The Icon Faerie

1. I need a bingo card for Christmas.

2. I need to not read sf_drama which is sad because I kind of love that comm and all the delicious, delicious wank it brings me, but it also makes me ridiculously paranoid about my maybe MFA project and how maybe the heterosexual, cisgendered white girl doesn't have the right to say anything about LGBTQ dramaturgy and I'm being stupid and appropriative and a;sdkjf

3. Spider-Man and the actors in it have been through a lot of shit. I hope it's done having accidents and can shake the stigma. It really does deserve to become a hit. ... But I'm still using my Christmas money to buy a t-shirt in case it doesn't.

Argh.

I made a To Do list in the Gassner meeting this afternoon but it may as well be called "Things I Don't Want To Do." But I know I have to. :(

And then I got a phone call from some bill collector lady that says I owe the doctor in DeWitt money that I REALLY DON'T HAVE and so I called my parents and they said they'd take care of it except they obviously didn't. In conclusion, don't trust anyone else to take care of things for you. Ever. Especially when it involves your credit rating. It's only going to end badly.

My mom bothered me for a Christmas list last night on the phone so I made one and sent it to my dad to print out. How much do you guys want to bet that that's never going to make it to her either? Yeah, I didn't think so. It's mostly stuff that I am either reasonably sure can be acquired (i.e. books by Bernard Cornwell. He is not so obscure that a mid-sized bookstore in the Quad Cities is not going to have him in stock) or things that I have little to no chance of actually getting and so am not actually expecting to see it (i.e. a BlackBerry, a book of lectures on Othello, and the complete series of Rome). Things I would like that I can't actually put on a Christmas list: more time, more time to sleep, a time machine (are you noticing a pattern?), that people would stop being assholes, a cure for being homesick.

Then I read a spoilery interview with Sera Gamble and I want it to be January now. :( But it put me in a better mood temporarily. They seriously have to have the most amazing writer's room ever.

I haven't updated since before Christmas, so happy belated Christmas/Winter Holiday of your choice.

sal;kfj sorry watching series four Doctor Who and Rose just appeared on the screen behind the Doctor. (Watching Midnight. It also has Colin Morgan being a woobie, as he does.)

Christmas was good. The food was delicious, my family was great, and gifts were a hit. I got some DVDs that I'd put on my list, a computer game called Mystery in London that's unraveling the Jack the Ripper mystery (so naturally I am on board). I got a new straightening iron for my hair, jeans, and a gift card to Lane Bryant that I can use when our 60% Fashion Week rolls around. \o/ My grandmother also got me a Snuggie. Yes. Those fleece blankets with sleeves in it. Those things that my dad and I make fun of on late night TV. We found many alternative uses for it, including a bathrobe, being a monk, and playing Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof. I got a lot of books too! Inkdeath, and A Lion Among Men (which means I'll actually have to read Son of a Witch), and Tales of Beedle the Bard, as well as a book about Venice, and Mental_Floss's History of the World, and books two through four of the Temeraire series. I bought the first book at the same time as I bought Game of Thrones, and we all saw how that turned out.

The one thing I didn't get was Spring Awakening tickets, so I will probably find the dough to go, if by myself. I don't really want to go by myself but I can't really pay for someone to go with me and I wouldn't ask somebody else to cough up that money just so I wouldn't have to be alone. :\ Because there is no way I am missing the tour. :|

I wasn't supposed to work today but Lane Bryant called me in. Bah. But since I'm taking a week off for Kitty to be here, I should probably be taking all the hours people can give me.

One more chapter of fathersandsons to go. I was working on some icons for valyrian_forged but I don't think that the set is going to be done before the first game is done. I'll probably just have to post as many as I have done and then post the finished set later.

Oh my gaaaaaawd.

So tonight I worked at the Movie Gallery (*sports her FREE HANCOCK T-SHIRT*) and I was taking movies out of the drop box for the 7:00 check in, when I hear a SCRAPE CRASH HORN. And I looked up and there was a car ON THE SIDEWALK, PARALLEL TO THE BUILDING. I spent a minute going o_o and then I ran around the counter and went outside. I went to the driver's side and asked if everyone was okay. The lady, an older lady with her two little granddaughters, said they were all okay, and she wanted me to call someone for her. I'd left the store unattended and wasn't comfortable calling anyway, but I dialed 911 for her on my phone and let her talk to them, then I went back into the store.

A couple of minutes later there was a police car, and my manager went outside and started taking pictures. What a guy. XD ANYWAY, the lady had thought she was backing out of the parking space, diagonal to the curb, but it turns out that was not the case. But there was a truck coming and she tried to put her foot on the brake, but instead she put her foot on the accelerator. So she took out the front bumper on the SUV next to her, and wound up on the sidewalk.

RJ said we now offer valet parking at the Movie Gallery. \o/

I got a letter from Coe and I have been accepted! Woohoo!

Also, Merry Christmas/Yule/Solstice/Chaunakah/Kwanzaa/Insert-Other-Holiday-I-Have-Not-Named-Here to everyone on my flist! I sent my cards out yesterday, complete with photograph for stalking purposes you all! I love you all more than reason, and I hope you all have a great day!

Family received DVD player from my aunt, uncle, and cousins. Hooray! Received Widescreen edition of LOTR. Yayee but I'm going to take it back for the extended version. Also received many pretty blouses in pretty colors. Ron had a Happy Christmas too. He got a little trash bag, a CD holder, an umbrella, and a steering wheel cover. He's going to be so pretty. :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

Grr. Argh. Chamber singers.

What? Me, bitter?

Hell yes.

I have accomplished absolutely nothing today. No ficlets, no homework, no nothing. Just a stupid family Christmas party (at a gun club, yes, we are hicks) with stupid people and having me missing my friends (on and off line).

I just want to go to bed and skip right to Friday.