enamoured | it took me entirely too long to finish this entry.

Let's do this in list formation.

1. A diversion that I found last night: PENGUINS!

They are so distracting and so very cute!

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I reblogged this last night and can't stop staring. His shoulders, unf.

3. The return of Puppy Cam! The new litter's been broadcast for a few weeks now, but now the puppies are in the stage where they're starting to stay awake more. Puppyblogging is posting some adorable stills of the pups, though.

(Also, what the hell, why are people calling the puppies by Glee character names? Stop that!)

4. A few weeks ago, I bought a Smash Book at Target. I first heard about them a year ago, give or take, and I thought it looked cool. And since it was on sale, I got this one.

And over the following days, I ended up buying damn near every little add-on accessory that Target had to go with them, because everything was on sale.

I went through a brief scrapbooking phase in high school. Not to the extent of, say, those women who spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on paper and notions and have rooms dedicated to it, or to the extent of that one award winning chick who made fandom_wank when it was discovered she was a scrapbooking plagiarist, but I definitely had a moment. Mostly, I would buy the paper and stickers and intend to make layouts and stuff and never get around to doing it, because it was too labor intensive for me and I didn't feel creative enough. What I like about the Smash books is that they have neat pages inside and you don't feel the absolute need to create something from scratch if you don't want to. All you do is take whatever you have and glue it in, and boom! You've done something.

And did I mention that it has cool pages?

Anyway. I took some pictures of what I have in mine so far (I bought a new camera, because I dropped my old one earlier this year at a concert and the focus hasn't worked right since, and oh man, the new one was a bundle pack with a wall charger, a camera pouch, and a memory card!).

Supply box. (Sidenote: Vans and Converse boxes are great for quick storage. I went on a trip sometime in '03, bought a pair of Converses, and used the box to hold the CDs and knickknacks I bought. Super-handy.)

Cover of the book, obvs.

I had a backlog of GetGlue stickers, so there's a few pages of nothing but stickers in there. I was flipping through them and the more I looked at them, the more they reminded me of my merit badges from Girl Scouts, so there you are.

Random page. With something that

la_petite_singe said on Tumblr, because I thought it was funny.

It's not a journal of mine 'til it has a random page of quotes!

More GetGlue stickers, and a page I'm setting up. I'm going to see The Wanted at Six Flags on Monday ~~omg I am so excited~~, so the pocket's going to be for pictures and what have.

Stickers! And I cut that "love conquers all" out of an issue of CosmoGirl years ago. (Guess who the article was about. Think about it.)

Stickers.

One of my favorite accessories so far are the tab pages. See the little map pattern page that I have everything tucked into? You can snap those into the book to add space to slide things into. The calendar pages came from the daily Lost calendar that my mom gave me for Christmas a few years ago, the picture of Mike Rowe is from an old-as-all-hell issue of Entertainment Weekly, and the fake backstage pass is from a BSB video that was also a Christmas gift from my mom. (Back in 1998. The DVD version does not have the pass. Don't ask how I know that.)

I have to say, looking at other people's books--and other people's scrapbooks and notebooks--makes me hate my handwriting a little. People compliment me on it all the time, but I feel like mine is nowhere as nice as others. Like this person's or this.

5. The Shawshank Redemption was on when I got home, and yes, it is still one of the best movies ever.