Thing the first and most important, my dad had an MRI last week, and we were all kind of on tenterhooks regarding the results, but apparently everything is fine, so whew. That's good. I mean, there are still issues and we're working on them, but at least the neuropsychologist seems to be correct in his assessment that there's no Alzheimer's or ( Read more... )

It's funny how the hallmarks of bad het fic are different from the hallmarks of bad slash, but here is one that almost never fails - repeatedly referring to the women in the story (especially the women perceived as romantic rivals of the heroine, which btw carries its own set of pitfalls and markers of bad fic) as "females ( Read more... )

back to back one-hitters for R.A. Dickey! 13 strikeouts tonight! <3

Let us not speak of work. Today was super busy and tomorrow likely will be, as well. Sigh. Stupid work.

Let us instead speak of Miles Morales and Ultimate Spider-man, mostly because HE IS ADORABLE. And I want to keep him FAR, FAR AWAY from the Ultimate Avengers or whatever they' ( Read more... )

Ugh, I am so tired. Work is hectic and this month I once again got my period on a 24 day cycle (i.e., today) instead of the usual 29-32 days. Bleh. So, in brief ( Read more... )

Today, I made these blueberry lemon cheesecake bars, but since I'm too tired to figure out how to work the new LJ scrapbook, I'm just going to link to pics of them I uploaded to tumblr. So you're spared the series of ingredient pics ( Read more... )

So, uh, quite a game last night, eh ( Read more... )

I stayed home from work today due to not sleeping and a general feeling of unwellness, and ugh, I really just don't feel at all well. I was having chills and that achy skin feeling and *interrupts this entry to dig out the thermometer and take a temperature* hey, look at that, I am actually running a 100.2 degree fever, wtf? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? ( Read more... )

I guess I started this entry last night and then got distracted:

\ELI/

I swear to god, I am more impressed with him every week, and I am already pretty impressed. Haters to the left, man. Eli Manning gets shit done. Now if they can just keep it going in the playoffs. no, I know, they are probably one and done, but I can still hope!While all y'all ( Read more... )

Posted a story last night:

Impact Winter (at AO3)
Captain America (movieverse); Steve, Natasha, Bucky; pg; 3,150 words
"We've had eyes out for this operative for years now. I don't think most of us believed he actually existed, but we've finally got proof."This is one of those things where I woke up in the middle of the night last week and emailed ( Read more... )

So I open the refrigerator at work this morning to grab milk to put in my coffee and discover that someone else has finished off my container of milk WHICH IS MINE AND HAD MY NAME ON IT. ARRGH. PEOPLE. DID YOU REALLY NEED THAT LAST SPLASH THAT MUCH? It's not as bad as the time at BEMC that someone opened my previously unopened (i.e., sealed) bottle ( Read more... )