so tempted to close the 'never close' door because that's where the cold is coming from
My state just keeps getting stupider and stupider.
Now they want to test people on welfare for drugs AND make them pay for the test (which will be refunded if they test negative). So, let's make people living on the edge already, barely scraping by, pay upfront for a drug test. These are people who live off of pay day loans and get tax refund "loans" because they need the money now.
Also, it's probably a violation of the Fourth Amendment and, in Florida where they did this, all of 2% of welfare recipients tested positive. The state spent 178 million on testing and saved around sixty thousand on the 2% they kicked out of the welfare program.
Yeah, that's worth doing...
So, it finally snowed Sunday night into yesterday morning. About 2 1/2 inches that is melting since it's in the low 40s and sunny right now. Pointless! And we're due for 50s by the end of the week.
I'm hoping the sun and overnight rain will take care of my sidewalks as I won't be home until ten tonight and I'm not shoveling then!
I got a lot of compliments on my solo at church. The service was great. Lots of wonderful music interspersed with complimentary readings. We had a trio sing "A Heart Full Of Love" (or whatever it's called) from Les Mis which was the highlight.
Our Spiritual Celebration meeting went very well. I don't have to give any services through July except coordinate some play for March and the Flower Communion in June which I'll just plagiarize myself from previous ones I've done. I'm helping on a couple others, including one on "unfriending". *g*
Didn't get out in time to go see Woman in Black. :( But I did go to the grocery so I didn't have to go yesterday in what was originally predicted to be up to five inches of snow falling all Monday. The flurries ended around 10:00 a.m.
Still, it's not fun pushing a cart through a slushy parking lot and it was cold.
So I have enough food at least until Thursday.
Yesterday I got prepped for my stupid court appearance tomorrow. My boss is driving us both up there in what may be heavy rain and thunderstorms. I've never been to the county just north of us county seat (actually I've barely been across the county line). It's thirty miles away from where I've lived my entire life. *snort*
KU squeaked by at KSU last night after leading most of the first half by ten or twelve. Luckily either our defense was really on or KSU couldn't hit the side of a barn. We gave them several opportunities to catch up--and they actually went ahead by two in the second half--but we held on to a six point win.
I watched the second half in the kitchen due to to many things recording on the main tv. This confused Elektra greatly.
I've finally written more on my fic that I need to finish by tomorrow to get to my beta so I can post it this Sunday. Word count is no problem--my nowhere near half finished rough draft was over the minimum. Getting it finished is the issue now. I still have at least three main scenes to write (several pages long each, probably). I've written over a thousand words today and hope to get a few more scenes written by tonight, but I also want to at least watch Glee and The River.
I also need to work on "Rolling In The Deep" before tomorrow night's choir practice.
So, Matthew Bohmer's gay. Never would have guessed it. Also, I just don't care because, for me, it's his characters I love. I don't care what he does in his real life or who he is etc. etc. But apparently several people on the tvguide forum will no longer be watching White Collar in their bigoted disgust. Although some think it's wrong to watch him kiss women on the show because he's gay in real life which they feel is not bigotry or homophobia. *rolls eyes* They don't seem to understand the definition of acting.
Also, apparently it's fine and dandy for a straight person to thank their husband/wife when they get an award but not a gay person.
Sometimes I just want to line up all the assholes and mow them down with a machine gun.
I continue to load TEAOW&S on AO3. I'm nearly up to the second big plotty fic, "Last Dance". The one where I had Spike bite Willow and she climaxed from the bite. When this became a big deal in later fics and, y'know, the whole bond and die without being bitten thing that ran as a major plot point through the remainder of the series, you'd have thought I'd carefully planned it all out.
*snort*
Nope, I fell into that one by complete luck!
What I'm enjoying is going back to the original files from fourteen years ago and reading the author's notes and things. I finally found the original name for the series, long forgotten. I knew who gave it the name TEAOW&S but not that it was about twelve fics into the series. Also, I continually whined about how emotions kept creeping into what were supposed to be just smut fics.
Yeah, look at me now. The emotion and angst queen who can barely write porn.
lol
Well, should get back to working and then writing.
Happy Valentine's Day! It means little to me either way. I'm happy alone. I do get meatloaf and mashed potatoes out of it, since that's dad's favorite meal (and one of mine) and I'm out at the parents' tonight.
Now they want to test people on welfare for drugs AND make them pay for the test (which will be refunded if they test negative). So, let's make people living on the edge already, barely scraping by, pay upfront for a drug test. These are people who live off of pay day loans and get tax refund "loans" because they need the money now.
Also, it's probably a violation of the Fourth Amendment and, in Florida where they did this, all of 2% of welfare recipients tested positive. The state spent 178 million on testing and saved around sixty thousand on the 2% they kicked out of the welfare program.
Yeah, that's worth doing...
So, it finally snowed Sunday night into yesterday morning. About 2 1/2 inches that is melting since it's in the low 40s and sunny right now. Pointless! And we're due for 50s by the end of the week.
I'm hoping the sun and overnight rain will take care of my sidewalks as I won't be home until ten tonight and I'm not shoveling then!
I got a lot of compliments on my solo at church. The service was great. Lots of wonderful music interspersed with complimentary readings. We had a trio sing "A Heart Full Of Love" (or whatever it's called) from Les Mis which was the highlight.
Our Spiritual Celebration meeting went very well. I don't have to give any services through July except coordinate some play for March and the Flower Communion in June which I'll just plagiarize myself from previous ones I've done. I'm helping on a couple others, including one on "unfriending". *g*
Didn't get out in time to go see Woman in Black. :( But I did go to the grocery so I didn't have to go yesterday in what was originally predicted to be up to five inches of snow falling all Monday. The flurries ended around 10:00 a.m.
Still, it's not fun pushing a cart through a slushy parking lot and it was cold.
So I have enough food at least until Thursday.
Yesterday I got prepped for my stupid court appearance tomorrow. My boss is driving us both up there in what may be heavy rain and thunderstorms. I've never been to the county just north of us county seat (actually I've barely been across the county line). It's thirty miles away from where I've lived my entire life. *snort*
KU squeaked by at KSU last night after leading most of the first half by ten or twelve. Luckily either our defense was really on or KSU couldn't hit the side of a barn. We gave them several opportunities to catch up--and they actually went ahead by two in the second half--but we held on to a six point win.
I watched the second half in the kitchen due to to many things recording on the main tv. This confused Elektra greatly.
I've finally written more on my fic that I need to finish by tomorrow to get to my beta so I can post it this Sunday. Word count is no problem--my nowhere near half finished rough draft was over the minimum. Getting it finished is the issue now. I still have at least three main scenes to write (several pages long each, probably). I've written over a thousand words today and hope to get a few more scenes written by tonight, but I also want to at least watch Glee and The River.
I also need to work on "Rolling In The Deep" before tomorrow night's choir practice.
So, Matthew Bohmer's gay. Never would have guessed it. Also, I just don't care because, for me, it's his characters I love. I don't care what he does in his real life or who he is etc. etc. But apparently several people on the tvguide forum will no longer be watching White Collar in their bigoted disgust. Although some think it's wrong to watch him kiss women on the show because he's gay in real life which they feel is not bigotry or homophobia. *rolls eyes* They don't seem to understand the definition of acting.
Also, apparently it's fine and dandy for a straight person to thank their husband/wife when they get an award but not a gay person.
Sometimes I just want to line up all the assholes and mow them down with a machine gun.
I continue to load TEAOW&S on AO3. I'm nearly up to the second big plotty fic, "Last Dance". The one where I had Spike bite Willow and she climaxed from the bite. When this became a big deal in later fics and, y'know, the whole bond and die without being bitten thing that ran as a major plot point through the remainder of the series, you'd have thought I'd carefully planned it all out.
*snort*
Nope, I fell into that one by complete luck!
What I'm enjoying is going back to the original files from fourteen years ago and reading the author's notes and things. I finally found the original name for the series, long forgotten. I knew who gave it the name TEAOW&S but not that it was about twelve fics into the series. Also, I continually whined about how emotions kept creeping into what were supposed to be just smut fics.
Yeah, look at me now. The emotion and angst queen who can barely write porn.
lol
Well, should get back to working and then writing.
Happy Valentine's Day! It means little to me either way. I'm happy alone. I do get meatloaf and mashed potatoes out of it, since that's dad's favorite meal (and one of mine) and I'm out at the parents' tonight.