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There are some changes about to happen at work because the owners are freaking out about losing sales to the 99p Store. And I stupidly agreed to work Sunday XD I don't know, I just feel like having more money couldn't be a bad thing - mum is talking about buying dad out because he has done everything to make sure the house won't sell, and once he's gone there won't be any issues with getting into the place or saying the neighbours are awful, or that they have a right of way through our garden (with locked gate) anytime.

But I have discovered a new TV show to watch, and I've dragged mum into it. I think it's called House of Tiny Tearaways or something similar. Parents with children who have difficult issues (like aversion to any food but yoghurt, or not being able to sleep unless mum is laying beside the bed). It's amazing to see how often it is the parents and their emotional problems being projected onto the child.

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

anenko asked me to do this, but I may have done it anyway; I like the idea of it because it isn't the usual, "comment and I'll write you your prompt", but more vague. Maybe a fandom you'd like someone to get into and write for, or a genre to try their hand it. I'd be geekily sort of interested to see what people envision of me ;) It's hard to think about being creative these days, what with the work and house-selling limbo, but who knows - a good idea is a good idea!

~~...Like the Mei-chan/RPF crossover: Sho-chan's (Hot) Butler XD~~

I am also going to buy some high-powered batteries tomorrow, designed for my camera to discover if it is in fact my rechargable batteries getting too old and worn out, and NOT the camera. So I can take pictures of my pretty masquerade things that I bought from work last week.

- ~~Hoovering~~
- Email Gem back
- Write out father's day/birthday cards for Grandad and send
- Watch episode 1 of My Boss, My Hero for

dorama_watch
- ~~Finish and post up Gokusen ficbit on shutupanddoeet before Cyn makes the next prompt post either Friday or Saturday.~~ done.
- Finish Moab is my Washpot.
- Actually do what I said and make use of a notebook and try to write anything, everyday because it is supposed to be helpful.

- ANYTHING ELSE I WANT TO DO.

Have been Watching:
Koshonin - completed
Long Love Letter - said to self "wth, self? When did you just stop watching this?" and picked up in the middle of episode six again. Watched the rest of six, and seven at work today during lunch break. Eight, nine, ten and eleven are going to be converted to hardsub and then to ipod ready to continue watching.
Akihabara@DEEP - picked up from the beginning of episode seven again, and watched eight too. THIS SHOW IS THE GOOD CRACK. Episode seven; ZOMBIES! Episode eight; SLUTTY MAID CAFE! Iamsoeasy.

In other news:
I put out some butterfly bag charm things at work today, and then decided to buy some to make earrings out of. There were green, purple and red/orange/purple mix, and I couldn't decide which I liked best, so I bought two of each colour. Then I showed Natalie and offered to make a pair of earrings for her, too. I also asked Sarah, who liked the charms. Now mum has decided I should make a business out of converting phone charms/bag charms/random beads and accessories into earrings. She even told me to check out selling them online. Now I have considered this before, but hundreds of people do it, and probably do it better than me. But we'll see. I'm going to make some up for now and maybe I'll post pictures and get some feedback, what do you guys think?

In MORE news:
I breathed life into

shutupanddoeet! I posted up a set of image prompts. I plan to use it to attempt to write things I don't write often, or haven't written enough for my liking. As well as things I am more confident writing. Here's my list:

POT purgatory!verse
Peacemaker Kurogane
Criminal Minds
Nightrunner Series
Hobb!verse (Farseer, Liveship, Tawny Man)
Gokusen
Ace Wo Nerae
Yamada Taro Monogatari
Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi aka The Legend
Koshonin
Mendol

Guys, if you want to take a look, please do! We created this comm originally to be for more than just us, we had competitions and everything. I'd love to see any and all fandoms that everyone on my friendslist likes represented. And maybe if we do get a few people joining in here and there we can have competitions again, and share around the prompting duties.

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

I'm not doing it, because I'm not in a place where I can handle any criticism (and I've already noticed a couple of people getting criticized when I wish everyone could just say nice things or nothing at all), but if any of YOU do it, please let me know in case I'd like to comment ;)

aliaspiral, have you really only written TWO Gokusen fics? Really? It felt like more!

So, I spent this morning in hell; PBWorks has a rich-text format. So in order to move my fic list to LJ I switched to the rich-text format to copy and paste it. THEN I converted that to HTML and spent a good hour or so removing 'span' this and 'font size and colour' that. Thank god for the auto-replace feature ;) It still took ages! And I had to update it since I apparently hadn't in six months. And add THREE new fandoms! Possibly even four actually, I forget now.

So after that, with

giving_ground's encouragement, I sat down to watch a bit of mindless POT ;) I got through a whole episode and a half before I started trekking for Jdrama fics. I figured I'd start with a fandom I know so that I'd know characters and spoilers and so forth.

I have this back ache and a huge crick in my neck from all the link finding, formatting, c&p-ing. I've given up working out summaries and ratings for things, because if I haven't read them, or read them a LONG TIME AGO I can't remember or know, and I simply can't sit and read everything just to know the answers. It's looking very pretty, though! What I previewed here in my journal, that is :)

At least when I come to doing my own fics it should be easy; I can pretty much steal the formatting from my fic list. It'll just be whittling out the locked posts (the private ones, unless I open them up and risk people seeing).

I am so tempted to make a comm, let anyone join as a member, and then if anyone wants to compile a directory for their own favoured fandom, give them posting access in order to do so. I should've picked a smaller fandom to start with ;) And the amount of places/comms/websites/etc. to look for possible fics is insane!

Insane, but fun, I swear. I just need to take a little break now *collapses*.

Current Music: Untitled - Silverchair

I want to write, but I don't know what. Anyone have any requests/suggestions? ~~Those of you who actually read my fic or know what fandoms I'll write!~~

(Of course, I'm going to bed in roughly two hours, then I'll be gone for two days, so if you don't get in quick don't be surprised if I don't get back to you XD)

So, the radio was pretty entertaining this afternoon when I was tidying at work, waiting to go home. First there was a bit of blab over MySpace and FaceBook and how there's drama going on in relation to anorexia and bulemia communities (or whatever they call them on those sites), though interestingly they didn't say "pro-". A little bit of speculation over whether they want these kind of communities on their sites or not, no big in depth opinion giving. I just thought it was interesting that it has happened around the same time as LJ; did someone drag the argument over there perhaps?

And THEN, the radio DJ was talking about some supposed new Japanese invention... Cookies. BUT! they are special cookies! For WOMEN! ...You eat these cookies, and they're supposed to make your breasts grow larger. Uhhuh.

So the DJ wants to see if this is a real invention, and whether any of the shops in Japan are marketing them yet, so he starts phoning up random Japanese numbers. "Moshi Moshi!" he says, and then he says the only other thing he knows in Japanese, the word escapes me unfortunately, but it means BIG BREASTS. The first woman has pretty good English, once she realises he is English and says "I think you have the wrong number," and hangs up. The next one, after he says "BIG BREASTS?" (in Japanese) replies, "Hai!". It was pretty hilarious but unfortunately we got no definitive answer on whether the cookies are available. A woman did phone up the radio station and offer to test them out if they do get hold of them though ;)

And now I need to finish off a certain little sprinkling of fic through email to erase some not so wonderful RP memories! And THEN I need to beta

rikkai_exchange fic. I'm on it!

LJ fans voice themselves in absolute droves. The past few weeks I've always been able to see the topic of the moment from the sheer number of people posting anything from sheer glee to outrage. Harry Potter, Race, and now this, Boldthrough 2007. A lot of people are using various archiving services, and creating "back-up" journals. And I just keep sitting here on the very small fringes of every fandom I've ever been in, and wonder if I would really care all that much if my journals were deleted and I lost my fanfiction.

Would I care? I don't know. I only go back to look at things occasionally, and not to praise them. I don't hate everything, but if it were all to suddenly disappear I could probably deal with it.

I have this feeling I'd just see it as a clean slate and move on from it. I've probably written everything I ever could just in one fandom. Those damn Prophets. And these days between working, eating and sleeping (yes THAT whinge again) I don't have the energy or the time for it, though I want to be able to write. It's always been a hobby I enjoy.

Someone on one of my friendslists is even offering up website hosting space, and I wonder if that's something to think about going back to. But it is complicated, and not at all interactive.

Maybe I should collect up all my writings, for my own sake.

Heh, about fifteen minutes ago the phone started ringing, and I'd only just decided to get out of bed so I didn't bother answering it (AS IF I WOULD ANYWAY; on my day off I steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the phone), but looking at the time, I reckon someone's called in sick or not turned up to work, since Julie left last week and Tara's mother was supposed to start today and try so maybe she realised she's a big woman and won't handle it (it's a hard job and we've had repeated proof that bigger girls can't handle up and down the stairs all day and that it's a waste of time to everyone involved). But heh, I don't want to go on, and I don't HAVE to go in. I don't want the money that bad, and I just want my bloody days off.

Jan only have five girls on Sunday (you need at a minimum six really) and didn't call us because she thought we'd be going carbooting (WELL IT HAS BEEN AGES). But the day got nicer as it went on, so in the morning when we WOULD have gone, it looked drizzly and we didn't. Still, SCORE.

I don't need the money that bad, it's not like I want to move out tomorrow. Hahaha unlike two of the girls at work who are moving out of their parent's houses and in together. ~~It won't last two seconds.~~ None of my business anyway ;)

I read this book yesterday that our neighbour Lorraine offered amongst a pile; Don't Tell Mummy by Toni Maguire. Just like a lot of fic I've recently read, the ending fell completely flat.

It's awful to be able to understand that, and yet, MY endings suck quite frequently too, when I rush them with a sudden idea and it becomes disjointed, or I just make it up as I go along, or whatever. I also hate coming full circle sometimes, because I feel like I have no other style of writing, and that if the first and last lines are so similar, why bother with everything between?

Anyway, speaking of reading, Cyn finished The Time Traveler's Wife, hehe :D My mum, however, I think has abandoned it and tried to get me to explain the ending, a conversation which ended with the feeble, "well, you'd have to really read it to understand".

A couple of Christmas fic exchanges are having sign-ups already; does that mean Yuletide is due soon? ~~I want AWN fic, and lots of Fool backstory I don't trust anyone to write!~~

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