shuffle songs I've been awake for too long [01 Dec 2009|05:12pm] atalantapendrag 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. [ mood | cold ]

shuffle songs Ok, what? [29 Nov 2009|11:01pm] atalantapendrag 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. [ mood | annoyed ] [ music | Coast to Coast ]

shuffle songs Yeah, it's the winter of my discontent all right. [29 Nov 2009|04:45pm] atalantapendrag 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. [ mood | drained ] [ music | Voltaire - Feathery Wings ]

shuffle songs [28 Nov 2009|02:20am] kaesa Silly AIM meta/fic in the same off-the-cuff vein as this. Edited slightly. Um. And character death. That's basically the premise. kaesa: jesus. kaesa: PP 70 – Wizard Card # 14: Thaddeus Thurkell (1632 – 1692) – Famous for producing seven Squib sons and turning them all into hedgehogs in disgust. thinkatory: ... kaesa: I am picturing Helga beating him to death with a shovel. kaesa: it is a nice image. thinkatory: Thanks Helga! ( and then it devolved into not really a conversation, or at least not one between me and Kitty ) [ mood | amused ]

shuffle songs And here I thought I'd have a couple of weeks to relax [27 Nov 2009|12:56pm] atalantapendrag 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! [ mood | stressed ]

shuffle songs [26 Nov 2009|11:58am] kaesa D: D: D: ...Look, Captain Jack Harkness, intergalactic manwhore, has done some pretty awful things in his long life. BUT SINCE WHEN DOES HE RAPE PEOPLE? Is there some part of relevant Whoniverse canon that I am totally missing? If so, could someone please tell me what it is, so that I can KEEP MISSING IT? (I mean, aside from that thing with Owen in the first episode of Torchwood. That scene is made of ick. And if you agree, don't google for discussion on it, because half the forum threads are full of guys going "lol, that was funny, you guys are taking it too seriously, I wish I had that stuff." I guess this is the Axe/Lynx demographic.) ...Okay, skimming the fic, the author seems to have gotten the Time Agency mixed up with the Rape Agency, and Jack ("Seth") has had some kind of horrible personality transplant and should be on every Sexual Offenders list ever. 0_o Never mind. I did see the Rape/Non-Con warning, but I saw that it was a Big Bang fic (and therefore long) and assumed it had something to do with the plot/character arc. And that was depressing, so I leave you with this cheering fanart. [ mood | disgusted ]

shuffle songs Oh look, it's a holiday tradition. [26 Nov 2009|07:06am] atalantapendrag Happy Thanksgiving, USAians. Happy Thursday, rest of the world.

shuffle songs Stuff [24 Nov 2009|08:34pm] atalantapendrag Okay, important thing first. There's a bill to outlaw mail order sales of tobacco in the US. Cigars will be the only exemption. This effects me personally, of course, because I buy my shisha mailorder as much for variety as for price. I know it's only an online petition, but would some of you consider signing this? I'm sure many if not most of you are nonsmokers, but I see it as a personal freedom issue. Went out with doombuggie last night. He convinced me to check out this new bar downtown. Too loud for my comfort level, but not as bad as most clubs, and it wasn't even remotely crowded so that wasn't so bad, and we didn't stay very long. After that he took me to HEB so I could make a much-needed grocery run. It wasn't pleasant; it was late enough that the restockers were out, clogging up the aisles, but close enough to Thanksgiving that it was still crowded, even at 11. I was so glad to get out of there! We dropped my stuff off and went to Epoch, because doombuggie had plans to meet up with a friend and Epoch's cool anyway. I mostly just zoned out while they talked. doombuggie was concerned about me looking like I was falling asleep in my seat! I was fine, though, just sort of inert. Conked pretty hard when I got home, though. It was a pretty good night. Had a good experience with complex maintenance. The latch on my screen door has been sticking and last night I pretty much had to break out, so this morning I called maintenance (which is dispatched from a central office, you don't call the complex you're in). Guy showed up this afternoon; I'd met him briefly once or twice. Friendly, polite, competent. We chatted a little while he fixed the latch and he complimented my skull pajamas. No unneeded stress, and my screen door is fixed. ( Moping about Thanksgiving ) [ mood | melancholy ] [ music | Coast to Coast ]

shuffle songs PSA [23 Nov 2009|05:05pm] atalantapendrag 3 free MP3 dowloads from Amazon.com. That's any three songs, not just from a limited list, but it's only for a few days.

shuffle songs Because "it goes without saying" isn't a good enough reason not to say it [23 Nov 2009|11:20am] atalantapendrag You're awesome, waywardoctagon. You kick ass in so many ways, and getting into the Company series is only a recent way. It was so much fun being able to finally "Yes! Yes! Totally yes!" with someone over all the Lewis/Joseph-Aziraphale/Crowley parallels, and to snicker at( tiny tiny spoiler ). I'm looking massively forward to squeeing with you over some of the later stuff. Oh god, Latif in "The Young Master"! Labienus in general in Children of the Company! Much other coolness that I can't even mention yet! We must recruit more *casts thoughtful gaze at zarla* [ mood | lethargic ]

shuffle songs Meta meta meta on the table table table: Naming your Muses! [23 Nov 2009|12:32am] rubyfruit_pixie Found on DW's Metafandom comm, An entry about naming muses and nicknaming fics, I have decided to open a discussion about the subject here on IJ. Do y'all name your muses? Do you have nicknames for your fics? ( And stuff!! ) [ mood | amused ]

shuffle songs [22 Nov 2009|10:31pm] kaesa So last week I posted about the Archive Of Our Own, which if you missed it is being called AO3 because AOOO sounds like a basset hound. But I didn't really post as a reader. It didn't occur to me because I had just spent several days uploading all of my fanfiction there. (Well, that I still like. I actually do have two Greek mythology fics that I haven't posted there, but the second one is a sequel to the first, which was written in high school and has some gender issues I'm really not proud of.) Anyway, after all that posting, I had kind of expected people to read my fic, but I hadn't actually gotten around to reading their fic. And omg you guys, AO3 is great for fic-reading. At least for me. ( AO3 as a reader. ) Anyway. Having said all that, Chapter Seven of Between Here and Now and Forever is posted on: The Archive Of Our Own FanFiction.Net Skyhawke LiveJournal In honor of this, ( more YouTube music links! )

shuffle songs Hunh. [22 Nov 2009|10:03pm] atalantapendrag One big-ass portion of noodles, meat, and Chinese broccoli at a Thai place = four meals for me. Dinner last night, breakfast today, and dinner today, with enough remaining for either breakfast or lunch tomorrow. goddessgoddess, thank T. again for me, would you? And what was the name of that place? It was yummy. Thinking of plugging iDoser and drifting off with some aural opium. The annual Coast to Coast JFK special is on tonight, but the prefeed is some bullshit about intelligent design. [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | Coast to Coast ]

shuffle songs I had no icon for this entry. [22 Nov 2009|10:18pm] rubyfruit_pixie So I am using this one because it is fun. :3 :3 ;3 Dear Muses, Now that I'm starting on the Zero Princess Saga/Void Space Saga/Whatever the hell you want to call this series, Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, turn this into Viceroyverse done Kairi/Rinoa Style. Please. I don't care how well it works, I don't care that it works on a multitude of levels. I don't care if it'd be cute (and about a quarter as creepy as Quistis/Kairi is!). I don't care if it makes a lot more sense than any other Kairi pairing in existence, Sora/Kairi included. But the Nonsense of Sora/Kairi is another show rant. Aaaanyway, no one would read it. Even if it is a really good idea-- No. No. If you try and steer it in that direction, and we know that the one-sided Rinoa/Kairi in Braceletverse is enough, I will turn this brain around and write...umm... I WILL MAKE US WRITE MPREG. SORA/KAIRI MPREG. HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!? No love, Jordi. [ mood | hungry ] [ music | "Reve" by Arai Akino ]

shuffle songs Local Radio Fail [22 Nov 2009|05:20pm] atalantapendrag How could I forget about KGSR? It's weird to listen to a local station streaming. [ mood | mellow ] [ music | KGSR ]

shuffle songs Cat rang bell. I ate food. [21 Nov 2009|11:39pm] atalantapendrag Lovely afternoon/evening with goddessgoddess, T., and S. (who turned out to be a cute longhaired fellow in a fetching paisley skirt). We went to Clay Pit for lunch (dodging all the burnt orange turnout on our way downtown); it turned out they have a lunch buffet on Saturdays as well as during the week. That turned out pretty well, they had saag paneer, lamb korma, and vegetable pakora. Stuffed! After that goddessgoddess made her desire for warbat known, so we went to Sarah's. They're always fun to browse; T. got some rose syrup, goddessgoddess got eight warbat, and I caved and got a packet of honeydew shisha and a little vanilla sugar (which was really cheap!). The lady behind the counter was once more super friendly and chatty, joking about how I got goddessgoddess addicted to warbat and how I should eat more. If I hadn't been so massively stuffed I might have snagged a falafel or two, they're so good there! Went back to T.'s for lazy-afternooning. There was checking of emails, Facebook, and the like, and it was learned that I cannot use a nipple mouse. There was sharing of warbat. There was cozy napping and the watching of TV, some current shows I didn't recognize, and the first three episodes of Coupling; I had forgotten how deeply I love that show. And how awesome Susan was in the beginning before she got all domesticated. Eventually dinnertime rolled around. Dinner was chosen with remarkable ease, and we went to a Thai place. I had a Thai iced coffee, which I haven't had in years. S. had one too.Tasty, tasty drinks, those. My entree was a pork and noodle dish, peppery without being actually spicy, that I ate maybe a third of. Yay leftovers! There was also a dessert of some sort that I tried a bite of. Very sweet and sticky. After, Planet K was investigated, and another pipe shop, with discussion of further explorations, but I realized that I was dead on my feet and regretfully said my goodnights. So now I am doing my night-time catching up, getting loved on by Molly, and discussing the awesomeness that is Discworld with waywardoctagon before collapsing into sleep. With a very full belly. [ mood | full ]

shuffle songs Turtles! [21 Nov 2009|11:48am] atalantapendrag Little baby A'Tuins, you guys! [ mood | nerdy ]

shuffle songs It's Saturday, right? [21 Nov 2009|10:51am] atalantapendrag I just finished Unseen Academicals. I love Pepe so very hard. I have lunch plans with goddessgoddess, T., and their friend S. This is probably a good thing, as my food intake the past few days has consisted of a can of not at all good soup. A meal I can chew would be nice. Am wearing The Bra That Fits. At present there is only one. I have taken steps to remedy this. It is a front-hook. It kind of has to be. There are eight rows of hooks. Also wearing The Jeans That Fit, courtesy of hcolleen, and a not bad tshirt courtesy of some thrift shop somewhere. Smelly of the day as yet to be decided. I'm thinking Hungry Ghost Moon. [ mood | mellow ]

shuffle songs Just sort of blankish [20 Nov 2009|11:02am] atalantapendrag Thankfully I am not tempted by BPAL's Naughty or Nice Inquisition. There are a few scents that sound nice but most don't appeal. It's rainy and I'm stiff and kind of queasy. more sleep is called for. [ mood | blah ] [ music | Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals 09 ]

shuffle songs Dealt with, for now. [19 Nov 2009|09:35am] atalantapendrag Thanks to doombuggie's indispensable and much appreciated aid yesterday, I was able to get the paperwork I needed. Bright and early this AM I took my quivering self to the office, where the manager made copies of everything to take to the caseworker (she said she was going in this afternoon) and put a "recieved" stamp on all of the originals. Nothing I can do now until December 18th. My hands continue to shake. The cats have been doing their job, though. Last night there was some contention between Anya and Molly as to who would curl up on my chest. Being Boss Cat, Molly won of course, and Anya snuggled up at my side. [ mood | drained ]

3 shuffles shuffle songs WHOOOOOOO~!!! [18 Nov 2009|07:15pm] rubyfruit_pixie I got hired by Tim Horton's. No, I did not move to Canada. Canada? Who's that? But I did get hired. To the second place I applied to. I start on Friday. OMG OMG OMG. Now, fast food is not my ideal employment situation. However, not being broke is my ideal situation! BE EXCITED WITH ME, GUYS! I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!! Also I kinda quit Nanowrimo. But that's not important! I have a job now. [ mood | OMG OMG YAY! ]