August 19, 2004: La Aerith, who later became MowMowz, who seems to have changed her name again since then, introduced me to the site.
It took me a few hours to find the forums. xd So the first thing I did was click around a bit, then buy some Castaway clothes. I also took note of Ian's disturbing stare, and wondered if he might be in love with me.
Late August - September: I was terrified to create a thread myself, because I was afraid someone would get mad at me for being an ignorant noob...so I wandered around, mostly between ED, Writers, and Music, replying to posts. I remember being afraid of the chatterbox. Finally, I gathered up the courage to post in the Music subforum, asking people what their personal theme songs/soundtracks were.
October: After someone in Avatar Talk criticised my cheap outfit, I became interested in more expensive clothes. I bought my Emo Glasses, and a friend gave me my Goti Clips, neither of which I have taken off since then.
I tried roleplaying for a while, but I couldn't get online often enough. So one day I wandered into Life Issues and stayed there.
November: I donated for the first time. I sold some of the letters, and gave others to my friends as Christmas gifts. I got an impressive deal on the Winged Anklets I'd lusted after for so long: I traded a November Letter for them!
December: I participated in the Moonlight Nocturne and Candy Cane Christmas balls, both of which were more fun than I'd had on Gaia in a while. During the mistletoe event, I kissed VO fifty times, for no good reason.
December 31 - January 1, 2005: At a New Year's Party, I discovered that a lot of my friends had accounts here too, so we hijacked all the computers in the house and spent the rest of the night trading items and teaching each other how to fish.
January 2005: Someone found my account and got mad at me for some of the things I'd posted here...so I left for a while.
March 2005: I returned, but I was afraid to go into Life Issues again, so I spent most of my time in GD before it got too disgusting.
April 2005: Other than being absolutely shocked by the inflation lately...I love the addition of the GCD forum, and will probably be spending a lot of my time here in the future. 3nodding