The Impatient Optimist

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:23:25 GMT

My parents are going to be out of town on Thanksgiving. We're having some friends come up and... somehow it feel like adding family.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:51:53 GMT

I had plot bunny visit! An actual, appreciable idea that will work into my R vs J fic and is more in character than what I had before (I think)... and I got it written so I can actually act on it! w00t!

LOL

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:55:31 GMT

Funny because it is so true...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:50:07 GMT

Just shy of 1000 words for NaNo. Not all that much really but its a viable outline and more than I've gotten done before.

baby!!

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:07:42 GMT

My son was born at 10:21 pm today, 9.15.09.
7 lbs, 0 oz

Having a baby or something!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:31:03 GMT

Hi all, this is Fuschiafinn's adorable husband here.
We wanted you to know that she's gone into having a baby or something mode!

We're at the hospital at this VERY SECOND, and sometime later there will be cake.

Also she wants to thank Fenik for sending her a birthday gift and she's sorry she hasn't had a chance to thank you or respond yet.

AAAANYHOW, this is a much more standard labor/delivery for now, so your next update about this whole mess will likely be from her, typed with one foot as she tries to wrangle two children at once without any help from me whatsoever.

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:49:20 GMT

You know, as I study for a math placement test I begin to wonder. Is it that I've always been bad at math or that I just don't like to do the problems the long way. Because as I refresh my memory about how to do certain things I seem able to get the correct answer only to get confused by the long explanation.

Then again, I could be overestimating my brain...

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:34:24 GMT

So the ultrasound is tomorrow. Either we've got a name picked out and can expect to be deluged in more pink or I'm going to spend lots of time with several name books and my brother will be in alt.

You'll never eat alone again...

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:22:49 GMT

Having an independently mobile toddler is like having your very own diet coach. A short, adorable diet coach that is determined to keep you slim by eating as much as they can of whatever you have. I'm not saying the child doesn't have preferences about food. Her preference is whatever I'm eating or drinking and lots of it. Matters reach the level of the absurd when I'm eating the same thing she has on her plate and yet she still reaches for whatever I've got. Its also amusing to watch her eat heartily at breakfast, refuse more food on her tray and then, not twenty minutes later, cast liquid eyes at my plate if I dare have some toast.

The really funny part is that most of the time she gets away with it. Provided I'm not eating something patently unhealthy like a candy the kid has a very good shot of drinking most of my water, a quarter of my toast or a few, carefully pruned pieces of my popcorn. I have to remind myself that I'm eating on behalf of kidling #2 at this point and food out of my mouth is food out of his/hers. My appetite this go-round has not been all that it was last stint as a baby hotel so I'm trying to eat what I can, when I can. Unfortunately for my second, my first is already out here, making cow eyes and cute inquiring noises at my pizza.

Of course, I kvetch but really, the kid eats and seems to enjoy variety. Oddly enough, she does not like fast food, healthy or no. I think I'll count myself blessed on the whole... XD

Am I avoiding writing two papers? Yes! *headdesk*

Postcard

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:50:09 GMT

I... don't really have anything of particular interest to impart. Some stuff has gone on, most of it good, a little of it not. I'm mostly posting to say hi and I hope you're all well!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:55:30 GMT

There is a scientific name for the awesome ring of color around my daughter's pupil! (She has the central type) Yay genetics!

Joined Facebook. Found some people I wondered about and didn't find others. Ah well.

I is kinda sleepy. But its a nice sort of sleepy.

fenikkusuken did you get your card?

Edit: Link is fixed. Quiet you.

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:07:22 GMT

Seriously reconsidering any plans I had to move to the West Coast. They've got oceans out there and if the fog I drove through to get my husband is any indication... hell with that. Don't get me wrong, driving into what looked like tangible night was cool in its own way but fog is not a normal weather condition for Colorado, at least not this sort of stuff. This was thick and impressive, not the wispy bits of gray that turn up occasionally in September.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:30:13 GMT

I do believe that I have finished the first new chapter for the Rufus vs. Jace in a year ~~except for the self editing and sending it to my beta and getting it back and tweaking it some more~~!

Yay!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:55:45 GMT

You know what's sad? Liking old fashioned junk mail because, when you open it, nothing bad happens. It doesn't infect your house. Your friends don't get the same bit of junk mail in their in boxes because its gone through your address book and posted itself abroad. It doesn't install itself on your desk and read all your other mail. You can be curious, open it, decide its useless and discard it without worrying that your credit card number is going to be used to buy flowers in a charming little French shop, (fun things that happened to my husband lately!) or anything of the sort.

Oh nostalgia.

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:42:32 GMT

Why yes, I have only *now* come up with a coherent plan for a novel, even though it is halfway through November!

...

*headdeask*

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:52:40 GMT

It's the first proper snow of the year. It's not very heavy but it is pretty. Watched "Southland Tales" last night. It was... tiring and odd and kinda good and I'm not sure yet really. It was directed by the same guy who made "Donnie Darko" so if you've ever seen that movie, you know what I'm talking about.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:08:48 GMT

Boooored.

With chocolate chip cookies, fresh baked last night.

Oh dear.

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:33:17 GMT

Just watched the McCain concession speech...

WHERE THE HELL WAS THAT GUY? I MIGHT HAVE *VOTED* FOR THAT GUY!

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:03:06 GMT

OH MY GOD!

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:22:08 GMT

You know what's somewhat maddening?

After Daylight Savings goes into effect there are still several clocks that are not updated automatically. Analog clocks of course but also the clock in the car continues to read the wrong time. So you're driving along and think that it's a particular time only to realize, after you've rushed home, that it's an hour earlier than you thought. This is of course, after you've had a chance to come home, get comfy and think "Ah well, I'll handle those other errands tomorrow because I don't want to leave the house again. Good thing I won't have to."

*sigh*

Gift fic for Fenik's birthday!

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:30:21 GMT

t's horribly late but the love is there!

Title: All I need
Pairing: Rin/Sess, (Inuyasha)
Summary: What matters is having.
Disclaimer: I doona own dem.

“Don’t you mind?”

Her brown eyes were serious, her mouth tipped in an adorable little frown. Once upon a time she hadn’t worried whether or not he would miss her. To simply be remembered had been enough. But age and wisdom had brought the knowledge that long after she was dust he would walk the land, once more alone. He kissed her and drew her to the bed as he deftly undid her obi. Though he made her gasp and clutch at him, a little frown line lingered between her brows and did so for weeks afterward. He said nothing, waiting for other concerns to distract her.

“You do… I mean you will mind.”

It wasn’t a question and so he felt that a noncommittal noise would suffice. She shot him a wry look and he deigned to smile ever so slightly. She laughed and turned back to looking over the garden ignoring his small huff of mock exasperation. No matter her age and no matter the era, she alone was unperturbed by his smile. He enjoyed the moment, the sheer normality of it. She was so often gone into her own head these days, reminiscing about things past. It was disconcerting that she always knew him, always knew the season and the day but could mistake the year by decades. His face was ever the same and when she was fully lucid she was wryly grateful for that. “You are not a constant Sesshomaru-sama,” she would say, “you are the constant.”

But that sardonic tone, the hallmark of a woman who had outlived nearly all her contemporaries would disappear randomly, as would the memories that fueled it. Sometimes she spoke in the naive manner of the young woman she had been when he found her this time, sometimes she spoke slowly like the child she had always been. That time he took particular time to lay her to rest surrounded by flowers, the only thing besides him that she had reacted to until the last.

“I feel like I should apologize… Tell me you don’t mind?”

But before he could open his mouth she was gone, another victim of a terrible weapon from the west. He gently closed her eyes and studied her ravaged face. The gift of life had been given some years back when she was barely more then a child and she had been swept away by a river current. He could do nothing now but search for a clean place for her burial.

“You’re not going to answer me are you? Fine. Just going to sit around looking sickeningly handsome then, see if I care.”

She laughed, a woman in her prime, hands steady at the wheel of her birthday present. She was in her early thirties, well educated, happy in her chosen career, loving and loved in return. The world wasn’t perfectly peaceful but it was on the better side of chaos and human medicine had advanced so far that it sometimes rivaled the sword carefully secured in the back seat. He allowed his lips to curve ever so slightly. Road and years stretched ahead of them and would again and that was the only answer required.

Random thought

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:26:33 GMT

"Ferocious angels send the falling stars..."

The Spin Doctors on Sephiroth.

In other news school has started again. This will be the last part time semester so I am determined to enjoy it while I can.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:48:26 GMT

I'm fairly attached to being an American. Actually pretty friggin' attached, all things considered. But the more I read up on current economic woes and watch politics become ever more polemical, the more I want to move to another country. Then again, if I move, I can't really make things better. Plus, its not all that easy moving to another country and finding a job. Then again, it can be done.

Argh. To reference the Clash, should I stay or should I go?

You know, now that I think about it, I've commented on this before...

It is said that if you're bored than you're boring.

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:58:52 GMT

At this point I could probably kill a party at sixty paces. I've promised to try to do more but inertia is so much more normal for me at this point. Bleh...

Dangit, I'm going to go *do* something!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:31:11 GMT

Went to see Hellboy 2 just now...

The kindest, most succinct way I can put it is that it is movie as clown car. More and more plot lines and characters kept unpacking themselves until the joke wore thin and finally died. Pretty to look at though ~~by and large~~!