Jesus, you all make me feel so boring. All I did was finish a novel and get married. 

Thank you for you grats! 

Atheists like the season too.

Here's hoping all of you get the cheer infection.

I got engaged on New Year's Eve so I have to say that I was properly infected with cheer.
*uses hijack on thread*

Nope.  Never.  I actually am one of those freaks that keeps them all in his head.

Can you recommend something for those of us not so blessed by freakish abilities?

Now I feel the urge to actually write something called "fuck you, dad", but I can't figure out where to start with it. I want to though, because that would be one bad-ass angry poem.

Finished:
 1) Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, & Metal Magic
 2) Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
 3) The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews by Scott Cunningham
 4) Spell Crafts by Scott Cunningham
 5) Nordic Runes by Paul Rhys Mountfort
 6) Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
 7) That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
 8.) Stiff by Mary Roach
 9)The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Currently On: The Voice of the Body by Alexander Lowen

Therapy

I have a feeling I’m going to be crying more often than not while this is happening.

I have a feeling I’ll be MIA for more than one day while shit goes down.

I have a feeling you’ll mean less to me when I come out the other side.

I have a feeling this means first grounding as well as finding the ground.

In suspension I don’t have face the heights I have to rise to.

If I pretend I don’t know where the floor is I can ignore the ceiling.

If you are always at the door leading out of this closed space

Then I don’t have to assign the walls around me any further meaning.

I have created the knife that I hold at my own throat.

I have created the gun that I hold at my own head.

And I joke and I laugh and I make fun of me and my threats

Because it is made of sugar means it’s not full of lead.

And I have a feeling I’m stronger than you.

I have a feeling I always have been.

I have a feeling I’m braver than you think I am

And I will find I am more than you while this is happening.

Of course on some level I am strong because of you

But I will not thank you yet.

You will have none of my gratitude

Not while I undo all the bogus standards you set.

While this is happening, you will be a stranger to me

And that will be easy because you made it impossible for me to know you.

In return you made it impossible to know me.

I will not regret that for you.

I have a feeling they will wonder why they had not met me before.

I have a feeling they will say that they missed me.

I have a feeling that despite how difficult you made it

Somebody in here loves me, while this is happening.

That somebody matters the most.

That somebody is the matter that is happening.

She is the matter at hand that matters more than you.

She is the matter with me.

I have a feeling you will come to me with cupped hands

But I won’t be who you are coming to, while this is happening.

You will come towards me but end up at them.

This heart and harbor is closed, at least, while this is happening.

I have a feeling you won’t like who greets you when this is over

And you really won’t be in any sort of control.

I have a feeling there will be a rearrangement, a change of guard

A mutiny of sorts in the order of what matters in my soul.

I have a feeling I’ll be quiet and alone while this is happening.

I’ll be withdrawn more than a few times while I talk to myself

About how to proceed with many things.

Because what is happening is about me.

This is not about you or him or them

But about me and that someone inside me

Who loves me.

So I have a feeling I will become withdrawn and awkward while this is happening.

I have a feeling I will live with a box of tissues in my purse for a while.

I have a feeling I will get angry at random, for no reason, for a time.

I will accuse everyone but me for the state of me and know that I am lying.

You’ll have to excuse the mess on aisle four, she’s in a state of reviving.

I don’t seek to solve a problem, there is no real equation.

I have a matter, with which I require assistance, is all.

That matter is the matter of she who hates me and she who loves me within me.

I have a matter with whatever is the matter with me and that matter is me.

I have a feeling I’ll be a while, untangling this heinous mess.

I have a feeling to go away and hide my face while I pick at the knots.

I will curse and scream and blame and cry and none of it will be about me

Because it is actually about me and I don’t want it to be

And I will cry more often than not while this is happening.

Unable to respond. I'm not at work right now, but we do have a table of those that come in to eat every Tuesday.

IBTNP lives inside city limits.

1. Ratcatcher (1/5/12)
    2. The Fountain (1/22/12)
    3. Abduction (1/24/12) - While the premise of this film was interesting, the execution made me want to scratch my eyes out.
    4. Drive (2/2/12) <-- Freaking amazing. Yes, the fact that I had eaten half of a special cookie probably intensified the hell out of it, but still... Freaking amazing arthouse noir film.
    5. Inception (2/712) - Finally, they make a film that doesn't hold your hand and tie everything up neatly at the end.
    6. Real Steel (2/13/12)0 - Just like Over the Top except with Robots.
    7. Fast Five (2/21/12) - Movies like this make me wonder why I agree to watch movies with my mother...
    8. The Green Lantern (2/22/12) - I should lose some geek points for not having seen this sooner but to be honest I didn't even know it had come out.
    9. Seven Days in Utopia (2/22/12) - The things I will tolerate for my mother.
    10. The Big Year (3/5/12) - Cute. That obnoxious cute funny.
    11. In Time (3/6/12) - Hey, look they remade Gatica.
    12. House (3/11/12) - The Japanese Psychedelic Horror, not the television series. Amazing.
    13. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (3/25/12) *****

14. Prometheus (6/10/12) - Don't do this if you are a technical person bothered by many if small inconsistencies and scientific abominations. Just don't. It had such a catalog of tiny annoyances, much like a 3-year-old.

The 3D gave me a splitting migraine. So yeah, no more 3D for me.

15. Metropolis (6/11/12) Yes, it took me this long to get around to watching this movie. Stop looking at me like that.

Success! But this still doesn't explain why licklick could be uploaded but not meowmeow... Oh well.

I apparently need some help with a random thing. I'm trying to change my avatar. I have the page with GIF file. I have saved image as, but when I upload the file to the interwebs (my avatar) the GIF is static and not a motion image, like it's supposed to be. It works for my licklick avatar but not for meowmeow. Please help. Tell me it's something I'm doing.

EDIT: When I open the file in IE (shutup) it is a motion image, but it isn't a motion image as an avatar here (unlike my licklick avatar). Which makes no sense, unless maybe because it's too big, but wouldn't it tell me in annoying red print that the image was too big?

False. I'm freaking amazing and I know it.

IBTNP can tell the difference between a beech tree and birch tree.