Going to see the parents for a couple of days. Mom's doing my hair, so it will no longer be pink, which is good for jobhunting purposes, and then we're doing Disney tomorrow. And then home.

...And just I start to type that I don't really want to go, WMP starts playing Back in the City. Thank you, Gin. God, I love belting to this song. (Though I should stop, as not only are generic people around me probably sleeping, so is Nina. Oops.)

Rah. There is cleaning to be done, and things to be packed, but all I really want to do is curl up on my couch or in my bed or somewhere in my apartment with the Arbiter with a cup of coffee and poke story ideas and maybe crash in a few hours and sleep until midnight. I enjoy being nocturnal, dammit. And in my apartment, did I mention that?


... And Gin follows that up with a Bon Jovi song that starts with the sounds of people moaning. I love my WMP.

I exiiiiiist. Haven't been around quite properly lately and probably not going to be around quite properly for a bit, but I am aliiiive.

Also, have a new layout and profile and all fifteen icons.

But mostly I'm aliiiiiiiiiiiiiive.

I should get better at this whole regular updating thing.

... I don't see that happening right now.

Leaving in about forty-five minutes to go to the family for the holiday. I should, if I can manage it, be back on Saturday.

Happy Holidays everyone.

STEP ONE
# Make a post to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related to medium to really big. The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
# If you wish for real life things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!
# Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
# Surf around your friends list to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part...
# If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true.
# You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Wishlist )

I do love when this one comes around. ^^

I'll give you a list of my characters. Ask them questions, any questions, and they'll respond to you ICly. Ask as many as you want to any character that you want!

Abbreviated list.
Full list.

You know the drill, my dears.

(Also, if you'd prefer the ask a question and they're forced to answer honestly variation, let me know you'd like them to be forced to do so. ^^)

As I am occasionally a bandwagon jumper... taken from rude_not_ginger and mind_the_tardis.

1. Put your mp3 player on shuffle and take the first 25 songs it gives you.
2. Link to the lyrics.
3. Let your friends assign you a song and character(s) to write a drabble to.

Song:
Character: I'll take characters I don't normally write, or the list is, as always, abbreviated here and in full here.
Preferred pairing, other characters to include, or verse?:
Anything else you'd like me to include?

( Songs. )

It is 1:30 on Halloween. I am fed and sugared and still vaguely costumed in my throw-together eyesore costume. The apartment's outside is very decorated, the inside is slightly so, and Rocky Horror is playing. NaNo has started, daylight savings springs back tonight and I'm not sure if it did already or is in an hour, and I don't care. Very few kids came by, but I can't quite care about that anymore either, bummer as it was earlier.

It is... not a terrible first Halloween away from home by any means.

And here! Have a meme! Because I'm pretty much just going to do short stories and snippets for NaNo and memes totally count, right? >>

Give me a character and I'll tell you how they spent their Halloween and, if they dressed up, what they dressed up as.

Alternatively, just plain prompts are welcome too.

I... should not be debating pausing in my quest to clean the kitchen before Nina returns from class to make a gigantic post of fucking doom in Mixed Muses.

...Not that I terribly feel like Mixed Muses, if only because replies there seem to be hit or miss, but I feel like roleplay and think I may have the brain for the act, if not the pups for any of my current threads. Actually, I want the Inn right this moment, dammit, if only because I just spent a break reading old threads. Only with the ability to throw anyone I want in. But anyway.

Also, I seem to be stuck on Chess and Jekyll and Hyde for the past five hours or so. I can't quite complain, though.

...Gee, this update is pointless.

I have a terribly unhealthy but oh so satisfying pan full of french fries to munch, fun and pretty music, and a burning desire to do... something. Don't know what. Vaguely feel like RP or writing but I can't seem to get the brain flowing or stay at the comp long enough to actually do anything proselike and proper, and I'm not terribly in the mood for things that are not. Bah. Silly brain. Be nice.

And on a similar but not the same topic, have a writing prompts request. Because oh god, it's October and it's almost midOctober and NaNo is coming up and I have not actually written in what must be months now because it's been at least since I got here, and I need to get back into, you know, DOING THAT.

So.

Five things requests, please? Because I think I can get my head to work in that direction easiest. And I'll take random requests as well, but preferably five things. I'll love you forever if you can give me things directed towards my pups list but I'll really take anything from my fandoms right now.

I keep meaning to make a this-is-my-life-now update and not doing it.

You get that now.

So as most people probably cottoned on to, I moved out of my parent's house in the start of September. The night of August 31st actually, but let's not be picky. I am in the apartment with Nina now (who, for those who don't know this, is my girlfriend, and is theformofstars, and is wonderful). I am looking for a job and it is not going wonderfully, but we can handle our monthly finances till I get one, thank god.

As of the day before yesterday, we have kittens. We had a cat -- well, she had a cat, a large black cat -- and now we have two kittens. Coloringwise I think they're tabbies but I might be using that word wrong.

I have watched every episode of Sports Night a ridiculous amount of times since I got here, except the last disk, which gets put on rarely because, well, it's depressing. I've started watching Sling and Arrows as of yesterday. We have a Beatles poster over our bed and a Frank Sinatra posted over our chair and large sheets of paper to write on over the couch and the bed and more to be put up eventually. I built a bookshelf with a silver hammer we borrowed from a neighbor and moved in with help from an upstairs neighbor for that matter. I'm getting used to the geography of our local shopping complexes and how to get to them. My boxes are not yet entirely unpacked but I'm hoping to work on that today now that I have a bookshelf.

It still feels a little like a dream but the "I'm really here and we have an apartment" moments are more often than not now. I really have nothing else to say, I really had no need to say half these things, but I'm tired and I'm just typing at this point. These are all, despite my out of it-ness, good things. I am here and I am glad it's finally happened.

So, I've been meaning to do a real-life update. You do not get that right now.

However.

We have cats.

They are brothers and kittens and quite sweet and we don't know what to name them yet, SO.

Pair name suggestions?

We have a short-list of sixteen but we're still thinking of things, so suggestions are welcome, and pictures will be coming... eventually.


EDIT: PICTURES I HAVE PICTURES!!!!


( PICTURES! And lots of them. )

the TVTROPES meme ☺


THIS MEME MAKES ME RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY.

:D:D:D:D

I am achy, and sleepy, and out of it, and all in all somewhat mushy, and this is not a grand thing but not a terrible thing either, it is just a thing. That is not the point of this post but probably explains why I feel the need to make it better than any babbling could. So.

It occurs to me that coming home to love is always a good thing, so I would like the world to know three things.

The first: I love my girlfriend. I love being with her. I love being near her. I love talking to her, hanging out with her, geeking out with her, just plain existing with her. I love that I get to be near her every day. I love and am lucky for the fact that she is a part of my life.

The second: I love my Sarah. I love talking to her. I love squeeing with her. I love the idea that someday I will meet her, for goddammit, it will happen. I love knowing I can go to her if I need her and I like to think she knows she can come to me. I love and am lucky for the fact that she is part of my life.

The third: I love my Nora. I love talking to her. I love hanging out with her. I love the fact that it's been years and we're still so close. I love that someday I will meet her because yes, that'll happen too. I love knowing I can call her my sister and knowing she calls me hers. I love and am lucky for the fact that she is part of my life.

And now I am done.

(I also want to state I love my Beth, but I am not going into that for one simple fact: she never checks LJ.)

Any muse, any fandom you know I've ever even touched, any pairing no matter how odd. Claim it in a tag and I write it for you. First come, first served.

( The traits. )

Using only EPISODE names from ONE TV SHOW, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat an episode title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as 'My life according to (show)'

( My life according to Sports Night. Actually, it's not snarky enough to be according to Sports Night, but it'll do. )


...Now I kinda wish I still had the song titles from one singer version of this meme. It had a slightly different question list when I did that one and I can't remember most of the list.

I've just realized I'm going to be at Marion Transit for two hours tomorrow.

I'd be pissed, but it's not being in the house for two hours, and after those two hours I board the bus to bring me home.



... Oh god, home. I'm going home. Granted, I have to come back here to pack and I'm not going to be there for good until next weekend. But I'm going home.

That is a beautiful thought.




In other news, I think we've finally gotten to the point I can recite the entirety of Serenity (the pilot, not the movie), Safe, Our Mrs Reynolds, Jaynestown, Out of Gas, Ariel, The Message, and Objects in Space. My mother's taken to watching Firefly all night and most of the day while working, and just about all those episodes get at least one play a day as of late. I am not complaining. I am amused, though.

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really. And I will answer them all in a new post. Possibly with pictures.

I sit here and realize I'm singing Dr Horrible while my TV plays the creepy part of Fantasia.


... Okay then.


Other than that I really have nothing to say.


Oh, actually! Because I haven't mentioned it yet. Going to Disney this weekend. It's the brother's birthday and the entire family gets year-round passes as a gift. I've never been, so this should be interesting.

This weekend was wonderful. Stopping by Chuck E Cheese on the way home was not. Sleeping seventeen hours and then napping another two was nice, though.

At some point at Chuck E Cheese, Mom picked up Jingo, read the first page, and now wants me to suggest a Discworld book for her to start with. And we're now watching the Firefly pilot because the babiest wants to watch the show from the beginning.

Mmm, corrupting my family. It's a wonderful pastime.