1. MACHINES OF FAIL ARE FIXED. Here's hoping, anyway. I took the half-day off work and brought the car to two workshops - thank goodness the guy at the official Mazda dealership was nice enough to tell me that I could get a patching job done considerably cheaper elsewhere, and so I did that. For just over $50 as opposed to $450+! I kind of had to sit in the middle of a neighbourhood industrial estate and read a book for an hour and a half while I waited for said patching to be done, but well. Better that than having to go two entire working days without wheels AND pay nine times more for that dubious privilege, Y/Y?!

2. The tech guy also came and fixed my computer - hopefully - and diagnosed it as a RAM problem without my having to tell him that. I couldn't anyway, as I was having a late lunch outside when he turned up at my house without prior warning.

3. OH MY GOD, MY FAMILY OF FAIL. So I got home from the mechanic's at about 6.30pm and decided to take a nap, for once, just before family dinner. I crashed on my sister's bed as there's all manner of junk on mine, and woke up quite a bit later. I heard everyone's voices outside but figured that dinner hadn't started yet... WRONG. THEY ATE DINNER WITHOUT ME. They thought I wasn't at home and had gone out for a run or something, even though MY CAR WAS IN THE DRIVEWAY AND I WAS SLEEPING IN MY ROOM. They actually looked inside and everything (or so they claim) and NO ONE SAW ME. There was NO FOOD LEFT. I ended up eating, like, a peach and a ton of cashew nuts and drank tea for dinner. THANKS, GUYS, ILU TOO. My family is so awesome. :P

4. I am currently SO ADDICTED to the song Fancy, OMG. Thanks for that, Julia Murney. I have all five versions by you playing on a loop on my iTunes right now.

5. IDINA. lissie_pissie asked if I had Idina's album I Stand and whether I could upload it, and I was, like, OMG OF COURSE. And since I did, I'll share it again with y'all. This download contains ALL the acoustic songs that have come out with the various versions of the album that have been released, so bluebonnets, you might want to snag this to help in your burgeoning Idina/Wicked flail? XD

6. Speaking of Idina. And Julia. OMFG HEARTBREAKER. ASDJALDJALSDJASDASDA.



7. I finally posted the Next To Normal icons I've been making over the last couple of weeks. I figured if I didn't stop now, I never would. NO MORE. NO. MORE. (Yeah, right...)

8. I'm never leaving work again, fyi. I'd better go to bed now because the next few days are going to be very looooong ones indeed. *sadface*

1. 27.5 hours at work - how's that for scary? Except for one hour when I fell asleep on my bed just now after answering a text message (yes, I'm that tired, I guess), I've been awake for 34 33 hours straight. Duuuuuuuude.

2. That said, this is one of the times when I feel kind of glad for putting in the hours I did, and feeling proud of what we accomplished. So, you know, go me and my colleagues! It was insane but we did good. :)

3. And that being said, I'm completely broken. I'm sitting here feeling like - IDK, I just walked into a wall or something, because I'm achy and spazzy and feeling just... a bit nauseous and tired. When I was driving home just now, after random giggly dinner at Blooie's, I literally almost drove into a parked car because I drifted off to sleep. BAD, Y/Y? So yeah, obviously, bedtime - even though it's barely 11.30pm!

4. That means no flisting today, except to say, THANK YOU, lfae, ILU!!! *points at current music*

5. In the meantime, wanna cheer me up a little? :) Here's a meme snagged from lissie_pissie:
Smiles are good. Smiles can change a day around. Giving someone a reason to smile is a gift and then some.

Using anything you can, any way you can, through the power of the comment box, make me smile. Look at my interests, past entries, anything, pictures, fanfic, facts, links, drabbles or even just a cool word, anything to pass on a flash of a smile!

Post this in your own journal so I can pass on the favour :)

Work, fortunately, has gone a little quieter in the last few days - though not quiet enough to keep me away from the office tomorrow, after brunch with a friend. Sigh. But it did mean I allowed myself to get up at 3pm this afternoon (a trend on Saturdays, apparently), and went out to watch La Vie En Rose, which was much love - I want more Edith Piaf music than I can shake a stick at, so I'm heading HMV-wards tomorrow. :)

In the meantime! I was deciding between working on fic and flailing, and decided I'd better get cracking on the fandom meme started by lissie_pissie that I've been intending to do for the last two weeks. Sigh. RL's a bitch, what can I say. And in drawing up my list of fandoms, I realised I have far too many to do them all justice. So I'm narrowing this down to just TV and music fandoms - my celebrity, movie and book loves will have to wait 'til another post, I guess. If I ever get around to it!

For each person/show you've really fangirled, try to find whatever it is that made you fall in love with them. Made you see them differently than you had before... like a switch had been flicked somewhere. ;) If it's a video, see if youtube has it, if it was an amazing picture or quote, upload it and post it. Whatever it was - share it. Post your "catalysts" as I like to call them in a new post in your journal.

( there be madness ahead... )

THAT TOOK WAY LONGER THAN I THOUGHT, ZOMG. TWO HOURS, LOL. But man. It was so much fun to go through all my fandoms. Like I said, haven't even TOUCHED on the movie love. That might take me twenty years...

Come flail with me? Y/Y?