I owe a few people some major apologies, and some private emails will be going out later, but I just want to say here, in public, that I am so sorry for disappearing and especially for disappearing without doing some edits I said I would do. There has been major drama in both my personal and professional lives. Things finally look like they're turning around, which I appreciate. I would like to have energy again, and time, and both fannish and holiday spirit.

Work

Word of advice: if your car is due for new plates, don't wait until the day before the end of the month to get it inspected, learn you need a new windshield, call to try to schedule a last minute appointment, and then scream at me because we are already booked with other people who knew ahead of time they were going to have to replace their windshields before the end of the month.

Screaming at me will not get you an appointment. In fact, the second you start yelling, I clam up and I won't send you to the one guy I know who is taking same-day appointments still. So while the people who were nice got their windshields changed, their cars inspected, and their license plates renewed, I hope you--well, to be honest, after the past few months, I hope you fuck off and die and would be glad to help you on the way, but I'll settle for making sure you don't get your windshield done.

In happier news, I'll move on.

Family

Mom came home from the hospital. She has been in since 13 October, but she came home yesterday, a day earlier than they planned because the weather was supposed to be so bad today. (It is very bad today, so they were right to do so.) She's still very weak, but she can hold a fork and move her arms and walk (with a walker, but still, lots of improvement).

Fandom

I have nothing really coherent to say, except that I loved last night's episode of Bones, Ugly Betty continues to please me, I'm in love with Supernatural, and I haven't watched Heroes or Battlestar Galactica since Mom went into the hospital. I really miss the latter, though I haven't noticed the loss of the former.

I saw Happy Feet, and though it wasn't quite what I expected, I loved it. My icons from it make me smile.

Weather

Okay, the weather sucks. It's icy and cold and we're due a ton of snow. I hate ice, cold, and snow. I'm moving to Hawaii the first chance I get. I was able to come home early today, but will be heading back to work bright and early first thing tomorrow no matter what, because the boss is out of town and the other office guy is going to be late. Have I mentioned I hate driving on the snow? I can do it, but I don't trust other drivers, and I absolutely can't stand to do it. I would ask J. to give me a ride, but he'll be coming off of a double shift which includes an overnight shift and will need his sleep. I don't trust anyone else I know on the snow (and actually, I currently am not friends with very many drivers right now, which is strange for me). Well, I would trust my father, who taught me how to drive on the snow, but I won't ask him to get out in the cold.

(On one of the trips back from the hospital [about an hour and a half drive in good conditions], I let my brother M. drive in the fog and the semi-rain. This is a big improvement for me, I don't trust many people to drive my vehicle.)

marenfic is hosting the Battlestar Galactica Frakkin' Ficlet Battle over in her journal. As I received my season two point five DVDs yesterday, I plan to watch them (at some point...I don't know when) and participate in this challenge. Yes, I know I swore I wouldn't write BSG fic, but the girl slash! Starbuck! Starbuck having the girl slash! The president! Older Adama! Cylons!

Okay, obviously I have been sucked deep into another fandom.

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Tornado warning. Tornadoes touching down. Equinox. Mom's birthday. Working all weekend (main job today 8-5, CogCon 5-11, main job 8-12 tomorrow, CogCon 12-11, CogCon 8-6 on Sunday). Want to watch my new DVDs. (BSG and Supernatural!)

Okay, my flist has eaten my brain, or at least my Netflix queue. I'm finishing up BSG season two, and what's coming for Monday? D.E.B.S. I blame you all for this.

I will probably be spamming tonight, as I try to finish this late-even-for-a-backup fic. It started so well and then just became big and overwhelming, but I want to get it in control and finished tonight.

Finally broke into the last two dvds. I had planned to do it this weekend, but stayed far too busy for far too long, between meetings and getting rid of books and gaming all night Saturday night. I continue to love it.

( Battlestar Galactica season one continued )

I'm interested in the religious theories about how it is treated in the show; any good essays/thoughts?

I am definitely going to have to buy this show so I can rewatch to my heart's content.

In other news, I did, finally, manage to make it to the gym this morning, and I'm ready to up my weight on a number of moves. I have this problem where I nickle and dime it to death, and I know this, I did it even back when I first started lifting in high school, and I have to stop. I can handle more weight and fewer reps, and work my way back up. It's part of being a perfectionist, I don't like to switch to the higher weight until I am absolutely sure I can do all my sets with full reps, but that's not quite how it works best for my body.

I went to buy black handwraps after work, because I had so much free time. Unfortunately, every place is still out of the black, and I refuse to buy the white, so instead I picked up new trainers, sunglasses, and workout clothes. According to the workout bottoms I just bought, I have dropped three sizes. I still don't see it, but I know I'm down over thirty pounds, so maybe it's true. I don't know. The new clothes are so comfortable, though, and just in time for kickboxing tomorrow night. Plus it was nice to wear the sunglasses out in the late afternoon sun; I really need them this morning after the gym, as I drove into the sunrise to go home to shower. Painful.

I think I need a new PS2. I've had this one (or should I say J. has had this one) since they first came out, and it's starting to mess up on tonight's BSG dvd. Of course, it could just be because it's a Netflix dvd, but it messed up on the last disc of BtVS season seven the other day, too. It's starting to get frustrating. In no small part because I'm saving money for Wiscon, the Salt Lake holiday, and the new place this summer, so I don't want to have to buy a new PS2. I just went and checked the disc, and it is pretty scratched, so maybe that's it.

It's almost bedtime anyway. I want to go back to the gym in the morning, to get lower body lifting done, because after kickboxing I'm too exhausted to do anything else. In a good way, but still. Time to up the weight on the leg work, too, and tomorrow I want to add in some deadlifts, which I've never done before. This morning the gym was just as crowded at 5:30 a.m. as it is at 5:30 p.m., except in the morning the crowds were on the cardio machines and in the afternoon there are a bunch of guys hogging the weights. (The wrestlers from the high school, mostly, I think.) It was easy to get the bench this morning, and tomorrow I shouldn't have any trouble getting the squat wrack. Good times.

I read the BSC Friends Forever Super Special today, Everything Changes or something like that, and I was hit with the need to write Kristy/Abby.

( Everything Changes )

I still need a Starbuck icon. Hmmmm.

aphrodite_mine is looking for interest in a femslash fic exchange based on music (and possibly multi-fandom).

I've already finished disc one of BSG season one. Woe! I love it so much, but I will be done with the two discs I have too soon and then the third isn't coming until Monday. I really need to slow down on this. Plus I think we're going to game tonight, so I need to drag myself away--except. BSG. And Dog Soldiers is on Sci Fi tonight. I love that movie. And, um, well, the girl and the boy are both online right now, so I'm not inclined to want to leave the general vicinity of my computer. Soon though, I will.

Also, did you know the femslash06 is due Monday, not Tuesday, despite the fact they said Tuesday in the past couple of emails. Interesting mistake, that. Eh, Monday, Tuesday, whatever, but I can understand why other authors are maybe a little upset about it.

I continue to love Starbuck.

Battlestar Galactica the Miniseries thoughts

( Spoilers, of course )

I have been watching this for hours, ever since I got home from gaming after work. I need to go to bed. I can barely keep my eyes open. Yet I don't want to stop. Okay, yeah, good times with this show. Good times. As you can tell by my unfocused rambling there. I really want to read more of that Baby-Sitter's Club/BSG crossover Fox was writing. Fun.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have the opportunity to read more Remix. I hope.

Okay, so, if you have someone who knows nothing about BSG or anything it might or might not be related to, show-wise, I mean absolutely nothing known at all, what would you tell them to interest them in the show? And, once their interest was caught, what advice would you give them about it? Is there background this person should know? Something beyond the episodes themselves the person should watch? How many seasons exist?

Theoretically, this person could be going to check and see if BSG is available from Netflix right about now. Theoretically.

I feel I'm missing out on a lot of fandom stuff because I don't watch Veronica Mars or Battlestar Galactica or some other shows I've now forgotten the names of, specifically almost everything in Sci-Fi Friday. So if anyone wants to explain them to me, or pimp them, or help me get caught up, or at least interested, I'd really appreciate it. For some reason, I'm having the hardest time getting started, especially in BSG and the other one I can't think of right now.

Also, I need new shows to watch this fall. I think I'm going to try Bones, not because I'm a big David B. fan, but because thestalkycop has taken to call me Bones, and her Bones II, and I enjoy it a lot. We write silly letters to each other, and act all upper class gentlemen. We are odd, yes, I know.

I was going to gush about the Florida trip, but then J. sent me the link and started a mini-rant.

On something non-fandom and truly horrible, this is fucking disgusting (at least most of it), this push for plastic surgery on your vagina. Oh my god so much bullshit. Yeah, ok, I can see maybe some health reasons for doing it, and they do mention one or two, but the majority of the article is about appearances and making women want to be a perfect ten, and how men compare their girlfriends/wives to porn stars and the women fell short and now want to be better and let me just say now the first person who compares me to a porn star and I fall short is right out the fucking window. This whole obsession with scultping your body to look exactly like the mainstream idea of perfection is ridiculous and makes me sick.

I already had a sinus headache. Now I'm just pissed, on top of it. I'm going to watch Jurassic Park III and try to forget about the stupidity of the world.

ETA And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when I take one pain pill. Not the recommended dose of two every four hours, but one for the whole day. Over the counter meds, too, not anything strong. I apparently need new shoes to watch this fall. (Though, actually, I do need new shoes, trainers and plain solid black walking shoes.) Thanks das_hydra for pointing it out!