Twelve Days of Cookies: Day Three [December 02, 2009 @ 6:21pm] amejisuto Oops. Sorry I'm so late. Shopping today, and then the wind blew my garbage can into the next county just about and I had to go traipsing after it. ( The Neelys' Butter Cookies ) Comment

Heroes and the Manchurian Candidate [December 02, 2009 @ 4:09pm] bitterfig Over the past month or so I’ve been getting quasi-obsessed with the television show Heroes. I watched Season 1 (very good) and Season 2 (very bad) on DVD and I’ve also been watching the current Season, 4. ( cut for spoilers ) Comment

[December 02, 2009 @ 7:14pm] pansexual I really want to do a game on the Dark Heaven's Trilogy by Kylie Chan Anyone know of them and would be interested? Comment

[December 02, 2009 @ 10:49am] pansexual 1. My username is ______ because ______: My username is pansexual because I was looking for a journal name to replace mjslsbs and this one was offered to me from someone at tradingspaces and cause I have a dirty mind... I fell in love with it 2. My name is _____ because ______: Immortal Aussie because that is currently my online handle. I'm Australian and I thought it sounded cool when I was half asleep and stuck for idea.s 3. My journal is titled ____ because ____: The Den of Immortal Aussie- because a Den is a place where people live and this is where I 'live' on IJ 4. My default userpic is ____ because ____: Red/Orange ocean with 'I threw Bitter Tearts at the Ocean but all that came back were the tides' well along with most of my icons it was made by a friend, the quote sounds awesome too. Comment

I've been awake for too long [December 01, 2009 @ 5:12pm] atalantapendrag [ mood | cold ] They're doing inspections next week, so I spent more than I should have to get cleaners in. So that was me having to be awake from around noon to around two. But it doesn't stop there, because I am expecting a Hookah-Shisha.com package from UPS, and the only way I can be sure of getting a UPS delivery without a hitch is by having the door open. Thankfully, the screen door latch is fixed! But UPS is yet to arrive, although the tracking info says all is well. Did I mention that it's raining and chilly? 43 may not be cold in New England in December, but it is in Texas. And the rainy, especially, makes me stiff and sore. I've got semi-plans with doombuggie, but if UPS doesn't show soon they won't be able to happen :( I'm miserably cold and stiff anyway. I just want to be warm. Comment

What's In My Bag Meme [December 01, 2009 @ 1:13pm] bitterfig What's In My Bag Meme from fitz_carraldo. 1. My purse. I’ve been using it for about a year and a half since I got is last spring at a “Share Your Stuff” exchange that was held at Whole Foods when I was working there. 2. A $25 Barnes & Noble giftcard—a couple of my co-workers gave it to me at my farewell party right before I left Chicago in September. 3. Chapstick from ALDI’s. Probably toxic. 4. An admissions badge from the Corning Glass Museum where my father and I stopped on our trip back from Chicago. 5. A purple Hello Kitty notepad. 6. My wallet—many years old and a bit overfilled. It’s pink and has the Sanrio character My Melody on it. 7. Bath & Body Works vanilla scented anti-bacterial hand lotion. I can’t use regular anti-bacterial gels because they dry my skin out but this works well. 8. Something my sister got for me this summer at G-Fest (a massive Godzilla collectors show). I think it’s some sort of a cell phone ornament from Japan of a Kewpie in a panda suit. 9. Condoms. Just because I haven’t had sex since 2002 doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be prepared. 10. Pens. 11. A crumpled tissue. 12. A zip-loc snack bag containing 3 quarters. Left over from when I was in an apartment and had to go out to the Laundromat to do my washing every week. 13. My leopard spotted Hello Kitty checkbook. Comment

Twelve Days of Cookies: Day Two [December 01, 2009 @ 11:24am] amejisuto ( Dried Cherry and Almond Cookies with Vanilla Icing ) Comment

current and future reading [November 30, 2009 @ 11:57am] bitterfig A couple of days ago I finished reading Jean Plaidy’s Rose Without a Thorn, a historical novel about Katherine Howard (5th wife of Henry VIII—beheaded) and I’ve just started Cornelia Funke’s Inkdeath, the 3rd and final novel in her Inkworld trilogy. Inkdeath is going to take me a while to read. It’s 663 pages long and even though it’s a young adult novel the prose is dense and rich like liqueur. Funke’s Inkworld series is all about books and reading. One of the characters, Fenoglio, is an author who is magically transported into his own book. However another character, Orpheus, has the ability to rewrite Fenoglio’s book and alter the reality therein. Fenoglio wonders, “…was there any worse fate than having to watch something else twist your own words, adding colorful touches—in very bad taste—to the world you’d made?” Reading this I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of guilt as a writer of fan fiction. Like Orpheus, I delight in messing about with other people’s imagined worlds and adding lurid elements to their stories. I’ve always considered it quite a creative enterprise however Fenoglio’s dilemma does make me look at it from another perspective. One thing I can take some consolation in is the fact that nothing in the Inkworld series is clean cut. Fenoglio, with his sense of authorship towards the world around him, is a very ambiguous character not nearly so much in control of the world he created as he would like to be. When I finish Inkdeath, I’ve decided that I’m going to reread Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. I read it for the first time back in the fall of 2004 but I really plowed through it, I’d like to go back and do a more leisurely reading taking in more of the details. Comment

Twelve Days of Cookies: Day One [November 30, 2009 @ 10:49am] amejisuto Well, it's that time of year again. The Twelve Days of Cookies Newsletter is here! ( Gingerbread Cookies for the Holidays ) Comment

Ok, what? [November 29, 2009 @ 11:01pm] atalantapendrag [ mood | annoyed ] [ music | Coast to Coast ] My grandmother sent me this "cutesy" email forward about how awesome dogs are and how aloof and uncaring cats are. I sent her pictures of her great-grand-kitties. I have an upset tummy and a slightly whiny back. Oh, for a bottle of ginger beer and a gentle backrub! I might have to use my Hitachi Magic Wand for its officially intended purpose. Comment

Yeah, it's the winter of my discontent all right. [November 29, 2009 @ 4:45pm] atalantapendrag [ mood | drained ] [ music | Voltaire - Feathery Wings ] More stress today; had to call to switch my Medicare Part D insurance plan to one where I wouldn't have to pay a premium. Enrolled over the phone. My hands were shaking the whole time. I almost dropped the phone. Tomorrow I need to get ahold of Molly Maid so I don't have to worry about my place being a sty for the inspection on the 8th. Why the hell they are doing inspections now is anyone's guess. I just hope it's not the 3rd, because if it is I'll have to reschedule my MHMR appointment. But I am valiumed up now and sleep will be soo. Comment

Tweet Tweet! [November 28, 2009 @ 11:03pm] katfusion 11:35 we're currently trying to fix the heater in my car so i don't freeze to death in it like i did yesterday morning on the way to work. omgbrr! # 21:21 I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets - w33.us/2jk # 21:22 @achtung_meggie @the_nini i'm like a lemming, guys. following you all over the place # 21:33 @achtung_meggie well it's true, frank is always followed by leaving for my bunk. ;) # 21:44 Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: My Chemical Romance - 11. Taking Back Sunday - 7. Weezer - 7. bit.ly/7K5Qnl # 22:00 just voted "The Grinch " on "What Is Your Favorite Christmas Movie?" vote too ➔ bit.ly/8rpgc6 # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Comment

Spice Sugar Cookies [November 28, 2009 @ 1:40pm] amejisuto Well, Thanksgiving is over and I have oodles of new Christmas icons to play with, thanks to TooCuteIcons. She posed 300 icons yesterday so if you need holiday icons, that's where to find some. So it's time to start posting cookies! ( Spice Sugar Cookies ) Read (2) Comment

Tweet Tweet! [November 27, 2009 @ 11:03pm] katfusion 16:53 today was the longest day of work EVER # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Comment

And here I thought I'd have a couple of weeks to relax [November 27, 2009 @ 12:56pm] atalantapendrag [ mood | stressed ] In the mail (I only check my mail every couple of days, I checked it last night) I got 1) a notice of an inspection on the 8th and 2) paperwork to fill out because Social Security is reviewing my Disability. It's too damn much. Why the hell are they doing inspections NOW? And I know they do periodic reviews of SSDI cases, but god, the TIMING! Comment

Whee! [November 27, 2009 @ 9:44am] amejisuto It's SNOWING! First snowfall of the year. It's not sticking to the ground much, but it's snowing! YAY! Yeah, yeah, by February I'll be sick of it but right now, YAY! Read (4) Comment

Tweet Tweet! [November 26, 2009 @ 11:03pm] katfusion 00:06 dearest internets: you are taking FOREVER. stop that. kisses, me. xoxox ps: i'm bored now, gimme something shiny. # 08:53 Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Gobble, gobble. :) # 10:32 is thankful for many things today, but most of all...I'm thankful I'm not a turkey. # 17:37 @the_nini don't be hatin' on my 'Boys, now. :P # 20:45 @achtung_meggie it's totally legal during the holiday season, i think. # 20:58 @achtung_meggie ilu 2 bb. <3 # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter Comment

Happy Thanksgiving! [November 26, 2009 @ 10:09am] amejisuto Thanksgiving Comments - Myspace Comments Many blessings on to all my Flist and your family and friends this Thanksgiving! Even if you're not in the States! And if you guys go out for any Black Friday sales, be careful! Don't get mugged or hit over the head for a three dollar crock pot or anything! LOL Happy Thanksgiving Y'all! Read (2) Comment

Oh look, it's a holiday tradition. [November 26, 2009 @ 7:06am] atalantapendrag Happy Thanksgiving, USAians. Happy Thursday, rest of the world. Comment

Criminal Minds [November 25, 2009 @ 2:47pm] bitterfig About two weeks ago I watched an episode of the television show Criminal Minds for the first time. I usually avoid police procedural show but I was interested because rock star Gavin Rossdale was guest-starring as a sort of strung-out vampire rock star (not that I’m exactly a Gavin Rossdale fan, but I liked him well enough in Constantine). Watching the show I ended up being pretty impressed by androgynous boy genius Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) so yesterday when I saw there were reruns showing on several channels I ended up watching a couple episodes. When not ogling Matthew Gray Gubler’s cheekbones, I was pleased to discover that Mandy Patinkin was on the earlier episodes of the show. I’ve had a thing for Mandy Patinkin for about 20 years—when I was in high school I listened obsessively to his recording of the musical Evita. Patinkin was gone in more recent episodes of the show, but I found myself surprised and unexpectedly pleased by another character, an FBI computer technician called Penelope Garcia (Kristen Vangsness). Now I’ve always loved support staff type characters, from secretaries Marilyn (Northern Exposure) and Elaine (Ally McBeal) to sour techie Chloe (24) but in addition to her behind-the-scenes sort of position the thing about Garcia that really endeared her to me was that she was a female character on a mainstream television show who was not skinny. She was cute and sexy and curvy and plump and voluptuous. I don’t follow a lot of television shows but I honestly can’t think of the last time I saw a not skinny female character. Probably teenaged Sara Rue on Popular (she ended up slimming down for her own show Less Than Perfect). I’ve watched a grand total of 3 ¾ episodes of Criminal Minds, so for all I know Garcia might be a totally stereotypical “overweight” character who does nothing but provide comic relief talk about diets but I don’t think so. It seemed to me like there was some sort of romantic thing going on between her and FBI agent, Morgan, and generally she seemed like someone who was really competent and well regarded by her peers. I’m really curious now to watch more of the show and she how she’s handled. A couple super adorable pics of Kristen Vangsness as Penelope Garcia Read (2) Comment

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