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The LJ question of the day is "what is the best compliment anyone has ever given you?"

Mine, oddly enough, was from evil x-stepdad Jud. I was spinning in circles in a patch of sunshine from a skylight, and he looked down from the loft of the apartment...I guess I was 18?

He shook his head with a smile and said, "Just a happy child".

That's all I ever really want to be, I think. I'm almost back.

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from eBirdie

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Nice - I'd take a compliment like that! :) Mine is someone I didn't really know asking if I was a professional dancer...something about being graceful and having great posture. If they could only see me now, slumped over this computer. Ha! At the time, though, it really made my day. I used to work at a call center and a customer once told me I had a great voice, "like one of Tolkien's elves" - I liked that one too. :)

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:)
I can see you, as a little girl, spinning.

I'm going to have to think about the best compliment I ever received.

Zoe and I got the postcards. I had these visions of us driving over that bridge in a convertible with the top down and scarves flying when I read it. Very Thelma and Louise. Silly because most likely it would be in a 15 passenger van with eight kids. Heh. Zoe was thrilled by her card. She said "Aaron really knows me! The seashells are PERFECT for me!" She sat down and wrote him a thank you note immediately. It is on its way.

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Zoe and Aaron? *wincing*

There were cards for Maria and Luci, too, sent on the same day...how long has it been since you two got yours?

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* Zoe and you, I meant to say.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Several days. I don't remember exactly.

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Hey Dama...I was just thinking about this comment and wondering, the other two cards haven't happened to show up, have they?

They both were "Mile O" cards that looked like the Keys' mile markers, on the picture side, but then on the other side where a message would normally go they had little pictures printed on that Annie and Isaac colored with gel pens...they were vertical instead of horizontal. Because they were the same and didn't come, I keep wondering if there was something on them that made them not get there - like it was too busy with coloring and scribbles or -? Bah!

Also upon re-reading this comment...I was 18, not a little girl, when I got the compliment.

But I definitely spun all the time as a little girl, too.

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I was talking with someone whom I admire about synaesthesia. He wasn't really familiar with it, so I explained it a bit and that's when he told me I was orange. Awesome.

It sounds insignificant when I write about it, but it holds a lot of meaning for me. I mingle synaesthesia with spirituality - auras and such. I had been in such low place emotionally for a while and he had seen the orange in me through it all.

it really made my day and I won't ever forget it.

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I had a seriously rough day with baby, I was feeling fuzzy and just loose around my edges. She was crying and I was about to, and Jeff said to me "It's one of the great joys of my life to watch you as a mother..." It just gave me grace in a moment where I thought I had none, and I felt like- this is why I'm with this guy.
Also, whenever I'm down on my wrinkly belly and whatever else, he makes me say "Thank you god for the way that I am. I will not judge others and I will not judge myself." Not a compliment really, but it feels the same to me. It still silences me in that just-quiet-and-be-loved kind of way.

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I think my favorite compliment came when I was hanging out with Frank at the Gym and he had been giving me a hard time as usual and a chick I hadn't seen in a long time came over to say hi and told me that he talks about me all the time and to never believe that he isn't completely whipped because she knows he is. She also said that morning when she asked how I was doing he said "she is fucking awesome" and smiled really big. I can dig that.