Heaven in Hard Times

Answers to the meme from earlier. If I get more, I'll edit them in.

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1. I quit my job! I just got back from the temp agency, where I went to tell them that, okay, I've come home sick twice in two weeks on top of the one full sick day, this is not working out for me and I'm sure they'd say the same, and she just asked if I wanted to end my assignment. So I'm finishing out the week and then no more overheated warehouse for me. Also no more paychecks, but next week will be intensive job hunt week, I guess. I thought my parents might be annoyed, but when I told my Dad his response was basically "that is the least surprising thing in the history of forever".

2. Mad Men starts on Sunday! ARE YOU EXCITED? Because you SHOULD BE. If not, you should WATCH SEASONS ONE AND TWO, and then you will BE EXCITED. It is the BEST SHOW EVER, and even better it is on the same night as JONAS, so I get a double dose of AWESOME. I might be the only person on Earth who looks forward to those two shows with equal excitement? Whatever. SAL BETTER KISS SOME DUDES THIS SEASON. Dudes like Ken Cosgrove.

3. Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly has a side project coming out, Nathen Maxwell and the Original Bunny Gang. My favorite member of Flogging Molly changes, like, daily, but it always comes back to Nate, and this makes me unspeakably happy. Also, his dad plays drums on the album, which is THE CUTEST THING EVER, and also AWESOME. Tangentially related, I am writing Nathen/Joe Jonas right now. Not right now, I'm writing this entry. But I was writing it before I went to Adecco and will probably be working on it while you read this. CROSSOVERS, YES.

My mom is making my sister's prom dress out of red satin. I've been claiming all the remnants (there are quite a few; she misread the pattern and bought the yardage based on a 45-inch bolt, not a 58-inch) and fully intend to turn one of my Ken dolls (I am pretty sure there's no one reading this who doesn't know about my Barbie thing, but hi) into Arthur Pendragon (I have already dubbed him Arthur Kendragon, because I'm witty like that). I have all sorts of horifically tacky plans for making terribly cheesy armor out of pretty silver fabric.

I am such a dooooooooork.

In related news, the pattern is a 50s dress and I am going to dress my sister up like Betty Draper if it kills me. This would be easier if she hadn't decided five or six years ago that my taste in everything sucks.

(What's funny about that is, at the time she decided my taste was bad because I was in love with neon and animal print [shocking, yes?]. Which are now her two favorite things. Yet, somehow, I still have no taste. BUT I WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION no matter who I have to enlist)

I knew I wouldn't remember to do this every day.

Yesterday's Christmas Eve service at church was lovely. Hard, but I'm glad we went rather than hiding at home. The part we knew was going to be hardest - Angels We Have Heard on High, which was the last hymn at my aunt's funeral - wasn't so bad at all, for a couple reasons: rather than a hymn for the congregation, it was performed by the little kids' choir, and it is hard to be sad with a bunch of 5- and 6-year-olds totally not knowing the verses but belting the fuck out of the GLO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-RIA part; secondly, it was followed by Joy to the World, which has been a massive family in-joke since my dad spaced out and belted out a JOY when...no one was supposed to be joy-ing. And I do mean belted. It was nice.

And Christmas has been wonderful. We did a no-present Christmas, out of necessity, and it was nice. Dinner was fabulous, and my Dad got everyone 10 lottery tickets...and every single one of us won something. My mom, who thought she'd gotten the least, misread the directions and almost threw away $30 worth of tickets. We actually came out ahead - $64 from $50 worth of tickets. And we made quite a lovely holiday tableau, frantically scratching off tickets around the table.

Also, between yesterday and today, I got my Yuletide story and OMGSOAWESOME. I was...worried I'd be disappointed if someone wrote my last choice...but someone did and disappointment is the last thing on my mind. If you're into Mad Men (which you all SHOULD BE) go check out Split Run, a wonderful FABULOUS Sal/Ken fic.