(Or, Jensen and His Girls)

When I was little, I had a set of Mattel dolls called The Sunshine Family. I had great fun playing with Stephanie, Steve, and Sweets. I had their camper/farmer's market/craft fair booth and their tandem bicycle surrey, and I believe I had their house as well.

Here's today's sunshine family, which Sunshine Dad took and Sunshine Mom shared:

( The Sunshine Family, 2013 )

Okay, so maybe Danneel isn't as sun-cripsed as I originally thought. Just nicely tanned. I'm still amused by Jensen's flip-flops.

Still not sure about the pant's Danneel is wearing, though.

Lunching with the spouses.

Also, entirely too much awwwwwwww going on here. I see Jared is teaching Thomas to wear watch caps/beanies. Also also: Guest star spoiler-y warning-ish thing. (Though it shouldn't really come as any surprise to anyone who's paying attention to . . . well . . . everything.)

With the cute overload and all.

Also x3, Thomas saw wat u did thar and is side-eyeing you so hard.

Do I even really need to mention how great Jensen looks?

I didn't think so. ;-)

Was surfing around to give my brain a break, and I found an interesting interview with Alona Tal. Don't know if I want to check out her new show or not, but why I really wanted to post this was because of the photo at the end of the article. It's been a long time since I've seen a photo of a contemporary actress that so strongly said, "Classic Hollywood" to me. Just, wow.

Found via a friend's FB:

High-Fructose Diet Makes You Stupid

( However . . .  )

A long (loooonnnnnggggg) while back, I wrote a fic that implied that Dean does a pretty hilarious Elvis imitation.

Jensen has now made it my head canon.

Go here, scroll about half way down to the video. Be sure to enjoy the scenery along the way.

ETA: If you can't get the vid to load from the LJ page, try it from here. But try the LJ page first. 'Cause there's a lot of pretteh to be appreciated. (Standard disclaimer: I know nothing about the foreign-to-me hosting site, nor can I read the language. Just so ya know. So any sort of, I dunno, questionable pop-up ads or whatever . . . surf at your own risk.)

Once upon a time, a long while back, during the episode "Shadow," I commented that Sam and Dean must keep a supply of supernatural Neosporin in their first aid kit.

Apparently, I'm not the only one who's come to that conclusion:

Go to about the 0:25 countdown mark.

I am highly amused.

This one is for ficwriter1966 in particular, but I think anyone would like it.

Fireflies, by de_nugis.

I'm gonna be diligent and warn for language, in case I have any sensitive (or underaged) readers.

( Spoilery rec comments behind the cut )

Go. Read. Leave a comment if you've a mind. And come back here and let me know what you thought, if you're so inclined.

ficwriter1966, you know how I was telling you that I don't know what I want to read, but I'd know it when I read it? Apparently, this fits the bill.

News Flash:

First pictures of Jensen directing his S7 episode have hit the 'net. Warning: Casting spoiler included.

Please allow me to pause a moment and say, "Guh!" That man. I don't even . . .

( Now, about the casting spoiler )

As mentioned earlier, I did the chocolate-citrus cake again this year. It was quite a success.

Cake after assembly and frosting, but before decorations:



I opted not to do the candied oranges again this year. The sprinkles save me time, and I think they look seasonal and festive:



Cross section of the cake:



This is a very serious and seriously rich cake. When you're done, you know you've eaten cake. One of my cousins told me that she broke out in a sweat it was so much cake.

In other words, good stuff, folks. Good stuff.

Also? Whenever I do the ganache, I think of this riff.