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Today I broke out A Muppet Christmas Carol on VHS and watched it. (It's December, an acceptable time for Christmas movies! We will not discuss that I have in the past watched AMCC in July because I wanted a blue furry Charles Dickens who hangs out with a rat.)

Said it before, will likely say it again, it is my very favorite version of 'A Christmas Carol'. I love the Muppets.

(I may break out other Christmas Muppet movies later, but this one is my very favorite. ...I don't have A Muppet Family Christmas :/ but I think I have all the others?)
 
 
mood: cheerful
music: The Love We Found - The Muppets
 
 
 
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Considering walking somewhere for lunch. What's lazier, staying home and expending energy to fix lunch with the very little we have here at the moment, or expending energy to walk somewhere to get prepared food?

On the other hand, I haven't left the house for several days, which is probably a vote 'for'.

I feel like a social failure, it's awesome, for a given value of awesome that actually means the opposite.

...I feel bad about my unrelenting negativity. :/ Have some positive holiday stuff!

CHRISTMAS MUSIC SHARING MEME
'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!


and also

[info]crickets is hosting a Christmas/Holiday Music Share!
 
 
music: do i - luke bryan
 
 
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30 November 2009 @ 06:02 pm
There's still the Doctor. From what little I understand of him, Time doesn't hold him. He's beyond its reach. The Doctor will always be there. And Peri. I'll always have Peri.


...okay, I ship them. A LOT.
 
 
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29 November 2009 @ 07:12 pm
Word Count: 50133

OMG. :O :O :O

Read more... )
 
 
mood: yay!
 
 
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29 November 2009 @ 02:29 pm
1. I like Radiohead
2. I walk up the stairs two at a time
3. I have witnessed a moshpit

4. I have experienced a moshpit
5. I once caught a fish on vacation
6. I have punched/attacked a teacher
7. I have seen someone die
8. I have made fried dough
9. I have been in a New York City taxi
10. My hair is its natural color
11. A movie had made me cry
12. A book has made me cry
13. A song has made me cry

14. I have been saved by a lifeguard
15. I am for the death penalty
16. There have been times when I seriously wished I could kill myself
17. I know someone else who attempted suicide
18. I don't show my emotions
19. I am a pessimist
20. I usually have no self confidence
21. People have told me they trust me
22. There is a TV in this room
23. I am next to a window
24. I have given directions to someone in a car
25. Someone has borrowed something and not given it back yet

26. I’m a perfectionist
27. I usually try not to bring attention to myself
28. My parents want to know what I have for homework
29. We sometimes watch musicals in music class
30. I’m using a mac computer
31. I’m home alone
32. I’m an oldest child (I have an older HALF-brother)
33. I have a belt on
34. It's studded
35. I have plans for today
36. We're allowed to chew gum at school
37. I live for summer
38. Sometimes I act like I have OCD (because I do have OCD?)
39. I could people-watch all day
40. I've tried to be a vegetarian
(it didn't work)
41. Really skinny people annoy me
42. Lime green is an awesome color
43. I can touch my thumb to my pinkie around my wrist

44. I can know someone's scent and know they're near me
45. My parent(s) is a health freak
46. I try to use correct spelling/grammar on the computer
47. I know the difference between its and it's

48. Dr. Pepper is my favorite soda
49. I can get very annoyed by happy people.
50. I wish my hair was naturally curly
51. I'm sarcastic a lot
52. I'm at least a little bit Irish (I actually have no idea...I am at least 50% French-Canadian, and the other 50% includes some Dutch, English, German, and Cherokee, but pretty anything else could also be in there.)
53. I don't tell people's secrets
54. I don't like the name Peg
55. I've slipped on a banana peel
56. I'm very ticklish
57. I give people the silent treatment when I'm mad instead of fighting

58. I wear my pajama pants to school
59. Swallowing pills is difficult for me
60. I get scared in elevators
61. I've been in a car for 7 hours straight
62. I like going on the subway
63. I've seen the same movie twice in a row

64. Sometimes I wish I could get plastic surgery
65. I have fallen down the stairs (once I passed out at the top of the stairs and woke up at the bottom. Fun. Not.)
66. I prefer pools to oceans
67. I have stayed up until 2:00 doing homework the whole time
68. I've cried myself to sleep
69. It would almost be worth breaking a leg to use crutches
70. I've fainted in public
71. I hate bermuda shorts
72. Big lips are attractive
73. I like milk in my tea (I don't like tea)
74. I never wear skirts
75. My nails are fake
76. I can swear in different languages
77. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
78. A stranger has tried to give me money
79. Lipstick is uncomfortable
80. My favorite band broke up
(but then they got back together. Does that count?)
81. I have some friends in my neighborhood
82. I pack my own lunches for school
83. I hate words with too many consonants together (actually I think they're awesome)
84. I've went three days without taking a shower
85. Laptop mouses are impossible
86. I have dropped something today
87. My away message is always up to avoid people
88. I've worn earphones/headphones without music to avoid people
89. People have complimented my handwriting (the opposite has happened, though)
90. I know what aperture and shutter speed are
91. I say like a lot, even though I try not to
92. My pinkies are crooked
93. I have a sibling in college/university
94. I've danced in the rain before
95. I know who wrote Great Expectations

96. I don't know how to do the laundry
97. I hate doing the dishes
98. I make index cards for school even when they're not required
99. I love making microwave s'mores
100. I have meditated before
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26 November 2009 @ 03:33 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it

Happy November 26th to those who don't (or happy November whatever-day-it-is-in-your-time-zone)

You guys rock

♥♥♥
 
 
 
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23 November 2009 @ 08:53 pm
Hey, won't you all be glad in a week when November is over and I talk about things besides my ridiculous novel?

Anyway. I need a throwaway LJ name. It's for a LiveJournal review of the band's first EP, and, you know, there has to be someone to post it. And possibly an appropriate community, although I think I can make a community name up more easily than a oneshot poster.

So, yes, LiveJournal name that no one's using. Or I guess you could volunteer your own if you'd like a shoutout in the Story No One But Me Will Ever Read and you think you'd be a fan of a band called 'A Good Name For A Rock Band' that records songs like 'Prophecies Are Always Right' and 'I Minored In Tropology' and 'If It's You It's Okay'.
 
 
mood: uncreative
music: The Soviet Machine - Chess
 
 
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Word count: 30,711

Tess is completely unable to tell when Liam and Conor are messing with her head. It's cute. <3

I'm behind on my word count, but if I hit 32,000 tonight and average 2,000 words a day for the rest of November, I can still make it! ...let's see if that happens. :/


Good news time: I have almost finished my RL Christmas shopping! I'm doing it all online but that's irrelevant! My mom is the only one I haven't bought for yet, and I'm pretty sure I know what's I'm getting her. (Related: FLIST. WISHLISTS. Pls? :O ) Animorphs is apparently being rereleased in 2012 with new covers and (possibly) somewhat modernized content! There are new Doctor Who spoiler filming pics on the Internet!

That's a lot of exclamation points!


UNRELATED: Please assure me that other people on my flist who are not me play/have played/are aware of the existence of the game Egyptian Ratscrew? ...please?
 
 
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Watched the CIN special clip of the The End Of Time. Yay, YouTube!

spoilerz )


Also watched this week's SJA.

4x11 & 4x12 The Gift )
 
 
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Back from teh Niki's!

Missed tonight's Glee; we hit a write-in instead. ♥ It was kind of amazing, I really enjoyed it. I'm glad we got to go. Lots of geeky fun was had by all. (Plus, peppermint hot chocolate. Yum.)

...I'm very tired now.

Current word count: 28,592
 
 
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17 November 2009 @ 10:53 pm
[off of a discussion unrelated to my jacket]
ME: Is that my jacket?
NIKI: Yes.
ME: It's on the floor.
NIKI: Yeah, well, you don't work, it's different!
ME: ...I don't understand?
NIKI: Just trust me, it is.
ME: I don't work, so it's different that my jacket is on the floor?
NIKI: What? No. You don't work so your sleep patterns are different.
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15 November 2009 @ 08:45 pm
THAT WAS INTENSE, MAN. D:

I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

PEOPLE SAID DARK!TEN AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED BUT I DON'T THINK IT WAS THAT.

INTENSE.
 
 
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Six-hundred-odd words shy of my word count goal for the night. Arrgh. I miss having my lead. Where did my lead go?

(Seriously, if I ever do this again I'm setting whatever story it is in a made-up time/place so that whenever I get stuck I can just go off on a worldbuilding tangent.)

(Related problem: Should be writing. Instead, updating LJ and archive-binging on Antihero for Hire. Damn you, cyberpunk webcomics.)

...trying to resist the urge to have a vaguely-plot-relevant discussion about "How exactly do we go about selling an album online anyway" into a fandom-related debate. It's January 2010! They would have seen Matt Smith in action by then, however briefly, right? Or they could argue about What Joss Whedon Should Do Next. Or webcomics. Or something. It is entirely too early in the month for me to do this.
 
 
mood: nerdy
 
 
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Word count: 19,100

Determined to hit 20,000 tonight. No idea how I'm going to accomplish that.

My timeline makes no sense. None. At all. Sense, it makes none. :/ At this point, the band has been in existence (as it stands now, i.e., counting from Johnny joining) for about two months. They just announced the release date for their first album. Which...sense, it makes none. On top of that, Liam and Michael have been dating for about two months now (somewhat less time than the band's existence, but not by much) and Liam doesn't even know about Michael's stealth geekitude yet. I know this, because I'm determined to actually write Liam finding out about Michael's geekiness, and it hasn't happened yet. And I'm still not clear on how Tess came home from school for a long weekend in mid-November and wound up staying over a week. Why didn't she just wait for Thanksgiving break?

This whole story makes increasingly less sense the more I try to make it make any at all.

*flails and sulks a bit*
 
 
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11 November 2009 @ 09:11 pm
Glee 1x09 Wheels )

Lots of D: this week, but the good kind of D:, y'know? We need more episodes centered on the non-Finn/Rachel/Quinn/Puck bits of Glee Club. ♥
 
 
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Word Count: 17,222

...and I'm kind of blocked. :/ Liam and Michael are currently hanging out in the Aquarium discussing digital piracy of the few songs the band has released so far, and I have no clear idea what happens next. Uh. :(


Anyway. According to my flist, it is That Time Of Year again!

THE RULES
Step One:
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related (fics, graphics, etc.) to medium (books, dvds, etc.) to really big (computer, house, pony!, etc.) The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), 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) could get in touch with you. [Note: Your home address is not required!]
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ.

Step Two:
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) 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. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

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. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.



the wishes )

If you have a wishlist posted and don't know that I've seen, please drop me a link in comments!
 
 
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Word count: 14133

Query: Would it be entirely too Black Donnellys ripping-off of me if Conor wins the restaurant in a card game? Because I can't seem to come up with another way for him to become the owner of a restaurant. Suggestions welcome.


Today the little brother bought a PS3 and is currently setting it up. I don't entirely understand gaming consoles, but I gather this is a Good Thing for him.
 
 
mood: lazy
music: Teardrops In My Guitar - Taylor Swift
 
 
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Word Count: 11,664.

So not much progress yet today. I like writing the nakama hanging out together, but they're hard to write, because not much happens while they're together aside from giving each other a hard time. Most of the scene so far has been devoted to establishing explicitly that Tommy is the Team Mom and Sara is the Team Dad and that the other four have never matured much past the ten-year-old stage. Blah.


iTunes Meme Stolen (belatedly) from [info]crickets:

cut for length )
 
 
mood: unproductive
music: Idina Menzel - Gorgeous (Acoustic)