Dec. 22nd, 2011 04:16 am
It's almost Christmas!!
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savvyliterateI think we're almost ready for Christmas. I have one present left to wrap and two cards to send out. A few gifts won't be done until after Christmas, but I have pictures ready to go for the recipients. I'm going to bake a coffee cake for the co-workers for us to munch on Christmas Eve. Bring it on, holidays!
Tuesday marked Mike's first month in the U.S. There's been no casualties yet beyond brain cells. I got a Christmas bonus from the Patriot-News, a week's worth of pay! We decided to be adults and go buy a new vacuum cleaner to replace the faithful, but dying Eureka I bought for around $100 four years ago when I lived in Tucson. We got a Dyson, which is amazing. I was skeptical at spending so much money on a new vacuum, but when it got up the ground-up kitty litter outside the bathroom door, I was sold. The carpets look amazing, and we're having far too much fun cleaning the place. The novelty will eventually wear off, I'm sure.
We've been able to open up the rest of the apartment to the cats, and it's done a lot to calm them down as well. Mike's built up enough allergy drugs in his system, and that combined with the outstanding job the Dyson does means he's not suffering from the cats any longer.
We're going to have a small, but good Christmas thanks to some crazy Black Friday deals I got through Amazon. I've been busy working on the first part of chapter 8 of Namesake. As much as I dearly love writing Eleven/River lately, I realized I was using it as a crutch to avoid the harder parts of other writing I needed to get done. So, I've reorganized my to-do lists and have made sure to get freelance/Namesake done, even if it's just a bit, before doing other stories. I spent a good bit of Wednesday night writing some short Namesake character pieces and sharing them with Isa. All of them are pretty spoilery and involve a character that hasn't been introduced yet, but maybe later.
I joked that Jack would not be pleased with the upcoming Jack the Giant Killer movie.
Jack: What the hell is this?
Wendy: Commercialization. All part of being a Namesake these days.
Jack: Couldn't they cast a better Jack? You know, buffer? Sexier? Me? His hair totally isn't long enough! (That line was from Isa.) And the color's all wrong! I'm going to go complain on the Internet!
Alice (Isa): You do that.
Jack: And the Internet will agree with me! I'm Jack Wright, and I do not approve of this film. Hey, Al, can I endorse things?
Alice: NO.
Wendy: At least you don't have people going around telling you, 'There's no way Wendy can be black.'"
And, yes, the last actually happened. Someone posted a Fandom Secret last year saying that Wendy can't be black. It made me roll my eyes and laugh. Sorry, person.
It looks like once again that LiveJournal is messing with things to the point that people are throwing up their hands and leaving. Dreamwidth has open account signups until the end of the year if people are looking for an alternate place. I have no intention of leaving LJ, but I've had a Dreamwidth account for the past couple of years under DQBunny, same as here. I figured out how to get my LJ layout onto Dreamwidth as well, which has made it infinitely more useable.
The one major difference between my LJ and my Dreamwidth is that the Dreamwidth account is both my writing journal and personal journal. If you just follow me for the writing, subscribe to the journal. If you want to read my personal entries, request access. That way I can please everyone. I wish I could do that on LiveJournal. I realized I have got to work on bringing over the rest of my writing community entries to Dreamwidth. There's a mismash of writing over there, so that's on a future to-do list. But, I did get all the tags organized tonight of what is over there, and I'll gradually copy over the rest.
And, don't worry, I haven't forgotten the rest of the advent fics! *gets to work*
Tuesday marked Mike's first month in the U.S. There's been no casualties yet beyond brain cells. I got a Christmas bonus from the Patriot-News, a week's worth of pay! We decided to be adults and go buy a new vacuum cleaner to replace the faithful, but dying Eureka I bought for around $100 four years ago when I lived in Tucson. We got a Dyson, which is amazing. I was skeptical at spending so much money on a new vacuum, but when it got up the ground-up kitty litter outside the bathroom door, I was sold. The carpets look amazing, and we're having far too much fun cleaning the place. The novelty will eventually wear off, I'm sure.
We've been able to open up the rest of the apartment to the cats, and it's done a lot to calm them down as well. Mike's built up enough allergy drugs in his system, and that combined with the outstanding job the Dyson does means he's not suffering from the cats any longer.
We're going to have a small, but good Christmas thanks to some crazy Black Friday deals I got through Amazon. I've been busy working on the first part of chapter 8 of Namesake. As much as I dearly love writing Eleven/River lately, I realized I was using it as a crutch to avoid the harder parts of other writing I needed to get done. So, I've reorganized my to-do lists and have made sure to get freelance/Namesake done, even if it's just a bit, before doing other stories. I spent a good bit of Wednesday night writing some short Namesake character pieces and sharing them with Isa. All of them are pretty spoilery and involve a character that hasn't been introduced yet, but maybe later.
I joked that Jack would not be pleased with the upcoming Jack the Giant Killer movie.
Jack: What the hell is this?
Wendy: Commercialization. All part of being a Namesake these days.
Jack: Couldn't they cast a better Jack? You know, buffer? Sexier? Me? His hair totally isn't long enough! (That line was from Isa.) And the color's all wrong! I'm going to go complain on the Internet!
Alice (Isa): You do that.
Jack: And the Internet will agree with me! I'm Jack Wright, and I do not approve of this film. Hey, Al, can I endorse things?
Alice: NO.
Wendy: At least you don't have people going around telling you, 'There's no way Wendy can be black.'"
And, yes, the last actually happened. Someone posted a Fandom Secret last year saying that Wendy can't be black. It made me roll my eyes and laugh. Sorry, person.
It looks like once again that LiveJournal is messing with things to the point that people are throwing up their hands and leaving. Dreamwidth has open account signups until the end of the year if people are looking for an alternate place. I have no intention of leaving LJ, but I've had a Dreamwidth account for the past couple of years under DQBunny, same as here. I figured out how to get my LJ layout onto Dreamwidth as well, which has made it infinitely more useable.
The one major difference between my LJ and my Dreamwidth is that the Dreamwidth account is both my writing journal and personal journal. If you just follow me for the writing, subscribe to the journal. If you want to read my personal entries, request access. That way I can please everyone. I wish I could do that on LiveJournal. I realized I have got to work on bringing over the rest of my writing community entries to Dreamwidth. There's a mismash of writing over there, so that's on a future to-do list. But, I did get all the tags organized tonight of what is over there, and I'll gradually copy over the rest.
And, don't worry, I haven't forgotten the rest of the advent fics! *gets to work*
