On the off-chance that anyone else is still on LJ nowadays, here's wishing you and yours a happy Christmas/Yule/winter holiday of your choice. May you have a safe and peaceful end to the year!

As for me, I will be enjoying a few days off of work and hopefully doing nothing more strenuous than watching the football on Boxing Day and going to see ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everybody! I don't know about you guys but I was more than happy to see the back of 2013. I've always said I have Issues with odd years and last year certainly lived down to my expectations. Here's to better fortunes all around this time ( Read more... )

Wow, has it really been almost a year since my last post? I haven't defected to twitter or tumblr like everyone else seems to have done, it's just that I've been too busy being a boring Responsible Adult to have anything interesting to say or the time to say it. If only I'd been born independently wealthy and with no relatives... ;-P ( Read more... )

Well, this year is ending as a bit of a damp squib--literally. It's been raining steadily since before I went to bed last night. I can hear fireworks going off everywhere and yet I'm sure nobody can actually see them. Fail.

I'm meant to be ironing something to wear to work tomorrow but instead I've been having chocolate cake and watching ( Read more... )

Oooh, it's almost Yuletide! I didn't finish the treats I started writing, partly because I ran out of time and partly because I got too distracted by the hilarious Majestic Thorin meme to be capable of coherent thought. But that's okay, they'll just be New Year's Resolutions ( Read more... )

Just got back from the midnight premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Short version? I LOVED it. (But you knew that already.)

Long version to follow when I've had sleep...and maybe when I've seen it the ~4549 more times I've been planning since the opening credits rolled.

*dance of triumph*

I may not be in the same league as a NaNoWriMo winner but I can still say that my personal challenge was a definite success. I wrote something every single day for 30 days without fail. I finally finished the epic gift fic of d00m. I added 1,000-odd words to various other WIPs. And I wrote several hundred words of a totally ( Read more... )

Only one more day to go...

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Head, meet desk.

Here I was, foolishly congratulating myself because my miniwrimo challenge has achieved the intended result. I met my word goal early and finally finished the WIP of D00m, and since then I've been cracking on with a few of the dozen or so projects I've had lying around for way too long. That's what I intended to do again today, ( Read more... )

W00t, I exceeded my word goal with days to spare! I rewarded myself by watching the kittens again. There were some seriously badwrong levels of cute happening, as usual. ♥

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