Why yes! Yes I have been productive! It is shocking, I know!

So, finished Christmas shopping today, wrapped everything up, made fun labels for the sisters and Isabel, packaged everything up in a box and asked John very nicely to take it to the Post office tomorrow while I'm at work.

I also cleaned the living room and straightened the bathroom. We finished decorating for Christmas.

And I wrote. Finally. I'm getting to the point where I need to write a sequence of battle scenes (whee!!!) so I'm trying to get to the scene before the battle scenes so I can sit down on Thursday ( or Wednesday after work), and just write the first part of the battle in one swoop. I hate having to pause in the middle of these scenes, it always throws off my ~groove~

Anyhow. Feeling pretty durn good about myself. Now if only I can fall asleep at a normal-people time so I don't feel crazy when I have to get up at ~le gasp~ 7am tomorrow to go to work!


ETA: Also Mady, HERE are the screenshots of the storyboards the AtLA guys did for Older Gaang. Aang is super cute. So is the Zuko/Mai kiddo. (Last four panals there)

Also THIS made me laugh. Zuko discovers TEA IS GOOD OMG

And Movie!Iroh meets TV!Iroh. We all know who wins.

For general reference:

an•i•mism | ˈanəˌmizəm |
noun

1. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.


2. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.

DERIVATIVES
an•i•mist noun
ani•mis•tic |ˌanəˈmistik| adjective

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Latin anima ‘life, soul’ + -ISM.

Title: Winter Breeze
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Luke/Thalia
Summary: Lovers, forget your love/And list to the love of these/she a window flower/And he a winter breeze. Luke is good at ruining things.
Author's Notes: AU, post-series, written for the pjo_kinkmeme. Prompt was Thalia/Luke, futurfic, oaths of chastity are meant to be broken.

( There were, Thalia imagined, better places to have sex... )

...I kinda want this. ;)

Rhys, when called upon to ad-lib Christmas carols, can come up with the strangest thing.

The last time I checked, 'Deck The Halls' did not include the words 'roast a gerbil'.

Okay, because I thought maybe something fun was in order... we have 'Who Spiked the Eggnog?' by Straight No Chaser. It's not traditional, but it's going to be at my house from now on! ^_^

Well...my next Rodney/Keller fic now has a completed first chapter, and a completed last chapter.

Now I just gotta get from one to the other. ;)

CAN IT BE JAN 22 YET??? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE???

ABC World News had a story on Bolivia tonight. I've never been to the country, but I can't seem to leave it.

I just got the sweetest Christmas card from sache8. Thank you so much! *heffa hugs* Your tomato drawing in the signature was priceless. \^o^/

That's right. Boyfriend is 26 years old.

O_O


And yesterday my dad turned... 53?


So many birthdays in so few days. Anyhow, I gave him his present this morning. It's a autographed picture of Henrik Zetterberg holding up the Conn Smythe. So he was happy. Then we had coffee and made eggs and bacon for breakfast. Now I'm about to go to work and John is going to chill the whole day.

After I get home, and after the Wings game, we're going out to dinner at a very cute resturant/bar over on 22nd and Guerrro.

However, I am feeling kind of shitty. I woke up with a headache, I think I slept funny on my neck (which also hurts), and all the coffee in the world can't help me now. I'm really hoping for a slow, calm day at work.

Just for the record, guys, I don't advise staying up until 2AM reading Final Fantasy XII fanfiction, however amazing that fanfiction may be. No matter how nervous you are about something. You'll probably get to sleep, or at least La La Land (close enough) by midnight if you put yourself to bed around nine.

I got my exam results today, managing to score an ENTER of 84.1 (out of one hundred - if you really feel like trying to understand how this functions, and I'll admit at this point that I still don't understand it entirely even though I've lived with the spectre of it for two years now, you may check out this link), which ensures me a place in both of the universities I've applied for. On one hand, I'm kind of thrilled about this, because I'd be cross with myself for not having options if I hadn't managed this. On the other hand, this does not solve my dilemma of which one I should actually choose to attend. However, it's somewhat pointless to concern myself with this until I get the actual offers, which won't be until the second half of January.

About the score itself, I feel as though I should have done better - but I think that I would have felt that way with anything less than a perfect score. Logically, I know that I studied until the point of incoherence. Emotionally, I still feel as though I've failed something. I am disappointed with some of my individual subject scores (Art, I'm looking at you), but there's nothing to be done about it, and really, since the score more than serves my purpose, it's pointless to bitch.

I just wish I hadn't managed to rip open my right wrist and back of the hand last night in my throes of anxiety. It'll be days before I can flex said hand without pain. Still, now that the scores are out, my anxiety is relieved for at least another month. I've got nothing to do but wait for the offers.

Progress on the Christmas presents remains slow, I'm afraid, but my creative drive does seem to be returning to some degree. I hadn't expected NaNo to have such a draining effect. I'll have to keep this in mind when I do it next year. I will certainly try hard to have them all finished on time, though it remains to be seen whether this is a viable option.

And now for the incomparable Judy Garland, with 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'.

The more I think about it, the more I believe that I desperately need these shoes:


But they're $120. Did I already mention that I was desperate?

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!

Poll #1498691 To buy, or not to buy? That is the poll...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

Should I...

Now I'm going to go watch Merlin. That is all.

I believe this qualifies as the definition of throwing good money after bad: Comcast keeping Jeff Zucker in charge of NBC.

Dood. tearful_eye linked me to the comm little_details the other day.

IT. IS. AMAZING.

You can get answers for ANYTHING!! Get this, they have a question tag called "injuries to order", which is totally what I used. It's amazing! Seriously, all of you writers on my flist should check it out. It's great. :D

Someone asked me if I mentioned that SHIVER was a dual narrative when I pitched it to agents, and as I was about to answer her, I thought, you know what, in full disclosure, I will post the query that landed me my agent. For better or for worse, here it is:



So there it is. STILL WOLF WATCHING = SHIVER, obviously.

I don't know if that's helpful to anybody. It doesn't look particularly helpful. But now it's out there.

Wow. Dollhouse is amazing as always. Anyone know what's up with Fox airing 2 hours of it for the past two weeks? Not that I'm complaining.

I don't want to spoil, but I just wanna say, Wow. You impress Joss once and you get guest roles on anything else he ever makes ever. lol. Sarah Michelle Gellar Prinze would make a great doll, don't you think? ;)

So, for my mom's side of the family, all us cousins picked names out of a hat, and I got my step-cousin Isabel. She's ten. So I'm getting her the first two Circle of Magic books and indoctrinating introducing her to Tamora Pierce.

Mwahahaha, my work here is done.

Especially since my Uncle Jim says she's been reading the Eragon/Eldest Christopher Paolini books. And I think everyone knows that I like those books about as much as I like Twilight. Sooooooo... yeah. :|