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01:21 am: Have a random meme. I need to post in here more often again.

This is a good multishipper meme, though.

Give me a character and I will tell you:
+ Favorite pairing for them.
+ Runner-up pairing.
+ Honorable mention(s).
+ Crack pairing(s).
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.

Tags: meme

10:15 pm: Once again, a month has slipped by without a post from me. Ugh. I kind of sort of have an excuse, as I was busy with moving and getting that stuff all lined up. Here are some bullet point highlights of the past month or so...

• So, the last major non-memeish post I made mentioned my sister having her baby, and my grand entrance into Aunthood. Then on August 7th, two weeks after my sister had her baby, my brother and his girlfriend had their daughter, so I was an aunt again. I have pictures that I need to post of her. It's probably bad form to say so, but I think she's cuter than my sister's baby.
  
  
• I started a new job, sort of. It's temporary, and I'm looking for something hopefully better and more stable, but it's not bad work. And it pays slightly better than my last job, at least, so yay for that.
  
  
• And yes, I did move! To a small efficiency for now (though I'm gonna see if I can get out of my lease early and perhaps split a bigger place with autophanous). It is pretty tiny, but once I got my stuff in and arranged, it's actually better than I was expecting. I have some pictures of that to post as well, once I find my camera cord. ANYHOO, my address has naturally changed, and you can find the new one here in my contact post.
  
  
• Actually I was just at my parents' house for niece #2's baptism over the weekend. Then weekend after next, my sister will be coming to my parents' with her baby, and she'll be baptised then, it looks like. I haven't seen her in person yet, so that will be fun.

That's a pretty half-assed update, but at least it's something. I miss using my LJ. Meh.

ANYWAY. Here's a random meme that looked appealing to me:

Give me the title and fandom of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it. In return I will tell you any of these from my never-written story: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Tags: bullet point time, meme, moving, real life

06:41 pm: autophanous, I got your letter yesterday! Expect one back. ♥

I'm bored, so have a meme! In fact, have two!

Meme the First:
Give me a number from 1 to 5026, and I will upload the corresponding picture from my fanart folder.
I am actually pretty new to saving much fanart to my hard drive, so I can say right now that the majority of it is One Piece (though Bleach makes a pretty good showing as well), but there is a good variety of my other fannish loves, albeit in smaller numbers.

and from the_firefly & tsundere,
Meme the Second:
Comment to this entry with any fandom. If I'm knowledgeable enough in the fandom to have ships, I'll tell you one non-canon ship I like, one canon ship I like, and one ship I really don't like (either canon OR fanon). Then post this in your own journal to offer up the same responses. Optional!

Feel free to ask for multiples on either one, especially the picture one. Like I said, I am bored.

Tags: meme, picspam

04:29 pm: The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

It somehow ended up being a month again since I last wrote in my LJ. Whoops.

Life has been...challenging lately. I'm trying to stay positive and get through it.

Anyway, I have some memes I intend to answer, but right now, the big order of business for this LJ entry is...

( suspense... )

That's it for now! Though if everything goes as planned, I will have pictures of niece #2 within a week or so.

Tags: meme, picspam, real life, writing

09:14 pm: This seemed like fun.

1. Choose an episode of anime or television series you have on your computer. Make sure you're certain you want that one, you cannot change or mind once you skip this step. DO NOT TELL YOUR FLIST WHAT YOU CHOSE.
2. Make note of how long the episode is here -> 27:48
3. Ask your f-list to choose a time between 00:00 and whatever the length of your episode is. Be specific, (ie: 19:11, 21:09, 02:42)
4. Make them an icon using THAT FRAME ONLY no matter what it is. And remember, you can only use that ONE episode you chose previous, even if the person posting isn't familiar with it.

Tags: meme

09:43 pm: Just a meme again, for now.

Comment with a fandom that you know I'm in, and I'll reply with:
. Favorite character:
. Least favorite character:
. Character with the best hair:
. Character with the best eyes:
. Character I'd most want to kiss:
. Character I'd most likely screw:
. Character I'd make lunch for:
. Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
. Character I'd go shopping with:
. Character I'd go dancing with:
. Character I'd take over the world with:
. Character I'd most want to cosplay as:
. Favorite het pairing:
. Favorite yaoi pairing:
. Favorite yuri pairing:

Tags: meme

02:27 am: I'll do a more substantial entry later, honest.

The first five people to comment to this post get to request a sketch of a character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their artistic/writing ability. (If you absolutely can't draw, you can offer drabbles or icons or something instead.)

THE FIRST SLOT IS RESERVED FOR DENISE, THOUGH. Without having to repost the meme, of course. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ♥

1. Sanji + Tamaki, for diktat
2. Lyon, for dawnrune
3. Nami, for feenekks
4. Setsuna, for mendaa
5. Chris Lightfellow, for fursona

Tags: meme

11:07 pm: THANKSGIVINGMEME

Have a good Thanksgiving tomorrow, those of you who celebrate it! Please enjoy this video.

I'll be going to my family's for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I probably won't be around online much for the next couple days. Now I have to try to fall asleep at a semi-decent hour tonight so I can wake up early enough to drive there in time for dinner. Shh. It COULD happen.

Tags: meme

10:17 pm: Have a random meme I stole from xredribbon:

List the first ten eleven series that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each series that they think you are most like. (Remember this is who I'm most like, not favorites!)

1 - Bleach
2 - Kekkaishi
3 - One Piece
4 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
5 - Claymore
6 - Fairy Tail
7 - Gintama
8 - Mahou Sensei Negima
9 - Ouran High School Host Club
10 - Harry Potter
11 - Baccano!

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The meme was partly me being curious, partly me needing an excuse to post so I could say

Sign up for a holiday card.

I'll probably be starting on them soon, so please comment if you want one!

Tags: holiday cards, meme

01:12 am: I never do these, but I think literally the last five or six entries in a row on my flist have contained this, so... I'm curious, I guess.



Tags: meme

05:33 am: Just because. Indulge me, please?

i ship it.

Tags: meme

05:09 am: This looked like fun, so I stole it from nickelodeon:

Out of your Comfort Zone Drabble Meme
Now is your chance to request something short from me! Pick a fandom you know I know, pick a character/pairing, pick a prompt and pick a rating; try to make it something I wouldn't usually write! I will write a short drabble for you!

Going to sleep soon, but I'll write them tomorrow. I'll try to write and post everything on the fly, so quality is not guaranteed.

EDIT: These are actually still being written. I just fail at being timely.

Tags: meme, writing

02:55 pm: Not doing so well about the "being around more on LJ" thing. Still working on that. I wish it were easier to change habits. I'm still trying to get myself to sleep at 1 or 2am instead of, oh say...5am. Or worse.

Aaanyway, November will be a scarce month, because (wait for it...) I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. I won in 2004, and failed pretty spectacularly last year but...it's FUN. I'm excited for it, and have been more excited about writing in general recently. Being writing buddies with Bri really helps me, because I don't feel alone, and feel more compelled to meet my goals, I guess. I've been trying to do the "write every day (even if it's just a little)" thing again, and it's nice. I started two new fics in the past few days (a Bleach one and a Gintama one) and have been working a little on some of my unfinished ones, and while in the grand scheme of things it's not all that much, it just feels great and productive. I'm proud of myself, and I'm liking what I'm writing. That's kind of a weird feeling to me, honestly. And hopefully I don't come back to it in a day or two and read it and go, "ugh"--I'm trying not to be so critical of myself. That's easier said than done, of course. But I'm going to do my best to keep it up, and writing every day in October is gonna be good practice for NaNoWriMo, too. I love feeling excited about this.

So...who else is in this year? There are a few I know of, but my flist is large. Let me know! For anyone who might want to add it, my account is here. Also, I'm not 100% sure yet I'll be using it this year, but if I do post up what I'm writing (before it's edited, I mean) and you have any desire to read it, it'll be at with_a_key.

And just because...

THE "HEY, YOU SHOULD BE FRIENDS WITH____!" MEME.
MY THREAD HERE!

Tags: meme, nanowrimo, writing

07:28 pm: Here's that meme...

1. There are 30 questions.
2. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
3. Answer one question with one name.
4. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme

( click! )

Tags: meme

05:16 pm: I'm back!
They finally hooked up our internet connection today! YAY!

So, I suppose it's time to run through the highlights of my incommunicado moving-time:

• Originally I had been planning to rent my own apartment, but my friend suggested we all (me, him, & his husband) live together for a year or two to save money, since between the three of us, we can get a fairly nice place without having to pay a ton. It was nice, especially since money would've been pretty tight for me at first after moving costs.
  
  
• We found a nice apartment which is great for us: fairly big, two full bathrooms (I can't even tell you how happy I am to have my own bathtub again; I love taking long, leisurely baths.) plenty of room for my books, an extra bedroom/office room, which we have made into our computer & video game utopia.
  
  
• And, yes, I've finished moving all my stuff here (did it last weekend). Mostly I am very happy because this means I got to finally get my books out of storage; not only did I miss them like whoa, but I was starting to get a little worried about the state they'd be in after being in a storage shed for two years. They weathered it well: only three ended up bent from shifting in their boxes; two (common & easily replaced) suffered a little nibbling from a mouse; and just one had some slight water damage (must've been a leak somewhere? but none of the other books in the same box were harmed in any way). After a year, I was starting to picture horrible things happening to them, so it was a relief.
  
  
• My cat is here, and settling in pretty well. She's a very cautious, nervous cat, so I was a little worried about how she'd adjust, especially since Jon Paul & Randall have a fairly young kitten (who is adorable, btw. They have him wear shirts half the time, which sounded kind of weird to me at first, but he doesn't mind it at all, plus...it does look really cute). The kitties seem to be getting along well, though. Jack (the kitten) is happy to have another cat to play with, and Éowyn tolerates him pretty well, except for an occasional smackdown from time to time when he gets too obnoxious. They sleep next to each other in a little kitty pile sometimes, so that's encouraging and adorable.
  
  
• Not directly related to moving, but I randomly received a free upgrade on my cell phone, so now I have a RAZR which makes texting a world easier. Had my plan changed too, so I now have unlimited texting. Because of this I made good use of Twitter during my Time of No Internet. Annnyhoo, feel free to add me if you've got a Twitter account, or, heck, if you don't have my cell number and want to text me sometime, leave me a comment and I'll get it to you.
  
  
• I plan on getting up some pictures sooner than later, of the new place, and the kitties, and whatever else...ACTUALLY. Why don't I just do that meme, since I'm at it? Comment with something you want me to take a picture of, and I'll post it in a later entry!

Now I am going to attempt to catch up with the flist, though it's been, for all intents and purposes, about two weeks since I've had a chance to look at it closely, so it's pretty likely I will miss out on stuff. If there's anything you want me to know about or link me to, leave a comment, please! I can't guarantee I'll see it otherwise.

It's good to be back! I missed you all! ♥~

Tags: books, bullet point time, kitties, meme, moving, real life, twitter

06:00 am: I never noticed this before. Well, I mean, of course I didn't, because I watched Haruhi before I played Phoenix Wright, and haven't re-watched any of it besides the "movie" episode. Still, it was neat to see, once someone pointed out to me it was there.

Oh! Does anyone have an account on Goodreads? I was trying LibraryThing for a while, but I like the interface on Goodreads more. Anyway, mine's here; please add me if you'd like! Once I move and can unpack all my books, I can finish cataloging them there. FUN. (Yes, I'm being serious about that; I like organizing my media a lot.)

I was sick on Monday and I still feel a little off. Why does my immune system fail so hard? Bleh. I've been drinking as much water as I can keep down, but I think I'm probably a little dehydrated right now. Fuuun.

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Stole this from a few people.

Reply with your answers to this and then post it in your own LJ (if you wish). I'll reply there. I'd love to see anyone reply to this, since I'm rather curious about some of the answers. :)

ABOUT
1. Name (or what you prefer to go by):
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What is/was your college major? (or if you haven't decided yet, what are you considering?):
5. What is your current job?:
6. Your favorite time of the year?:
7. What is your favorite food?:

RECOMMEND
1. A movie:
2. A tv show:
3. A book:
4. A comic/manga:

FANDOM
1. Favorite Fandom:
2. OTP:
3. Character:
3. Icon/Fic Journal (if you have one. If not, link to your favorite):


Tags: anime, books, meme, sick, video games

12:04 pm: sjkhasdkj It's official, my two weeks notice is accepted, and I am done with work on the 15th. Then I can finally MOVE! I was starting to think it would never happen and I was feeling lame that I was so behind on my plans. I am excited now! hbfhfkdhffjs YAY!!!

THE CHARACTER RATING MEME

Tags: meme, real life

05:36 am: Anyway. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I'm gonna spiff up my userinfo at prpl_prose and link to affiliates. So, if you have a writing journal and would like to be linked, let me know in the comments (& your writing journal name, natch).

There is a two-tailed cat here at work. I mean, I'm not sure if he's a stray, or if he belongs to a family somewhere in the neighborhood or what, but I've seen him in the parking lot off and on for like a year or so. Actually, I hadn't seen him for a few months now, so I wondered what happened to him, but he's been showing up again the past few nights. He's used to people, and very friendly. It probably helps that I feed him. And he seriously has two tails. Like, about halfway up the regular tail, there is a smaller, shorter, thinner one that branches off. They move independently of one another, so when he's being purry and lovey, they both twitch out of sync. Hee!

( Writing and Avatar rambling )

Also, here's a meme I stole from bolshevists:

Name a series and I'll tell you the character(s) I would:

1. Bake cupcakes for:
2. Trust with the keys to my car:
3. Put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
4. Have a crush on:
5. Pack up and leave if they moved next door:
6. Vote for President:
7. Pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
8. Pair up:
9. Vote off the island and into the volcano:
10. Wheedle into fixing my MP3 player:

Tags: avatar, meme, real life, writing, writing journal

05:28 am: Time for bullet points!

• I've felt kind of anti-social the past few days. Apologies. I'm not trying to ignore anyone. I'm just feeling kind of tired and need to recharge my batteries or something.
  
  
• Finally watched the Avatar finale. Well, technically, I saw it on Sunday night/Monday morning, but let me tell you, that wait felt really really long. I don't have television (I have a television, but it's...not hooked up to anything but my dvd player and game consoles. No cable, no antenna, not even rabbit ears for god's sake), so I was waiting impatiently on Saturday night for a torrent to show up. Then my computer decided to freak out (it's been having battery issues, blah) and I was tired, so I went home, where I only have dial-up. Anyway. I have things to say. A lot to say, really, not just about the final four episodes, but about Avatar in general, but to be perfectly honest, I am not in the mood to write that post right now. I may not actually type up my thoughts here at all, but...probably I will. Just not now.
  
  
• I'm excited about Funi licensing Baccano!, and I have to admit that a big part of that is the hope that the anime coming over here officially will prompt more demand for official novel translations. Hey, a girl can dream.
  
  
• I've been watching the One Piece anime since my last post and I really want to write up my initial impressions of that sometime soon too.
  
  
• Maybe it's a little late to mention this, but there's a (re)watch of Tower of Druaga being hosted at re_capitulate. I haven't watched it before, but it's pretty enjoyable, especially for RPG fans, I think. The series is only twelve episodes (plus a special, I think?), and episode six discussion goes up tomorrow, so...check it out? I'm pathetically addicted to the OP song.
  
  
• Stolen from everybody:
  
  → Name a fandom, and I'll tell you my:
  
  One True Pairing Ship
  Canon Ship
  "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship
  "You are one sick bastard" Ship
  "I dabble a little" Ship
  "It's like a car crash" Ship
  "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship
  "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship
  "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship
  "When all is said and done" Ship

I'll probably be asleep earlier than usual today, so I won't answer comments right away (work nights, you know), but I promise I'll get to them.

Tags: anime, avatar, baccano!, bullet point time, meme, one piece

08:28 am:

Yes, I am a little behind the times in posting my dot-thing.

I've been sucking with the commenting lately (moreso than usual) and even the flist reading. I've been kind of busy, with more scarce internet time lately. Lately I really miss people, though. I'm gonna make a valiant effort to catch up today, or as much as I'm able to. Possibly I'll be spammy during the day and update again.

There's been one thing in particular that's been on my mind since Monday, and I probably will write about it at some point, but right now I just don't want to dwell on it. And I don't even know why I feel compelled to mention it at all right now, since it just seems like I'm being willfully mysterious or something. No, actually, I think I won't feel at ease without knowing that I've made some mention of it, however oblique, even if I intend to write about it later. That probably doesn't even make sense.

I randomly started rereading Kekkaishi from the beginning yesterday (well, mostly because it had been a pretty long time since I read the beginning chapters and my memory on certain details was getting hazy--yes, I am ficcing). Why don't more people know this manga? I guess maybe the beginning seems nothing special, at least I thought that at first, but I don't even remember at what point I realized I was totally loving it. Anyway, on a reread, I have even more appreciation for how the story develops. One thing remains the same: my overwhelming urge to give Gen an enormous hug. He frequently could use one. I might take the time in the near future to do a pimp post and upload scans, just in the hopes it will win me a few more people to flail with.

Writing has been going pretty well lately; Bri and I try to set weekly goals to work on, and mine has been to write every day. For now one of my biggest problems is just trying to get back in the habit of writing regularly, and this is helping a lot. It's kind of the same idea of what I was hoping to get from NaNoWriMo last year, except that turned out to just not work then. I dunno, maybe then I was feeling too much pressure? But this is nice. It's motivation, because it's not just me by myself, but it's also laid-back enough to not make me feel...I don't even know how to describe it. I just have a tendency to seize up, especially in the last year or so, when I feel like I'm under an obligation, of sorts, to produce something, I guess? It kind of irks me, because, while I have kind of always sucked at finishing things on my own time, I used to be really good about making deadlines for fic exchanges and whatnot. Lately I've had things I've signed up to do, intended to do, even felt inspired to do...and still failed to complete them or turn them in on time. I used to like doing fic exchanges because they were a good motivator to get me to finish things; now I think perhaps it's best if I take a break from those and concentrate more on...whatever I happened to feel inspired by at the moment.

In conclusion, have a meme, stolen from scrawled:

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Hopefully I don't just get a million pictures of pens. >.>

Tags: kekkaishi, meme, writing

04:25 am: I kind of...ehehehe. Forgot to write anything this week. But, it's been a while since I've done this, so:

Ficlet requests.

Pick a fandom, a pairing or character, and a word/phrase prompt, and I'll reply with a line or so of fic. Any fandom you know that I know is fine; check my interests list or ask if you aren't sure (though to be honest, I'm really not feeling Inuyasha much anymore). It may end up anywhere from one sentence long to several paragraphs, depending on inspiration. One at a time please, but feel free to request another after your request is finished. Quality not guaranteed, but I'll do my best.

Tags: meme, request fic, writing

06:08 pm: Last post today. Promise.
I just thought this was neat.

the ☂APRIL☂ showers bring ✿MAY✿ flowers meme

Still uploading music!

Tags: meme

01:00 am: Happy birthday, darcelona! ♥

I still haven't finished replying to that last meme (I'll go do that now, actually), but I recently went through my desktop, laptop, and external hard drive to make sure everything syncs up. And since I'll be at the library tomorrow, I know I'll have access to upload things, so have a music meme: reply with a number, 1 through 4756, and I'll upload the song from my Winamp library in that position. You can list more than one number, too, but please no more than five per comment. HAVE AT IT!

The probability that some really embarrassing songs will be uploaded during the course of this meme: VERY HIGH.

Tags: meme, music

12:42 am: So when I was at the library the other day, I noticed they'd put a new wall-mounted changing station in the bathroom. That isn't the important part, though. Right above the changing station was a poster. A 14-step poster--with visual aids!--on how to change a diaper. Steps included such gems as "remove baby's outer clothing" and "put clean diaper on baby."

...I don't know about you, but I think that if someone needed to be told in such great detail how to change their kid's diaper, it's really not that likely they'll be in the library in the first place.

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Anyway! Have a meme, stolen from a bunch of flisters!

Step 1. Give me one or more pairing(s).

Step 2. I ramble on it for at least 100 words. And possibly include pictures.

Step 3. Repeat.

Any pairing is fair game, not just ones you know I like!

Tags: meme

01:32 am: ✖ You are my...

In the span of a few days, it went very abruptly from being WINTER--as in snow and ice covering everything, zero degree weather, and having to let my car warm up for 10 minutes before driving anywhere--to SPRING. Everything melted and the weather today was so nice and mild. Normally this is the part of spring that I hate--mud everywhere, everything so wet and dirty looking as the layers of silt and garbage that were buried in the snow are all revealed--but so far this year I don't mind it at all. I am filled with glee, in fact. I mentioned before, about my plans to move in the spring. Somehow, though, they didn't feel really real until now. And obviously it's still not an immediate thing; I have things to plan and take care of before the actual moving. Still, the dramatic shift in weather reminds me it's soon, and I'm giddy and excited.

Random anime talk: started watching Persona -trinity soul-, mostly because I enjoy the game like whoa. I've only seen the first few episodes; no really solid thoughts on it yet. It's sort of different.

I also finally watched the first episode of Mai Otome 0~S.ifr~, which, despite the crazy name (seriously people, wtf) was pretty awesome. Most people know I lovelovelove Mai-HiME, but was severely underwhelmed with Mai-Otome. Like, sure there were a few aspects I liked (Meister Haruka needs her own show likenow), but for the most part it was just a big, frustrating mess. Same goes for Mai-Otome Zwei. So...I am trying not to get my hopes up, but S.ifr looks like it could actually take the premise in Otome and make it work. I dunno, I just liked it a lot when I was watching. We shall see.

Finished Eureka Seven a week ago, but I'll probably talk about that another time.

Tags: anime, mai hime, mai otome, meme, real life