Distracted By Something Shiny

So, my girl, lizibabes, has not seen Seasons 7 or 8 of Supernatural yet. But she has decided to just skip S7 and go right for 8, so she can catch up in time to watch 9. Cool. Except she asked what she needs to know happens in S7 before she sets out on this quest. And I drew a complete blank on what the hell even went on in S7. So I read the episode summaries at the SPN-Wiki and wrote up the basic details - with the added bonus of my own colorful commentary. Hope this helps, babe! Enjoy my crazy below the cut!

( Major SPN S7 & S8 Premiere Spoilers. )

Any questions?

I know you are all looking at my subject line and thinking, a) “What douchehole congressman put that bill up?” and b) “But I want to watch movies with singing hookers!”.

Rest assured, it was only the really old TV set-up at the cabin I was at this weekend that wouldn’t let me watch singing hookers. To be precise, Moulin Rouge. Also, we could not watch the scary movie we brought, Woman In Black, because it too was rated ‘R’ and we did not know the code number for the parental control units. However, it had no problem letting us watch The Walking Dead which makes literally no sense but whatever, we did a rewatch of the whole first season which was awesome.

The cabin was actually the perfect size for three people and had a small yard and then a dock that looked out across the lake, where the sun was shining all pretty. It looked quite similar to the picture in my icon actually, including having chairs just like that only in red. On Saturday I got up and wrote roughly 1,200 words, handwritten in a notebook all old-school. I was going to work on something I started last week but I ended up writing 1,200 words of little Sam and Dean getting to spend a summer at a cabin in Northern Michigan, one that was obviously inspired by the cabin I was staying in.

( A little musing on the fic itself. )

After writing, I read the rest of my Meet the Stars of Buffy book - did you know that the necklace Angel wears all the time is actually David’s and was a present from his wife? I sat outside to read and ended up getting quite a nice burn. It has now reached the stage where the burn itches like crazy. I am sure it will start peeling tomorrow or Friday. I went back inside and played some video games and when the sun started to set, I went and sat with my headphones in a lawn chair and just watched the sunlight dance across the water. The BFF cooked on the grill for us twice, making yummy hot dogs and burgers, and then yummy BLTs on Saturday night. We spent the rest of the time watching The Walking Dead and I ended up having kind of freaky zombie dreams all night, some of which were about a world where Zombie was just a virus people got, like the flu, and nobody seemed to think much of it. I was working at my old daycare and they all seemed more concerned about a chickenpox outbreak.

It was really lovely there and The BFF even brought her dog and he was so well-behaved and thinks he is my new best friend. The BFF can’t have me anymore, I belong to her pup now. My sister wants to get a bigger place next year and go for a whole week. That would be nice. The BFF took pics, so I’ll see about getting some off her sometime soon.

Seriously, how do people keep up on LJ that have, like, jobs and shit? I don't know. Maybe if I would stop sitting around watching "House", I'd get shit done.

Anyway...I just wanted to take a moment to say Happy Birthday to flawed_x_design! I hope it's an awesome day! It's been great getting to know you. Here, have this Supernatural Picspam of Complete Randomness. I just picked some of my favorites, for you, on your birthday. And since we were just talking about Dean and Ben, let's start there...

Look how proud Dean is of his boy!


( Here is Dean and Sam on a bicycle... )

A Sandwich!


Happy Birthday, flawed_x_design!!

So, now that Thanksgiving weekend is officially over, I finally have a chance to post this fic. :) I know, I know, the title is not all that original, but what else was I going to call this? Dedicated to The Nephew!

Sam is four & Dean is eight. It’s Thanksgiving at Bobby’s house and there are pretend FBI badges, vegetarians, church clothes and turkey drawings. Also, there is family and brothers and, yes, pie. Warning for cute-kid-squee. 4,508 words.

This was loads of fun to write. Enjoy!

( Header Info )

( And then the turkey said you like to eat me? And my family? I’ll eat you and your family! and chased them down the street. And for dinner, Tom the Turkey set a fine dinner of potatoes and corn and biscuits…and little boy belly! The end. )

( Now, I give you Wee!chester icons! )

I don't have a writing icon. That is sad. So I'm using this icon, because really, my babble about my writing will probably make you snoozy. ;)

I started trying to write for 500 words/a half hour everyday since the beginning of the month.

For a weekly total of 3,500 words.

Last week I wrote on only three days, but still managed 4,222 words.

This week I didn't write all week, at all...until last night, when I apparently decided to do my entire week in one night - 3,792 words.

It was pretty late and I had just come off of having The Nephew for the weekend, so I was mildly incoherent. Which leads me to wonder if any of it was comprehensible or not...but I still typed actual words, so yay me!

Most importantly, I finished a Dean/Cas fic that I have been working on since August. August, peoples. And it is only like 4,500 words, so not epic or anything. I had one scene left to go and I could not get it. For months. But I finished it and that, more than the word count, has made me happy.

I also finished my Thanksgiving fic, which I just started the week before. I was a little worried I wouldn't get it done by, you know, Thanksgiving - (wee!Sammy would not stop chattering away like a crack monkey!). I was mostly worried because I let it sit for a few days without working on it, and that is usually the thing that causes me to never be able to pick something back up again. But I finished my Thanksgiving fic too!

I finished fic! Seriously, I sound like a crazy person right now, but my list of unfinished fics just keeps getting longer, so it is a relief to know I have the ability to write the words "The End".

Okay, that is all.