*blinks, peers around*
Emerging from two weeks of intense Olympic-mania at the perfect moment. Because...
A. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
B. In less than 12 hours, LEE TERGESEN WILL BE REUNITING WITH CHRIS MELONI on (the Canadian airing of) SVU! Unless, of course, CTV doesn't air the episode, because they are only showing one ep listed for tonight and who knows? *prays and prays*
DOUBLE WOOOOOO!!!!
Thank you SO much to trillingstar for the fabulous banner and the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING LEE PICSPAM OF LOVE. (Seriously, this post has been delayed because I keep going back to look at EDDIE-Lee and GREEN SWEATER LEE and... yeah. *goes to happy place*) Thank you to numenora for the sparkly Leeloni banner, YAY SPAAAARKLY! Thanks to foreverbm for the WONDERFUL Chris/Toby banner made for a fandom she doesn't know a thing about -- I am just thrilled you thought of me!
Thank you also to jammer1017, shadownyc, sandstorm63, amelialourdes and mdlaw for the lovely birthday greetings. And to shadownyc, jaazza, damietta and spike7451 for the balloons and party hats decorating my profile. Whew! You guy are all awesome!
Olympics...
I've spent almost every moment of the last two weeks doing nothing but sleep (very little), work (distractedly) and sit in front of the television cheering myself hoarse. So many memorable moments -- Jon Montgomery's triumphant walk through the cheering crowd after winning Gold on the skeleton, chugging a pitcher of beer handed to him by a fan and then showing off his auctioneer skills during his interview; Charles Hamelin redeeming himself with not one but two gold medals, and his girlfriend's ecstatic reaction to his skate; Canada winning Gold in OT in mens hockey!
And it wasn't even just the Canadian athletes. I was transfixed by every moment in bobsled and speed skating, scheduling whatever I had to do around them. And oh, my outspoken darling Plushenko and his glorious quad -- how I love. (Although I'm not sure he should return for the 2014 games. I'd rather have him go out on a high.)
What a wonderful Games. So proud to be a Canadian right now.
...though I'm not sure about those closing ceremonies. Not funny, really, and I get the feeling that some (a lot?) of people didn't GET that they were meant to be poking fun at Canadian stereotypes. But I did like the flying moose. :D
In between Olympics love, I've been busy re-discovering my love for the Die Hard franchise and for McClane in particular (esp. older, bald, slightly cynical but still able to kick a whole lotta ass John McClane.) THEN I discovered hard4brains (bentrumors, I'm not sure if I want to kiss you or smack you, but you'd probably enjoy the smack...) and um, McClane/Matt? YES PLEASE. In my copious (haha. ha.) spare time I've been rewatching and making a dent in the backlog of great DH4 fic out there.
McClane/Matt?
Yeah. So because I think too much and seriously have to analyze every.single.thing, I spent way too much time basically shaking my head and going WTF at myself. Because I am canon-girl, right? I mean, every pairing I've been invested in has been canon and not subtextual -- Nick/Natalie, Vincent/Catherine, Buffy/Angel, Brian/Justin, Chris/Toby. So why why why was I suddenly interested in pairing this super-straight cop with a skinny hacker half his age?
But when I started thinking about it, it made sense. Almost all of the couples I like feature an older, experienced man, usually somewhat 'rough' in some fashion, unused to dealing with the emotions he normally suppresses partnered with a younger, less (physically) dominant personality who's got brains and is usually a smartass. (There are varying degrees, and I could write a thesis on each of these pairings and how I see them, but ... the basic template is there in all of them.) I mean honestly. Why I hadn't seen this before is beyond me.
And hey, throw in a dash of (over)protective-kink and a smidgen of dominant-kink (in the bossy, "push you against the wall" way, not the "wearing leather and carrying a riding crop" way), and we are in business. Um. Yeah.
Krystle, you totally are not allowed to mention any of that above to your mom. She'd probably have a heart attack if she knew I was slashing her beloved John McClane. ;)
Meanwhile, I am so behind on everything (I owe fic and haven't replied to comments) and I'd love to say I'll get caught up this week, but I've got two birthday dinners (Woo!) and Lee-on-SVU stuff and Matt keeps talking to me and... yeah. Life way busy. So let's aim for next weekend, okay?
Oh. And
Birthday present for meeeee.....
...
...
CIGARETTES.
ohgodtheyaresogood
I know. I KNOW, OKAY? I have been smoke-free for 6 months. And every one of the days in that six months has been absolute torture. And I'm tired of thinking about smoking every minute and being a bitch and smelling cigarettes everywhere even when there are none around and I just. Yeah. Now my hormones will still be fucked up, but I can be someone with fucked-up hormones who can take the edge off with a smoke. I refuse to feel guilty about this. I'm giving myself a few weeks to ENJOY this again before the guilt takes over and I have to quit again.
seriouslysogood
Wow. If anyone reads all this I will be impressed.
*dances off*
.
A. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
B. In less than 12 hours, LEE TERGESEN WILL BE REUNITING WITH CHRIS MELONI on (the Canadian airing of) SVU! Unless, of course, CTV doesn't air the episode, because they are only showing one ep listed for tonight and who knows? *prays and prays*
DOUBLE WOOOOOO!!!!
Thank you SO much to trillingstar for the fabulous banner and the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING LEE PICSPAM OF LOVE. (Seriously, this post has been delayed because I keep going back to look at EDDIE-Lee and GREEN SWEATER LEE and... yeah. *goes to happy place*) Thank you to numenora for the sparkly Leeloni banner, YAY SPAAAARKLY! Thanks to foreverbm for the WONDERFUL Chris/Toby banner made for a fandom she doesn't know a thing about -- I am just thrilled you thought of me!
Thank you also to jammer1017, shadownyc, sandstorm63, amelialourdes and mdlaw for the lovely birthday greetings. And to shadownyc, jaazza, damietta and spike7451 for the balloons and party hats decorating my profile. Whew! You guy are all awesome!
Olympics...
I've spent almost every moment of the last two weeks doing nothing but sleep (very little), work (distractedly) and sit in front of the television cheering myself hoarse. So many memorable moments -- Jon Montgomery's triumphant walk through the cheering crowd after winning Gold on the skeleton, chugging a pitcher of beer handed to him by a fan and then showing off his auctioneer skills during his interview; Charles Hamelin redeeming himself with not one but two gold medals, and his girlfriend's ecstatic reaction to his skate; Canada winning Gold in OT in mens hockey!
And it wasn't even just the Canadian athletes. I was transfixed by every moment in bobsled and speed skating, scheduling whatever I had to do around them. And oh, my outspoken darling Plushenko and his glorious quad -- how I love. (Although I'm not sure he should return for the 2014 games. I'd rather have him go out on a high.)
What a wonderful Games. So proud to be a Canadian right now.
...though I'm not sure about those closing ceremonies. Not funny, really, and I get the feeling that some (a lot?) of people didn't GET that they were meant to be poking fun at Canadian stereotypes. But I did like the flying moose. :D
In between Olympics love, I've been busy re-discovering my love for the Die Hard franchise and for McClane in particular (esp. older, bald, slightly cynical but still able to kick a whole lotta ass John McClane.) THEN I discovered hard4brains (bentrumors, I'm not sure if I want to kiss you or smack you, but you'd probably enjoy the smack...) and um, McClane/Matt? YES PLEASE. In my copious (haha. ha.) spare time I've been rewatching and making a dent in the backlog of great DH4 fic out there.
McClane/Matt?
Yeah. So because I think too much and seriously have to analyze every.single.thing, I spent way too much time basically shaking my head and going WTF at myself. Because I am canon-girl, right? I mean, every pairing I've been invested in has been canon and not subtextual -- Nick/Natalie, Vincent/Catherine, Buffy/Angel, Brian/Justin, Chris/Toby. So why why why was I suddenly interested in pairing this super-straight cop with a skinny hacker half his age?
But when I started thinking about it, it made sense. Almost all of the couples I like feature an older, experienced man, usually somewhat 'rough' in some fashion, unused to dealing with the emotions he normally suppresses partnered with a younger, less (physically) dominant personality who's got brains and is usually a smartass. (There are varying degrees, and I could write a thesis on each of these pairings and how I see them, but ... the basic template is there in all of them.) I mean honestly. Why I hadn't seen this before is beyond me.
And hey, throw in a dash of (over)protective-kink and a smidgen of dominant-kink (in the bossy, "push you against the wall" way, not the "wearing leather and carrying a riding crop" way), and we are in business. Um. Yeah.
Krystle, you totally are not allowed to mention any of that above to your mom. She'd probably have a heart attack if she knew I was slashing her beloved John McClane. ;)
Meanwhile, I am so behind on everything (I owe fic and haven't replied to comments) and I'd love to say I'll get caught up this week, but I've got two birthday dinners (Woo!) and Lee-on-SVU stuff and Matt keeps talking to me and... yeah. Life way busy. So let's aim for next weekend, okay?
Oh. And
Birthday present for meeeee.....
...
...
CIGARETTES.
ohgodtheyaresogood
I know. I KNOW, OKAY? I have been smoke-free for 6 months. And every one of the days in that six months has been absolute torture. And I'm tired of thinking about smoking every minute and being a bitch and smelling cigarettes everywhere even when there are none around and I just. Yeah. Now my hormones will still be fucked up, but I can be someone with fucked-up hormones who can take the edge off with a smoke. I refuse to feel guilty about this. I'm giving myself a few weeks to ENJOY this again before the guilt takes over and I have to quit again.
seriouslysogood
Wow. If anyone reads all this I will be impressed.
*dances off*
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