Hi everyone! *waves* :huggle:

To everyone who doesn't know me, I'm Hyper-Ballad, and I joined this forum about two years ago and loved to contribute annoyingly long posts, but have been a bit of an on/off member due to university and my studies becoming more and more demanding and eating up all my free time...

Good news, though: I graduated just over a week ago! Now I have my life back for one whole year! :drinks:

I'm really getting back into FFVII right now, and I hope I can back to contributing as much as I used to and help keep the Cloud/Aeris love strong.

Very seriously, I'm glad to be back. This forum has always been such a good place to hang out and share opinions and I've missed it, as well as my friends here.

So, how is everyone? Are the people I know still here? How are you all? Have you ALL changed your names? Do we still support Lila/Stu and the love of carp?

And what's going on in the fandom? I haven't heard anything in MONTHS about any Square-Enix related news or any internet drama, so please tell me if I've missed anything fun.

Anyway, I hope the old crowd is doing well, and I hope I can get to know all the newcomers too! :grouphug:

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE. o:

Hyper-Ballad! It's wonderful to have you back, you've been missed. :huggle: Congratulations on graduating and it's good to hear that you have free time again to post and be merry with us indeed. :3

You dishonor us by doubting our faith!

It's good to see ya! I don't think I was around soon enough to see you active on the boards when you were still here, but I've read your posts, and you seem very insightful and a delightful member everyone respects. It's good to meetcha! ^_^

Hyper-Ballad!! Long time no see! :huggle: Good to have one of our super stars back!

:vampire:

Thanks for your congratulations, and for being so friendly and welcoming! *luffs j00* I've missed the fandom, forum, and all my friends here for ages (I had to stop contacts with all my internet pen-pals during my final year because uni became such SERIOUS BUSINESS by the end... *tired*) but it feels so good to have all this time to myself now, and to be back with you guys!

Never! You have made me proud, my young apprentice...

So, how is everyone, MT? Is everyone from the old crowd still here or have a few of them vanished too? :(

Thanks! It's great to meet you too! ^_^

Hey there! It's great to "see" you again too! I hope you've been well! :huggle:

:blush: Thank you!

*GASP*

I was wondering what happened to you! :huggle: I'm so glad you're back! Now you stay and get back to posting with us! :lol:

OMGITSCLOUDSGIRLHUGSOFDOOOM!!! :glomp2:

Thanks for the lovely welcome! :huggle: I definitely plan to stay and I'm hoping to get back into my old posting habits ASAP! *nails her feet to the floor*

Welcome home!!! :huggle:

Thank you! I'm happy to be home! :huggle:

Hyper! ~glompz~

It's like a cleris reunion... we're all coming back! :lol: Congrats on graduating, HB! :huggle: I get those times, when I just want toplay FFVII and get back into the love of it. ^_^ Welcome back.

Welcome back, Hyper!!!

We really missed you and the rest of the others who used to be so active here. Congrats on your graduation, and now that you've some time off, make sure to spend it here at the pink. :)

Devotion. much. :lol:

Glomps right back atcha, ER! :huggle:

Really? Who else has been away? *curious* Normally I'd guess it's something to do with summer and all the flowers and sunshine inspiring Clerisy thoughts, only as a UK-dweller, I've only been getting the opposite... *needs a "flooded" smiley*

Stupid question, but do you live in the UK (or is your name just chosen for its prettiness?)? If so, I hope you're okay and haven't had any distress over all this freak flooding. :(

Anyway, thanks for the congrats! I really feel like getting back into the spirit of things right now! ^_^

Now all I have to do is READ EVERYTHING, and find out what's changed in the forum, who's who, what's happening in the FF/SE world, and what topics I mustn't accidentally repeat. Oh boy...

Still, it's great to be back among the friendliest FFVII fans! :cleris:

Thank you, HD! *tackle-glomps*

I really missed the company as well as being an active poster here too, though I have lurked every now and then, but I just didn't have the time and energy to contribute for many months and really had to focus on other things. But I did miss this place, and all my friends and am glad to be back now that I have a lot of time to relax and have fun. Higher education and a career? Down with it, I tells ya!

Warms my heart to hear it. :wub:

HYPER~

I've read your posts, loved 'em, wished you would come back! <3

Thank you, Zelda! I feel very flattered! :huggle:

*sees your sig*

*falls in love with sig*

*can't stop staring at the sig*

I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Well, for starters... Me... Trisha, Clorith, Zelda... and a new Cleris member White Lotus...who's actually a new member, but she's a wonderful cleris. ^_^ (Psst... and she's a RufusxTifa fan...:giggle: )

Ugh, tell me about it. It's tipping it down, it's so miserable. X_X It's all clammy and gross... but I guess it makes the flowers grow. :aeris:

I'm a fully fledged English Rose. ~nods~ I'm English in every sense of the word: Stubborn, stiff-upper lip, AMAZING accent (LOL), tea lover ... all but the clear and fair skin. XD :lmao:

It hasn't flooded here, but it's been VERY rainy. ~cries~

Wow...I had no idea so many others kinda faded out of the community. It's sad when it happens, but real-life issues and stresses have to come first. But everyone who's absent will be missed by me. :cry: I'm glad that you're back just in time, though! :huggle:

*has the Nancy Sinatra song Flowers in the Rain in her head now* :aeris:

Ah, thanks for letting me know! I was 98% sure that you were English (and a victim of this horrible "summer" weather), but I really wanted to be sure before I started asking all kinds of questions about rain and flooding - I would've looked really silly if I was wrong! :lol:

I'm Welsh, so now that I've left University, I'm out of England juuust in time and back on the coast where it naturally isn't so bad. The rain is constant and miserable here too, but so far it's been nothing serious, and I think that's how it'll remain. We even had a sunny day today! ^_^

I'm glad you and your family are okay though and you're not one of the unlucky ones to have been seriously affected by all this rain. *will sleep that much easier now* :huggle:

*must take another opportunity to welcome j00* We all missed you so much, darling! I'm sure Sefila will be as happy as I am to see you when she next visits.

Oh, by the way, I finished reading Dorian Gray. So creepy towards the end. And something I commented on at LJ, but am repeating here, zomg at the murder. I was reading it with a :o face. Seriously, why blame him? If anyone was to blame apart from Dorian himself, it was Henry. Not you-know-who. The poor guy never did anything to deserve that.

Oh, the crappy weather has been just as crappy up here in Yorkshire as well. We had flooding about a month ago, and no one could get into work 'cause all the roads were closed. Our house is on top of a hill, so I was fine. The only rainfall that bothered me was leaking through my bedroom ceiling. It ruined my Eddie Izzard dvd boxes! :cry: It's been a beautiful sunny day today though! Wonders never cease.

Madame lives in Yorkshire?? :woot: SQUEE~ I have Yorkshire blood in me... :hyper: ~ fjakdsjflkd

Useless piece of information there. :whistle:

^_^ Aw, thanks Hyper. :huggle: Yeah, we're doing fine, my heart goes out to eeryone that's suffering right now. It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL yesterday, it was such a wonderful day, the sun shining, a nice breeze... it was amazing, and to go with it, there was a beautiful sunset... ~dreams~ I'm a sucker for sunsets, they're so romantic. :wub:

Pfft, I'm late. So sorry, you just blended back into the community so well that I didn't quite realize that--hey, I haven't seen that name in a while!

I wonder where Trisha got to though, now that ER mentioned it...

*spontaneous hugging attack begins*

I hope so, and I'm looking forward to "seeing" her again! I've missed her and the forbidden softness of her perfect cheeks loads! :sad:

I had a feeling it'd get you at the end! Glad you enjoyed it too, and I can't believe you'll get to analyse it come September... *envious*

Whoa, wait? You have an LJ? *stalks j00* :devil:

Damn, sorry I never asked you if you were ok! The whole weather/flooding problem was restricted to here and I completely forgot about it when I spoke to you. So I'm sorry if I seemed unconcerned. For my life would end if my perfect, strong, ruby-eyed goddess was washed away from me and eaten by eval Olga-faced carp monsters.

I'm also sorry for the trouble you had and for your terrible loss. *joins you in mourning for your Eddie Izzard DVDs*

It was sunny yesterday and today for me too, but now it's raining again... *sigh*

Yeah, it's funny how many of us live within a train ride of each other... Hmm... :shifty: *ponders setting-up a Brit!Cleris-a-thon*

O RYLY? :whistle:

No problem. ^_^ I can phase myself back into places quite well, I think, because when I do turn up and post, I post HEAVY. :lol:

Anyway, it's great being here and chatting with you again!

*Headdesks* I'm late welcoming back teh HB! :o

Anyways... welcome back! :huggle:

:woot: *hugs* :woot:

It's great to see you again, FF_Goddess! :huggle: