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First off, thanks to all of you who gave me the lovely snowflake cookies. :-)

It SNOWED here in Houston on Friday! So, very weird. My kid showed me some pictures she'd been sent but she still hasn't sent them on to me so I can post them. One is very nice as it shows one of our bayous with snow all around it. It's an interesting juxtaposition given that the bayou's designed to handle the fallout from tropical weather, yet it surrounded by a lovely dusting of snow. :-) A very rare occurrence around here. Ah, well, it was almost all gone by evening, but it snowed almost all blinkin' day here inside the city while the northern suburbs got next to nothing. We're closer to the coast, though, so we got the moisture before the Arctic blast could shove it offshore.

I did find these and #20 is an excellent expression of how we tend to view the white stuff falling from the sky. :-) In fact, let's see if I can't paste that one in here. :-) I have no idea who that woman is, but I do recognize the huge grin. :-)
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On the flipside of the freakishness of Mother Nature, I was also visited by the freakishness of technology. *sigh* Not only did I have almost *constant* DSL troubles (sometimes I really hate AT&T) for most of the weekend, but then yesterday my whole system crashed and I spent HOURS picking up the pieces and rebuilding things. And oh, the updates. The many, MANY, many updates. I *think* I've finally gotten things back to where they belong, but I think I lost a few current versions of some .doc files. Nothing Earth-shattering, but damn. Very annoying.

I am lemming, hear me roar...

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

Link fixed.

My network died on me yesterday (wait... or was it Thursday)! It's been AGONY!!!!!!! But it's back up and I promise to never take it for granted again.

Right.

:-)

At any rate, I now have reams of stuff to go through while I play catchup. I'll probably just skim LJ and DW, so drop me a line if there's something you know I'll kick myself if I miss it. :-)

Poll #1486748
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 77

Did you ever regularly watch NCIS?

Do you still watch NCIS?

What about NCIS: Los Angeles?

...so, naturally, fandom is running with it. :-) For those of you who aren't die hard Supernatural fans, the most recent episode was called Changing Channels wherein our intrepid heroes were trapped in various television show scenarios by a Trickster. There was even a genital herpes "commercial" that fooled a lot of people until they realized it was part of the show. :-) Nicely done, that.



You *must* go look. Doesn't matter what your primary fandom is. Trust me. :-) There's a growinng list of fic in the post, though the prompts in the *pages* of comments are worth the price of admission all by their lonesome.

... you walk into the kitchen or bathroom and discover that someone's thrown away a perfectly good cat?

C'mon, people! Ever hear of *recycling*?

Sheesh!

You know you've pretty much accepted that your kid's on the grown up side of childhood when you find yourself helping tart her up as a gothy-hooker type for a Halloween dance without batting an eye.

The Upside: This is so far out from how she likes to dress it's not even funny. She's still insisting on limiting the amount of skin actually showing (and what kind - yay for modest kids!). She was able to borrow everything from friends (I think she loaned out some stuff to someone, but I don't remember what that costume was all about).

The Downside: My kid should not look that good in patterned fishnets and "tulle" skirts. It's just wrong. I should be hating this whole thing and refusing to let her out of the house looking like that, but can't help but wonder if Target has a spiked dog collar in black that she could pick up before tomorrow. For all that she's kept her neckline, hemline and blouse length to wonderfully modest levels, she still looks like a hooker in that outfit.

*headdesk*

Oh, and did I mention they're wearing this stuff to school all day tomorrow? Her yoga class should be interesting, even with the black bike shorts on under the skirts (there's a black one on top of a red one).

HA! Not *that* kind of drinking.

Okay, not *necessarily* that kind of drinking. :-)

Poll #1476429
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

When you're finished drinking, but still have some left in your glass, do you...

If anyone but Joy is still awaiting a beta from me, let me know because it means it's fallen into the black hole that is my mind. :-) So far as I know, Joy's Trilogy beta is the only one still on my plate (and yes, dear, it's in progress ;-).

I would *love* to be able to pull up entries from my flist/circle based on a particular tag. Yeah, it would require my flist to use the same tag, but given that I've just seen three different folks use exactly the same tag for something, it would be well worth it.

Now, I just have to go look up the "how to submit a suggestion" thingy on both LJ and DW.

Okay, you Criminal Minds folks, how long was Gideon on medical leave before the first episode of the series?

Why you ask?

I can't believe I'm doing this.

My NCIS serial killer fic stalled. The whole time I was working on it before it stalled out, I kept hearing Hotch in my head. (That's in the normal writerly way of hearing voices, not the creepy, call the guys in the white coats, way. Just back away from the telephone, folks. ;-) As has worked in the past when something's stalled, I went back and tried to figure out where I'd taken a wrong turn. What I finally *did* figure out was that this needs to be a crossover. It's pretty much demanding it. I've just got to work out the time line. I'm already going AU in that Kate's alive, but I was hoping to place it not long after SWAK, which happened in May of the year that CM started in September. Also, does anyone remember when Reid started at the FBI? I know he was 23 when the series started (since we saw his 24th birthday in an early episode), but I don't recall if they ever said how old he was when he joined up. Oh, and wasn't he Gideon's prize student at Quanitco?

The November 2009 issue of The Advocate has a great article called Straight Guys Tell (it was recced by someone on my flist, but I can't remember who it was). Go. Read.

...you want to stay up all night just to watch the temperature drop into the low fifties for the first time since about February.

And it's all *your* fault, folks! Yes, you know who you are out there. I'd be innocently waiting for Torchwood or Dr. Who or something on BBC America and catch the last fifteen minutes or so of Top Gear. Blinkin' weird show, but what can you do? Slowly, I started noticing that I'd flip over to BBCA just a bit earlier each time.

Now I'm watching freakin' *marathons*.

AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THEM!

You *will* pay.

One day.

When you least expect it.

*You* *will* *pay*.

... that I have a roast in the oven, but have just ordered pizza due to a sudden craving.

Oh, well, I'll just crank the temp down on the roast and cook it even slower (as it's not the best cut, slower is better anyway). It's too big for my crock pot, or I'd've put it in there to start with.

kazbaby's brother's family needs a hand. They just had a beautiful baby girl, but she came a month early and is going to be in ICU for a while. On top of that, they'd recently moved and found a job that wasn't, a home that wasn't and now are faced with dealing with that on top of their newborn's health issues (fortunately, it looks like she's going to be fine, but it's going to be a while). Lack of health insurance is the least of their worries at the moment.

Here's the link to the relevant post on her journal.

I know this economy has us all struggling to some extent, but if you've got a bit you can spare, think about sending it to kazbaby to pass on to her brother (check the post above for details).

This is one of those "pay it forward" moments. I know I've been in dire straits in the past and had friends (many of them fandom friends, too) who were able to help me keep my head above water. I will never be able to repay them except by helping others when I can. Don't *ever* think that $5 laying in the bottom of your purse or in the change can on your dresser is too little; that it won't matter. I can remember crying with joy over a $5 bill someone sent me once during some of my darkest days. To this day, I don't know who sent it to me, but that $5 let me put gas in my car so I could go to work for the rest of the week and I thank that anonymous donor every time it comes to mind.

Fandom is more than a shared love of a show or a universe. We're a community, we're family and I will never, *ever* forget that.

Back away from whatever you're drinking and go read that.

Seriously. Go. You'll thank me later. :-)

My left eye was very puffy when I woke up yesterday morning. I didn't think anything of it, until I realized it had never really gone down during the day. So, I decided to take out my contacts and let them soak for a day or so while I switched back to glasses to give my eyes a break.

Oops.

I forgot something.

Aside from the whole "WOW! I feel tall!" thing that comes with switching, my glasses are the previous prescription rather than the current one... which is actually ready to probably be upgraded again. In short, I can't see worth a damn. I walked to the grocery store today and damn near missed the bus to come home because I couldn't make out which bus it was. :-)

Ah, well. There's no pinkness (been there, done that) and so far no discharge, just a lot of puffiness around my eye. I *suspect* it's an allergic response to something. Oh, pardon me, an expression of my particulate sensitivity. *rolls eyes* But I figure giving my eyes a break from the contacts can't hurt.

Unless I trip and fall and break my neck because I'm blind as a friggin' bat but without benefit of echo location!

I'm one of those weird people who sometimes forget to eat. I'll get so into something that when my stomach starts nagging at me to please fill it, I'll go, "yeah, yeah, just a minute, lemme finish this...". Hours later, I'll realize I never did stop for lunch or dinner or whatever. Now, here's the bad part. At that point, I want food and I want it NOW. I did this to myself today. Ended up popping over to Popeye's Chicken (not far from here) and getting one of their big dinner specials (love cold fried chicken). So, some chicken, far too many mashed potatoes and biscuits and damn, I'm not only no longer hungry, I figure I may never be hungry again.

At least not until the next time (butnow I've got *chicken* :-).

Oh, and did you know they make Snicker's *Dark* now? I did not need to know this.