Awesome online dating site here.

Actually got a good bit of work done this morning, believe it or not. Also, there was some weirdness right as I was adding the daily click graphics to the end of the entry and a few links went missing, so I think I put all of them back but I'm not sure. ( Carnage and crazies at Comic-Con! )

Tags: alice in wonderland, asshaberdashery, batman, bond, books, city of ember, conventions, doctor who, fandom, harry potter, macros, movies, schadenfreude, sherlock holmes, sparkle motion, star trek, star wars, the spirit, true blood, tv, twilight, underworld, vampires, watchmen, x-files, x-men

I am usually pretty opinionated. I know what I like. But for some reason I'm running into all kinds of problems making decisions regarding redoing this room downstairs. The walls are "Cream Fleece" (of course they are!) and the trim is white. The carpet is going to be some sort of berber neutral. The basic feel is for a very neutral backdrop. The fun will be in the furnishings, rug, pillows, art, etc. I am not usually known for anything neutral. I've never had neutral walls of any kind so this is foreign to me. I'm going to post some photos of the carpet samples I've brought home against the creamy brown wall. If anything shouts out to you let me know because I can't make up my freaking mind!! Granted - one of these carpets runs twice what the other two do - but I'm not telling.

Here we go:


All three carpet samples against the wall.

Sample #1

Sample #2

Sample #3

The color didn't photograph very well under the lights I currently have done there. Anyone got a preference or an opinion??

Tonight, my computer will be taken to my uncle's house for safe-keeping whilst we're on holiday.

As internet access is sporadic at best in my home town in Bangladesh, and I will have absolutely no privacy, I doubt I will be able to log into Livejournal until we come back to England in September. In addition, my mobile phone does not work outside of Europe.

So basically, I will be incommunicado for the next 5 weeks. No phone, no internet, no TV, no indoor plumbing, and thousands of mosquitos and cockroaches.

.... xD

Have fun without me, my dears, but please don't forget me just yet!! I will miss you all dreadfully. If you absolutely have to get in touch, drop me an email, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

I love you all! Farewell!!!! :D :D :D

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

~Lizard Spots xxx

How I Feel: excited

David Cameron's bike got stolen.

*pause*

BWHAHAHAAHAHA.

Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, that does suck very much.

But srsly, the Londonist writeup cracked me up:

An eyewitness reports that the stunned Cameron walked around afterwards as if in a daze, muttering to himself "but I locked it", a reaction which does make you wonder how he'd respond in a genuine crisis. Rumours of a jowly Scot with a nervous tic pedalling furiously away from the Notting Hill area yesterday evening are nothing more than hearsay.

How I Feel: amused
What I'm Hearing: mirrorball

One of the items my grandmother left to me was a spinning wheel. It’s a “great wheel” (or walking wheel), slightly more than 3 feet across, and it has the wheel and a gear, but nothing else. The other day, I was able to bring it home in the Jeep– we have absolutely no idea where to keep this, or what to do with it at this time. Its presence will make a trip out to the storage locker in Santa Cruz a bit more urgent, because it can really only be in our home for a few months before we will go nuts tripping over it.

This part, attached to the wheel with wire so they don’t get separated and lost, is what spins the spindle.

So far as I can tell, this part should go on the frame, which is long gone.

There is some damage to the wheel, but it can be repaired.

I have not been doing much knitting or spinning recently, because I’ve been focusing on grandma’s house and visiting with family. I should bust out the knitting joy, though, since there’s no conflict with crafting around my dad or stepmom. Stepmom’s a knitter and quilter, and my dad is often cobbling something together (to make a distinction, though, between cobbling stuff together and being a cobbler, which is, in fact, what my uncle his brother is).

At any rate, now on my shopping list are some wood soap for this week, a drive band, some light machine oil for my Lendrum, and maybe the bits and parts I might need to put together a frame and spindle for this great wheel. Or else I need to decide that I don’t want this wheel after all, and give it back to go into the auction next week.

Remember: Tomorrow is the tickled elbows blog carnival. Submit your funny posts to share!

Tags: spinning

( Any Age )

( Adult )

( Worth the Risk Series )

Tags: all my fanfiction, monthly fic list
How I Feel: productive

With our 200th quiz now behind us, we can look forward to more, yes, many more! We'll stay the course and bring forth more crazy quizzes and more crazy themes, so you can willingly share your wit and wisdom with the world wide web. But you can only do that if you play, and where better to start than with quiz number 201? Go on, give it a whirl. Delurk and drop your two cents in! Old timers, return to the front line! Let's all fire up our engines and pump up the volume. Do it, or I make a joke about baby seals and clubs.


Go. Play. Take Quiz.

Title: Coming Home
Pairing: Ron/Hermione
Rating: Adult
Summary: Some things change while others remain the same
Word Count: 4465
Betas: florahart and heather11483
For Tart, the winner of the RonAThon auction

( Coming Home )

Tags: adult, all my fanfiction, hermione/ron

Is it possible to draw in 2D using a 3D program (like AutoCAD)?

Or am I ALWAYS drawing in 3D despite the fact that I'm only using 2 dimensions?

"FanLib.com was founded on the belief that fan creativity is a true art form that deserves a first-rate showcase for cultivation and celebration. Over the course of the past fifteen months, you have triumphantly confirmed this notion with an astonishing display of talent, enthusiasm, imagination and camaraderie.

So, it is especially difficult to announce that FanLib.com will shut down on Monday, August 4, 2008."

I believe this calls for a freeze-frame high-five, Barney Stinson style. *g*

I have been watching the Laura Hale/partly_bouncy/etc. drama unfold (if you don't know what I'm talking about, please refer to metafandom), and what fills me with joy is how fierce fandom is about this particular aspect of our self-definition: fandom is not about money. We are a gift economy. We take bits and pieces of works we love and transform them into something new, all the while being very active consumers ourselves. We do this out of love.

This is a great day for fandom. DIE, FANLIB, DIE!

Tags: made of awesome
How I Feel: GLEE

Tags: brad, frank, luann, tj

First off, I'd like to thank those of you who nominated me for two different fics in at least two categories for Best of Rayne, 2007. I really appreciate how much YOU appreciate what I write.

And...

It's PORN BATTLE PROMPT POSTING TIME! YAY!

Head over to oxoniensis's journal to offer up YOUR suggestions. (Offering prompts does not mean you have to participate.)

( The prompts and pairings I submitted under this cut )

EDITED TO ADD:

OMFG there's a "Greek, Cappie/Evan, rush" prompt.

WANT!!!

EDITED TO ADD, pt2:

*hyperventilates*

Someone offered up this pairing and these prompts:

Crossover, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer/Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/Riley Finn, orientation, deployment, sucking, addiction

*dies*

Tags: i love my flist, pimping, writing