User: carodee Date: 2008-08-27 18:49 Subject: Unfinished ficlet: SPN/Addams Family Security: Public

I feel tired and sluggish. My brain doesn't want to move. I'm reading and watching too much TV so it doesn't have to. Yesterday I watched the last five episodes of Prison Break, all because of a Michael/Alex vid that made me go, "Who are these men?" (My sincere love of prison AUs does not always translate to actually watching the shows.) Then I searched out the fic for that pairing. Sadly, that didn't take very long.

I should be working on the LMFAwards but I don't want to. I am procrastinating like mad. Hence amusing myself with crack crossovers. I have a mad girlcrush on both Wednesday and Morticia so everyone else should too.

Title: The Strange Courtship of Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural/The Addams Family
Pairing: Wednesday Addams/Sam Winchester
Rating: PG
Warnings: Het. Odds on going any further with this: Not good
A/N: Wednesday's away at college and living in a local haunted house that her father bought for her. He spoils her so. Also, the year is almost up and Sam is worrying himself sick about it.
Summary: The Addams Family secret has kept them safe for centuries. It might save Dean, if Sam can persuade them to part with it.

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-26 17:57 Subject: Coming up for air... Security: Public Mood: relaxed

Well, I'm happily enjoying my vacation. See, I was never meant to have an actual job. I was meant to wander the earth like Caine.

Let's see...

Friday....the cats are wundebar!! They were quite the handful to get into the carriers. The vet said they were in great shape...if a bit huge. Myst is 12.7 pounds and Shadow is 13 pounds which is heavy when you have to carry them. They got their rabies shots and we were off.

Saturday.... We went to PG's house. I saw his studio. I have to say that I love his paintings. He also showed some of the other projects he was either working on or had finished. We had a little barbecue followed by movie night. He has this excellent set up. HD television and surround sound speakers. We ended up watching the first Hellboy(I love that movie) and it was like being in the theater. The room shook. He's taking P and I to Wollaston beach some time so P can get his clam fix.

Sunday...I walked and got out in the air. Btw, my diet is suffering a bit on this vacation. I'll get back on track next week.

Monday...I found out where my three cousins are buried and my uncle. There is no luck yet on where my aunt, my father's older sister is buried. I actually stepped into a library and got two books. I started to read the book last night. It's terrible. It's about a vampire during the 1890's. There seems to be Jack the Ripper still hanging about. It's kind of a romance novel. I think that if I can get through the mess that is this book I can read anything. Baby steps. I think the real problem is I read too much fan fiction and I'm really not into regular fiction. I'd rather be reading a non fiction book on history or politics for some reason. No idea why???

Tuesday...I did a lot of walking today. I visited my relatives graves in the middle of it and then did more walking. Today was perfect for walking. It was in the seventies. Is this still summer because they're talking about it going into the fifties and possibly even the forties tonight. Odd. Oh, shh, I dropped into a bank and took half of the money in my checking account and opened up a savings account...under the nose of my financial adviser. I feel like I'm starting from scratch on accruing my millions(just kidding;). I'm really not happy about how my investments are going. I'm going back to my bean counting ways.

I have to say that I am reeeeally relaxed.

I know I'm late on the whole Olympics thing but I had Tivo'd it. The events I actually watched were the swimming, diving and gymnastics. Oh, how cute was Matt Mitcham when he won the gold. Awww!!

That's it...off to do my stuff. :)

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User: mab_browne Date: 2008-08-26 21:36 Subject: All's Fair? A Moonridge story? ::whistles nonchalantly:: Security: Public Tags: stories and writing 2008

See, it's like this. A week or so ago, cross_stitchery and I were chatting, and she dropped the idea into the conversation of how much fun a TS fusion with C J Cherryh's 'Morgaine' stories would be, with Jim in the Vanye role and Blair as Morgaine. With a few essential differences of course, and notable darkening of our anthropologist's character. And while I am not going to write it, I kept seeing what I guess would be the last scene of such a story in my head, so I got it out of my head by writing about 1,180 words of it.

If you're not familiar with The Gate of Ivrel have a Wikipedia link. If I took this any further I'd keep some aspects and play around with others. But as it is, plot bunny free to a good home.

( Weirdo AU snippet under the cut )

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User: mab_browne Date: 2008-08-24 07:51 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Life has been hectic in small ways, so no writing got done this week.

While I haven't written much, I do have plot bunnies taking shape for three out of my four Moonridge prompts. I'm sure something will come for number four too.

There are a couple of pics under the cut, taken when I took Madame La Teen on a field trip for her biology course.
( Some nice soothing pictures )

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-21 07:26 Subject: Thursday...roughly 8 hours to go..Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Security: Public Mood: cheerful

I feel like I've been riding some sort of roller coaster this week. By the end of today the ride will be over and I can relax at home for a bit. Yesterday, I started the day full of a lot of emo. Thus the lively and enjoyable lj post(facetious, here). I had two days of having my routine derailed. I got back on track...kind of. I put my earphones on and I concentrated on my job and the politics of the Muslim world(don't ask). I was quiet, in my own space and trying to traverse the minefield that is my audit.

There were some humorous moments. One such moment was when I talked to PM. She told me that she's going to be in testing basically until the 28the Why is this humorous? 1) There are only three auditors. 2) I'm on vacation until September 2nd. 3) The new person has to sit with Mr. KIA. 4) Mr. KIA will be the only one doing the audits. Yes, I will be doing the July audit when I come back. LOL

I don't think my supervisor understands what can be done in a day. My production is high because of the way I organize my report. He basically doesn't want us to do the report that way so...Oh, well. Instead of doing between 200 and 300 reviews per day I'm only going to be able to average between 80 and 150. They keep hiring people but no one is replacing the person we lost. We are also reviewing the work of three times as many people as we did last year. We used to be able to close the books on our audits by the 15th of the next month. That's not happening. We're doing our jobs and extra stuff like testing, training and focused audits. Crazy....

On a better note...I'm wearing my size 12 dress pants. Yes, they fit!!!

Tomorrow...I don't have to get up until a reasonable hour. Then the little kitties have to go to the vet. I may get a pedicure afterward.

Work calls...

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-20 07:22 Subject: Wednesday Security: Public Mood: angry

Let me speak of why I'm at the breaking point with my job. It's a familiar rant...I need to do it because I can't afford to tell my manager to take my job and shove it.

Yesterday morning I was gearing up for a new report to work on. Remember, I was actually plowing through my audit but the new report meant taking on a lot of Mr. KIA's work because he's otherwise occupied. I had estimated 1200 reviews...I was not far off because the new report gave me 1063 which is almost 350 extra reviews. Whatever. I expected it. The couple of times I've gone by Mr. KIA's cube he's either writing e-mails or playing with his Access database. Again...whatever.

My boss must not really want me working for this company because he's trying to aggravate the hell out of me. PM, who is one of the three auditors besides me and Mr. KIA, was out yesterday. The newest member of the team has been sitting with her watching what she does. My manager had her sit with me. This was kind of a bad idea. One reason was because I have not gotten over Monday. The other was I needed quiet time to get refocused. The result of her sitting with me was I got 80 reviews done and I skipped over anything which required any great thought. I need to have quiet and focus when I do my job. Any form of distraction throws me off. My perfect job would be working totally alone.

Aside: Sometimes I think people think I'm a very gregarious person. I come off that way if you meet me but I'm actually very shy. I'm not a people person. I'm not a very trusting person either. I'd rather be left alone a good deal of the time. I put in the effort at work because I have a strong work ethic. I feel that if you're going to pay me a lot of money then I'm going to justify the expense. I'm not at work for a social experience. I'm also tired of the "Oh Madeline's good at that. Let see what she does." So they can use my analysis to write their reviews. I'm being used for testing, training and for every other thing you can think of. it's making me tired and very cranky.

I'm trying to look for another job but I have a weird skill set. I've gone to agencies but they have yet to be able to find me a job. When I was hired for the first job I had at my company I was told to create a job for myself. In some ways I'm kind of fearless in my job because of it. If I don't know how to do something I'll figure it out. A lot of the time I walk into trainings where I'm supposed to learn something new and the trainer uses me as their guide. What the heck is that?

The big joke out of my last team meeting was the thought that my team is getting involved in so many things and the company as a whole is growing that it's estimated that we will have to do an average of 275 reviews a day. Not going to happen unless I work from home. There are no distractions at home. I have no tensions at home. Thank God for this vacation because I really can't afford to flip out and quit my job.

Btw, how much do you want to bet that when I come back from this vacation I will be given July reviews to do?

PG called last night. He's going to have a barbeque on Saturday when we're down his house. I had to laugh he called to find out if anyone had a food restrictions. No...steak...chicken...all good.

Work calls....

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-18 12:30 Subject: Lunch Security: Public Mood: crazy

I'm having one of "those" days. I thought it was going to be just me and my spread sheet...but...Noooooooooooooo!!! I think I've been involved in a mini e-mail war...chain mail...at work. I originally wrote a request to fix something in the computer application I work in. I was told this would be done soon. All of a sudden , I'm sent e-mails which are mixing two different issues and one e-mail said, "Madeline writes in a certain way...ya-da...ya-da." Well Madeline had enough of the suckage of her time and wrote back clarifying the issue. This actually ended the flurry of e-mails. The last e-mail was, "oops" because they figured out that if Madeline writes something it's almost bulletproof and very complete.

This is the second time today this has happened. Earlier, there was a request for me to sign off on something. I wrote back to have the issue clarified only to be told that they were correcting something I wrote about a year and a half ago which was a oner issue. I also pointed out that the title of the request was misleading because it actually had nothing to do with what was going to be updated. My big issue is still sitting out there and I basically said you need set up a configuration request for the issue outlined in the title of the issue being fixed because that issue is still not being address. (Huh? I think something snapped in my mind) They took three separate issues and combined them into one way back in the dark ages of my employment.

I know...I'm rambling. This is what happens when everyone is on their own page...in their own galaxy.

I must now try to remember my mantra which will make me one with the universe.

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-18 07:16 Subject: Monday...4 business days until Nirvana Security: Public Mood: awake

Friday

I don't know what the heck was wrong with me on Friday. Whatever it was I still have a tad bit of it today. Nothing major except the total abhorrence of perfume right now. I'm also a wee bit tired. At work, it was a day full of crazy. I kept finding big issues which I had to write up. Can someone else find these issues because it's beginning to stress me out? Although, per my supervisor this flurry of research is recouping a lot of money for the company and could potentially be one of my three goals for next year. Okay, whatever.


Saturday

I was a bit nervous going to WW because I frelling gained the week before. What can ruin a Saturday morning? Not gaining weight but walking in on my site the first day they go live with computers. Holy crap!!! There were people in queue wrapped around the meeting space and outside and down the hall of the meeting. Crazy!!

Guess what? I lost 3.6 pounds for a four week total of 10 pounds. I now have 8.6 to lose until I hit a milestone goal. A weight I haven't been since I was in 7th grade. After that the struggle continues until I lose the other twenty to GOAL!!!!

It was Tax Free weekend in Massachusetts. I really didn't buy anything. Okay, I bought a bra(which has no tax) because sadly I'm losing some of this weight in my chest and I haven't got much going there to begin with. I'm down to a 38C but if I was being truthful it would be a 38B. Can someone tell me why I'm the only fat woman I know who has absolutely no boobs to speak of...hmm?

I also bought a new pair of ear buds for my iPod. Why? I've had my iPod for around two years but the ear buds look like they are older...much, much older. They are no longer white. The "L" and "R" have worn away. the rubber parts are fraying. How do people keep them so white? P has had his a few months less than me and his are pristine. He actually uses them more than me. Mine are gray...like that is their natural color. I'm going to get some sort of case for them. They will be white!!! lol


Sunday

I got the nails done. I'm near a point where I may stop having my nails done. Why? During my last fill the woman did some odd stuff to my nails. The result was they were like lethal weapons. They were sharp...really sharp and kind of frail feeling. This was wonderful especially since I was catching my nails on everything. I went back yesterday to have it out with her and have her fix my nails. There are new owners. My shop has changed ownership three times in the past four months. These people may be okay. My nails look and feel much better. I was also there when someone had a pedicure and they didn't scar that woman. I've been holding off on the pedicure because of my last session with the "Mistress of Pain". My feet still hurt. On my vacation I may book an appointment. This does not mean this is settled because they may be gone tomorrow.

Today

I have 850 reviews to go but that may go up because Mr. KIA is still working on his little project and has probably barely touch his 2200 reviews. I don't care because Thursday is my last day until after Labor Day. Evil cackle.


Oh, I found out where my cousin J is buried. She was my godmother. She's buried in North Cambridge with her brother. She's practically right next to our two great uncles. I need to find out where her mother and father and her two other brother's are buried. I thought they were at Cambridge Cemetery but no such luck.

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User: aerianya Date: 2008-08-16 19:14 Subject: Icon Adoptions Security: Public Tags: dw, fs, icons, sg1, sga, ts

-3 Comic Con -8 SG1 and SGA -13 The Sentinel -4 Farscape -7 Doctor Who New and First -1 Dark Light

Mostly From Challenges Some Entered Some Not.

( Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. )

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User: carodee Date: 2008-08-15 09:00 Subject: Moonridge has been very, very good to me Security: Public

I got the most delightful surprise in my email last night. You may remember that I had two claims in the auction: a Prison AU and a Alex Barnes/Naomi Sandburg femslash. It turns out there was a snafu and two people got the femslash claim. I think it's a really intriguing idea so I told Aly I'd pay for both of them. There was also someone who contacted me about the Prison AU and said she'd already started writing it. I had to tell her there was another person also interested and she should hold off until she knew if she got it. Turns out she ignored me and, boy howdy, am I ever glad she did!

She sent me the story last night. It's a whopper at 20,000 words and, even unbetaed, I could NOT stop reading until I finished. I opened it at midnight, finished at 1 a.m. and THEN I walked my dog. In Chicago. At 1 a.m. That's how much fun this story is.

( Spoilers for the set up but not the story line plus some squee! )

I'm sitting on my hands to avoid spoiling things any further although the above is simply set up, but when Darklady posts Sense of Justice you should definitely go read it! *goes back to page 1 and eagerly starts reading again*

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-15 07:20 Subject: Friday Security: Public Mood: crappy

This is going to be a long day. Why? I feel like heck. This is spill over from yesterday. I was having a lot of sinus issues and it created a migraine-like headache most of the day. I couldn't listen to my iPod because it was just bothering me too much. I couldn't be around anyone with perfume because it was totally making me nauseous. It helped me keep on my diet because I was afraid to eat anything. Today, my headache has gone away but my stomach hates me.

In the middle of my raging nausea I had my team meeting. I survived barely. My team has grown by leaps and bounds but the conference room is still the wee thing that it is. It comfortably sits seven or eight but we have eleven people...all wearing some cloying perfume and eating chocolate.(Do you know how terrible the smell of chocolate is when you nauseous?) By the time I had to give all my updates...it's been a weird, busy week... my nausea had somewhat abated...not really.

When I got home it was soup and a nap...followed by bed.

Four more business days after today until my vacation.....

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User: carodee Date: 2008-08-14 08:52 Subject: TS Fic: The Virginity Negotiation, Jim/Blair, NC-17 Security: Public

Title: The Virginity Negotiation
Author: Caro Dee
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Rating: NC-17
A/N: Moonridge story written for Pattrose. Previously published in My Mongoose.
Summary: Blair wants to cross Jim's final frontier.

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User: discord26 Date: 2008-08-14 07:23 Subject: It's another day in the neighborhood... Security: Public Mood: aggravated

One week from today I will be setting up my out of the office response and getting ready to relax. Oh, if only it were next week.

I didn't get a lot of focused tie yesterday because of things. The things:

1. Mr. KIA, who is still working on June, kept asking me all sort of stuff at all the inappropriate times. First, it was while I was trying to pay my bills online before work...Hello, I don't officially check in until 7:30 so talk to me later. Then, I'm sitting eating my lunch reading my Yahoo e-mail and he begins asking me work related questions. Does it look like I'm working? Do you get the impression I troll the internet eight hours a day instead of working? Btw, I keep handing him f'up's which are happening because of his project. Didn't they test these scenarios?

2. My cube-mate is starting to be very annoying. She was doing her self appraisal and I would not be surprised if she is giving herself all fives(this is the highest you can go). I did my appraisal and I gave myself a lot of Meets Expectations because you would have to do something extraordinary to get a high score. I've found major things which have led to a lot of savings for the company but it's part of the job. It is expected. I'll probably be getting my review before I go on vacation...maybe?

It was sunny yesterday. OMG!!! It was so nice out that P finally had a chance to work on the property. He was only able to do the front lawn which with all the rainy weather was looking like a tropical rain forest. Next week he's going to the back yard...if he can get out there. Note to self: Purchase a machete. It's supposed to rain today:=(

Yesterday, was kind of upsetting for me because of the stock market. I understand that it's going to go up and down but : stop it! I want to make some money on my investments. I'm never going to be wealthy but I want to be comfortable. As it is I could have had waay more money if I had kept it in my Money Market account earning 2.5% at my local bank.

Small rant:

Hello investors,

Stop listening to the stupid reports and opinions of people in the industry. Sure the economy sucks but pulling your money out every time there is some bad news is not helping anyone. It's making the market lose a lot of value and wiping out people's investments. I know someone is going to go in an buy low and sell high again. I just want to recover my initial investment. Shoot me.

Today...I have 1190 reviews to do...there is a newly stocked iPod primed and ready.

Project for me: Talk to my sister and find out where the heck my Aunt H is buried...apparently it's not at Cambridge Cemetery. Yes, I am still working on the genealogy. I'm also trying to find my Irish paternal Ggrandparents immigration records. I think I've found my Ggrandfather in the 1880 census with his mother. The problem with Ancestry.com is every time I put in his name Rose Kennedy's father," Honey Fitz" comes up. They were in the same place at the same time but totally different people.

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User: mab_browne Date: 2008-08-14 22:28 Subject: All's Fair, Part 12 Security: Public Tags: all's fair, stories and writing 2008

This bit took longer, but it's about twice the usual chapter size because I wanted it all together.

This is a fairly archetypal story in some ways, and after a youth of Wild Kingdom and cheesy movies on tv on Saturday afternoons, I'll admit that I felt that I had to have a giant snake in here somewhere. It's the Amazon and it's the nineteenth century. Man vs animal, etc etc. In brief, I really wanted an anaconda. But as I regularly bitched to EE and Elaine, I did not want a gratuitous anaconda. In seeking to avoid the gratuitous anaconda I may have committed other sins, such as stereotypes of superstitious foreigners etc. Your opinions are appreciated.

All's Fair, J/B slash, AU, 3,200 words approx, PG for violence and bigotry and superstition and such-like disturbing things.
( Onwards to all sorts of bad things for our heroes )

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