"It is glorious. It is prickly and invasive. Like freedom."

[mooging]

DECEMBERRRRRR. IT IS DECEMBER. I LOVE DECEMBER.

I love the cold and the dark and the festive spirit and the advent calendars and the bit where it's my birthday and Christmas shopping and making Christmas presents and generally December just makes me happy. I swear, this month is like concentrated Moog-month. :D

I have a Malteasers advent calendar. What about you?

Meanwhile, my family continues to demonstrate its crap health record. I am still being weak and rubbish, and won't be returning to school until after the Christmas holidays and after having two previous colds and still labouring under ME land, the universe has decided that a stomach bug is the way to go, so hurrah (ahahaha, no). But it isn't bothering me because DECEMBER.

Also having bad times re: health of grandparents, which is worrying and nasty. I attempt to take my mind off this with DECEMBER.

I apologise for being somewhat slack re: commenting, I really really do. I'll comment as much as I can when I'm around! Also, those of you expecting Christmas cards, I'm-a posting them two weeks on Monday. Just so you know.

SERIOUSLY say a thing to me, I have been in this house without leaving it all week being rubbish on the sofa and I think my brain might leaking out of my eyes.

Also, I feel like I haven't done a meme thing for a while, so here is this one which I always find fun and pleasing ( I know I've done it before, shhhh, I still like it):

Comment and I will:

1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Show you my favourite user pic of yours.
8) In retort, you must spead this disease in your LJ. (although don't feel you have to do that. I just want something to occupy myself with!)

(If you comment, tell me if you want me to do the meme or if you'd rather I would just shhh already).

Comments

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

A few things:
1) arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh FEEL BETTER, I demand it. (YES.)
2) DECEMBER.
3) I've done your card, but not sent any off yet so, er, that'll pop up at some point, I promise.
4) Meme me, bb!

:D xxxxxxxxxxx

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

1) I friended you because MADDIE TOLD ME TO no, that wasn't the whole reason why; Maddie told me to and I'd seen your comments with her and flailed in happy and then I looked at your journal and noticed that you were several shades of awesome-cakes and then left an inane little comment and hoped I wouldn't be shunned!
2) ARGH okay, film. Either History Boys or R AND G ARE DEADS. LOL originality there, Moogface.
3) Okay, right, random fact about you: YOU WORK IN A LIBRARY. ILU.
4) A first memory? First online memory I guess would be asking you if you knew where I could find the Sam/Gene photoshoot in the header of your layout at the time, and you not knowing but being unexpectedly nice to me (not to say that I didn't think you were lovely, but, like, you were nice to me, the random odd person you didn't really know. ALSO LOZ ILU HAVE I MENTIONED THAT?).
5) Ahahaha, Remus/Sirius. A lot. Also: Holmes and Watson.
6) A thing I've always wanted to know. Hmmm. Thinkings. Okay, what is your favourite flavour of ice-cream?
7) My favourite userpic of yours is this one (I am cheating, and doing 'userpic I associate with you'):

OH DEAR I COME OFF V. INSECURE AND NEEDY (whoops). xxxx

[http://users.livejournal.com/_faeriequeen/]

I have a Doctor Who advent calendar...but it's really a New Year calendar because it has 32 doors instead of 25, and it only cost £1.99! WIN.
Also, I hope you get better soon and please meme me! :)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

1) Er, er, did I friend you or did you friend me? I DON'T REMEMBER, oh dear, I am very sorry. I have a memory like a sieve. If I friended you, then it was because I had seen you around Green Wing places and thought you seemed groovy-ful, and if you friended me then I friended you back because I had been meaning to friend you. There we go, not at all convultuted!
2) NNNGH oh dear, I don't like this one, I can never do it. I fail at memes, really. I want to say 'Mr Blue Sky' by ELO, but I have no idea why. Er, you're sunny and cheerful?
3) YOU ARE WORRYINGLY GOOD AT TOO MANY LANGUAGES.
4) Thinking how amazing your Mac+Ten icon was.
5) Mac/Tennant!Doctor, surprisingly enough. Your icon made me want to write it!
6) Okay, what appeals to you about knowing so many languages? (personally, I can understand this, but I like to know why people like the things they do because, idk, I'm nosy?)
7) THIS ONE!

Sorry about all the edits, my html has gone to hell D:

[http://users.livejournal.com/_faeriequeen/]

1) Lolz...I don't actually remember who friended who first either!
2) Aww thanks
3) Haha, I'm really not...my Italian is rubbish!
5) Umm, why have I not considered writing some cracktastic Mac/Ten slash before now?! You've started my brain a-whirring...
6) I don't know really...I've always been good at languages and I just get this real sense of joy and achievement at being able to speak them. And it's also quite interesting on a geeky linguistic level about the similarities between languages and how words can mean different things and have different connotations depending upon the culture or whatever. And I shall now shut up before I start going on about prepositions or something! ;)
7) I lurrve it too...it's like sex in icon form! LOL: I've just realised that you could totally caption it with "unexpected bumsex"! Haaa!

[yaminokurisu.livejournal.com]

I never bother with Advent Calendars anymore because I just forget :D

Also meme~

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Nooooes, advent calendars! Do you mean you forget to buy them or you forget to eat them? Forgetting to eat them never really worries me, because then when you remember it's like LOOK LOOK I CAN OPEN ALL THE DAYS, I AM THE GOD OF TIME (AND ALSO CHOCOLATE).

I am infantile at heart :D

1) Your icons were the things that drew me to you, I think, from MtW. The Ed one that strangeumbrella uses was the one I saw, maybe. Anyways, then I came and looked at your journal and you had PICTURES OF ED BYRNE and you seemed funny and nice and the like, so I friended youuuu, yayes.
2) Oh dear, I really am quite bad at this one. IDK. I associate you with Mock the Week, can that count? OBVIOUSLY IT IS NOW A SONG AND/OR FILM.
3) You...are doing something different with your hair at the moment!
4) FINDING MTW ICONS. BY YOU. OF ED. EDDDDD.
5) Dara/Ed. Obviously they count as characters. Shhhh.
6) Ooh, yes, okay, what subjects are you thinking of taking for GSCE?
7) and . The first one is my favourite of yours and the second one reminds me of you!

[yaminokurisu.livejournal.com]

Both :P

6) I'm thinking of taking Drama, Art, Music and probably History for GCSE.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I took History, and would say DO IT, it is ridiculously easy to get a good grade in. The teachers go over everything a zillion times, and as long as you brush up on a couple of dates, like, the night before the exam, you really will be fine (although it seems daunting as hell).

[yaminokurisu.livejournal.com]

I JUST DON'T WANT A CRAPPY TEACHER. I've got one right now and it's making me hate on History and also make my grades go down ):

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, there is always that. I disliked my teacher steadily all the way through the first GCSE year and then warmed to him with a side of IRRITATION DEAR GOD through the second, but I got an A* so eeeeee etc. I'm sure you'd do well :D

[yaminokurisu.livejournal.com]

WELL DONE ON A* OMG. I've probably said this to you before but still.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_faeriequeen/]

Sorry, just have to say Lucifer Box icon love!! ♥

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

Seconding the Lucifer Box icon love (I may have said that to you already but I feel it bears repeating!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

I fail at having an advent calendar again.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Noooes, go and buy one. Woolies are still pushing them on people. Go now.

Did you want meme-ing (do feel free to say no, I don't want to be, like, meme-pusher girl - not as toxic as drugs but just as annoying to the people around those all caught up in them).

Well done on the job thing, by the way. I meant to comment earlier. V. happy for you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

Meme-push away! I still have no advent calendar- I may stop by Woolies on the way home from work and see what they've got left.

I'm so relieved to be going! Only 13 working days left! Wheeeeeee!

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

HAI MOOG, I AM SADDENED BY YOUR HEALTH TALES DDDDDD: On the other hand: DECEMBER, and we have an advent calendar thing that looks like a snowman and we hang it on the door and it has little pockets for my mum to put a sweet in every morning. :D

meme YES. xxxxxxx

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

DECEMBER HOW IT WINS AT ALL THINGS.

ALSO while I am here, HURRAH AND HUZZAH for your recordingz, I meant to comment earlier but was unable to look at the computer screen without my eyes trying to hurl themselves onto the keyboard and out of my face with inexplicable amounts of eye-gunk fluids (mmm, nice). V PROUD OF SUPERSTAR MADDIE.

1) BECAUSE YOU ARE AWESOME. I was about to say I don't remember, but that is a lie, because I do, it was over your Mac/Guy pictorial essay spam thing and the conversation we had regarding favourite Green Wing episodes, and it involved me feeling nervous a lot because you WIN a lot.
2) REGENERATION YES what where who said a thing (not me).
3) YOU PLAY THE UKULELE. UKE GIRL. UUUUUUUKE.
4) You uploading Life On Mars for me and me basically having a spaz attack in the comments on your journal about its wonderment.
5) Oh dear. Prior, I guess, is the character I most associate with you, and pairing? Sam/Gene. For the main reason that you forced me to write it. :D
6) I can't think of anything I haven't already gone OH HAI I WANNA KNOW A THING whilst taking advantage of your hospitality and loveliness. Er er er. We'll try a more general question: WHAT IS A THING that you want for Christmas (not, like, define the meaning of 'a thing', because that would be a weird thing to ask you). Also I now want to know what kind of sweets you get, and do you just have the one for both you and your brother with two sweets, or do you have two snowmen calendars or do you take it turns to have a sweet? QUESTION ATTACK TAKE COVER.
7) This one reminds me of you the most, probably because it was your default icon for quite a while, but now I see it and I think HAI MADDIE ILU. I have to say though, I love this one a lot as well:

♥!

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

LOL THANKS MOOG <3333 The recordings have made us ridiculously excited omg, in case December wasn't enough, because I posted them on a uke forum and everyone's all "omg win for you, you're all young, well done!" and we're all NNNGH THANKS. lol I think I conveyed that quite well.

5) AND I WILL NEVER REGRET IT. REMEMBER THAT TIME I HAD TO READ YOUR FIC IN JAPAN THREE TIMES. :DDDD
6) Do you know, I fail so hard at a Christmas list this year. My family keeps asking me what I want, and I'm all "augh I really don't know", ahaha oh dear. I've run out of small stringed instruments to desire! At the moment, I have come up with three DVDs: Flight Of The Conchords, The History Boys, and Charles II: The Power And The Passion (...what? I remember watching it when I was like thirteen, but I didn't really pay attention, but now I'm doing that period in History, and so it would be kind of interesting, and also RUFUS SEWELL and MARTIN FREEMAN).

♥♥♥ at you Moog xxxxxxxxxxxx

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, History Boys is on my Christmas/birthay list as well :D UNFG IRWIN what who said a thing not me.

ALSO I THINK I AM GETTING THAT DOCTOR WHO TARDIS CAKE WITH BONUS TENNANT PICTURE for my birthday cake. I am quite excited about being able to EAT TENNANT'S FACE (I think you may have picked up on that during the umpteenth enforced rewatching of the Morrissey-Blackpool-Tennant dancing).

♥♥♥ FOR YOU.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

Also, I totally failed to answer the bit about the advent calendar, I just realised, lol lose for me. We just have the one calendar with two sweets in the little pocket each day, one for each of us. Today it was a big orange Quality Street! OH THE JOY.

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

I love the cold and the dark and the festive spirit and the advent calendars and the bit where it's my birthday and Christmas shopping and making Christmas presents and generally December just makes me happy.

OMG ME TOO ME TOO ME TOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

AND FEEL BETTER. :(:(:( DON'T DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE.

(Meme please? :D)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

1) Oooh, I know this! It was because of a Green Wing fic of yours that I found you, and then you LIKED LATIN and I fell over my fingers trying to comment as fast as I could and friend you.
2) Hmmm. I'm not sure. I associate you with Rome, can that count? YOU ARE MY FUCKED-UP-ROMAN-PEOPLE PERSON. BE PROUD.
3) YOU WENT TO LATIN CAMP and I am still jealous about that.
4) The sheer glee of finding someone else who would quote Virgil with me. And hated Dido. RAMPANT DIDO HATRED.
5) DIDO/YOU what what who said that (not me). No, really, Vorenus/Pullo, for some reason.
6) Er, er, idk (lol curiosity failing me here). Okay, I shall ask my stand-by December question: what have you asked for for Christmas this year (burgh word repetition. It's like that that. Nnngh.) ALSO do you have an advent calendar?
7) I AM SHALLOW AND BARROWMAN IS HOT (but now he has SPOILED HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE. WHYYYY, John? WHYYYYY?)

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

I asked for an mp3 player for Christmas FOR THE YAAAAAAYZ. I sadly do not have an advent calendar, and I haven't had one for years, but now I'm starting to want one again.

PRETTY JOHN BARROWMAN. How has he spoiled his face??? I have not seen him on tele since Torchwood, or a recent pic of him. *is worried*

P.S. DIDO/YOU what what who said that (not me).

YOU MADE ME LOOOOOOOOL.

XD

[rionaleonhart]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY MOOGLEY FRIEND. You are awesome, and I hope you have a great day!

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Oooh, darling, thank you! :D

Day going well so far: cake later is in the shape of the TARDIS with a sugar paper Tennant smirking flirtatiously and leaning on the door. I GET TO EAT HIS FACE :DDD