Presumed to be awesome.

I'm focusing on the positive, so let's talk about awesome, happy-making things! :D

First awesome, happy-making thing: DARREN FREAKIN' CRISS!!!! I got tickets to see him play a show in L.A. on March 26th to benefit the AIDS Project L.A. Awesome music for an awesome cause!!! (There are, by the way, a few tickets still available at that link.)

It's going to be a small show, only 150 tickets being sold. Even better? We ninja-ed tickets a day before they were announced publicly and managed to score MEET AND GREETS WITH DARREN FREAKIN' CRISS!!!! Ahhhhh!!!! Even 24 hours later, I can barely contain my flail!

And betterer still? I get to enjoy all this awesome, happy-makingness with mah girls, _lisalisa_, coolwhipdiva and azewewish!!! So. Much. Happy. Making!!!!

This also means that Darren has given me the perfect excuse for a much needed weekend in L.A. So, heads up to my other L.A. chicas, brunch on Sunday, March 27??? Y/Y? *beams*

Second awesome, happy-making thing: ( Adam Freakin' Lambert! )

( My t.v. shows have also been awesome and happy making lately. )

More awesome, happy making: my friend Sara is in town from Nashville and I'll be seeing her tonight. Sara is one of my oldest friends ever and I love that, no matter how much time passes, we can always pick up as if we had just seen each other the day before.

( And, finally, awesome, happy-making for my peeps in the Houston and Austin areas: )

Some aspects of real life are epically nightmarish at the moment. I can't really talk about it on a public forum, but many, many thanks to all of you who have sent your love, support, prayers and good thoughts. Y'all are the best and I love you!

Despite anything else that's happening, the search for employment continues, as it must, since sadly no one seems to be willing to pay me to flit around the globe to attend Adam Lambert concerts and adding "expert skill level at glitter application" to my resume doesn't seem to have netted any leads. :( I have two interviews on Monday, so, you know, any good job gettin' mojo you can toss my way would be awesome! I'm trying to not to be too narrow in my job search, looking at possibilities out of state and even at non-traditional type ways to put my legal experience to use. So I've got some leads in places like Las Vegas and L.A. and even New Orleans that I'm following up on. I'm really working at not rushing the process, but, really, while not having an alarm go off in the wee hours is cool and all, this not-working business ain't really my thing. So, you know, keep that good job gettin' mojo flowing this way, kthnx. :D

Thankfully there's been tons of pretty damn good t.v. on my DVR to provide some distraction from the craziness swirling around me. Ahhh, escapism. *g*

White Collar: ( Holy smokes, I finally watched the last few episodes. )

Drop Dead Diva: You guys, this show is such awesome, fluffy brain cotton candy! It's completely ridiculous and yet somehow charming.

Sons of Anarchy: Ok, so I hadn't seen the last two episodes of the last season, because my DVR randomly decided that it had to delete them a few months back. It's been torture waiting for the DVDs to release, and then when they did I was out of town, so I couldn't catch up, which meant I couldn't watch the season opener, and, GAH! Torture! But I finally got my season 2 DVDs and I saw how last season ended and I saw the episodes that have run so far ( and good god DAMN this show continues to blow my mind! ) This is just some damn good television.

Hawaii Five-O: Ok, I had no idea what to expect from this and I really only watched this to get a glimpse of Norman Reedus on my television screen, but I gotta say that this pilot was really pretty damn good. It was high energy and action-packed, pulling me in from the first scene and keeping me there until the end. The dynamic between the characters was crisp and and totally entertaining. And there's certainly no lack of pretty on this show. Damn. I would tune in again for the pretty alone. This one's totally earned a spot on my DVR this season.

I'm still woefully behind on Leverage, Friday Night Lights and Supernatural (I still haven't finished with season 5 -- I am in NOT ready for a sixth season!). But, I also have plenty that I could use distracting from, so hopefully I'll get caught up soon.

Is there any new t.v. that y'all are watching? What are you loving right now? Distract me with awesome t.v., people! :D

This aptly summarizes just how freakin' hot it's been around here this week. (Link and laughs courtesy of without_me.) It also cracks me up. Probably because I'm currently sitting in my air conditioned office. As soon as I need to go outside, "featherless and golden brown and delicious" will cease to be amusing. Because NOTHING is amusing when it's approximately 10 degrees hotter than the ambient temperature of HELL. *melts. grumpily*

Speaking of NOT amusing: my laptop is still in ICU, which is, well no fun at all. My Computer Guy hasn't pronounced it dead yet, so I suppose there's still hope, but I'm getting really damn tired of not having my computer. *grumps some more*

But I do have some fic recs for y'all, which IS fun! *g*

White Collar
Time is of the Essence by mistresscurvy
Neal/Elizabeth/Peter || NC-17 || ~4,000 words
Established D/s relationship. Neal is late. Peter is not pleased. Elizabeth just wants to get on with it.
She absolutely nails the characterizations, and, dear heavens, people, this is just smoldering hot!

Adam Lambert
Practice Makes Perfect and Hard But Not Complicated by rivers_bend
Adam/Tommy || Teen & NC-17, respectively
Tour Fic: Adam and Tommy "practice" their stage-gay.

To Be Adorned by bexless
Adam/Brad || NC-17 || ~ 3,500 words
Adam recently got his nipples pierced. No really he did and I'm not even going to apologize for knowing that. Owning my shame, here, people. *g* Anyway, Adam. Nipples. Pierced. Add Brad and you know the result will be ridiculously hot, right?

Happy Friday!!!

Today has been gloriously slothful and it's exactly what I needed after what was an insane week. What IS my life, though, that sleeping in on a Saturday apparently now means sleeping until 7:30??? Those that know me know full well how NOT DOWN I am with that situation!

Whatever. Getting up that early meant I had a few blissful hours of quiet in my house and was able to enjoy my coffee in peace, so I really shouldn't complain. Besides that so far my day has consisted of catching up on White Collar (OMG Neal and Peter bickering like an old married couple makes my life!!!) and working my way through the vids from last night's New York concert with Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Allison Iraheta. Adam rocked the fuck out! He was full out glam rocker ala Zodiac days and I really hope he brings that shit to his Fantasy Springs show! Seriously, just LOOK at THIS! This is the Adam Lambert I want to see on stage!



Speaking of Adam and his band totally killing it, check out this YouTube vid of the band shredding the hell outa some Pantera at rehearsals last week. Monte is a fucking GOD on that guitar!

Jfc. It NEEDS to be February 27th NOW!!!!!!!!

In the meantime, whataya say to some AMAZING Adam/Tommy fic to hold us over? Yeah, I thought so. *g* I've been meaning to link to this all week, but my week was just too damn crazy for all the truly important things like LJ and Adam/Tommy fic! So sad. But that, apparently, are what slothful Saturdays are for!

So, anyway, the ever awesome linaerys wrote me a lovely, slow-build Adam/Tommy fic for the help_haiti effort: Come On, Walk For Me (Adam/Tommy, NC-17). I love the way she writes Tommy; the slow build to the sex makes it extra hot; it's just perfection! Thank you, bb!

What else? Oh, yeah, I discovered today that somehow the last 3 episodes of Sons of Anarchy that I had yet to watch got erased from my DVR. I am NOT amused! Do I seriously have to wait until the DVDs come out now???? Not on, Universe. Not on at all.

So, I think I'm going to go do some more catching up on my t.v. shows and I might even muster up the energy to give myself a manicure, but I think that'll be the extent of my productivity today. A very exciting Saturday, indeed! What's up with y'all today?

I was going to write a whole post on my weekend, which, by the way, does NOT consist of three days off of work. *weeps*

But, really, my entire weekend consisted of football. No, really, that's it. My Cardinals lost spectacularly to the Saints on Saturday. Which, really, based on how they played this weekend, and even last week, they did not deserve to be playing any more post-season football. I still, however, would have preferred an actual game as opposed to the trouncing they got. On the plus side, there was a whole lot of pretty on my screen on Saturday! *bites lip* In any event, now that my boys are out, I'm fully expecting the Saints to go all the way. And I really wanted the Chargers to win today, because I thought Phillip Rivers would be a much better match against Peyton Manning. And, dammit, someone needs to make sure I have a Manning-free Super Bowl. Now the job falls to little Mark Sanchez, whose mustache looks ridiculous when he's wearing his helmet and you can't see the scruffy beard that goes with it. My Manning-free Super Bowl hopes are in the hands of a rookie with bad facial hair, who doesn't seem to remember that he really is pretty damn good until the second half of a game. This does not bode well. *shakes head*

Ahem. So, yeah. Most of you don't give a damn about any of that, right? Let me make it up to you with this ADORABLE White Collar vid. If I weren't already sold on the awesomeness of this show, this vid would have my watching in a heartbeat!



*loves*

It felt wonderful to get back to the dance studio last night. It's amazing that I can still retain any muscle memory after a year, but, while not sharp, it wasn't bad. And I always have such a blast with my instructor, Josh. He cracks me up! Which, I think is his sneaky strategy to get me out of my head when I'm dancing. Whatever. It works.

And remember I was saying that dancing is a great way for me to deal with all my relationship issues? This is an example of what I mean: Josh was super excited to see me back in the studio and immediately starts going on about a competition in February that he would really like for us to enter, and just like that, a wave of NOOOO!!! ACK COMMITMENT! issues slams me upside the head! I will agree to dance this dance with you, and maybe even the next one, but no way am I gong to agree to still be dancing with you four months from now! *laughs* My reaction was so immediate and so obvious that it even cracked me up! And even though I could laugh at myself, there was no way I was going to commit to prepping for a dance competition next spring. Commitment issues. I haz them. So, yeah, um, ok. I'll be working on that one. *g*

Enough about my issues, let's talk about pretty boys kissing, shall we? *g* I finally saw the pictures of Matthew Bomer kissing his boyfriend and they are made of sunshine and rainbows and all things happy making!

( No, really. They are! )

Mmmm. So pretty! And just another reason why everyone should be watching White Collar! *beams*

In other happy making news, did y'all watch the Phillies tap dance all over the Yankees last night? It was good times! Cliff Lee was freakin' insane! Just brilliant. Seven games would be awesome, but I won't complain if the Phillies decide to take care of this thing sooner rather than later. Just sayin'. *g*