Say hello to a LJ newbie!

[sid]

A long-time RL friend of mine has just made her first post on LiveJournal.  Poor sucker thing doesn't know what she's let herself in for...

Please drop on over and give a warm welcome to shep0709

better her than me

She's not a slasher, but she's okay in spite of that.  *g*  She loves to read scifi, rent movies, run, drink red wine.  Doesn't watch TV these days, but she's seen the first three seasons of Stargate SG-1 (thanks to yours truly) and don't anyone dare spoil her for anything that comes later!  She's an atheist, and (as you will quickly see) a Packers fan, although I don't know if there's any correlation between those two things...

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[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Welcome Shep0709!!!! Don't worry, we'll bring you over to the slash side of the force. :-);-):-)

Uh-oh. Was that my outside voice?

[sid]

Yes, it was. *glares* Now drop over to her journal, and say something NICE.

Please. Thank you.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I did. ;-) I thought I was nice. Kinda of a backhanded 'you're a braver woman than I, Gunga Din' sorta thing.

Umm... Maybe I should go back. ;-)

[sid]

You did just fine. *hands you a cookie*

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Oooh, cookie *and* a purty pitcher! :-)

[sid]

I'm just in a generous mood. Want a Cosmo? *g*

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

They only put half-naked women on the front. What good is that? Anything good in Playgirl this month? :-):-0

[sid]

Silly!

Reminds me, one year at the place I worked we all had to give each other gag gifts. It turned out to be totally workplace inappropriate. I opened my package and there was a Playgirl staring up at me. I quickly turned it face down, only to find out that the back cover was even more interesting, with the 1-900-Sex-MeUp type numbers.

I embarrass easily, but I still managed to shock everyone by saying, "Thanks, my subscription ran out a few years back." I remember that the ones that came in the mail never made it to my house with the seal intact. Somebody at the P.O. was sneaking a peek!

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Back in the Jurassic when I was selling books for a living (bookstore, sadly ;-) we used to have trouble with, ahem, damage to some of the stock. Suffice to say the gay porn mags were *much* more popular than Playboy or Playgirl.

Better pictures, too. Or so I was told.

Not that *I* looked, of course.

[sid]

Certainly not. Why on earth would you?

:-)

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Just because some of the loveliest male models on the planet pose for those things is no reason for me to sully my eyes.

*ahem*

[sid]

No sullying. I concur.

[execknowitall.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeeee! Another victim friend. I must go say hi to this chump person. *nods*

[sid]

LOL. And she's practically a neighbor of yours!

[execknowitall.livejournal.com]

Yes... yes, she is. So many lovely people living in this wonderful state. We should all have a par-tay!! Hee.

[sid]

You TOTALLY should! :-D Excuse me. *takes off sweater* Hot flash. Goes along with our current heat WAVE. 61 degrees right now, 66 for a high tomorrow. 55 and falling on Thursday, snow overnight and high of 34 on Friday. You know. Seattle weather. ;-)

[execknowitall.livejournal.com]

Seattle weather? I know not of which you speak.

*cranks up illegal heater under desk another notch*

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

heater under desk

YES! Also in Seattle, here!

I've had mine on all day and am still typing in my fingerless gloves!

Sorry! Exclamation point must be frozen down! *g*

[execknowitall.livejournal.com]

*waves* Howdy neighbor!

Ya know, the office is warm when I arrive in the morning, but it's damned freezing by 10:00! All my cow-orkers are sitting in their little cubicles wearing their coats & scarves.

*warms hands by illegal heater under desk*

*giggles about frozen exclamation point*

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

Pleased to meetcha. (See, I can do periods...)

cow-orkers *snort*

I'm working at home, snowed in. Not complaining unless the power goes out. Well, not complaining very much. ;-D

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

So... I shouldn't mention that it's 78 here in muggy, sunnish Houston.

If it's any consolation, it's supposed to freeze Thursday night. It'll be the first freeze we've had on my side (south side) of town in a couple of years or so.

[sid]

I have a friend in Houston - just talked to him on the phone Sunday, but we didn't talk about the weather. *g* He's going to be in Chicago over Christmas and New Year's and I hope to get to see him on my way to or from Wisconsin. It definitely won't be anywhere near 78 degrees.

I actually met him thru the younger sister of shep0709, coincidentally! She's a flautist, and he's a pianist and was assigned to accompany her when she played at a contest in Denton a couple of years back.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Small world, isn't it? hsapiens and I are planning to try and meet up as soon as we can both find a spare hour. Looks like we live within about five miles of each other.

Of course, so do 100,000 other people. :-)

[sid]

Let's see, Kenneth's zip code is 77006.

*g*

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's about 5 or 8 miles the other direction. :-) I like Montrose, but the schools I wanted were over here by Reliant. ;-)

Abuse of exclamation points....

[read-300300.livejournal.com]

Houston's??!!?!!! I'm in Beaumont!!! Awesomeness!

Re: Abuse of exclamation points....

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

There's this song that popped into my head, but I'm afraid there might be a riot if I referenced it. ;-)

Did you get nailed by Rita last year? I stayed home, so I at least escaped the horror that was the freeway.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Does your whole flist live in Washington or somethin'?

I went over and waved. :)

[sid]

Weird, huh? *boggles* Thank you!

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

There's apparently a colony here on the upper Texas coast. ;-)

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

OMG! Another flist colony!

Didn't MS make a movie about that? ;-D

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

If not, I'm sure he will. Give him time. ;-) Especially if his agent can find one that's got a *really* low budget. :-)

(Ok, that's rude. I suspect he's making a helluva lot more than I do, even if it is Canadian. ;-)

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, Seattle people have firsthand experience with all things Canadian. B movies, monopoly money-anything goes, except for the food. :)

I don't remember where I read it but I think his latest 'blockbuster' has the title: *drumroll*

Megasnake

Scary. And still, I'm disappointed I never get to see any of his movies. :(

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Hey, Under the Misletoe is on Lifetime on Monday. ;-) He's a nice guy there.:-)

[sid]

And I'm looking forward to watching that.

:-)

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Me, too. He not only gets to be a good guy, there are no explosions, well, there's a car wreck. Umm... !!! No aliens! Ummm... may be a ghost... umm... OH! No mutant bugs or snakes! (Runs and rereads the promo for the movie.) No mutant bugs or snakes! YAY! :-)

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

I know!

But I don't get LMN.

*pouts*

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

It's on regular Lifetime, not their movie channel. If my VCR worked, I'd tape it for you, but it went feral and ate Dead Again so I've pulled its plug and let the stupid cat sleep on it.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

*smooches you*

I get the regular Lifetime. Yay!

Thank you! And thanks for the taping thought. :)

*feels better*

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Anytime. I think it's on at 8 our time.

(Love the icon. I still can't believe they gave us our moment. *And* had Carter call him 'sir'. ;-)

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Ya know he's got another Lifetime one coming out-MS is filming a a taut, erotic thriller, he plays Jack, a dashing Irishman (heh)

I so loved that 200 moment, and all the press (and squee) around it. The 'sir' was perfect canon. :)

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Oh! Is that the one where he's the bad guy? He really needs a few bad guy roles to help him break his "Daniel" image. Besides, like anything else, the more variety you get the better you get at your craft.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Disturbingly bad, criminal psychopath. (dark Jack?) ;o

It'll be fun to see if he can pull it off, I'm looking forward to it.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling he'll be great at it. I just hope it doesn't keep him from getting decent romantic/adventure leads after the fact.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

No worries. Too good looking. (Isn't that am archaic term?) I think he'll have a TV movie career, no problem. But I've only seen him on CSI and an Andromeda ep. He's come a long way on SG-1.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

He's got a pretty decent list of credits on IMDB. Especially given 10 years on a series. Ok, 9 years on a series. :-) I'm in denial. :-)

I can see it now, though, if he can't break into the big screen, or get another series or two he'll end up playing the prime suspect on future incarnations of Murder, She Wrote (or whatever it'll be called ;-). Still, it pays the bills. :-)

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the conventions. :)

I was looking for RDA Avalon info earlier. ;-D

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Cons are forever. ;-)