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so, i think i am doing nano. i mean, i am signed up. but i've signed up before. november is just historically a bad month for me to do something like nano! but i've signed up and bought a new moleskin and have a tentative plot and plan and if i succeed, there shall be prizes. for me. the prize for the rest of you will be 50,000 cracktastic words from my brain to your internet, which is not really a good prize, unless you are a fan of my brain's special brand of crack. (which, let's face it- if you are reading this, you probably are.)

in less stupid plans news, supernatural is on fire and i love it a whole lot. i have been thinking about it almost as much as i have been thinking about pete wentz & co. (which is a sickening amount, to be honest.)

in music news, i just bought a hard copy of the bell horses album! YAY. i still haven't bought mike doughty's album because i'm still annoyed at how terribly it was marketed and also the fact that he is not touring down here. and also that there are tracks i cannot buy because of my raging hate for itunes. and i mean, i have so many cds here that i haven't listened to yet, so whatever mike doughty. i am on your mailing list and i read your blog and your twitter and your new album still took me by surprise. THAT IS NOT OKAY.

in conclusion, i think the orlando and boston fangirl brigades should rumble. or be penpals. like when you were in elementary school and you became penpals with kids at a school far away? actually, i need to send a care package up that way. it will happen while i pack next weekend, aren. (MOVING IN LIKE, 3 WEEKS OMG WHAT.)

you guyssssssssssssss. dragon*con was awesome and i am once again sad to be back in the real world.

( ya lit, steampunk, and that time i fell in love. also knows as WELCOME TO TL;DR CITY! )

on the plus side: ONE MONTH TIL THE WHOMPING WILLOWS AND JFF AND FRED LIVES, ZOMG!

-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!)

(as aside: when i type a subject, it pulls up other subjects that i have used in the past. when did i post about a sink with raping attachments? and why? sometimes i frighten myself, you guys.)

so, i should be sleeping. i've been blogging on here for six years, and it's the same damn story- i should be asleep, but i can't shut my brain off, wah wah wah. i'm not even thinking emo thoughts though! i think the last thing that made me open my laptop was a burning need to know what timezone memphis is in. (it's in one that will help me get to the jenny show on time, but which will make the drive back that much more unbearable. sweet.) wait no. i needed to look up lyrics to this jenny song. (i'm in the business of loving you til you choke; it won't make a difference if you do or you don't.)

it won't even matter if i DO fall asleep, since i've been having fucked up dreams again and therefore have not been sleeping well. last night i may or may not have dreamt i was running an orphanage full of jess's friends. they wanted to make lasagna with yogurt instead of pot cheese cos "that's how they do it in amsterdam!" even in my dream, someone pointed out what a miracle it was that i didn't punch someone in the face for that shit! my dreams should not be raising my blood pressure, y'all.

before that, jenny was a vampire. the show did not go so well after i found this out! (sigh.)

(i hope jenny is not a self-googler. or that if she is, that this lj is not high in the results. oh dear- something new to worry about.)

(which led to me googling her to see what's what, which led to me finding a review of the new album on absolutepunk.net. good times!)

ok, i take back that thing about this being a journal again. it is clearly still just a jenny fansite. i'll try to do better come june?

(i love that this song sounds like an indie rock sea shanty ♥)

i am trying to make my songs-with-awesome-lyrics mixtape (tentatively titled "write down the words & then i snort them up") but i am having two problems:

1. jenny's new album leaked and you guys! it is so motherfucking good i can't even. nguerhgeurwf it's been on repeat since i got it. a few of the songs took a couple listens to really grow on me (this album is a bit different from her older stuff, sound-wise, and also she reworked some of her old songs (which have never been released before but have been played live plenty of times) and i have a hard time letting go of things i love) but i am sold. "transmitter failure" (the song) is basically perfection. also, to all the articles i have been reading lately about how the album is dead: SUCK IT. transmitter failure works SO GOOD as a whole album- i've been listening to it in order this whole time and it flows perfectly. i should mail a copy to mike doughty.
   
   
2. speaking of doughty: i just want to fill this mix with his songs. ngh mike doughty, why are you so good with the lyrics?

ugh, i am way behind on lj again. i don't know why this keeps happening! (wait- yes i do. marilla82 calls me and says "come get dinner with me" and i think "yeesh, i am so exhausted i can barely stand up" but i say "okay!" and then we end up watching a zac efron movie. !!!)

also, last week was the fall out boy show and it was SO GOOD. UGH, THEIR STUPID FACES. massive amounts of fun were had, but i hardly slept for two days straight, and i had 15+ hours of overtime last week, and then stayed out way too late friday night. i am still somewhat zombie-like! good times!

also also, i was fucking pwning BEDA on my tumblr, and then last week happened (helped jessica make a video, fall out boy show, 12 hour shift, the insanity that was friday, etc) and i screwed it up. goddamn you, pete wentz!

anyway, the reason i am updating: BOOKS! just bought cathy's ring (usually i would take something like this out of the library, but it comes with ITEMS), salt & silver (by octette/lalejandra andddd someone else. idk. it doesn't matter, cos anna is one of my fave fic writers of all time ever and that's all that matters), and death's daughter (by amber benson. YEP!). i am almost excited for what i'm sure will be an excruciating work day tomorrow (12 hours at one of my least favorite hotels, probably with my least favorite electrician).

the other reason i am updating: now jenny, her mom, and several of her other crazy fans are encouraging me to drive all over creation (if by "creation" you mean "the southeast") to see her in may. they are starting to wear me down. anyone want to come on a roadtrip?

(and damion suomi, that local boy i love so much, will be playing in town three times in may and i can't go to any of the shows. URGH. the one at park ave on 05/16 is free, so if you are local you should go. he is totes adorable.)

jenny is trying to kill me. she will have bess, chris, elliot, and DAN MOTHEREFFIN' ROMER on this tour! HIDNBDBUBNSD WHY.

(i actually deleted it before i posted this entry because i thought it was such a ludicrous wish, but it used to say "maybe she will somehow get dan romer out of brooklyn and i can die happy!" after the part about bess and allie. URGH.)

i would stab someone to get to one of these shows. have anyone you need stabbed? i am in, for realsies.

(currently trying to work out driving route to/from virginia that would let me attend a jenny show. if the memphis and nashville shows were swapped, maybe. or better yet, if one of them was monday instead of sunday/tuesday, definitely. and tx is too far out of the way. and this makes me want to cry. fuck me, i get so worked up over tours it's stupid. it's just. it's the only time i can really close my eyes and exist inside the music, you know?)



i don't want to end on such a down note. the new ep is so fucking good, you guys. i just went to a jenny chat and me & some girl from tampa asked her to come to central florida no less than 6 times, and she told me she'd add it to the list. she played "last person" and "voice on tape" and they were amazing- i had chills all through "voice on tape" and it was so good i almost cried. her favorite buffy character is anya, her favorite non-omwf ep is hush, and she is on team unicorn. she had to ask us what ftw meant, hee. and she will not impregnante you- "because of science, not you personally."

jenny's new ep, led to the sea, is available on amazon and not just that shithole which is also known as itunes! go buy it or face my wrath :D

eta: OMG YOU GUYS I LOVE IT SO MUCH. holy shit, nighty night is mesmerizing, and clean break is so fun, and i am TOTALLY DIGGING the led to the sea remix. ::so excited omg::

1. jenny's new track is so fucking good it makes me want to not stab people. DO YOU KNOW HOW GOOD THAT IS? go listen to it on her myspace, and start mentally preparing yourselves for april 7th because i am going to be OB. NOX. IOUS. (well, more than usual.) (also, i will most likely need to bribe someone to buy the ep for me. it's a testament to how much i loathe itunes that i won't even put that shit on my computer for an exclusive jenny ep.)

2. do you love friendship bracelets? YES YOU DO. just start thinking about how much you love them, cos we are working on a secret project. (and it's being planned by someone is not me and therefore not completely useless, fyi.)

3. i have never read a book after seeing the movie (until today), but this is apparently the way to go. nick and norah's infinite playlist is excellent both ways and yet TOTALLY DIFFERENT! i think i liked the movie more but they can't even really compare. so amazing, all book movies should make me feel this way. ("this way" meaning "like there are two separate things in this world that i totally love and they are tangentially related")

4. the real reason i am writing this post: i have been trying different blogging software over the past few month and i have not settled yet (i think i like wordpress the best, but i don't love it). anyway, i'm currently using tumblr, which has some awesome features (automatic formatting in several styles depending on your content! encouragement of short random posts! all my favorite people are on tumblr!) but i hate some of its "features" a lot so we'll see. anyway, knock yourselves out.

4b. note: i am not losing the lj. i have just been sort of toying with the idea of a real blog, with reviews of books and movies and concerts and awesome shit i find online. and this will be more of a journal, as it generally is anyway. i am mostly holding out for dreamwidth before i make any real decisions though.

so, i am driving up to decatur on easter to see bess rogers, allie moss, and allison weiss for a number of reasons. (1. that is as far south as allie and bess are coming. 2. when else will i get to see three singers i love on one stage? 3. jenny just announced the first leg of her tour and she is only coming as far south as virginia. 4. fuck you, virginia. 5. the last time i saw jenny, i actually had a mild seizure when bess walked on stage cos i wanted to see her so badly. 6. i like roadtrips. 7. easter is the most rock n roll holiday.) mostly those reasons boil down to me being dumb, but i don't care. it's only 8 hours each way! (i am skipping work on monday, obvs.)

so i was debating going up on saturday and just hanging out in decatur/atlanta, doing some sightseeing, etc. i've never really done any touristy shit in the south. but then i noticed that they are playing in nashville that saturday, and nashville is only ten hours away, so i could theoretically do both shows! which is extra awesome, because who the fuck knows when any of these people are coming back south?

here's where you come in: PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A BAD IDEA. and while you're at it, talk me out of getting bangs.

re: the learners by chip kidd

this book made me go from :D to D: in like, 20 pages. GODDAMN YOU, ALASKA YOUNG HIMILLSY DODD.

re: jenny owen youngs

FULL LENGTH ALBUM. MAY. YOU CAN PROBABLY HEAR ME SQUEEING FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (we can has a tracklisting! she will be on tour for pretty much the entire second half of the year! there are already several videos in the works! I CANNOT STOP DANCING!)

re: the south creek library

i have a stupid amount of books out right now, and i have to go back tomorrow because they didn't give me some of them today. or yesterday when i was there. THANKS GUYS. i am very excited to work this weekend though!

re: this weekend

going to the social tonight to see damion suomi and some other bands i don't really know. while i'm there, i'm gonna pick up a ticket for mason jennings next month. (speaking of- why are there so many shows i want to go to on 03/13? lame.) tomorrow & sunday there is some work, but right after i am going to disney for the day with getaway_machine so i can finally see the rest of the parks. and then it's monday again! why does that keep happening?

getting into my email is still requiring too much effort for less than 60 seconds of email time, so simplykatie & getaway_machine & anyone else who has good taste in music (hah):

jenny has an ep coming out in april! some fans found the info on her label's site earlier today, and now jenny has confirmed it. i really like the cover and the title and the tracklisting! (oh jenny, how so pretty? and pls to be keeping with the nautical themes, i like them lots.)

(i really want the full-length, but i will settle for this. for now. (as if i have a choice. heh.) although, when the eff is the full-length coming out? it was allegedly may, but that would be pretty dumb with the ep coming out in april. makes sense though, cos her tour schedule is definitely not the kind of tour she'd be going on to promote a new album. i was pretty confused about that, actually.)

(also, i only know one of the songs on the ep. i kind of love that, although i will continue to stalk her on youtube until i learn the rest.)

(eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, new jenny! ::marks the calendars::)

-i got new glasses! they are super-cute! i am taking them back to the store tomorrow because they are making me insane! (the arms are pretty wide and completely cut off my peripheral vision and it is FREAKING ME OUT.) i am going to get the first pair that i liked, but i don't know if i want them in black or silver. (my life is VERY INTERESTING.)

-GMAIL IS MAKING ME VERY CRANKY MAKE IT STOP ARGH. i have comments and links and things i am supposed to be dealing with tonight and IT WON'T WORK. apparently it is something to do with the latest firefox release? idk, but i want it to stop :/

-this is going to come as a big surprise (especially if you know how much of a shallow freak i can be), but my favorite character on fringe is not peter. i mean, i love him, and not just cos he's played by an actor i used to have a creepy shrine to. but he's not my favorite. astrid is. she is made of pure win, you guys! and she is very pretty! and i just love her! and the girl who plays her is coming to d*c yay! i don't imagine that i will care enough about this show to attend any panels, but it still makes me excited haha.

-OH MY GOD VIXY IS NOT WORKING EITHER. internet, pls stop hating me D: i sacrificed (...hee) several hours this week watching videos so i could rip some stuff, and {s notwuhking! >:| >:| >:|

-i am reading this REALLY AWESOME book right now. it is a handbook to luck and it is by cristina garcia and i don't know how to describe it. it is regular fiction, and it follows the lives of three people (a boy from cuba, a girl from iran, and a girl from el salvador) as they grow up. and whatnot. i liked its cover ages ago, and i am finally getting around to reading everything on my list, so i took this out of the library and said "holy shit this sounds stupid" and i fully expected to hate it but HER WRITING. SO GOOD. bfewwbs i am really enjoying it. i was almost sad to spend my morning gossipping with my boys instead of reading. ("almost" only cos these two particular boys always bring me the best gossip.)

-speaking of gossip, it appears that someone at work has started a rumor about me wanting to date one of the boys. (someone came up to me and told me that he was very shy and i therefore need to be more assertive. !!! i should have assertively shoved my foot up his ass.) i don't really have a problem with the rumor, cos lord knows i start worse rumors all the time, but we can't figure out who started the rumor, so it is driving me crazy. starting rumors is MY job, dammit! (as a sidenote, i only start completely false and ridiculous rumors. i gossip about some true stuff, but it's always stuff that is basically common knowledge that just hasn't made the rounds yet. i never bring actual facts into my trufax rumors, unless they are completely taken out of context, such as "those two were both 'OUT SICK' yesterday. WHAT A COINCIDENCE! nudge nudge wink wink!")

-back to books: just finished everlost by neal shusterman. i can't tell if i read a lot of books about the afterlife, or if books about the afterlife are just really common. either way, this was a book about the afterlife. really interesting concept, mostly interesting characters, fairly uninteresting story. would probably read a sequel though.

-now some music: okay, besides the INSANE amount of patd i've been watching on youtube, i've been listening to a lot of mason jennings, jessie baylin, and meiko. and the usual stuff. and i'm waiting on pins and needles for matt nathanson to announce his tour. (if he doesn't come to orlando with jack's mannequin, i am going to death cab instead, assuming there are still tickets whenever this whole this gets sorted out.) allegedly (according to some random youtube user, YES THIS IS MY LIFE) jenny's album is coming out in may, which is mostly awesome, but means fulfilling my creeper quota for the year is gonna be hard cos there's no way i can fly up there in may for a cd release party. sadface! buttttt that means (a) summer tour! summer! the glorious time when i can take gratuitous days off of work to travel the southeast for shows! and (b) bess and allie will have released their eps and can maybe accompany her! oh! unrelatedly! my favorite music magazine is baaaaaack! at least on the internets! oh chart, i've missed you. (yeah, my favorite music magazine is canadian. what of it?) and wrock this weekend! which is extra good because i have basically done nothing the past three weekends besides sit on my couch and watch tv/movies.

-lately i have been filled with the almost irresistable urge to go to tom sawyer island and be a jackass. please tell me someone else has this urge and wants to accompany me.

i got my jenny merch pack in the mail today. it contained:

• one new jenny bunny shirt
  
• two stickers
  
• three buttons
  
• a fabulous sparkly JOY ornament
  
• !!!!!!!!

jenny's mom is the cutest!

two years ago tonight, g. locked the doors and put in batten the hatches, & everything changed. i know i talk about her a lot, and i know it is probably just white noise to people now, but goddamn i love this girl. i love that i have listened to her songs thousands of times, but i am still finding new things. i was listening to her in the car today, and i still had to stop everything else so i could pay "from here" the attention it deserves. that song just stops me in my tracks, every single time.

(i can't believe it's been two years. i can't believe how much my life has changed in two years! two years ago, moving to orlando was just this crazy thing i was planning about a city i had never even been to. i hadn't met ashley yet. i had no idea whether or not i could even survive on my own!)

and here's the thing- my jenniversary isn't just about my ridiculous obsession with jenny owen youngs. there is all this other amazing music that i wouldn't know if it wasn't for jenny! i found out about bess because her voice blew me away in that first "secrets" video i found. bess led me to ingrid and the age of rockets and robot explosion. ingrid led me to matt nathanson and meiko and greg laswell. matt led me to jessie baylin. jenny pointed the way to dan romer and gregory & the hawk and allison weiss and plenty of other bands that i just can't afford to love right now. this stupidly awesome group of artists resparked my love of music. hell, they helped respark my passion for living. it sounds so stupid and cheesy but i don't even care.

(!!!!!!! NEW SONG!! i have not ripped it yet, but ngh i love it. i have now heard over half the new album \o/ still no word on a release date though, sigh. they were taking pictures for the album art yesterday though.)

(ok, just watched an interview where jenny comes out against bruce springsteen. i don't think it's possible for me to love her more!)

here is some free jenny music, for those of you still reading. that folder contains the following:

• avalanche, oh avalanche (live amsterdam): gregory & the hawk cover, has talking at the end.
  
• didn't know (live amsterdam): this is going to be on the new album!
  
• dissolve (live amsterdam): this is also going to be on the new album! when she plays this with a full band, there is some seriously gorgeous drum work. this is not one of those times though.
  
• from here: from her first album, cos it's my favorite.
  
• last person (live ct): the file has the wrong name. this is "last person" and it's on the new album and she sometimes plays this like she's in a country band.
  
• secrets (live wi): on the new album. also, the song that made me fall in love with bess rogers.
  
• thanks, mesopotamia!: this is a new song from some compilation some magazine did. it's based on an advice column. it's lovely.
  
• things we don't need anymore: her christmas song from 2007 ♥
  
• transmitter failure (live amsterdam): there is talking in this too, but it's the only edited version of this song i have right now. i love it a lot, & it'll be on the new album.

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!

-this video of jenny owen youngs in her halloween costume (she went as ingrid michaelson, ahaha), performing songs from the little mermaid and "once more with feeling" YES THAT IS CORRECT I SAID OMWF. and here i thought i could not possibly love her more than i already do.

-this bag. i think. totally cute, right? sigh. i need a new purse SO BAD, but i am having such issues finding something i like. i really just want a better version of my old purse.

-these salt & pepper shakers. !!! i mean, y'all know i am totally crazy about stupid s&p shakers, right? god, all these need is a tutu and i will be set for life.

-denver. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

-the ginormous spider in the kitchen who is keeping me from frosting the pink cupcakes. WAIT NO HE IS NOT. (you guuuuuuuuuuys he is SO BIG. he is easily the scariest spider i have ever seen. i tried to get the cat to kill him but she tried to bite my leg instead, effing traitor.)

-i have a new super secret project. i don't know if it'll pan out (i don't think my skills are up to the challenge) but it will be fun to plan. the goal is to do it by the end of the month, while you crackheads are all nano-ing. i should have four solid days to finish in at the end, so we shall see.