I don't think I've written a single (non-RPG-related) fanfic in over four years, and what I had written prior to the four-year-long hiatus was almost exclusively Harry Potter based. (For the record, I took the break from fic writing not because I was sick of it -- I actually have been dying to get back to Yellow for a long time now -- but first ( Read more... )

Yeah, so it's been several months since I've found the time and energy to update, but I just wanted to make a quick post saying that I'm going to be at Azkatraz (Harry Potter convention in San Francisco, for those few of you who may not know) starting this Thursday, and I hope to see some of you there! Let me know if you're coming so I can look out ( Read more... )

It's just been a busy couple of months, and I haven't had the time or the brain space to get on LJ. You all know my whole anality thing about needing to backread the flist and all that. I've just been focusing on other things -- mostly Meghan, the little megalomaniac that she is. ;) I will be back up and running sometime in the not-too-distant ( Read more... )

My flist backlog is finally conquered. Yes, I know I'm crazy for doing all the backreading, but I genuinely do enjoy it. I just don't like getting so far behind, and the stomach flu death plague thing didn't help. The good news on that front is that it spontaneously resolved itself sometime between last night and this morning, so it wasn't E. coli ( Read more... )

My iPhone just attempted to commit suicide by sneakily leaping from my jeans pocket to the dishwasher. I thought I felt something pulling at my jeans, accompanied by a slightly odd noise from the dishwasher, so I went to check my pocket, and -- yup, no iPhone! It had lodged itself on the top rack of the dishwasher. Good thing I noticed! My warranty ( Read more... )

I think I have E. coli. Not the lethal version, mind, but it still sucks. I got some sort of stomach flu, or maybe it was food poisoning, on Thursday night (notable food consumed for dinner: salad, harbinger of all things illness related). When the accompanying lethargy finally lifted somewhat Friday evening, we went out to this famous local burger ( Read more... )

At The Killers concert. Brandon Flowers is very David Bowie-esque, very dramatic. He'd be the dude who got all the lead parts in the high school musicals, but you'd shake your head and go, "Nah, he's not the rock star type. Way too Broadway." And yet it works. And thank goodness the pornstache is gone.

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Yesterday, Meghan went from 8:15 am until 9:20 pm without a single nap, with the exception of a 7-minute car ride around 7:30 and a 10-minute car ride around 9:00. Over 13 hours without a nap for a 10-month-old is RIDICULOUS. And it wasn't for lack of trying, either: I let her scream in her crib from 2 to 3 pm and again from 5 to 5:45 pm. And by ( Read more... )

I took Meghan out for about 10 minutes in the snow, and she seemed to love it. Or, at least, eating it. If only she had eaten her lunch with such gusto. Apparently, tuna is evil. Who knew?! Anyway, here are several cute pics: ( Cut for size and extreme cuteness )

I am unreasonably thrilled that I am snowed in today. It's not like I typically leave the house a whole lot; most of my days, I just stay home with Meghan. (I'm trying to get out more for playdates for Meghan, and Jack and I just joined a gym that has child care services, and is a two-minute drive from our house to boot, which means that I have no ( Read more... )