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Feb. 19th, 2007 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themeletorI'm feeling too crummy to do housework, which means I'm working on the footnotes, which means I don't ACTUALLY have much work I'm able to do with that until our next meeting, which means I'm trying to procrastinate. also, lie on the couch in a big fluffy blanket listening to my DMB/SPN/Andrew Bird (he's kinda new, and really good!) mix.
memes!
ten things that make me happy at the moment, in no particular order, tagged by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
birgitriddle:
- music. muuuuuusic. this isn't just "at the moment", it is "all the fucking time". I am a huge music whore. new music that I'm just discovering, old music that I've always loved, new-to-me old-to-the-world music, it's all good. it all speaks. :-D
- researching. this is also an "all the time" thing. looking shit up, however arcane or diddly, makes me feel clever and powerful. because I'm a dorkus supreme.
- cooking/baking. this is with the "creating stuff productively makes Mel happy" thing. I may require mojo to write, or to play with graphics, but I don't need anything but my own two hands (and the ingredients) to bake a yummy fresh loaf of bread, or to make a meal for the family. or to bake brownies, or cookies, or to combine two old soups into a new one, or to jazz up a plain sandwich -- even the littlest cooking things make me happy. from pepperocini on a bologna sandwich to making chicken-and-white-bean chili completely from scratch and right out of my head, any cooking creativity makes me smile. and when kids are over (which is rare, nowadays, but does happen), I'm always ready with chocolate chip cookies and kool-aid.
- girlfriend. no matter what shit hits which fans. we're stubborn, the two of us, and every little thing about her still makes me smile -- even when all the fans are pretty much covered in shit.
- my family. ok, yeah, they suck sometimes. but as dysfunctional as we are, we also love each other like crazy, and that's what really matters in the end. you can work on figuring out the dysfunctions, and on learning to interact in a healthier way. you can learn how to communicate, and how to coexist, but you can't learn how to care deeply and tenaciously. and I'm very, very lucky to have a family so full of love and humor, because among other things I've learned to live the same way. life sucks, you get through it, and the people you love get you through it together. :-)
- hair dye. it's a little thing that can totally re-jazz me when I need it. ditto trimming my hair, picking up new (or new-to-me) shoes or clothes on the cheap, and painting my nails. though I always peel off my nail polish before the day is out.
- boats. 'nuff said.
- ok, actually not enough said. booooooooats~ boats boats boats boats UNIFORMS. RIGGING. war boys and their various fuckedupitudes. WAR POETRY. PRETTINESS. also, buttsex. and a WHOLE LOT MORE, but I REALLY CAN'T ARTICULATE IT, because the love is really big. y'all who know what I'm talking about ... you know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
- synaesthesia. and other random literary prettythings, or whatever. it's all very shiny, but I've got to say that synaesthesia is definitely my bulletproof lit-kink.
- lastly, and most majorly, ALL OF YOU GUYS. FANDOM. THE INTERNETS. just ... yes. happy. from Pirates to Batman to Breakfast on Pluto to Numb3rs to Supernatural (though I'm not, you know, IN THAT FANDOM, per se, but the show makes me happy, and you people who led me to the show (i.e. got there first) make me happy, so), and everything I've tripped over in between, and all the people I've met and friends I've made. you're all wonderful, beyond what I can textually render. I love you all. and you make me way happy. ♥
and then meme the second, this thing I ganked offegyptian_spider:
memes!
ten things that make me happy at the moment, in no particular order, tagged by
birgitriddle:- music. muuuuuusic. this isn't just "at the moment", it is "all the fucking time". I am a huge music whore. new music that I'm just discovering, old music that I've always loved, new-to-me old-to-the-world music, it's all good. it all speaks. :-D
- researching. this is also an "all the time" thing. looking shit up, however arcane or diddly, makes me feel clever and powerful. because I'm a dorkus supreme.
- cooking/baking. this is with the "creating stuff productively makes Mel happy" thing. I may require mojo to write, or to play with graphics, but I don't need anything but my own two hands (and the ingredients) to bake a yummy fresh loaf of bread, or to make a meal for the family. or to bake brownies, or cookies, or to combine two old soups into a new one, or to jazz up a plain sandwich -- even the littlest cooking things make me happy. from pepperocini on a bologna sandwich to making chicken-and-white-bean chili completely from scratch and right out of my head, any cooking creativity makes me smile. and when kids are over (which is rare, nowadays, but does happen), I'm always ready with chocolate chip cookies and kool-aid.
- girlfriend. no matter what shit hits which fans. we're stubborn, the two of us, and every little thing about her still makes me smile -- even when all the fans are pretty much covered in shit.
- my family. ok, yeah, they suck sometimes. but as dysfunctional as we are, we also love each other like crazy, and that's what really matters in the end. you can work on figuring out the dysfunctions, and on learning to interact in a healthier way. you can learn how to communicate, and how to coexist, but you can't learn how to care deeply and tenaciously. and I'm very, very lucky to have a family so full of love and humor, because among other things I've learned to live the same way. life sucks, you get through it, and the people you love get you through it together. :-)
- hair dye. it's a little thing that can totally re-jazz me when I need it. ditto trimming my hair, picking up new (or new-to-me) shoes or clothes on the cheap, and painting my nails. though I always peel off my nail polish before the day is out.
- boats. 'nuff said.
- ok, actually not enough said. booooooooats~ boats boats boats boats UNIFORMS. RIGGING. war boys and their various fuckedupitudes. WAR POETRY. PRETTINESS. also, buttsex. and a WHOLE LOT MORE, but I REALLY CAN'T ARTICULATE IT, because the love is really big. y'all who know what I'm talking about ... you know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
- synaesthesia. and other random literary prettythings, or whatever. it's all very shiny, but I've got to say that synaesthesia is definitely my bulletproof lit-kink.
- lastly, and most majorly, ALL OF YOU GUYS. FANDOM. THE INTERNETS. just ... yes. happy. from Pirates to Batman to Breakfast on Pluto to Numb3rs to Supernatural (though I'm not, you know, IN THAT FANDOM, per se, but the show makes me happy, and you people who led me to the show (i.e. got there first) make me happy, so), and everything I've tripped over in between, and all the people I've met and friends I've made. you're all wonderful, beyond what I can textually render. I love you all. and you make me way happy. ♥
and then meme the second, this thing I ganked off
egyptian_spider:
