I've come to the conclusion that I only post when I have a meme/other handy reason to do so because I don't feel like my life is worth writing about ( Read more... )

So I got home from work to find that the Tubes had died sometime between this morning and then; after an hour or so of constant busy signals on the landline (which I first chalked up to 'they must know there's a problem here'), I realised that was down too. They're through the same provider ( Read more... )

Last week, my parents came home with not one, but two puppies. (So: not actually romantic and actually less of a surprise than the last dog was, but.) They're akita-mastiff mixes; officially, they're Buffy and Willow, but I've been tempted more than once to call them both Pete.
(This is not an Adventures of Pete and Pete reference, except for when ( Read more... )

And now, an attempt at an update that's not a meme ( Read more... )

A meme, for something a little more cheerful: Give me any of my characters, and ask me to put them in any of my other fandoms. Throw in a song lyric for spice, and I'll come up with a short fic combining the two!(I reserve the right to work on this over the weekend ( Read more... )

Self, you are not allowed to jump up and down on the poor poor AO3 servers to see if you have a gift fic yet. (Instead I am jumping up and down on the fandom spreadsheet. THERE WILL BE AWESOMENESS ( Read more... )

So on Sunday Mom went to get herself a soda, and spotted someone dumping a couple kittens by the side of the road. She and Dad staged a rescue despite her allergies (I never thought I'd hear a cat meow in this house); due to said allergies and the cold weather, we couldn't keep them overnight, so they took 'em to the shelter, where they will ( Read more... )

Things of note lately:
*My grandfather's home from the hospital for the second time in slightly over a month.
*How excited am I for new Warehouse 13 on Tuesday? THIS EXCITED.
*I'm extremely late in this, but I'm jumping on the Percy Jackson bandwagon. Finished The Lightning Thief this morning and semi-promptly went to the library for The Sea of ( Read more... )

(The scene: The couch. Mom and I are watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Sirius and wolfy!Remus just started fighting ( Read more... )

So Mom found this on Facebook, and I finally got around to having a look. In conclusion: I have no idea what's going on in the video, BUT THE SONG IS AMAZING (but I've known that part since I was five).
Fear is Never Boring - the Raisins
I highly recommend it, if mainly for the audio portion of the day's entertainment.