for the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

Fantastic choices on the Q&A everyone! Seems like everyone's in the holiday spirit. Here are my list of movies that I have to watch during the holidays:

The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Muppets Christmas Carol, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (yes, I did have a TalkBoy), Meet Me in St. Louis, The Santa Clause, Elf, Babes in Toyland (with Annette), The Year Without Santa Claus (and mostly every stop motion Christmas/New Year themed film).

I think that that's about it. These are the movies that I grew up watching during the holidays and they always take me back to that time when I first remember watching them. I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Muppets Christmas Carol, Home Alone 2, and The Santa Clause in the theater when they first came out and those memories are stuck with me in a good way.

I mostly found out about these movies or watched them on my own. My mom would watch them because I watched them and she ended up liking them. I remember this one Christmas where me and my dad were alone for the first time together in years and we watched all three Godfathers. I was older so I understood them all better and they ended up being my favorite movies. So, I've learned in my informal poll that everyone has different tastes but still movie hounds around the holidays. :)

Sometimes I feel like an ass for doing these but 'tis the season:

Holiday Love Meme, Secret Santa Style!

First of all, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY jittrbugg! I hope that you had a good one.

Secondly, I don't think that I thanked everyone properly for participating in the Valentine's Day Secret Admirer Extravaganza project! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, everyone who sent in messages for their friends, everyone who even got a mention and even those who didn't I'm sending so much love to all of you.

I really enjoyed working on it and putting it together. I just love the tradition and trying to keep it an annual event since it started ... what was it, a couple of years ago in severina2001's journal? I know that sdvmadelyn does the giant one but we still have ours trucking along the highway alongside so, thank you again! Definitely hope to see it next year too. ♥♥♥♥♥ to all of you!

In case you missed it or want to go back and reference (or something) you can find the first post here and the second post here.

Thank you again!

And now as a little side note I am getting SO nostalgic for Qaf again. I mean before with my nostalgia posts (you can find the fic part one here) I was/am just very nostalgic for fandom but now I'm getting show nostalgic!

I was reading arlad's wonderful AU fic The Space Between that I've never read before since I was too busy graduating from college when she wrote it but I just got ridiculously happy thinking about Brian and Justin again. Then I watched the following clips:

1) Hotel sex.
2) Forever young.
3) I want you safe.
5) Domesiticity from S4
6) Not married!
7) BJ from 309
8) Ready to go ...
9) Fucking chicken soup
10) Flirty Justin circa 406!

And I just ... man. It just hit me how much I still love these moments. Watching season four and that scene that they had sitting on the floor with the Chinese boxes I mean what would we have given to have seen that scene a couple seasons prior to that moment? I know that we were all SHOCKED when we saw those clips (on Andrea's site, hee). I remember how much I loved feeling that surprised and happy for those two.

Sigh, memories. I think I need a marathon. I rewind Nuke clips constantly for their little touching moments together and it's been a while since I've done that for Brian and Justin. I know I'll be having a bit of a rewind-a-thon soon!

Oh, Nuke yesterday? *ded*

Wow. I am completely blown away by how many people spread the love for their flist. This is a tradition that I do hope will continue on in the future and I was more than happy to do it this year for everyone. Since I opted to cancel the recommended 10 people on your flist the love definitely poured in for more than 350 PEOPLE this year. Wow. Incredible! So, thanks for letting me do this and have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

The Valentine's Day icon provided by the very talented kinnetik_vision. If you feel like using some Valentine's Day icons today hers can be found here. The graphic above was made by me! And since there are so many people I've split the post into two parts. The other one coming up!

Edit: Official count 402 people! Way to go!

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One day gang! I'm counting this day as an entire day. You have until midnight Pacific Standard Time to get your Valentine's Day words of appreciation/love/undying devotion in! So, your daily reminder -- get them all in to me tonight and tomorrow you'll have a special treat waiting for you.

Again, this doesn't just apply to the Queer as Folk fandom. That may be the focus here but it can be for ANYONE on your flist. Click the image if you need more information or if you have questions! ONE DAY.

ONE DAY.

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Thank you so much to my Rent lovah severina2001 and braintwin url_girl for pimping this out! Also thank you to anyone else who has pimped this out too. Tons of love is just pouring right on in and that just gives me all types of warm and fuzzies.

If you haven't gotten them in yet that's okay! You still have three more days to do it. THREE DAYS. Cut off point is February 13th at midnight PST, California time. My time. So, get them in the next three days!

Again, this doesn't just apply to the Queer as Folk fandom. That may be the focus here but it can be for ANYONE on your flist. Click the image if you need more information or if you have questions! THREE DAYS.

This is your reminder for the day! Now I'm going to eat lunch because I'm hungry. *grumbles*

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That's right. You guys have FIVE days to turn in your anonymous Valentines for the Valentine's Day Secret Admirer Extravaganza! It's due by approximately midnight PST, February 13th. You could go over a little since I'll be up organizing but try to have them in by midnight PST on February 13th.

Let's give your flist a little love. And this doesn't just apply to the Queer as Folk fandom. That may be the focus here but it can be for ANYONE on your flist. Click the image if you need more information or if you have questions! FIVE DAYS.

All right gang, Valentine's Day is quickly approaching (ONE WEEK AWAY) and I think that it's time to spread the love in this fandom. I know of one of these that are going around but not the way that severina2001 has been doing it. She originally borrowed this idea from svmadelyn in another fandom and spread the love into this fandom. So, need the rules again?

It's time to spread the love again!

As you know, Valentine's Day is fast approaching. And what better way to make everyone feel special than to send happy joyful Valentines Wishes?

Here's how it works:

1. Pick up to 10 people from your flist Go nuts this year! Pick more than 10 people, pick 20, pick 30 --- pick your friends! Write a sentence or two about how you feel about them. Could be as simple as "you always make me smile" or "I love your icons."

2. EMAIL your comments to me at amelia.lourdes@gmail.com You have until midnight February 13th to send 'em in!

3. On February 14th, I will post a list of all the people who got comments, and post all the comments they received... without revealing WHO sent them. So lots of people will wake up on Valentines Day to all kinds of anonymous love!

Last year 100's of comments were sent in. It only takes a few minutes of your time, and think about how awesome you'll feel. Think about how awesome your recipients will feel. Think about the LOVE. Come on, fandom.

Questions? Ask 'em in the comments.

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All words and phrases taken straight from severina2001's post last year. Valentine's Day is time to spread the love in fandom gang so let's have as many comments and as many of your LJ friends as you can get!

Spread this around. SPREAD THE WORD! The more people, the more love. Let's bring fandom together with the love. That is what our OTPs are about right? Right!

And so much thanks to severina2001 for hosting this in previous years. You deserve so, so much love! I totally heart you!

I want to wish everyone the best Christmas, Hanukkah, any holiday that they celebrate this week or no holiday at all! I'm fully immersed in the Christmas spirit even if it's that time of the month. :| Y'know, it's difficult for a lot of people this Christmas with the state of the US economy but I hope that everyone is managing okay and having the best time that they can.

Also thank you so, so much to sanami276, colorthenight, friday82 and that anonymous gift I received when I was feeling a little down. Having messages like that waiting for me really makes my entire Christmas that much more special. I'm pretty much content with just hanging around the apartment and watching movies with my mom which is what we're doing right now.

So, how was everyone else's Christmas? What made this holiday special for you?

When I have more computer time this weekend I'll be back with gifts! Thank you to all of you for making my Christmas, making my year a very special one. You all mean a lot to me.