Distracted By Something Shiny

So, for Thanksgiving this year, we are doing nothing. My little brother decided that it was bullshit that he never gets to see his wife and she never gets to see the kids, so since she has two days off, she's making a small meal for the four of them and they are staying in their pajamas and they are not leaving the house or going anywhere. Which gave us a good excuse to say that we weren't going to do Thanksgiving with our parents either, since the kids won't be there or anything. We know we're going to have to make up for it at Christmas, but for right now it feels awesome to have four days in a row to just hang out, me and Sis. We got all eight of the Harry Potter movies used on DVD and we are going to spend the entire weekend doing nothing but watching Harry Potter, which is awesome!!

Now as you can see, it is Thanksgiving in Smurf Village. Papa Smurf and I have even sent special Thanksgiving banquets to the off-laying areas, like the island, the mountain and the moon. Even though we are a communist dictatorship, we like to keep our smurfs happy, so they will be productive for us. If you notice in the first picture, on the left-hand side there are pilgrim costumes for the smurfs to wear, and if you look closely in the second picture you can see a Smurf wearing one of those costumes.





While we're here, I'd like to take a minute to focus on all the Native Americans. This holiday is kind of bullshit, tbh. I'd give up pumpkin pie if it meant the Native Americans weren't struggling so hard, so let's remember them when we eat today. Here is a link for where you can donate directly to the people of Standing Rock, to help their fight to keep pipelines away from their water.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I am thankful for each and every one of you!

So, the whole Chicago trip turned out much different than planned. It was suppose to be 2 different fangirls, Sis' college roommate and then hiyacynth and her family. But one fangirl had classes and the other had a family emergency and College Roommate had to go out of town at the last minute - and though we missed seeing her, that worked out well because it was soon enough to cancel the hotel and stay at her handicap accessible apartment instead, saving me some serious cash. It ended up just hiyacynth, Geek Husband and Munchy P - (who is 3 ½ now, wtf?!) So we left a little later than planned on Friday, got there, settled in, had Hiyacynth and Fam over for dinner and then sat around watching Harry Potter because we couldn’t make the very outdated Tivo work!

On Saturday, we grabbed breakfast at the diner down the street and then we went to the aquarium, where I have never been before. Hiyacynth and Munchy P joined us there. We did everything! My sister and I went through the entire place. Munchy got tired after a couple hours and they went home and The BFF went to one of the viewing areas and sat for a long while, but my sister and I kept going. There was SO much to see and I honestly could have stayed there all day. My sister was obsessed with the jellyfish and they were very cool - trippy as hell, but super cool. There were ones as small as a contact lens. And translucent ones that had a light that rotated colors in the tank, so they changed colors with the light. The seahorses - I have never seen before and they were so tiny. But they looked exactly like all the picture books I had as a kid. And the sea-dragons were even cooler. (I told Munchy those were dragons in there and he laughed and laughed at me. Auntie is so silly!). And then I got to pet a sturgeon - there was a tank you could stick your hand right inside. And we saw the otters play - (I want one!) - and the Belugas and we went and saw the dolphin show, which was adorable.

But the best part was the tank area where you went underground and the fish were on either side of you and also you could see them overhead in places too. And it should have been claustrophobic, with all those people down there and everyone talking and squeezing up to see along the glass - (this is where the sharks were as well!) - but it wasn’t. I tuned out all the human noise and just stared at the blue water lapping back and forth and watched the fish and sharks swim, like gliding, like flying, through the water, and only let in the sound of the water and the smell of it all and it was so zen and peaceful. I could have stayed there, right there, watching the blue, blue water, all day.

We went home early in the morning and - though it didn’t end up like we had planned and it will sadly be a long while before I get a chance to go back and catch up with the friends I missed - it did end up being a really nice, relaxing, pretty perfect weekend.

So, I’ve started seeing a counselor for my health anxiety, which causes me anxiety in and of itself, since I don’t like talking about my anxiety. But anyways, I had my second appointment today and I realized I never shared with you all what happened in my first session.

( Discovering Fangirls under the cut. )

So, that was how I discovered that my counselor is a Dean/Cas girl. When she gave me ‘homework’ this week, I said, “This better not get in the way of my fanfiction time,” and she said, “There is never enough fanfiction time.” True story.

Ugh. I haven’t put any of these up in months. I have a document where I keep track of them all, but for some reason, I haven’t actually posted any in a long while. Apologies up front for the spam to follow.



Here is my approximate word count for the month of July.

July, 2013
Week One: 1,400 words of Lost Girl fic.
Week Two: 1,350 words of Dean & Cas fic. Completed. (already posted!)
4,150 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
1,150 words of Avengers Fic-For-Kids.
Week Three: 1,700 words of Avengers Fic-For-Kids. Completed. (already posted!)
2,150 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.
Week Three: 1,050 words of Melissa McCall fic. Completed.
Week Four: 1,050 words of Teen Wolf Family fic.

14,000 words written in July!

( Fics posted in July, 2012. )

Huh, this looks like the month I started my very first Lost Girl fic ever. I think this is the first new fandom I’ve written in this year.

Last week The BFF and I were in the car and she had a milkshake and she goes, "This is too thick and hard to drink in the car," and I said, "So what you are saying is that it is hard and thick?" And she goes, "Yes. It is hard and thick and I am sucking it into my mouth." And then we both busted out laughing because we are that mature. What?

Anyways, sometimes on the weekend I catch reruns of Criminal Minds. I recently saw the one where in the past the two kids are held by this killer and they try to escape and only one of the boys makes it and leaves the other behind. And he has always carried that guilt with him about what happened to that other kid. Who knows this episode? Every time I catch it, I end up watching the whole thing just for the scene at the end between the two boys, who are all grown up now. It's a great little moment. Is it weird that I ship those two guys? Because I do. I ship the two guest stars of the week with each other. It's just a very compelling connection between them.

In other CM news, I was wondering if the storyline where Reid is on crutches took place because Matthew Gray-Gubler had a broken leg. So I went to look it up and apparently he like completely dislocated his kneecap on the dance floor. And the doctors told him that 40 years ago this kind of injury was met with amputation, because there was just no recovering from it, especially because the cartilage was completely shredded. And like none of his leg was attached to any other part of his leg? As it stood, they wanted him to go to Norway and have some experimental surgery. They weren’t sure he’d ever get full use of his leg back. The interview I read was from a year after the fact and he said even then he was limited to ‘walking’ as his only physical thing; still no running, dancing, etc, and how the Criminal Minds writers had to work around that for the season. Luckily, he has gotten full use back now.

In final news, a little while back I was watching ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ and made this comment to The BFF…( Spoilers for Deathly Hallows and Hunger Games' Mockingjay. )

Which leads me to how I intend on finally putting up some Hunger Games fic, hopefully tomorrow, but certainly by this weekend.

So last night, the internets informed me that yesterday - May 2nd, 2013 - was the 15th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. Like, apparently in the canon timeline, the battle began just as the clock rolled over to May 2nd, 1998, 15 years ago. (1998 was 15 years ago, you guys. What even.) Harry Potter has never been a major fandom for me, but it's one of those things that every time I go back to it, I just have a lot of Feels all over again. And I am absolutely positive that if the ex-bff and I were still friends, we'd be having some post-anniversary celebration Harry Potter-themed party today. She was a major fan. Anyways, I spent about an hour before bed watching some Harry Potter vids and I thought I'd share two of them now. In memory of all things Harry Potter, even though it's a day late.

( Hallelujah & We Are Young. )

All this thinking about Harry Potter has made me happy. You know, I had a lot of post-series ideas while I was reading the books and then she did the jump forward at the end of Deathly Hallows and it kind of ruined my taste for it. But now, my mind is turning over a few ideas and idk, maybe I'll end up writing some Harry Potter one of these days. Something outside of the Burrowing 'verse even. Maybe give George as close to a happy ending as he can get without Fred. Or some fics about Teacher!Neville. As if I need more story ideas.

My word count for the month of June! I almost came in with my lowest numbers yet this year, but I pushed myself on the last day of the month and went over the edge. I was at 3,100 words on the 30th of June and I sat down to finish the story I had started earlier that week. By the time I went to bed, I had written that story and another story - a total of 2,600 words for the day. I didn't do enough on The BFF's fic this month but I did finally write another piece in the Burrowing 'verse for Harry Potter. I'd been wanting to do that for about four years now. I also completed my first Leverage fic ever! Who would have thought that the first Leverage fic I finished would turn out to be an Eliot-Parker friendship fic? Also, not my first X-Men fic ever, but my first one in the subgenre of 'First Class' was completed this month. All in all, a pretty diverse month, even for me.

Here is my approximate word count for the month.

June, 2012
Week One: 950 words of X-Men: First Class fic. Completed. (already posted!)
Week Two: 1,050 words of Secret Crossover fic.
Week Three: 600 words of Secret Crossover fic.
Week Four: 2,050 words of Wee!Weasley Harry Potter fic. Completed.
1,050 words of Leverage Eliot-Parker fic. Completed.

5,700 words written in June!

On a side note: 41,800 words so far this year!

( Fics posted in Junes past. )

So far this month I have started a new Leverage fic and written some Falling Skies fic. I have so many thoughts about Falling Skies, I need to make a post. We will just say that I wrote some Tom Mason/Dan Weaver fic and it got weird and though I really like it a lot actually, I am not sure I am brave enough to post it. I would probably have to make a new 'kink' tag for it. Let's just leave it at that. (Now all I have done is intrigued you all, haven't I?)

This afternoon I was in the living room and I looked out our big front windows and saw that the sky was this wall of dark grey mass, and yet the sun was shining beautifully down on everything in an almost surreal way and the trees were blowing in the wind just enough to send a light shower of falling leaves down.

It was gorgeous. I wished I had a camera so I could step outside and take a picture of the perfect autumn day.

Then I went and took a shower, leaving the bathroom light as the only light on in the whole house. When I was done, I opened the bathroom door and was met with complete blackness, as black as night. I went into the living room and looked out and it was like nighttime outside. At 3 in the afternoon.

I went back in the bathroom and did my hair and whatnot and came back out and it was light again, but grey with no sun. And it was snowing.

Yes, I said SNOWING. Pretty steadily and sticking to the ground. After about 15 minutes of that, it was raining. And after about fifteen minutes of rain, it was snowing again, only this time we had a good five minutes of nearly white-out conditions. My sister had a commitment at church at 6pm, which is about ten minutes after she usually arrives home, so fearing that the white-out would cause her to be late, she left work an hour early. It is November and she has already had her first bout of leaving work early due to the weather. We didn't even make it to Thanksgiving this year before we got snow. That does not bode well for the rest of the season.

And there is still snow stuck to the ground now.

Other things...matchboximpala was asking for the link to the fanvid done to OneRepublic's "Marchin On." She didn't specify which fandom, but I am assuming she wanted the SPN one. At any rate, I have both the Harry Potter version and the Supernatural version here for your viewing pleasure.

( There's so many wars we fought, There's so many things were not, But with what we have, I promise you that, We're marching on. )

Seriously, snow on the mother@!&*%#@ ground, peoples.

YOU GUYS! LOOK!

Remember how I put up the pics of my tattoo and was all talking about my friend tringic, who took the design and made it perfect for me, because she is Made of Awesome and an amazing artist? Remember that?

Well...she also made me M2 ART!! Because apparently the one year anniversary is the paper anniversary, while the 1 & 1/2 year anniversary is the MICHAEL/MISHA anniversary!!!

They're celebrating naked in bed! I'm just gonna pretend that's my bed, okay? Cool. Things I want to lick in this picture include, but are not limited to, Michael's lips and Misha's clavicle.

"And Keeping Quiet" by tringic




Click here to see a bigger version and to comment to the artist.


In Other News, I saw the final /sobchoke/ Harry Potter...( and I have four words for you. )

What did you all think of the movie?

First, my sister saw her cat today and Zippo is doing much better. My sister says the swollen stomach is way down. But Zippo still won't eat and until she does, she can't come home. Hopefully one more day of IV fluids will give her enough strength to eat and she can come home before the weekend.

My mom was apparently at the vet today to get medicine for her dog and asked to visit with Zippo. So they took her in the back and told her how Zippo wouldn't eat. My mom says, "Oh, well, last year when she had that sore in her mouth, she had to be fed with a baby spoon. She had a bib. Here let me show you." (btw, yes, last year Zippo had a sore in her mouth and we fed her with a baby spoon and a bib and then she wouldn't eat any other way for weeks, lol). But here, I can give my mom props - she made a stink over my sister's cat and then tried to help the nurses get her to eat. This makes me happy.

On the other hand...my father sent me an email today. I was afraid to open it and then when I did...it was some youtube clip of some dog doing a trick that he had been telling me about during the dinner from Hell. "here's the dog video I was telling you about - hahaha." He has no idea that he said or did anything offensive. Which is just frustrating beyond belief.

Now - I was over on Imdb.com today - (as I seem to be everyday for some reason or another) - and I saw the following things:

Dule Hill is their interview of the day - and he talks about how you can use IMDB to settle a bet on whether or not he, Dule Hill, played Bud on "The Cosby Show". So, do you know the answer? It's a cute interview and I love Dule's sexy-head and voice. Go watch it!

Trailer for the new Simon Pegg movie, "Paul". It certainly won't be "Shaun of the Dead" (nothing will), but it looks utterly ridiculous in a good way. Plus, Jason Bateman...can't have enough of him. See Paul here.

And there is a new spot out for Harry Potter. OMG YOU PEOPLES, I AM EXCITE!!!! I LITERALLY CLAPPED MY HANDS!!! See Harry Potter excitement here.

Thank you to everyone who sent me hugs and cupcakes and good wishes yesterday! I was surprised at how much better that made me feel - just to get it out there and receive so many virtual hugs in return. Seriously.

And since it is now officially Friday - HAPPY SUPERNATURAL DAY TO YOU!!!