What'd you say your name was? J.D. McDick?
So, sometimes life is okay for a while, and then a massive shit storm seems to settle on your shoulders, and then it looks like it's lifting, but it's not, but then it lifts a little more, and suddenly it's 9 days until your birthday and 16 days until the birthday party your crush is coming to and everything looks like Christmas and life is okay for a little while.
My massive shit storm included a dutch dating website charging over $250 from my bank account four different times, which was something more like $266 with the exchange rate, and which included me having no money, then negative no money, then negative $300, and then when it finally got all cleared up, the ATM card they'd given me to use was attached to my closed WaMu account that had $.42 in it, which meant I couldn't get to the $1200 I suddenly had in my account, which meant I was stuck in Mississippi with no money for a while. But then I got back and figured it out and now I can pay rent and eat, which is always nice.
Other things included in my shit storm: I might lose my job because I'm not working the holidays, even though I didn't work holidays last year and told them when I was hired I wouldn't work holidays. Also, my mom's having a shit storm of her own, and she talks to me like a friend and not just her child now, so that's been a tiny bit tough to deal with. I don't want to hear you're having money problems, you're Mom, you're just supposed to have endless amounts of money/information! (I know this is a childish way to think, and I don't really think like that, but it's been disconcerting to be treated as an adult instead of just a kid these days)
But! I don't want to talk about that. Instead, I'd like to talk about things making me really, really happy these days. Like!
1. Really, I can't believe how absolutely, consistently amazing FNL continues to be. This week included: Baby Matt Saracen and Baby Smash Williams starting to come into their own; COACH CALLING LANDRY "LANCE" WHEN HE ASKED HIM TO SAY A PRAYER FOR MATT AND HIS FAMILY, AND MY HEART SUBSEQUENTLY GROWING THREE SIZES/BREAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY; Zach Gilford earning his motherfucking Emmy nomination a billion times over; Saracen, Landry, and the Riggins brothers hanging out drunk; SARACEN GOING OVER TO THE TAYLORS' HOUSE DRUNK AND ERIC ONLY ASKING IF HE DROVE, MY HEART MY HEART; Julie's heart breaking for Saracen and my heart breaking for her; PEOPLE BEING DICKS TO THE MCCOYS IN THE AWESOMEST WAYS POSSIBLE: Matt slamming the door in their face at the wake and Luke calling him J.D. McDick, which I had to repeat to myself during the funeral scene so I could stop crying. WHEN MATT GOT THE SHOVEL AND JUST STARTED DIGGING, AND JULIE JUST STOOD THERE WATCHING HIM, I CALLED THE ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES AND BITCHED THEM OUT FOR NOT SENDING OUT EMMYS RIGHT THAT SECOND. Ugh, FNL, I love you so much, and I will even continue to watch after Matt leaves. Remember when Vince and Luke ignored Coach's coaching and pulled that great play that let them score touchdowns and then Coach yelled at them really loudly? THAT'S WHY I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Also, I want to be Tami Taylor almost as much as I want to be the character Sandra Bullock played in The Blind Side (which was fantastic, by the way, though I was born to hate Ole Miss and watching FNL gives me zero idea how to play football, I still want to be Leigh Ann however-you-spell-her-last-name like my life depends on it).
2. David Henrie wrote an episode of Wizards, and I am both immensely proud of him and also really, really want to be in that writers' room. And I am one step closer to that happening, I have CLASS in LA on an ACTUAL STUDIO LOT in four months, AND THEN I GRADUATE, whaaaaat? This is a crazy time in my life.
3. IT IS DECEMBER, and that means my birthday is UBER-SOON and then comes CHRISTMAS and this is my favorite time of year, for DAMN sure. ALSO the boy I have a crush on is coming to my birthday party, which means I will dress up super-cute and have a fantastic time no matter what happens, as long as he shows and is not a huge douche. AND it's time for Christmas songs, and I really should download more because I have so few. QUESTION: What is everyone's favorite traditional/non-traditional "'tis the season" song? Mine are "O Holy Night" and "River", respectively. And the only version of "O Holy Night" I have is Jessica Simpson, which I refuse to listen to, and I don't even have Joni Mitchell's version of "River," which is a GODDAMN TRAVESTY.
4. A few nights ago I caught The Empire Strikes Back on TV at midnight and it was the greatest thing that's ever happened to me (that day). I don't think I've seen it since 1997 or so, back when that whole re-issue hoopla was going down, and it was actually the first Star Wars movie I ever saw, and I saw it in the theater with my dad and Uncle Carl and had a great time and probably didn't appreciate the Han/Leia storyline quite as much as I did this time around. HAN SOLO IS A SEXY MOTHERFUCKER, Y/Y?
5. I was the cool older cousin at Thanksgiving this year, even though I listened to Disney stars in my car. I basically spent the weekend surrounded by my 11 year old sister, 14 year old cousin Katy and 10 year old cousin Margaret. They giggled constantly, I felt pretty awesome.
6. I was really, really dubious about this whole "Nick Jonas going solo" thing, because he is my least favorite singer out of the three (guys, Kevin singing in "Scandinavia" will never not be my favorite) but then I heard the 30-second preview of "Who I Am" and was blown away by how different it was/how much I liked it, and now I've listened to the whole song 12 times in the last hour and he was AMAZING at the Grammy concert thing, and I'm probably gonna buy the CD when it comes out, I really love it.
I am off to watch this week's Glee and probably download a lot of Christmas songs. Later, dudes!
My massive shit storm included a dutch dating website charging over $250 from my bank account four different times, which was something more like $266 with the exchange rate, and which included me having no money, then negative no money, then negative $300, and then when it finally got all cleared up, the ATM card they'd given me to use was attached to my closed WaMu account that had $.42 in it, which meant I couldn't get to the $1200 I suddenly had in my account, which meant I was stuck in Mississippi with no money for a while. But then I got back and figured it out and now I can pay rent and eat, which is always nice.
Other things included in my shit storm: I might lose my job because I'm not working the holidays, even though I didn't work holidays last year and told them when I was hired I wouldn't work holidays. Also, my mom's having a shit storm of her own, and she talks to me like a friend and not just her child now, so that's been a tiny bit tough to deal with. I don't want to hear you're having money problems, you're Mom, you're just supposed to have endless amounts of money/information! (I know this is a childish way to think, and I don't really think like that, but it's been disconcerting to be treated as an adult instead of just a kid these days)
But! I don't want to talk about that. Instead, I'd like to talk about things making me really, really happy these days. Like!
1. Really, I can't believe how absolutely, consistently amazing FNL continues to be. This week included: Baby Matt Saracen and Baby Smash Williams starting to come into their own; COACH CALLING LANDRY "LANCE" WHEN HE ASKED HIM TO SAY A PRAYER FOR MATT AND HIS FAMILY, AND MY HEART SUBSEQUENTLY GROWING THREE SIZES/BREAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY; Zach Gilford earning his motherfucking Emmy nomination a billion times over; Saracen, Landry, and the Riggins brothers hanging out drunk; SARACEN GOING OVER TO THE TAYLORS' HOUSE DRUNK AND ERIC ONLY ASKING IF HE DROVE, MY HEART MY HEART; Julie's heart breaking for Saracen and my heart breaking for her; PEOPLE BEING DICKS TO THE MCCOYS IN THE AWESOMEST WAYS POSSIBLE: Matt slamming the door in their face at the wake and Luke calling him J.D. McDick, which I had to repeat to myself during the funeral scene so I could stop crying. WHEN MATT GOT THE SHOVEL AND JUST STARTED DIGGING, AND JULIE JUST STOOD THERE WATCHING HIM, I CALLED THE ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES AND BITCHED THEM OUT FOR NOT SENDING OUT EMMYS RIGHT THAT SECOND. Ugh, FNL, I love you so much, and I will even continue to watch after Matt leaves. Remember when Vince and Luke ignored Coach's coaching and pulled that great play that let them score touchdowns and then Coach yelled at them really loudly? THAT'S WHY I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Also, I want to be Tami Taylor almost as much as I want to be the character Sandra Bullock played in The Blind Side (which was fantastic, by the way, though I was born to hate Ole Miss and watching FNL gives me zero idea how to play football, I still want to be Leigh Ann however-you-spell-her-last-name like my life depends on it).
2. David Henrie wrote an episode of Wizards, and I am both immensely proud of him and also really, really want to be in that writers' room. And I am one step closer to that happening, I have CLASS in LA on an ACTUAL STUDIO LOT in four months, AND THEN I GRADUATE, whaaaaat? This is a crazy time in my life.
3. IT IS DECEMBER, and that means my birthday is UBER-SOON and then comes CHRISTMAS and this is my favorite time of year, for DAMN sure. ALSO the boy I have a crush on is coming to my birthday party, which means I will dress up super-cute and have a fantastic time no matter what happens, as long as he shows and is not a huge douche. AND it's time for Christmas songs, and I really should download more because I have so few. QUESTION: What is everyone's favorite traditional/non-traditional "'tis the season" song? Mine are "O Holy Night" and "River", respectively. And the only version of "O Holy Night" I have is Jessica Simpson, which I refuse to listen to, and I don't even have Joni Mitchell's version of "River," which is a GODDAMN TRAVESTY.
4. A few nights ago I caught The Empire Strikes Back on TV at midnight and it was the greatest thing that's ever happened to me (that day). I don't think I've seen it since 1997 or so, back when that whole re-issue hoopla was going down, and it was actually the first Star Wars movie I ever saw, and I saw it in the theater with my dad and Uncle Carl and had a great time and probably didn't appreciate the Han/Leia storyline quite as much as I did this time around. HAN SOLO IS A SEXY MOTHERFUCKER, Y/Y?
5. I was the cool older cousin at Thanksgiving this year, even though I listened to Disney stars in my car. I basically spent the weekend surrounded by my 11 year old sister, 14 year old cousin Katy and 10 year old cousin Margaret. They giggled constantly, I felt pretty awesome.
6. I was really, really dubious about this whole "Nick Jonas going solo" thing, because he is my least favorite singer out of the three (guys, Kevin singing in "Scandinavia" will never not be my favorite) but then I heard the 30-second preview of "Who I Am" and was blown away by how different it was/how much I liked it, and now I've listened to the whole song 12 times in the last hour and he was AMAZING at the Grammy concert thing, and I'm probably gonna buy the CD when it comes out, I really love it.
I am off to watch this week's Glee and probably download a lot of Christmas songs. Later, dudes!