1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four/five of your userpics.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

These are the icons chosen for me by noandwhere. A hard task because I have many, many Jayne and/or AB character icons...( Read more... )

I'm not the most fashion conscious of people, but really? I left the house in so much of a hurry this morning - I didn't even brush my hair!!!!!!!!!

Then, because (horrors) I didn't have a hairbrush in my bag I had to ransack the car looking for a comb. thank god I found it - I'm supposed to be a professional here!!!!!

One of the non-Firefly things I did at the recent Star fest con was a writing workshop.

The idea behind the workshop was simple -

The facilitators supplied us with 5 elements we had to use in a story. We drew these from a hat. There would be a opening line, a location, a persona, an item and an action.

My five elements were -

I should have run when I saw the cougar

A newspaper reporter

A smoking gun

A medieval castle

a startling confession

I ended up writing 2 pieces. One just a drabble, the other longer and here they are as is,no corrections ( Read more... )

After the autographs I had a break and went looking for the little guy. ( Read more... )

Title: Some pets just choose you
Author: Bookaddict
Characters: Jayne, Crew, OFC
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Firefly and Serenity are the property of Joss Whedon
Comments: written for 10_cracks Table C: Firefly crew crack. Prompt #2 Jayne gets a pet. Hope it’s cracky enough…


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I'm back and cataloguing the Romance titles again...

Nurse bride, Bayside wedding

Outback doctor's surprise bride

Cattle baron's virgin wife

The Greek Tycoon's baby bargain

Billionaire doctor, ordinary nurse (Notice nobody's ever an ordinary plumber or tv repair guy or anything?)

Blackmailed for her baby

Markonos bride

Sheikh surgeon's baby

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The synopsis from the Cattle Baron one

Ordinary Girl…

Sienna Torrance is used to helping people get back on their feet. But she’s finding Finn McLeod an impossible patient! Only time and Sienna’s skills will help the rugged billionaire recover after an accident. But, as Sienna soon finds out, Finn’s not a man who’s prepared to wait…

Rich Man’s Bride…

Spending every day with Finn at his Queensland cattle station means a searing attraction soon flares up between them. Nevertheless, she is amazed when he proposes! How could someone so powerful, successful and charismatic want her – an inexperienced little mouse – as his bride?

*roll, roll, roll* The sound of decades of women's liberationists rolling their eyes :D

It's back to work today after 5 weeks off. I'll be on gmail chat on and off all day *hints*.

My first task will be to do the budget for the coming year - cross your fingers that the PTBs actually let me have some of the stuff I ask for!!!!!!!!!

My second task will be the perennial fight to get myself re-graded. This one is very important and I'll be whinging about this a lot :D

Lastly - hopefully I'll get my belated con report up today. I'm going to scan our official photos today at work. My photo with Adam was terrible (I'm in it), but the little guy's one is awesome.

The last part of our travels. I'll do the con report with Adam squeeing seperately to save my family who just don't understand! :D

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I wanted to finish my travel posts tonight but Photobucket is soooooo slow.

So instead I started looking at my vids and *grrrrrrrrrr*

As LadyT knows I finally finished my vid for xx_squish_xx while I was at her place. And then the green lines of death appeared. They weren't visible while editing, but after publishing there they were!! I finally got back on track to fix it - and they can't be fixed.

Apparently, with Windows Movie Maker, the lines are common when you use too many transistions. I thought the whole point of the PTBs giving us transistions was for us to use them? Maybe the point is to frustrate us instead?

I'm determined now *resolved face is on*. I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a video editing program. I'm thinking PowerDirector6. Judging from the reviews it does a good job and is in my limited price range. Has anyone out there an opinion on it?

Stolen from intinerant_vae

The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

There's no underlined ones! How can this be??

1984
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir it was too depressing
Anna Karenina Death, doom and destruction :(
Beloved
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Jane Eyre *sighs over Mr Rochester*
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Blind Assassin
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The God of Small Things
The Hobbit
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Prince
The Silmarillion
The Tale of Two Cities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
War and Peace
Watership Down (I hated this book!!!!!!)
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Life of Pi : a novel
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Ulysses
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
A Clockwork Orange
A Confederacy of Dunces
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angels & Demons
Atlas Shrugged
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cryptonomicon
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Foucault’s Pendulum
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Gravity’s Rainbow
Inferno
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Les Misérables
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Neverwhere
Oryx and Crake
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Slaughterhouse-five
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Confusion
The Count of Monte Cristo (I love vengeful Edmond)
The Fountainhead
The Grapes of Wrath (I don't know why I read this John Steinbeck annoys the hell out of me)
The Historian : a novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Once and Future King
The Satanic Verses (wasn't worth the fuss)
The Scarlet Letter
The Sound and the Fury
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the Wes

I do do other things - honestly :D

Title: Operation get Jayne to a whorehouse
Author: Bookaddict
Characters: Jayne/Kaylee
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 1078
Comments: I have a sneaking suspicion that my idea for this initially came from a stray comment in ana_grrl's journal. Thank you to prehistoric_sea for her much needed imput!! *hugs her* Written for xenaclone at hetfic_minis. Her request was for Jayne with Kaylee, Inara or Helen. Humour, sex and Jayne being Jayne…


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Another picture heavy saga of our travels in America!

Our flight to Phoenix was uneventful and we went straight to the car rental place to pick up our car. ( Read more... )

Stolen from noandwhere.

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Well here we are in Denver waiting for our reunion with moweasley and friends. Starfest (no link cause my computer hates the URL for some reason) starts tonight! Tomorrow Adam is here and we are excited :)

I've been slack (otherwise occupied/busy) and haven't posted about our travels at all! The horror! *giggles*

So read on for our recent adventures; in which the little guy and I have some great times, interesting times and scary times...Picture heavy so it's behind a cut( Read more... )

Calling those who may have voted for Jayne in hetfic_minis. The mod has had no sign-ups and may cancel the round. If you want to sign-up, head over there fast and hop to it!!!

Well here we are sitting in the Yahoo cafe at Tokyo airport. Is it sad that I actually knew both where it was and how to find it? As usual I can:t find half the punctuation marks on the Japanese keyboard, so forgive the typing weirdness.

Anyway, we had an uneventful flight up from Cairns and reached the hotel just in time for the little guy to have a swim before bed. I forgot that even though the pool and gym are at the hotel I:d have to pay for their use, so that was a bit of a blow to my slight stopover budget. Otherwise we had a lovely stay and sleep-in and took a bus ride around the town near the airport. The scenery is much prettier this time around, with all the cherry blossom trees out in bloom and lots of flowers. The little guy is impressed with his first (remembered) visit to Japan and wants to come back for longer next time.

The next leg of the flight is 12 hours to Chicago and then it:s only a little way (relatively) to squish 67s!!! Yay! Hopefully we shall sleep on the plane and arrive with smiles on our faces...

The bags are almost packed. The house is relatively (only relatively) tidy, and the garden is not. I've written a two page essay for the house/dog sitter and finished my surf club letters. Tomorrow we're off!!!

We leave here at 6am and, more or less travel for 2 days till we get to xx_squish_xx's on Friday evening. There's approximately 22 hours of that in the air *sigh*.

I have books to read and god knows I have plenty of WIPs to work on. But I'd like some prompts too *smiles hopefully*.

Also -

Since I'll be in a different timezone for the next few weeks, SSWT - European edition will be on hiatus. We'll get back to our regular schedule the first weekend in May...