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-not only was the jenny concert fucking awesome, i have been talking to her other super-fans so much this week and it is so cool to be in this tiny awesome fandom. looooove. (AND they listen to pretty much all the other random shit i listen to, like julia nunes. SO FUCKING COOL.)

-the supernatural season finale was SO FUCKING BADASS YOU GUYS. omfg, best season of television ever Y/MOTHEREFFING Y?

-hanging out with the family last weekend was great. at one point nana yelled at me and my brothers and said "you haven't seen each other in six months! why can't you stop fighting and just have FUN?" uh, the fighting IS fun, lady. i actually got yelled at a lot, mostly because i called my uncle an asshole about 38484 times and also got my weather from thefuckingweather.com (which is an awesome site). if you want to know more about my retarded brothers, you will have to read my tumblr though.

-back to jenny super-fans (sorta): i might start using aim again, cos they told me to. should i make a new sn (probably weesaw), or should i assume that the people who made me not want to use aim anymore have forgotten i exist?

-those rick riordan books about the greek gods' kids or whatever are so damn entertaining. i just described them really stupidly, but i like them lots and lots. (finished the third one today!)

-one last thing about jenny! ok, so normally i love it when people take songs and strip them down and perform them with just a uke. like, it's one of my absolute favorite things in the world. well jenny has a song on her new album that is literally just her and her uke, and i love it! but when she plays it live it is full band and holy fucking god you guys, if it was legal to marry a song i would have gotten hitched in tennefuckingsee. check it!

:D :D :D :D :D

YOU GUYS. the show was so good. SO GOOD. the full band version of "start + stop" is seriously one of the most amazing things i have ever heard. "transmitter failure" was just as epic live as it is on the album. "last person" with all eight of them was AWE. SOME. it was made even better by how much they were all (very obviously) enjoying themselves.

jukebox the ghost was fantastic. their drummer is pretty much adorable. lots of energy, and lots of sound considering they are only three tiny boys.

after the show i harassed jenny and bought some merch. jenny has agreed on atlanta, eventually. (she said that she was surprised atlanta wasn't on this tour and that she plays there, which, i don't think she has in the past two years? but i could be wrong i guess.) she also said florida is too long. heh.

i met up with a girl from the jenny boards and we had an in-depth dish session before the show started. i could obviously talk about jenny all day every day, but it was super-awesome to be able to have a for realsies conversation about her and her music. (i think i was a douche and left without saying good-bye? maybe? i am fucking exhausted, sry.)

(speaking of being fucking exhausted: the ridiculousity of virginia cannot be fully described to you in my current state, so here is a brief view of the awesome sleep i got saturday night. first i fell asleep sitting on the couch, and was woken up by my aunt was screaming because there were two bats in her room. then i pulled out one of the sofa beds and fell asleep, but i woke up because my retarded uncle put all the wood he could find in the fireplace and i was dying. then i opened the door for a while and tried to go back to bed, but my uncle climbed into my bed and took my blankets. then i took the cushions off the couch and slept on the floor in my parents' room for a couple of hours. then my dad woke me up and gave me his half of the bed for a couple of hours. and then i drove 700 miles! AWESOME.)

ok i am fucking tired still but i need to find food and hit the road because it's a stupidly long drive back to orlando. woo.

work today involved a lot of shopping for a new phone / cool case, drawing tattoo designs on pink post-its, and working out some of the details for this weekend's insanity. and also some data entry, drawn out over the course of the day. slow season is upon us!

i'm crazy excited for this weekend, btw. i have finally gotten in the mood for vinnie's graduation (mostly it is an excuse to get drunk at the place where they filmed dirty dancing) & i haven't seen my family since christmas, so yay. and the jenny concert... ok, i looked at my last.fm stats saturday night and got so grossed out by how much i listened to her last week that i have not played any music since then. the new album has firmly taken root in my brain, and i haven't seen jenny since i left fucking jersey, and you guys, i am going to embarass myself. (and fyi, i cannot be held accountable for my actions if dan romer shows up with his accordian. i'm pretty sure there are exceptions to rules for this sort of thing.)

i'm pretty caught up on tv. my reactions to both dollhouse and spn: "HOLY FUCK WHAT." castle has really grown on me. i'm behind on fringe and heroes, but i'll catch up soon. i'm pretty excited for summer- no new tv, my concert schedule is looking pretty light (as of today, i have one show each for june and july, and none for august), work is slowing down... gonna relax and maybe do some reading and definitely get back to work on blogging for realsies. also: taking a long weekend in jersey so i can see west side story in nyc \o/

(when i opened this, a saved draft popped up of this horrifically emo post i wrote last week. oh man. like, more emo than that time julia covered motion city soundtrack. (i was super-sad and homesick one day last week. i'm over it now.) just, man. i'm really glad i didn't post that. thanks for reminding me what a tool i can be, lj!)

my belly hurts. movie night was filled with too much junk food! and too many cats! and now my eye is not really functioning! joy!

anyway, i am leaving here ass-early in the morning (read: 8:15am) and getting to orlando around 3pm and i am very excited. i love my family like i love breathing, but i miss my bed and my guitar and my SPACE. i also miss being able to go out without worrying about running into people i don't want to see & playing loud music and singing along.

here are some very important links to hold you over until i get around to setting up internet which i swear i am going to do soonest if only because spn is coming back on the 15th:

-i love bess rogers a lot, for realz. i actually bought her cd before i bought jenny's, and i had a small seizure when she walked onstage at the last jenny show i went to. her voice is just fucking gorgeous, okay? so anyway, she posted a new song on her blog and it was by far the best christmas gift i got this year.

(you guys, my jenniversary is almost here!!! how should i celebrate this year? i think there might be a merch run involved. and possibly baked goods. maybe i should throw a SPREAD THE JOY party? hm.)

-so i have this cousin. she is a blonde polish cheerleader. well, she's not a cheerleader anymore because she is not in hs anymore, but still. she looks and talks and acts like paris hilton. (she is very smart and yet totally dumb. it baffles me sometimes.) anyway, she and her friends had to pump gas this one time, and they filmed the experience and put it on youtube. i just. you guys! she makes more than twice as much money as me, AND YET!!! sometimes i despair for this world.

-no lie, this is my favorite lolcat ever. ever ever ever ever ever. EVER!

-i have been sitting here jamming out to my bandish playlist, and i was like "who the eff is this? i don't recognize this sound at all!" and then i remembered that i was checking out this kid's myspace. i am really digging his sound- very mellow, low-key, and well-put-together.

-i thought i had more links. urgh.

uh, anyway, i have so much fic bookmarked to read! i hardly got through any yuletide stuff, which is lame, but this week has been stupidly busy. and some people on the flist have been reccing bandom stuff like crazy so i have all THAT saved too! oh on that note, pretty. odd. has been consumed, but i have decided that i cannot accurately judge it because ryan ross's voice seriously does things to me. it's kind of a sickness! except for the "kind of" part!

went out drinking with my brothers, my (dr)uncle, and missy tonight. GOOD TIMES. for those who aren't into twitter, my brothers are currently fighting over a beatles tattoo. chris (the older one) sold vinnie exclusive rights to the tattoo tonight, in exchange for forty kicks with a soccer ball from 5 feet away. as in, forty kicks AT VINNIE'S BODY. vinnie is allowed to cover his face and his crotch with his hands. vinnie is going to die if he can't come up with a better deal. (this deal came about after a long series of "can you name this song within five notes?" and "who can name the most cast members from shrek?" and "if you let me get the tattoo, you can poop on your fiancee's windshield and i will clean it up using only one paper towel." MY FAMILY, LET ME SHOW YOU IT.)

also finally (after four years!) told the family i smoke, cos i wanted a damn cigarette tonight. got lectured by the little brother, hardcore. now i have heartburn from too much drinking & smoking. serves me right! (also had a stupidly hilarious conversation in which my cousin thought "asexual" meant someone who has a penis and a vagina. um. right. (i did not come out, but we were talking about how my mom thought i was gay for a long time. i was too buzzed to give enough of a shit to correct anyone.))

also also, i am the only one who got carded! wtf, bar?

anyway, tomorrow we are going up north to visit my aunt & uncle, and sunday i am coming home! i don't know if i have a ride home from the airport yet. hm. i should probably work on that.

for realz though: BEST OVERHEARD EVER! Y/Y?

happy christmas, kids! hope a certain jolly fat man did you right :D

i am lounging on the couch in my pjs, and i've got yuletide fic & a house that smells like lasagna. life is pretty good today :) (keep an eye on delicious if you want recs in the very few fandoms i read.)

(also, we are watching a basketball game. vinnie: "you know, i never knew why they were called the magic, but i get it now. that's pretty clever!")

i feel like i have been voicing the same two complaints every winter since i was 19, so here they are: this house is drafty and my parents do not believe in heat. (no lie, my mom turned it down to 60 last night because otherwise her bedroom would get way too hot. !!! when she told me they sleep better with it that cold, i pointed out that they only sleep better because their bodies slip into comas to conserve energy.) i am trying to convince them that we should do christmas somewhere tropical next year because i am baby and i freely admit it.

(my brother is at the giants game tonight. !!! HOW IS THAT HUMANLY POSSIBLE? i am getting frostbite just THINKING about it!)

(and my mom has come out against fob. she made me change the playlist during tonight's card game because she couldn't take it anymore, heh.)

(oh and i heard this really awesome song in hollister yesterday but the employees didn't know who it was and my phone couldn't id it and the lyrics i remembered were completely unuseful. this is especially annoying since i know hollister almost exclusively plays bands that i love. it was something about the radio! argh!)

in less whiny news, i have won $11, eaten at surf taco, gotten pecan cups from nana, and downloaded a shit-ton of movies since i got home. \o/

anyway, where are all the end-of-the-year surveys? and what the hell am i doing for my 2009 goals? and why does ginger ale make me burp so much?

i was going to read all the way back on lj, but uh. i changed my mind. did i miss anything important? (if you start getting random comments on old entries in the next week though, don't be surprised.)

today i: won money playing cards \o/; almost finished my christmas shopping; hung out with the family & kim; threw the first snowball of the season; continued to teach my parents about music. (on that note, for serious, after listening to mcr they said "oh so BELLEVILLE is where you got your filthy mouth from! that totally makes sense." and then they had a debate over whether that is true or not cos i was technically born in the next town over. and then we read belleville's wikipedia page for a while. now they are trying to get me to update the page on traffic circles in nj cos they think it's mistaken. MY LIFE- SO EXCITING!)

yesterday i: drank too much tea; had a moment of perfect happiness on the plane; bought the fob album on amazon for cheap; watched made of honor; whined about the cold.

( and now: a survey. )

vinnie: *is suggesting baby names for chris's not-yet-conceived child* how about sebastian?
kim: like "under the sea" sebastian?
lisa: sebastian. who do you think you are- pete wentz?
vinnie: who the eff is pete wentz?

(meanwhile)

chris: the jonas brothers are losers. look at them! they dress like nerds!
lisa: they also wear purity rings.
chris: someone should beat them up. WE should beat them up.
kim: i think they live in new jersey.
chris: GET THE CAR.

(meanwhile)

mom: *watching the godfather* my grandfather made hats.
family: ...
mom: he had a hat store!
(if you are wondering what this has to do with the godfather, JOIN THE CLUB.)

-my little brother's site made this list of top 20 dorm-based businesses, which is pretty awesome. (his is affordabook, fyi.) i can't wait for the day when he gets his private island, you guys.

-ya for obama is a ning site (homebrew social network) for ya authors/readers who support obama. lots of interesting essays by maureen johnson, john green, scott westerfeld, judy blume, and assorted others, if you're into that sort of thing. (which i am.)

-volunteering for the obama campaign was really awesome. not just cos i support obama or cos i've never worked on a political campaign even though i've always wanted to, but because i haven't volunteered in AGES. it felt so good & i can't believe it- i think i had forgotten what a huge part of my life volunteering was. (and by the end, volunteering became so tied up in ridiculous drama that it stopped be fun.) i need to find a soup kitchen or something, stat. (actually, i just need to call the obama office tomorrow and see if there's anything i can do this week. weeeeee.)

-there might be disney this weekend, and then gearing up for a pretty busy october. i'm still trying to decide if it's possible for me to go to the ingrid show, ugh. the problem isn't really the ticket (although that's a bit of a problem)- the problem is that that week i have a matt show (and will definitely buy another one of his cds) and the john green signing (and i will be buying paper towns) and since ingrid's new ep comes out the 15th i will definitely need to buy that too. (and don't even get me started on the doughty show in november, which mike has not yet listed on his website. and also don't get me started on the obnoxiousness of what would be an awesome deal (one ticket for the whole festival) if some of the shows didn't have actual seating. i bought my doughty ticket early for a REASON.) and i think i want to do halloween horror nights. there is a pretty terrifying billboard on i-4 east between obt and the 408, and now i really want to go. if anyone is interested, let me know. i should be getting free tickets through work (off-peak nights only) and nobody ever uses them, so i can probably get a decent amount of them.

-jersey was super-fun. sheena & i talked forever and the fact that we hadn't seen each other in well over a year blew both of our minds. i may have recruited another person for expedition: seattle, which will be pretty sweet. my family is filled with crackheads, but we all knew this. the kidlet continues to be ridiculously adorable. my grandmother was not amused by the surprise party, but whatever, we all had fun. also: spirit continues to be a shitty airline, and they have remodeled BOTH AIRPORTS. which is so dumb because it has not been that long since i flew, wtf.

-mike doughty is actually playing at this festival in orlando (btw, i love that festivals in orlando are not ridiculous dirty outdoor gigs, but are spread throughout all the venues downtown) but there is no info on his site AND no real info on the festival's site, so i am not buying my ticket yet. there's (slightly) more info here, but uh, not much.

-i completed my movie goal! now all that's left is the show goal, and i have enough lined up in october/november that this will definitely be completed (with some rule-bending, cos the one-a-month thing was just not possible during busy season).

-AHH YOU GUYS. PEARL JAM. ROBERT PLANT. FOOL IN THE RAIN. LIVE. this is the only song i could ever hear the music for in my head, and it took an insane amount of training, but it was well worth the effort. (i can't do it anymore, fyi.) i am just going to watch this video all night and be happy, okay? (i just realized that playing guitar is probably going to be extra hard because of this. oops.)

-i feel like i had more to say. OH WELL.

-i have been sitting here fairly bored all afternoon, cos we got let out early for MASSIVE STORM OF DOOM that uh, never happened (although it was really freaking dark and foreboding in orlando when we bailed), and then i finally decided to go to bed and just wanted to clean out my purse first cos i have a show tomorrow and need to charge my phones and WHOOPS, i promised to burn three cds for one of my electricians. sigh. i am working on that now. (take THAT, metallica!) (ALSO there has been a change of plans and instead of getting my LEAST favorite electrician in daytona, i am actually getting my FAVORITE. !! YAY.)

-last weekend i found this fairly excellent list of... hm. they weren't all ya books, but it was definitely a list geared toward teens, and i found it on teenreads.com. but anyway, 300 books that should be read. i think i might try to tackle the list. (to be fair, i have actually read a decent amount of the books already, and a lot of the ones i haven't read are on my to read lists.) and maybe reviewing them all. maybe on a vlog. i maybe spend too much time on youtube though. (i don't have a link, unfortunately, cos i copied the whole thing into editpad and reformatted it. oops.)

-soooooooo i was talking to my parents about my birthday and i am kind of the luckiest girl in the world, cos uh, they are buying me a guitar. !!! I KNOW. i have picked him out and hopefully they will order him asap because omg WANT. so now i spend a ridiculous amount of time looking for free & easy guitar lessons on the internets and making charts because if i practice enough i can buy the guitar i fell in love with that was out of my price range.

-oh ALSO, i am definitely not going to the queers show now, but there is a good possibility that i am going somewhere way way WAY better- namely, SHEENA'S PLACE. i am going home for my birthday weekend for a surprise event for someone, but my flight doesn't get in til 11:30 on friday so i am looking to crash at sheena's instead of making my parents pick me up that late. and also it's sheena and i miss her like crazy. we are currently working out the details ::crosses fingers::

-the table will be finished tomorrow. i went with black with blue trim cos i found a gorgeous blue paint at the store. the last coat is drying right now, so i can put it back together and take pictures tomorrow night. yay! i love painting stuff. what else can i paint?

-i can't believe more of you would rather grow up in the wild than in a sbarro.

-i have been SO BAD at replying to comments lately, wtf. sorry 'bout that.

-the ingrid shows were great. we saw her at park ave cds and then at the social. she played two new songs at park ave that we really dug ("the chain" and "be okay"), and then we got her to sign our copies of billboard and she maybe implied that we were stalkers? greg laswell opened for her at the social, and he was good, but only had one song that i really liked. he was super-funny and charming though, which is half the battle. ingrid's set was awesome. she played both new songs, and "giving up" (which i have been mildly obsessed with), and she did the first remixed verse of "the way i am" (SO FUNNY OMG), and was generally charming and funny and fantastic. i've seen her three times now, and she has yet to repeat a joke. i am SUPER-impressed. (and i've watched a nauseating amount of youtube bootlegs this week, so i can actually tell you that she does not often repeat stories in general.) i've been trying to settle on a version of "the chain" to download, and so far this one is winning, although i'm still hoping the version from our show goes up cos she pulled this fantastic girl out of the audience to sing with them and it was awesome. here's the best version of "be okay" so far.

-the cassandra clare book was good, but not life-changing or anything. i'm holding off on the sequel for as long as i can, cos it's bulky. i'm reading feast of fools now instead (YES, without a full reread! so far, no confusion.) and you guys, i love rachel caine's writing a lot.

-my brother is getting married! crazyness, i know. when did i get old enough to have a sister-in-law? yikes. but anyway, family trip to vegas in november, yay! (yeah, they're getting married in vegas at an elvis chapel. heh.)

(while walking out of indiana jones and the kingdom of whatever)

mom: do the other indiana jones movies have ( really random (spoilery) plot devices? )
lisa: i don't know, i've never seen any of them.
mom: i think i saw the first one, but i can't really remember. let's go get ice cream!

...

the trailer for the dark knight or whatever the batman movie is called looks SO. GOOD. and i don't even like batman movies or summer blockbusters or, you know, movies in general, so that is saying something!

(also fyi, bad apple is giving away free tickets to an imax showing of kung fu panda. if you want the details, let me know or check their website or something.)

also also, indiana jones made me want to watch a dennis quaid movie, because i think dennis quaid is ridiculously sexy and harrison ford kind of sounds like him. time for the day after tomorrow, Y/Y?

-jersey was good! nana's back home and they think she'll be fine, everyone was naturally overjoyed to see me, and i got my favorite hoodie back from g, so i am counting it as a win.

-finished valiant (which was excellent) and started the princess bride (which is pretty much exactly how i remember it but with more racism). can't wait to get some new stuff though!

-watched charlie bartlett last night. it was fairly mediocre as a whole, to the point where i don't even know why i downloaded it. it had one really rage-inducing line though, which i can't find online and can't be bothered to search through the movie for. anyway, what a waste of two hours. (this is why i don't watch movies.)

-kibeth has been acting kind of funky :( i need to back everything up again and have someone from dell come out to take a look at her next week. i might need more RAM (among other things- the fan is going kind of haywire and i might have them look at the dvd burner, which has never worked). how do i figure that out?

-you should look into geohashing with the xkcd kids. i am still thinking about going to orlando's meet-up today, but will probably not bother as i have so much to do and can't justify procrastinating from across town.

-on a related note, my parents will be here WEDNESDAY. i really really need to clean. and quit smoking. and clean. FUCK.

-interesting blog post about buffy and her influence on society.

-i'm going to jersey this weekend. nana's sick (her kidneys failed last week, but they said she's doing a lot better now) and i have two cousins i haven't met yet and also surf taco is calling to me. anyway, plane tickets have been purchased! (guess this rules out both the florida music festival and driving to randomass, sc to see doughty.) (i wonder if jenny or bess are playing this weekend...?)

-one of the girls at work (the head of the other dept) seriously pissed me off last week when she quit and let us know by text message on her second day of just not showing up. to make the whole thing even more awesome, she knew for a fact that the two of us were going to be alone in the office on thursday, and yet did she ever even bother to call me and say "sorry for making you do my stupid job all day so that you couldn't possibly get any of your own work done?" OF COURSE NOT. i don't get how people can be such inconsiderate dickwads, i really don't. (and i am a pretty inconsiderate dickwad!)

-in my old age (hah), i have begun to move from my dad's music (golden oldies, queen, janis joplin) to my mom's music (dylan, the stones, neil young). i mean, i've always casually listened to classic rock, but i realized today that a lot of music that i used to hate (dylan and the stones, mostly) is now stuff i really enjoy. also, i found a pretty excellent classic rock station last week. i guess calling guns n roses "classic rock" was just not a crazy new york thing, but i'm okay with that. (although they should play some pearl jam to break it up. they do play lots of led zep though! and they almost never talk or play commcercials, which is super-important.)

-i have switched to hippie shampoo (baking soda and apple cider vinegar) because it is supposed to be a lot better for your hair and also crazy cheap. i am not sure if i am pleased with the results yet. they say you need to give it a couple of weeks for your hair to adjust though, so i guess i'll keep trying.

-i finished s6 of the west wing last night. i wish i didn't know how it all ends so that there could be SOME suspense, but oh well. anyway, i don't know what to watch next! i had actually settled on everwood and started downloading it, but my usual sources dried up in the middle of s2. LAME. i want to get away from sorkin for a while (so i'm holding off on sports night) and i actually don't do well with sci-fi/fantasy shows (i think i just like sci-fi IN THEORY) when it comes to really consuming them and not just watching them whenever they pop up on my tv (so i am hesitant about farscape), and i hate watching things that aren't complete (although i can't wait for the office and how i met your mother to get cancelled), so i have no clue what to watch. i am pretty tempted to watch due south again, actually. mountie! ray! other ray! DIEF! if i don't find something by the time i finish tww, i will probably do this. feel free to suggest things though!

i am going to attempt to make these for my mom tomorrow night. i have serious concerns about my ability to grind up the tea though, so we'll see how that goes. (i decided against the book. i flipped through it and couldn't really picture her reading it.)

and if i have time tomorrow night (while baking, after working late, oy vey), i am going to attempt to make this for the kidlet. i am going to disney with her (and her parents, obvs) thursday night, and i am babysitting her friday night, so i want something to bring her. she is the cutest thing ever- i was talking to her mom last week, and she was telling me how the kidlet gives these crazy out-of-left-field soliloquies, and a few weeks ago she said "chris (my older brother) is always trying to get me to say that he's my best friend, but i told him he wasn't and that a girl at school is. but i lied, cos lisa is really my best friend." awwww ::smushes her:: (ashley, you have been replaced!)

unrelatedly, i think i might buy this bag. TOTALLY ADORABLE, Y/Y?

pearl jam announced an east coast tour today. to be eligible for pre-sale tickets, you had to be a member as of yesterday. GUESS WHOSE MEMBERSHIP LAPSED LAST WEEK! ::wails, rends garments, etc etc::

(with that said, anyone wanna try to get tickets to the tampa show with me? my ticket to see them last time was $60, and the first thing out of my mouth when the show ended was "that was easily worth twice as much money" and i was even poorer then than i am now. and i am OUTRAGEOUSLY cheap when it comes to music, which is funny cos i love it some much.

also, dude, the concert is a fucking wednesday night. in tampa. and i would still be willing to pay $100 to go. GODDAMN MEMBERSHIP LAPSE.)

(i just called my mum to see when they'd be down, cos we could leave my dad talking to himself and watching csi reruns while we go to tampa, but they're coming in may. and apparently vinnie got really upset when he found out my parents tell me they love me whenever we talk on the phone, so now he makes them say it to him too. ahahahahahha.)

(also also? windows media player, you are NOT amusing. fucker.)

so, i was about to post a "here is my schedule for the next week or so in case you need me" announcement, but then i realized that i really only used to post that sort of thing so that getaway_machine would know that i actually had a good excuse for not answering my phone for once, and since she's the one driving me to the airport on thursday, the post is not really necessary.

...

you guys, 2007 has been really good to me.

( whatever, here's the schedule, in case the rest of you care. )

My parents have whiny awesome children, so they send us care packages sometimes. Especially for holidays, cos we are gigantic babies. (Also, we are not giving them grandchildren so they might as well spoil us instead.)

ANYWAY, they told me they were sending me a Halloween package, so I was expecting one of those premade basket things with some generic cookies and candy corn cos that's what they usually do. What was in the box that arrived today? A big ol' pinata, filled with candy.

!!!!

It is Frankenstein, but we are going to turn him into a zombie and attack him on National Unicorn Appreciation Day. Because zombies and unicorns are mortal enemies or whatever, obvs. (We are then going to consume the zombie's brains. OH THE IRONY.) We are also probably going to film this and put on YouTube, so we can start a feud with these dorky boys who I am too lazy to link to.

Anyway, just one more reason people should stop putting their families before unicorns!

(Also, my unicorn cookie cutters arrived this week and they are SO AWESOME. As is the "What Would a Unicorn Do?" spinning folder thing.)