You know that feeling of a natural high? Like having no line at the store, getting mail, listening to the rain, finding a great bargain, finding money in your pocket from a year ago, or talking to someone you like really late at night and trying to be quiet? Well that's pretty much the way I feel about finally getting a livejournal.
 
I've pretty much been addicted to icons for about 3 years now. I started RP'ing Hermione on myspace in 2005 and adorned my profile with hundreds of icons from anywhere I could find them. Mostly those goofy old fuzzy ones made on paint. Not that there's anything wrong with paint! Love it :) But I discovered livejournal icons months and months later; and so began my real obsession with finding those amazing icons that make you feel proud to have them. I have, almost every day for two years now, been searching LJ for great icons (and a near-bandwith-exceeded photobucket account to show for it.) I have no idea how livejournal works really, so I must give credit to those incredible icon makers who have brought me to my comfy red computer chair nearly every day for many, many weeks.

I could continue to look up icons on LJ forever and never try my hand at the art myself, but the other day I decided to start making them and soon realized just how horrible I was. And no I am NOT being modest. I've been editing photos for my RP account ever since I started, so I do have some experience with color tweaking and tagging. But whoa, icon making is completely different! So I made this account to join communities and icon journals and just have fun :D I've got plenty of experience with HTML and profile editing on myspace but LJ is tricky! Wish me luck.

So hi there LiveJournal,
You had me at hello.