one more miracle

I just got the BEST early Christmas present EVER, omg.

My little sister didn't yet know that I was coming home for Xmas, so she had my present shipped to me. And and and it's a My Chemical Romance hoodie!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It's soft and warm and GORGEOUS. It's THIS ONE, which is absolutely the one I would have chosen because, I love you Gerard and company, I really do, but I don't really want to walk around with the word DEAD on my chest, or a nuclear mushroom cloud. Yaknow? This is dark but PRETTY, and I'm so in love with it. It fits me perrrrrfectly, not too big or too small, with sleeves that go right to the middle of my hands exactly as I like them. I'm NEVER TAKING IT OFF EVER.

If you're reading this, I LOVE YOU MEREDITH. Thank you!!! You are the best little sister EVER. *smish!*

I find it hard to believe that there's a new reason to love the boys in this fandom EVERY DAMN DAY, and yet:

ADAM T. SISKA YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE THAT CUTE

"Right now I am off to the American Apparel store next to the venue, in hopes to replace my favorite hoodie (yellow with blue stripes) which was stolen from our dressing room during the final days of the Honda Civic Tour. A few days after the tour, I turned on the Today Show and saw someone wearing the hoodie... I will give you a hint, his name rhymes with PETE WENTZ."

OMG THE YELLOW STRIPED HOODIE OF LOOOOOVE! SEE ICON!!! I've seen those boys (AND GABE) in it, and wondered if it was the same one, and OMG. PETE STOLE IT! This is pretty much the best thing to happen, ever. UGH I LOVE THEM.

Have I mentioned how much it hurts my heart that I can't see them when they play in a tiny club in my college town?? *flails a little* *no a lot* *sigh*

I spent today organizing in preparation for packing! I put alllll my clothes out on my bed, organizing by type, to get a sense of how much I have and how much I'll have to leave behind. I also figured out what books I'm bringing, which magazine cut-outs (which, by the way, I uncovered the Fall Out Boy Rolling Stone issue that I had stashed away! I had never actually finished reading the article because when I got it I didn't much care, but NOW. OMG. THEM. Also, Pete being all obsessed with Jeanae (sp?) and asserting that he and Ashlee could never be a couple kind of cracked me up. If only you knew, dude! Joe wandering into a guitar shop and making a $4,500 impulse buy made me lol, Patrick is darling and humble but also a little intense, and Andy wants civilization to fall? They are quite the collection of guys, that's for sure) (wow that was a long parenthetical, where was I?) and which SHOES. I polished my HOTASS FAITH BOOTS, which I realize go AMAZINGLY with my new outfit and OMG I'm going to kick ass in it \o/

SGA S3 DVDs in two days!! Hurrah!! I'm v. v. excited, especially by the caps of David ogling Joe's ass that have been floating around. LOVE.

I'm still hacking up lungs. FAIL.

I got to see my godparents and their children today! We met them for a delicious buffet brunch, yum yum. I hadn't seen them in a while, and they're some of my favorite people in the world, so that was awesome.

Ummm lalala! Very tired, going to bed soon! Hope y'all have a good night!

I went wedding dress shopping with my mom this afternoon. It was pretty fun - she found a really nice one that looks beautiful on her, and it was on really good sale, so that was good. My sister and I also got our bridesmaid dresses - here's mine and hers is the little girl version. It's really beautiful, I like it a lot. My mom's going to hold red roses to match, while my sister and I hold white roses, and it'll be really pretty.

The best part of the dress shopping, however, was the radio station, which seemed to be tuned to "Bandom" - they played Arms Race, Teenagers, Thnks Fr Th Mmrs, and Misery Business. It was AWESOME. My sister and I just laughed every time a new one came on and sang along happily \o/

I did that career meme, and number 1 was an oceanographer, lol, what? Most of my choices were engineers of some kind, though 8 was a chemist, so hurrah. 7 was a tailor though, which, wtf? Haha.

I LEAVE FOR DUBLIN IN FIVE DAYS. WHAT? WHAT? NO SERIOUSLY. *minorly panicking* I sort of started the packing nonsense. I tried out those vacuum packing bags, and they're not nearly as miraculous as the infomercial makes them out to be, lol. But still, they definitely make things a lot more manageable. I also had to figure out what DVDs I was bringing with me. I decided to take the TV seasons out of their boxes and put them in my big DVD booklet, which makes me sadfaced because the boxes are so pretty, AND they have the episode guides. Sigh. But they're too bulky so, you know. I ended up being able to fit most of the essential stuff in there, though I had to choose just one season of Angel and two of Buffy. My Atlantis DVDs are still with my cousins, who wanted to burn them, which just makes me sad in my face :( But I'll be buying S3 on Tuesday, HURRAH, so that will make up for it.

FIVE. DAYS. *flail*

(The biggest obstacle is leaving my father at the airport. I'm going to cry so hard, I know it, and I'll be in public too.)

More car drama. BIG drama this time.

MY CAR BROKE DOWN ON THE WAY HOME! *holds head in hands* Actually, to be more accurate, I think my clutch finally had enough of my abuse and gave up the ghost. I'm still learning, and it really isn't pretty sometimes! So it decided to stop being able to accelerate and make loud grinding noises instead, so I had to pull over. I burst into hysterical sobs and called my dad, probably giving him a heart attack. I'm lucky I had Michelle there to calm me down or I would have completely fallen to pieces.

In short, police showed up, called a tow truck, my dad came to pick me up (luckily I was only a half hour from home instead of, say, four hours) and the truck took my car to a garage. In all the ordeal took about an hour or so. It was stressful, but the policeman was really funny and sweet, and I got to see my daddy. I'm rather wracked with guilt because I'm pretty sure I ruined my car, but hopefully (*crosses fingers*) it won't cost too much or take too long to fix.

Then we went to an AMAZING restaurant that was recommended to be my lyra_wing called The Melting Pot. OOOOOMG SO GOOD. Three courses of fondue: cheese, meat in oil, and chocolate. MMMMPH. It took 2 hours and... a lot of dollars, but it was *delicious* and wonderful and fun and went a long way to taking my mind off killing my car. We went for my daddy's birthday.

I'm glad to be home for spring break, it's nice. I miss my daddy and my sister when I'm at school. So, yay. I think today on the whole balances out.

And I have my shiny new SGA S2 DVDs! YAAAAY!

Merry Christmas Eve, flist! I hope you have a great day cooking yummy sweet things and opening maybe some presents and seeing your families. And of course, have a lovely Christmas day!

We just had our first round of presents with my mom, cause we're with my dad for the actual day. I had asked to be educated in classic rock, and so of course all the relatives jumped at the chance and I got 9 (!!) CDs! Lessee...

The Allman Brothers Band - A Decade of Hits (listening right now - I love it!)
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Led Zeppelin (first album, I believe)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced and The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
The James Gang - Live at the Allen Theater, Cleveland
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

I think it's unfortunate that I don't actually USE CDs anymore - I rip them to my computer and iPod - cause all the CDs and the inserts are so gorgeous! My mom wants to snag them after I'm done ripping them, haha. Yay for music!