YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends! (Feel free to only answer some of them if you like!)
1( The questions ... )
The most annoying thing about this heatwave was its timing. We spent two weeks on various Victorian and South Australian beaches just before the heat started. And it was COLD!
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- Mood:
awake - Music:washing machine beeping
I post so infrequently of late, I am astonished when I look back at the last thing I posted. Photos from Sofia's first birthday are in the same page as this will be - and she is just about to turn 2. I am a bad LiveJournaler. But I want to be better, and get around to the Journal part (though I am well aware that most people friended me for fic. But still.)
What to report? Its 44 degrees here today, so my brain is melting. I have no idea how hot that is in American, but to give you some idea, the Melbourne rail system is suspended at present because the train tracks buckled in the heat :( And its not just a one off day ... we've got a whole week of 35+. Yuck, yuck, yucketty yuck.
( writing, perhaps ... )
- Location:kitchen
- Mood:
hot - Music:stroppy girls
Title: Hating It
Author: JaqofSpades
Rating: R (?)
Verse: x2
Summary: Christmas is hard. And Logan has the gift stash to prove it.
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing. Please don't sue. The copyrights of Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox are respectfully acknowledged.
Feedback: please. Constructive is best, any is welcome.
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( This way to the story ... )
- Location:desk, kitchen, home
- Mood:
blah - Music:utter silence
Hello, LJ land. Missed you, but I'm going to be around a LOT more in future.
*Drum roll* I have finished my degree. Exams over, semester over, TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE over. And if that isn't milestone enough, my eldest is off to kindergarten next year.
While I still have one little munchkin at home, I expect to be able to start writing again.
To get my writing head back on, I'm going back to my old faithful for a while - Wolverine/Rogue. I have just finished one of the sequels to a story I wrote eons ago, but want to write another one to round out the triple perspective before I post ...
After I do that, I want to try something new. I have a new fandom. (There. I said it.)
Only the Aussies on my flist will have heard of it, but its a brilliant cop show, set here in Melbourne, called Rush. Unfortunately, they've just killed off my primary ship ... literally. She died! But hey. No barrier to fic, right.
Then I might dabble back in X-files a bit. They are rerunning Season 1 here on Ten HD, and I'm falling in love all over again.
In other news, family is growing up fast ... Annika is a fully fledged little girl now ... she started reading in the past month, at the ripe old age of 3 and a quarter. We got a last minute offer at our local Montessori school for her to go into 3yo next year, and she will THRIVE in that environment.
Sofia was 18 months old last month, and is very much in toddler mode - walking, running and throwing long strings of nonsense words about the place. So cute its a crime, so mischievous it is a constant joy. I'm really looking forward to having more time to spend one-on-one with her, as she is learning at such a rapid rate at the moment.
But it'd be nice if she slept more, so I could get some writing done, too ;)
- Location:desk, house, planet
- Mood:
rejuvenated - Music:annoying beeping
- Location:desk, messy
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:tick, tock, tick, tock
A/N: Sorry about the long delay on this final instalment - I hope its worth the wait. Buckets of TimTams to
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skyblueraefor the beta. Previous parts - One, Two, Three
PART FOUR
- Location:comp, desk, house
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:chattering child
Two of my fics have been nominated over in the WRFA's Readers Choice Awards. If you've ever enjoyed WR fic, mine or otherwise, head over there and exercise your voting finger. And if you've never read any ... the nominated fics would be a great introduction!
Voting is happening here at WRBeta's yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wrbeta/pol
And if you want to check out some of the nominations, here is the WRFA
http://www.wolverineandrogue.com/wrfa/in
May the best fic win!!!
- Location:home, messy
- Mood:
bouncy - Music:complaining bub
PART THREE
Summary: “Red in tooth and claw. What did that mean, exactly? Being ready to fight for what you wanted? Being so hungry you could taste it? Being willing to surrender to that part of you that was wild, pre-human? It was. She was.”
skyblueraefor the beta. Sorry I forgot last chapter, sky!- Location:desk, clean.
- Mood:
calm - Music:sleeping babies
Rating: R (sexuality)
Summary: “Red in tooth and claw. What did that mean, exactly? Being ready to fight for what you wanted? Being so hungry you could taste it? Being willing to surrender to that part of you that was wild, pre-human? It was. She was.”
Feedback: please. Constructive is best, any is welcome.
- Location:desk, house, city, planet
- Mood: calm
- Music:the clock ticking
We had a lovely day yesterday for Sofia's christening. It was a bit hectic - we've been in Cobram, internet-less for the last two weeks - so arrived back to a houseful of visitors, but we had a great time and it was a beautiful occasion enjoyed by all. Some photos!
(from left) Daddy Nick, godmother Katrina, me and Sofia, godfather Luke, and Father Terry doing the honours ...
This is us, taken at the beginning of the month. Annika is nearly two and a half now, and Sofia was 8 months at the end of November.
Sofia's cheeky grin! She took up crawling recently, and is a very happy bub indeed!
- Location:home sweet home
- Mood: happy
I am VERY happy to report we have a new Prime Minister. The legislation required for Australia to sign the Kyoto accords will be the first served up when the new parliament sits, apparently. Then Kevin's off to Bali for the United Nations Climate Change thingy. (Johnny had no plans to go. Climate Change? Where?)
- Location:desk, tidy,
- Mood:
determined - Music:baby crying
- Location:desk, messy
- Mood: blah
- Music:blessed quiet
I'm back home for the first time in a while after several weeks away with Nick's work. I have occasional internet access when I'm away, but not regular. So I seem to vanish into the ether.
The good thing about occasional Internet access is that I am liberated from LJ, Facebook and the various boards I inhabit to do something more constructive, like writing. Did quite a bit of work on my novel while I was away, and even started a new W/R fic which I will make my writing priority for a while. Writing a novel is quite lonely: fanfic has that lovely hook into so many like minded people, the glory of feedback, so after the solitude, I think I need some fic lovin'! Watch this space.
- Location:my brand new desk!
- Mood: chipper
- Music:the dishwasher humming
feeferj who stole it from someone else - great meme! Talk about illustrating the differences in age and life paths - I'd love to see my entire flist do this! (hint) 20 Years Ago, - 1987 - I was in Year 11 in high school, hanging out with my best buds Belinda and Aron. Amazingly, after a long period of having lost each other, Aron found me on facebook last week! I was severely into Bon Jovi, had just heard this great band called Guns'n'Roses, and knew that I wanted to be a journalist.
- Location:desk, clean! Kitchen, getting there
- Mood: nostalgic
- Music:Augie March, Clockwork
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106 books most often listed as "unread" at LibraryThing. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, and cross out the ones you hate. To see how well read we are...
(Added for my own humour… underline the books you have.)
- Location:desk, clean!
- Mood: awake
- Music:baby waking up
I'm generally not a big one for a rant, especially about my little angels, but ... AARRGGH. The last 24 hours has been one of the hardest of my life. Not in the serious sense, ie a major incident or anything, but just FRUSTRATING. Anyone who will be easily scared off having children might want to look away now ....
I
- Location:desk. chaotic. Home. Worse.
- Mood:
bitchy - Music:my youth flying away ...
- Location:computer. desk. house.
- Music:kids sleeping.sssh.
List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
skybluerae tagged me ...
Because I live by my Ipod rather than radio, my songs tend to be old. With two exceptions, from the last two abums I downloaded. So my "into right now" is basically my "always into" ...
1. Guess who's in town for APEC? So Dear Mr President (Pink) is getting a lot of airplay. On my Pod, too.
2. Breathless, Nick Cave. My favourite song from the five or so Nick Cave albums I had. Had the pod on Shuffle last night and just had to go back and hear it again. And again this morning.
3. G'n'R - Estranged/Breakdown/Rocket Queen - can never decide between these. I'm a sucker for dirty, overblown epics. (And there is a fic or 10 in there. Every GNR song has a fic, and one day, I'm gonna write them all...)
4. Pump it - Black Eyed Peas. Gets a lot of play here because my two year old loves to dance to it. Really.
5. Funky Tonight - John Butler Trio. So infectious. I downloaded this album not even realising they were Australian!!!
6. Cold Chisel. Forever Now. Always on high rotation. Not sure if they're known overseas or not, but these guys could rock like Ac'Dc, but went one better in that their songs capture the spirit of working class Australia much more accurately. (And check out the vid - been a LONG time since music vids were THIS simple ...)
7. Christy Moore - Easter Snow/Bright Blue Rose/Nancy Spain. Because I'm Irish and there's always a rebel song in there somewhere. (No decent youtube for this one).
Won't tag anyone but would love to know/hear what you're all listening to ...
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- Mood: awake
- Music:None ... baby's sleeping
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