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Numero uno: Icon. I love this icon. I used a texture and while it's darker than I'd like, hai sexy Jared :D He looks like a model, no joke.

Numero dos:



{Take the 100 Things challenge!}

I'm totally going to steal bertee's idea for this. I'm going to do 100 Recs! I have recently been re-reading or listening to some favorites of mine and thought I'd share. This challenge is the perfect way to do that. And I hope it'll make me get online more. I've lost touch with so many people lately, and I MISS you dammit! These aren't in any particular order, just what pops into my mind :) Today, we'll start with a fic I think I've read a hundred times or more!

No Sleep Till Bedtime by veronamay
I saw this interview from the Paley Festival. The boys looked really tired, and Jensen mentioned they'd only had three hours' sleep. My head went ka-boom, and the only thing left in the wreckage was, "sleepyboysficomg". And here we are.
My head went ka-boom when reading this! She writes BRILLIANTLY. V is one of my favorite authors and one of the first ones I read when joining fandom. There's her style of writing that is witty and engaging and scorching all at once. This particular one had adorable and cute thrown in there as well. It is definitely my top 5 fics to read ANY day. Seriously, I could read this everyday and not get tired!

Numero tres: My birthday is in 5 days :D It's on a Friday and we get Monday off so 3-day birthday weekend ftw \0/ ahahha

Numero quatro: Who is watching Scandal!? I was HOOKED. SO GOOD. I love the lead actress, her whole team really. They're brilliant. I can't believe there were only like 7 episodes for this season and thank goodness it's been renewed!

Numero cinco: Now to go grade tons of stuff. Last week of grades woo hoo!

( Supernatural 7.16 )

Also, hi new default *pets* :)

1. ICON. I loaded some new ones, and I just adore this particular one SO MUCH.
2. Lesson plans. They suck. My boss made a new rule they had to be done by Friday so she could review them over the weekend. DNW. I was so used to doing them on Sundays. So now I'm up late on Thursday nights. *SIGHS*
3. Family. That's a whole different issue and entry. But for now? *tugs hair*
4. LAYOUT! Come look! enablelove enablelove enablelove I saw the header impala_tea made and I fell in LOVE. So yeah, new layout for a little while at least :) It makes me happy with how clean it is. Even if I do miss my sidebar and links haha
5. This little tidbit posted by missyjack from the latest SFX magazine!

Padalecki says he and Ackles have their own brotherly bond after seven years as co-leads navigating such a complicated and demanding show. "It's great,"he smiles genuinely, "We joke with each other all the time because I see him more than I see my wife, my mother, and father and brother and sister and my dogs. I have probably seen his face more than any other face over the last seven years and vice versa. We have the relationship where we've gone at it with each other and then been totally cool. I know him so well that he can communicate to me as a friend. "

*heartclench* I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

1. Read subject
2. Stare at icon and salivate a little ;)
3. Got my hair cut and highlighted today. Did highlights for the first time and I'm pretty pleased. I LOVE the first day of getting a haircut where it's all styled and straight and perfect. As I told neros_violin on Twitter, I wish I had my own stylist living with me to do it for me all the time!
4. Just got spoiled for SPN. Great. *stares at icon a little more*
5. We still have NO CLUE about what is being included with Supernatural DVD's huh? They're out in a WEEK and no word?!
6. My matalinolukaret got me an AWESOME to go mug that has a zebra design on it. She loves me. Y'all should be jealous of my awesome friendship with her ;)
7. I hear salt_burn_porn is coming back? EXCELLENT.
8. I want my muse to come back so I can write the wonderful poor_choices fic who bought me for the Somalia Relief

+ Thank you akintay, dolnmoon, and matalinolukaret for my tin hats <3 It's like LJ knows ;)

+ I HAVE INTERNET! *dances around* The thing is that I'm behind by like 4 days on Twitter, tumblr, and my flist. So if I've missed something dire, PLEASE fill me in. I'm probably not going to go and check because it'd probably kill me. Hope you guys are fine <3

1. Thank you matalinolukaret, _mournthewicked, and the_milky_way for my almost Impala v-gifts <3

2. Continuing the rewatch of season one of Supernatural. Some tidbits:
-The bugs episode still freaks me out (I'm not a fan of bugs at all)
-I love and miss Missouri and wish she'd come back haha, she might be one of my favorite people ever! The scene with the plumber losing his hand in Home is still one of the grossest things.
-Asylum is still creepy as anything
-In Faith, Dean still looks ridiculously gorgeous as he's on the verge of dying. I loved Layla too! She's so pretty and adorable and real <3
-I love that Dean fell in love once in Route 666 and can't believe there's an episode about a racist truck haha. The scene with him and Cassie reaquainting themselves with each other is still hot as hell. I love that even though Dean's kind of the 'wham bam, thank you ma'am' type, he's a passionate lover, not gonna lie.
-I miss the Sam and Dean being BROTHERS. Them annoying each other and getting on each other's nerves and just being family *sighs*
-I also miss Sam's bangs. SO CUTE.

3. My sister got married on Sunday, hence my temporary hiatus for a bit. Stuff was crazy around the house and this wasn't the traditional marriage we have either. Things were a bit...complicated. But she's with her husband and married and at her own place now, so I call that a success ;)

4. The Wedding Comment Fic Meme is still going! I'm going to attempt to write some stuff for it, and I've coded the fills already. GO PLAY!! :)

5. New default icon ♥

6. I have a tickle in my throat. I have a bad feeling I'm about to get sick :(

Today has been a not so awesome day *pouts pathetically*

Cons:
- Slept at 1:30 last night and woke up at 5:00 AM this morning.
- Had to drive an hour and a half at 5:45 AM
- As soon as I got here, unpacked my trunk and drove to the bus stop (7:30)
- Got on the bus to go to work for a full nine hour day
- I get to work and can't log into my account on the computer
- I go upstairs to the next floor for technology help and trip, banging my knee hard, and cutting up my thumb
- They say they'll let me know when my account will be fixed (8:15)
- I don't realize I'm bleeding till I see red all over my sandal, so I wash my shoe and put a band aid on, band aid rips, have to repeat
- My knee feels sore, my feet hurt, and I still can't log in (8:45)
- My boss gives me this HUGE stack of work to do
- It's 11:30 and still no access. I finally call them and they're like 'it works'. I'm a bit upset at them at this point.
- 12:00 I have to go get lunch for the boss (I walk there in the hot sun and it's busy as hell, my feet still hurt)
- I finally eat my first morsel of food all day when I get something to eat along with boss' lunch
- I'm told I need to run an errand and head to the library with aching feet
- I get to the library and something goes wrong where I can't even get what I'm supposed to, so I walk back to work
- I finally finish my stack and start to just relax when I bang the bruised knee against the desk

Then I was finally done and got to go HOOOOME (after walking all the way to the bus stop again and waiting for the bus)

I felt bad for Rona, because I kept whining at her through texts haha

Pros:
+ I saw 'Crush' today, and he looked as awesome as always haha. He's such a technological nerd, I love it. Think Chuck+Hardison. He's less adorable and funny and would be my best friend and someone I could fall for if I saw him outside of work
+ It's my girl crush's birthday.

...that's kind of it. So Thursday felt like a craptastic Monday. OH and I just realized I have to code the newsletter when all I wanna do is curl up in my bed and sleep for a year. But I have work again tomorrow. *sighs*

Flist, please cheer me up?

♥ ( 30 Day Meme )

Day 11: Favorite picture ever taken of yourself

( me and pictures don't really get along... )

( SPN 5X21 )

♥ Thank you aliens_dance for the lovely message. Thank you enchanted_jae for my awesome postcard! Thank you micolerose, tabularassa and billysgirl5 for the cookies and milk! (I tried to send them to a lot of ya'll, but stupid LJ caught on to my plan! I wish I could though <3)

♥ Did you read Misha's tweets during show? Oh he's a special one isn't he? haha

( 30 Day Meme )

Day 02: Something that inspires you
Everything. If we're talking fic wise, absolutely everything. No joke. haha.
If we're talking life wise? Ya'll and my family. The strength, courage, love, and bravery I see on a daily basis is astounding.
The kids I teach also inspire me. They're crazy as anything, but they're not afraid to BE.
My teachers have always inspired me to do better and just BE better.

I saw 'The Back Up Plan' today. ( spoilers? )

NEW OTH tonight! I've missed my Sophia and Austin fix ;) TEASER: our Big Bang has a heavy Sophia Bush influence!!! Speaking of, Cam wrote this awesome article on how to make it a better show! I agree completely with the 12 steps!

This icon cracks me up and makes me smile ridiculously!

If you haven't seen it yet, I made the threesome rec post HERE

Sorry about the spam, but I was checking my flist earlier and fatedcinderella posted this, and I realized that I hadn't really ever seen this before.

Jared and Jensen have seriously ruined me for life and for every other man out there. *sighs*