Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Said Scarlett

So, my Christmas outfit this year is essentially a school girl uniform. :D I found a gorgeous Pendleton pleated skirt and jacket set in dark red and green at the thrift store. I love it.

It's also been brought to my attention that with my Lennon glasses, I look disturbingly like Ozzy Osbourne. I'm still not sure how I feel about this.

But! The very important thing....we have a tree! That's where I was most of the day. We have a beautiful tree that is smack in the middle of the room. And it smells nice, and looks gorgeous, and already has a present under it! :D All is well in Silent Hill.

Tonight there shall be baking and decorating and good friends and Christmas music and everything else that makes the season what it is.

Oh! REWRITTEN PEOPLES! I...kind of want to somehow reflect the Christmas season in the game. I know Emi and I were talking about Elven religion a while back, and working that in, since there are some fun ideas to play with. And I'm pretty sure I've written about elven winter holidays before....

Anyway, that's about all from over here!

Thanks for the support yesterday. I'm fine now. What happened was I threw out my back in the shower when I was home alone, so I freaked out a bit. But nijawial was home shortly after, and all was fine. enigmablade and summoneddestiny came over last night, and much fun was had watching Venture Bros deleted scenes and the Christmas episode.

I got more writing done this morning! Apparently mornings are good for me for writing, since that seems to be when I do the bulk of it. I'm up to 17,500 words, which is not shabby. And I'm leaving in what I wrote last night. I've discovered a little secret to my word count uppage. I need to work Dr. Mrs. The Monarch into this more - her name is four whole words!

I swear I had some sort of awesome idea last night, but now it's gone. I'm doing this in such a patchwork way. There are just little scenes and snippets all over, waiting to be somehow connected to the rest of the story. I am figuring out how to fill in little gaps, though, which is good. This thing is actually starting to come together as a complete piece with consistent, underlying themes and plot.

I'm slipping further and further into less than great habits. I'm sitting here, not yet dressed, thinking that leftover pizza and a mocha would be a wonderful breakfast. While I reply to RP posts - all of which are vastly entertaining at the moment.

Hank and Dean the rats are comfortably situated in their new aquarium, and Hank has discovered the wheel. They both seem to enjoy all the new space, even though they consistently seek out the absolute smallest space available to cram themselves into. Usually together.

And now it's time to hit up my RP posts, check email, and see if I can hit 20k today!

Title: Dark Places
Fandom: HBC
Rating: Pg-13
Word Count: 1211
Pairing: Valyn/Shana
Warning: Dark themes, the pairing
Author's Notes: This is technically Rewritten canon, somewhere in the future. Much darker than most of my HBC stuff, and is really more of a stream of conscious thought character study.
Summary: Valyn sometimes wonders which he's more afraid of: his own dark places, his father's, or Shana's.

( Dark Places )

Oh, soreness. And weak, jelly legs.

Back safe and sound from my ESI! (For those just recently joining, an ESI is an Epidural Steroid Injection. Imagine a series of giant tetanus shots, directly into your spine. It's a relatively common chronic treatment for a variety of spinal issues.)

My lower back's sore and my legs have that wonderful fell-asleep-but-can't-wake-up sensation, and as usual I'm a quivering mess because I still have a terrible needle phobia. But it's over and done with, and after the soreness fades, I'll have a couple months of blissful less-pain! It really does make a difference, which is why I go back again and again for a procedure that honestly terrifies the hell out of me.

Though now I find myself a little at a loss as to what to do. No packing for a bit, because of this! I've got characters on hiatus at damned, I'm pretty sure I'm on full hiatus at CU just from lack of anyone getting back to me about threads and my communications with the mod, and well....we're all on hiatus at RW right! :D So I'd feel a little silly just un-hiatusing for a few days anywhere, and then going right back to hiatus - especially since I'll be at my sister;s this weekend.

Maybe I'll catch up on fic. I haven't submitted anything for yuri_challenge, dn_contest, 30_nights, 7_rainbows or one_liners in...a very long time.

But for now I'm going to put an ice pack on my lower back.

Okay, actual update time!

Holy fuck. It's 2:30, and I'm exhausted. Like ready to fall asleep exhausted. I think I did doze off watching a movie I've seen a dozen times, actually. I haven't even finished unpacking, I have no clean clothes to the point where I'm wearing my autographed Twisp and Catsby (PA) shirt because it's the only thing clean. That isn't a giant sweater, but it's 85 degrees.

My uncle went home this morning. He didn't even say goodbye last night, to me at least, he just left before I was awake. Classy. But he did take us out to dinner last night, and it was...really good. The food was delicious, and finally! A mexican restaurant that understand when I say 'just cheese and sauce' I mean 'just cheese and sauce'. I don't mean 'just cheese and sauce and the onions, tomatoes and peppers that are also in the dish but not listed on the menu'. I had these amazingly yummy little chicken taco things, on the most delicious tortillas I've ever had. And delicious refried beans, and Spanish rice, and since it was my uncle's dime, I ordered dessert. I don't even particularly like cheesecake that much, but it was the most expensive dessert on the menu so I went for it. I ate the delicious strawberry topping, and my dad ate the actual cheesecake. I also had a bite of my mother's flan, and it was to die for. We ended up buying a bottle of their homemade salsa, too, because it was that delicious.

For those of you who have not heard the stories of my uncle, there is a reason that we order the expensive food when he pays. He's very wealthy, and shares his wealth liberally with random waitresses - including buying one of his regular waitresses a bracelet that cost $1,500, just because he thought she'd like it, not even for her birthday or Christmas - but never gives us any money, even when we're struggling to get by. He also uses my parent's house as a hotel, eats their food, uses their gas, water, electricity, etc and just assumes that whatever we have is his as well. And never says thank you.

I have a lasagna in the oven, and I need to do laundry. The washing machine is finally free, but I feel like I've melted into the couch and can't get up.

In RP news, jumped back into damned since NS has started. Tamaki's got the clinic going, Eileen is still trying to grasp what's going on, Lust will be burying her sorrow in killing things and clinging to Gluttony, and I believe Valyn and co are going after files tonight!

Am still enjoying CU, it's a great break from damned. Not that I'm saying I need a break, just...something lighter. Not so much doom and angst and massive, massive thinking. I've only got two characters, and they're easy and it's a more open scenario. It's a good balance. And oh, the web of lies and manipulation! If Dante weren't already kind of in hell, I'd say she was so going to hell. She's screwed if any other FMA characters show up, though. It'd be hard to play the poor, grieving, bereft mother/widow/whatever with people spilling her real story.

Henry is still bumbling along, getting used to being a social creature, and trying to untangle his overly-complex feelings about Eileen. I kind of want to shake him and yell 'you like her, you idiot, that's all there is too it!'. But it's Henry, and he overthinks things. He's also dealing with the OMG!PANIC! of Walter showing up. He still needs to sit down and have his chat with Alessa, too. He is a busy, busy boy!

ReWritten folks - chaneystarr, ranchangrnl, chocomimi! I think there's only...um...well, I've only got two threads planned for pre-fete. One with Valyn and Lorryn, one with Rena and Keman? I don't know if there are any other threads planned, but.... When chocomimi's back and settled in, shall we move on over there?