196: Make My Day. Ideally, Make It Better.

[thefourthvine]

The other day, a blogger I read intermittently said she really loved packing and moving. I had to leave the computer for fifteen minutes to avoid leaving a comment that a) called her a psycho lying liar pants b) advised her to seek therapy IMMEDIATELY for the sake of her children and c) begged her to come take care of our move, since she likes it

Comments

[jenna_thorn]

in re: packing. I'm with you. When we move from this house, whether it's in two years or twenty, I'm just selling it furnished and with the closets full. Even the pantry. I'll get to where I'm going and hit IKEA, I swear.

Now as for my soft fuzzy comfort stories. My personal self indulgent guilty pleasure is kid fic. Pandarus just posted another bit of the John Gabriel Winchester series That's the most recent one, but the others are linked there, because she loves her readers and wants them to be happy. It's not really a wip. Each story is self contained and John Gabriel is possibly the cutest half angel that ever walked the earth. As opposed to the cutest quarter Vulcan to ever walk the decks of the Enterprise in Role Model and it wasn't until I went back to find that link that I realized that was one of hers, too, so let's find you something that isn't kidfic and isn't Pandarus.

Have you read the Jim Kirk as a LOLcat story in the kink meme? The last two sections are buried in the threading, so you kind of have to dig for them. A silly premise and entertainingly done.

Less sheer humor and more yay! Oh Two Hundred wherein Uhura saves the day because she is ever so much more awesome than they showed. A Formal Dance in the Bowling Alley and How to Avoid Kicking Puppies Kirk watches the group of Federation officers become the crew of the Enterprise. Sweet and clever by turns.

Sheer silliness ST:TOS meets Monty Python video. It always makes me smile.

[fish_echo]

When we move from this house, whether it's in two years or twenty, I'm just selling it furnished and with the closets full. Even the pantry.

Can that be done? It seems like a genius idea....

[jenna_thorn]

Sort of. I don't know what the rules are in other states, but I know that when a friend bought her house, the previous owner didn't want to move her dining room table and so sold it to my friend for a hundred bucks, cash. We might seriously consider doing that with our china hutch. I thought my husband and our friend were going to have heart attacks getting it into the house. Either we'll leave it for the buyers or we'll split it into sections that fit a fireplace. It's a pretty piece, but not worth the deductible for the cardiac ward.

I suspect that of all the criteria that real estate agents use to match a potential home buyer with a house on the market, 'size eighteen' and 'likes wasabi peas' don't make the list.

Though it really should. Actually, I'd be happy to have a ticky box under "HOA, must have or dealkiller?" (which is a ticky box on the search criteria, here at least.) that says, "would you appreciate a garden that has seven years of only non-chemical pesticides and ten years of compost or are you planning to hire a lawn service?" because that would, I think, be useful.

Not that we are planning to move any time soon, mind. Knock on wood.

[marginaliana]

I... the Jim Kirk as a LOLcat story... I can't even type, I'm laughing so hard.

*grin*

[jenna_thorn]

My work here is done.

*bows*