Distracted By Something Shiny

I saw one of those Tumblr posts like, "Why do TV shows have the one token gay character that is friends with a bunch of straight people, do you think we wouldn't have found other lgbtqa people to be friends with?" and I started thinking about myself.

Like if my life were a sitcom - (and that ain't a far stretch) - and we go with the sitcom standard of a group with six friends...it would be me a single bisexual woman, my bff also a single bisexual woman, a married gay man, my sister a single straight woman, a married straight woman and a married straight man (not married to each other though!). And that could make a fun sitcom. Accurate too that everyone in the social group does not have the same marital status. Unfortunately we are all white, so we could use a bit more diversity.

Idk why I'm thinking about this. I took a pain pill. For legit reasons, but I think it has me a little stoned. Well, to be fair, my brain is full of thoughts like this all the time, I just don't usually post about them. lol

What about you guys...who would your Friends-esque group of sitcom six be?

So my word count for November was excellent. It seems after that whole ‘15,000 words in one month’ thing, that I’m suddenly breaking 10k again. I guess this means I will have to up my word count goals come 2013. I think the craziest thing I worked on in November was not the Hawaii Five-O fic wherein Steve is an angsty recluse and Grace is a faux-goth punk teenager (which actually was kind of fun to work on and I hope to go back to it, I liked writing Grace a lot)…but in fact, the strangest thing that happened writing-wise in November was that I wrote J2. I kind of thought I was mostly over that pairing and yet, I wrote two J2 fics last month. And they were for a fic meme, which I have only ever participated in one before, but this one was so inspiring, I couldn’t resist.

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

November, 2012
Week 1/2: 2,150 words of Dean/Cas Hurt/Comfort fic.
Week One: 750 words of Dean/Cas Hurt/Comfort fic.
Week Two: 1,450 words of Secret Crossover fic.
600 words of Hawaii Five-0 Grace fic.
Week Three: 800 words of J2 Schmoop fic. Completed.
1,500 words of Jensen fic. Completed.
600 words of Dean/Cas PWP.
Week Four: 4,000 words of Secret Crossover Fic.

11,850 words written in November!

( Fics posted in Novembers past. )

The best thing that has happened in December, writing-wise, is that I finished The BFF’s fic! My plan is to post it during like the second week of January. Since I finished that story, I have just been writing a bit here and there on some Dean/Cas things I have sitting around, but not really pushing myself to hard. I figured after a 25,000+ fic, I could take it easy for a while.

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.

Despite the icon, this is not about the TV show "Friends" - though I love that show and oddly it is on my TV right now! (I needed a break from the background noise of Criminal Minds).

No, this is a story about how I found a friend, and then found her again.

A few weeks ago was menel's birthday and I thought I would share the story of how we met.

( The internet really does bring people together, again and again. )

Of All The Fandoms In All The Internet-World!

And now that you have all suffered through my gushing - I shall end this by saying that it was her birthday recently and so menel - and in turn, all of you - gets fic!

Dean and Gabriel and angst and friendship.

For my girl.

In my next post - after I eat dinner and watch Entourage.