Joules' Gremlins page is up and it is very, very cool! The pics are fabulous, the background works, the story still makes me giggle…
Brilliant job, Joules! See? You had it ready on time! And YAYAY! Happy blogging anniversary!
(Oh, and happy anniversary, Onna, for your blog, and didn't Talon have an anniversary in there too? *g*)

OK, here's what I'd like to accomplish this school hols.

1: Clean the cubs' room. They've promised to help and ideally we'll have it all sorted, the furniture swapped around etc, over this coming weekend. The impetus for the help is that their bedroom floor won't be covered in balloons when they wake up on their birthday morning if the floor still can't be seen the night before…

2: Clean my room - especially getting rid of the pile of stuff at the base of my bed, it's the only part of my room I haven't been able to get a handle on.

3: Some writing. I don't have high hopes for this, school hols are never particularly productive in this respect, but there's a few things I'd like to get through. The next Dystopia and AC chapters, a follow-up chapter to the Shinju/Okami back story I just finished [my first yaoi, I'm so proud : ) ] and the second part of Cathouse Ellis… plus the little thing I started for Talon and Das' Black Dragon… and I promised to beta something for Sammi… *sigh* and then there's my novel… and wasn't there a Mahrayne backstory I was planning? Hn, maybe I better extend the deadline to the end of next term! (Hmm, 'haddock' is already taken, but wasn't 'bananas' also put forward as an alternative word for 'time'? *smirk*

Bananas, I need bananas!
Hmmm… no, I don't think that has quite the same ring to it…)

Other than that I plan to sleep in lots, get some quality fun time with my cubs and just kick back for a little while. I think I deserve it…

As I mentioned, it's the cubs' birthday next week and as usual I've left it too late to really have anything organised. However, their father and I are planning on taking them to the Aquarium on Monday, just the family, no… others, and then a smallish party at our local steak-house restaurant on Tuesday.
We had hoped to get the cubs bikes for their birthdays, or an aquarium, but unfortunately the finances couldn't quite stretch that far this time. I have got them, however, a load of fishy-related stuff, a HRE Milo Returns video, and a cup each with their initials on them. That should do. : )

*happy squeak* I think I was the first fleshie to see Joules' Gremlins page! It's come together very nicely – I love it! (Of course, Carli's dead chuffed as well, so pleased in fact she fiddled with ICQ while I was chatting to Joules.. tch...)

I only meant to nap for half an hour...
Was feeling a bit weary after I got the cubs home from school so I had a kip on the couch – and woke up and it was almost 7 p.m. Ack!
Had an odd dream too, was living in a house with the cubs and their father (not our current house) surrounded by loads and loads of his girlfriend's stuff. I had a tantrum at him and told him exactly what was pissing me off to which his response was an amused smile and a warning that I'd be paying for anything I broke...

So, that was DBZ was it? Hn... I don't like Chi Chi but you've got to pity her; the cubs' father summed it up I think – 'Goku is such a jock..' : )

Hee, there's a 'ju/'kami backstory almost finished. I'm quite pleased with it. It came out of nowhere, basically, the facts sort of slamming together in my brain remarkably quickly.

Last day of term tomorrow; the cubs' got their half-year reports yesterday. One of them is doing very well, the other is 'making slow progress'. And they got into a fight at school as well. Getting the details out of them was a torturous process and I'm still not completely sure what happened save one of my cubs (the clingy one) punched 2 boys in the face and another in the throat – no lasting damage though, he hits like a girl. *rueful smile* I do know that it wasn't an unprovoked attack, neither of my cubs lash out for no reason...

Anyway, 2nd last day of school today and they had a visit from a media company – the children got to make their own animated videos which, naturally, we have the opportunity to buy. The cubs were very enthausiastic about it and I've got to admit it could be a load of fun getting hold of a video camera so they can make their own movies at home. : )

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Ack! It's the last week of term! Good grief that's snuck up on me quickly...
Still, 2 weeks of not having to get up early every morning is not to be sneezed at. : )
It's the cubs' birthday next Tuesday as well – still haven't finalised anything other than their father and I taking them to the Aquarium 'some time', and as for presents? I know what I'd like to get them – it may not coincide with what they want, though. : )

Woohoo! Night Call is finished and will be posted soon I imagine – and I've just had an interesting idea of doing something with Jackson... (Remember him? The bastard tracker from Kitty? The one that makes Joules sweat blood in her desire to do him harm? *g*)

OK, so the Buu saga is finished and now it's ten years in the future...
Do we really have to have another World Martial Arts tournament? Who is the leather guy fighter anyway? And can I gag Pan, pretty please? Vegeta still looks good and haven't Trunks and Goten grown up to be a bit on the phwooar!! side?
Though frankly the thought of Majin Buu being 'good with the ladies' just makes me shudder...
You know, I think I'm over the whole DBZ thing... the fanon is far more interesting than the canon and as for Joules' AC...? *g* The charas there are easily the most compelling incarnations I've had the pleasure (and I mean that most sincerely *smirk*) of dealing with.
One of these days, Joules, I'll find a way to thank you properly for letting me play in your universe... *tackleGLOMPS*

Well, that apparently went well...
I was a little worried, I admit, about the boys having dinner at someone else's house. I mean they might've tried to feed them something exotic like spag bol and there'd be screaming tantrums and it'd all end in tears.
Their host's father, sensibly, gave them all fish fingers and potato gems and chicken nuggets. Phew. And they had fun so all in all it was good. : )

Hee, the Shinju/Okami fic is finished. 5 pages of pure PWP.
Awaiting Joules' verdict... *g*

[pout growl sulk] I want to play now, not next time...

[wide eyes, licks lips, watching Lutra write Night Call, the Shinju and Okami chapter for Dystopia] I want to play.... Surely I can give Shinju a hand... or two... or a tail....

The cubs have been invited out for dinner tonight. : ) Normally when they go visiting I'll pick them up after an hour or so but their friend's dad said they could stay for dinner. (I think he was very brave to offer but I didn't say as much.) Anyway they've got my number and I won't be surprised if I get a call to come and pick the cubs up early. It's just nice they're socialising with someone other than each other...

Tch, Carli's been picking up tricks from Butch. Couldn't find the latest copy of the Shinju/Okami fic on either of the 'puters though I know I didn't delete it - I'm not that stupid.
Fortunately Joules had a copy...

*sigh* Been a bit down recently over a: the appalling state of the house and b: the fact that I'm the only one that appears to give a toss.
Cleaned the lounge-room today, with a modicum of help from the cubs. It took a while but I did get a certain satisfaction out of the exercise. Then I made some play-dough for the cubs which they played with until bed-time and that was much more satisfying. : )

All full up on mushroom lasagne now. *g* Very tasty - though cos the mushrooms were fully open the sauce turned out to be a sort of mauvey-grey... Naturally, my little food nazis commented on the smell... *rolls eyes*

..... *pout* Well this is annoying. Keenspace is playing up and I can't access any of my regular webcomics ... Grrrr.. I want to know what's going on in Boy meets Boy and Venus Envy! (Oh, and Ghastly's Ghastly Comic and to see if Sexy Losers has updated regulary – ie: weekly – for a change... ) Eh, I'll check later, it's probably just a temporary glitch.

Tee hee hee ... I wonder what the Keenspace gremlin is called?

Happy Solstice, everyone!
It's the shortest day of the year here which means it'll start getting really cold soon...

Soulsis and 2 of her chicks (her twin boys) came round today and together we herded chicks and cubs up to Smorgy's for dinner. The good thing about that place is that the kids are all old enough to go and get their own food and as long as I don't get too rententive about them having a dinner/dessert ratio of 1:3 it's not as harrowing an experience as it used to be.
The food still sucks but at least we weren't sitting close enough to the 'waterfall' this time to see the creepy model ibises ... *smirk*

Soulsis brought me some presents today. : ) An Australian 'style manual' for all sorts of documents – very interesting – andandand a ceramic candle holder with sculptured fish swimming in a circle around it! Very cool! *g*

OK, so now that I've finished Leech I'm at a bit of a loose end, despite having a stack of stuff to get on with. Tch, curse this Libran ascendant...

Very interesting article about tongue-splitting, Onna, not something I'm interested in doing to myself but it does have a certain sort of appeal... *g*

*dead chuffed grin*
Guess what?
I've seen snippets of Joules' promised Gremlins story... (there are perks with being this close to the source of the magic : )
*rolling around laughing*
I can't wait to read the rest of it and see the pics that go with it! The gremlins I've been intro'd to so far in the text are already distinct personalities. *g*
(and speaking of gremlins... Carli has decided she's a Card Captor Sakura fangirl... *rolls eyes* Cos-play is one thing but it's a bit much when you've got more costumes than 'real' clothes... )

When I dropped my cubs at school this morning, I was told very firmly by my clingy cub to 'stay outside', ie: not walk with him to his classroom like I usually do.
*wobbly lip* Soon they won't even want me to get out of the car...

That is an excellent piece of artwork your bratling did, Joules, you must be very proud. : )

Rightyho... Leech pt 3 is finished, ready for betaing. Hn, I feel the need for fluff after that, not that it was as graphic as Kitty but it's nasty enough in its own way...

Port wine flavoured jelly is especially nummy when made with a splash of port. *g* ... then served with cream... mmmmm....

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well, red is kind of like pink, only intenser : )

[growl] why the background colour isn't working on the 'colour' row the ningen can't work out (then again, she's tired... at least, that's what she calls it...) The box should be a bright (Saiyan) blood red colour, like the words she's inserted as a stopgap measure...

(nicked from Onna's blog:)
I think of Ken as a kindred spirit and a part of the group, like the ratling is, not really active but definitely valued members of our little community. Kai is as well, since he is a writer now!
When they get a little older, Lutra's cubs and Talon's chibi will probably be sucked in as well...

'Sucked in?'
Leap willingly off the precipice more like : )

Um... I think I may have bothered Joules a little with pt 3 of Leech. : /

Went out for dinner tonight.
Yes, actually left the house - without my children. (*gasp* how licentious!) It was fun, chatting to friends with my full attention, not keeping half an ear out for 'Muuu-uuum!'.
Might do it again sometime. : )

[growl] stupid ningen got the name wrong. It's Quarxs, not Quarxx. There's a website here, but it's not very useful... there are - 12? 13? - of the beasties, all very strange and wonderful. The ningen has them all on tape, somewhere, scattered amongst the collection...

Ahah! *satisfied smirk*
I thought so, 'Mother Nature's Son' is from the White Album.
Now, of course, I want to hear it but I've only got it on vinyl and no working record-player. Oh well.
I spose, if I was going to get obsessive about this, I could go to a record shop, find the album and ask the staff to play it for me...

I'm not familiar with the Quarxx, Joules, and when I did a google search I got pages and pages of a French 'pop-art et bondage' artist. I don't think he's connected with Pixar somehow... *g*

Awww, pretty pussy.. *g*


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*grits teeth* No good, I have to find out...!

Now this is interesting, just listened to a radio program about fanfic/slashfic and one of the people interviewed (a woman, funnily enough) was talking about shonen-ai and yaoi and she pronounced it yoy-ee.

*muttergrumble* I had a whole big post ready to go here yesterday but blogger wasn't playing nice so it got lost cos like a dill I didn't save it somewhere else first.
You'd think I'd know by now.

OK, Leech pt 3 is nearing completion, and I re-read 'Safe from Harm' (my first Shinju and Okami fic) and rediscovered how much I like that pair. : ) Right, once Leech is finished I'll get on with the next S/O story.

(Fingers crossed, let's see if this will post...)

*excited squeak*
Just read on someone's livejournal that the new Pixar film, 'Finding Nemo' has the ''...89 short, 'Knick Knack' with it...'
Now, if this the one I think it is (about a snowman trying to get out of his snowdome and go visit the 'Greetings from..' mermaid who's been giving him a come-on) I will be absolutely frigging over-the-moon!
I saw that, and a couple of other Pixar shorts about 13(?) years ago at an animation evening at one of the indie cinemas here. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen and I've been desperate to see it again! But then, Pixar's shorts have always been these quirky, hysterical little things that are some of the best computer animation I've ever come across... Their features aren't bad either, think Toy Story, Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., even though they are nominally under the Holy Rodent Empire's control and hence tend to be a bit saccharine. But speaking of Monsters Inc, there was a short with that called 'For the Birds', and I wet myself laughing over that one as well. : ) It's almost worth buying the HRE dvd's of these movies simply to get the Pixar shorts...

Hee! Joules has started the next 'l/L fic. It's very sweet, they're such a lovely couple. : ) Just a pity I'll have to go to bed before she finishes it...

And this from Joules re: latexboi Tinky-Winky..

'now he just needs a chastity belt and ball gag....'

Tempting, very tempting...

In retrospect, I should have had a definite colour scheme in mind for my quilt before I started sewing. Tried out some of the stars on different coloured fabrics to get an idea of what I could use as the background. Unfortunately, what worked well with one didn't work with the others, and vice-versa. I think I'm just going to have to decide on a b/g colour and work from there. : )

Tee hee hee. The cubs' father is a nurse and he invariably brings home spare latex examination gloves. (I quite like latex gloves - but that's another story...) Anyway, one of my cubs presented me with his Teletubbie doll and two gloves that he'd taken scissors too, with the request I 'dress' his doll...
Tinky-Winky looked very fetching in his latex crop-top with matching balaclava hood and long gloves. *smirk*

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Heh, Leech Pt 2 finished and posted in Dystopia. Joules' Transposition 9 is posted as well in The Zone. A good nights work all round, really. : )

Happy birthday, Perry!
Your boy is 15 years old, eh, OkapiPrincess? Bet it doesn't seem that long ago he was a wee baby...
(OkapiPrincess has a pic of herself and Perry in the hospital on her livejournal... hope you don't mind me posting the link, OP, but it's such a sweet pic!)

I hate to skyte, but *bouncebouncebounce* Joules is writing the next Transposition chapter and I'm getting to read it!
It's got action! Adventure! A naked Radittsu! What more could you want?!
(Well, ok, a naked R having sex would be nice *smirk*]

Hee, Joules is even letting me post a quote from it!

'He was stuck on an uninhabited - well uninhabited except for the two of them and a dozen angry Klingons - planet with a stark naked Saiyan, no food, no weapons, no tricorder and no way of communicating with the Enterprise.'

[smirk]

[Eeuuww, no, not keen on eating insects either... lizards, however... *sly smirk*]

Tch, wouldn't you know it, the first time in years I get a hankering for Honey Smacks and they're not on the shelves any more. Soulsis, could you please keep an eye out for some next time you go shopping? However, I did get some bacon so I can make bacon and tomato soup which I've been craving all week.

Waaaaaay back in November last year I put a really pretty painted tile on lay-by and I was able to pick it up today. Yay! I have my fishy tile at last. It's propped up in my bedroom where I can see it when I'm bed. Lovely. : ) Now I'd like to track down some Howard Arkley prints - time to ring the galleries methinks.

A little while ago I backed up a The Clash CD for Joules but couldn't send it straight away. Got enough money to pay for the postage now but couldn't find the bloody tape! I'd 'put it in a safe place'... *rolls eyes* Found it, eventually, after tearing my room apart.
Maybe I should tidy up a little?
Nah.

Thanks for the cartoons, Onna, wet myself laughing over them, especially the Chickweed ones... Love that cat...
Hope the ickyness isn't too icky, Talon...

Leech is coming on apace and there's a couple of other things nudging at me. Going to have to invoke 'mummy's special alone time' this weekend so I can get some of it done. : )

[stares, blinks, growls] No bones! No good! No way!!

Eeeep! Just read Joules' Zaabon-torture fic... *whimper* Where's Radittsu when you need him?

Eeeuuwww! Yowie-smut! *boggling at the though then hastily shying away from the images*

Speaking of 'eeeuuwww!'
Okapiprincess, where do you find this stuff??

Eat them up, yum!

It's 'topsy-turvy day' at the cubs' school which means they can wear casual clothes and have been ecouraged to wear things upside down or back to front etc. Last night I suggested to the cubs they could wear underpants on their head - they took me seriously. Managed to convince them this morning just to wear their trousers and jumpers inside-out. : )

Right, started on the second part of Leech and, amazingly, have even got the next AC kindasorta planned...

[shakes head] Now tenshi, you should know better than to make comments like that. The ningen is now threatening to write you a Yowie Yaoi fic...

(Strictly speaking it's yah-oh-ee, but say it with usual western speed and slurring and you end up with yowee... People generally know what you mean!)

Heyheyhey Okapiprincess! This'll make you titter! Joules has told me how 'yaoi' is pronounced.
It's... 'yowee' *rolling around laughing*
'Boy's love'? More like 'Boof's love' *smirk*
I shall never look at this lot with the same innocence again... : )

Got this from Soulsis' blog...

//Best words from a Bush to date!

"Somewhere out in this audience
may even be someone who will one
day follow my footsteps, and preside
over the White House as the president's
spouse. I wish him well!"
~~ Barbara Bush ~~//

*smirk*

Oooh! Having had no luck in finding some Zaabon torture fic Joules is writing her own.
I've seen snippets of it.
Meep! *biting nails*
Dammit, I'll probly have to go to bed before she finishes...

Hey, Okapiprincess and I were wondering how 'yaoi' is pronouced. Any clues?

[*smirk* There's a fine line between distracting and inspiring, aijin..]

Distracting? Me?? She says I inspire her!

And it'll be the 27^th at the earliest. [growl] I know, I want to read it too...

[*gigglenuzzle* Maybe if you stopped distracting your ningen, hab'lan, she'd stand a better chance of having it all ready...?]

What? We don't get to see Gremlins until the 27th! *pout*

Ah good, my AC chapter is posted... I must thank you, Joules, for your help with it. So much better for your input. : )
Now what shall I do? So much to choose from...

(nicked from Joules' blog:)
// And I'm just in the mood to read some Zaabon-torture fic //

Sorry, sinam, I'd help you out there but much as I like Zaabon I don't like him enough to torture him.
Hang on - isn't that kind of perverse? Or am I just missing the point..? : )

[satisfied smirk] Heh, the ningen's doing well at the moment: she has just one more gremlin to draw (unless anyone wants to volunteer theirs for a role in the story?) - though she still has most of them to colour... She's aiming to have the whole thing finished and posted by the 27^th, her blog's birthday. Me, I don't think she'll make it: she wants a flashy background to the page as well as (at present) three mouseover animations. And she still has to finish the gremlins and the story. Still, stranger things have happened...

Hee, I've finished 82 of my patchwork stars. : ) Only 121 to go!

.. and my next AC is just about ready to beta...

Public holiday yesterday so the cubs were home from school – and Soulsis and her chicks paid us a surprise visit!
Ok, it wouldn't have been a surprise visit if a: I'd answered my phone, or b: listened to the message she left before they arrived, but it was still lovely to see them. : ) Andandand!! Soulsis's parents and a couple of her nieces recently went to Europe and she asked them to bring back some snowdomes which she then gave to me! One from Firenze and one of the Eiffel Tower.
Dead chuffed!

Woohoo, looks like wednesay night on 'our ABC' is smut night. 'The Real Casanova' and 'Tipping the Velvet'. I'm looking forward to that...

AAARRRGH!! Dammitdammitdammit! Wednesday night is also the rerun night for Bebop and BGC which I didn't see on saturday... *poutgrumble* Can't tape anything so I have to make a decision about what to watch...

Yes, I have seen Joules pic of Carli and she's gorgeous, so close to what I imagined which is amazing given the dearth of details Joules had to work on.
Very curious now to see the accompanying fic ...not that I'm hinting you understand, Joules. : )

Fingers crossed - let's see if Blogger will let me post this...

Lutra - that's Lutra, not Lutra - can't access her blog at the moment, so I've been asked to say that she's seen Carli and loves her. Now if the ningen can just sort out a way to make the wings shimmer...

[snuggle] Luttra? No no no, it's Luetra, as in that lovely archaic instrument the lute...

[disconsolately trying to run fingers through hair that's no longer there] Does it take long to grow back?

Sad but true – it is much more fun and relaxing going to mum's without my cubs.

Yes, I had a good time thanks : ) Mum didn't repeat herself too often, though she still thumps my arm when she wants my attention... tch.

Got to the train station an hour earlier than I'd arranged with Mum so hefting my bag and purple back-pack (remember that?) I headed over the road to check out some op-shops. Not a lot I was interested in but I got a couple of pairs of tracky dacks for the cubs and a couple of books for me before I trotted back to the station to wait for Mum. For some reason, not sure why, there's music played over the loud-speakers at this station, primarily Classical and Country & Western... something for everyone I guess. : )

Had a quiet evening and got a little more patchwork done before bedtime.

Saturday was fun, I got my hair cut. My hair's been longish for so long I really had no idea what I wanted though I was tempted to ask for something outrageous just to see the hairdresser's face before she tried to diplomatically talk me out it. Decided on something just above shoulder-length, shaped and layered slightly. Had a good 2/3rd's of the length taken off but because my hair is so fine there was no discernible difference in the weight. Still feels a little scratchy on the back of my neck, but on the whole I'm satisfied. : )

Yesterday, Sunday, Mum and I, and a friend of hers, Wendy, went to a Patchwork and Craft show at a local school. Interesting, some of the things were lovely, obviously a lot of work gone into them, but there were a lot of 'country craft' things... quilts with chickens and cows and pigs.... Romantic pseudo-farm life things cos as we all know, farming is such a happy, idyllic way of life.

The cubs and their father weren't home when I got back so I had time to unpack and get myself sorted out. The cubs noticed within a minute that I'd cut my hair and they liked it, their father, on the other hand, either didn't notice (he took himself to bed soon after they got back – poor tired thing) or he thought it looked crap but he wasn't willing to say. : )

I was quite pleased to see the washing up had been done and put away.. and then I found out the cubs have had take-away 4 times this weekend so there's been no dishes to wash. Oh well, at least all the food I bought for their father to feed them can be used over the next few days instead of having to buy more.

(Btw, this morning the cubs' father informed me that my haircut suited me and that he thought I 'should've gone short ages ago.' Well, gosh, thanks for the input.)


Now, I've always pronounced Lutra with the short 'u' sound - *thinking* - which I spose means it should be spelt Luttra cos otherwise it should be pronounced Luetra... eh, phonetics.. I'll stick with my pronunciation...


The next AC is planned, so is the next Cat House Ellis, and the 2nd part of Leech...


[Oh, hab'lan *snugglenuzzle* I love coming home! The bower always looks so welcoming... ]


As for a gremlin...

Carli has purple skin, lavender hair, extendable fangs, BIG black eyes and dragonfly wings. She's very sweet and quite shy, though she loves dressing up – the (historically accurate) can-can outfit is quite... interesting. She really fancies Murphy, and Butch, but I suspect they'd have to physically drag her off cos she's just too bashful to approach them...

[bower tidied, willows pruned a little, fresh petals - rose and jasmine - strewn, pile of warm furs laid neatly to one side... gazes round, hands on hips, and nods, satisfied]

Zk'vissin, the ningen wants to know what your computer gremlin is like so she can draw... it... and add it to the story...

A long, long time ago I started a Professionals/Power Puff Girls x-over... no, actually it was viable. : ) But this morning, while I was minding my own business making the cubs' lunch with the PPG playing in the background I suddenly had a very clear mental image of Bodie & Doyle drawn in the cartoon's style... I can still see it... O_o

You know how I said my cubs react to being given new foods like they're being poisoned?
The place I get chicken rissoles from has changed the recipe – they've added *gasp* carrots... (and onions and pepper enough to taste, though the cubs didn't notice that until I made them at least try a tiny piece of the obviously adulterated rissoles.)
This is ridiculous!
I have to get the cubs to try new things, there must be something they'll take to. If they keep turning their noses up at things the list of what they'll eat will end up being just pasta and cheese!

Remember Joules mentioned Butch, her bishie computer gremlin?
Hee, she's drawn him! Phwooaar! How tall is he, exactly, Joules? *eg*
Now I want a pic where I can see the piercings!

And now for something completely different...
Penny sent me this. *g*
Shakespearean english - as differentiated to what everyone else was speaking at the time - is so rich and diverse (remembering of course he was a great one for making up words!)
Must bear some of these in mind and try to work them into everyday conversations. *smirk*

Create Your Own Shakespearean Insults
by Jerry Maguire

Combine one word from each of the columns below, preface with "Thou", and thus shalt thou have the perfect insult. Let thyself go - mix and match to find a barb worthy of the Bard!


Column I Column II Column III

artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fowling Baggage
beslubbering beef-witted Barnacle
bootless beetle-headed Bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed Bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish dismal-dreaming Clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed Coxcomb
droning doghearted Codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fawning earth-vexing Dewberry
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten Fustilarian
gorbellied folly-fallen Giglet
impertinent fool-born Gudgeon
infectious full-gorged Haggard
jarring guts-griping Harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated Jolthead
mewling idle-headed Lewdster
paunchy ill-breeding Lout
pribbling ill-nutured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered Mammet
quailing motley-minded Measle
rank onion-eyed Minnow
reeky plume-plucked Miscreant
roguish pottle-deep Moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing Pignut
surly rump-fed Puttock
tottering sharp-borne Pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-biting Ratsbane
vain spur-galled Scut
venomed swag-bellied Skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited Strumpet
warped tickle-brained Varlot
wayward toad-spotted Vassal
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten Wagtail

Found this on Okapiprincess' blog.
I don't know whether to be amused or disturbed...

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Right, about Mahrayne...
She's cocked up before in her life but never quite this spectacularly. Yes, she can be selfish and thoughtless, she's the first to admit that, but on Hassina the consequences of her actions didn't have the same repercussions. There it didn't matter too much because the ripples she caused were apparently only small, surface disturbances – she honestly had no idea how different things could be on Vejiitasei.
Because of her upbringing, Mahrayne has little or no understanding of her importance, no matter how many times Leteetza tried to explain. For close to 100 Saiya-jin years Mahrayne was a disregarded non-breeding female, she was – in the scheme of things – insignificant. It's only through recent events she's beginning to understand her radically altered position and that the rules are fundamentally different. (Frankly, despite her intelligence and curiosity, Mahrayne isn't that bright. She's dissimilar from the majority of Hassinan in that she can think 'outside the square', but she is still largely hampered by her people's ingrained inflexibility. It's not much of a defense, I know, and she is slowly learning. As Joules said change is an ongoing process.)
Mahrayne deeply regrets what she's done to Zorun, she still loves him, but she doesn't regret at all Kelapa claiming her. And secretly, she still doesn't know why she couldn't have them both – she may never fully understand the Saiya-jin possessiveness, it is after all, an alien concept...

Heh - the ningen tried the Planet Slayer quiz thing, honestly too... Her result? 'You can live forever!'... Her response? "Oh good. Now maybe I'll be able to finish writing all the stories in my head..." [shakes own head in despair...]

*blinkwince* The cubs have been playing with the settings - the drop-down menus are now bright yellow...

According to the greenhouse calculator on the Planet Slayer site I'd used up my allocated resources by the time I was 12 years old... *g*
This is a fun page, check it out...

Now about the M/K/Zo situation. Naturally I have fairly strong opinions about it but I'm not going to attempt to explain them until I've got the brainspace to do more than babble incoherently. That won't help my argument at all : )

I'm running away to mother's on the weekend as part of the 'get-the-cubs'-father-used-to-having-to-look-after-his-children-on-the-occasional-weekend-so-it-won't-be-such-a-shock-when-he-eventually-has-them-every-second-weekend' plan.
It's a little annoying I have to leave my house to do this, I can't just hang around and ignore them all (the cubs (and their father) will default to me being primary carer) but it's a start.
Oh, and it's not a 'rest' going up to mum's, if she has company she expects them to be company - so no uninterrupted time to write. Heh, she's worse than the cubs actually, I can growl at them to leave me alone... : )

[quote] *head in hands* When, exactly, do boys grow common sense?

[sigh] Generally speaking they don't zk'vissin. [gestures vaguely around at the world in general, poisoned earth, polluted atmosphere, sick oceans] And they really think they'll be allowed to leave their solar system? [shakes head] such extraordinary, arrogant naïvety...

I find the 'serving suggestions' on packets of food very amusing. For instance, on the chocolate swiss roll in front of me, it's got 'serves 8' written on the box...
... or serves me over the course of a day. *g oinkoink*

I had to have words with one of my cubs. I pointed out to him that it didn't matter if he'd devised this particular form of martial arts all on his own, he wasn't a qualified martial arts instructor therefore it was dangerous for him to try and teach his brother the defensive moves by going at him with a stick...
*head in hands* When, exactly, do boys grow common sense?

One of the school mum's had her bunions fixed a couple of weeks ago and we've been giving her daughter a lift to and from school daily since then cos she can't drive. No problem, we go past their house on the way to school, but – Sarah is a bit thingy about my cubs. When we're in the car she's very chatty and friendly, but as soon as we get to school she doesn't come within 20 feet of us lest someone think she's with us. Oh dear. The 'boys' germs' stage is such a difficult time... *g*

Sort of drifted away from DBZ for the past couple of months cos Cartoon Network had gone back to the beginning of the Buu saga - again. Tuned in again last week in time to see G&V traipsing around in Bu's intestines. *g* 's very funny, never would have thought the Prince of all Saiyans to be squeamish.
*dopey grin* But catching up has meant I've gone all funny about Vegeta again, and that bit when our heroes are back to back getting ready to fight the fake demi-saiyans and Piccolo? *shiver* oh yum, and they're going to rescue Gohan! MmmMMmmm -
I like Gohan.

Speaking of Vegeta, found this quote in a woman's magazine:
'Add Vegeta to your culinary portfolio for a great way to stock up on savoury taste and fabulous flavour.'
...................
Bwhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Well yes, he is a bit tasty. *smirk*

This comic (from 'Sunday morning Coffee' – by Tang and Hard [Sexy Losers]) almost had me splurting out my coffee over the keyboard with laughter. SMC didn't go for very long, unfortunately, but there was some very funny stuff in it.

And finally Cartoon Network has removed that stupid Ed, Edd & Eddy from the 8a.m. time slot and replaced it with something decent - Power Puff Girls. : ) Episodes I haven't seen yet either, yay!
The ham-hams are on again in the mornings at 8.30 a.m. which is no good to me cos I try to be out of the house to go to school around 8.40 and the cubs and I really don't need any added distractions at that point.

I had a dream yesterday while I was napping. Someone visiting me had brought their 3 cats along, one of which was a tiny, gorgeous little grey tabby. I had to catch it and put it in it's carrier, but the carrier was too small. No problem, I said, I've got another carrier in the garage, you can borrow that. It's night-time when I head outside and in the sky is a string of what looks like stars, but they're not cos they're moving in formation across the sky, fast, coiling and looping like a ribbon.. I'm caught between needing to get this carrier for the cat, and not moving in case I draw the attention of these star-like things and they take me away...

Today's dream involved an acquaintance of mine and his girlfriend coming round to show me the (admittedly good) matching, giant Twisties packets they'd had made as costumes...
Ooookaaaay... : )

I had a bad-mummy day today. Instead of taking my cubs swimming, as I'd promised, I went back to bed. Spent most of the day there in fact. Not that there was anything wrong as such, wasn't ill, just bored, I tend to go to sleep when I'm bored. Made up for the lack of meaningful contact with my children this evening when we sat down together and watched a programme about the 15 best diving spots in the world. Ended up missing most of the commentary though because my fish-mad cubs squealed – loudly, in my good ear - every time they saw a fish species they knew. They know a lot...

I wonder what I'd do with myself if I stopped writing. Go mad, probably, drowning in the details of others peoples' lives filling my head.
Eh.
I've been imagining 'what if?' all my life, mentally putting myself into situations varying from tragic to merely annoying, to see how I'd react. Which is fine - a psychologist sometime in the 80's said this sort of fantasy role-playing was good because it gave people a chance to develop 'strategies' for coping - but being of a mildly obsessive temperament I naturally took it to extremes. How could I possibly care about exam results when in my mind I was dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust? Sometimes I think (see, here we go again) what might have happened if I hadn't been quite so much at the mercy of my imagination. Would I have studied more? Gone on to higher education? Had a clue what I wanted to do with my life? *g*

I've just eaten some jelly that was optimistically called 'pink lemonade flavour'. It was a pretty colour at least, even if it only tasted like sweetened gelatine.

I really like the idea of doing a fictional blog - ie: writing a blog from the pov of a character. Hn, nothing definite as yet though, I just like the idea.

This is a 'button-down shirt'.
Heh, thanks, Okapiprincess!

Woohoo! 'Progression pt 2' is finished (it's not a patch on Joules' 'Rejoice' - but she won't listen to me. : )
What shall I do next?
Bed! Ahhhhhh......

What exactly is a 'button-down shirt'?

The Golden Arches of Doom are flogging Muppets beanie toys at the moment, which is cool, I like the muppets, but Miss Piggy is wearing something that wouldn't look out of place on Tulip. *g* A very short, sleeveless pink tube dress and looong pink gloves... :-Þ

I had lunch with Aaron yesterday. Was fun catching up. I told him about the novel I was writing, without giving any details but he guessed what it was about anyway.
Damn, am I that obvious?
After we'd eaten I went with him and watched while he bought clothes.
Isn't that sposed to be the other way 'round? *g*
Anyway, one of the shops we visited used to be the Holy Rodent Empire shop. When did that close down? I thought I was more observant than that...
The mosaic of the mouse's face had been removed from the entrance, which was a shame cos I always enjoyed scuffing my feet over it...

My next AC chapter edges towards completion.
Joules has finished hers and it's sodding brilliant. I can but learn...

(nicked from Joules' blog:)
//[grumble] When the temperature gets above 13 degrees, my WeatherPixie wears a skirt! I am most affronted. I don't do skirts. Shorts and culottes, yes, skirts, no. Nor horizontally-striped leggings...//

Yeah, but look at her kick-arse boots! Phwooaar!!

Thank you, thank you, Joules for finding this page regarding Nestlé. I haven't knowingly bought any Nestlé products for years, but it's getting harder to be sure because the company is bloody everywhere.
In Australia, at least, the company puts its name and/or symbol on all of its food products, specifically Peter's Icecream and Maggi, but I check every new product before I buy it.

[Sometimes it's better to start from scratch with these things, aijin...]

I had roast pumpkin and rosemary lasagne tonight. It was very nice, though I could've cooked the pasta a wee bit longer before it went into the lasagne pan, and I thought I was a little heavy handed with the rosemary but it blended in quite deliciously.

Aaargh! School photos this week... *grumble* This means I have to make sure the cubs have got clean uniforms that don't have chewed cuffs. At least their haircuts this year are reasonable. : )

I realised a while ago that I'd neatly been avoiding writing yaoi, primarily because I just don't understand males and I was worried I'd turn all my male charas into females. So, in the interests of growing as a writer (*g* gods what a wank!) I decided to at least give it a try. Problem was I had no idea where to start. Decided pretty quickly I wasn't going to write a fanfic, especially not with such - *ahem* - well used characters as the DBZ boyz, so that left me with - *gasp* - the need to develop original characters. As for plot, I decided to resurrect an old AU idea I'd originally intended to do as a slashfic over a year ago.
And so - ta dah! The first bit of my first original yaoi is finished.
Joules is hosting it at Darkside *glomps Joules for doing the coding, b/g tiles etc* but if you'd like to read it and don't have a password for there or The Zone, email me and I'll send you a copy. Or alternately get a password and spend many happy hours browsing. : )
Go on, you know you want to...

[growl grumble glower] You're cutting your mane?! Don't I get a say? [irritable sigh] Must be the season - the ningen's cut off all her claws, too, right back to the skin, says they keep splitting from when she was ill six months or so ago...

Oh well, I suppose everything will grow back sooner or later...

My hair is like straw. Silky fine, brittle straw. Time to cut it off and start again.

..............

Hn, I thought I had more to say.
Apparently not. : )

*wriggle happy squeak*
Joules has just shown me the rough drafts for 3 of the pics she's done over the weekend.
Kinu! My baby! *bouncebounce*
Oh and the other 2 pics are going to be smashing when they're finished as well, but I suspect Kinu might end up as a wallpaper on my monitor...
Hope you and Goodtwin are having a bonza weekend, Joules!

As I was swimming today with the cubs the thought snuck into my brain that, you know, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have another child...
*smacks self firmly over the head*
I don't think so, not least because the process would involve interaction with a male at some point...

Been thinking about body modifications. I'd like to get another piercing but not where it can be seen by the general public - I love the idea of that little secret...
Getting a nipple pierced is a possibility and much as I'm intrigued by genital piercings, at this stage it's not a very practical thing to contemplate. Tattoos are another possiblity, I've wanted some since I was 12, and I think I've finally decided on the sort of things I'd like to have permanently etched into my skin. But more recently I've been looking at branding. A lot of what I want done is too intricate to work well as a brand but some of the more simple designs, like a spiral or the pisces symbol, I think could look lovely. Hmm, I'll give that more thought.

Remember the online comic GlamourLust? Well, unfortunately it's finished but I've been keeping up with the fairy wranglers' (KamiKaze & Thistle) journals. Thistle has put up a smut page where she's putting links to her original erotica. Not a lot there so far but what there is is very good. Well, I thought so. : )
She writes primarily het (yes, I know, but it can make a nice change) but it's interesting het, with fae and aliens with tentacles... *g*

Damn I'm enjoying Cowboy BeBop. It could be considered aberrant behaviour in some circles but I quite like Jet. Yes, Spike is cute but he's a bit on the thin side. Jet is big - I kind of like that...

Heh, this original yaoi is kicking along nicely. Good to see it finally coming together after being shelved for almost a year.
And when it's done I can have that last packet of Angel Delight...
It occured to me today that I'm not likely to write any more fanfic. Not strictly speaking, anyway, unless I count writing things based around Joule's multifarious characters as fanfic. There's still a couple of ideas for Yu Yu Hakusho and Gravitation kicking about but they're very low priority compared to the original stuff fountaining out of my brain. There's a few Professionals fics I wouldn't mind finishing up, but I think I'm more or less done in that fandom unless inspiration strikes. Sorry Goodtwin and Sue.
This doesn't mean I'll stop reading fanfic, just not writing it anymore. Heh, and it was only 2 years ago I couldn't envision a time I'd be writing anything but fanfic...

2 of the 4 ivy seedlings I liberated from the retreat a few weekends ago have put out new leaves. The other 2 still aren't dead and the 3 holly seedlings haven't died yet either. : )

Soulsis and her chicks dropped round this afternoon. It's a good thing Soulsis likes bringing me presents cos I'd feel terribly guilty otherwise. She gave me a lovely framed pic of some koi carp, some tablecloth weights shaped like dolphins and whales, and a beautiful purple crystal window dangly! *g* I have the best friends...

Well, we've now got our box of chocolate bars to sell for the school fundraiser.
We're already down 4 bars...

No way, soulsis, I'm not going to be held responsible for anything that comes out of your subconcious! *g*

You know, it occured to me that we don't have many chairs in this house. Don't get me wrong, there's loads of furniture that's designed, in theory, for sitting on but not a lot of it that's comfortable or in an easily accesible place. Next house (tentatively called 'chez otter' remember : ) I'll be able to remedy that cos I'll be choosing my own furniture rather than having to put up with what other people bring into the house - heh heh heh.

The cubs and I went to the aquarium again yesterday. I do like it there, and now that we've joined the membership program thingy I - I mean 'we' - can go even when the money's tight. *happy sigh* And let's not forget the discount at the Aquarium shop! (So much fishy stuff! *swoon*)
And - OH!! The Aquarium will be getting some water rats soon! *happy squeal* So cute... ^~^

The school is having it's yearly chocolate drive fund-raising thing. The cubs had monday and tuesday off this week cos we were all feeling a bit poorly so we missed out on the actual doling out of the boxes of chocolately goodness. When I spoke to one of their teachers tonight, to see about picking up our alloted box, she apologised and said she did have one set aside for us but it had gone missing. She thought it might be a case of 'sticky fingers' to which I replied that it could have been someone taking it because they'd already sold their lot and needed some more.
She looked at me and said: 'You're a 'half-full' kind of girl, aren't you?"
Tee hee hee, you noticed?

Next 'lestrel/Lutra chapter is on it's way...

Awww.... (thanks, Soulsis : )


You are a true nature girl!


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... and this came in an email from Soulsis...

Coffee Guide by the Signs

A shot of Astrological insight ...(coffee, anyone?)

Aries: First in line, first out the door -- a triple shot of espresso, and the Ram is off and running.

Taurus: Cappuccino -- earthy simplicity wrapped in luxury for the ruler of the material world.

Gemini: Always of two opinions (and more than ready to share them), Gemini settles on a double latte -- half decaf, half regular.

Cancer: Cozy Cancer is right at home with a __mocha -- all the comfort of cocoa.

Leo: Perfect presentation with enough kick to get the whole group going: macchiato.

Virgo: Precision is the only way: Virgo prefers Caffe Americano (regular house coffee is not an acceptable substitute).

Libra: No need to tip the scales -- Libra strikes a balance with Café au Lait.

Scorpio: Never prone to self-denial, Scorpio opts for all the sensuality of a breve latte -- one can barely taste the coffee, but isn't subtlety the name of the game?

Sagittarius: An iced caramel latte in the dead of winter seems correct to the Zodiac's thrill seeker.

Capricorn: Always efficient, Capricorn has found that a shot of espresso in one's coffee gets the job done ... and then some.

Aquarius: Organic raspberry tea is a refreshing alternative to coffee -- it transcends the boundaries of modern society, deeming caffeine unnecessary.

Pisces: Someday, Chai will replace coffee entirely, and Pisces will be ahead of us all -- meanwhile, they can sit back calmly, ready to ride the wave of the future.

Mmmmm, I lovechai...

... and speaking of coffee. My coffee plunger broke cos someone stacked the dishes poorly and it got knocked off the edge of the sink. This is the same someone, I suspect, who's been pathologically unable to stack dishes in a logical manner in all the 14 years I've known them...

Go here! Go here! *holding ribs that hurt from laughing* Thank you, Okapiprincess.. I needed that...

The cubs and I went to Scienceworks today. The place was a little flat, they're in the middle of changing over a few of the long-term exhibitions so there wasn't as much to see as usual. But we went to the Planetarium to see the Tycho movie… again. This makes 5 times I think. All in all it wasn't a bad day the only real aggravation being the cub who's gotten very clingy recently going off his nut with anxiety if his brother wasn't in line of sight. This happened a few times until I growled at him to bloody look around first before throwing a wobbly. Eh, it kind of worked and the rest of the visit was fairly trouble free. Because we didn't have to pay to get into the Planetarium (see a couple of blog entries ago) I could spend some money in the gift-shop. The cubs got a packet of glow-in-the-dark sharks and a squidgy brain that you wind up and it pulses at you. Morbid brats. I didn't get anything for myself but I did get a trilobite fridge magnet which I'll give to their father as a house/fridge warming present when he eventually gets either one of those. I live in hope the thing won't be cluttering up my drawer for long.
While we were having lunch I spotted a pair of twins, about 8 months old, cutie little things just at that smiling, happy stage. Their mother noticed my cubs and after confirming they were twins as well, she said to me:
'Well you look like you've survived.'
I grinned and assured her it would get better - my good deed for the day.

Well, the paté firmed up a little though it's still sloppier than the shop-bought stuff. Tastes pretty good too, but it needs more salt and the texture is a touch lumpy cos I don't have a good pureéing thing. On the whole it was a successful experiment and I'll make it again sometime.

Happy Lutra - the earl grey flavoured organic green tea is back in stock. I find standard green tea, no matter how diluted or how little time it's left to stand still tastes bitter, but this stuff is lovely, smooth and a little sweet, I can - and do - drink it by the teapot full.

Uh-oh, I'm getting the urge to draw again…

I made chicken liver paté today.(Cool! Joules showed me how to do accented 'e's! Hee, café - latté - blasé...) It's the first time I've tried my hand at paté making; does it take a while to set or is mine just intrinsically runny? *g* Tastes pretty good though the cubs held their shirts over their noses when I showed it to them…

The cubs father picked them up from school this afternoon and took them to the Golden Arches of Doom for dinner. I had a little nap while they were gone - and an odd little dream, too. Joules and I were on a train going somewhere in the UK (somewhere in Bristol I think, the scenery was reminiscent of the Briz tourist cards I got to see on the site Joules had designed). We got seperated and I couldn't ring her cos I hadn't glued down the little blocks that had the numbers on them and they were all jumbled up. But it wasn't a problem cos I knew she could fly up and spot the railway tracks from the air…
We met up again at this big old house where we were staying (there's that big, old house again - only this time it was dark throughout. Not spooky or unsettling or anything, just dark) and there was a muscle-bound sort of sporty bloke there who'd put a fish hook through his penis as a dare, giving himself a 'prince albert' and he was begging me to watch the video of it. O_o
Ok, I don't think I want to know what that was about!

Feeling kind of chuffed - finished the first draft of the second chapter of my novel today. At this point I would like to formally thank my beta-reader for help and encouragement *casts soppy smile UKward*
Hee. On to chapter 3 I guess…

Coffee flavoured yogurt is an odd sort of thing. The last lot I tried, several months ago, smelt like a latte that someone had thrown up and I couldn't bring myself to eat more than a few mouthfuls but this week the supermarket had a different brand on special (I only buy yogurt when it's half-price or less, too expensive otherwise). So with some hesitation I tried it. Not too bad, was more like a vanilla yogurt with a splash of coffee. I'd buy it again next time it's cheap. : )

It is very difficult to warm to a child that doesn't like yours, especially when they're openly rude and belittling. Hmph.

It was with great delight I deleted a whole box of Enid Blyton books from the school library's database today. Loathe her stuff, even when I was the right age group to be reading it I thought it was complete rubbish.
Oh and speaking on behalf of librarians the world over - when you take a book off the shelf and decide you don't want it, DON'T put it back on the shelf unless you are completely sure of where it goes... If in doubt leave it out for someone who has a clue how to re-shelve it. Please. : )

The museum here has drastically reduced it's entrance fees, children are free and adults pay less than half the previous price. Which is great, should get more people in there, but what about the members?
Aha... we are getting an extra six months free membership on our cards and free entry to the special exhibitions and the Planetarium! Which is very cool, means a day out at Scienceworks is free for us except for the petrol to get there. : )

[frowns, silently cursing cultural misunderstandings.... thinks - duck, feathered domesticated fowl, like chicken, or cock... alternatively a linguistic device, dack, deck, dick, dock, duck... alternatively a different linguistic device, duck, muck, fu.... Decides this is fairly pointless, be best just to accept what tenshi says, and determines to make a little more noise in future] I suppose that's OK, then.... [nuzzles]

[*head in hands, groaning* It was a joke, hab'lan! And you don't scare me - startle me sometimes cos you move so quietly, but you never scare me, 'k?]

[blink, wounded pout] But I don't look anything like a duck. Not ANY part of me... [sudden panic] And I scare you?...

Ok, right, I feel a little more secure now. The past couple of months have been tight, financially, and we've been living off the extra food I usually have in the cupboards, to the point where it had almost all gone. Eeep! So for the past couple of paydays I've been buying a little extra and now the emergency supplies are re-stocked. *phew*

I was still craving marshmallows when I went shopping today, but I got something even worse. Fluff - marshmallow spread, strawberry flavoured. Made in the USA, of course, no one does bizarre sugary treats quite like the Americans *g*, and I can guarantee that not a skerrick of this will find it's way onto a piece of bread - I shall just eat it out of the jar as is my custom. : )

[Oh, so it's your duck that scares me half to death in the middle of the night? I see, everything's so much clearer now... *smirk*]

[rolling on floor in hysterics] And so did GoodTwin!

[smirk] And the ningen got Wraithmallow... heh, she and her duck are scary...

Goodtwin found this one cos she actually trawls through the link pages of sites.. : )
(heh, and Joules got 'giant mutant kitten' as her quiz result - I was sure she'd get 'rude kitten with cute pink butt' *smirk*
Hn... the graphic's a bit small, the text is hard to read... though that could just be me...

Which Lord of the Peeps Character are you?
Quiz by Lauruu.

Check out the Lord of the Peeps site today!

I had to... (thanks, Okapiprincess! Go for it, soulsis, bet you get the giant mutant kitten *g*)


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Cleaning the fridge is a zen sort of thing. It's either time to clean the fridge, or it's not time to clean the fridge...
I cleaned the fridge this evening, and the grill - I'm feeling awfully virtuous.

You might remember a while ago I bought a pretty little journal to write lists in? Well, I'm almost through the red section, it's the first of eight. Most of the lists I'm writing down are wish lists, things I'd like to do, things I need/want. I've dated them all, of course, so when I go back I can be reminded of what I used to think was important. Neat, eh?

I had a very nice dinner tonight, sauted carrots and apple with rosemary over rice. : ) Very nice, but I really fancy some meat now...

I had to share this with you.
It distracted Joules enough that she had to deliberately shut it down so she could concentrate on her next AC chaopter.
Thank you, Okapiprincess : ) You find the coolest sites!

... I'm craving marshmallow now...

The cubs have had their hair cut - their father picked them up from school and spirited them down to the barber. It's not too bad this time, last time the barber did a crap job and they looked well, less than cute. Miss their anime bangs though...

[*landing quietly, soft smile, watching Zasshu sleep... brushes wing-tip over shoulder...*]

I realised something tonight - I don't like coming home, it's never a joy stepping back into this house...
Feh, enough whinging.
The cubs and I had a really good weekend at my mum's. She doesn't live far away really, just over an hour by car, a couple of hours by public transport, but she's out in a rural area and so it feels like somewhere else. Didn't do a whole lot on saturday, just kicked back a bit (though I cut out enough bitty bits of material to make 91 stars for my quilt - which will bring the number up to 151 of 203), but sunday, today, was pretty full.
Woke up early to find my mother's day gifts from the cubs (they'd 'secretly' brought them with them : ) balanced on my stomach. As soon as I opened my eyes the cubs pounced on me and demanded I open the presents. One cub gave me a small planter that has feet and a funny face (it's currently in the bathroom with the fern that was sitting in my duck planter), and the other cub gave me a statue of two frogs, to sit in the garden - and a lint remover, how thoughtful, which they proceeded to run over everything, including my mum's siamese cat. : ) (Their father included an Adam Ant compilation CD in the haul, which is cool but a bit of an odd mix, only a couple of 'hits' and the rest are lesser known - well, lesser known if you weren't a fan *points at self* - tracks from a few of the albums.) I gave mum her present, a cute pic of the cubs in a nice frame. She seemed pleased.
After breakfast we went for a ride on the Yarra Junction Tourist Railway. Not so much an old train, but an old, open trolley that deafens you as it rattles and vibrates along. Loads of fun, but very very cold. Heh, and mum and I got to ride free for mother's day! Then we drove up to Toolangi, to a place called 'The Singing Gardens' which was a property owned by a very well known Aus poet, CJ Dennis ('Sentimental Bloke') Beautiful spot, with a creek and a big stand of bamboo around a pond. Had a good meal, a walk around the gardens and didn't have to yell at the cubs... *g*

[pout sigh mope] and you're going away AGAIN...

[frowns] Brown is for trees. Well, tree trunks, anyway. And soil. And some manes. And a few animal pelts...

The ningen remembers brown, doesn't like it to wear. Very dull unless teamed with other, brighter colours. Of course, red-brown is different - terracotta, russet, red-gold.... Not that she wears those either, but there you go.

[shakes head] I have a strange ningen...

This 70's revival thing has gone too far, I tell you, too far!
In Melbourne this season, the fashionable young things will be wearing brown. You remember brown, it was very big in the 70's. Only it's not called brown it's called chocolate, fawn, mushroom - whatever, it's still frigging brown. Interestingly though, the older fashionable things, going by the shops I've walked past, do have the option of colours other than brown but this is probly because the older things actually lived through the 70's and have no desire to repeat the mistake. : )

There's a mother's day stall happening at school today. The cubs' father has given them some money and the cubs have told me they're going to get me something purple, or pink, or red - as long as it's not brown. *g*

Hee, Family the next 'l/L chapter is ready for coding, which means *fanfare* I can have another packet of pink stuff!! ... if I can afford to buy milk that is... :-/ (Dammit, housemate, get off your arse and give me your rent!)

(knicked from Joules blog:)
//Turns out today she said he should take off the armbands as she was sure he didn't need them any more, and try really swimming. So he did - and not the normal starting length of 5 metres, oh no, not my bratling... No, he swam 10 metres (that's one length of the pool), had a minute's breather, then the teacher suggested he do it again to prove to himself he could - and he did. 20 metres in total. Proud? Damn right!!//

Aya! Well done, bratling! *g*


I really do need to get my hearing checked. I first noticed there was a problem when the cubs were babies and I was sleeping through their crying when I slept on my left side - my left ear having the better hearing I found. (I experimented - when I covered up my left ear there was a noticeable reduction in sound, with my right, there was hardly any difference.) No problem, you compensate for little annoyances, don''t you? If I had to sleep when the cubs were awake I did so on my right side so I could hear them. Eh.
7 years on and I still haven't done anything about it. I don't think there's been any further drop in how much I can hear, but other things have started sliding. Making sense of conversations when there's more than one person speaking, or there's a lot of background noise, is hard sometimes, and frequently I've been caught out with an inappropriate response because someone didn't say what I thought they did. A lot of the time I find myself simply sitting back and not participating cos I'm missing every 4th word and it's too much effort to keep up. (Why do I spend so much time online communicating via a keyboard? Well, der.. : ) And I think I'm getting a reputation for rudeness, or at least standoffishness, because people sometimes speak to me (usually softly, or mumbling - for fuck's sake people open your mouth to talk and shut it to eat!) on my right side and I just don't hear them. I've also started having trouble locating where sounds are coming from. For instance, as I'm sitting here typing, I can hear a noise which sounds like the fan from the heater, which is on my left. It's not, I've checked, it's noise from the computer, which is on my right. A benefit of all this, though, is that my cubs generally have good diction - it's been commented on : ) - well, they need to or I'd not be able to understand them...
Now, how hard is it for me to get to the doctors or the hearing test centre? Not hard at all, all I have to do is ring and make an appointment. So why don't I do it? I have no idea...

The next 'l/L chapter is almost done (yay! that means I can have another packet of Angel Delight! *g*) I'm going away for the weekend - with the cubs, up to my mums - be nice if Joules and I can get it finished before then. Then what? Don't know - might try finishing one of the stand alone fics, ie: the ones that aren't part of a continuing plot. Hmmm.

I'm resisting the urge to have another serving of Angel Delight for breakfast.
No, I have 2 packets left, I'll save them as rewards. : ) Like, for when I've finished this next 'lestrel/Lutra chapter, and, let's see maybe the original yaoi I started months ago. Yeah! That's a good incentive...

Speaking of original works, I've begun writing a novel, (sorry, no hints, I'm cripplingly secretive about such things : ), and I'm finding it somewhat tricky. I don't doubt that I can write it and make a good job of it too but I need to be in a completely different head-space for it than anything else I'm doing which, at the moment, takes time and preparation. Eh, it'll get easier as I become more familiar with this continuum, I mean I can slip in and out of the AC universe now without a problem. : )

*toes curling with delight*

I'm savouring my first taste of Angel Delight ('stonking strawberry' flavour) in what must be 10 years. Gods it's good... We can get it over here, but I've only found the sugar-free variety, which isn't as nice. A sachet of this thick, pinky goodness is enough for a single - admittedly piggy - serve for me.
I am very happy... ^_^
Thank you Joules!

You know how amusing it is in the movies when a child finds the sex toys?

*sigh* Could've been worse, there could have been visitors for him to display his find to...

*changing the subject*
Did you know European wasps don't like Frankincense? They love lime oil though, and sandalwood. How do I know? Empirical testing at the bbq at Hanging rock... A drop of Frankincense oil on my clothes and the barstids didn't come near me. : )
Thank you, Alarice, for the material components of the experiment... the oils, I mean, not the wasps...

Finally took this one... thank you OkapiPrincess...

Cerberus is on the third level.
Have I mentioned I don't like dogs?

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Third Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Moderate
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

Hee! *g*


You're Hobbes. First of all, the makers of this
quiz would like to congratulate you. You have
our seal of approval. You are kind,
intelligent, loving, and good-humoredly
practical. You're proud of who you are. At the
same time, you're tolerant of those who lack
your clearsightedness. You're always playful,
but never annoying. For these traits, you are
well-loved, and with good cause.


Which famous feline are you?
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(Oh, that Round Tuit from goodtwin? It's pink! *idiot grin* As is the seahorse mobile. Tch, so excited I'm forgetting details. ^~^)

Have I mentioned that I have the best friends...? *soppy grin*

*happy SQUEAL*

I got a care package from the UK today! (complete with the red cross on the front no less : )
Blimey, where do I start?
Food first.
Twiglets! Jaffa Cakes! Rice crackers! A large selection of sachets of different flavoured hot chocolates! (Including my fav, Turkish Delight, which I ran out of months ago...) Little strawberry kit-kats and... Angel Delight!! *swoons* My favouritest ever pink stuff! 3 packets! Mine! Grrrrrr....
Non perishables (heh, like the 'perishables' are going to be left lying around long enough to get past their use-by dates!)
A beautiful pearl choker that the tenshi has gone all big-eyed over; a little seahorse windchime; a Gravitation CD (*glomps Talon*); a really funny birthday card – chicken?egg? ROFL!; a video of '2002', the Nicholas Tse film Joules was slavering over a while ago – ooh, and a copy of the Dexter's Lab ep with the blue-skinned baddie! AYA!; postcards of Winchester (now, definitely on my list of places to visit : ); a cute little perfume bottle with shrimps on it (mmm... shrimps); 3 little plastic lion-head goldfish (which the cubs are covetting madly – I mean, there's 3 of them, there's 3 of us, what's the problem, mum? Grrrrr... Mine!); and *big eyes* a printed copy of Joules' 'Timeslipping'...
I doubt I'll be getting much work done today. : )
Thanks Joules, & Carol (for the Round Tuit - I can feel the determination kicking in already!) *tackleHUGS*

The cubs and I went swimming this morning.
In the water I feel I have some sort of grace, unlike on land where I am clumsy and lumbering ... much like a walrus, though without the whiskers...
The cubs voluntarily went into the big pool today ('voluntarily'? Hah! They badgered me into it). Been a while since we went in there, last time, in the shallow end, the water came up to their chin, this time it only came up to their armpits! One cub was even brave enough to go down to the deep end - holding tightly onto me and squeaking all the way - but the other one wouldn't have a bar of it, preferring instead to trot anxiously along the edge of the pool, keeping pace with us. Since they've got their goggles though, they've gotten very good about putting their faces in the water and will happily 'dive' now for several seconds. It's lovely watching them grow more confident.

Och, I'm so full of broccoli goodness I can barely move.
I got a big bag of discounted broccoli the other day and made some soup out of it, with lots of fried garlic. I've been eating it for days. It's not that appetising to look at - yellowish green with little floaty dark bits, and there's a definite texture to it - but it's yummy all the same. It was especially nice with boiled potatoes and cheese. Couldn't tempt the cubs to try any though - what a surprise! *g*
Next week I'm going to try my hand at making some pate (chicken liver with port and sage would be nice), then I can freeze some of it for when I feel like being indulgent but don't actually have the cash to back it up. :)

Well, the seedlings I 'liberated' from the Retreat last weekend - 4 ivy, 3 holly - aren't dead yet so that's a good thing.

The next 'lestrel & Lutra chapter is on the way to completion; been thinking about the next AC chapter; Shinju and Okami are giving me pointed looks having been left hanging at an interesting juncture in their fic and I don't like the way Tulip's eyes are narrowing... Maybe I should get on with something?

Aaargh!
WHY when you accidentally delete a folder does it not show up in the recycle bin so you can undelete it? *mutter grumble*
[..later..]
... because the undelete in Winblah is hopeless - fortunately I've got Nortons to play around with. *phew*

One of our tv stations has been endlessly plugging a new series Man & Boy (starring Ioan Griffiths - he of the stockings and curly black hair in the Hornblower telly-movies. Oh no! Archie! *sniffle* *blinks* where was I? It's all very well going off on a tangent but it helps if you can find your way back to your original point…) Anyway, this new series title song is 'What now my love' sung by Frank Sinatra, and it's been bugging me cos I know I've heard it somewhere else.
I remembered today. Miss Piggy did a 'Ravel's Bolero' version of it on the Muppets.
Consequently, I can't give Mr Griffiths new series the seriousness it maybe deserves cos all I can think of during the adds is Miss Piggy…

[... later again...]
However, I'm watching 'Man & Boy' now and it's really good - not thinking about Miss Piggy at all...

[chokes, laughing] And guess what the ningen got....



The Goddess Chaos: Wild, uncontrolled,
unpredictable, crazed, represented by the color
red and the element fire. Her only constant is
that she's never constant. Prone to losing her
considerable temper, but her attention span is
so short that she rarely actually remembers to
punish anyone. A complete hedonist.


Is anyone surprised....?

Heh heh heh...

It's all Joules' fault...


Total Hentai


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I am continually impressed with Cowboy BeBop, not just for the storylines but the animation; it's so... detailed, and rich without being cluttered. Absolutely craps on most western animation styles...

*rolling around laughing my effing tits off!*


While sitting in your cage you are a mild mannered
lab monkey, companion of Dexter - Boy Genius.
However, you live a double life - you are in
fact a superhero! Ready to do battle against
the forces of evil and injustice the world
over!


What Primate Are You?
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This is particularly funny cos I watched an episode of Dexter's Lab yesterday in which the Justice Guild figured largely. The earth was attacked by the Silver Spooner - a complete queen - and his master.. who I can't remember his name but he was the 'barbecuer and eater of worlds'. If you're not familiar with the Marvel universe, this was a glorious spoof of Silver Surfer and Colossus. It was a very clever parody and I wet myself laughing, much to my cubs' amusement, they thought that was funnier than the episode...

Right, got this one from Soulsis's blog...

Operas? No, too drama-queeny.
Curly hair? Does Doyle count? *g*
Corsets? Only on others...


The Goddess Life: Represented by the color white
and the element air, Life is all that is good
and true. She loves order, stability, and all
things beautiful and serene. Shows an
inexplicable affinity for operas, curly hair,
and corsets.


Which Goddess Owns You?
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We were late getting to school this morning but it was worth it, I had this amazing dream...

I moved into a big old house with a bunch of friends. The place was nothing to look at on the outside, not very attractive at all, but inside... High ceilings, long, wide corridors, enormous rooms. (The house we stayed at on the weekend obviously had an impact!) My room was huge, big enough that I was dancing around in it and I was thrilled to finally have the space to really use my body. The freedom was exhilarating. : ) I decided though, that I needed to decorate the door of my room with something purple or pink, first so I would be able to pick it out easily from the other, similar looking doors, and second, so that no one would have any problem guessing which was mine. (The house was full of interesting old tatt too, everywhere I looked there was something gorgeous to see, the toaster was amazing! 50's era, I was guessing, pink and silver metal mosaic).
The second, intertwined part of the dream was quite interesting as well. An old - tch, 'lover' isn't the right word - sex partner of mine was getting cosy again. Or trying to. I kept dodging him, but too subtly obviously, I eventually had to tell him outright I wasn't interested. He wanted to know why, I said I was a lesbian and he took it as a personal attack. How could I do that to him?!
I almost relented at that point, but then I got cross. Why should I let his reaction sway me to doing something I really didn't want to? So anyway, he slunk away, affronted and I turned my attention to the pleasures of dancing and settling in. (It's interesting, that's the second time I've come out to someone in a dream...)
Oh, the cubs were there as well, as were soulsis's chicks, but the focus was the house. Just beautiful.

Finally got to see 'Jupiter Jazz pt 2'.
Waaah! *sniffle* Poor Gren...

I will finish my AC chapter today. I will!