefully it'll be interesting.  Rinse, lather, repeat.  (I'm serious about the repeating.  Pick more than one.)

Comments

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

You have a lot of awesome icons!

[misc] Calvin and Hobbes euphoria

*loves Calvin and Hobbes* :)

[snickfic]

You beat me to it!

*joins you in the C&H love*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I might have a mild addiction....

That one actually does have a story behind it. It's fairly long, too!

So my family does this thing where if one of us, while looking through the funny paper, finds a comic strip that really reminds us of another family member, we cut it out and give it to that person. My parents do this all the time with each other; they have one of those small photo albums full of comics that apply to them. My parents are kind of adorable.

Anyway, one day somebody found that Calvin and Hobbes one (I adore that strip, too, by the way), and gave it to me. It was on the door of my bedroom (which used to be this massive collage of postcards and movie tickets and pictures from magazines) for years.

It reminded (I think) my daddy of me because I have such extreme emotions. When I'm happy, I'm not just happy--I'm exploding with joy. And when I'm sad, it feels like the end of the world.

This was one of the very, very first icons I found when I signed up for lj, and is one of the few from that first batch that still survives. It was my default icon for probably the first six months, and I still adore it.