Just catching up

[sid]

I just posted my contribution to the queue for the sg1friendathon. \o/ The stories will be released one per day starting tomorrow, so who knows when mine will be revealed. The stories are all gen, but there are a handful of Jack and Daniel prompts that were ALL claimed, so you may want to follow the comm for those and whatever other goodies appear. My prompt was Cam and Daniel, on the firing range post-Prototype.

My next project is to dash off a SG-1 ficlet for spook_me. I chose the monster prompt: Shapeshifter. I just need to come up with a groovy shapeshifter!myth for Daniel to spout off about and figure out some logistics. No minimum word count, so I can totally do this!

Also I'll be trying to get underway with my jd_ficathon assignment! I have ideas...and where ideas fail, there's always sex. ;-)

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On the personal front, one day I opened up the door of my tiny plastic shed in the back yard, and screeched and slammed it shut when something inside raised its head and looked back at me! Fortunately my brother was arriving in town a couple of hours later, so I let him investigate. It was an opossum, and it wasn't about to move until nightfall. I left the shed doors propped open for several days afterwards. Hopefully the damn thing has forgotten all about its ersthile hidey-hole by now. Hilariously, and I just now realized it, this happened on Friday the 13th!

To help ease the pain of all that hoohah, we spent that night and the next day drinking beer (Great Lakes Brew Fest) and getting a few things done around the house.

On Wed. the 18th a friend came over and we had wine and cheese on my front porch while a musical group she used to sing with performed across the street at Harvest Night. She enjoys mocking them now that she's escaped. *g*

The following Wed. I went to our brandshinynew Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and played a TON of trivia. I lurve NTN trivia! I was 5th on the national network on one game, and decided to pack it in and go home, because I was never going to beat that! But just then a guy sat down a few stools away at the bar and started buying drinks for folks, so I had one for the road and played a couple more games with him assisting me. :-D

This Friday I stayed up until 3 a.m. watching the Australian Rules football Grand Final *winks at mags* slept all morning, and then dashed around to get ready in time for a Pampered Chef party at a friend's. I ordered exciting things, like oven mitts and a citrus juicer. Way overpriced of course, but things I've been wanting, and the quality should be very good.

Coming up, on Friday the 11th I'm having the basement stairs rebuilt. After a hundred years, I think it's time. And the Friday after that I'll be heading for my nephew's wedding in Springfield, IL.

And now we're caught up! :-)

Comments

[esteven]

You are one busy little bee! How is the house doing?

What is a Pampered Chef party?

Btw, I would have run from here to eternity if eye had looked at me from the dark...

[sid]

The house is about the same as ever, but at least I'm going to accomplish something important with those stairs! It's really not safe as is.

Pampered Chef is a line of kitchen products (baking, serving, preparing, etc.) that's sold during home parties. Someone decides to host a party, invites her friends, family and co-workers, a Pampered Chef salesperson is there and demonstrates some of the products while preparing a light meal for the guests. Then the guests go through the catalog and place their orders!

I was so totally not prepared to have a head raise and turn to me... EEEEEEE!

[jdjunkie]

I am the proud owner of a Pampered Chef garlic press. It was ridiculously over-priced but I felt I had to buy something (it was a neighbour's party). It is rather spiffy, though, complete with its own ickle brush for removing stubborn bits of squooshed garlic from the press. :-))

[sid]

And the ickle brush lives inside the ickle handle! :-D

[jdjunkie]

It does, it does! It's all ickle and cute! Like meeeee!

[sid]

Exactly like youuuuu! :-D

[discodiva76]

I have a Garlic Crusher in the shape of a Parrot...yes, I bought it in Canada...*snerk*...

I also have a Veggie Peeler in the shape of a monkey...yes, I bought it in......you get the picture...*snerks again*...


xoxoxoxoxo

[sid]

LOL

Yes, the picture is becoming clear...

[discodiva76]

Oh my god...just read the first offering from the friendathon!!...it's the most beautiful writing of the friendship of our boys from the film and onwards....<3 <3 <3 stunning...


*in my Happy Place already*


xoxoxoxoxo

[feroxargentea]

An opossum??!!!

Dammit, you are so lucky to live on a continent that has actual real live wild marsupials

*envy*

[sid]

I have it bookmarked to read tonight! Good to hear how terrific it is!!!

[sid]

I will glady ship it to you if it ever darkens my (shed) door again!

I had no idea what it was, but then I only saw it for a second. I've only ever seen possums as sad roadkill...

[archersangel]

I just need to come up with a groovy shapeshifter!myth for Daniel to spout off about and figure out some logistics.

wikipedia has some interesting stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting#Mythology

or you could do an alien thing, like the aliens in one episode of star trek: enterprise;
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wraith

[ivorygates]

Your life is a constant whirl of excitement, clearly.

And yay for posting your friendathon piece! I cannot wait to read it!!!

[sid]

Ooh, thanks for those links! I shall seek inspiration there!

[sid]

*WHIRLLLLLS*

I'm afraid the friendathon piece will clunk in a couple of spots, since I procrastinated so long that there was no time to get it beta'd. But overall I think it has merit. And judicious sprinklings of Jack! His ears are probably burning out there in Washington. *g*

[gategremlyn]

I posted my friendathon fic at about two minutes to midnight on the day it was due so I'm sure it's way down the list.

I have an idea for my ficathon fic and a whole two paragraphs written.

I have bunny rabbits living under my porch, but no 'possums.

*waving hello*

[sid]

*waves hello back* :-)

I'm pretty sure I had bunnies living in the shade of my car this spring and summer, because there were multiple times that I climbed in, closed the door, and looked out the windshield to see bunny tails racing away! Much better than possums. MUCH.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

I have a couple Pampered Chef things that I love. Their garlic press cannot be beat.

[sid]

Yeah, she demonstrated that - no shucking required!

I have a knife, and one of those sliding plastic measuring cups for measuring and easily dispensing stuff like mayo or peanut butter. I guess my kitchen shears are probably theirs, too. Oh, and a set of spatulas.

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a live possum. The only ones I've ever seen have been road pizza. My friend's cat keeps dragging one into her house through the doggie door. It's not dead but it's always playing dead. Freaks her out every time. The cat's dragged the same one in at least three times. I keep telling her to just name him and make him a pet already. She keeps taking him back outside.

I love Pampered Chef stuff! I even hosted a party once so I could score a bunch of loot.

[sid]

I am SO SO happy that the possum didn't bare its teeth at me. Just looking at pics online was traumatizing. In RL I would have had a heart attack there and then!

I hope it's the LAST live possum I see. *crosses appendages*

I just got an email from the Pampered Chef lady, showing me what my hostess got out of her party:

$90 FREE Products
2 Half-Priced items
25% discount off everything else
60% off this month’s choice of host special - a stone or piece of bakeware!
10% off all purchases for a year!

Yep, that's quite a haul of loot!

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

I know! If you know enough people that will actually come to your party, it's actually worth throwing one just to get the free stuff!
I got that giant frying pan with the lid in their cookware that goes for like $125 (plus the cost of the lid) for free and a bunch of other stuff. Their cookware is really amazing. I'd love to have all of it. If only I had the money. *sigh*

[sid]

Yeah, I just don't know many people around here at all. Plus, my little 100-year-old kitchen isn't big enough even for those few people plus a PC saleswoman! :-D

[antares04a.livejournal.com]

I have never seen an oppossum - other than in a zoo - but I can imagine how frighted and surprised you were in the first moment. Already my neighbours cat or a bird suddenly flying away can do that me.

And 'yay' for sex in the jd-ficathon story!!! *lol*

[sid]

I hope I never see an opossum again! LOL

Hopefully the actual sex that I write will stil produce a 'yay'. One always worries about such things, don't you know. *g*

[esteven]

Seeing that we are close to Halloween, has the head returned?

[sid]

NO! Not when I've been looking anyway, lol. I left the shed door open for weeks, so hopefully the critter forgot all about it as a potential hidey-hole. *crosses fingers*

[esteven]

And here I was, waiting for a story of terror and bloodshed
*shouldersagging in disappointment*

;)

[sid]

Sorry to have failed you!!! :-P

[(Anonymous)]

At least you are sorry! *g*

I am pleassed the critter has not returned.

[sid]

That makes two of us!