1. What room of the house is this in?
   
   
2. How did he manage to take the picture/who took it for him?
   
   
3. No glasses will ever top the red glasses, y/n?
   
   
4. LOL, his face.

mrsquizzical

I can't believe I've already been home for two weeks. But at the same time, it feels like I've been home for ages. Christmas went decently well. ( talk about presents and stuff )

In more successful news, I went to go see It's Complicated today and it was hilarious! Meryl Streep was fantastic, just like she always is, and Alec Baldwin was hilarious, just like he always is. They have incredible chemistry together. I went with my parents and didn't except to super love it, just because it seems like more of an 'old person movie', but I was laughing just as hard as they were. I'm awed by how Meryl Streep is able to convey SO MUCH just with tiny facial expressions. She's like- gah! *______*

Oh, also! I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall the other day, and actually quite enjoyed that, too. What super impressed me was that Jason Segel wrote it! WOW! And he wrote the songs for his Dracula music! And was clearly playing the piano. I thought it was funny and reasonably kind hearted (which is what I like in humour movies), and I especially liked that it didn't too much villainize the ex girlfriend. Russell Brand was SO FUNNY.

Also, also, on Boxing Day, I got a white bedskirt for my bed back at my place- great success! It will hide the mattress and all of the boxes underneath the mattress and that will be awesome. I also got a vegetable peeler and two of these spatulas that are curved so they're almost like a spoon. And bright orange! Love it! I'm like this incompetently domestic person, idk. I spent a while researching those organic produce delivery services (single people like me can get really small deliveries that only come every couple of weeks or every month) but I'm not sure if I can commit to that because there's probably too high a ratio of other vegetables:squashes.

Anyway, that's what's up with me. I hope that you had a good Sunday! I'm going to go see if the iKitty is still alive- wish me luck!

Okay, it is still alive, but I'm pretty sure just because some else fed it. Creepyyyyyyyy. I guess all the iPets are connected by the intertubes. O_o

Oh my god, I miss my real cat ;___;

What kind of freakishly cruel parents go for a REALLY LONG WALK on CHRISTMAS MORNING????



There are presents to be opened.

I've been a little holiday house elf the entire time I've been back at my parents house. At first it was making me cranky, but resistence is futile, so I've kind of just given in and am reasonably enjoying myself. Over a couple of days, I helped my mom make four trays of pergoies (which takes a million years but is pretty much one meal for my family). Two nights ago I made stir fry for dinner, and the tofu was the best. I don't know if it was a good brand or my awesomeness (I spent a long time wringing all the water out), but it turned out really well.

Last night, I had this manic energy (there have been some ...tensions around my house), so I went to the grocery store and then made pumpkin bread pudding, and then this morning for lunch I made winter panzanella (squash, brussel's sprouts, croutons, & onions in a vinaigrette). The bread pudding was okay because I put in even more spices than she called for (and apparently she put in more spices than the original recipe called for) and because pumpkin is always tasty. Bread pudding isn't necessarily my favorite, but it was easy to make. The squash and brussel's sprouts thing was so incredibly mothertrucking tasty, wow. My Dad grows herbs, so there was fresh thyme and sage from the garden, and then the crispy garlicy bread things, nom nom. It took a million years to make, though. (If you want to cook it for yourself-- the squash takes 45 minutes to cook, not 15. I don't know what kind of crazy oven she had that cooked it in 15 minutes. Squash never cooks in 15 minutes.)

Do you guys know of any other recipe blogs besides Smitten Kitchen? I like some of her recipes, but she posts a lot of recipes for cake, and wow would I ever not have time to make any of those. I pretty much just like cooking vegetables, and by vegetables I mean squashes, so really what I want it is a blog of squash recipes. Other vegetables, too, I guess. Whatevs. I also like chickpeas. (OMG, I also have a recipe for chickpea and squash salad. Greatest. Recipe. Ever. I'm going to try making that after Christmas.)

Yeah, so, I don't know. Being home is a little weird. I've been keeping myself busy. I think that anyone who actually knows me is going to be rolling around in horror at the suggestion of Laura In The Kitchen, but my parents disabled the smoke alarm, so it's all good. I set the parchment paper on fire a little bit, but it was easy to blow out. No worries.


In other news, remember when Spencer did that promo thing for the drum company? I watched that again this morning, and OMG.


It's like he has gumby arms-- no bones!

How excited am I for Panic's new CD? Really excited. I would like to share my hopes and dreams with you and these are them:

1. Shane has been filming Spencer and Brendon in the studio. We will get to see this video.
   
   
2. Spencer and Brendon do ~professional photoshoots~ to promote the album. MORE SWEATER VESTS PICTURES.
   
   
3. The music is good.

A few people on my flist have been doing the WIP amnesty, and their stories have been great fun to read, so I poked around through my googledocs to see if I had anything to share.

Sadly, unlike these people on my flist, my WIPs are not FULLY COMPLETELY and AMAZING STORIES, wtf, you guys. I don't know what I was thinking ("Oh, I wonder if there just happened to be some finished stories of mine lying around?" Like, NO, OBVIOUSLY NOT. If they were finished I would have posted them), but that was a great disappointment. No matter how long I leave the stories, no one sneaks into my googledocs and finishes them for me. Saddest discovery.

In terms of WIPs (of which I have at least 46), some include:

• 3500 words of what was my first attempt at my drawn_to story. It was an AU where Spencer moved to L.A. to go to college, but then Ryan was all busy with his other friends and school wasn't going well and Spencer was sad and then Brendon was going to heal him. The problem was that I was trying to write broken!Spencer in my way, and my way isn't actually hurt/comfort, and it didn't really look like it was going to be shaping up into something that sunsetmog would like.
  
  
• 725 words of Greta/Amanda fisting for kink_bingo. I pretty much just need to write some orgasms to be done, but I guess I've lost my kink_bingo momentum. I also started writing Nate/Blair/Chuck for double penetration, but I started it with them talking on the street and never managed to get them into the bedroom. Kink_bingo can be tricky business!
  
  
• A little less than 2000 words of divorce fic. It was going to be (just in my head; I didn't actually write this down) that Brendon saw Spencer having sex with a guy and then finally was attracted to Spencer. Because Spencer has always been with Haley, and so he was never a Possible Person that Brendon Could Have Sex With (you know how it is when people are in serious relationships and they're completely unavailable). But then Spencer was single and actually kind of hot. The thing was going to be that Brendon had a lot of experience with different people, but in a very wham bam thank you ma'm. Spencer had been having a whole lot of sex with one person and was Spencersmithinbedohmygod: gigantic hedonist. I still like the idea of that dynamic with the two of them, but I realized that I've totally written that story before, and while I do end up writing the same story over and over again, it's never consciously. When I think back over what I wanted the story to be like, it wasn't actually all that similar to the other one (Everything Else), but at the time I got all disgusted with myself and gave up.
  
  
• 700 words that are this: ( Brendon wakes up a... )
  
  
• I guess the only thing that would actually count for WIP amnesty would be this story, which was a drabble that was only ever supposed to be this long, but I never ended up posting it because canon very quickly jossed it (Panic never actually got together to make music). Anyway, here it is( : )