talkin' 'bout my girl

[unamaga]

Any of you who are also friends with immoralilly know that she's just left today on a plane back to England. I'm kinda huddling in my room for right now, wearing three shirts, drinking iced tea by the gallon, and trying not to be a sad lump because I can't get to sleep. SO! Things that are making/have made today suck a little less:

• talilov sent me a ridiculously fabulous package with a huge bar of Dove chocolate in it (which I ascertained did not contain actual doves when I happily consumed the entire thing), a pimped out toy car (FLAMES! On the hood!), and a green balloon (I have managed to injure myself with it twice already, please do not ask how, it is very embarrassing and I will not tell you).
  
  
• Veer.com sent me a pamphlet which included a slip of paper: "THE WORLD'S FIRST-EVER BIGGEST, SCARIEST, MOST GLOW-IN-THE-DARK* COLORING CONTEST EVER!" with a small footnote at the bottom: "Contest does not glow in the dark." Hahahah, veer. You kidder.
  
  
• Re-reading Cartographer's Craft by copperbadge. I remember reading this while it was a WIP, refreshing my flist every night just in case he put a chapter up, and it's as enthralling now as it was then - especially after reading the seventh Harry Potter book. All of the things he got right, all of the incredible conclusions, the intricate mythology he wove when he wrote this? Wow. Even the Remus/Tonks mini-plot (something which can usually shake me right out of a fic) fits so well in this story that I can easily jump right over it without bitterness. I really enjoyed most of the seventh book; except for the slightly trite epilogue, it was tightly written, and any plot holes or lulls were easily glossed over by the sheer power of a lot of the story. However, even with that in mind, this fic has so much in it I would have loved JK to take instead.
  
  
• I had a full night out with my mother and we never once sniped at each other! I think she sort of got that I was sad, and she kept turning the conversation to things she knows get me involved in the conversation. We actually talked politics over our mashed potatoes. The world no longer makes sense.

What's making you happy and shiny today? *opens arms for a hug*