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Since all the cool kids are doing it, and I haven't updated this in 3 months....

Happy New Year!

Back from vacation, been at work 2 hours now and am bored bored bored.  I totally need to find a slack-ass job that pays fantastic and allows me to travel the majority of the year.  Had a good Christmas (minus the plague that I caught halfway through and am still trying to shake) and spent lots of time relaxing by the pool and/or beach.  There was also much eating and drinking to be had.

Wrote stuff for the McCoy/Chapel fic exchange...it was tough going at the start, but now that it's done my mind is exploding with things to write...and in weird fandoms too...like my world will not be complete if I don't write Terra Nova fic.  But that could also be the cough medicine talking.

Also so much to read; I spent most of New Years Day reading Clint/Darcy Avengers fanfic, which is eating my brain, there's a ton of yuletide fics to go through, the McCoy/Chapel fics still need to be read and I, sadly, cracked my e-reader again so I've got 4 "real" novels to finish up.  I did manage to read the first two Lord Peter Wimsey novels because they were formatted in a way that avoided the worst of the cracked screen, but the other ones...no such luck.

And I owe comments on the stuff I did read, but that might not happen until tonight, since some of it is so NSFW.

Watching the home run contest (as is bound to happen in my house) and in between batters we're watching movie previews and we just saw one for "Anonymous" which is a movie out in the fall about how the works of Shakespeare were written by someone else.

Now...when I was 17, I went to mini-university at the University of Calgary as a kind of prep for "real" uni, and one of the classes I went to was "25 reasons why Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare". I can't remember many of them (his father was a glover...that I remember), but as a result of that class I'm fascinated with anything that debates the topic.

I must see this film. I have books (a shocking number of books) to cross-reference and everything.

SRYSLY.

So, I'm pretty sure that work yesterday was a test...or an elaborate dare by the management team to see what it would take to make me insane. The only reason why I think it wasn't is because my dysfunctional Problem Child Development Team didn't do anything stupid all day.

Actually, I should check to make sure that Product Manager for said team didn't pull them all on a super secret (and undoubtedly bat-shit crazy) side project.

If that happened...it was totally a test.

In not work news; I really want het_bigbang to be here, there were a couple fics that I didn't know were missing from my life until I saw the master list of pairings.

New Anya icon!

First day of Lent. This year I'm going to try giving up the internet after 7pm. Because giving it up totally is crazy talk and probably impossible. Except if I was on a cruise. If I was on a cruise I would be sitting on a deck chair drinking way-too-sweet drinks and wearing my jaunty hat that I think makes me look like Daisy from the Great Gatsby.

To make everything more difficult Ship Olympics (st_respect) is on again, and I think they shook the teams up just enough to allow everyone to spread their wings and try something new. (Must pause here to figure out why installing .net 4 is spinning up my floppy drive)

...anyhoo, my team mates at Team Blond Ambition (team_kirkrand) are top notch and I think we'll have a lot of fun.

Happy New Year to all :)

Champagne is chilling, waiting for my family to get back from the hockey game so we can share it (probably before 12 because I'm fighting a cough that won't go away), black eyed peas are soaking for tomorrow (good luck and all). Had a relaxing bath, chatted with some family and friends. Now I'm watching a Star Trek marathon on Space...10x better than the Back to the Future marathon that's been playing on AMC. All. Week.

If there was a retweet-ish function for LJ I would have totally used it to recommend a Ron/Hermione fic that the lovely ljs has written. But since there is not (and the post is FL'd so it would be pointless), I will search the FAQ's to figure out how to add a link :)

Proper Ron-Hermione Time by ljs

In work life I'm debating if it's acceptable to end an email with the phrase "I am not entertaining any further discussion on this subject", or perhaps "I've spoken my piece and counted to three." but I don't think they would get the O Brother, Where Art Thou reference. Because I know there's going to be a follow up meeting to what should be a very straight forward and simple task.

Am contemplating doing all my Christmas shopping online at Fortum and Mason. Everyone will get a sweet treat because with shipping that's all I can afford :) Their Bucks Fizz truffles look interesting...will probably get some as a gift for myself (no link 'cause I've already closed that tab and am lazy).

I"m not speaking of the birthday party because it was two hours of hell on earth. Next year we'll take the kid to Disneyland in exchange for never having to do that again.

I joke.

Kind of.

Anyhoo. Adam got season one of the new V series for his birthday and is watching that instead of our usual Sunday Night Agatha Christie Movie. I am put out. And will continue to purchase things I can't afford online (see above) in retribution :)

Hope everyone is having a good and restful Sunday!

We're back from our week long trip to Ontario (with a short hop to Quebec). We were able to catch up with old friends, family and see a bunch of new things. I would post a couple of pictures, but the stupid camera has an XD card and nothing reads it...and I can't find the cable.

Toronto was nice, if wet and cold. We brought the weather with us apparently. It actually reminded me of London's second cousin. Every once in a while I would catch a glimpse of something that made me think we were in the UK. We shopped a lot (new shoes, jeans and tops for everyone it seemed), saw a few sights...we didn't go up the CN Tower, it was too busy and then the weather didn't co-operate. Saw the Terra Cotta Warriors at the ROM, way cool. Stayed in a very nice place right on Lake Ontario, the extra cost was offset by staying with family for the last half of the week, and they wouldn't let us pay for anything.

Took a train to Ottawa, 4 hours away. It was okay. I finished another Amelia Peabody mystery, I've had the first one for quite a few years; picked it up at the mystery bookshop in Seattle, but never did get past the first 2 pages. Started reading it on the plane and then bought the next two in the series while in Toronto. The heroine reminds me a lot of Anya, and of course that makes her husband Giles...and it fits. Really.

Ottawa was beautiful. My geography is so bad I didn't realize Quebec was right across the river, so we took a trip and went to the Museum of Civilization which has a wonderful Childrens area where you get a passport and then visit a bunch of interactive displays. Wedding was great, catching up with family is always fun...and tiring. We have plans to meet up again next year since a bunch of the kids got on like they knew each other for years.

Now home, catching up on email and doing laundry. Work tomorrow.

So after 4 years of using a laptop at home, we're back to having a desktop computer. Spent all day doing it too. Now we have an all in one (touch screen) and it's very pretty, and big, and fast. However, I am not using it now because of the lightning storm we're currently experiencing. It's hard not to boot it back up and start playing though.

One of my first missions will be to obtain and watch Sherlock. I have high hopes it will be fantastic.

summer_of_giles update:
Have abandoned the one idea for now...it sounds much better in my head than on paper. Which sucks 'cause it's pretty damn funny in my head. Slowly editing the other piece (from probably 10 years ago) so that it's not quite so purpley-prose. And there's a huge chunk missing...I have high hopes for getting that done tonight.

Where I Live Day over at wild_photos update:
My plan is to confirm all stereotypes and shoot pics on Friday during the Stampede Parade. Plus I've already got a couple from a few weeks ago when we were walking around the neighbourhood.

schmoop_bingo update:
Because I love schmoop so much I grabbed a card. The only real requirement is that I have one square filled by March(?) 2011...I like those odds :)

( Card Under Here )

It should surprise no one that the SOG fic should fit the bill for one of them :)