Okay, so I basically slept for two straight days. That was weird. It is Tuesday right? OH GOD, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S WEDNESDAY ALREADY? *despairs of self*

Hello, new thremedon friends (*waves*)! I love you all, but I want you to know that I've gone more insane than usual the last 10 days or so making Spotlight Fest and Christmas happen at the same time. My parents and extended family sort of hate my blackberry now. (What is that infernal buzzing sound? And why is it coming from your pocket?)

My Christmas, as a result, was a total blur. I think I got some good stuff. I got a new printer, new laptop speakers, and Iron Man, which were the three things I needed desperately. I gave my mother not one but FOUR pairs of handmade earrings, which she loved. And my relatives were as generous as could be expected when we are a lower middle class family struggling with the crappy economy. I think I should consider myself satisfied, and lucky.

Also, somewhere in that mess I went to go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was AMAZING. It was funny, visually interesting, and let us just say I BAWLED at the end. And I don't mean the closing scene left some tears in my eyes. I mean for the last 20 minutes or so I was crying quietly, but freely in my seat. And as soon as the credits started rolling, I actually started sobbing, which was embarrassing, but very cathartic. Basically, I am a SAP, but I think this movie earned all those tears, which is more than I can say for other movies I've cried during.

Tomorrow/today, I have a New Year's party to attend, and then on the 2nd, I'm heading up to Boston to stay with the illustrious PayPay to belatedly celebrate the date of her birth.

The downside to all of this is that... I have fallen woefully behind in the Merlin fandom and will continue to fall even more behind over the next week or so. It is actually pathetic how quickly I got used to seeing Bradley James' face on my Flist every day. D:

Mood busy Music Yoshimori Makoto - Kimi ni Fureta Hikari | Powered by Last.fm Tags: benjamin button, havemercy, holiday, i cry at movies, mentions of the paypay, merlin, movies, rl

It's pretty darn awesome. In that it is not awesome at all. Unrepentantly so. Brain-breakingly so. It is charming in a bastardy kind of way.

I think the worst part is that more than wanting to see more of Merlin and Arthur, I am sort of dying to see more of Colin and Bradley. I am not one for the RPS usually, but I would hit that up in a heartbeat. Also, whatever the hell my thing with William Mosley is, Bradley James is a thousand times sillier, and a thousand times hotter, and thus a thousand times even more my thing. God help me.

Also, you know, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Since I am home in New Jersey and have spent half the day watching House marathons, my thank you gift to you all is a rec:

The Unwilling Host, in which the House cast has a very unique Thanksgiving. Duckling-era gen.

And now I must sleep because I am getting up at 5:45 to go do the traditional Black Friday thing with my mother. Good night!

Mood content Music 4ever - The Veronicas Tags: fanfic, holiday, house, i just want bradley james shirtless, merlin

1) New default icon! Everybody should read Kimi ni Todoke (Reaching You). It's only on the third chapter or so, but it is lovely and hilarious. Sort of a mix of PGE/Wallflower's premise and Fruits Basket's good-heartedness.

2) It has come to pass that basically everyone I talk to about NYCC ends up deciding to go. Something about the call of the awesome. I am merely a messenger!

3) My birthday was sort of weird this year, mostly because I've been kind of down and nothing really spectacular happened to get me out of it. I will say that marathoning a bit of Oofuri with splintercat was awesome, because that is just how Oofuri and marathons are. My Domo wall calendar has Domo playing baseball for April, and I find this fitting and appropriate.

4) I played Katamari Damacy! I suck less than Akira Touya, but more than just about everyone in the real world! (This is kind of how video games and me are. I have trouble spatially coordinating myself in my own body with my own eyes. Asking me to spatially coordinate myself with little joysticks is perhaps too much to ask.) Someday I will get someone to play Kingdom Hearts I and II and the Phoenix Wright games for me, but I fear I have a long time to wait still.

5) Insert gratuitous and rather cryptic mention of Cthulhu here that really boils down to "Okay, I am totally obsessed with CUSFS."

6) My academic life still sucks. Every single class I'm taking this semester is leaving me dissatisfied for one reason or another, and yet I am still busting my butt to make B+ averages. This is new and rather unpleasant for me. :/

7) I am sort of in a yaoi/sho-ai phase right now and I think those who share this interest should run and not walk to Yamada Yugi's Darenimo Aisarenai and other works because they seriously make me incoherent with love. There's another one I know I meant to rec, but a lot of time has passed between that thought and this entry.

8) Damn you Diana! Just so everyone knows, The Big Bang Theory is awesome.

ETA: Why I shouldn't make journal entries on little sleep in the wee hours of the morning: vague descriptors ahoy! ('Kind of's and 'sort of's in this entry: 5, as well as 'basically,' 'rather,' 'something,' 'or so,' and 'for one reason or another.')

Mood awake Music History of Everything - Barenaked Ladies Tags: anime, barnard, barnard is the school of fandom, games, holiday, idk my bff saezutte, kimi ni todoke, manga, nycc, oofuri, school, tv, yaoi

Christmas was... an affair. Lots of it was fun. Our tree and toy shelf look as lovely as they always do, which satisfies a deep and essential part of my soul. I have already read a book (Julia Quinn, a rather solid guilty pleasure author, y/n?). I have watched two movies at home and seen two others in the theater. I met up with good friends. I got some nice surprises in my gifts. My father's usual crotchetiness was unusually tame.

In fact, in an unexpected turn around, I nearly ruined Christmas this year!

( Tech angst of the tl;dr vein... )

Mood worried Music Sea Legs - The Shins Tags: computer troubles, holiday

1) Merry Christmas Adam to you all!

2) I saw P.S. I Love You today and basically bawled my eyes out. Unfortunately, I saw it with my parents and I was crying right in front of them which was actually sort of terrible and embarrassing, but yes. P.S. I Love You is great. Funny and sad, uplifting and heartfelt... In other words, it manipulates the hell out of your emotions; however, I'm inclined to forgive that at this time of year. Also, I know I'm supposed to be madly in love with Gerard Bulter, and he is indeed a hunk of burning hot manflesh, but no, I really must choose Jeffrey Dean Morgan. *fans self* He seriously slayed me in this movie.

3) Off to bed!

Mood accomplished Music Last Christmas - WHAM Tags: holiday, i cry at movies, movies, no accounting for taste

Despite the so-called War on Christmas, my holiday appears to be going as well as can be expected when one is coughing and sneezing and generally still sick. I cannot escape the Christmas music -- it has invaded my very thoughts. I'm quite pleased.

The biggest problem I appear to be having with Christmas is that I want to spend the entire day re-reading HikaGo. It was awesome, I loved it, Hikaru and Akira are the best main characters ever. It was like they blossomed into bishounen right before my eyes! I was sick and they made me feel less like ripping my throat out with my bare hands! I'm very grateful.

First Gackt, and now Hikaru no Go. I fear what will happen the next time that I get seriously sick.

Ah well, I'm off to eat Christmas cookies and avoid the living room because gifts are being wrapped. Happy Christmas!

Mood excited Music I'm *bum bum* Dreaming *bum* of a White *bum bum* Christmas *ba-dum* Tags: fangirling, hikago, holiday, rl, sick

Don't you just love it when your father sabatoges his own Father's Day preparations?

Now, I should elaborate at this point. It's not that he's gone and destoryed his present or anything, just that I cannot make him a card if he insists on waiting up for me! He sits five feet away from me and wonders why I'm sitting here at the computer like I'm waiting for him to go upstairs! He wonders out loud!

*resists urge to pull a ninja and knock him unconcious just so she can get the damn thing done*

Mood frustrated Music Key of the Twilight - Yuki Kajiura Tags: holiday, rl

Happy Earth Day, btw.

You're in trouble, I know, but I don't like cars all that much and am a big supporter of alternative forms of energy. I'll see what I can do.

Mood grateful Music Bend and Break - Keane Tags: holiday, that day

Things have happened. Lots of things. I haven't been on the Internet enough in the past 11 days. I'll do the quick overview, so that I can shut up that little nagging voice that says, "update LJ~~Update LJ~~~UPDATE LJ~~~~~!"

Friday: Party. Hotel. Sleeping in bathtubs. Setting off alarms. Dangerous games of spit. Scaring complete strangers who are unfortunate enough to ride elevators.
Saturday: Recovery.
Sunday: Mall for birthday like things. Manga. Clothes. Anime. Good times.
Monday: Bithday. iPod (FINALLY). On The Record (YEAGH DISNEY OBSESSION).
Tuesday/Wednesday: Getting acquainted with Yukio *pets precious*. Manic searches for title/artist/album names. Studying liekwoah.
Thursday: Three tests of ultimate DOOM.
Friday: Trip to Smithsonian. Saw Saw. Had Major Freakout with a capital MF. That movie embodies all things that reduce me to a gibbering mess of nerves, short of Midterms and Finals. Heck, maybe I missed that part. No, seriously, I have enough paranoia issues without having the completely ridiculous fear that some psychopathic murderer in a creeptastic mask is lurking in shadowy corners of my home. I may never feel wholly comfortable in a bathroom ever again.
Saturday: Boardwalk. Much fun with the DDR and the beating of the gators and what have you. Miss Congeniality 2. V. with the funny, but not much else.
Sunday: Family thing. Felt uncomfortable. Not wholly unpleasant though.
Monday: Nagh school. Ew running. Must get used to running again. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Somewhere in the process of this, I also updated my layout. I am so pleased with myself it is surely unhealthy. The picture came with Daisuke sitting looking like cute on a stick and then I got my grubby hands on it and photoshopped in my own frames and pictures which are supposed to depict the Major Outlets Of My Obsession-Minded Psyche (outside of school, of course). Left to right they are:

Shoebox Project, Bleach, Psyche (of the myth of Psyche and Eros, a la my mythology fixation and a nod to the symbolism of the pic itself ^^;), Lord of the Rings, New York, New York, and The Beatles. If anyone wants/needs to know what that heart thinger between frames actually says, I can assure you that it is dirty and I love Sirius. Lookit at the title of Daisuke's book! HEE. (...no I'm not trying to distract you at all...)

Frames, New York, and Psyche came from Google Image Search, Daisuke and Ichigo from Anime Visions, Paul pic from Let it Beatle (I think?), Lord of the Rings pic came from a screen cap site that I lost (*cries bitter tears*), and Shoebox things came from Shoebox.

I must figure out new wordy thingers, but as I have been on strained terms with the computer for the ensuing week after the update, I've had no time to do the necessary agonizing over it. Woe. If anyone knows any lyrics pertaining to framing someone, I'd appreciate a point in their direction.

Mood bouncy Music DISNEY MEDLEYS OF DOOM - On The Record Tags: anime, fandom, fanfic, fangirling, holiday, layout, lotr, manga, movies, music, rl, wtf

I hereby designate this day to the celebration of Laura's achievement/acquisition. It shall be known as the following:

The Day That We All Waited Many Agonizing Months For, or alternatively:

The Day Laura Grew Some Balls... Or You Know Didn't.

Who cares about groundhogs? Let the parties commence!

Mood amused Music Phantom of the Opera - Phantom of the Opera (er... eheheh) Tags: holiday, rl, wtf