Title: As the sparks fly upward
Fandom: Chuck
Author: bookaddict43
Pairing: John Casey/Chuck
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Chuck and all related characters are the property of NBC
Warning: Mentions of character death
Word count: 906
Comment: Thanks to the majorly awesome evilmaniclaugh, who is cheerleader and beta all rolled up in one :) This is a continuation of sorts of All the things that led to us.
( So you return to work and go through the motions so well that no-one notices you were ever compromised. )

It was 32 (89.6) degrees today with 95% humidity. Even I noticed the humidity, and we couldn't go for a swim at the beach because it's closed because of rough weather *pouts*.

It's back to school for the LG tomorrow - his last year at primary school! I feel very old :D I've been busily buying school books, clothes and shoes and he's grown again since Christmas. Size 11 men's shoes! And I'm yet to buy footy boots for the season *mourns*

Thanks to all my flisters for the lovely LJ birthday greetings!

They made my day :D

*HUGS*

Check out my serenity_santa fic from wildannuette! Quid pro quo - Simon/Jayne and angst *sniffs and huggles fic*

My mango tree has finally finished fruiting (yay for a freezer full of mango slices for the year), and is badly in need of a trim. So when I got home from work I sallied out with my extendable saw thingy and started sawing away. ( Read more... )

I had a lovely 4 weeks off and have now been back at work since last week. ( Read more... )

The LG will be in 7th grade this year and I'm busy buying books and things. His feet are now enormous (he's wearing size 10 1/2 men's shoes) so I'm waiting till the day before school before I buy any. Last year I bought a pair a term his feet grew that fast.

The brain fuzziness is becoming less I think and I'm off to the doctor next week for follow up tests. Then I might finally be able to assuage my guilt for not finishing my betaing for poor tygermama & sparrowwritings. The brain it will work!!!

serenity_santa is so far doing well thank goodness. We've had just over half the gifts posted and still have half the month left to go. The comm is about the only fannish thing I've been able to accomplish lately, which leads me to the meme of the day and my usual caveats and andendums...

I'm hoping this will spur my muse to something, so if you answer it - cross your fingers and hope!!!

Stolen from itinerant_vae

If you could have me write a fic specifically for you, what would it be like? Fandom, characters/pairing, genre, plot elements, kinks (if applicable)... what's your ideal fic from me?

My Marcus Hamilton vid (made for the beautiful guinny_hamilton just got taken down from YouTube because of inappropriate content! *pouts* It's been there since 2007 - and now it gets taken down? This was the last vid I actually finished and posted.

Of course I suppose it could be seen as inappropriate; with the glimpses of Adam's very fine naked body and a bit of breast from a random female. But it's been up there forever!!

Anyway if you want to take a look Here it is. Download link is here.

Your card came and it made my day!!! I feel the same...*mega hugs*

Not that I've written much this year - but I like to keep track :) Most of what is listed are snippets I started during mininanowritemo, but I'm hoping to finish them and the Big Bang fic (I've only got 1500 words to go darn it!) which is soooo overdue it's not funny...

Firefly

He ain't ever going to be Simon. A Jaylee ficlet

Coalescent. River/Jayne one-shot

Jayne POV a snippet of a possible AU.

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All of the things that led to us. Chuck fandom: Casey/Chuck written for the chuck_slash icon ficathon.

A Merlin snippet where the knights might be the red shirts of Camelot.

A Magnificent Seven snippet. Obediah Jackson POV

And that's it for the year *sigh*. I'm hoping the New Year brings a less fuzzy brain and more fic! Cross your fingers for me :D

I'm slowly trolling my way through the Yuletide offerings for this year and will probably give you lots more recs eventually. But for now check this one out Killing Elvis - a fic from the Alien fandom.

21st December is Gauda Prime Day :(

Anyone get the reference? :D

Someone answered an ancient prompt of mine at comment_fic. The prompt was Firefly, Jayne/Kaylee - blue eyes and big hands and Here is the fic.

Twelve days of Christmas was favourited at ff.net again. This pleases me because I wrote this soooooo long ago in the heady days when I could write coherently every day. And because it's the first real fic I ever wrote :) Now that I go back to read it I'm so tempted to edit it, and maybe will one day. The other thing I'd love to do would be to produce a banner for the story. Most of my other chaptered fics have banners courtesy of my wonderful flisters and now I can actually do graphics I'd love to try :DD

I've currently got 4 weeks off. Technically if I subtract public holidays and weekends, I actually have 20 days off. It's lovely :) This is the first year in a long time I'm not doing anything for the holidays. Aside from going down to the beach every day, I'm just veging out. It's awesome! :D

Luckily I am on holiday, since my brain was dead again, this last couple of days hampering my finishing my already late Big Bang fic. Hopefully though I'll finish it today. *cross you fingers* Pleeeeeeeease??? I'm a bit worried about it because I think it's the most boring thing I've ever written. I hope this is just my slow brain talking.

Anyway for my records, these are the current hours I have saved up...

Flex leave 13.54 hours (1 1/2days)
Sick leave 1364 hours (168 days)
Annual leave 139.05 (17 days)
Long service leave 418.85 (51 days)
RDOs 16.68 hours (2 days)

My presents arrived today and they are beautiful!!!!!! *swings you around*

I have lots more things to say about Merlin and some of the lovely fic I've been reading. But I have to go clean the house before trying obsessively to finish my Big Bang fic and wanted to share this story...

Excerpt:

And because Arthur was raised by Uther and therefore has no idea how to handle his emotions, he blurts out, "You can't be a sorcerer because I -- say so! And you're a fucking twat! What sorcerer comes to Camelot and works for a house that condemns magic-users to death?! God, you're so stupid, Merlin! I mean that sincerely! You walk around with that stupid rope and you're all, "la la la I'm still alive even though by all rights I should be dead ten-thousand times over because I have no self-preservation to speak of and I'm a shoddy dresser' --"

"Hey!"

"Shoddy dresser! And you're a sorcerer! That's the worst thing you could possibly be! Why couldn't you have been a bard, or a candlestick maker, or a half-decent manservant, or a prostitute? A prostitute would have been better! You know why? Because my father doesn't have prostitutes hacked at the neck!"

Most young men his age would have said "I love you" better.

Merlin gawks at him, because what do you say to that?

"I am not a shoddy dresser! And you're forgetting that I'm a wizard! A powerful, powerful wizard who could turn you into a birch tree with a thought!" That's what you say.

Arthur pales and resists the urge to stamp his foot (it's a near thing). "I hate birch trees!"**

Read and enjoy the lovely crack by mclachland Geoffrey of Monmouth was a liar, but that's ok

My niece and I have spent the last two days ripping up the carpet in the house. Now I have to decide what I'm going to do with the floor :) Anything is better than the carpet! You should have seen the stuff underneath! Ick. I'm hoping this may settle some of my allergies down.

But now I am tired. Probably because I haven't taken any iron tablets for at least a week. I thought maybe I'd built up some reserves, but maybe not...I've got to go lie down and I still have 4000 words of my Big Bang fic to go!!!!!

Anway in the spirit of being a sheep, here's the Fanfiction love meme...

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

If you've read my stuff I'd love to know what you think of it :D

I finally managed to get some mangoes that either the birds or bats haven't eaten! They're yummy too *mmmmmmmm*. Even though the crop isn't half as good as last year, I'll still be freezing some in the end. Mangoes for a whole year! *bounces* I still have some frozen from last year and am contemplating making chutney with them...because I have 4 glorious weeks off!!!!!!!

So maybe I'll catch up with the beta'ing I owe poor tygermama & sparrowritings. I feel so guilty ladies, that I haven't finished this. Life has just caught up with me the last few months :(

But right now I'm madly trying to finish my big bang fic - there's two days left of the week I'm supposed to post it in! Cross your fingers for me? *begs*

This year I am waaay too broke and disorganised to be sending cards :( But I love my flisters, so post a prompt and fandom I write and I'll write you something.

And just to remind you...behind the cut is the serenity_santa info. We have 4 or 5 sign-ups so far but could do with more :D ( Read more... )

Despite the fact I'm struggling to finish my Big bang fic - 8,000 words left with 3 days to go, my brain still being confused now and then and too much business at work; I'm going to run serenity_santa again this year.



The info post is here. Pimp far, and pimp wide :)

I still don't have a name for my big bang fic - woe!

The LG when not able to sleep but banned to his bedroom chose to watch Rio Bravo as his DVD :D He's so indoctrinated...

The LG had his intra-small school swimming carnival today and did his personal best time in all four strokes. *beams pridefully*

My mother, who is 84 this year, went to her first ever make-up party! She made me laugh with her description of how the younger (60ish) ladies got their colours done :D She had her skin moisturised, but drew the line at anything else.

There's only 1 week of work left till I have 4 weeks off! *dances*

It looks like I might be running serenity_santa after all. I truly thought there wouldn't be any interest.

Only about 370 or so words today, but still writing...If only RL and procrastination didn't intervene *mourns*

Here's a little bit (very scattered) of The Message rewrite. ( Read more... )