Distracted By Something Shiny

Saw one of those memes going around - “Post the first line/paragraph of your last 20 fics.” I never post in the order that I write - my organization is mayhem - but I have this folder of finished fics that are just waiting for a final read-thru and some header info and I happen to have 20 fics in there, so that’s where I’m pulling these lines from. Eventually, I might get around to posting the stories themselves!

Jared was a pretty good roommate, Jensen had to admit that. He hung up his bathroom towels and rinsed off his dirty dishes and most importantly, he took Jensen to parties that had liquor - the good kind, not the piss-water beer Jensen’s friends always served.

( 19 more under the cut! )

I may have had to re-read some of these as I was doing this meme. Like idk what it says about me, but I really like my own stories a lot. Have a go, if you like!

Being sick has sparked a lot of hospital nightmares. As I sleep, I can tell how sick I feel and that sparks medical thoughts in my brain or something. I keep dreaming about having heart-attacks, because the albuterol is making my heart race. And one night I dreamed that K died of a heart-attack, but before that we had hooked up, and I woke up unsure which of those two things was more disturbing. So any dreams I have these days that aren’t nightmares should be celebrated.

( My Fandom Dreams Under The Cut. )

Anyways, those were my dreams. Someday I should tell you all about the one where Stiles and I got together with the help of a serial killer.

Yeah, about to spam this on you, because the end of the year is coming up and I am putting together my tally. October was the beginning of me being sick, but I still was running high from breaking 10k for four months in a row, so apparently I was trying really hard to hit that mark again. Still, I didn’t do too bad. 8k is acceptable for any month, let alone one where I had some nasty stomach virus. This is also the month I started my first Criminal Minds fic ever! And I worked on two different Halloween stories, though The X-Files one never got finished.

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

October, 2013
Week One: 1,350 words of Criminal Minds fic.
Week Two: 1,100 words of X-Files Halloween fic.
Week Three: 1,050 words of X-Files Halloween fic.
Week Four: 2,000 words of X-Files Halloween fic.
Week Four & 1/2: 3,150 words of Avengers Halloween fic. Completed. (already posted!)

8,650 words written in October!

( Fics posted in October, 2012. )

So October seemed pretty successful, all in all! Of course, at the end of this month I looked at my WIPS folder and realized it was bigger than when I started the year, so tackling that had to come next.

Well, I've been sick. I feel like I've said that a lot lately, but this time it wasn't 'under the weather' or exhaustion or whatever...it's a stomach virus. It's like 'spent two hours in the bathroom yesterday' sick and 'had to call my mom to come stay with me' sick. I'll spare you the TMI details, but on the upside, I'm feeling a little better today. It's tapered off and now I just have that post-sick feeling of being drained and empty. Which is not fun but considerably better than sweating profusely with legs like rubber and panting from the smallest physical activity, like yesterday. Seriously I'll take all that other under-the-weather crap over this any day. I've also been off physical therapy for a week now, waiting on a new prescription which has come in now so I've got to call and set up new appointments, which I've been too sick to do. I'm glad my doctor had such a quick turnaround this time when they usually take forever to get anything done in that office, but OTOH I was kind of looking forward to a little break, just for a couple of weeks. I did manage to make it out to get my labwork done today and by the time I got home from that, just laying down on the couch was like a monumental experience. Hopefully one more night of hard sleep will kick it in the ass.

So, I read another book - (headed towards my goal of ten for the year) - awhile ago and I keep meaning to do the Media Meme again - (am trying to do this every time I read another book) - so while I'm here, let's punch this out.

1. What was the last book you read? - Hiding The Truth by my girl, lizibabes and the first e-book I've ever purchased!
2. What was the last TV show you watched? - The Daily Show. Or Criminal Minds, which I'm watching right now.
3. What was the last movie you watched? - Star Trek: Into Darkness. (I think?).
4. What was the last album you listened to? - The Birthright soundtrack, Vol 1.
5. What was the last video game you played? - Bejeweled Blitz. (yes, again).
Bonus Round: What was the last fanfic you read? - Silent As A Smile (this might not be the exact last one I read since I read a couple of Garcia/Hotch fics while I've been sick, but this was certainly one of them).

Okay, back to bed now. One more night of rest'll do it, right?

I bought The Nephew some Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for his birthday - (my brothers and I used to be so into those as kids) - and I just read through one to see if it was any good. I went on three different adventures in the same book and got three different endings; the embassy sent me back to the United States and I had to give up my quest for the mysterious jewels, I got inducted into a secret society, and I died. Pretty fun!

Also, I watched the season finale of Vikings yesterday and I have a few things to say...Gyda!! Athelstan's face! His stupid face. /clutches him to my chest/ JFC, Ragnar, you are an asshole. This show is so fucking good! I am impressed with The History Channel.

I watched this week's Chicago Fire as well. I was not onboard with that storyline about Severide at all, for Reasons, but I thought the way he brought it to a head this week was pretty fucking awesome. I loved everything between Herrmann and Boden. Seriously, cartoon hearts appear in my vision every time Herrmann is on screen. I am so confused by him though - do I want him to marry me or adopt me? IDK! I haven't been this confused about a man since Bobby Singer. It was just a really good episode all around - (they usually are). My only complaint is that it should have been Severide who went to Casey at the end, not Peter. Just cuz, Feelings.

Now I fic rec you. ( A little something for everyone. )

Enjoy those! I'm going to work on my anniversary answers this weekend, so if you still want to ask me a question, you can do that here.

How was your weekend? So I was watching Friends again (while I ate my chocolate ice cream mixed with mint chocolate chip ice cream with chocolate sprinkles on top - delicious and totally worth the heartburn and sugar-induced shaking that followed). Anyways, right, Friends...GIOVANNI RIBISI WILL AMUSE ME FOREVER!

Frank Jr's description of his weekend - "We went to Times Square, got ninja stars, I got punched by a hooker..."
Phoebe: She wasn't a hooker.
Frank JR: She will be when I tell my friends.

LMAO. It was also the episode where he says, "I like things that melt, I don't like things that don't melt"...but I SWORE it was BURN - "I like things that burn, I don't like things that don't burn." Do you think it's possible that teenage!me put the word "burn" in there because I LIKE THINGS THAT BURN?! Hmmm...

Anyway, on Friday The BFF came down. For some reason when we sit around the living room and have the most ridiculous conversations about nonsense, it is the most fun ever. It is absolutely no different from when we do that on the phone - but when we are in the same room, it just seems better. IDK why. Then we all watched Glee clips, looked at everyone's Sims updates, watched "How To Train Your Dragon" - which we did just see, but this time The Nephew wasn't there to give a running commentary in my ear, lol. Plus The BFF had never seen it and she hearts Craig Ferguson, as one should. Then we talked about Craig Ferguson & Jeffrey Dean Morgan forever with hearts.

On Saturday, I literally laid around all afternoon and played my handheld and watched a House marathon while my sister put her new bookshelves together. Then one of my cousins came over and helped her finish up and then my sister bought us all Chinese food for dinner. Whenever we have dinner with this cousin, we inevitably end up talking about Bones and Criminal Minds. My cousin is such a giant Reid-fangirl, it is kind of adorable. Then I actually got to read a little fanfic.

On Sunday, The Guy Cousin brought his kids over - The Boy Cousin who is almost 11 and The Little Girl Cousin who is almost 7. In three hours we played Uno, Punch-Out on the original Nintendo, the crocodile game, I Spy, War, Simpsons Roadrage and did a puzzle. Those kids are exhausting. We hadn't seen them in forever though, so it was sweet. And I guess they have been sick for like two weeks. The Guy Cousin is laid of work right now and he said he had one or the other of them home with him every day for the last two weeks. He looked so relieved to have some adults to talk to. As per usual, we argued movies.

Then they left and my sister decided we needed massive amounts of sugar, so she went and got us the above mentioned ice cream, of which I ate half yesterday and the rest today. This place has every candy topping Jared has ever dreamed up and you can get your ice cream flavors all swirled together with anything on top, except like live crickets - sooooo good.

I was going to complain about some bullshit, but eh, I'm tired now.

Maybe tomorrow.

In sum - These pictures of Misha make me want to write Watcher!Castiel fic. It's the vest. Let's all think about Castiel and Giles drinking tea together, k? Great.