Yeah, I do keep my emails from Gmail, and I'm thankful to have saved a lot through that, but I know some of the earliest stuff is gone as I didn't have Gmail back then, and other stuff has slipped through usually because of my own inattention, probably, in accidentally deleting instead of archiving

Yes, both my own and Hsu's journals were permanent, and that was a big reason for my reluctance to completely be done with LJ, but in the end, I have everything here. Yes, LJ will always have a good place in my heart because of all the friendships that began there, very much including ours, and even the ones that have ended...plus all the wonderful muses I got to 'meet'. :)