stitch witchery

Meme! Pinched from lady_drace.

15 Years Ago (July 1996)
- Mum took me and some friends to the cinema for my birthday. Some Disney film, can't remember which, but I'm pretty sure there are photos still.
- My youngest sister was born.
- My best friend moved to Australia with her family - on the same day that Littlest Sis was born, actually.

( 10 Years Ago...etc... )

The Game Has Changed by zap99nad. Post-finale Danny reflecting on everything that's happened, and wonderfully done.

Very, very watchable.

I found out this morning that my dad managed to make my sister cry at work the other day - by ignoring her completely. He was there with our brother, who nodded and waved - and Dad refused to do even that. Needless to say, nobody's impressed and it looks like the three of us are boycotting Father's Day in favour of an afternoon at Mum's. Infinitely less repression - and possibly pie.

I'm still resentful of the fact he managed to make me cry on my last birthday (which we share), just by being his usual clueless, douchey self. Blergh.

Onto more cheerful things.

I signed up for five0bang today as an author *and* artist. SOMEBODY HOLD ME. Got my story possibilities down to two, either a crossover or extended casefic - and I can totally see me writing both regardless of which ends up being submitted for the Big Bang.

In semi-related news, I found out last night that Alex O'Loughlin, who plays McGarrett in Five-0 guested on Criminal Minds a couple of years ago as an unsub. MIND BLOWN. And so going to be rewatching that episode this weekend!

Watched the White Collar season premiere. Iiiiiiiinteresting, though time will tell on the recurring plot they introduced. And I'm slightly bemused that Sara is billed as a regular character now, while Jones is still listed as a guest star. Oh, show.

I haven't written anything in just over a week, following a month of madness, but apparently nobody told the voices in my head about the break. I've got multiple stories in four separate fandoms playing themselves out in my head at the moment - not to mention the vids everytime my mp3 player throws out the appropriate songs.

A bit more bizarrely, I'm writing fic exclusively in present tense at the moment. I don't think I've ever done that before, and I've no idea why it's started now. Is this a phase? Am I going to be stuck in present for the rest of my life? Could be worse, I could be writing in future tense.

Just watched the new episode of Primeval The Further Adventures Of Captain Emopants.

( Spoilers. )

It's tv season finale time! I watched Castle and Hawaii Five-0 yesterday. The former was alright, the latter kind of blew my mind. I've already started plotting out an AU take on the last few minutes and the first episode of season 2. That happened to me at about 5.30 this morning because I forgot to shut my blinds last night and I'm a lighter sleeper than I think I am.

The AU takes my 5-0 bunny count up to 3, the others being a crossover and my current WIP.

And then there's the 5-0/Doctor Who epic crackfic that wihluta inadvertently inspired. Steve as Eleven's sometime companion. IT SHALL BE DONE, OH YES.

And now I'm rewatching Life.

"Why exactly would the universe make fun of us all?"
"Perhaps it's insecure."

Spent Easter weekend out at The Mother's - and my godfather and his wife, who came down for a long weekend. I haven't seen either of them in years, we can't even remember how long, and for the most part it was fun. Mostly catching up and comparing stories and scars, that sort of thing, all out in the garden, as we've had freakishly glorious weather the last few days. I came away slightly sunburned. In April.

Been marathoning the hell out of Hawaii Five-0, and for a show I've only been watching for little over a week, I've been hit with a couple of plot bunnies already. Both are shaping up to be quite intense so far, which'll be a headache to write, but the fun kind.

Speaking of writing, I've stalled again, which is annoying because I'm still waist-deep in a Primeval story I've been working on for about a year and a half now, but it's another intense deal, so I have to be in a particular frame of mind to write it. Which isn't going to be happening any time soon when my brain's all Steve! Danno! PRETTY PRETTY HAWAIIAN ISLAND BACKDROPS!

Still, back to work tomorrow. Le sigh. Three more solid days of work then another bank holiday for the Royal Wedding, and it hasn't been decided whether we're working that or not. I'm hoping not, because I still need to catch up on sleep. Love visiting the family, don't love the wafer thin mattress on the sofa bed.

I also watched my first and only clip of this year's Britain's Got Talent earlier. You will not be disappointed.

Everyone's favourite Sheppard/Ronon exchange community satedan_grabass went live today!

My entry is here. I made a mostly action vid set to a perky showtune!

There's also this rather wonderful vid, as well. The fic posted so far is shaping up to be pretty good as well.

Because I haven't done one of these in a while. Snatched from lady_drace.

( Clickety clickety. )

In the process of reinstalling everything onto my netbook, after having to take him in to have Windows reinstalled following a few glitches. A scary amount of money later, and I'm back to where I was roughly 18 months ago when I first bought it. Except, you know, the antivirus isn't co-operating and I've got 15 days' worth of free trial to convince the system that I had a legitimate product installed up to 2 days ago, which had about 8 months left on it.

But! The name change is now official, at least in terms of the system registry, or whatever it's called. My netbook is called Boris :D

In other news... blergh. There isn't much in the way of other news. Work continues apace, and I'm trying to convince myself that WIPs aren't the enemy - really.

I've got my assignment for satedan_grabass to do still, but there's still plenty of time before the deadline to flail, panic and pull the obligatory all-nighter the night before it's due. It's going to be awesome. Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!

I tried. I really did.

( Spoilers? )