This is by no means complete, I'm just putting this here as a placeholder at the moment so that I can keep up with the shows that I'll be seeing between now and the end of the year. I plan to go back in and add in all the shows I saw throughout the year. That should be....interesting.

October

7 - The Academy Is, Warehouse Live
10 - Gym Class Heroes, Estelle - Meridian
11 -(I had tickets to Rock Band Live in San Jose, but alas, I am NOT GOING) UGH
13 - The Rocket Summer, Phantom Planet,The Secret Handshake, A Morning Light - HOB Houston
16 - NKOTB, Natasha Bedingfield - Toyota Center, Houston
28 - Rock Band Live Tour with PATD, Dashboard, PWT's and The Cab - Bridgeport, CT
29 - Rock Band Live Tour with PATD, Dashboard, PWT's and The Cab - Lowell, MA

November

9 - Cobra Starship - Houston, House of Blues
11 - Metro Station - Houston, House of Blues OR OR OR
11 - PWT's and The Cab - New Orleans, House of Blues
12 - Rock Band Live Tour with PATD, Dashboard, PWT's and The Cab - Grand Prairie, TX
13 - Rock Band Live Tour with PATD, Dashboard, PWT's and The Cab - Austin, TX, Erwin Center
14 - Rock Band Live Tour with PATD, Dashboard, PWT's and The Cab - Houston, CANCELLED!! (last show of tour)
14 - PWT's and The Cab - Houston - Meridian
28 - All American Rejects - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom

December

3 - Fall Out Boy - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
6 - Karate High School @ Java Jazz

I NEVER post, and look at what happens when I actually do...



LOLOLOL


*~*~*~*SPARKLES*~*~*~*

Yep, I have a dreamwidth account now. Not that I'm posting there or anything. But I'm eckerlilas over there too, if you are interested.

I've uploaded all of the music I purchased Saturday night for anyone who is interested.

Vermillion Lies have two CDs and each lady in the band has her own CD.

You'll find all four CDs at my mediafire via the link below.

Vermillion Lies


ENJOY!

Also, if you have any of the Dresden Dolls albums (or any music by them or Amanda not on an album) I'd love to have it. I only have disjointed bits and pieces at this point. I do own Who Killed Amanda Palmer, so I don't need that one. :D

Thankies. ♥

Okay, so I started showing Alyssa videos of kittens...and somehow we ended up here:



( More videos under the cut )
Hahahahaha! What's this kid gonna be when he grows up? Brendon Urie?

I've decided that there can never be enough viewing of this video, so I'm reposting it too. I wanna have it at my fingertips for sad days.

WATCH, REPEAT. = HAPPYFACE.



Thank you Bert and Quinn. Thank you.

Thank you to all of my lovies for your kind words and thoughts the other day. You know what I'm referring to, and I appreciate you all so much. ♥

William and I bought tickets to see Underworld 3 on Friday, but William appeared to be slipping into a movie-induced coma, so we slipped into Push just as the previews were ending. I was enjoying Underworld but Push was very good, so I'm not complaining.

Yesterday Will, bb and I had breakfast at the local cafe. It was yummy goodness for Will and myself (OM NOM NOM COFFEE), while Spencer played with his magnadoodle and ate freeze dried yogurt bites and toast dipped in gravy. I don't know.

I had late afternoon lunch with some folks at The Monument Inn seafood restaurant. SHRIMP JAMBOREE OKAY.

And last night Spencer and I hung out with kylieq. Good times.

Now I'm off to get my hair all blued up again. Maybe I'll let him cut it again. You never know with me.

♥

As lovingly stolen from canadiancracka:

Since tomorrow is "Valloween", you should tell me why you love me and I will tell you why I love you back!

PS - true story, I went to post this morning and first typed Halloween instead of Valentine's Day. Poetic, I feel.

♥♥♥

HAPPY BIRTHDAY lolscubadiver!!! I love you so much! How many amazingly great times have we had? We have so many more to come!

Have a fabulous birthday, dude!

♥♥♥

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th!

William and I are going to the movies when he gets home from school today around noon. That will be how we celebrate Valentine's day this year (we can't celebrate tomorrow because he has to work). Should we see Taken, Push, Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans or Friday the 13th??!?!?

Wow, aren't we romantical?

I'm sure he has purchased some sort of something for me as well...because I know him and he is often the best gift buyer in the history of the world. I'll keep y'all posted on that one because frankly, he HATES Valentine's Day. But he still goes through with it all because he LOFFS ME. Also, it's not like I'm a demanding harpy who insists we do something expensive or girly. What about me has ever been GIRLY? Hahahaha. Yeah, movies works for me.

Yesterday I saw He's Just Not That Into You with Mom and Alyssa. SUCH A GREAT MOVIE. I recommend it, most definitely! I cried a little though, just a warning.

Also, I saw Coraline last week. LOVED IT SO MUCH! SEE IT OMG!

I like movies, could y'all tell?

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Tomorrow night I am having a Valentine's Day Mocking Party at my casa if anyone would like to come over. I don't know what we'll do but if you have no plans please do join us. I'm sure we'll make plenty of mischief. (anytime after 5pm)

Alright sirs, off to the showers with me!

♥

Spencer is walking around the house saying "E-R" in different tones of voice and expression. Apparently that is him spelling his name for us. We have a little Magnadoodle board that we use to show him shapes and spell out his name. The "E-R" stuck, I guess. He also loves "E". He thinks all letters and numbers are either "E" or "E-R". He's cracking me up.

Y'all. I had a dream the night before last in which Gabe flirted mercilessly with me. Out of nowhere. In the dream I was at a restaurant, sitting at a big L-shaped table with friends and such and out of NOWHERE Gabe appears sitting to my right. It is one of those cook-at-your-table type restaurants. Gabe starts playing with my right hand, drawing stuff on the back with his fingers...then he starts kissing that hand, then laces our fingers together and pulls our linked hands into his lap. Next, he begins feeding me pieces of food with the chopsticks he has in his other hand. Yeah, then I woke up.

I don't know, man. I don't know.

Here, have the cutest picture I've seen on the internet in quite a while.
Seriously. James Franco.


And a few of the funniest videos:
Best cover EVER? Yes, I think so.

Sometimes I just need to laugh, okay. HAHAHA


They made me smile and giggle, at any rate.

PS - I'm almost finished with my playlists and uploads. I'll make a music post soon!!!

Show me some funny or cute or hilarious stuff. Share the happy!

Open Happiness makes me grin like an IDIOT, okay. A CAPITAL "U", OKAY.

I'm making a happy music playlist for myself. Songs that I hear that just make me smile like I can't help it. I can't stop myself. We all have songs that make us unreasonably happy. What are yours?

Unrelatedly, I'm also making a playlist of songs about zombies. Or that mention zombies. I know it is weird to make both a happyface playlist and a zombie playlist simultaneously. Oh well, y'all knew I was weird going in.

We're taking Spencer and a couple of the little kids from church to the park sometime around 11am today. It is gorgeous outside and we don't want to waste the sunshine. I wish y'all could join us!

LOVELOVELOVELOVE

♥

My updates have been so random lately. Huh.

Super Bowl is getting started and I'm leaving the house in an hour to see bands with Jacque instead of watching. Karate High School is playing at Java Jazz tonight if anyone is interested ($12 I think).

I'm updating my iPod with the Open Happiness song and a copy of the Desolation Row video (kdnlfkjadslkfjaklsjfahsflk).

BB is taking his second nap of the day. I'll have to wake him in a little while to get him ready to hang with his Gigi.

I've missed concerts (I'm sure you've noticed), so I'm excited for this one tonight, even if it isn't full of my fangirls!

♥

MAYBE we are building a new world.

MAYBE we'll paint marshmallows purple, or free circus elephants.

MAYBE we'll ride on chocolate merry-go-rounds, or make tennis shoes for camels.

MAYBE we'll find a child who feels unsafe at home and take her out of there right away.

MAYBE we'll mail so many letters to God, that everything gets all healed up.

MAYBE we'll take all the mean people, and use them to full up the ozone hole.

MAYBE when we see a sign that says "drawbridge', we'll get out and do a lovely bridge sketch.

MAYBE we will make airplanes out of the same material that the "Black Box" is made of.

MAYBE we'll live in real communities, equal for everyone.

MAYBE 100% of the people will vote, and start a new world.

MAYBE everybody is an Angel, God, Animal, Nature, all rolled into one bundle of nerve and tissue, lip and bone.

MAYBE we'll stop fighting and trying to be right.

MAYBE there will be nap rooms everywhere, and cars will run on kisses.

MAYBE dreams are real.

MAYBE all the homeless will move onto all the golf courses.

MAYBE schools are filled with imagination, and prisons have nutritious food and spiritual programs.

MAYBE we are all free, safe and well loved.

MAYBE we all want the same things.

MAYBE we all. love. everyone.

by Sark

♥

So would y'all be interested in a repost of all of the ultrasound pics and videos from my pregnancy with Spencer? Most of the links to the pics I posted originally have died and I was just browsing through them on my computer a few minutes ago and thinking...."hey, I wonder if my flist would like to see those again or for the first time for those of you that came along after bb spencerdom." But yeah, is that of interest to anyone? I might just do it anyway, so I can put them all in one post for my own happiness.

Did I mention that I HATE CLEANING MY OFFICE? Because I totally do. I've been in here most of the day, and I keep letting myself get distracted by things like pics/vids of bb spencer, Ben&Jerry's and Miss Congeniality, etc etc etc. At the end of all of this cleaning, I will be moving Spencer to the office and the office to his tiny bedroom. That should be interesting.

I love my kid so much that it sort of feels like my heart is breaking every single day. Every time I look at him or think of his little face and hands and feet and bellybutton. I just. I'm getting teary just typing these words. He's the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me.

I don't know why I felt the need to tell you guys this. Compelled and proud and happy are good words for it.

If you are a parent you know what I'm talking about. If not...someday you might find out. And if you don't want to/don't ever have kids of your own, feel free to come hang out with mine. You might catch a bit of the feeling I get every single day of my life. I don't know if it shows on my face when you're with me, but HE IS MY HEART.



&spencer; FOREVER

PS - Y'all need to help me work out BB Spencer-related tattoo design, tattoo ideas. I need new ink, and nothing would be better than a tribute to my sweet boy.

Good morning everyone! I know I've been mostly MIA lately (due to lots of holiday shenans and preparation and whatnot!). I am just checking in to say that I should be back later with an update on BB Spencer's Christmas and our familytimes, etc etc etc.

I do hope everyone has been having a nice week, regardless of whether or not you celebrate!

I love all of you, dearly. Spencer and I appreciate having each and every one of you in our silly little lives.

♥♥♥LOVELOVELOVELOVE♥♥♥

Back soon, I promise....

Okay y'all, I know this is SUPREMELY LATE, but I am finally getting all my cards and stuff together to mail today. SO if you want a card from Spencer and me and you haven't filled out my poll, please do so now.

GO HERE TO FILL OUT MY POLL

I have an AMAZING story to tell. So, my brother came over last night with two dirty-looking grey scraps of material in his hand. He just stands around, shooting the shit, playing with the baby, all the while clutching the material. Then he says "OH YEAH!" like it just dawned on him that he was holding the stuff. Hahaha....anyway....He says he was at work yesterday and he and a few other guys were pulling rags out of the rag box to use for cleanup. For those who don't know, a rag box contains bits of old shirts mostly, that are being recycled and used as rags. He pulls out the following two bits and says "MY SISTER WOULD LOVE THESE!", really excitedly, nodding his head. All the other dudes do that slow motion head raise, with wide eyes and confused expressions. He then says "Oh, she has blue hair," and nods again. Apparently they all say "OOHHHH!" and nod, like that MAKES ANY SENSE AT ALL. HAHAHAHAHA Apparently that cleared things up SPECTACULARLY. OH I GET IT!!!!

( Blue haired chicks are weirdo freaks!. )

♥