"I look at Ryan and I think that he's a golden god..."

[exsequar]

Here, have some of my current happyplaces!

Happy place the 1st: An old interview that I SOMEHOW hadn't seen before, wtf, but it's SO PRECIOUS. It's just Brendon and Ryan and they are in a silly, darling mood, and the perky interviewer with her provocative questions is certainly a help :D My favorite part is when she asks them how they feel about being sex symbols, and Ryan says that what he saw in the mirror that morning certainly wasn't a sex symbol, but Brendon rebuts that "I look at Ryan and I think that he's a golden god..." And I squeak and clap happily and love them forever and ever the end :D Also, it has FALL FASHION BRENDON, aka my favorite Brendon EVER. Scarf and glasses OH MY! Toss in hobo-aesthete Ryan and I am completely sold :D There's other truly precious moments but I'll let you watch for yourself!

Happy place the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th... aw heck, mini picspam behind the cut):
So, the marvelous fantastic and amazing web-stalker shiola_shiola uncovered this gem of Brendon and Ryan in Seattle last night. ALONE. Ryan got some quality birthday time with his boyfriend after all, awwwww! YAY! My tinhat is humming with happy satisfaction \o/


I'll just quote what shiola_shiola said, since she's paraphrasing from the direct source: "Apparently this girl (god, why do people edit themselves out of shots like that?) spotted them in downtown Seattle leaving a restaurant. They were super nice and smiley. She asked where the rest of the boys were and they shrugged. OBVIOUSLY THIS GIRL WALKED IN ON THEIR VERY PRECIOUS BIRTHDAY DATE."

HEE. Also, Brendon is in his DELECTABLE hooded pea coat that he was wearing in the Contact Music interview, and eeee, I love it!! <333 (Now Ryan needs to give it a spin and my life will be complete! It'll be the new Grey Jacket of Love!)

Happy place the 3rd:

LOOK AT THEIR BABY FACES. And Ryan Ross is in baggy pants! RYAN ROSS IS IN BAGGY PANTS. This is far too precious and hilarious, omg.

Happy place the 4th:

Eeeee! I LOVE when Ryan does his crazy makeup, and look! look! He did it on Brendon and Spencer!!! *bounces with joy* I can only picture him gently holding their faces as he delicately traces out the lines, while Brendon tries not to giggle because hey, it tickles! And Spencer is as still as a rock. Mmmph yes yes yes.

The 5th:

HAI BDEN. DID YOU KNOW YOUR FEET WERE ON FIRE? YOU DID? O OKAY. <3333

Basically, I love so hard I might die of it :D

Okay, I have a question to ask my flist of much older and wiser folks. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get large amounts of money over to Ireland with me. I emailed the advisor lady at Trinity asking her advice, and she said I could open an Irish account there and wire money over from my account. However... I can't seem to figure out how the heck I do that! The "transfer funds" option at the Wachovia website is only for transferring between Wachovia accounts. This term, "wiring money," seems to get tossed around a lot, but no one seems to know exactly how you *do* it. Help??

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[shiola-shiola.livejournal.com]

*tinhat, tinhat, tinhat* :D

Also - FALL-FASHION!BRENDON. So dark and broody! I'm fond of his pompous intellectual side. <333

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of his every single side, but I have a special place in my heart for that one :D

*tinhat liek whoa!*

[maleyka.livejournal.com]

Dude. DUDE. I WANT THAT HOODIE SO BAD, SO BAD, I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU. Ugh. (OMG boys! Super sekrit birthday dinner, WHAT?)

What I did when I went to the States was open an account with a bank here that offers three fee-free withdrawals from any ATM in the world per year. ("Fee-free" is the important part, because omg, you'll pay out your nose for the awesome privilege of withdrawing money from a foreign country. It's RIDICULOUS.) I got an ATM card and then I just went to a bank over there and got money (enough to last me for a while) at the ATM there, and didn't have to pay extra for it. You could ask your bank if they offer a similar service?

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

ISN'T IT AMAZING? I've never seen anything like it and it's GOOORGEOUS. UGH BRENDON ILU. (I love how Ryan looks a bit standoffish in the picture, cause he's all "dude, our birthday date was ALMOST a total sekrit, but a FANGIRL FOUND US. FOILED!" Heeeee! I almost love that more than getting a million pictures of them goofing off together. ...almost.)

Hmmm, but how long were you in the States for? I'm over there for like 9 months, and I need to do things like pay rent and such, so I kind of need a more long term solution :-/

[flimsy.livejournal.com]

spotted them in downtown Seattle leaving a restaurant. They were super nice and smiley. She asked where the rest of the boys were and they shrugged. OBVIOUSLY THIS GIRL WALKED IN ON THEIR VERY PRECIOUS BIRTHDAY DATE.

This is the most awesome thing I have heard in like, ever. They had a date on Ryan's birthday. They must have. JUST THE TWO OF THEM. And Brendon even shaved. Wow. I'm. Wow.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

YES. YES YES YES. THEY ABSOLUTELY DID. I mean. No JWalk and Spence? Even though they're obviously there since they're doing Bumbershoot? Really???? God, I love them so much.

And YES, Brendon shaved and he looks BEAUTIFUL. I love his babyface *smishes him*

(Icon twinz!)

[flimsy.livejournal.com]

agh, not ON Ryan's birthday obvs, but for his birthday? god, I don't even know. My brain stopped working. TOO MUCH AWESOME

[expastic.livejournal.com]

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD

*DIES*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

YES EXACTLY OHGOD.

[theaerosolkid.livejournal.com]

HAPPY PLACES!!!

\o/

Sighhhh, Brendonnnn.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

*beams* They make my face split with the grinning on a regular basis! Oh hearts.

Bdennnnnnnnnnn <333

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

Looking at the Wachovia website, I found the following, under the "Wire Tranfer" link:

If you wish to move funds from a Wachovia account:

Write a check against the Wachovia account and mail in or deliver a deposit to another financial institution.

So once you have your Irish account, you should be able to deposit a cheque drawn on your Wachovia account.

Assuming you have a cheque book for that account?

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

There was a Wire Transfer link? Obviously I suck at this whole website searching thing *g*

That's a good point, a check is probably my best option. I have the book of sample checks that they gave me when I got the account, which actually work even though they don't have my name on them... lol. I could use those, or I could just bite the bullet and order checks since they're a good thing to have anyway.

Thanks hon!

[jocondite.livejournal.com]

1. You have MADE MY DAY with that photo. Okay, it's seven in the morning and I haven't been to bed yet, but if I was by azny definition having a day that would have made it.
2. Brendon shaved! They both look SO PRETTY! \o/
3. Oh, I love that interview. That's the interviewer who asks them about the kissing at the end! (For some reason I always get the golden god interview mixed up with the 'Ryan is Brendon's pet' interview, even though the latter is a podcast.)

Seriously, made my day.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh HEE, I'm glad!! When I saw it last night I was finally able to go to bed happily, because while I was glad Ryan had a happy birthday, where were his boys??? So this picture pretty much made my life. HE LOVES HIS BDEN!!!

They both look *gorgeous*.

3. Oh, I love that interview. That's the interviewer who asks them about the kissing at the end! (For some reason I always get the golden god interview mixed up with the 'Ryan is Brendon's pet' interview, even though the latter is a podcast.)

Ummmmm WHAT? THE KISSING? WHAT. Is there more to this interview that I missed? IS MY LIFE EMPTY? Also, RYAN IS BRENDON'S PET? Gahhh how am I missing these things! HALP!

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

I like your happy places. Particularly the pic of Brendon's shiny feet. In fact, I may now be in love with it.

So, I've never had much experience with transfering money between countries, but my parents do it a fair bit (between UK and NZ) and also I have a few international student friends and what I've gathered is:

Some banks are complete bastards when it comes to letting international students open accounts, but if you contact Trinity, they should have a list of ones that will give you lovely, shiny, studenty accounts (most of which come with interest free overdrafts, which is pretty handy). Then you can either a) deposit a cheque in that account- although there may be regulations about how much the cheque can be made out for, it being from a foreign account etc, etc, or- and this seems to be what most people do- just set up a transfer from your current account into your shiny new one, once you have the account details for it. It should be a case of a simple phonecall to your current bank, and you can probably arrange with them everything in advance, just leaving the account details blank. You could probably even set up a regular direct debit from your current account into your new account if you're like me and would spend everything in a month if I got it all in one go.

The point of this is- it's a fairly simple process, and I would go into your local branch to talk to someone about it. From what I've been told by people, it's something best to discuss in person, since its easier to stare blankly at a person and make them repeat themselves and websites and phone banking.

Er, sorry, my inner girl guide takes over whenever people ask questions and I feel the need to ramble at them.

Did I mention I love Brendon's shiny shoes.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Brendon's shiny shoes for the win! \o/

Thanks for all the helpful info about the bank nonsense - I think I will just go talk to somebody, stop all my flailing about in the dark :)

[thefirstpromise.livejournal.com]

UGH. I love that interview so much. Did you see the other part of it? There's another part where they talk about who's on their death list and Ryan says Hinder. Brendon says some guy in high school and Ryan's like "That's terrible. That's horrible. He's going to come to your house now" and Brendon's like "I don't care" so Ryan says "Your mom's house."

I LOVE THAT THEY WENT ON A DATE. HOW CUTE IS THAT, SERIOUSLY. BRENDON BETTER HAVE DISHED OUT THE CASH. I also love little baby Ryan, because he's cute and adorable and like all of my brothers friends when they were that age.

BRENDON'S GLOWING SHOES OF DOOM. I had an icon of them, but I deleted it. I should have got it back just for this comment, but I didn't think about it until now. I love him so much, the little fucker.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I've seen two other parts of it, one where they talk about makeup and one about kissing (!) but not that part! Do you have a link handy? (THEY'RE SO CUTE GAH)

BRENDON TOTALLY PAID FOR DINNER BECAUSE HE IS A GENTLEMAN LIKE THAT. Awwwwwwwwwwwww. I can't handle how sweet they are!!

Basically, yes and yes and more yes :D

[shutyourface.livejournal.com]

OMG THEY HAD A SUPERSEKRIT DATE!! BRENDON'S JACKET IS AWESOME, I WAAAAANT. AHAHAHA I WILL NEVER TIRE OF SEEING PICS OF BABY!PANIC. *TWIRLS*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

THEY DID THEY DID AND IT MAKES ME HAPPY IN MY FACE. YAY. SO MUCH JOY!

[jezzabe.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the bit in the interview where she asked if Brendon was a virgin, and Ryan was like "Not anymore he's not," all sly.

Oh, Ryan you DOG.

[sweetrecovery.livejournal.com]

Hehe, they had a date. And I was confused at first by that white space in the picture.

OMG, the picture of the boys with their baby faces and their horrible clothing choices... I laughed so hard.

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

Aaaahhhh!!! *runs in circles and squishes them* So cute omg! Thank you for sharing!

[rain-dances.livejournal.com]

My favorite part about the babies! picture is that Spencer has already perfected his bitch face at such a young age and just generally looks so Spencer-ish.

OH SPENCER SMITH ILUUUUUUUU.

Hee Brendon and Ryan out on the town! How precious. I bet Jon and Spencer were elsewhere, doing the same thing!

[pau494.livejournal.com]

So not even half way through the interview, HOLYSHIT, in my mind, Ryan totally took Brendon's virginity. "Not anymooore" GOLDEN GODS. I THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS INTERVIEW. And in that secret-finding mission we were on before, I want to find out what crazy shit they used to pull! 'Cause I'm a stalker like that, har har!

And now they are happy and in love and going on dates for Ryan's birthday! BEST BOYS IN THE PLANET.

Their wee little faces! SO MUCH LOVE. Ryan got carried away with the eyeliner! YAY! And Brendon's SHINY all around!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

HE TOTALLY DID! That sly, devious way that he says "Not anymooore." NNGH. Mind heads directly for the gutter! <333 ITS THE BEST INTERVIEW EVER GAH I LOVE IT.

THEY WENT ON A DATE. I AM STILL NOT OVER THIS FACT.

*flails with you a lot*

yes this is your sister

[sunnydaze162.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG OMG!!! dying of love for these boys right now! And brendon's coat!!!!! eek! THE END.

[neverneverfic.livejournal.com]

i finally watched this video and i'm so totally overwhelmed by the awesome. brendon's FACE *squishes* and the way he like, falls back at the virginity thing! *makes flappy hand gestures*

also, that seattle picture is so bizarre for me to look at. it's hard for me to place the people i've been squeeing over of late so squarely in my city. like, i totally recognize where they are, or i can place them within a few blocks, and it kind of breaks my brain.

it also breaks my brain to think that if things had gone a little differently in my scheduling life (had i discovered this stuff a week or so earlier and thus not have made plans for last evening) i could have been AT the show. WEIRD.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Eeee I love how he falls backwards, all embarassed and cute!! <333

Ooooooh, can you possibly tell what restaurant they might be at?? Or at least give an educated guess? I'm writing a fic about that evening and I'd love to have an actual place to put them in! Street names and other details would be helpful too :D

Awww, I wish you could have been at the show! That sucks that life didn't make it work for you!

[melish.livejournal.com]

YOU MAKE ME LAUGH SO DAMN HARD.
HAI BDEN. DID YOU KNOW YOUR FEET WERE ON FIRE? YOU DID? O OKAY. <3333

ROFL.
Friending you because my mouth aches from all the smiling.
(:

[jamesinclair.livejournal.com]

You need to know your account number and your routing number. They are both printed on your cheque, but if you dont have that the people on the phone will tell you.

Then im not quite sure. Youll have to have your irish account, but if you get to ireland, open an account and have a problem...itll be hard to talk to the wachovia people.

My advice is to open an account in an international bank. Citibank, HSBC, or some other bank that is in your town and in Dublin. Should be easier that way, although how they convert your money into euros needs to be questioned. Banks tend to have the best rates though, but look out for fees.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Okay. I'm going to talk to the Wachovia people on Wednesday, so I'll see what they say. There are two Irish banks that are on campus at Trinity, and who I'm sure will be used to helping out international students, so I think I should be able to get things worked out, no problem. Thanks for the advice.

Suddenly decide to start catching up on my life? Or, "life". lol