The Good, The Bad, and All the Love. ♥

Today has been a day of ups and downs.

• Woke up too early
  
• Spent far too much time arguing with Final Fantasy VII.
  
• Ate coffee and a donut, and later another donut.
  
• Watched HGTV for awhile, which is both entertaining and depressing in equal measures.
  
• Learned that yet again, the local news station refuses to spent more than two minutes talking about the gay marriage debates.
  
• Was invited out to get dinner with Brother's mom since it's just the two of us in the house tonight.
  
• Ended up watching TV and eating by myself because she got a phone call.
  
• Discovered that while I FINALLY received $50 for my state taxes, I'm being charged $70 for my federal taxes which were confiscated by a previous debt. I ... have no idea what the hell I should do about it. >.<
  
• Found my inbox and Facebook flooded with supporters of equal marriage rights, while many of my Dreamwidth friends are upset about the debate.
  
• Learned from Brother's mom that her daughter-in-law's brothers got into an actual *fist fight* over marriage rights. Which even though I'm not exactly friends with these boys, hurts for reasons that are hard to put into words.
  
• Finally discovered the reason I keep getting Follower notices from Fanfiction.net on my one-shots: they have a new 'Follow/Favorite' button at the top of the page, which I suspect is their attempt at AO3's Kudos button. It's ... a very annoying way to implement a good idea. >.<
  
• Wanted to rant about All The Feelings I have on the marriage issue but had to reign it in a bit, because this is a very conservative family and I'm 90% sure that Brother is the only person in his family who actually supports gay marriage. Still kind of ended up saying more than I intended to (and probably should have). There wasn't any debate or discussion about it, but I got the impression we were on opposite sides.

But there were definite ups, too.

• Ranting and planning and talking with starlit_purple. ♥
  
• Brother's bird has been very quietly and sweetly chirping at me off and on tonight. (Since he often throws tantrums whenever I so much as stand in the room, this is a very nice change.)
  
• This video, which starlit_purple linked on Facebook, which is lovely. ♥
  
• Posts of love and happy things from punkpinkpower and starandrea, for everyone who needed something to make them happy today. ♥
  
• Clicking on one of the pictures starandrea linked and discovering this fabulous collage of win by sheer accident.
  
• A dish of rocky road ice cream.

I love my friends. You are all so amazing and wonderful and full of love. ♥