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I want to give a SINCERE thank you for all those that gave me some love on the love meme. Life's been...interesting to say the least, and your kind words bolstered me up. I tried to leave heartfelt words for you guys too, so I hope you benefited from them as well.

YOU are amazing and I adore you to bits and pieces!

1. Thanks go out to fiercelynormal for making me this WICKED icon.

2. I am making a New Year's Resolution that hopefully goes better than last times haha. It's called Don't Break a Chain where you commit to doing something EVERY DAY. I want to read more books, exercise, and pray more. Let's hope I can! I challenge you to do something too :)

Happy New Year everyone!! I hope all your holidays have been going great. I've been busy like crazy because my cousins are in town and they're leaving tomorrow :( I'm going to miss them and it's back to the real world again on Monday. Damn.

Anyway, I just wanted to thank a few people for the yummy way my profile looks :) Thanks go out to enchanted_jae, raloria, cleflink, riyku, sin_of_pride, ashleylive, dephigravity, cherry916, heard_the_owl, the_rant_girl, and Anonymous! I appreciate it so much.

In other news, how glorious were the new (old) pics of Jensen from that Michael Muller photoshoot (the gorgeous ones of him underwater and in a shower haha). And of course the adorable Danneel and Jensen shot she posted. I love the dinosaur in the back!

Quick rec! Sunshine by Vongue. God, her art is always fantastic. This is Jared and his lovely hair :D

Alright, time to catch up with my comments and maybe the flist haha. I've missed y'all ♥

Guys, I had the BEST birthday this year. My favorite one to date I bet. It was on Friday and so first I want to thank y'all! I got fic, shout outs, messages, texts, vgifts, tweets, e-mails, the works!

Thanks to enchanted_jae for stepping out of her comfort zone and writing me J2 fic with scruff! Go read Morning Scruff!

Thanks to locknkey, dephigravity, memoonster, heartsonwings, ordinaryink, wendy, deirdre_c, maerhys, and dolnmoon for the beautiful v-gifts adorning my profile page.

I'm slowly getting through my inbox, but a big thank you!

Work was AMAZING. Usually for people's birthday, we'd get cake and stuff, but this time? There was a surprise potluck for me! Every staff member brought food and they all signed this card for me and chipped in for 2 gift cards. A friend who wasn't working that day drove an HOUR to come see me, gave me my favorite cake, and had to drive an hour back home. I was constantly loved on and was almost brought to tears. My students were super nice to me, and a couple of the other ones were so sweet - they said I looked so pretty and thought I was going to a wedding!

Just throughout the day, constant bombardment of love.

I came home and my sister brought me more red velvet cake, and then she gave me a suit she had made for me. It's cheetah and zebra and is this beautiful teal with hot pink. TOTAL LOVE.

THEN, my entire family surrounded me as I cut our family birthday cake.

All in all? Pretty fabulous :D

So thank you to all of you that helped my day be AWESOME. Usually I like birthdays, but we never do much. This time around, I just felt constant love and this was totally my favorite one to date!

- Thanks so much for all the stuff in my last post. Going through it now, and it's a BLAST.

- The v-neck shirts story with that picture of Jensen, Jared, and Sebastian. Oh boys ;)

- A Vid on why the SPN cast/crew is the best ever (uh character spoiler for 7.11 maybe?)

- I'm seriously enjoying this season :D I liked tonight's episode as well, especially texting matalinolukaret through it!

- Didn't sign up for mini-nano this year due to lack of time, but I'm going to see if I can crank out SOMETHING this month. I miss writing, dude.

- Thanks again, guys. I ♥ you so!

+ Back is KILLING ME. It's been hurting on and off for like a month now. :(

+ And I'm still sick. It's been almost a week! Plus side? elless18 wrote me H/C fic: TLC
AU. Jensen has the flu. Part of her college!AU I convinced her to write. Love it <3

+ I am nowhere near caught up so of COURSE there's a convention this weekend. I was skimming the flist earlir this morning from like Monday so if I missed something, let me know please!

+ I got an awesome present from dev_earl this week. Thanks so much, Dev! I received this beautiful purple cloth (is there a certain thing I'm supposed to do? Sis in law is going to turn it into a top for me, if that's cool?) and a hand-written J2 fic :D Be jealous, you know you are ;)

+ Are there any icons from the sexy promos? Jensen's come hither face and Jared's stance have me all aflutter haha

I think that's all? How is everything going with you all?

So it was my birthday yesterday and I got tons of awesome stuff from you guys.

♥ Thank you for all the birthday posts, e-mails, messages, and tweets. I hope I've replied to all of you! I appreciate it so much y'all!

♥ Thank you to the_milky_way for the awesome fic your laughter is my life that has boys baby sitting and lots of schmoop!

♥ Thank you to dugindeep for the wonderful fic It's a Dog Eat Jared World with Jared bringing a surprise puppy home and trying to convince Jensen to keep it. 2 sets of puppy eyes is too much to handle ;)

♥ Thank you dolnmoon, __tiana__, ina_ami, deirdre_c, maerhys, giantlovetingle, wendy, and sugareey for the v-gifts decorating my profiles along with the corresponding messages!

♥ Thank you changethemusic for the awesome post with your expression and the IPad. I grinned HUGE lemme tell you.

Thank you ALL. You made me feel so loved, I can't even express! (And because I was in a schmoopy mood, I wrote self indulgent proposal fic :D)

** Thank you deirdre_c for the pink hearts v-gift! <3

** Speaking of, today is V-Gift Day at fab_feb_friends!

** ION, I have some stuff to sell. If you are interested in purchasing the SPN novels Bone Key, Nevermore, or Witch's Canyon, let me know. I also have the first 4 Rising Son graphic magazines and Issue #4 of Supernatural Magazine. We can discuss prices in the comments, but I'm willing to sell cheap. I need a little $ and have to get rid of this! Thanks <3

♥ Thank you elless18, crystalchain, _mournthewicked, and matalinolukaret for the disappearing cookies!

♥ Speaking of Rona...I was subbing on Friday for a HS teacher and I saw SPN season 1 box set on his desk. I texted Rona all excited and then told her I was bored. She e-mailed back with: JENSEN SUBS JARED'S CLASS, FINDS AN OLD MOVIE THEY BOTH SEEM TO ADORE, AND LEAVES A NOTE COMPLIMENTING JARED. CUE JARED BEING FLATTERED AND CURIOUS AS TO WHO THIS SUB IS, SO HE SNEAKS AROUND AND TRIES TO FIND JENSEN WHEN JENSEN SUBS AGAIN IN THE SCHOOL.

I told her to write this and she did via e-mail (teasing me slowly). I told her to post and she DID!. It's ridiculously adorable (plus features a flyaway mention of my newest crush) and poke her to write more okay? :D

♥ It's gonna be 30 degrees tonight, the coldest it's been so far. This has been a pretty warm winter for Texas (It was 75 yesterday. Not even kidding.)

♥ I'm SO BEHIND on flist, it's not even funny. If you posted something since Thursday you'd like me to see, comment here with links/whatever please! (though, not the Jensen on MTV thing. EFF HIM AND HIS HOTNESS. Where are the caps/icons? NEED THEM STAT. Have no clue what I'm talking about? ( under the cut )
Spoiler's for Friday's episode. AND OH GOD HELLATUS IS GOING TO SUCK.)

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# ♥love meme♥ hosted at Flesh's journal. Go leave some love!!!

# Thank you for my v-gift __tiana__! And the message ♥

# My aunt passed away early this morning. She'd been sick for a while (a cancer starting in her ear I believe) and was non-responsive the past few days. It's tough, but it was expected because the doctors said they couldn't do anything. Doesn't make it any easier. This is the third of my mom's siblings in 3-4 years. I'm not liking this statistic. I LOVE her side of the family and it seems to be dwindling away :( I'm just glad Mom saw her when she went to visit this year. I saw her last year, but we didn't really get a chance to talk since my Uncle had passed away at the time and we were only there for a bit. But yea, it's tough right now and so that love meme above? Cheered me up immensely. I feel like it came at a perfect time for many. So thanks Flesh and everyone else. You made my cry happy tears, thank you ♥♥♥