Talk to me thread

[sid]

Or talk to each other!

DW and LJ both seem a wee bit quiet at the moment. I mean, when I collapse into bed for ten hours, and don't have to do any "skipping" to catch up on my reading/friends lists, something is awry.

Yeah, yeah, it's not like I contribute much, generally. Maybe this will make up for it? :-D

So...real life, fandom, random TV and movies, recipes, current events, family, seasonal, miscellaneous.

Let's talk!

All lurkers are cordially invited to delurk! :-)

Comments

I'll start

[sid]

Very randomly, I bought some mint not long ago, without having a plan of what to do with it. Eventually, I made it into pesto and bought some lamb to put it on. I also discovered it was very good on a sweet potato. (Amnesia at the supermarket led me to bring home 3 sweet potatoes, believing I only had 1 at home. I had 5. Arggh.) I've decided my tastebuds are OFF today, since I ate a sweet potato with mint pesto for lunch, and it was Not Good.

OTOH, the martini I'm sipping tastes mighty fine! I like Perfect Martinis (uses equal parts of red and white vermouth) with a few dashes of bitters. Mmm.

I'm not panicking yet about my trip to Calgary weekend after next. Not yet. SOON. I'm considering whether to attempt to get autographs from RDA and MS in addition to the photo op... I'm already spending a fortune, so I can't let that stop me! Good sense is being thrown to the winds, here. :-)

I looked out my back door around 5 pm today, and thought I saw 3 squirrels out there. A closer look revealed that the object farthest away was actually a bunny. Oh, and a couple of days ago (I park out back) I climbed in my car and started it, and a rabbit raced away down the side of the house. It is trying very hard to be spring! Bunnies are proof!

Random TV and movies: I finally watched The Avengers, requiring an 'Avengers for Dummies' cheat sheet to have a clue what was going on. I thought about it a lot the following two days or so, but it's basically all gone out of my head by now. I enjoyed it enough at the time to consider watching all the films that led up to it. I don't know. I was a DC comics gal growing up, but I don't even care about all the movies that have been based on those. I did like the first Christopher Reeve films!

Random family: my nephew is getting married October 19th. Gee, do I need to buy a dress???

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[archersangel]

Random family: my nephew is getting married October 19th. Gee, do I need to buy a dress???
i don't know. maybe. isn't a nice pants suit good enough? i've never been to a wedding and my fashion sense is very limited.

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[discodiva76]

If you're going this far for them, I'd go for autos if you can....they will normally personalise too, especially Michael AND it's an extra bit of time to chat to them....well worth it.....


As for journal deadness, LJ is deader than the last dodo standing.... has been for a year imho.....people were so put off by all the DDoS and the movment of much of fandoms to Tumblir....I miss many of my old friends on there, as a lot of non-D/J and ex-SG-1 peeps have moved on to other blogs....:(


xoxoxoxo

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[princessofgeeks]

Can't wait for your con report. Wow.

As you know, Im really enjoying Avengers fandom, mostly because I fell in love with Downey's Iron Man in the first Iron Man movie. And then we have all the rest of the dvd's because the kids love them.

It's nice to share a fandom with my family.... the prince loves the canon too.

I am hoping to get back to the sex pollen fic soon. Real life is still eating my lunch but slightly less.

Did you see the promptathon?

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[jdjunkie]

Late to the party (when am I not?) *g*

Good reason for lateness though. Spent a happy day yesterday with Number One Son, who made it home for coffee with mum and lunch with mum and dad before he disappeared off again. So lovely to be allowed to be Mum for a while. I miss him, even though he hasn't lived at home for seven years now. Still, he's coming back for a weekend visit with The Lovely Girlfriend next month. Yay!

Weather is all over the place. We've just had the coldest March for years. Today, there are gale-force winds to contend with and, naturally, I've picked today to have my hair done. *rolls eyes*

Am plodding on with new fic; I hate writing so slooooowly. But I'll get there in the end. Hate being nasty to the boys, though. It WILL be worth it. <---- My new mantra. I can't keep them apart forever and they have ... needs. ;-)

Off to clean the bathroom. Yep. That's as exciting as my life gets.

[gategremlyn]

The weather has been crappy--seven inches of snow over the weekend. Work is never ever ending! On the up side, I made candy apple pie over the weekend. It was very tasty. And there have been a handful of words lurking around my fingers. And... as I'm getting ready for bed, there's a scruffy Daniel in scrubs on TV (Legacy).

I'm looking forward to the fangirl sqee after the con, and yes, you need a new dress. Because.

[sid]

Fingers crossed that we're done with snow in southern Wisconsin. Candy apple pie sounds Very Yummy! I already cheered on your writing. *g* I just discovered a "Saving Hope" episode on my PC today, so I saw a clean-cut Charlie.

Yeah, might need a dress, since the one? two? I have are from the 90s!

I still need to figure out how to get to the Expo from the hotel...and to the hotel from the airport. No hotel shuttle???

I need to know

[(Anonymous)]

Will there be swan boats?

sid_fan

Re: I need to know

[sid]

If only! :-D

Hey, while I have you here: At some point the NC-17 Jack/Daniel cliffhanger "sex pollen" fic at arboreal_gate will be completed and assembled/edited to be posted at Archive of Our Own. As one of the contributors, are you agreeable to having the fic posted at Ao3?

[esteven]

I've been reading up on the chapter of a book, but most of all I am pleased as punch that spring seems to have arrived. We are above zero degrees and my hydrangea made it through this winter.

Also, I really could do without going to work today. *sighs*
*is off*

[sid]

Have a good day even though you'd rather not be there! :-)

I will try to read a chapter of a book as well.

I need to start thinking about getting some herbs and potted plants, since the freezing weather is oh so very nearly a thing of the past. *bounces*

[princessofgeeks]

Hi! I'm covered up at work and can't seem to get anything done.

THus, my bad habits are creeping back in.

But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Am reading "Small Gods" and not enjoying it nearly as much as "Guards! Guards!", probably because it's so heavily burdened with BIG IDEAS draped lightly in STORY.

But it's good, and unique.

It's supposed to rain today, which is good.

[sid]

Raining here, as well. As it should in April. But the cold&gloomy is not fun. :-(

I know that the last Pratchett I read was about a newspaper, but I can't remember the title. It was very good!

[dicranum]

I lurk mostly now because I have a 9 month old baby that is developmentally behind and needs a gazillion therapies. We recently moved from the southside of Chicago to around the stateline of WI and I really haven't unpacked much. I have a million things bookmarked, but I haven't read anything because I don't know how to save things and move them to my e-reader.

Oh, and I am watching The West Wing nonstop on netflix because I never saw it the first time around and I am hooked right now.
Oh, and I never post. Like ever. And I hate tumblr and want my fandoms to move back to the more functional journals. Though not as far back as when everything I wanted to read I had to order though mail or exchange at a con. When I was on bedrest for this pregnancy - my supersurprise holycrap I didn't know I could still have babies pregnancy- I had the hubs dig out some very old Trek fanzines and had fun comparing how slash was written in the early 80s and how it is written now.

Um, that's about it. And it's raining here too. And I am also excited to see your con report. And I think I want to make brownies.

[dicranum]

And wow, I have no icons uploaded here on DW. I am really dragging behind!

[sid]

We're practically neighbors, since I'm one county north of the WI state line. :-)

I haven't seen any West Wing since it left the air, but I definitely saw every single episode before that. I'm not very interested in politics at all, but they made learning about it not just painless, but completely entertaining. And I've always been a Sheen fan.

Tumblr is bizarre. I keep forgetting how lame it is, and I'll click to see what these 32 people had to say about what I'm looking at. Of course they don't say anything, they just re-post whatever it is. I don't get it.

Best wishes to you and your surprise baby! Mmmm, brownies...

[muck_a_luck]

I accepted your de-lurk invitation, but over in my own spaces. :) Hopefully after your next long sleep you will be able to go back at least a page.

[sid]

I saw that right before I went to bed! Let me go see...YES, I need to skip back a page now. ♥ Good job!

[untonuggan]

Ha! It is only dead because I was off playing with niblungs, that is my theory...;)

No seriously, I am baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack on the interwebs. With such astounding joy! And yet sorrow over all that keeps happening. I kind of want to hide under a desk to avoid news, or at least insist that all media outlets use trigger warnings. (Wouldn't that be awesome, though?)

Someone linked this great article on 25 things you don't have to justify to anyone, and they got it from tarnished. I forget who I got it from, which I guess makes it a meme?

Expect a post on bitesizedcleaning soon. It may have effluvia in it, just warning you. Is a funny story though.

[sid]

I was up until dawn because I got wrapped up in the latest breaking news story. I would have been better off hiding underneath my covers!

I approve of that article. I agree with everything on that list. So it must be right. *G*

*pets you again for good measure* Nature, who needs it? LOL

I'll start

[sid]

Very randomly, I bought some mint not long ago, without having a plan of what to do with it. Eventually, I made it into pesto and bought some lamb to put it on. I also discovered it was very good on a sweet potato. (Amnesia at the supermarket led me to bring home 3 sweet potatoes, believing I only had 1 at home. I had 5. Arggh.) I've decided my tastebuds are OFF today, since I ate a sweet potato with mint pesto for lunch, and it was Not Good.

OTOH, the martini I'm sipping tastes mighty fine! I like Perfect Martinis (uses equal parts of red and white vermouth) with a few dashes of bitters. Mmm.

I'm not panicking yet about my trip to Calgary weekend after next. Not yet. SOON. I'm considering whether to attempt to get autographs from RDA and MS in addition to the photo op... I'm already spending a fortune, so I can't let that stop me! Good sense is being thrown to the winds, here. :-)

I looked out my back door around 5 pm today, and thought I saw 3 squirrels out there. A closer look revealed that the object farthest away was actually a bunny. Oh, and a couple of days ago (I park out back) I climbed in my car and started it, and a rabbit raced away down the side of the house. It is trying very hard to be spring! Bunnies are proof!

Random TV and movies: I finally watched The Avengers, requiring an 'Avengers for Dummies' cheat sheet to have a clue what was going on. I thought about it a lot the following two days or so, but it's basically all gone out of my head by now. I enjoyed it enough at the time to consider watching all the films that led up to it. I don't know. I was a DC comics gal growing up, but I don't even care about all the movies that have been based on those. I did like the first Christopher Reeve films!

Random family: my nephew is getting married October 19th. Gee, do I need to buy a dress???

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[wraith816.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen Avengers yet. I have a massive aversion to RDJ, so I keep putting it off.

[duck-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I am just now getting back into LJ postings cuz I do 90% of my social media on my phone & just recently found an android app (eljay) that let me excess & post to friend's posts online. Previously none existed.

[sid]

Ultra-modern shit for the old-skool journal! \o/

I'm almost always at home, so I need to get more into what can be done on my phone.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

You know I'm still around. ;o) Can't wait to hear about your con experience.

[sid]

I think I'm going to need to fork over CA$ to have WiFi in my hotel room. As far as I know, it's not readily available at the Expo itself, and it doesn't appear to be available for free anywhere at the hotel. The Chicago Westin had free WiFi in the lobby and bar/restaurant, and business center. The Calgary Westin charges for the business center, and doesn't mention the lobby at all. So looks like I need to pay up front to be able to catch up online in general, and post my experiences specifically.

[duck-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try this during the summer once all my herbs are growing!

[sid]

delph's tabouli recipe? It definitely sounds addictive!

[antares04a.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think about some prompts to leave on the Jack/Daniel Prompt-A-Thon:

http://jd-ficathon.livejournal.com/48142.html


And I'm watching "Grimm" - and love the good looking detective very much. *bg*

[sid]

Yes, I need to think of a few prompts to scatter over there, too. And I need to encourage other people!