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December 23rd, 2009
sarahf
 | 11:55 pm - Tweets for the Day
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turps33
 | 06:10 pm
Happy belated birthday wishes to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hammerhead22. I usually say I hope it was a good one but I know it was for you ♥
Thank you to castalie, trumpeterofdoom, ihearthings_ii and saba1789 for the cards. To ephemera for being so awesome and sperrywink for the vgift. ♥ to you all.
I submitted my MtYG story this morning, late, but that's what happens when you decide to scrap your first story on the submission day and start from scratch. Holiday exchanges, they get your blood pumping that's for sure. So now all my holiday exchange stories are done, and man does that feel good.
Thankfully everything is pretty much done for Christmas. I did all the ironing today, wrapped the extended family gifts, wrestled the food into the freezer. Yesterday James and Corey sorted out all of the kitchen cupboards, including chucking out a load of stuff, so now they're organised and clean. We also went shopping yesterday, including a trip to Borders, where, because the company had gone into receivership and it was its last day we got over £160 worth of stuff for £16.
At some point I need to wrap James and Corey's presents, but for now I'm going to chill online a bit, because tomorrow will be a busy one. Not that I care because it'll be Christmas Eve \o/
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arsenicjade
 | 10:23 am - Note to my Yuletide Author
Dear Yuletide Author:
I just wanted you to know that I will not be able to read/respond to my fic on the 25th, nor probably until the 28th. I am dealing with a family sitch and am in a place where I do not have net access (I'm at a library, partially so I can post this, actually). Am super, SUPER looking forward to getting back and having a fic for me, but I won't be available for squee the day of.
Thanks so much for writing for me!!
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amand_r
 | 11:50 am - 'v' is for Victor squashed under a train
1. You always wanted to know the weather, Star Wars style. Unfortunately, most cities I entered are much like Hoth right now. Enter a city it doesn't know. LOL.
2. Thanks, valancy_joy for the awesome package! No spoilers for those yet to arrive at others', but it was adorable!
3. There was some debate last night on Twitter about who would win: Jaws or a velociraptor, ( and I felt that 140 characters is not enough space for me to explain the reason Jaws would KICK THE VELOCIRAPTOR'S ARSE: )
4. If you haven't added a drink recipe to the list, please do so! Drunkards here!
5. ( She's…a spinner. )
6. ( Links to all the anon fic from the Santa Meme. )
If I'm missing any, let me know.
REEL TW due today. Yeah. Uhm.
ETA: A VELOCIRAPTOR RIDING JAWS. THAT IS EFFING RIGHT.
Current Location: gene splicing
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/wink.gif) naughty
Current Music: me first & the gimme gimmes, 'glory of love'
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December 22nd, 2009
sarahf
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amand_r
 | 04:24 pm - Fic: Positron (TW RPS, GDL/Kai, PG-13) for neifile7
Title: Positron
Author: amand_r
Fandom: RPS
Characters: GDL/Kai
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,470
Author's Notes: For neifile7, a great beta. Happy holidays, lady. (Thanks to cruentum for vomiting his beta sparkle all over this.)
Summary: Kai shrugs. He's not as comfortable with the whole dissing of fangirls, probably because one of them didn't grab his arse at the bar last night or ask him what it's like to have intimate scenes with John Barrowman for the millionth time in the elevator this afternoon.
( Positron )
Current Location: anon thread!
Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music: alex parks, 'looking for water'
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amand_r
| 11:37 am - Holiday Drinks!
Hello flisters! So. I love cocktails when other people make them for me, and I like making them, if I have a reason. Like Holidays! Woo! And I know y'all agree. So I'm going to share some cocktail recipes with you, and maybe you'll share some in the comments! What do you make on the holidays? What have you always wanted to try? Got something special your family and friends make? Planning on trying something new this year? Post it here!
( I present: things with pomegranates, things with vampires and a slight mod. )
So there you have it! Go forth and share! Or is it go shorth and fare? Or what? Oh? *hic*
BOOST THE SIGNAL. DRINKS HERE. I NEED A NEON SIGN.
Current Location: THE HIDDEN BUNKER
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/vampire.gif) apparently, vampire?
Current Music: britney spears, 'gimme more'
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amand_r
 | 11:11 am - 'u' is for Una who slipped down a drain
1. So last night we're decorating the tree at my parents' house. My parents' cats have a track record for wrecking the tree, so this year we're just putting crap ornaments on it and hoping for the best. So mom is putting lights on and messing with branches and she distractedly says, "Next year we'll put some real ornaments on. Get some Ketamine and puts the cats down for a week."
Yeah. LOL
2. For all of you stateside who grew up with her, Olivia from Sesame Street has died of breast cancer. I loved Olivia and her rad braids.
3. Sometimes, SNL gets it right.
4. I can only conclude that the Jantoistas didn't like my meagre offering. SADFACE.
5. CARD ROLL CALL: kel_reiley, sivatheminty, miss_winterhill and lawsontl--thank you so very much! J, your squid is fucking awesome. You should do some TW comics. We can collab!
6. Okay, so Dexter season three is not available on netflix to watch instantly (someone write me Dexter Morgan/Hannibal Lecter mentor!fic. DO. IT.). In my desperation for a series to watch while I do shit, I remembered that I haven't finished The L Word, so I started season three. The L World, man, is horrible, but I can't stop watching it. It makes me cringe on the part of all women, and I'm trying to figure out why that is. But I think it starts with the lyrics to the theme song:
( The Way That We Live, by Betty )
7. AWWWWWW YEAH HAAHAHAHAA.
8. HEY! LATER TODAY! DRINKS POST! GET YOUR ALCOHOLIC RECIPES HANDY!
9. ALSO, RPS. WOOT!
10. AND A BODY, DEAD, WRAPPED IN PLASTIC.
11. IF SOMEONE MADE A TORCHWOOD VID TO THIS SONG, IT MIGHT TOP I'M A BOSS. MIGHT..
Current Location: Svalbard
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/yawn.gif) using the cafetiere
Current Music: black panther, 'sad times'
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December 21st, 2009
sarahf
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matthewtime
 | 06:35 pm - So...
If you're in the Philadelphia area, I may have a huge, happy, pop-flavored favor to ask of you. Just taking a minute to check on details and logistics.
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turps33
 | 08:36 pm
Happy birthday, _bettina_. I hope you're having a fantastic day ♥
Earlier Corey and my sister made a snowman.
Behold, the ( Mikeyway of snowmen :| )
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amand_r
 | 12:28 pm - Fic: Taceas; Taceam (Jack/Ianto, PG) for blue_fjords
The recipient is getting a paper copy of this all dolled up, but because it won't get there before she leaves on her holidays, I am posting it early.
Title: Taceas; Taceam*
Author: amand_r
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Author's Notes: I might have written the whole last half of this with Ashokan Farewell on repeat. Fuck might've. I did. (Then the maudlin po-po came and broke my iPod.) Beta work by the loverly and viscous misswinterhill. This is for blue_fjords, a lovely person and excellent beta, but overall, a great friend. I only met her this year, but in some ways, it feels like a lot longer. Ampersand hearts semicolon, baby.
Summary: Still, he rather resented the loss of what he only now realised had been a holiday ritual of its own: beer and Motown, smugness and laziness. Sock feet on the hardwood. A ratty sweatshirt. All of that had been replaced with a wet suit, a cold, congealed dinner, tap water, and an overwhelming exhaustion and sense of uncleanliness that came from following three Blowfish through the alleys of Grangetown for hours on end.
( Taceas; Taceam )
Current Location: the hub
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/bouncy.gif) still john barrowman
Current Music: the snowman. no really.
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amand_r
 | 11:07 am - 't' is for Titus who flew into bits
1. SOMEONE WROTE ME TOSH/ MEETS JOHN BARROWMAN ON THE ANON SANTA THREAD. I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS ANON IS WHO KEEPS GRANTING MY WISHES, BUT KEEP DOING IT. ILU.
2. The rest of this post is about mah kid, so you can skip if you are allergic to cute. I can't help it. She's cute so you don't sell her.
( Oh the trouble you'll get in! )
3. Okay I lied:
C! DOES THIS REALLY HAPPEN? I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE IT DOESN'T:
Current Location: NOT THE VOLCANO.
Current Mood: john barrowman
Current Music: squealing.
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December 20th, 2009
sarahf
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amand_r
| 11:45 am - 's' is for Susan who perished of fits
1. If you have not been checking out curriejean's Torchwood Advent Calendar, you should. Jean has gone through the eps of seasons one and two and found all the background music. Not the scores, but the music: Snow Patrol, Alabama 3, The Pipettes, etc. What's the song playing in the bar in that one scene? Jean's got it. It's about 4 songs a day, and I usually pick the ones I want (I already have some of it, and possibly all the Glenn Miller, *glances away*). You can start with today, because she has links to all the past days. Dude, it's sweet. I call it Jeanie's Torchwood Awesome on my iPod.
2. The ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hlh_shortcuts fest ends today. Well, the stories are done being posted. There will be a few days of guessing and catching up, and then reveals on the 23rd! Yay!
3. Jaws excerpt:
"So if it wasn't a boat," Gwen said, tossing her gloves in the bin with her empty paper cup. Ianto swallowed his water to cover the fact that he was still queasy from the odour and blinked at the wordless exchange between Jack and Gwen, an exchange that he read as Gwen demanding answers and Jack being unwilling to provide them (yet. If he even had them.).
"We have to close the beaches," Jack said, then turned and barreled out of the room, leaving them standing in the deserted morgue.
Ianto blinked at Gwen. "He does know this is Wales, right?"
4. I have snow pictures of kidlet, but to post them I have to get my head out of my arse. I also have to finish my crimmas shopping. At Target. Awesome.
5. I have to vacuum.
Current Location: how does that mood indicator say 'lazy'?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/straight.gif) lazy
Current Music: does that face say 'lazy' to you?
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December 19th, 2009
sarahf
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turps33
 | 06:49 pm
Happy belated birthdays to hakeer, chalcopyrite, lyo and davidbrider. I hope you had wonderful days ♥
England has been hit by heavy snow and as expected everywhere has ground to a halt. The scouts were bag packing today and James barely got home for cars stuck on the dual carriageway and bad driving conditions. People simply don't know how to drive in snow and the roads not being cleared doesn't help in the slightest.
I've had awesome mail lately. I got cards from stellamira, with worry dolls!, liketheroad ♥ and one from runauberginerun which came complete with drawing on baby!Ways unwrapping Christmas presents! Mikey in his checked pajama pants and first hat and Gerard with his princess complete with a sword! It's the most adorable thing ever and now I have a problem because I can't bring myself to put it on the wall with the others. The baby!Ways need to be where I can see them always.
Today I got a postcard from dine that made me laugh a lot, a card of awesome from msktrnanny who ensured my desk looks very festive and pretty and a lovely card from strippedhalo
Thank you ladies *mwah*
Like everyone with a paid or permanent account I have 10 of those coupons for half price LJ for a year if you're a free user at the moment. If you want just say.
Finally, I have achieved first draft of MtYG! Which is good considering it's due tomorrow /o\
And now I intend to read, watch the snow fall and drink hot chocolate.
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amand_r
| 11:37 am - 'r' is for Rhoda consumed by a fire
1. As I was linked to a rec for Heat Goes To Cold and One Thousand yesterday, the recs mentioned that the stories were ten years old, and it took me aback for a second. They ARE ten years old. At least. They might have been posted in 1998 (the notes say 1999 and 2000, but by 2000 I was living in my flat, and I had posted them before that, so I might be wrong.). I forget. Holy fucking shit. TEN YEARS in online fandom at least. And people are STILL READING them. Thanks people!
2. I feel slightly old.
3. I noticed a few days ago that LJ changed their search function. It now sucks balls. Some journals I would just look up whenever I wanted to see them, and now I can't do that, because they no longer show up in any search function.
Thanks lj, for becoming completely fucktarded. And don't bitch about how I'm a whiny fandom person because I said nothing all through strike through, nipplegate, the plus account/ad bullshit and the recent gender!fail crap. I hate you because your code is stepping backwards, like someon moron deciding they need to throw out their Blue-Ray player for goddamned Betamax.
I have just proven that poem about how when the came for my neighbour, I did nothing, and then they came for mah other neighbour and I did nothing, and then they came and took my Bagelfuls and I uh, I dunno. I forget that poem.
Or that other porn about how if I keep my head when chaos is all around me, then Jackie Aprile might shoot me in the head at a card game. Wait. No.
Sooper secret response for arsenicjade Dr O: (sigh) sometimes I just get so overwhelmed, I don't know whether to start from the left or from the right.
4. I want Burger King. I KNOW YOU THINK I MEAN THE FOOD, BUT NO, I MEAN THE BURGER KING. ROWR.
PSYCH, I WAS KIDDING. I WANT ME A WHOPPER. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. NO I MEAN THE BURGER. BUT WITH ONLY CHEESE, ONION, KETCHUP, MUSTARD AND PICKLES. IT'S LIKE ASKING THEM TO MAKE YOU A CHEESE BURGER THAT IS 2X THE SIZE! BOO YAH!
5. Yet another reason why Pittsburgh is an awesome place to live. Excerpt: "We wanted to do this street theater to energize people," said Mr. Buba, who wore a name tag bearing the name of UPMC board member G. Nicholas Beckwith III for the mock meeting. "The zombie link works because zombies have an insatiable appetite for human flesh and UPMC seems to have an insatiable appetite for chewing up our communities."
6. It started to snow here in the evening. I put on Ashokan Farewell and stood outside in the drift for about 20 minutes. Good times.
7. I bought this and lost it years ago (I might have given it to a co-worker in the English Department and never got it back; we're squirrely like that.), and I think I might get it again. LOL that amazon remembers that I bought it on April 13, 2003. Oh sad sad sad. :(
8. I'M GONNA SPEND MY MUTHERFUCKING CRIMMAS WITH A MUTHERFUCKING DALEK, BITCHES.
9. I take back all the bad things I was thinking about Dexter. I just got to the point where he tells Cody he'll go to his school for his report on Saudi Arabia.
10. DEAR CRUENTUM, I AM NOT YOUR SANTA, BUT I WROTE YOU FLUFFY SCOTT/JB RPS. No, it wasn't me. I wish it had been.
Current Location: the snow
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/mellow.gif) mellow
Current Music: shoveling
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matthewtime
| 12:29 am - Hmm
Christmas is coming up next Friday, and I have yet to buy a gift. Guess I should take care of that.
While I go make myself a sandwich and ponder my schedule, please discuss ITL in comments.
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December 18th, 2009
sarahf
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