romancing my way into your soul

Shall I talk about my birthday? Well, it was fabulous. I had lunch with a friend, went to a book fair in the afternoon with a different friend (and bought eight books for $3.75), treated myself to a cookie, went to sushi with another group of friends (and the sushi was on fire), who bought me wine and dinner, and finished off the night with cheesecake. Low key and very relaxed, it was honestly the best birthday I've had in years. :) Lots of love from people I love, including all y'all. /kisses

And my brother, lol, who posted on my FB wall:

him: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SISTERRR.
to which I responded: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BROTHERRR.

He started high school this week! I think that makes me feel my age far more than any birthday could. Oh god, who is this sullen teenager who is taller than me and fanboys BoA (and is learning the steps to SHINee's Lucifer) and goes to parties on the weekend. What is this nonsense. My parents didn't allow me a social life when I was his age! But he's already gone and had a ~girlfriend~ (though they're broken up now because, hah, middle school romances). Soon my parents are going to foist the safe sex talk with him onto me, I just know it...

In less traumatizing news: darleenk even wrote me ridiculously hilarious Cronaldo/Kaká & darling papered wrote me super adorable paparazzi!Donghae stalking celeb!Kibum. And intomorning sent me The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (And I finally got thyme_hawthorne on the phone asdklh jumps on her and eats her up.) Oh you guys, why are you like this? ♥♥♥

I think I'm officialy all settled in to my new place now because I went shopping for miscellaneous things and also groceries, so now I can feed myself and not die! And stop spending so much eating out all the time. (My ex would insert a dirty joke here, which is partly why he's an ex.)

( And Inception stuff under the cut! Because I get long-winded, as always. )

Another fandom that leaves me feeling dumb and shallow? Football. But slightly less so! Because now I do care about Liverpool beyond just my gigantic crushes on Torres & Gerrard. Neither of them played today's game against Trabzonspor, but I still watched and was far too invested. JFC Liverpool, learn to keep possession. Though they manageed a much better second half and came back from trailing 1-0 the entire game to score 2 goals in the last ten minutes for a final score of 1-2. \o/ So hurrah, they qualify for the Europa League. (Shush, United fans; do not harsh my squee.)

Lastly, randomly, ( I did my nails! )