Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons...

☀I can't believe it's December and there's NO SNOW. We had a little the other day, but nothing stuck. This is completely unheard of where I live. Hello, Global Warming. On the upside.... well, there's no snow. On the downside... with there being no snow and also in general being unseasonably warm (still not, yanno, warm, but warmer than it usually is this time of year), it just... doesn't feel like Christmas. D:

☀Did I ever tell you guys that I caved and got Sims 3? Well... I caved and got Sims 3. XD Some things I like, some things I don't. I'm working on a few different things at the moment with that... it's sort of eaten my brain, as Sims tend to do. Oh! Biggest thing I like about this one- I can actually DO OTHER THINGS while simming. With 2, the loading screens took so long after I came back from checking on AIM or firefox or anything that I just wouldn't switch, it wasn't worth it. There's still a slight delay on 3, but it's pretty much insignificant. I -LOVE- that.

☀There is actually a bunny for fifthmus . O_o I'd have to check, but I think that might be record early. XD It needs developing, and it's certainly not TEH BEST BUNNY EVAR, but it's something at least, and that's better than showing up empty handed. ^_^;;;

☀Continuing the Hikago rewatch, slowly but surely. It's slow going mostly because I'm taking screencaps of... well, a lot. And a lot of times I have to go back and go through stuff slowly to get a particular frame, and... guh. It generally takes about an hour and a half to go through each episode. But! When I'm done with this I'll have screencaps for pretty much anything I want ever, which is pretty cool. At some point I should probably make bases of them and post them for everyone... not all at once, of course, because there's a ton. Maybe 5-10 episodes at a time?

☀Downloaded Liquid Story Binder, just to see. I'm.... so confused. D: This really makes me wish I had a Mac, just for Scrivener (which looks completely awesome). Honestly? I will probably never use this. I would much rather have everything in one document where I can actually FIND it as opposed to ten thousand different files and I can't figure out where anything is. Although maybe that's just me, and maybe I just don't understand this program yet. It's just that at this point, it seems more frustrating than useful. I'm going to try to use this for the fifthmus fic, though, and we'll see.

☀There was an update to the Mario firefox theme that I loved.... I hate the update. Urgh. But the old one won't work with the most recent upgrade of FF that I just downloaded this afternoon. *glowers* Guess I need to find a new theme. *grumpy grumbling* The good news, however, is that with the upgrade firefox doesn't seem to be continually eating my tabs whenever the window gets closed. So far. This is a good thing and helps Ver to not go nuts.

*EDIT* Actually, there's a really cool Christmas one that I just installed. It's whiter in parts than I like generally, but it's neat so I'll live with it. Here, I will even screencap it for you all because I'm a dork like that. <3 (It's called Tinseltown for anybody that might be interested, btw)

1. I've been meaning to write entries, just... work has been kicking my ass lately. Oh, and I think I'm coming down with a cold. Lovely. All in all it means that I've been very tired. I got home from work yesterday just exhausted. Well... I work today and tomorrow, and then when I go back to work it'll be Christmas. So no more pre-Christmas bullshit. Of course, that brings in the post-Christmas bullshit, but I'm trying not to think about that right now. At least it won't be fucking Christmas cards. >_<

2. It's snowing. Again. For the third day in a row. God, I hate snow. -_- Though Akichan made a good point in that it's not really the snow, it's the walking in snow part. Ugh.

...speaking of ugh, just found this: "This weekend’s winter wonderland is expected to continue today with another 5 to 10 inches of snow. That’s on top of about 11 inches of snow the region received Friday and Saturday." ............................................because apparently almost a foot of snow isn't enough, adjksaljdkslajdla.

3. Ai- Got your postcard. Pretty. <3

4. Junjou Romantica 9- *SQUEEEEEEE!* ZOMGMISAKI! Watched it last night, and may actually... watch it again. ^_^;;;

5. fifthmus  got turned in on time, by the way, for better or worse. *nervous* I at least hope my recipient doesn't totally hate it.

......it's totally tempting to take a nap right now. I was going to go out before work, but of course it's storming again, so no go. I also need laundry which I don't have time for. Meh. But I -do- need a shower, so I should probably do that soon. And maybe watch an episode of... something. Haven't really been watching anime much lately except re-watching Fruits Basket with Kelly. Which she is predictably in love with. XD

1. I forgot LJ was down and tried to look at my friends list. Whoops? ....I am an idiot, clearly.

2. It. Is. Fucking. SNOWING. >_< ASHJKHFJKDS DO NOT WANT! SO not cool. Fucking mother nature.

3. Mom really needs to go to work already, I'm starving and I want to go get Chinese. :3

4. Started working on a "public" page at myanimelist. I figure it's probably about time. Mainly, I've cut out things that involve shoujo-ai/yuri or excessive nudity (in other words, most of the yaoi on my list. And Elfen Lied. XD) I've left a few of the more innocent shounen-ai things, like Gravitation. Junjou Romantica is about the most graphic on the list. I figure this way... it's easier to make recs to Stef, because she can look at what I've seen, what I've rated it, and go from there. Though I wouldn't rec Loveless to her but it ended up on the list anyway, because she knows about it. I've flailed about it in the store enough times when Barnes and Noble didn't have the next volume YET AGAIN. XD Then again, I've also TOLD her that I wouldn't rec that series to her, so she knows better.

5. Death Note- I think I can finish that off in the next couple of days, since I have off. I think. Also, the second opening song has kicked Zombie-Loan out of the "worst opening song ever" slot in my mind. It's waaaaaay worse than the Zombie-Loan one, and ZL was really bad. XD I think I hate the new song about as much as I loved the old one. <_<

6. Tales of the Abyss- AJDKSLJDKSLA I KNEW IT! I'd guessed two things about particular characters and I was right on both counts. I kind of didn't want to be in Van's case though? <_< And OHMYGODLUKE. >_< IDIOT. Why can't he be all cute like in the opening? Of course, he doesn't SPEAK in the opening, so that's probably a lot of it. XD

7. Speaking of which, Crunchy changed their video player. I like it A LOT. <3

8. Reminder #2, Christmas cards! Sign up if you want one!

9. fifthmus . Um. All I have to say at this point is.... CRAP. >_<

10. Erin is apparently getting Kelly a digcam for Christmas, so I've been trying to come up with something else. I think I have an idea. Possibly. I'll have to investigate. ^_^ (But um, yay possible GameCube? XD)

This is already obscenely long, so I'm shutting up now, seriously. XDDD

Phew. I just spent yesterday before work catching up on fifthmus. And, of course, it was totally worth it as always! (No, I'm not just saying that because the fic written for me was posted yesterday... XDDD) Lots and lots of wonderful fic. I can honestly say that there wasn't a single fic that I didn't like out of the ones that have been posted (I think there's at least one more?). <33333 Hikago fandom is so awesome. ^_^

I also responded to comments on my fic, finally. Woot! I am not completely made of fail! XD Well, only a little.

Kinda funny, though... When I told Akichan on the phone that ooooh, my request was up, and OOOOOOH, it was porn, she was like, "Of course it is. It's you." XDDDDDDDDD Gee. Thanks. XD

There was more spamming of the writing journal last night, so sorry about that, guys. XD If it makes you feel any better, I'm almost done with that? I've got 7 more finished pieces to post at this point... though two of them I'm waiting for their recipients to receive them first (^_^;;;;), and one of them needs severe editing before I do anything with it. I'm also thinking about working on another one a little. So really... right now it's just three. XDDD

Oh, which reminds me: Akichan already knows, but sivullinen and iphridian- be expecting mail. ^_^ I went to the post office on Thursday, so possibly within the next week or so? Two weeks at most. You know what I found really kind of... well, O_o inducing? Akichan is about six or seven hours away (by car, not by bus, clearly. XDDD) It cost more to send her letter than it did to send one halfway across the world, and they were roughly the same size. What. The. Fuck.

Started watching the PoT Nationals OVAs. Is it just me, or is the art style different? Maybe just because I haven't watched it in so long? XDDD

*dies laughing* Oh, blind_go. *giggles* Smut or gen round! XDDD It's completely and utterly brilliant. I can't wait! ^_^

Meh. Gotta go shower and stuff. Later guys!

1. My body hates me. I had half of a Smirnoff Ice last night- actually, not even half- and I woke up feeling hung over. Fantastic. This is why I don't usually drink. It doesn't matter how much I have, even if I don't get so much as a buzz, I feel like shit the next day. Gah.

2. This? Looks really good. I WANTS. *sigh* Computer first. On the upside, by the time I get the new computer (and back up hard drive, because yeah, that's VERY important to me), hopefully the price will have gone down a little?

3. fifthmus count: 948. And I have to go to work soon, and the thing is due TONIGHT. *headdesk* I. Am. Screwed. And let's not even talk about the subrosa_tennis fic I don't even have an idea for yet, much less words written. *more headdesking*

4. I cleaned out one of the plastic drawers near my desk that didn't have much of anything in it anyway, so I now have a place for my doujin. Woot! It's kind of weird thinking that I have a special drawer for that, though. And hopefully no one decides to go through it, because... yeah. Most of it's porn. And trying to explain that? Not fun.

I should try to add a couple of more words to this before I get in the shower. That's probably about how much it'll amount to, too. XD Later!

**EDIT**  YESSSSSS. It's over the minimum, FINALLY. Okay, barely, but still. Eight words over is eight words over. Now I get to print this out and try to do some self beta at work, if I have time.

Just about had a heart attack last night when my external hard drive randomly turned itself off and wouldn't turn back on. It turned out that the socket it was plugged into must be dead, because when I put it in a different socket it worked fine, thank god. ^_^;;;; I was completely flipping out because yeah, EVERYTHING is on that drive. So, okay, we're going to rearrange the priorities a little bit here for upcoming purchases. First is still the new lappie, but then after that I'm getting another external hard drive as a back up- it'll be plugged in when I'm actually putting something on it, but otherwise, it'll be unplugged and put away somewhere safe. Then after that I'll get the new bed. ^_^[Poll #1226179]

Okay, so I've got this plot bunny... that's the good news, that there's a bunny in existence. The bad news is it's not one I want to write. XDDD For the first time in a long time, this particular icon is very apt. And the worst part? It wants to be a songfic. *headdesk* Shoot me now? And sadly, I don't think I can apply it toward anything I owe, either... I'll probably end up writing it anyway, because it's kind of taking over my brain.

fifthmus  fic is at a standstill. *headdesks again* I was going to work on it today- but then ended up getting dragged out with mom for a while, and... yeah. Let's just say I've spent entirely too much on food the last couple of days. I guess the good part about that is that now I don't have to feel guilty about eating the food mom buys to save myself the grocery money (because, you know, less money used for groceries <_<)...

In other money related news, Kelly took $10 off my desk without even asking me first. I came home to a note on  my desk, "I owe you $10, I'll pay you back on Friday!" ......gee, thanks for checking with me to make sure that was okay first. >_< It's not so much the money as the principle of the thing, you know? You don't just take other people's stuff. Well... apparently not.

Alright. My clothes are finally clean and dry (took two rounds in the dryer for some reason <_<) and I'm half asleep, so I think I'll go to bed. *yawns* Screw the shower, I'll take it when I get up. ^_^;;; Night all!

I think there's something I meant to put up and can't remember right now. Hmm...

Okay, so one of the prompts I got was "Kaga/Tsutsui - Tsutsui decides to become a chef and cooks for Kaga (somewhat established relationship, nothing too smutty)" My brain interpreted that as "tries to cook"... so I started writing something about him attempting to cook something. Which ended up being cake. I find that extremely funny, considering that this is Kimmie's request, and cake is her job. XD

Then again, maybe it's only funny to me, who knows. XDDD

1. Now I'm really kind of glad I didn't end up writing sivullinen's first fifthmus request, which I'd considered- tarigwaemir wrote it way better than I ever could. *dies* I want to be able to write like that. Honestly. The thing is, I'm mostly a dialogue type person, in both life and in writing... I don't do the deep introspective pieces that make people go "wow". I make them laugh usually, and occasionally I'll get some keyboard smashing or a squee, but... *sigh* And no, I'm not fishing for comments or anything here, it's just... something I need to work on, and I know that. Being aware of your own faults is a good thing, right? XD

2. Now that the holidays are over, I'm starting to look at the things that I owe again- in particular, one of the letter "drabbles" that I'd been working on before. Which is SO no longer a drabble. We're approaching 500 words now and so not done yet. <_< Let's just say there's a character that's been feeling kind of neglected lately and he wants to play. XD *pets him*

3. I think there's only two or three fics left and then I'm caught up on fifthmus. At least until tomorrow. Yay! And... erm... I should probably respond to comments on my own at some point. Yesh. I should do that tonight, actually. *nods*

4. My sister kills me. She waits until almost midnight to tell me that we don't have any cat food. GUH. >_< Not to mention that she was being a complete bitch earlier. *stabs at her* I love how I'm supposed to drop everything when she randomly decides she wants to hang out, but if we have plans and her boyfriend calls, I get ditched. Lately it's been an issue almost whenever I've been rp-ing with Akichan. My sister's response to this? "Well, I had you first, so she can wait." Er... WHAT? I can't stand how her rules apply to everyone else but her, and it's really been pissing me off lately. No, I'm not going to drop everything for you, any more than you would do that for me. I can't believe you even expect that of me. Just because I don't have a boyfriend doesn't mean I don't have a social life (even if said social life is mostly on the computer), and you can't just swoop in whenever you damn well feel like it. I am not at your fucking beck and call. (Er... can you tell that this pisses me off just a little? XDDD)

5. I've decided I need a list of things that I need to take care of this upcoming year. As soon as possible, actually. All of the major things I need to deal with that have to do with money to some degree or other. Feel free to skip. XD


Okay. It's been almost an hour now. I think I need to go to the grocery store and make sure my damn cat has food. Guh.

**EDIT** I got vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce, aiwritingfic, and it is completely and utterly your fault!

1. I screwed up somehow and thought that the fifthmus fic was due later than it actually was, so I ended up having to send it in as is. First draft and everything. GOD DAMN IT. A note to my recipient, should they happen to read this: I'm so very sorry. I know it sucks. Really. I... I honestly have no excuse except that I suck really badly and I ran out of time. Please don't hurt me. I will do edits and stuff and make it not so bad later, I promise. Or write you something that doesn't suck. Okay?

2. So, basically, due to deadlines, fifthmus and drabble_trade are done. *sighs* drabble_trade at least I can live with. I guess... that's as good as it gets at the moment. I should've known though. I know how crazy it gets this time of year. So why did I sign up for two challenges? Honestly. Sometimes I'm just not that intelligent. Fair warning guys, I'm not touching any of the WIP's until after Christmas. I just... can't handle it right now. My brain is on overload.

3. It's officially the 15th, so a giant happy birthday to jetdragon! *cheers*

4. Random thought- what about the word "lesbian" is so hard for people to understand? I have a profile up on this one site, yes. It states specifically that I'm a lesbian. A few times. So why do I keep getting messages from men wanting to talk to me? ?? GO AWAY.

5. I've seen this on my flist twice now. I think it's time to just do it. XDDD


Yeah, okay, my brain is fried. I'm going to bed. See everyone later! <3