User:	trollprincess
	Date:	2009-01-07 19:59
	Subject:	Bwahahaha!
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This more than makes up for the LJ downtime:

Supernatural (In My Pants) (NSFW)

Oh, God, this icon is more appropriate for this rec than I thought it was when I picked it, now that I look at it. Heh.

	User:	trollprincess
	Date:	2009-01-07 19:07
	Subject:	HA!
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LiveJournal.com is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with our recent company layoffs! It's a technical problem, not a lack-of-personnel problem.

Thank you for your patience.

Two things:

1. I say again, what fucking patience?
2. Boy, that's some uncomfortably timed emergency maintenance, huh? Heh.

	User:	trollprincess
	Date:	2009-01-07 09:28
	Subject:	Bluuuuurgh.
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I didn't get any writing done yesterday because I spent most of the day so nauseated I could barely stand up. If I wasn't lying on the couch trying to sleep and failing miserably, I was in the bathroom throwing up everything that wasn't nailed down. And then I slept thirteen hours straight last night, and probably would have slept longer if it weren't for Otis's habit of waking me up at around 7:45 every morning. Ick.

Also, I continue to hate the trailer for Bride Wars with the passion of a thousand suns, and sincerely wish the networks would stop playing it already as if they're trying to make me like these two idiots who apparently never learned the definition of the word "compromise." Sheesh.

Here, have some Cracked lists. They make every day brighter.

6 Classic Movies (That Narrowly Avoided Disaster)

5 Celebrity Wikipedia Entries They Clearly Wrote Themselves

7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons

	User:	trollprincess
	Date:	2009-01-06 14:55
	Subject:	Let's try this again.
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Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell had their twins. And really did name one of them Dolly. That's awesome.

	User:	digitalwave
	Date:	2009-01-03 16:02
	Subject:	Wow!
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See Snoopy doing his Happy Skating Dance? That's what I feel like doing, too! We got our new (to us) table and chairs delivered today. Steve bought it over a bit ago and Lee is upstairs putting it back together even as we speak. It's gorgeous! It's barely a year old so it really is like new. I can't imagine having the money to just buy another dining room set like that because this one didn't quite fit with the style of the house they're remodeling in old Louisville. But I'm sure not complaining. Steve wouldn't let us give him anything for it. He said he's happy to keep taking things out in trade for graphics and web design from us as he needs it.

The neat thing is, since it's still so new, Ashley Furniture still carries the set. It's called the Cross Island collection. If we can ever afford to we'll add the two Arm chairs for the end and two additional Side chairs for in the middle. Then it'll seat eight people. It has four chairs with it now. I was thinking of maybe using mom's Wormy Chestnut fireplace bench if it's high enough on one of the sides for now. Then I'll put the other chairs one on either end and two on the other side. If it doesn't look too dorky to use it that way.

I can't believe how pretty it is! And I'm more than bowled over by Steve and Eddy's generosity in giving them to us. It's so much larger than my old dinner table, it measures 78" with the leaf in place. My Christmas runner just lays on top of it now, it doesn't cover over the ends of the table but it still looks nice. I've got the arrangement mom made for me in the middle with candles on either side. I'll take pictures once we finish getting everything back in place.

This is just so neat! :)

	User:	digitalwave
	Date:	2009-01-01 22:04
	Subject:	Probably a really crazy idea...
	Security:	Public

But it's one I've been thinking about for a while. OTW, and the projects they've got going, is what made it start percolating even more in my head.

For a long while now I've watched so many people I care about here online struggling through illness, the loss of jobs, sudden house emergencies that sucked already strained finances dry and so many other unexpected disasters. Each time I've wished that there was something I could do. More than once I've seen you guys rally behind someone who needed help in fandom. I know because I've been on the receiving end of that help more than once. Believe me when I tell you that when it's come it's been a life-saver that I can never hope to explain to you. In a time of need that I never want any of you to know first-hand.

First off, let me say that if we ever did my suggestion I'd be happy to excuse myself from ever benefiting from it. This recommendation isn't done in hope of any gain of mine. It's made in the hopes of helping others.

What would you guys think about our setting up some kind of fannish emergency trust fund? It could be something that we could all contribute to when we had a little extra money and it could sit somewhere until it was needed. Just think, if even just a hundred people sent in as little as $10.00 there would be a thousand dollars in the fund in no time. Think how much good could be done with that amount alone.

We've got so many CPA's, accountants and other people who handle money all of the time in their real lives that I'm sure that we could come up with someone to govern it. Heck, it could even be in the form of an elected board of governance if you thought that would work. When we heard of someone who needed help, whether directly or though a friend submitting their name for aide, then the decision could be made to send them something from the fannish fund. It wouldn't have to be a lot. Believe me, when your back is against the wall any gift is manna from Heaven.

What do you think? Good idea, bad idea? Too silly to ever succeed? I'd love to know your thoughts on this. Feel free to pass this around if you'd like, see what other people think of my crazy idea. I look at all of the good we do with something like wish_list during the holidays and it makes me wish that there was more that we could do to help one another all year long. Fandom can be such an amazing force for good. I don't think that there's anything we can't accomplish if we just put our mind to it.

*hugs*

	User:	digitalwave
	Date:	2009-01-01 20:08
	Subject:	Happy New Year everyone!
	Security:	Public

I'm sorry that I haven't been around, mom's daycare has been closed most of the last couple of weeks so I've had her 24/7. I love her so much, and I don't mind taking care of her, but it's translated to my not having any free time.

I wish that she were doing better, she's still pretty congested and gets short of breath on exertion. I just gave her an extra 80 mg of lasix with her daily meds and I'm going to the drug store in a bit to get more Robitussin DM. It's a cough syrup that she can take with her high blood pressure. Plus it has an expectorant that should help loosen up some of the congestion in her lungs. I'll have to see how she does tonight. If she's not doing better by tomorrow I'll have to take to the doctor. She was in the hospital last January, I sure hope that we're not heading there again. I've got a prescription to restart her physical therapy. I'm also going to ask about doing pulmonary therapy as well to see if it will help.

I'm hoping to get the rest of the packages I owe out in the mail by Saturday, barring any major complications. There's just a few more to go but I want everyone to enjoy their goodies. Guys, thank you so much for the things you've gotten from me. It's meant the world to us and helped keep us going in a month that we were really short. I hadn't had a chance to tell you but I did get the extension and I got the water bill paid on the 30th which was a huge relief. Also, I've been paying extra each month for the last five months and with the payment I'll be making to our mortgage company tomorrow we'll be brought current. Now I'll just do my best to keep us that way.

I still owe a ton of thanks for all of the beautiful cards that you've sent to us. I'll take pictures to show you how we've got them on display. Several people have gotten me paid time; meret, shay_reynolds (she turned my name into a comm who awarded me a whole year's time!) and some anonymous sweetie who didn't leave their name. Of course, you guys know that this means you're stuck with me, right? I'd have to stick around to honor your gifts if nothing else.

I've also gotten wonderful song mixes; for example, both tyffi and duskwillow sent me beautiful ones that I cherish. itsaslashything sent me a really sweet present of $25.00 which I used on goodies for mom, Lee and Amber. celli sent me an Amazon gift card which I'll use to try and get some things that we can all enjoy, probably some movies in their after Christmas sales. And allzugern got me a $15.00 gift certificate with Agent With Style. As soon as I can I'll check over her site and see what Supernatural goody I can get from her collection of great zines she offers.

One of my very best presents was seeing all of the people who signed up with wish_list this year. I wish it was a comm that we kept active all year long just because it's always so amazing to see everyone spreading so much joy and love around. I'm just sorry that I couldn't be as active over there as I would have liked.

Like I've said before, no matter what, I am so, so wealthy in all of the ways that really matter. I have my family, who I love more than life, and I have you guys. Those things alone are the very best presents that I could ever hope to have and I truly, truly cherish them. :)

Love you guys!

*hugs*

	User:	mlleelizabeth
	Date:	2008-12-31 19:07
	Subject:	Wherein I Get Tipsy, Reminisce, Look Forward to 2009 and
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Wish You All a Happy New Years on Behalf of Myself and D Kitty

I'm not tipsy yet. D Kitty is attempting to cough up a hairball on my office carpet. Whee!

So, here's a sort of year end "best and worst" wrap up type thing:


Best New Word:: Fabugross. Coined by a poster on TWOP in connection with the "ladies" of The Real Housewives of Orange County.

Best Things about 2008, Generally:

1. Election Night

2. Tina Fey.

3. David Cook winning American Idol.

4. The Olympics.


Best Things about 2008, Personally:

1. Losing over 30 pounds and dropping 4 sizes.

2. My Seacloud voyage.

3. My sister's New York Times bestseller book, The Snowball.

4. Yesterday my trainer had me do lunges and hold balances for 3 seconds on one foot in between each lunge. Six months ago I could not have done that. Six months ago I couldn't even do a lunge or hold a balance, much less do them in combination. For goodness sake, one year ago I couldn't even really walk! But yesterday I did those lunge/balance combos, easily. In fact, I kind of enjoyed them! I can not only walk, I can skip and twirl and even run on the elliptical. And I no longer wake up in the middle of the night, crying in pain.

Best Wank:

This is tough, because there was rare wank (A Song of Ice and Fire wank, of all things! ) and large quantities of Twilight wank and Avatar shipping wank and the whole FanHistory mess and the LJ Advisory Board election mess and hilarious Moonlight wank (a personal fav because I loved that cheesey vampire show) and Clay Aiken outing himself and so, so many more but the winner, hands down, was the epic saga:

RDR v. Rowling and WB

I'm not going to link it. There are too many posts and I know people on both sides of the issue and don't want to upset anyone. IMO no matter which side you were on, it was the most noteworthy wank of the year. I used to know SVA (and I will state upfront I think he was very wrong but also very mislead by RDR and I hope that he manages to work through some things and move on to more productive pursuits).

Worst Things about 2008, Generally:

Where do I begin? I'm not going to try to make a numbered list. It's too depressing. Every year end round up in print and on TV reminds us: Spitzer; Blagojevich; The acrimony in the Democratic primaries; "Terrorist!" "Kill him!"; The economy's collapse; the completely boring, unfabugross return of 90210;The Bachelorette; Lame Duck Bush trying to wreck the planet as fast as he can before he's shipped back here (yes, here! Barf!); Rachel Zoe (Okay, she's pretty fabugross, but she's also extremely annoying and glorifies eating disorders, so she's a fabugross loser). I'm leaving a lot out because there was just so much that I can't even really get my mind wrapped around them all. Now we are ending the year with a full out Israeli-Palestinian war and a full out Time Warner - Viacom war. How fitting.

Personal worst for 2008: I can't think of one.

I've had a much better year than the world in general did. I've been insanely blessed, and you all are a big part of that blessing. You've given me great, heaping mounds of encouragement and support and been there for me when I was down (which wasn't often, but did happen a few times).

Personal Goals for 2009:

I don't believe in resolutions. I think they are a way of setting one's self up for failure. However, I do like to make some general goals to work towards, so in 2009 I'd like to:

1. Continue exercising and eating healthy food;

2. Read more;

3. Be more active in general;

4. Start doing some volunteer work.


What I'm most looking forward to in 2009:

The Inauguration;

Sims 3

My Hopes for 2009:

Good health, happiness, and prosperity for all of us!

Happy New Year's Everyone!

	User:	stasha
	Date:	2008-12-31 16:41
	Subject:	Recs: Yuletide
	Security:	Public

ETA 01.01.2009: Authors added.

Winnie the Pooh/Discworld:

In Which Worlds Collide and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime by torch

Gen, G, ~5 500 words

"Bother," said Eeyore. He had been saving some particularly juicy thistles for a rainy day, and it was difficult to imagine a day more rainy than this one. "Someone else must have taken my thistles." He stared morosely at the spot where the thistles weren't. "How like them."

Delightful.


Live Free or Die Hard:

Die Hard 4.5 : I'll Be Hard for Christmas by Aja

John McClane/Matt Farrell, NC-17, ~15 000 words.

John and Matt testify at the Congressional hearing, eat breakfast, play committee-bingo, try to dodge the press, and end up in bed together.

The aftermath of the fire sale as if it had happened in the real world. Nifty.


LOLcats:

Paradise Lost by eruthros

Slash, NC-17, ~950 words

"being the story of one BASEMENT CAT in which, through many travails and desperations he attains his TRUE DESIRE"

lol


Dark Is Rising:

Cold Dawn by GrayCardamon

Gen, PG-13, ~7 200 words

"It's a circle, after all."

A very apt epilogue to the story.


Discworld:

The Unseen University Department of Inthaumation Science by Sebastienne

Gen, G, ~1 600 words

Archchancellor Ridcully wants to know what the department of Inthaumation Science is doing.

Funny.

	User:	stasha
	Date:	2008-12-30 17:44
	Subject:	Recs: SGA, sga_santa
	Security:	Public

ETA 01.01.2009: Authors added.

The True Story of When They Went A-Wandering by auburnnothenna

Gen, Team, R, ~16 000 words

To raise the image of Atlantis, the team takes part in a traditional Pegasus rite of passage.

Hilarious.


It's Growing Day by Day by telesilla

John/Rodney, Team, NC-17, ~27 000 words

The gate the team came through gets buried, but fortunately the planet has another one. Unfortunate, it's almost 4000 kilometers away, on the other side of the continent, and they're on foot.

Most excellent.

	User:	stasha
	Date:	2008-12-27 16:40
	Subject:	Recs: Torchwood, thestopwatch Holiday!Bang 2008
	Security:	Public

Tangled Web

Ianto/Lisa, Jack/Ianto, NC-17, ~10 000 words

In which Ianto seduces Jack with Lisa's active help and consent.

Hot, sweet, and tragic.


Of Presents, Give-and-Take, & Memory

Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, PG-13, ~7 500 words

In which Tosh gives gifts from beyond the grave, and Ianto hasn't had much luck with Christmas.

Slightly sad, but quite funny.


Twelve Days

Jack/Ianto, R, ~17 400 words

In which only the Rift is generous with its gifts. Or so it seems.

Your basic failure-to-communicate-causes-unnecessary-angst -plotline, which is usually not my thing, but this is pretty well done and reasonably believable, and the twelve-days' events are quite funny. Nice appearances by Andy and Rhys, too.

	User:	digitalwave
	Date:	2008-12-26 10:11
	Subject:	Art: An Unkindness of Ravens (PG No Pairing)
	Security:	Public

Title: An Unkindness of Ravens
Artist: Digitalwave
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: None in this but the story has Jeff/Misha w/ a side of Warrior!Jensen.
Rating: PG
Summary: She brings justice as well as Death. And he's bound in blood to serve her.
Disclaimer: The characters in this artwork remain the property of themselves, Eric Kripke, Robert Singer and related production companies. None of the pretties belong to me, I'm only borrowing them.
Notes: This is inspired by nilchance's amazing new connected universe, the Raven Verse. Sweetie, this drew me in so deeply I had to try capture it somehow. The icon is yours as well if you want it. I only hope that you think I did your beautiful story justice.

If you'd like to play around with any of my images, whether as icons, wallpapers or whatever, just ask. Credit would be nice.

PS
I'll be back later to tell you about Christmas Day, right now I need to get mom ready for daycare.

*hugs*