house of balloons

Livejournal will have you know that my birthday is both today AND Sunday. Right you are, LJ, right you are. I officially declared it my birthday at 8:52PM today after I spent two hours cleaning the whole kitchen and washing every dish in the apartment and made everybody dinner last night and washed half of those dishes, too. I am not doing ANYTHING for the rest of the weekend that isn't playing Teen Wolf drinking games, sneaking gin into Lollapalooza, or generally being at Lollapalooza.

I am THRILLED for Lolla. I'm also thrilled to have three days off of work, which is three days more than I've had for two weeks. Not that they'll be at all restful, what with spending 11 hours every day up and dancing and enjoying music. Speaking of enjoying music, Saturday is going to be the greatest day of my life?! Empires, The Temper Trap, Fun., The Weekend, Bloc Party, and Frank Ocean (and/or The Red Hot Chili Peppers) all in a row. None of them overlap, I have time to move from stage to stage between all of them, basically I can't WAIT. Tomorrow's also going to be really good. Sunday I'm a TAD disappointed about because Florence and the Machine is playing at the same time as Of Monsters and Men and The Jezabels which were the three bands I really wanted to see on Sunday and I didn't want to have to CHOOSE, but it'll still be awesome. Sunday's gonna be good for checking out new artists and having a more chill day.

mockturtletale sent me a few songs by The Weekend a couple weeks ago in a mix she made me, and then yesterday she sent me the House of Balloons mixtape and I can't fucking stop listening to it, it's so fucking GOOD. I was all about Wicked Games yesterday but House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls is my jam today, I'm honestly head over heels for this mixtape and I can't WAIT to see him live on Saturday.

Monday I go back to work again but I have the rest of next week off because my dad is coming to visit me and then I'm going to go see my mom, and I am REALLY looking forward to the time off and the time away. I'm lame and miss my parents, or something, or at least miss my mom's cooking and my dad's penchant for delicious restaurants. My mom also bought me a massage for my birthday that I get to cash in on next weekend and I'm STOKED, my back is killing me after all of the tight wire stuff I did last weekend for the circus, children are HEAVY. We also get to go to my favorite restaurant and I'm very much looking forward to it.

Umm... fandom-wise I'm really bummed about the lack of fic in the One Direction fandom that I wanna read right now, so I'm back to re-reading Inception fic. I'm considering dipping my toes in some Teen Wolf fic but that sounds dangerous and I'm still bracing myself for reading Stiles/Derek fic whichis 99% of what's available. I'm thinking about WRITING more 1D fic though, that counts, right????

Right.

Have a picture of Harold that's ruining my life.