me

made it to South Carolina.



the plan was to go to Savannah tomorrow (today?) to see Polly, but her work schedule won't allow it. So we'll be spending the day with my parents and leaving on Monday to see Polly. Then we'll leave from Savannah to go home.




I'm exhausted. I think it's bed time.

I was looking through the lonely prompts from comment fic. :)

( prompt: X-Men Movies, Scott/Rogue, lip biting. )


gee, wonder why I couldn't turn that one down. :D

Yay comment fic!

Title: Not Expected
author: k marie
fandom: Torchwood
characters: Gwen, Ianto
rating: pg-13
summary: The phone call didn't really catch her off guard. Who she found when she got there did.
notes: written for this prompt at comment fic.


( Not Expected )



holy crap, it's been so long since I wrote any fic, i forgot how to do a header. :P

argh.

second day dog sitting.



the dog chewed through the power cord for the laptop. :/ which means once the battery is gone, I'm computerless. for the next four days.

argh.



and then my sister took all the things I need, like toothpaste and shampoo. also had the indecency to run out of milk and dishwasher liquid. :P


EOiT is getting into things again. I need to get after him.

okay, staying at my sister's place dog sitting for the next five days.


She's got netflix. :D

So. Just started season one of Merlin, and plan on catching up with some Supernatural. Anything else I should watch?

gimme.


and I plan on doing some Yuletide reading while I'm here too. and some fannish reading in general.

gimme. :D

so for some reason my delicious account disappeared when I didn't use it for a couple of years. Boo. But I have been using it recently, cause of not being on my own computer.

so I'm on Diigo now. username is roguewords. surprise surprise. unless fandom ends up someplace else. I've heard rumors of maybe making our own? that'd be cool.



heading to tuscaloosa tomorrow, going to meet Cash. he's my sister's new dog. and going to do some work for one of her friends. paid work. yay money.


so if anyone's on Diigo, let me know. :)





ya know, someone doesn't work tomorrow. ;)

The Evil Overlord in Training has a favorite website.

Knee Bouncers

it's pretty awesome. All he has to do is hit buttons on the keyboard, and it makes music or plays games or counts or any number of things. And it doesn't matter which buttons on the keyboard he hits.

So far he really loves the music maker. It'll keep his attention for a good 15 minutes. Any of you with kids know how insane that idea is. It's like Yo Gabba Gabba for the computer.

guess what I managed to do yesterday.


that's right, Krissy has managed to hurt herself again. I sliced open my thumb trying to cut up an orange for the Evil Overlord in Training.

The knife is definitely sharp, I didn't feel it until the air hit it.

Then I freaked out.


...It's just a good thing the EOiT was in his high chair, that's all I'll say.


Also, he's getting pretty good at mimicry. Thankfully, not so good that he repeated exactly what I said when I hit my thumb on the cabinet. I just took what he said and said it a few times and made him giggle, so I don't think we'll be hearing that again. It rhymes with pluck, okay?


So today I've been working on finishing christmas ornaments, (thank you, lady_t_220, for mentioning the stapler.) I still want to make some ornaments with the bells I have, but it requires using my thumb! *sigh* Also the yarn I have is a lot bigger than the hole in the bell, making it difficult to get it together.

damnit, I will have a decorated christmas tree that is EOiT friendly!

Estate sell went...pretty well. I now have a 1937 Singer sewing machine. I wasn't going to take it, because of lack of room, but I refuse to let it go to the dump. We still have an antique couch that needs to go somewhere. My cousin's mother in law has said if nothing else, it can be stored in her attic. Which is apparently as large as my house. 0_o

By the end of the day though, we were all just completely worn out. So the house hasn't really been cleaned, and I'll be going back sometime this week to do that. And by that point, I really think it was emotionally hitting us that we had no reason to go back there. My grandmother had lived in that house since the 70's. My parents and my sisters and I lived there for a few years. Valerie and I both had our bridal showers there. I have more Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter memories of being at Granny's house than anywhere else. And pretty much, we'll never be going there again.


*****

I was able to go by 2nd & Charles and actually do something with the books we had at the house. I made about 11 dollars, which was all gone by the time I got the slip saying I had it. Evil Overlord in Training has some new books, and I got an awesome bag. My mother in law has a ton of books that she's been trying to get rid of, I think I'll be taking them by the bag full. :) (And wow, I just looked at the website, and the Hoover store is actually only the second one. BUT IT'S AWESOME. SERIOUSLY. There's a free bin outside the store. and it's not set up like your normal 2nd hand bookstore.)

After that I went to get myself a new pair of tennis shoes. By the way --- shopping on my own with the Evil Overlord in Training is freakin impossible. Took WAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy longer than it should have.

Anyway, I finally settled on a pair of ryka assist xt. It's a cross training shoe, which I have no idea what that means. I only know when I put it on, my ankle stopped hurting for the first time in days. My feet were completely in love with these shoes. I walked around the store in them, following after the EOiT, and it was almost like being barefoot -- only I wasn't having any trouble walking. Yay! This is the first time I've spent this much for me on a pair of shoes. (my converses don't count, because those were an anniversary present.) :P


okay, I just went back and added a bunch to that second paragraph, so I think I need to go do something else. no, i'm probably not dealing as well with this as i act like i am.

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