'puppy' should be an option on LJ's moodthemes

[brigdh]

Most depressing thing ever: following "free hot chocolate" signs for ten minutes (well. I wasn't actually following them, I was walking home and they happened to point exactly the way I was going. Which makes the whole thing even worse), only to find that there's none left.

Currently I am consoling myself by sitting in the coffeeshop with the fireplace and the comfy chairs, drinking hot chocolate (which was not free, 2.50 for a medium, bitches) and eating the last of my now-slightly-stale candy corn, playing Sims and answering old comments and downloading music, because the best cure for a headache and a sulky mood is an abundance of sugar and mindless entertainment. Or so I've always believed, at least.

I feel like being a puppy right now. I want a big group of people to flop into, junk food and bad TV and giggling, and the sort of stupid pointless conversations that only make sense if you're drunk or half-asleep. I want a big bucket chair to curl up in and fuzzy slippers and a good book. I want fresh-baked cookies with the chocolate chips still melting out of them.

People! Rec me your favorite comfort-food stories and music, please?

Also: GIP.

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

There are times when my inability to teleport things is just unfair. I'd send you those cookies, because I bake good ones and it's an excellent evening for baking them, but we have no good delivery system.

Jane Mortimer wrote a handful of wonderful X-Files stories that I think of as comfort-food stories to the extent I think of anything as comfort-food stories. Whether or not you like the show at all (and I mostly was irritated with its inability to make any sense whatsoever), I suspect you'd like her Truth or Dare (http://members.aol.com/janemort/truth.html).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm jealous, then. I consider myself a fairly good cook (although maybe that's just because I'v known too many people who have trouble boiling water), but I've never been any good at baking. I made cookies just once, after a friend had talked about fresh-baked chocolate chips with such enthusiasm and excitement that I wanted to try it myself, but the only thing that came of the attempt was a bunch of charcoal patties.

I was mostly into X-Files for the first few seasons, when it was more of a monster of the week type show. After it got more into the overarching government conspiracy, I stopped being able to follow it. But oh, what a good story. Thank you for the rec!

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

*hug* Most of my comfort stories are... heavy on the angst and for fandoms you don't follow, but I'll start going through my music and see what I can come up with.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Hee, well, angst *can* be very comforting, for whatever reason. Brains are funny like that.

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

Lisa Loeb - Sandalwood (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09VHSJTD710I10XLM8QN3AJI69)
Lucia Micarelli - To Love You More (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PS1J9T5WXHG02B1HZ2GX41S0B)
Brother - Believe Again (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DOFJR18NVV792OFVKHPAWMWUL)
Frank Sinatra - Young at Heart (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SDS0EXE472LE05XODENSQXR15)
Guns N' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QBAU1NO3OBFT2QP56ROH500B7)
Lifehouse - You and Me (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04MJN7W0XLMO53NSVTUBQKIMCT)
Lifehouse - Breathing (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CYA9N1ZV1L7E27OE0IWS8SFXD)
Vienna Teng - Anna Rose (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2APUZM2XJ5RX33108X4VNQ5TVQ)
Vienna Teng - The Atheist Christmas Carol (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MTBM25Z54XD82FRKUO7GAXEUP)
October Project - Falling Farther In (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Y53V21KKQS7T05WH0B7XADYGL)
October Project - If I Could (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0VU44JXUWM77D39BY5MXXR12JT)
Xenogears - Stars of Tears (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2I8WIE9P2YIF923MK8SO3L25AQ)
Xenogears - Small of Two Pieces (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WAW5W6BM9FWX190TJWWUNSDGE)
Dean Martin - Grazie, Scusi, Prego (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=24RVNKS6Q5MNS3HAFANZUP3NOZ)
Frank Sinatra - Over the Rainbow (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09S192YI18C183JAKZRC3JHPFS)
Heather Small - Proud (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23GUETR82P2XK265FSAKC89NPX)
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3D3GCS0551QBP3AT3CWT7Q6CX2)
Live - Run to the Water (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HRO3U23ISAY81WJB6IWDP313U)
Savage Garden - Affirmation (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IBVZM0PL9GT51NFCEEBA48OZQ)
Tori Amos - Happy Phantom (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3DS6SHMYIS3E83E2BVX8D65NLZ)
Jimmy's Chicken Shack - What Do I Do (Right) (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2EBUCBFXAFKXJ1HEY4T7MU34ST)
Martina Sorbara - Bonnie and Clyde II (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SA7FO94GF69903N4NC1LWCKPG)
Dean Martin - Dream a Little Dream of Me (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FMZM6FJ3PJ4R37AWPC3W6V6XV)
Puru to Tabu to Can - Wonderful Days (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22WMW46D6NQAR1FIA5B43RTKH6)
Kimeru - Make You Free (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FX3O20431V181KZSGVQCLYZ1T)
Shishido Ryou and Ohtori Choutarou - Brand New Days (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ML3IF646BCE2P823OQPCPCJQ)
Cap to Bin - Omettou Samba (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NS23XWFVJDQQ1NJP075CUW2V4)

Er. Yeah. I have a lot of music, so that's just... a fraction of my comfort stuff. It kind of ranges, though I avoided most of the angsty-ish sutff. Mostly what I gave you is upbeat, sappy, nostalgic, or crack-y. Enjoy!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thank you so much; that must have taken forever for you to upload. And such good choices! *glomps you*

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

Hee. You're welcome, I love sharing music with people. *glomps back* Hope you like.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think that you must have come across this one already, but MJJ's The Sanzou Who Walked By Himself (http://daiquiribird.philsites.net/saiyuki/fanfics/sanzoubyhimself.php) always makes me smile. And of course I can't rec a MJJ story without rec'ing another of hers that's pretty much my favorite saiyuki fic ever, Gojou (http://daiquiribird.philsites.net/saiyuki/fanfics/gojou.php).

And my current comfort-food song is The Small Faces' Itchycoo Park, which is on that playlist. And there's the strangely jubilant Beatles song Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37F65MOW78F6G1I50WVMZ43OH4) (YMMV).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I have seen that one before, but it bears infinite rereadings. What a good warm fuzzy story. MJJ is very much one of my favorite Saiyuki authors (and mentioning this story makes me want to rec back at you all the other ones of hers that I adore, but I shall restrain myself and assume you know them already).

And more music! Between this and your playlist, I shall have lovely new things to listen to all day. Thank you!