Lizet's Place

I think it was cattraine who mentioned they hated when tags were abused on AO3?

well I happened to refresh the page and there was a new fic with so many fucking tags! Tooth-Rotting Fluff Like have your toothbrush and some insulin ready but also angst sigh Such angst But a happy ending! Happy Ending and SMUT Because of Reasons But mostly because the author is a kinky perv Hey at least I'm honest I seriously love tagging shit Fun with Tags Okay I'll let you read the story now I REGRET NOTHING

really?

yeah, I'm not going to read that.

as of 10:33 pm, my McDanno Spring Fling fic for stevedannoslash is finished!

The total is about 12,630 words! That's about 2,000 more words than last year's fic!

Right now, I'm doing a read through and waiting to see what my betas have to say. I'll be posting late Sunday/early Monday morning.

part 1 of my Spring Fling fic is complete! 2,369 words!

2369 / 10000 words. 24% done!

bouncing ideas off my writing buddies for part 2 and hopefully this weekend I can start writing it.

I should be working and concentrating on my Spring Fling fic (I've only gotten 1100 words done in the FIRST PART and it's due towards the end of April)

( fic writing babble )

and all of this leads me to going to bed at a somewhat decent time (before midnight)!

Good night...and have a pleasant tomorrow.

I wish I could see how the apartment looks now. I want to have some idea of how plain my room is going to be until I can properly decorate.

I still don't know what the general "theme" of my room is going to be. I mean when I was packing up everything for the move, I toyed with the idea of having a tropical/Hawaii Five-0 theme (thanks in part to the "Hawaii Five-0 Survival Bag" that bluedelft gave me in July), but I don't have nearly enough "tropical' decorations. I guess that means I'll have to raid some party stores and possibly order some prints from Art.com (a search of Hawaii alone gives me over 1,000 options!)

M & J have been at some church related conference since the day after Christmas and come back today. Yesterday was the family dinner night so I went with my sister (free food so I wouldn't have to cook or order fast food). Holy crap was it an unorganized dinner! They had it semi-catered in that they ordered the dinner from Panda Express and everything else was provided by some of the parents of the youth. Well, my sister was told she was supposed to get the food but she couldn't get a hold of the person who ordered it. She tried calling him 3 times! Then she found out from someone else that the man who ordered it went to get it because it was "too far away" and he didn't want her to "get lost or be late to the dinner". Dinner was supposed to start at 5 but it didn't start until nearly 6 because they were waiting for the guy to come with the food! Then at 7 there was a church service kind of thing. That went until 10. It was supposed to be over at 9 because there was going to be a talent show at 10, but the talent show didn't start until 10:30. J asked my sister (and by extension me) to stay because she was in a drama skit. We had to sit through 3 or 4 acts before my niece's group was up...then we stayed for one more group before leaving at midnight! There went my plan of watching a movie before going to sleep! But I did get Taco Bell and watched the last 10 minutes of Benny Hill before trying to get warm enough to go to sleep.

Today...I don't know what I'm going to do. It's freezing (it's 55 degrees but that's still too cold for me!) and there's a bit I want to do (after holiday shopping) but I don't want to spend hours on the bus dealing with cold and possibly having to stand because there's so many people out using the bus. Also, I don't know if I want Taco Bell or Panda Express for lunch...or if I'll even be able to stop and get lunch (if I get dropped off, there will be no stopping for lunch, sadly).

Small group in church today! 7 counting myself! Last Sunday there was over 50 but that was because the Spanish speaking members came out early. The Pastor had surgery on the 22nd to remove his colon! The surgery went fine but I don't know if he's home or has been moved to an aftercare facility. But with him out, that means his wife is out and so is Lora.

Also, internet is being a bitch. I'm going to write. I got back chapter 19 of But Why Daddy? from my beta, so now I can fret about chapter 20.

it feels like I'm missing out on a lot of stuff since I don't have the internet 24/7 (update on that in a bit), but when I get to my office, which is where I'm at for a 3rd time today because of internet withdrawals lol, nothing has really been updated.

I don't spend lots of time on sites like AOL Rocks or Book 'em Danno, but I do follow the updates on twitter and/or facebook.

There haven't been any new fic posted that I haven't already read...but I'm not in the right area to write - I have the words, but not my usual writing place (my bedroom).

Last night, Jasmine asks my sister to turn on her T-Mobile HotSpot so she could get on the internet. I wasn't asked if I wanted to get on the internet as well, so I decided to call T-Mobile and see what I would need to do to get it myself. After over an hour and 2 different tech calls, it turns out, my service plan includes the HotSpot feature! I just needed to turn it on, and connect my laptop to it! Well that's great! I get walked through it and by all accounts, it should connect me to the internet, however, that's not the case. The signal is being sent to my laptop, but something is preventing my laptop from receiving the wireless signal! I don't think T-Mobile tech support can help with that. My next option is to ask John (the church's computer go-to guy and my boss' husband) or wait until January when my parents return and have my dad to look at it. But I'd go to the Geek Squad before asking my dad because he doesn't exactly have the best track record with setting up wireless internet at home.

Like I said, I just feel like I'm missing out on stuff even though my LJ feed hasn't been updated in the last 30 minutes, but before that it was something like 5 hours between updates! I could work on graphics. I haven't done any for h50icontest since challenge 66 and challenge 68 is going on.

So, the untitled, I don't know if it will go anywhere fic is now up to 3,078 words! Yeah, that's an additional 1,578 to what I previously wrote. I think I'm going to go to sleep now.

Like I said, I don't know where it's going, or what I'm even doing. This baby has a mind of it's own.

What I'd really like to be doing is finishing up my h50_holidayswap fic. I'll be happy with another 500 words to make the 1,000 word minimum.

I'm expanding a short fic into a longer fic for a big bang and one of the chapters I can't figure out how to reference the original story without actually using the original story.

eta I think I figured out how I can do this. I can use the dialog because the rest brings up stuff I will have mentioned earlier in the story and i don't want to be repetitive.

I'm supposed to be working on my h50_holidayswap, but I'm working in a genre I've never written before (at least not on purpose) and it's more challenging than I thought.

I'm aiming for the minimum of 1,000 words and I have 51 words. *sighs*

Also, I'm reading fic.

all these words are distracting me, but I'm hoping it puts me in the mindset I need to be in to work on this fic.

I've signed up for wishlist_fic to write 12 fics and post them 1 per day during December 1-24.

The Wish List Fic Challenge is a Holiday challenge in which you sign up to write 6, 12, or 24 ficlets for the days of Christmas! Your flist gets to offer the prompts and you post a fic a day!

If you'd like to leave me a prompt, you can go here and I will accept the first 12 prompts given to me.

If you'd like to join in on the writing (or artistry part of it), head over to wishlist_fic for more information.