happiness is my default position

Day 01 - Guilty pleasure
Day 02 - Something that inspires you
Day 03 - The five songs you would have with you on a desert island and why
Day 04 - What you imagine paradise to be like

I imagine it to be whatever an individual person wants it to be. To me it would by the ocean. Blue skies and green mountains and my family and friends. I think you feel loved and content. I think everything is as it should be.

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Day 01- Guilty pleasure
Day 02- Something that inspires you

I'm the question is "something" and not "the thing" because I'm sure most people are inspired by plenty of stuff. I get inspiration from TV and movies and books and people.

I am going to pick music though, because it gives me the biggest ideas. I can hear a song and plan out a TV show around it. In fact, I have done that. Any kind of music because it all brings up different emotions and reactions. It inspires me to do things during the day, to dance or sing or laugh. Over the past few years I've really gotten into going to see bands and listening to different types of music, in a way I never did growing up. It has a much bigger influence on my life now.

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Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail

Tuesday: Woke at 7am, showered, checked email, read half a Sherlock Holmes fic, got dressed, walked to work. Spent 3 hours sorting cd files at work. Had a Tracker bar for lunch and checked my email. Went with Alice to visit Matt who is recovering from surgery at home. Spent another 3 hours sorting cd files, then answered my work emails. Walked home and talked to my mum on the phone. Went to the shop for some food, cooked and ate dinner of steak pie and mash, with cake after for me and hils Watched Psych and finished reading the Sherlock Holmes fic. RP-d with ditchwitchbitch until bedtime at midnight and then slept.

Day 26 → Your week, in great detail

Wednesday - Wednesday: My working days are generally the same so Wednesdays, Thursday and Monday I got up, showered, checked my email and LJ, got dressed, walked to work, answered emails and sorted files, scanned records and uploaded them, talked on the phone too much for my liking, walked home, cooked dinner for myself and hils which we ate whilst watching Psych. RP-d with ditchwitchbitch until bedtime at midnight and then slept. For Tuesday see above.

Friday my day started the same. I finished work at 3.30, walked home to get my bag and then caught the train to Huddersfield to visit doublefourtime. Got to her house and spent hours talking and eating wonderful food like sweets and crisps and little oranges. Watched season 3 of Black Books and then went to bed at about 12.30. On Saturday, got up at 10.30, had lovely brunch of porridge. Checked the train times to get to rebecca_star's house. Showered, dressed. Left to catch 3.15 train. Had to change from train to bus at Penistone because of line closures. Eventually picked up by rebecca_star and driven to her house. Unwrapped my Christmas presents (two beautiful necklaces and a make your own photo snow globe). Ate dinner and drank cocktails at Chiquito's to celebrate Rebecca's birthday. Got back at midnight and went to sleep. Sunday morning spent with Sam then caught the train back to York. Caught up on my tv and ate dinner before bed.

Day 27 → This month, in great detail

See above. The weekend before that doublefourtime came to visit me and we ate pizza, watched Iron Man, drank wine, shopped for dvds and spent a long time in Paperchase. Went to see Sherlock Holmes for the 4th time, had to buy a new router for the wireless connection and then attach it to the old one for use of its modem. Watched SYTYCD and Miss Congeniality. Drank more wine. The weekend before I went to see Sherlock Holmes for the 3rd time (this time with hils), read fic, made crumpets and watched season 4 of Doctor Who. The weekend before was New Year. I was sick so I stayed home, took down the Christmas decorations and tidied the flat.

Mostly my month has consisted of Sherlock Holmes.

Day 28 → This year, in great detail

See above. What's to come, well it's my mum's birthday on the 28th of February. I go to California with ditchwitchbitch on March 13th (San Francisco-Montery-Santa Barbara-LA-Las Vegas-Oklahoma City) to 28th. Then it's Easter. Then I get my hair done. Then it is flickums wedding and I see Bowling for Soup. My sister's birthday is May 7th, dad's birthday August 27th. My 30th birthday on the 19th of September and hopefully I will be going to Florida with my sister.

Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

See above and this post

Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

A giant ♥ to my flist, who I love. Thank you for being such a great bunch of people. I know I don't comment as much as I should, or post as much as I could, but I read every entry and I like getting to know you all. I hope the next 365 days are good to you too.

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours

And now because I'm going away for a few days, you get 3...

Day 20 → A hobby of yours

Writing. I love to write. I wrote my first fanfiction for Buffy about ten years ago and I've been writing ever since. Last year I wrote over 60k words (thank you bandom) and I think most of it was the best stuff I've ever written. Which isn't to say it's the best stuff ever, but I am feeling a definite improvement in my writing and a couple of things I wrote last year I was definitely proud of. I hope more inspiration strikes this year. I do, have my BBB all planned out and am very excited about it.

Day 21 → A recipe

Since I mentioned making them on day 19:

( Crumpets )

Day 22 → A website

Digital Spy. I check it every day and admittedly they get a lot of their "articles" from stuff people write on Twitter these days, but it's a one stop shop for all forms of entertainment information and an easy way to keep up with things. And the forums can be hilarious.

Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Today we will talk about Community and how it is one of the best shows on TV and how it makes me laugh so hard, because it is made of awesome. Why are you not watching this show? What could there possibly be to watch on a Thursday night that is better than Abed? Seriously, I love this show for him alone. But it has also given me two wonderful couples to ship...

( Non-spoilery evidence under the cut )

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book

Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown. I love Derren Brown. He's a very clever man with an amazing talent. Nothing he does is "magic" in the sense of the supernatural, but the way he can read people, the way he can see things and influence things, the way he can create illusions that make people interested in magic again, those things are fascinating. I find him fascinating and the book shows the various techniques he uses, the things you can do to improve your memory, your understanding of people, your ability to perform "illusions" of your own. It's very funny and very interesting, and it did, in fact, improve my memory.

Day 15 → A fanfic

Just one? Can I have one per fandom? One per pairing? This is so unfair.

Gen/Multiple pairings (MCR, PATD, others) Forever, Now by passe_simple and its sequels, Star Shaped and The Lines You Amend.

Epic AU fic about Brian adopting Gerard and Mikey and the highjinks that ensue. Not your average kidfic. So much more than that. The first sequel is all about Brendon (the babysitter) and how he meets Ryan and Spencer. The second sequel is about Gerard and Frank's relationship. If you haven't read it, you should read it, because it is awesome. It makes me cry, in the best way.

And if you want more you should check out my delicious account, which has all my favourite stuff. I guess it's not technically comprehensive yet, but I'm working on it.

FOB
Pete/Patrick
Pete/Joe

FOB/MCR
Patrick/Gerard
Pete/Mikey

PATD
Ryan/Brendon
Jon/Spencer
Ryan/Spencer
Brendon/Spencer

Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Let it Be by The Beatles.

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Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago

I meant to to this every day, but in logistical terms, this is the hardest for me to do because most of the photos of me from over ten years ago are with my parents and the ones I have are exactly that. Photos. Hard copy photos. The scanner isn't working so I have resorted to taking a photo of a photo, hence the poor quality. I look quite cute in the original. If the scanner starts working again, I'll do a whole picspam of my moody youth another time.

( Me, aged 10 )

Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
( Me, aged (almost) 29 )

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad

Well I hit the jackpot with one that makes me angry and sad at the same time. Every single thing about this photo offends me. ( The world is a disappointing place sometimes. )

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 →Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy

At the moment, Glee is one my favourite things on television. It makes me happy. It's interesting and the cast has such great talent. I think everyone should watch it.

So, in honour of that, under the cut are 3 of my favourite performances on the show. No spoilers in the first 2, though just clicking the 3rd will spoil you for the mid-season finale if you haven't seen it.

( My life would suck without you. )

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book

Now that's an easy one (finally). Pride & Prejudice is my favourite book. It has been my happy place since the first time I read it. It never fails to make me smile. It cheers me up and calms me down. If I could be any fictional character, I would want to be Elizabeth Bennett. ♥

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