On my way to Quebec today.  Word of advice from a friend: Don't tell them you're going for a bachelorette party.  Apparently she told the border patrol that and they asked, "So you're coming to our country to party?" and then followed up with many questions.  LOL.  I have no idea why she would tell them that in the first place, but it really is hilarious.

I need to update on all the fun I've been having lately.  Lots of trips to the beach, lots of wedding planning, and, of course, lots of pettins for the cat. :)

I am still writing chapter 9 for BTLOFAB but it's taking a while what with vacation and all.  I'm thinking i"m going to need a few more chapters that I planned for.  :(

Last night I saw fireflies for the first time.  Very cool!

After I finally fell asleep, I was woken up my sister who was freaking out over the lightning storm.  It was crazy.  The lightning was definitely right by us and it just kept flashing without any real pause.  Sort of beautiful really.

My sister hates lightning because when she was six she watched a kid die from getting hit by lightning.  Then lightening burned down her apartment.  I told her that the chance of lightning affecting her life in this way on two occasions is fairly rare so she can probably count on not having lightening issues. 

Well, here we were, two weeks before her wedding and guess what happened with the lightning storm?  It hit a tree on the lot where she and her future husband and were renovating a house they were going to move in together (they live in separate apartments now).  The tree cracked and fell on the house and the lot is now covered in branches.  

I told her that lightning and her must be each others enemies.   Poor girl.

This morning, I slept in and it was wonderful!  :

Today I decided to stay home and rest so I'm going to actually try to write and eat cake.  

 The day started out okay.  I got on the train to my parents house and we went out for food and cake and the Kondittori.  

Then there were GPS issues.  My mother failed to tell us she set the GPS for side roads only, no highways or freeways.  She made no comment the entire time we drove through the city, taking the most roundabout trip to the airport one can imagine.  *headdesk*  Two hours through Portland.  That shouldn't even be possible.

But I got to the hotel okay.  I met up with Koli from the Psych message boards and that was AWESOME.  Seriously, Koli is made of win and it is just wonderful that she lives near me.  We're going to meet up for the Psych premiere and it will be great.  :)

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We signed all the papers on the construction loan today.  We are now the proud owners of a bunch of dirt and gravel.  Yay!

I updated Between the Lines of Fear and Blame with chapter 8, which turned out way longer than expected.  Total word count for the story is about 30,000, depending on what program you ask.  Two more chapters or so to go! :)  (And then I'm Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

The link goes to Psychfic though I've been posting on fanfiction.net.  It looks like most of the gen traffic goes to psychfic anyway so I don't get much traffic on fanfiction.net, but I figured I'd see if anyone was out there that wasn't on psychfic. 

As this story ends, I have a new fun idea to pick up.  I'm excited. 

I will soon leave on part two of my vacation of awesomeness.  So excited!

Gah, *kicks story*  Gah!  *kicks it again*.  25,000+ words written and so close to the end and Lassie (Lassy?) just will not behave. :(  Why does he hate me so??????

On other fronts, I actually managed to semi-clean my room.  A bit to go still.  I'm not entirely out of my office, but close.  And I go to Maine in a week or so.  I also have a birthday BBQ coming up and those always make me happy.

I am on a Buffy kick today.  I rewatched the musical: Once More With Feeling and I was reminded just how much depth all of these characters have.  I love it!  I especially loved the fifth season.  I love the Scoobies.  :)

So last night a ton of people came over to out house for our monthly game night.  We decided to play a game called Domain, only the one person reading the directions forgot a key piece...money.  The game was horribly unbalanced if not a hilarious farce.  Imagine, if you will, Monopoly without paying to buy a property.  Socialized Monopoly, perhaps?  Just think about that for a moment...

You can imagine that this revelation was quickly followed by tons of outright cheating and craziness.  At one point I grabbed the pile of cards we were supposed to draw blindly from and just grabbed whatever I felt like.

I decided I needed to write crack!fic involving Monopoly.  Alas, my muse did not cooperate. Instead it gave me light hurt comfort.  Hmmmph.  At least the h/c was mild.

Title: While We Were Waiting
Fandom: Psych
Characters: Shawn, Gus, Lassie
Description: Soon they would be able to visit Juliet and see for themselves that  she was okay.  Until then, there was always Monopoly.



I still can't believe I FAIL at writing crack.  *shakes head sadly*

Why the new Trek is actually Star Wars.  LOL

houseblog


Yes, I'm avoiding writing.  How could you tell?

Psych is in desperate need of more writers.  I challenge anyone on my flist that likes Psych to write a Psychfic.  In return I will give you cookies.

Chapter 7 of Between the Lines of Fear and Blame is now up.  There's a lot of original character stuff in this one, but I've given Karen's POV at the end!

New chapter of Between the Lines of Fear and Blame. Sorry for the delay.

We got the architecture plans on the house and they look amazing.  Can you hear my squee though the internet because it's a HUGE squee!!!!!!

I reread The Little Prince again.  I just can't help myself.  The story of the fox and the prince or the story of the prince and the rose just gets me everytime.  If you have not read this book, you are missing out.  Really!

I rewatched Star Trek and Guh!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie so much!!!!!

Oh, I also finished chapter six and am waiting on beta.  I hate the way this makes my stomach spin. Waiting sucks.

Oh, I wrote a Smurf and Lassie drabble which tied for first in the weekly challenge.  It's probably best you just not ask and move on with your life.  Just so you know, smurfs eat humans.  I once met a guy who had a friend who had an aunt who's bff was mauled by a smurf.  "True" story.  They're vicious creatures.  

Now don't you regret reading this entry? No  you cannot have the last minute of your life back.  Sorry.

Just another week and I'll be done!  :)  I'm so excited  for this summer.  I need to start writing like crazy on my soulfic so I can get it done before the madness starts.  I remember when I could crank out a chapter a day.  Wow, I so can't do that anymore.  A chapter a week is now a struggle, but I feel better about my writing in general.  Funny how that works.

So today I'm off to a party and tonight I'm finishing writing finals, then tomorrow I guess is a day for writing.  Eeek! 

Oh, I should probably get to answering LJ comments tomorrow as well.  I'm a bit behind...
 

 

Okay, I loved this movie. 

The storyline was a little deeper than what I expect from a cartoon movie and I left feeling some fairly strong emotions.

( cut for spoilers. Also personal angst )

I'm still trudging through this story. Hardest chapter I've written in the history of my life. At least I can feel accomplished for pushing through it.

Between the Lines of Fear and Blame part 5/? (Or: link to table of contents)  (A Psych fic about what happens when Shawn fails and Karen's family pays the price.)

Chapter 5: Walking Toward  the Edge.  In which Shawn and Karen finally talk.

I had a weird day today.  I went to apply for a passport and this required riding the bus around town a bit.  At one of the stops a guy comes up to me and starts talking to me about how happy he is that he is drunk.  This then degrades into  a one-sided discussion about how he'd rather be high, as high trumps drunk.  However, his friends are all drunk so he chooses to get drunk with them.  It is, after all, better than being sober.

He then starts asking if I've seen two men that fit a very strange description. My imagination immediately begins conjuring the idea of a bounty hunter trying to find people but acting drunk to not raise suspicion.  I make a note to write that some day and then come back reality.  He asks me which pair of new sunglasses he bought looks the best on him.  It was a fairly surreal and yet entertaining.

I then went to a bake sell where they had Cinnabons.  I  offered $3 for one since I know they are pricey to begin with.  I was then informed that for $3 I could have a whole box of Cinnabons.  "I only want one," I inform the person at the desk.  They do have a single box open with single cinnabons being offered.  He replies, "But you can have a whole box."   "But I only want one."  "How about a small box?"  0.o

So where I didn't really need one cinnabon, I ended up with four.  For $3, nonetheless.  Apparently all the boxes were donated, but I'm still a little confused at being negotiated into taking more than what I intended to buy and yet still paying the same price. 

I then reached my office only to find out that I had to go to a contract meeting for the house.  Apparently I should have been expecting this, but I wasn't really aware we were already that far in the process.  So my day of carefully working on my dark (OMG I can't believe I killed Iris, I'm a bastard) fic was turned into a day of reading massive amounts of papers written in legalese.

As we approach summer, I'm interested to see if anyone else is planning to go to writercon.  As a mathematician, I quantify everything.  By the way, there are supposed to be many SGA fans.  I think it's one of the biggest fandoms represented.

Now I need to also get psych people involved.... 

Poll #1405025 Writercon
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Do you plan to attend writercon?

I spent today reading some great SGA fanfiction.  I don't know what it is about this fandom that there are so many talented authors with such long, well-plotted, character driven stories.  It's amazing, really, and it's no wonder I always felt so lost as a writer while delving into SGA.  It goes to show just how far I still have to go with my writing.

I'm getting there, though.  The plunge into psychfic has helped.  Most of the stories in the fandom are too short and leave me wanting more.  Don't get me wrong, there are some amazing fics, it's just that my reading needs and the amount of available material don't exactly mesh.   If I want something long and engaging, I either have to wait for something to be posted or just  write it myself.  My current dark fic is moving forward slowly and painfully, but I'm fairly proud of the result so far.  13,000 words in and I'm still waiting to reach the main action, but I think that is okay. 

I feel like writing is a constant learning process.  Sometimes I feel like I'm going backward, but other times I can look back on what I wrote with awe. 

What I really need to do is just read more SGA fic.  Or maybe something original.

Writercon is soon!  YAY!

*looks for Rodney voice*  I seem to have lost my Rodney voice?  Has anyone seen it?  If you do, can you forward it to me?  Thx

Chapter three of my Psych fic is up.  <-------link takes you to table of contents.  (Warning, sensitive material.)

Today we should get an estimate on our house.  Eeeek!

Too awesome... And, yes, I'm someone who thinks very highly of the original Star Trek.



Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'