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Pretty much my last random post for awhile, Christmas' will be presents/Doctor Who, Boxing Day will ramble bout Hamlet and anything else would be fic.

Anyone with Guitar Hero: Can you use the regular guitar controller as bass or do you need a special one?

I've been on the DS versions a lot lately (well I was on the first one, then I switched to Modern Hits once it arrived, I wanna get Bullet damnit!). I keep humming along to the songs, cause I'm lame like that. Well, I only hum to songs I know obviously.

While out today I saw someone that looked exactly like Matthew from The Blackout, at least on the angles I saw him from anyway. It was pretty odd, but he looked nom.

Also yay for Wryley having gay mags. It's odd but awesome.

My copy of Ap arrrived Monday (thanks mikeyface!). Nom on Bob! I wish MCR weren't airbrushed.

I wish I knew when my money went in, cause it's Christmas it's all... screwy and I can't recall the changed day.

I'm still listening to Poison The Well an insane amount. I keep them on my player whenever I go out. I hope they tour.

End of Jan I'm gonna pester Lostprophets at a signing. Hopefully won't hit someone with a camera.

The end of The Next Doctor is still shitty.

Wooo snow! Snow is magic but it's not been as heavy here as elsewhere. I want heavy snow damnit! It's snowing now though, yay! And heavy too! YAY!

First present opened last night and it's a Doctor Who jigsaw puzzle (oddly it's got people from the series 3 two-parter, except for one, so he's the odd one out and it bugs me). It's got Dalek Sec on it though. Nom!

Mum says I can open another tomorrow.

From the last The Used q and a video, Dan likes filming Quinn's crotch. At the end I get the feeling it's threesome time.

Happy birthday looloothebooboo!

I suck at Christmas fic. My aim was to do one a day but that failed. However they will be done, just... a little late. One may be done tonight, one might be done tomorrow but any others would be Monday onwards.

Off now to watch Doctor Who/something else/Russell Howard and maybe fic something.

Until next post, Merry Christmas!

DAY OFF.
Walked Cole Park to 40 minutes of A7X on my much neglected mp3.
Went home and just laid around watching shitty tv.

Finally recovered the missing chapters to Under The Rose and Damage Done so I can post. In delving through the archives of slashness I came across posts from some former friends and you don't know how bad I wanted to go back, reply to some of the commentors and say "STAY AWAY FROM THEM, THEY ARE FUCKING PSYCHO!!" but I restrained myself. I even saw something that I think was clearly aimed at me, though it didn't mention my name, but I let it go. I don't think any of the people that were posting last year are posting this year, most of them didn't even have the same journals. I really wanted to say "If you friend this person be aware she is going to screen cap every email and conversation and use them to blackmail you with" but I guess they will all find that out on their own.

I gotta get my ass outta bed and get ready for going out tonight. Dinner, riding around, hitting Brewster Street for our Robert Earl Keen tickets. YAY!!! I never get to go out anymore. This is a BIG deal in my simple lil life.

Still want to try and hit the thrift store for more jeans. I sadly gave away all my size 5's and now I have only 2 pairs of jeans that fit. :( Fucking middle age hormones. I'm not as big as I thought I was. My size 12's swallow me and I am a comfortable size 10. But going from a size 5 two years ago?? Bah!

Ah well. Up, up outta this bed and away from the computer.
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*by thestarlet @ juicy_grapes

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FAVORITES: Of course Charlie Brown and South Park's "It's A Woodland Critter's Christmas----Hail Satan!!" and of all the versions out there of A Christmas Carol, nothing beats Patrick Stewart's.

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before? Got my first teaching job!!! Cut off all my hair and gave it to Locks of Love, Coming out as a Socialist! hahahahha I'm out of the closet, baby!!!!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Wow, last year was SO bad I honestly don't even remember what my resolutions were!

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve? Being envious of crimson_antics going to Spain!!! Unless Aaron gets invited to a party by someone at work I prolly won't be doing anything at all.

4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes, my half-sister's step father.

5. What countries did you visit? None. God how I long for the day I can answer something else to this question.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? A full time teaching job w/ benefits

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? November 22, the AFI show in Austin

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I honestly don't know. I don't want to count my chickens and say I did anything great only to have it come and bite me in the ass. MEETING HUNTER BURGAN AT THE EXACT MOMENT MY CRUSH ON HIM ENDED. There, I said it.

9. What was your biggest failure? Shin Solo and Ceci, but you gotta let it go.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No but we survived a fire.

11. What was the best thing you bought? Sure as hell WASN'T the new Throwdown hahhahahahaha! CrashLove, my AFI ticket, Rancid/Rise Against ticket, the best fitting pair of jeans I ever owned at the Thrift Store for $6

12. Where did most of your money go? basic survival

13. What song will always remind you of 2009? Hmmm....Empire State of Mind will always remind me of driving with Kelly before the AFI show, New Divide, Audience of One

14. What do you wish you'd done more of? I wish I could have spent more time with the ladies I got my teaching certification with. For almost a year we were inseparable and then the real world intervened.

15. What do you wish you'd done less of? Attempting to mend friendships that I should have just let go.

16. What was your favorite TV program? Dexter, True Blood, Sons of Anarchy

17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I would NOT say hate but there sure as hell are a lot of them I am avoiding like the plague for the first time. And by the plague I don't mean Rev. Jimmy cuz I wouldn't avoid him at all!

18. What was the best book you read? Fahrenheit 451, thanks Susan for telling me about it.

19. What was your greatest musical discovery? Hurm, didn't really branch out this year. Billy Talent impressed me, as did Dead By Sunrise

20. What was your favorite film of this year? Public Enemies, Up! Inglorious Basterds, Zombieland----Hell there were A LOT of good movies this year!

21. What did you do on your birthday? Hubby took me to lunch and a movie. Nothing big as we were still broke.

22. What kept you sane? Tracy and Susan

23. Who did you miss? Part of me still misses the AFI girls a little, part of me still misses the Wiccans, but I just take a breath and let it go.

24. Who was the best new person you met? Susan, Kelly and the girls on LJ who are calm, mature and don't burden me with their problems. They are gifts from heaven. In real life, it's Roxann, without whom I could not have made it through my first teaching assignment.

25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009: Walk away, walk away, it's okay to look back but for God's sake keep moving in the opposite direction of all that other stuff.

26. What things are you looking forward to in 2010? More concerts, more time with friends, more peace of mind

For Your Entertainment
Pairing: Adam Lambert/Bob Bryar
Rating: NC-17
POV: Adam
Warnings: BDSM
Notes: Next Christmas fic, for mikeyface, thanks for the AP!
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so, i totally haven't posted fanfiction in forever, whatever, fffffff.

Title: Remembering Sunday

Author: sleeponrooftops

Fandom: Owl City

Pairing: Adam Young/ofc

Rating: R

POV: Adam, Emily

Summary: I can finally see that you’re right there beside me.  I am not my own, for I have been made new.  Please don’t let me go; I desperately need you.  From the very beginning, he knew she was “the one”.  And then she walked right out of his life.

Warnings: Language, sexness.

Disclaimer: Don’t own.  Title belongs to All Time Low, lyrics to Owl City.

AN: He’s becoming far too adorkable for me not to, lol, :D

 

 

( prologue )

 

anyone wanna read?

I dreamed about the end of the world last night.
I do this from time to time and it's always pretty wild, but last night was a doozie, where I woke up a few times and weent right back to the dream.

First I dreamed I was away from home but in the same town and at a place where I could look out the window and sort of see the area where my house was.  I was doing this and I saw these huge tornadoes coming down from the clouds and saw things on the ground just exploding.  I first I tried to find shelter myself, then I tried to get back home, but nothing was there and all the people were gone.  I was running around trying to find my mom or anyone in my family.  It was like all the people had just vanished.  Then we came upon this house that had several stories and on the top stories were all these little kids there by themselves.  We asked them where their parents were and they said they didn't know.  

We were in this house looking down and suddenly it flooded and you could see the water getting higher around the house but the waves weren't moving to and fro', up and down, they were hitting themselves sideways and crashing together rather than to the shore. Then suddenly all the water creatures were evolving, they were coming up from the water and they had these huge fangs and they were trying to get in and eat us.

Someone was making "Land shark" jokes but it was not funny.

Then the dream changed and this cloud had come down and covered the earth.  It contained so much radiation that everyone on the earth instantly was given cancer and was going to die.  To keep everyone from dying at once someone had implemented t his act where you had to start helping others kill themselves.  The thing was you'd all be given sugar packets or cubes with poison in them.  You had to give a packet or cube to two people every day.  Who ever you gave it to  had to take it w/o question.  You took the packet and you died instantly and painlessly.  It was the beginning stages and everyone felt pretty good but everything was in the beginning stages and if you didn't kill yourself now you'd die and absolutely miserable, slow and painful death.

So everyone was going out at night, there were huge parties and everyone was talking to everyone else trying to figure out who to give the sugar cubes too.  I was out trying to find someone I really hated and Aaron and I had already decided we would take ours together.  I was on a bus just looking for people.  

Then I was at the mall and there were cigarette and liquor vendors set up b/c everyone just wanted to smoke and drink b/c they were going to die anyway.  One guy I knew in  high school came up and laughed and said if I was going to die anyway, why not have a drink.  I showed him my leg tattoo and said "When I said I was going to be True to Death" I didn't know it was going to be such a short time!!" and we both had  a good laugh.  

Then I ran into a a girl I knew in grade school though I could not remember her name.  She started talking to me and wanting to be friends and I could tell she was scared and had no one else to hang out with.  We were walking through the mall together and saw another girl getting raped.....by another girl.  I ran up and fought the other girl off just as the girl's parents were coming up.  I went up to the girls  parents and told them what she was doing and no one believed me and they all got mad at me and said the other girl would have never done anything like that.

the dream ended with me in the mall.

This is what I get for watching youtube videos on 2012!

I don't care who's number 1. It's boring. Next year can Bullet do a Christmas song? Dress Jay up as a reindeer.

Yay for snow! I WANT MORE!

Watched The Da Vinci Code and Angels And Demons today. Ewan's hot.

Yay Wallace And Gromit! I want a robot like that.

asphyxiatide gains extra awesome points! Plushies ftw!

Block went yesterday so I ficced, yay! May fic again soon.

How is there a Christmas bag under the tree that's half the size of me and full when everything I know about is small (and the biggest thing isn't even in it?).

And now tothe main point of the post, a picspam for blck_cherry which is tentacles woo!

( That's not water... )

Edit;: Apparently I'm not allowed to express my ehness at the number 1, despite not giving an absolute fuck. I NEVER give a fuck about number 1's. Yet this one everyone has ranted and raved about it and I'm fucking sick of it.

I DON'T CARE!

Oh and how many people bought it because you actually like the band/song and how many got it to piss off The X-Factor/Simon Cowell/because someone told you.

http://www.flix66.com/videos/?id=76

Dude, Johnny looks FREAKY AS HELL (and my mistake thinking he could never look weirder than he did as Willy Wonka - tell that man he can't do something and he goes and does it!), but his lisp? Cracking me up.

Everything else looks trippy as fck, spesh Helena Bonham Carter.

And OMG, MATT LUCAS from Little Britain!! That's bizarre.

I also saw glimpses of a long dark haired man in an eye patch that I could swear was Richard Armitage but I'm under an influence AND w/o my glasses so I'm sure I'm wrong :P

I totally wanna go see this in 3D but the closest IMAX isn't close at all. Might have to make it happen though because this movie looks like it's gonna be wicked :) And I don't usually get excited for Tim Burton fare just cut it's Tim Burton fare but I've really liked the look of all that I've seen of this so far. Excited!



*by goodgal996 @ puffblinks

Observing
Pairing: Jepha Howard/Rhys Lewis, Matthew Davies
Rating: NC-17
POV: Matthew
Warnings: Voyeurism, choking
Notes: Christmas fic for majsij. The other year, The Blackout and The Used toured together on Taste of Chaos, so this is set then
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This makes me angry. Why the fuck are we helping these countries if all they want to do is kill people for being different? Do they really believe that other countries are going to honor extradition laws over this?

If 'god' was so bothered about gay people, wouldn't he/she/it have done something by now? They're even more insane then the people that say floods are judgement on it. 'God' doesn't give a crap if you're gay or straight, it's the people in power that do. And those people abuse their power over others by preaching that their prejudices are shared by some divine power. Bullshit. I can't stand these people that claim to be religious but don't even fucking listen to the most important things about their own religion. It's insane. And what's worse is those same insane people are what have all the power in these poorer countries. They're just as dangerous as the dictators that readily kill others or live in mansions while their people starve.

Sigh.

I'm sorry, shit like this always makes me angry and ranty. Normally I just growl and mumbles to myself.

Onto other things.

I read the next Death Troopers chapter the other day. Finally, on the 16th chapter there's the first real implication of zombies. Just an implication, but it's a start.

The charity shop is open across the street. They're still setting up, but I'll start there after Christmas.

I watched Futuramma last night, with coconut and chocolate chip cookiees. Fail channel 4 for not having the usual True Blood repeat on.

To people that have tattoos, is a colour one more then a black one or is it the same either way?

I was hoping to get the Christmas fic done at the rate of 1 every day or every other day since Monday, but I've kinda failed at that since only 1 of them is done. Another is started but I just kinda... blanked. Sigh. Damn block. As a result most'll be late but should be done before the first week of January.

No mail this morning. Fail.

I'm gonna go now to try and get pepsi and then I'll hopefully be able to shake off this fucking block.

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Dear  Universe:

I need to be whole again.
I came so far and fought so hard and in the end it didn't even matter.
And I have to accept that.

I have to accept the fact that the man who murdered my best friend will never find justice in this life and if he does it will take place inside his own head and  heart and I will simply never know.  I want to stop imagining killing him myself with my bare hands.  I want to stop imagining killing myself on her grave no matter how poetic and beautiful it seems.  It has been 15 years.  She is not coming back and yet I know I will see her again someday.

Many friends have come and gone in my life.  Some  have come and gone MANY times. 

I need to know who to welcome back with open arms and who will only harm me.  I must learn who to shield myself from.  I don't know this now.  I want to love everyone.  I want to help everyone. Not everyone can be helped by me.  Not everyone can be helped period.

I have been able to walk away from many things, people who caused me misery and stress.  I need to stop feeling guilty about this.  I am not a door mat.  I do not exist for others to hurt.

I want to forgive and I want to be forgiven. 
I want to forget the pain.   I do not want to be stupid in my forgetting so that it happens again and again and again.  There has to be some medium to forget, to make it all stop hurting and yet be on alert not to let it happen again.

I want to forgive those who lied to me and yet I want to know the difference, I don't want to believe everything I hear.  In short, I want WISDOM.

I hate myself for trusting.
I hate myself for caring.
I hate myself for reaching out.
I hate myself for being hopeful.
I do not want want to hate myself anymore.

I am good and I have done the absolute best I could in all things at all times. 
There have been times when, in being baited into a fight, I have been as petty and hateful as those I was dealing with.
I want forgiveness for that.


I tried so hard to make things better for others and a lot of times I got nothing in return but hateful words and arguments but I want to know that maybe underneath them, they still loved me.   I did the best I could,  yet I want to be better.

I want to see the good in all just as I want others to see the good in me.
I don't want to be bound anymore.

I want to be free.
Free as death.
Free as my dreams.
Free as the Universe itself.

Sometimes I want Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind to be true and for things to be wiped out and yet I know without those times I would not be who I am.

Do I let go?
Do I embrace it?
I do not know these things, that is why I am asking the Universe.

You knew I was lonely and you brought people back to me.

Things that were taken from me were given back in abundance.

You know what I want in abundance now? Joy and Peace and the Self Reliance to be okay without the constant attention of others, to be so quiet and so full in my soul that I exist as a small flame inside the giant inferno of time indefinite.

Can I ask for specifics?
A FULL TIME teaching job.
With benefits.
In my major.
That I don't have to drive 120 miles a day to.
But if all I can ask for is abstracts I want peace and forgiveness----TO FORGIVE OTHERS AND FOR THEM TO FORGIVE ME and I want my own company to be enough because it is going to be a long time before I get over my fear of other people and I want to be okay with myself.

Thank you for your blessings.
Thank you that I no longer have to ride the bus for 3 hours to get home from work and that my husband no longer has to walk to his job in freezing rain and cold during the winter months.
Thank you for saving our possessions when we had a fire.
Thank you for our jobs and our sense of usefulness.
Thank you for a home with heat and light and a bed with blankets.

Thank you for friends.
One thing I will never regret is enjoying them fully while they were here.

Thank you for your wonders that I will never quite  understand and thank you for never, ever failing to send me a friend at the exact time I need one the most.

In reverse order, though, ha :P

Thanks to poking around news looking for the Coupon thingamabob, I came across the new STATISTICS PAGE. And via that, I've discovered that I have been friended by a few people recently. If you want me to know you friended me, be sure to drop me a line somewhere! Cuz otherwise, I'm so oblivious. Honestly.

So first off, HAIIII! Thank you for friending me, I'm uber flattered :) Not something that happens too much.

But ... there are some things you should probably know:

- I squee. A LOT. Really loudly. With tons of photos (not behind cuts a lot of the time but I keep 'em to 400 px wide to try and not kill your FPage too badly). Over the same dude(s). And it's ridiculous.

- I can be a serial updater. I can go a few days w/o updating at all, and then suddenly, BAM, I can update as many as 5 times a day. With really dumb, stupid sh*t, too.

- People don't like me. And they have no qualms about letting me know whenever they feel like it. So if reading about conflicts between individuals is something you're not into/offends you, this probably isn't the place for you cuz when it happens, I'm not one to shy away from mentioning it.

- If you don't comment/I find myself never commenting you, I'll remove you. Not right away or anything (like if you don't comment as soon as I add you, you're gone! LoL) and a comment on EVERY entry isn't required. But if it's been a month and I haven't heard from you? I'll be removing you. And I won't say anything/make a big to-do about it because that's not my style. THIS DOESN'T MEAN I THINK YOU'RE A TERRIBLE PERSON, that I dislike you in any way, or have ANY other negative connotation. It just means as LJ friends, we're not compatible. It happens, and there are no hard feelings :) But if we can't find anything to relate to each other about, or you find yourself scrolling by me whenever you see me, I don't wanna be taking up anymore room on your FPage. But again, NO HARD FEELINGS if that ends up happening. I've actually made some of my best friends through this medium, so I like to really try and talk to people on here is all :P

- Avenged Sevenfold, particularly M Shadows, Kellan Lutz, and Johnny Depp are often featured here, along with cameos by Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, & Channing Tatum. I also am a fan of and maintain a comm for the lovely Kate Bosworth, and think Eliza Dushku is the coolest thing since sliced bread.

- Other random facts: as my UI says, I will forever love The Muppets, Mr. Depp, and pro-wrestling, yes, PRO-WRESTLING which I have been a fan of since the 3rd grade. I am interested in all things supernatural which is why I watch Ghost Hunters & Ghost Adventures, among other supernatural related programs, yes, including the fictional show of that same name. Buffy & Angel are my OTP. Orlando Bloom and I "have a past," lmao! Good Charlotte & Simple Plan are my other 2 favorite bands (besides A7X). And lately, alllllllll I do is complain about my job & boss. Got a family that I'm extremely close to and mention a lot, as well as spam you with pics with whenever we have a get together at our casa. I'm old, I'm fat, I'm not very attractive, but I have a big heart and if you're nice to me even once, you kinda have a grateful puppy dog for life. I'm loyal (to a fault) and nobody will ever love you like I will. Scary, I know, but I wanna drop a Truth Bomb on ya and make sure YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO WHEN YOU FRIEND ME!!

Think that's it. If you have any other questions/comments/concerns, you can always hit me up with them :)

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*by sadistic_kitten @ sadistic_treats

Went to sleep at 7 o'clock at night last night. Had the best dreams of hanging out with my sister,  For some reason we were in Florida.  We were on the balcony of this hotel over looking a beach, but there was a road between the hotel and the beach and we were waiting for some parade to go by.  My sister  had convinced me to climb up on the roof and we were sitting there and all these storm clouds were rolling in and they were the most brilliant color of blue. Then I dreamed I was at my uncle Tony's house, a place I've only been once, when I was six.  In my dream it was a mansion, yet Aaron and I were staying in some tiny little place that had double beds that was like a motel only it was in the middle of a mall.  It was really crummy.  Sometime in the dream I was in this bed and I felt someone lift the bed up and carry it.  Someone was saying "Don't get out of bed" and I fell asleep and when I woke up I had been carried to my uncle's house and the bed was now a huge double bed with a bright red bedspread.  We were in this room, this giant room with four other big beds.  It was clear a bunch of people were staying there from all the clothes around.  Then for some reason I knew one of the beds belonged to some gay guys (I knew t his by the posters they had though I don't know what the posters were) and I was so excited b/c I thought we'd get to see some action. Then I was trying to call Aaron to tell him to come over from the mall b/c we had a place to stay.  I kept trying to find a phone but none of them worked, one turned into a stereo when I tried to use it.  I was wandering around my uncles house and I really think I was remembering things I saw when I was six.   I was still playing with the cell phones when one started ringing, only it was my alarm waking me up.  I was DEEP asleep like I hardly ever get and it was so hard to wake myself up. And I didn't even take anything to fall asleep.

About to go shopping, in about half hour, for the Christmas food and a couple of bits.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, what happened to all the writers? I mean, generally, it seems ficcing seems... I dunno. I mean, take a look at communities, apart from the Trek one they seem mostly... dead. Like anon_lovefest, it always has comment pages going into double figures but so few actually get done. It's sad really.

Begone Jamie Oliver! You annoying ass.

Last night's Buzzcock's was funny cause of Doctor Who.

I started ficcing last night but then kinda got blocked. Fail. Now I look at it and think... errr. Sigh. Maybe I can later.

No mail? Bah.

I still have no idea where my keys are. Or where that missing fiver is. Bah I fail.

So this post is pretty random and kinda pointless.

Off now, might post fic later.

So today was the big day. I thought I was sleeping in, woke up, looked at the clock and thought it said 8:30 so I got up. It was actually only SIX thirty and I could not get back to sleep.

We had the big party for the kids today and it was just awesome. Not as many employees showed up as I thought but there were SO many gifts.

We got there early to get a parking space and stayed from 10-noon. Got to help my boss out a little.

I really hope I don't get in trouble for not going in to the teaching job but it was 32 degrees and pouring rain and I know damn well I would have wasted $20 in gas only for no one to show up ANYWAY. Plus I had already promised my time to my McDonalds boss and I was so glad I did.

The kids got picked up from school in a limo. The limo driver was a lady and she was wearing a black and gold tux. It looked SO cool. They picked up two families, both with twin girls.
The mother of the little boy who has cancer just found out she has cancer too. Their dad lost his job and as of tomorrow they are going to be homeless. The other family had twin girls who are four. They looked like they were overwhelmed just to go to McDonalds period. It turned out they were the girls who were abused so badly they stopped talking, but they are talking again now and doing better.

They all got to eat lunch for free and then they got to open a few gifts there. There were so many gifts they had to take the bulk of them home. One boy who is a foster kid himself and could barely afford it, bought one of the older girls a bike. That was pretty amazing.

One of our managers and her husband, who is in a local motorcycle club, bought the little boy a bike. He took off his vest with all the patches (there's some official name for that I'm sure other than vest) and we took pictures of the boy wearing it on the bike.

And of course Aaron got to give his gift of the 18 Star Wars figures. The little boy looked SO happy. We didn't get to stay long enough to see the girls open all of their gifts but they definitely seemed happy with the ones we saw them open.

The mother was crying.as the kids opened their gifts and that made me cry too. On top of the figures, we got a $50 gift card for the older girls and coloring books,markers and crayons for the younger girls.

I got a few photos with my phone, our boss got tons of pics. A few of the employees took pictures of us together, we were wearing matching Green Lantern Corp shirts. You'd have to be following the comics to understand but each of the lanterns have a color and personality to them: Love, Hate, Rage, Hope, Compassion, Fear, Avarice. Aaron got me the Hope, Love and Compassion t shirts for me and the Rage, Hate, Fear and Avarice shirts for himself.

Anyway, I thought we looked so cute together and we got our pictures taken a lot. :D If I can get my hands on the other pics I'll post them. It was just a great day.

Afterward we went to library and Aaron bought me lunch, came home and watched movies.

Now however we are completely broke until next week. I have no idea when I am getting my college paycheck thanks to the Chritmas holidays. I get paid again next Wed, which incidentally is the 13th anniversary of the night we got engaged. So some of that check is going to take us out to dinner.

Anyway, it was just an amazing day so even though I am freezing, I am warm in my heart.

Silas with the Star Wars toys. :) I had been feeling a little down. I'd sent out all the Christmas cards (first year in a while I'd even done THAT) and had sent out a very special one to someone thinking I'd get a shout back saying "hey thank you that meant a lot to me" or even "Hey I got your card", but I didn't hear anything at all. And I don't want to hit THEM up and go "Uh...hey...did you ...uh get my card?" and make it sound like I'm groveling or anything. It always seems that the things I do mean more to me than who is on the receiving end. Like I think I am doing this epic, grand thing and they're just like 'eh, whatever!'. but that's okay. Cuz we really DID do something epic to change the lives of 5 kids.