I climbed up your front porch and I doorbell ditched you and I felt so bad

[abrandnewsky]

 go find another lover
to bring a..
to string along
with all your lies
you're still very lovable
For Emma - Bon Iver

Well hello everyone. Happy Thursday!  I am in a ridiculously good mood today and I really have no idea why.. well, unless you count the amazing mixtape (okay, okay.. CD!) I made myself last night.  If you're interested in giving any of it a listen, here's the tracklist:

1. Lullaby (Mountain) - The Acorn
2. Go On, Say It - Blind Pilot
3. For Emma - Bon Iver
4. Northern Lights - Bowerbirds
5. Land Locked Blues - Bright Eyes
6. Hang Me Up to Dry - Cold War Kids
7. Run In the Front - Dear and the Headlights
8. Song for the Angels - Great Lake Swimmers
9. Flightless Bird - Iron & Wine
10. Dead End - The Format
11. Memphis & 53rd - Minus the Bear
12. The New Science - Ola Podria
13. Like Or Like Like - Miniature Tigers
14. Matches - The Format
15. I Still Care for You - Ray LaMontagne

I named it something snappy but I can't say what since I'm going to throw a copy of it in the mail for digame  tomorrow morning and I want her to see the name first. :)  Anyway, new good music puts me in a wonderful mood and this is my favorite mix that I've ever made in my whole entire life.  On to other things, this post is going to be a little heavy on the pictures.  A couple of you wanted to see pictures of the wreaths that I've been making so I'm going to post them and also post another reason why I might be in a good mood at work today, and I'll throw in a couple of recent pics of me for those of you who can't remember what my silly face looks like.  And for your convenience I have downloaded Semagic because I couldn't figure out how to make a damn LJ cut on the stupid rich text editor! So here you go..



this is the first wreath I ever made.. just tilt your head to the side.. I took the picture sideways and I'm too lazy to fix it at the moment.



here is one in the process of being made.. I made this one and the next one with an old hymnal because I thought the music would be pretty.. and I was right!



this is one that I made for Christmas for Jodie.. like I said, it's made from a hymnal and I can't decide if I like this paper rolling style better or the other one.. they both have their perks and drawbacks I suppose.



here's another reason to be happy at work.. I'm wearing sheep house shoes because my feet are cold.. and these things are adorable and happy-making.

the next ones are pics of what I look like these days. One out of three will most likely be my style of the day :)






Okay, back to words. I actually had more to say but I distracted myself with the whole picture thing and now I can't remember any of it. I can't believe that it is so close to Christmas and that I haven't finished shopping yet. I have to pick up the grandma today after work so there will be zero shopping time this evening unless I cart her along and sit her in the car while I run in places.. which isn't a horrible idea.. and she likes to get out of the house anyway, so we'll see.

I definitely do not want to come to work tomorrow. The boss is stressed and when these people get stressed it stresses ME out even when there isn't much for me to do around here. I think everyone needs to calm down and look at the baby Jesus or something.

Baby Jesus FTW.