| Drabble: Spoiled, G, Severus/Harry |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|10:41 am] |
Title: Spoiled
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snarry100 Challenge 138: Sugar and Spice
Warning: Fluff
Disclaimer: They belong to JKR.
( Spoiled ) |
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| Tuesday...23 more days until Christmas |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|06:51 am] |
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I'm strangely subdued. There really isn't a lot to bitch and moan about(don't worry I'll find something). On the other hand there is nothing to run up and down shouting for joy about either.
Let's analyze this:
1. Work is a morass of boredom. I did all of 39 reviews yesterday...30 of which were errors...big fat errors. I have 63 of these things left...Have I mentioned I'm working on October.
2. I'm back to not reading again. I think it may be that I can't find anything to stir the imagination or keep me from falling into a coma. I'm going to the library today and try again. I'm bringing everything I've gotten out back except Kite Runner. I need to find a little escapist literature. I don't want to read about serial killers, angsty lawyers or about people standing out in a snowfield talking philosophy. Funny would be good.
3. People are starting to bug me about the whole Christmas thing. "What do you want?" I don't really want anything for Christmas. I'm trying to get rid of "stuff" and people want to give me more. I think there is a point when stuff doesn't mean a heck of a lot. The initial sentiment is nice but it's more "stuff". I know you're saying why doesn't she tell people to get her gift certificates? My one response is..."Will that store be around when I get around to using the gift certificate?" It took me a year to use a Simon Mall gift certificate. I can never find anything I want to buy. Why doesn't she donate to charity? I am...clothes to Goodwill and the Salvation Army...books to the Boys and Girls Club...money to Save the Children...money to MSPCA...
4. I need a new hobby...my interest in crocheting has waned...I do online jigsaw puzzles every morning before I leave for work...to keep the mind sharp. I do the genealogy but it's getting weird. I'm tracing my ggggrandparents daughter Sarah(Sally)'s line who died in 1850. Why...because... I refuse to learn anything cooking related.
5. I'm waiting until January for my new insurance to kick in so I can join a gym...Oh, the excitement....
6. The economy sucks. The Stock Market tanked yesterday because someone actually verified that we are in a Recession...duh! Get over it because getting all panicky and stupid is sinking the economy further. Anger is a word. I was actually replenishing my retirement accounts nicely last week. This morning they looked like shit again.
7. I actually sat and watched TV last night and a bit this morning...Are all the shows "jumping the shark" or is it just me? There is no particular show it's just that the plots are either stupid or a retread of something I've seen on another show recently...the characters names were changed to avoid litigation.
I'm off to look online for stuff people can get me for Christmas....whatever. |
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| Poem for Tuesday |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|12:21 am] |
( The Promise )
I spent a ridiculous amount of time on Monday fighting with MS Word and my printer trying to get labels printed for holiday cards, and the rest of the time fighting with the dryer, which has apparently decided to turn off every 15 minutes for half an hour to cool down, meaning that we need to have it repaired after all. It took all day to finish the wash and nothing is even folded yet. Otherwise, all I accomplished was ordering some Cyber Monday holiday gifts and listening obsessively to the new John Barrowman CD Music Music Music, in which he confirms that he is myself at 14 by performing Barry Manilow's "I Made It Through the Rain" and various other insanely schmoopy songs, not to mention an all-male version of "I Know Him So Well" from Chess. Oh, and I got to see the Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction! (Here in honor of Boston Legal is a pic from the Boston Herald.)
( Mount Vernon Toward Winter )
We had our last Monday night with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes and Boston Legal, since next week I'll have to miss Heroes for the latter's two-hour finale and then Boston Legal will be gone. *cries* The other two, I must admit, are largely mediocre. I mean, this week we got Sarah Connor pretty much without Sarah Connor, and were instead subjected to ( spoilers. ) Then there's Heroes, an episode once more redeemed for me by Seth Green and Hiro as the comic relief, although ( spoilers. ) At least the evening ended with Boston Legal, one of whose subjects was the lack of television for adults over 50, and I'm not ashamed to be a fogey and prefer the show with just those demographics, ( spoilers. ) |
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| *thud* |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|09:46 pm] |
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Paper finished and submitted for the one class, and I checked and found I still have three days to do the last of my blog posts. *whew*
Which is good, because I have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow, some RL and some prep for the other LIS class for Wednesday (when I will be a faux interviewer). I should be able to make a couple of the posts each day. |
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| Fic Rec: Humbug and Art Rec: Through the Snowflakes |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|10:36 pm] |
Since it's December, the holidays approaching, I just have to rec my all time favorite Christmas Snarry. ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jadzialove's Humbug (the link goes to her skyehawke page). I just adore this.
Also, if you recall I squeed from the mountain tops about littleblackbow's snarry_games entry, What I did on my summer vacation. Well, she followed it up with a holiday themed video and it's just beautiful. Through the Snowflakes.
And by chance does anyone know if there is a Snarry for any of the classic Christmas movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Miracle on 34th Street"? |
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| GAH. |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|03:42 pm] |
Okay. I've reformatted so that it's double-spaced and all that good stuff, to see where I'm at; I have two more pages to write on this paper now. Maybe 600 words? It does still need a conclusion...
*think think think*
And I also need to make several more blog posts for the class, too. Also by tonight, I think, although I may have already gone over deadline on those... don't have the due dates handy here.
ETA: One... more... page... I think I will go home now though, and finish there. |
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| Fic: A Christmas Carol, R, Severus/Harry, Fred/George |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|04:30 pm] |
Title: A Christmas Carol
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus/Harry&Fred/George
Rating: Soft R
Word Count: ~290
Disclaimer: They belong to JKR.
A/N: Written for adventdrabbles, Dec 01 prompt. Original title, yes?
( A Christmas Carol ) |
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| drapery_snarco claiming underway, onslaught of holiday fests |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|03:01 pm] |
drapery_snarco claiming of prompts has begun here. Strangely enough I decided to participate. *gulp*
And as gryffindorj rightly said to me-I bitch when there is no fic and I bitch when there is too much fic. So many fests, so little time! Eep.
Also, everyone please thank J for sparing you the longest, whingiest post ever from me-she's had to bear the brunt of it. It's enough to say RL as well as some other things are making me extremely depressed.
I hope to get a couple of drabbles posted later. *sigh* |
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| OMG...I'm back |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|06:41 am] |
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It's been so long since I last posted. I hope everyone had a fabu Thanksgiving. Mine was okay but strange near the end.
Wednesday
I left work right in the middle of trying to fix a big Excel spreadsheet error. Pray for me today because it doesn't look any less scary than it did on Wednesday.
Thursday
I got up early and went out for some coffee. You heard it...coffee. I had a half decaf iced coffee. My reasoning was that I was going to be screwed up by having turkey so a little caffeine was not going to hurt me.
My sister and her nephew arrived like really early. Thank God we actually ate early. I spent most of the time with my sister while my brother showed my nephew stuff. having long drawn out odd conversations with my sister made me want more caffeine. I can't even go into the stuff she told me because it's stupid and annoyed me. Around 3:30pm she headed off to the bathroom and when she got out she called her son and said..."We're leaving." It wasn't anything I said it was just her ready to leave. Okay. P gave her half the turkey and they were on their merry way.
Friday
I relaxed and did nothing. My favorite thing. There was plenty on the Tivo. I'm not a person who shops on Black Friday. I don't like crowds.
Saturday
I went to WW and I had gained. Big surprise given it was less than 48 hours after Thanksgiving. I was also "fluid woman" and not one pill was helping that. After the meeting I went to the Mall. I'm sorry but I was not impressed with the sales. I looked and was getting irritated. Nothing fit me. See going shopping when you're retaining water and trying to get rid of the biggest meal of the year just didn't work at all. I walked out of the mall with a half decaf iced coffee. I bought zip.
Sunday
I walked a lot. I also had a big iced coffee without the decaf. The nails were done. Later in the day I had the best nap since giving up caffeine. I'm convinced that the best sleep aid for me is coffee. Some people feel energized by it but after the initial jolt...it relaxes me. I think that from now on every Sunday I will have real coffee. The rest of the week it's water, Wyler’s and tea.
I am slowly getting caught up on the whole Tivo experience.
I have shopped for more Christmas presents online this morning. P is about to kill me because he doesn't know what to get me for Christmas and I have no idea what I want. Saturday I was supposed to scope out potential stuff for me. I didn't see anything. I have everything...sort of. I have a couple of weeks to figure it out.
Oh, I read absolutely nothing over the couple of days off. I have to get back on track this week. |
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| Poem for Monday |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|12:11 am] |
( The Star Market )
It was a cold, dark, very rainy Sunday and all of us feel like we're getting colds, so we didn't do much that was exciting. I got a four-load laundry half-done. At halftime during the Redskins game, we went out to World Market -- with stops at the going-out-of-business Linens & Things and nearby Toys R Us, though we bought nothing in either place -- primarily to get simmer sauces. Bombay potatoes and pumpkin curry, though I'm afraid a Nestle Aero bar and some holiday gifts snuck into the bags. We made it home in time to see the Redskins lose. Then I got a lovely surprise: cidercupcakes had to drive her mother to work, so she was up in my direction and came over for dinner. We watched the Colbert Christmas special while apaulled made the Bombay potatoes, chicken korma and rice. So I had a delightful relaxing early evening. *g*
( National Zoo Sloth Bears )
After dinner we watched Futurama's screamingly hilarious "Anthology of Interest II" -- the one where Bender wants to be human, Fry wants to be in a video game and Leela wants to be in The Wizard of Oz. We also watched the ninth episode of Merlin, "Excalibur," which was definitely the best yet -- finally some backstory on why Uther hates magic and what's going on with Nimue -- I must confess I am really happy to see Michelle Ryan back on TV. And in addition to several women characters I like though I really wish they were given more to do, I love the male bonding. ( Spoilers. ) Later in the evening, we put on Charlie Wilson's War, though I got distracted early on by laundry and the kids going to bed, and never fully got into it as a result. ( Spoilers. )
Happy December! |
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| Mock mini_nanowrimo: Mission accomplished |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|11:36 pm] |
First the good news-November is over. :P
No, actually I had a very successful month, writing nearly every single day.
Into the Light Severus/Harry/Draco, R
Bad Trip Severus/Remus, PG
New Recruit Severus/Lucius, R
Out of Control Severus/Harry, R
Star-crossed Severus/Harry, PG
Hand Shandy Severus/Remus, R
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Charlie/Kingsley, G
This week's works added up to a little over 1800 words. So my total for November was 6700+ words with a paltry goal of 3000. So YAY!
I have nearly finished the drabbles I promised folks and now I am going to start adventdrabbles hoping to write one for each prompt. |
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| *tears hair* |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|10:03 pm] |
I'm about halfway finished with this paper on copyright, specifically on what issues would relate to a particular digital collection (not an extant one, one that I proposed creating). Due tomorrow. But I have run out of ideas of what to include! I feel like I've covered what I wanted to cover, it just didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. ARGH ARGH ARGH. And what I have down is not very well organized, either.
*hates self, hates life, hates frigging holidays with visitors who eat time*
It's not that I don't like having my mom visit, I do, but I was never able to get far enough ahead to be able to juggle spending time with her and getting classwork done... so I feel like I shortchanged her AND haven't finished... GAH. |
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| Drabble: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, G, Charlie/Kingsley |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|07:36 am] |
Title: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Rating: G
Pairing: Charlie/Kingsley
weasley100 Prompt 004: Dessert
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: They belong to JKR.
Summary: Charlie is late to Christmas dinner.
A/N: Title from the film of the same name.
( Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? ) |
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| Sexuality meme |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|11:32 pm] |
I'm pretty sure I did this one before. As others have noted it isn't a perfect test. But this is probably close in my case. Seen most recently on angela_snape's journal.
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| Poem for Sunday |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|12:04 am] |
( Prologue )
We made one more attempt on Saturday to go on the National Treasure tour at Mount Vernon, since the tours are apparently really truly ending this month, but when we arrived at 10:30, they told us they had sold out an hour earlier. Even so, we had a lovely afternoon there -- the house and grounds are decorated for the holidays as they would have been when the Washingtons lived there, with greenery hanging in the front parlor and a Christmas camel in honor of the one George Washington had brought to the estate for Christmas 1787. There were also decorated trees and a Mount Vernon gingerbread house in the visitor center. And since it's now winter and the upstairs is much cooler, the third floor was open, where there are lovely views of the grounds, a china storage closet, and several bedrooms including the one where Martha Washington slept after George's death.
( Mount Vernon Holidays )
After touring the mansion, we walked down to the river and through part of the farm to see the sheep, cattle, pigs, and chickens, plus the slave cabin and the sixteen-sided barn. We ate lunch in the food court near the gift shops (not to be confused with the excellent inn on the grounds, but still, pretty good sandwiches, cheese and peanuts). Then we came home and started watching the Terps play Boston College, but when things did not go terribly well, we put on National Treasure 2 to get our tour vicariously. Those movies remain very silly but enjoyable -- is there any other fluff film franchise with so many Oscar winners? And then we watched the Oklahoma/Oklahoma State game, in which we rooted for the latter largely out of dislike for the former.
Belated fannish5: ( Fannish Gratitude )
Belated thefridayfive: ( Ear Worms ) |
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| Fic: Hand Shandy, R, Severus/Remus |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|06:54 pm] |
Title: Hand Shandy
Word Count: ~560
Pairing: Severus/Remus
Rating: R
Warnings: Alpha!Remus, Bottom!Snape, wanking, orgasm denial, hand job, possibly cracky
Disclaimer: They belong to JKR.
A/N: Written for blpaintchart as part of a super sekrit arrangement. :P Prompts were 'hand shandy, flustered, medical dictionary, tin of prunes.' Thanks to drachenmina for the Britpick and beta. *smooch* Thanks also to gryffindorj for the final once over. You're a peach, my dear.
( Hand Shandy ) |
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| Like anyone's surprised... |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|10:08 am] |
Gacked from several people:
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| Drabble: Star-crossed, PG, Severus/Harry |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|12:23 am] |
Title: Star-crossed
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: PG
snape100 Challenge 257: January Man
Disclaimer: They belong to JKR.
A/N: The quoted line is from a horoscope for Capricorn found here.
( Star-crossed ) |
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| Poem for Saturday |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|12:06 am] |
( A Map of the City )
Even though we were all on vacation, we got up early Friday to go downtown to the National Zoo. Adam is very fond of the kiwis -- he was bitterly resentful when the baby panda got so much more publicity than the baby kiwi born at the zoo -- and he has wanted to return to the Meet a Kiwi program since we went in 2006 but because the zoo only holds it on weekdays, it's been hard to find a time to take him when he didn't have school. So we went to the kiwi program, then we visited most of the zoo that we didn't see when we were there in September (Amazonia, invertebrates, the North American valley, the gorillas, the farm) and some places that we did (the bird house, the reptile house, the Asia trail). It was a beautiful day, chilly but not really cold, and not insanely crowded though we thought there might be a lot of other people on vacation visiting.
( Meet a Kiwi )
In the late afternoon, two of the cousins stopped by to visit our cats. An hour later we went to my parents' for Shabbat dinner and leftovers. Then we came home so the kids could shower, clean their rooms, etc., and we all ended up watching The Spy Who Loved Me, which is pretty much as goofy as I remember it but still awesome fun -- supervillain trying to destroy the world, hot Russians, cool tech, and I had forgotten the awesome aquariums and underwater shots. Roger Moore is my Bond; I like him much better than Connery or Brosnan and I haven't the writing for the others.
Hope no one got trampled while shopping and hope everyone has a nice weekend. |
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| Color meme |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|06:19 pm] |
For the first time, I think I failed a meme. Yellow? Joyful? This is so completely wrong, I decided to post it. :P
Can I take a re-test? |
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