i have the best flist in flistendom.  
thank you all so much for your sweet words of support and love and hugs.  
love you all!
julia

 NURSE JACKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OMG.  10 MINUTES IN AND I AM IN LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just sayin'

hey peeps
those lovely folks over chez dreamwidth have graced me with an invite code.  let me know if you want it.
xo
j
 

 oh star trek fans!!!!!  you must check out this link!!!!!!!!!!  it is amazing!!!!  make sure you scroll down to see the transporter shot......and if you live in new york, you are required to go to this gallery and check out her exhibit.   found via boingboing.net, the source of so many good things!

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eta--i just had to add: 

He normally shut his eyes while  shocking the prisoner.

2nd eta:  i nearly forgot about my superduper new mood theme!  had to come back to add my mood for the moment....

 this is another test post to see if i did.  

i just uploaded my brand spanking new mood theme thanks to worried_bubble  over at red_blotch .  she is made of serious supreme awesome!  i mean just look at the freakingly gorgeous animated mood theme i have now!!!  look, just look!!!  and then i learned about how to do the tech-y part via euterpeslullaby  at crackified .  man, the internets have not failed me today!  

and now i have more fun things to play with.  what was funny was that as i was intently studying the tutorial and trying this all out just now, i realized that it felt like i was doing something, really accomplishing something, and yet i was not.  ah, the irony is ironic, n'est-ce pas? 

i know you were wondering......

i've just been in serious summer vacation mode, hanging out with family (enzo gave me his first compliment the other day: 'i like your shirt.  it's pretty'  and luca is nearly walking!) and friends (4th of july bbq was awesome and i stayed til 1 am), watching house on dvd (joy! rapture!) and enjoying the not having to have an actual schedule ergo i can stay up til 3 in the morning (reading fanfic) and sleep late and take naps so i can stay up again til 3 in the morning (more fanfic!).  then i've been going on walks and to bbqs and movies (ice age dawn of the dinosaurs was funnish--nothing awesome but it made me refall in love with john leguiziamo).  i joined a gym!  yes that's right.  i'm aiming to pump myself up a bit and hasten the weight loss (65 pounds as of yesterday, folks!).   i finally allowed myself to buy a few new clothes (old navy, baby, it's where it's at).  i mean i couldn't very well go to france with my old clothes hanging off me, could i?  summer vacation, man.  you see how it goes.  
( in which i ramble on more about house and fandom and house and house and oh, did i mention house? ignore as you will...... )anyway, it's 3:40 now.  and i have a very early dentist appointment in the morning so i may try to sleep a bit before then.  of course then i'll have to come home and nap......and the cycle repeats itself!  

hey!!!  how are you guys?
i miss you!
xo
j

from i09.  a review of transformers: revenge of the fallen.  serious spoilers so beware (if you care!)  

 ms. colleendetroit !  little birdies all over the interweb are twittering and tweeting about your birthday!  so, many happy returns of the day and may it be filled with much meloniness and cake and balloons and did i mention meloniness?  yes yes much meloniness to you, my dear!

my dvds arrived!!!! my dvds arrived!! so excited am i that i've already put season one disc one in and here are my observations thus far: rsl looks super skinny and young (omg young!) in the pilot. i want to know how long the ducklings have been with with house when we're brought into the scene. the light in house's office is crazy--everything is essentially black and white with only their faces lit up all golden and they're doing the ddx in house's space not the main room. also there's a horses v zebras reference by foreman which post-svu finale is oddly sweet.

speaking of which, my svu peeps: check out this kind of amazing portrait of meloni!  google alerts are good for something, right? 

and now off to bed....just trying to get back into some sort of day is day; night is night schedule while on vacation.

all right. i admit to being charmed by fortysomething. the first episode was rather dull and i nearly gave the second a pass, but i'd have missed out on all kinds of fun including nekkid!hugh in the street and a leery bedroom scene (the premise being that he can't remember the last time he had sex). then, as i was in the shower and wondering about various things as is my wont, i though to myself, self, i thought, i'd never turn hugh laurie, paul slippery (the name!) out of bed for eating crackers. that's right! i'm taking a stand. no tossing hugh out of bed. that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

also i am being charmed by a bit of fry and laurie. it reminds me of being 10 and sneaking to stay up late to watch monty python. i am not so sure, however, about black adder. mostly because i've always been left completely cold by rowan atkinson. but i may slog through or just skip to the series with hugh. but i am thrilled to watch jeeves and wooster (well i will be once i download the series--oh bless, you internet, bless you!) because i think my mother was a big fan and i'm very curious to see it.





and one further note:

had to post with my new kickass (yup) house icon made by creamuts just because i LOVE IT SO!  also it sort of bookends my regular default la_tante  icon of the fabulous shoe from charles david a pair of which currently resides in my closet and which i only put on every once in a while to wander around my apartment wondering if i'll ever have a chance to actually wear them!  /run on

um, daily status update?  why thanks for asking....currently ensconced in bed sipping a very delicious but seedy smoothie (mixed berries from trader joe's have too many raspberries thus too many seeds).  i was up very early this morning to meet tattooed_lydia for breakfast at the tin shed.  and after a very nephew intense day yesterday, am feeling the need to do nothing much further for the day.  so i'm sort of watching fortysomething (which is sort of terrible but fuck it, it's hugh) and reading fanfic and flitting about all the house hugh comms and ljs all over the web.  if i've done a drive-by on your journal in the last few days, i hope i was coherent and haven't scared you away.  i've been in a fog.........and if you've come by to see who the hell was babbling in your journal, then hello!  i'm actually pretty harmless and welcome friends of all shapes and sizes and fandoms.

we've just had a torrential downpour in the last few minutes and i have to end by saying there is very little sweeter in the world than being cozied up in bed with the kitty curled up next me while rain lashes at the window and hugh laurie makes googly eyes at me.  

happy sunday my dear flist!

you guys.  i've just been wandering through the craigslist men seeking women ads for shiggles (yes, i should be sleeping, and yes, this the 4th night in a row i've been up past 2 am--so?), and now all i want to do is fucking email these idiot guys and tell them to get their fucking grammar and punctuation together and NOT TO CAPITALIZE RANDOM WORDS--THIS ISN'T FUCKING GERMANY!!!!!!!!!   fuck.  

this post brought to you by the letters "w', "t" and "f'.

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

i rarely meme but i loved this because it's so true!!!!!!!!  
i love you my flisty mcflisters.