How does one get an allergic skin reaction right after taking a shower? I mean, really? Unless there's penicillin in the shower, which I doubt. Or grass. Both of which I'm allergic to. In retrospect, I think it might have been a clogged pore, too, which has happened to me before, but I hadn't worn eye makeup in a few days so... don't think so. Ah ( Read more... )

I am back at last. I regularly checked my email/lj and sometimes twitter to see what everyone was up to, but was too busy to reply. We baked, cooked, Amy's in-laws were in town, and then my parents, and then sometimes I babysat, and... yeah... not much time to myself. I'll be glad to see my bed again *snuggles*

My gifts:

• A vintage Bon Voyage ( Read more... )

Gacked from kerosinkanister (it took me two tries to get your username right, wtf) : the year in LJ meme (first line of each post for the month). I think I did that last year, too?

(I'll make it tougher since some of my first posts were fics or tweets, and I'll leave out the locked posts. Deal?)

January 1st: quick fact-checking
February 1st: noooooes!March 1st ( Read more... )

From cynicalshadows.

Five canon moments that turned a casual fandom into a hardcore fandom for you.

( Harry Potter, Gossip Girl, Sky High, the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and the Fever series )

Right. You guys know I have a "thing" for the campy Disney teen movie Sky High, yes? Especially for our resident brooding, pyrokinetic hottie, Warren Peace? Right. Well, I'll be honest and say that SH fandom is small and, shall we say, overflowing with Mary Sue ficcage of the "I'm an emo goth, my life sucks, I have like a zillion powers, and oh, ( Read more... )

( a continuation of my author rec list )

I can't remember who exactly asked me to provide an extended list of my favourite authors, but I just remembered and I thought "why not?". So here goes, and brace yourselves because you're in for some major deets to help you decide whether you're interested or not :)

( here be a post of scary proportions )

(this part was written in the early afternoon ( Read more... )

Yoinked from dracoangelica because holy what it's pretty damn accurate. No idea where this comes from, though.

( here be my June baby description )

(title is related to my internet woes. Basically our provider sucks and LJ doesn't shitty internet and besides most of my updates are on twitter these days but I swear I missed updating with more than 140 characters)

I have a feeling my nearly bi-weekly fic-posting days are over. I will get through this year if it kills me. I will! (*snort* I ( Read more... )