Stitch 'N Bitch

Swiped from MorganaLilith@LJ:

Go to Pop Culture Madness (http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/2006.html) and select the year you became 18. Snip the top 50 songs (or however many may be there) from the list and paste the list in your journal. Bold the ones you like, strike the ones you dislike, italicize the ones you know but don't care one way or another, and leave the ones you don't know as plain text.

( Apparently I didn't dislike any of them. )

A good time is uploading Brad Pitt icons for your pups journal. Only for the indulging of the pretty. Interestingly some of those images of Brad with just the moustache and older, remind me a lot of a very older Paul Newman. Similar look.

But my, Brad is a pretty, pretty man.

i just now realized...

... i'll be twenty-four tomorrow. D:

The period of time from November 1st until I go on my holiday break always stinks, with the exception of Thanksgiving. I had a lovely time, by the way. I visited my aunt, and we had 17 people for dinner (my aunt Maryjean, her husband, two sons and one grandson, my uncle Bobby, his girlfriend, one daughter, one son-in-law and two grandkids, my uncle Donny, his wife and their two daughters, and my uncle Jay. Plus me.*)

( Read more... )

( Ranty-rambling here )

In other (less irritated) news, if anyone would like a copy of the recipes, in Publisher or PDF format, I have my personal copy (much thinner and prettier!) I made (which you can print yourself or send to Kinko's) OR a set of 3x5 recipe cards (Publisher or PDF) which you can print off on cardstock or regular paper and laminate.

( holiday cookies )

( gingerbread muffins )

( dill butter bread )

All right kids, as evidenced by the return of the Santa Zero icon, it's that time again! I didn't do holiday cards last year, so that must mean it's time to do them again! If you want a card, comment here with your name and address (comments are screened) or, if I already have it, just let me know you want one.

And I will post that wish list one soon, I swear-- as soon as I figure out what to ask for. :p Feel free to post with a link to your wishlist post, too.

shoo fly pie

beef cake

( cobbler/dump cake thingie )

You know how Frank n Furter told Brad and Janet he was making a man, with blond hair and a tan. And, the man was good for relieving his...tension???

I'm doing the same. But not making a man, with blond hair and a tan --- I'm writing Fionnuala in a Mary Sue fic of Mary Sueness.

And I don't care. Its good for relieving my...tension.
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While fighting off what must be wind from hell. There is this conversation overheard bewteen teenager niece and friend.

Niece: It was awesome [New Moon]. All the wolves were running around with no shirts on.
Friend: *Sound of awe*.
Niece: ...Then Edward took his shirt off too. I got excited. But that wasn't awesome.
Friend: ?
Niece...he has man boobs. I was so sad.
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I am looking at the comm the green room on livejournal and going through old posts. And, recongnising a majority of old characters I had. Damn. They were boring. Damn. Did I really have that many? And DAMN what was I thinking writing like that?!!!

Interestingly not much has changed. Except I don't do half as many pups.

If I keep on this next year maybe I should challenge myself to make them less boring and not sound all alike. And see how long I can stop myself from changing Fin's pb.

And Audr had the first name of Damian???? Wut?

Tonight I started posting my fics on A03, and I just have to say: SHINY!!!! I'm totally geeking all over the little icons. And the page layout is so sleek and readable! Love it! *pets lots* Tonight I got up all my Alles Was Zählt stories -- and if you guessed that "angst" would be my most popular tag, you would be right!

Only thing that's not so shiny is that although I got my account a week ago, I was waiting to see if they might sort out the umlaut (or lack thereof) problem before I posted. Didn't expect someone to dive in there first and enter things like "Deniz Ozturk" and "Alles Was Zahlt" *winces in pain* I went ahead and entered everything spelled correctly, and I'm hoping the tag wranglers will realise that Ozturk=Oeztuerk and connect them. (Not that it's a big fandom or zillions of people will be confused or anything. Correct spelling is just one of my pet peeves inherited from my grandfather, who always insisted he was "Ó Briain, not O'Brian, for feck's sake!")

Anyway! Tomorrow I'm moving on to Merlin, then Harry Potter -- tonight I entered everything manually, but I think I just might play around with the spiffy importing feature. I have fewer stories in those fandoms, but they're longer/in multiple posts.

Beta means we're supposed to try to break things, right? *g*

Bedtime now. And I've still got the same grin I've been wearing for hours!

( self-important jerks )

I always lose this website: http://www.imagechef.com

And I always spent at least an hour scrolling through old entries to find where I hid the darn website so I can share it when someone wants it. *pings brain* Remember to search, here brain. I will tag this.

...so I'll borrow someone else's words: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of a large bandwidth must be in want of German pseudo-porn starring a pair of gay ice skaters. And if Internet legend holds, every time a new subscription is added to Eskimo Kiss Project, somewhere in the world a fangirl gets her wings."



This is the most fabulous fandom in the entire world! *loves all of you to bits*

P.S. In other news of sparkly awesomeness, I am figuring out a new vidding program and also just made my first DVD with menus. Technology, ye shall be conquered yet!

Part Three: Elizabeth’s Story

Chapter Twenty Nine
Knit… Purl… check on the cookies

( I remember the day I saw the news story about what happened. )

Chapter Thirty
I was a diamond-tiara kind of girl in a dusty cowboy bar

( I felt completely overdressed as I walked into the pub. )

Chapter Twenty Five
I don’t care what Daniel said, that rock was definitely out of bounds.

( One more trip back to the airport, this time clean and pressed, and in my own car. )

Chapter Twenty Six
I love ewe, too.

( I jumped out of the shower and scrambled to get into my clothes. )

Chapter Twenty Seven
Cake, or Death? And by the way, we’re out of cake.

( Mike had the brawn and lack of queasiness you need to torture someone, but he lacked the imagination. )

Chapter Twenty Eight
They may not have come in on horses, but they were still a calvary to me.

( Daniel burst into the room, oblivious to the guns that swung in his direction. )

I will post the rest of the story when I get back from my class - but it's done! I hit my word count *and* finished the story!

It has been a slog. I spent more days behind the quota than ahead of it. The first fifteen thousand words or more could be cut off and nothing of substance would be lost. The story has no end because the plot barely started to congeal before it fell apart. But I'm okay with all that because I kept writing anyway. And I do love Apollonia, Marcus, Abraham, Ersilia, and Muriel and I think they could get together into something with a real plot at some point. Maybe next year even. :D

Eyecandy. My muses as they look now.
The buffering is hard on this, but it is mostly for my enjoyment offline more than anything.

( cut... )

Hello, dear neglected f-list. Long time no see.

I'm not having a good weekend at all, and today I am closer than I've ever been to tossing my laptop off the roof and joining a commune that disavows that Demon Electricity.


Gah, it feels like all I ever do these days is bitch about technical stuff, sorry for that, but if it would just throw me a fucking bone I would not have to. Aldi and I have already vowed never to take streaming episodes for granted again; now I long for those blissful days when I could complete the entire conversion-editing-rendering process without wanting to bludgeon something.

In happier news, we did close the gap between our old timeline (the AWZ episodes that aired long before we started EKP) and the current storyline we're covering. It's quite an accomplishment -- we've got nearly 500 videos! Not to mention, tons of love from all the viewers. *cuddles you lot*

And we got this adorable comment from some poor naive soul: I was just wondering about the description for one of the episodes. It said "Marian's totally proud of his lover Etienne evading the police". This made me a little confused... did Marian have a thing with Etienne and Mike? I'm a little confused. I thought he was with Nadja? Could you clear this confusion up for me? Aw, bless. No, Schatz, much as we like to pretend that everybody on this show is gay, that's just in our imaginations. SO FAR.

Well, it's time to get back to work and see if I can't battle this into submission. We've got an episode to get out!