Whenever I'm sad, I stop being sad and start being awesome instead.

[chibirhm]

TRUE STORY.

So, life has been a bit of a downer lately, which I am not cool with. Being miserable blows big old chunks of... chunkiness. Therefore, I feel I should share some stuff that makes me happy. Is there ever a BAD reason to feel happy? Even if you're already happy? I THINK NOT.

Awesome Shit On Youtube!
Once upon a time, I was actually kind of a cool person. I listened to bands no one else had heard of and I was indier than thou and everyone wanted me to make them mix CDs. And now.... idk. My indie craziness has died a little. I sort of listen to mainstream indie stuff, when I listen to music at all. More often I like to have a TV show on in the background. But the point is, I would like to remind you all that at one point, I did not used to listen to exclusively to Top 40 bullshittery. And Florence + the Machine - I go on kicks of listening to her and reveling in her genius. But I think she's popular enough now I don't count as a special snowflake. THE POINT IS, if my jaded, snobby highschool indie music self saw my new favorite song, I would probably shoot myself in the face. BUT GUYS, THIS IS LIKE MY NEW FAVORITE SONG EVERRRRRRRR:

Oh my god, I hate myself a little. This song is SO SLICK I can't even deal. It's so vague that every teenager in America is going to think it applies to them. I can HEAR the marketability in it. It's calculated and ridiculous and what the fuck ever, I've listened to this song like forty times today and I can't even feel ashamed through all the love in my heart.

Also, like, MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, I want a Bradley/Colin fanvid set to this. This was like, my first thought upon hearing it, along with what clips would go where. If I had any ability to create fanvids, I would do it myself. I don't care that the pronouns are wrong. I don't care that this applies to EVERY COUPLE EVER. I need this in my life. My birthday is December 17. GET ON THIS, PEOPLE.

This is like, my shameful Teenage Dream obsession 2.0. Speaking of which, the guy that made my favorite Party in the USA cover ever made mashup of Just The Way You Are and Teenage Dream. YOUTUBE YOU ARE THE BEST TO ME. EVER.

(Sidebar, the guy who does these covers would be super duper cute if he made fewer hammy faces. But he's still pretty cute.)

Also, on the subject of amazing fanvids, can someone please direct me to whoever was the genius behind THIS:

THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THIS THAT IS NOT AMAZING AND PERFECT. THE SONG CHOICE! THE EDITING! MARSHALL AND LILY WANT TO FILL THE WORLD WITH SILLY LOVE SONGS! ASLKFJSLDKJF BARNEY'S BESOTTED LOOKS I WILL NEVER TIRE OF WHEN BARNEY HAS HEARTS IN HIS EYES FOR ROBIN. omg I know you guys think I have an allergy to heterosexual shipping but I SO DO NOT. (I just talk about them less because they actually happen.) BROTP FOR LIIIIIIIIFE. God I love them together. If the wedding they showed us at the beginning of the season on HIMYM isn't them, I'm gonna be mad. Actually, I'll live with it. I JUST WANT THOSE CRAZY KIDS TO WORK OUT, OKAY? THE WEDDING IS GIVING ME HOPES AND DREAMS THAT WILL INEVITABLY BE SMASHED INTO LITTLE PIECES WHILST CARTER AND BAYS LAUGH AT MY WEEPING REMAINS.

Using LJ Tokens!
So a while ago some super-kind anonymous soul gave me LJ tokens and every so often I'd look up and go "huh, I should use those to get more userpics" but every time I'd try they wouldn't let me use the tokens to pay, which was really irritating to me. But finally, finally, I got it to work. Now I just have to... find icons to fill up the spaces with. So! THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN. I am searching for good places to find icons, so please link me to your favorite communities. (I'm picky, but if you look at my current icons that should give you an idea of what I like.) I am searching for icons of the following:

30 Rock
How I Met Your Mother
Merlin (NEVER NOT LOOKING FOR MERLIN/MERLIN CAST ICONS. EVER.)
Community
Glee
Bones
Cougar Town?
Modern Family?
***JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT*** (I have had a constant crush on this guy since 10 Things I Hate About You. We took a brief break while he was doing all that indie stuff and had unfortunately long hair and 500 Days of Summer brought him back in my wheelhouse of DUDES I AM ALLOWED TO BONE AND NO MAN ALIVE CAN BLAME ME, EVEN IF WE ARE MARRIED WITH FIVE CHILDREN. Inception elevated him from that to HIS PLACE ON THE LIST IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE CLEARLY WE NEED TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED AS OF YESTERDAY SO I CAN MAKE OUT WITH HIM WHENEVER I WANT. AND DO OTHER STUFF.

But seriously, I promise this isn't like a trendy thing because everyone else likes him now I'm asserting my prior claim. He is, much like Topher Grace, a man I shall carry in my heart forever. Only Topher Grace I want to carry more in my heart and JGL I want to carry more in my pants. And my heart. And all over. Oh my god. HE'S SO STUPIDLY AMAZING AND ATTRACTIVE.)

New T-Shirts!


Soooo, I don't make a lot of money at my job. My income is entirely dependent on if we get an ad package or not, and my rate depends on how big the package is. (If you got through that sentence without giggling, congrats, you are far more mature than I.) We started being big enough to actually make money and get paid in March, and since then I've made a grand total of around $85. Which is fine, because at this point in my life I'm actually saving my parents money by deciding to go to part-time courses and living at home. (We did the math. Or rather, I did the math in a fit of self-loathing at my own privilege and worry over potential student loans. I am saving so much money it's nauseating.) For this reason, my "income" gets to go to the Whatever The Fuck Julia Wants fund. Here's the problem - I am REALLY THRIFTY. Like to the point of neurotic crazypants-ness. I will choose to skip meals or get less than what I want because I'm not reeeeeeally that hungry and there are starving children in Africa. I fret over money CONSTANTLY. I have tons of money in my bank account accrued from birthdays that I was supposed to spend on myself and never did because spending money makes me go a little crazy. I yell at the T machines in my head because why is it so much to get a ticket to go ten stops! It's like I'm my grandparents, only I have no excuse of living through the Great Depression.

The point is, I hadn't spent a penny of that money until Threadless had a sale and I said to myself "Self, it's time you got those t-shirts you've been ogling for over a year." So these are my new shirts! If I remember, I'll take pictures of myself in them when they arrive, but I ordered them a week ago and so far I've only got the Chinchillin' one (which I am wearing right now! It's adorable). Threadless sent me an e-mail yesterday saying they shipped my Boy in the Weeds shirt, but they take a while after sales because they get so slammed with orders. The one that's going to take a really long time is my Marxist Feminist one, which I am so looking forward to wearing in public I can't even tell you. In fact, I hope I get a chance to wear it to vote. I may just sit at the polling station (it's in the cafeteria of my old elementary school, which I live next door to) proudly displaying it to my uber-conservative neighbors. Actually, I won't, because I still want to be allowed to visit their dogs.

CONCLUSION: T-SHIRTS! (And I still have $21 left to eventually go to 30 Rock DVDS!)

Fake Shopping Sprees!

Or as this should be alternately titled: MODCLOTH IS A DANGEROUS PLACE THAT LEADS TO DANGEROUS HAPPENINGS.

See, I love Modcloth. They have a lot of crazy shit, but they also have a lot of amazing shit, and usually that shit falls in the category of "shit I don't need". Let us take, for example, the two dresses I am currently dehydrating myself drooling over:



J'ADORE EVERYTHING THESE CHOOSE TO BE. But boy, do I not need them. The Meyer Lemon Dress especially, even though it's the most darling thing ever and I want to put on my string of pearls that I got for Graduation but can never figure out how to wear without looking like a Stepford Housewife, my low heels, my white cardigan, and rock the fuck out of it Michelle Obama style. Well, as much as a vertically challenged redhead can hope to imitate her, anyway. I really could justify the Checks Mix Dress. I've wanted a shirtdress forever and this one is gorgeous, plus it's 100% cotton (I'm a fabric snob. If it ain't natural, I ain't wearing it) and quite inexpensive. The reviews say it runs short, but my legs are, to put it kindly, stumpy, so that's not exactly a problem. My concern, though, is that it has a definite flare out, and I'm distinctly pear-shaped. I don't want to look more bottom-heavy than I am. HMMMMM. These are the tough, existential crises Modcloth forces me to face, you guys.



Everyone has a sartorial thing, no matter how much they hate fashion/shopping/clothes. For my dad, the man who only orders things from L.L. Beans every twenty years when his last whatever wears out, it's t-shirts. For me, it's coats. This is not even close to all the coats I'm in love with on Modcloth. God, I would say I could go on forever about coats, but it's not "going on" so much as going "oh my god LOOK HOW PRETTY". Look at the pure gorgeousness of the Saucy Saffron Coat. Look at that gorgeous golden color, holy shit. And it's a pea coat. My ultimate weakness of all types of coat. I'm also extremely fond of military-inspired coats like the Revel Without a Cause Coat. Which is MADE OUT OF SWEATSHIRT MATERIAL. Let's repeat that. Holy shit, it's made out of sweatshirt material. And the Coat of Gibraltar, in addition to being an absolute gorgeous camel color (do you know how rare it is to find things in nice shades of brown?) looks sinfully comfy. Like, a super-fashionable bathrobe you could just sink into forever.

(Also a fan of though not pictured! The Hawk Ridge Coat, The Spiced Wine Coat, The Documentary Star Jacket, The First Brass Coat, and the Forest for the Trees Jacket. I LOVE COATS SO MUCH.)


Another thing I'm a fan of? Scarves! I LOVE SCARVES LIKE THE PRETENTIOUS LITTLE DOUCHE I AM. And omg, this one's so gorgeous between the color and the design that's been influenced by all sorts of Asian art (my favorite continent for art!) and omg, did I mention the colors. I need another scarf to wear around my neck to catch the drool that is resulting from looking at this scarf.


I don't have pierced ears. It's something I've been meaning to do forever but just keep not getting around to. But these earrings make me want to buy them anyway even though I really, really have no use for them. Look at the little Garden Friends set! SO KITSCHY-ADORABLE. Also, I have this childhood thing for gnomes that would take a long time to explain but seriously, gnomes and me are tight. And then there are the Waxing Crescent Earrings, which I've had a crush on for years. They're like, Japanese textile design (one of my favorite things ever) meets Steampunk (another one of my favorite things ever). SO AWESOME. Though I do worry they'd be too big for me if I ever got them in reality. WHATEVER. THIS IS WHAT A FAKE SHOPPING SPREE IS FOR.


SHOES FOR cherrybina! (Doubly for Bina, these are from Miz Mooz, which is her favorite shoe designer. I KNOW THINGS.) I'm actually legit sad I never noticed these shoes earlier, I might have sucked it up and gotten them, they're so adorable. Though the price does worry me, considering I have no reason to wear them, and I'd have been utterly torn over if I wanted them in this blue or the green I found they also come in. Tough decisions over shoes that no longer are sold in my size! But omg seriously, guys. I don't even give a crap about shoes and I think these are fucking adorable.


Let us take a brief break from Modcloth to discuss underwear. More specifically, Aerie underwear. See, I am an underwear snob. If it ain't 100% cotton, I won't wear it. I think I had one pair that wasn't once, and it was awful. But I LOOOOOOOVE the cute little boy briefs in all the fun patterns, and I just wish they were made in those same fun patterns in cotton. Alas. Alack. But at Aerie, they are! As if Aerie didn't already massively endear itself to me by carrying 32Cs IN STORE. (I'll weep about my impossible bra problems later. The point is, I have a super-rare bra size.) Not in every color, true, but in every style, so you can at least try on the bra before you buy it. Because oh my god, I hate it when salespeople say "you know your size, you can order it online!" NO. NO. BRAS ARE NOT THINGS TO EVER BE ORDERED ONLINE. Bras are like pants. You HAVE to try them on because size MEANS NOTHING, and size doesn't tell you if there will be bunching or rubbing in unfortunate places. (Or if the pants will fit over your ass without gapping massively at the waist. Another clothing rant for another day.)

THE POINT IS, I love Aerie underwear and would buy it all the time, but my mom thinks of it as my "expensive underwear addiction" since she believes all underwear should be bought in twelve-packs at Costco. WHATEVER, MOM. You can't buy something half as adorable as these striped boyshorts, which I want so badly. If I wore them I would feel like I was some 1920's dame at the beach, I swear. HOW ADORABLE. THEY EVEN HAVE A LITTLE BOW. And I adore the pattern on the Asterisk Boybrief, which you can see better at the site. It's this utterly adorable, delicate little floral pattern, and I loooooove how pale blue and red look together, and seriously, I LOVE THIS UNDERWEAR.

Dear future boyfriends/husband, good luck getting me to wear lingerie. Ever. I am in love with my cotton undergarments. Be grateful if they match. Love, Me.


BUT BACK TO MODCLOTH. Modcloth is also dangerous in that it has stuff that I want to fill up my apartment with. PROBLEM: I DO NOT HAVE AN APARTMENT. Or any space at all, really. But look! Look at those amazing coasters! And that LAMP. I LOVE LAMP. I want to MARRY that lamp. That lamp and I are going to make sweet, sweet love to each other.


These bento boxes might actually break me. I might HAVE to get them. Not only are the colors, like, my favorite ever, but POLAR BEARS. LOOK AT THE WEE POLAR BEARS. (And owl, and rabbit, and everything else that is good and adorable in this world.)


Okay, I know those look like nesting dolls but you know what they actually are? Measuring cups! HOW ADORABLE IS THAT. Answer: nearly as adorable as these little Truffle Shuffle Shakers. Oh my god. CUTE THINGS I LOVE.


Oh, cups. They are like... my coats of random shit. I love them. I can never have enough of them. These are The Lady Panda Mug, The Cup O' Cherry Blossom Mug, and The Cup O' Joy Mug. Which is stupid, because I never drink hot drinks so why would I need mugs? This is why it's an imaginary shopping spree, people.


Though really, my imaginary kitchen would be filled with stuff from my favorite Etsy shop, Designs By Takemoto. This is more on the cute end of her spectrum, but how adorable is this set of teacups? SO ADORABLE.


And this is the gorgeous end of her stuff. It's very vintage-y meets Japanese design. The only problem is that they're so gorgeous I'd feel bad eating off them.

Phew. That took... twelve hours longer than expected. Imaginary shopping sprees are tiring, y'all.

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