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    Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
    stopthatgirl7
         		11:35p
    It's been a day.
    Yeah, it's been a day.

    People who know me in RL know that I get angry--truly angry--pretty much once a never. Pissed, yeah, I get pissed at the drop of a hat, but angry? No. I control my temper and let a lot of things slide precisely because I know how bad it is when I get mad. In the last ten years, I can count on one hand how many times I've gotten angry. Last time I got truly angry was in 2006.

    ( Until today. )

    Current Music: Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole
    aikonamika
         		3:32a
    Drabble meme!
    I doubt a lot of people follow me on IJ, but I may as well post this here as well.

    Drabble meme, yoinked from my friend kleenexcow on LJ.

    Give Me:
    Two characters.
    A random word.
    I Will Give You:
    A short drabble.

    Fandoms don't have to be my usual ficcing fandoms. If I know about it, I'll write it. Crossovers A-OK.
    stopthatgirl7
         		10:01a
    Yeah, no.
    So guess who deigned to e-mail me out of the blue yesterday?

    Yup, the "friend" from September. And how did she e-mail?

    "holy crap. having a life is great and all but i'd like to stop for a minute. [emoticon]

    how are you doing?"

    ...

    ( Yeah, I'm done. )

    Current Mood: infuriated
    stopthatgirl7
         		9:00a
    Patrick Stewart is awesome.
    Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence - As a child, the actor regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the horrors of his childhood remained with him in his adult life

    And for the creepiest domestic abuse PDA ever, staring Patrick Stewart's voice and hand. D:



    Current Music: Darius Rucker - Learn to Live
    Monday, November 30th, 2009
    stopthatgirl7
         		11:59p
    Wii Fit Challenge~: The word of the day is 'bitch'
    Time spent: 1:09
    Calories burned: 324
    BMI: 29.2
    Feeling: HULK SMASH AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR

    The obstacle course is a punk ass bitch. Do you hear me? A PUNK AS BITCH.

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH.

    I beat the beginner level--I started it, yelled, "I am going to make you my bitch today!" and proceeded to pwn it. No, it wasn't as high as the first and only other time I beat it, but this time I beat it at a walk and felt confident I could do it again, unlike the first time, which was sheer, unbridled luck and panic.

    Since I had beaten it, it gave me the option of the advanced level.

    PUNK. ASS. BIIIIIIIIITCH.

    *froth at mouth*

    I am not even kidding, I was screaming at the game, calling it every filthy name in the book...and calling it filthy names because it obviously calculated the calories burned based on the "meters" you had progressed, not how much you did, because there was no effin' way I only burned eight calories one particularly bitchtastic time.

    And what, you may be wondering, make the advanced level that much more of an evil bitch of a game?

    The ice.

    That's right, there are points where the platform is ice, and your Mii will slide right off if the next platform you need to jump for is out of position. All you can do is watch as your Mii slides right off the edge, because your other choice is to commit suicide and leap into the sea.

    I was literally making infuriated screaming sounds that sounded like they should be coming out of the Hulk.

    RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

    And to top it all off, I redid my BMI reading (because I was stuffed full of coffee and bibimbap when I got home) and when it finished the "balance" measures it told me..."you should do the obstacle course to help you!"

    Thank god you can't really rage quit the Wii Fit, or else I so would have. XD

    Current Music: Jerry Springer: The Opera - Fuck You Talk
    Sunday, November 29th, 2009
    pegunicent
         		11:28p
    Because My work connections suck.

    Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!
    chibirisuchan
         		6:42p
    The Great Squash Dilemma
    So the last time I went home to visit the parents, I came back to town with two squash.

    One of these squash was, I kid you not, substantially larger than my fifteen-pound cat. The neighbors and I ate just the neck of the monstersquash in a huuuuuuge vat of soup... leaving over 3/4 of it left for future use. It's now occupying a sizable chunk of my freezer. I haven't even opened the second squash yet.

    I went home again for Thanksgiving.

    I came home with four more squash (three pumpkins and an acorn).

    Now my Christmas prayer goes like this:

    "Oh please oh please oh please, let there only be six squash coming back next time. Because I'm clearly caught in either an arithmetic or an exponential progression, and I am just not mentally prepared to deal with sixteen more squash..."

    Has anybody got any easy, low-fiddly non-dessert recipes for pumpkins/squash? Between low-carb and low-fat restrictions, pumpkin pies/breads/cakes are kind of out of the question, and I've made a bunch of soup and a bunch of curry and am trying to figure out what else to do that's mass-squash-using (ravioli's way too fiddly to use that much squash with, and my freezer would explode...)
    raisedbymoogles
         		11:52a
    Because the next step up is interpretive dance, and nobody wants to see that.
    *trots out onstage carrying a pack of posterboard and a Sharpie*

    *writes carefully, making the Sharpie go squeak*

    Sign: "This is to let you all know that I am ill."

    *tosses posterboard aside, making it go whumph on the stage; starts writing on the next one, squeaksqueak*

    Sign: "My throat is very very sore and I cannot speak above a croak."

    *whumph, squeaksqueaksqueak*

    Sign: "I will be spending most of the day on the couch."

    *whumph, squeaksqueaksqueak*

    Sign: "If you are waiting for a ficlet or comment from me, rest assured..."

    *whumph, squeaksqueaksqueak*

    Sign: "...I will deliver; just not right now."

    *whumph, squeaksqueaksqueak*

    Sign: "Thanks for your patience."

    *collects fallen posterboard, bows to audience, trots offstage*

    Current Mood: sore
    stopthatgirl7
         		11:28p
    Wii Fit Challenge~: You dirty, rotten cheater!
    Time spent: 1:04
    Calories burned: 289
    BMI: 29.07

    This game is a dirty, rotten cheater! ARGH!

    As an addendum to the "likes to kill you by making you plummet to your death" thing. I learned today in the CHEATING ROTTEN obstacle course game that it also likes to flatten your Mii like a pancake by making logs roll over it.

    And I cry FOUL FOUL FOUL to some of my Mii getting clobbered by a pendulum; I said to jump, dangit. And WTFBBQ to me supposedly losing 1.1 kilo in a day. A day I spent stuffing my face with grits. I'm going to chalk that up to me having not had dinner, since the aforementioned grits left me stuffed to the gills. I didn't even get hungry until, of course, two minutes after I started exercising (I popped a sweet potato in the oven and let it bake while I was exercising. Mmmm, sweet potato.)

    Also, my arms and legs want to fall off and diiiiie. *death*

    Current Music: Nickelback - Never Again
    Saturday, November 28th, 2009
    ladynero
         		1:09p
    YES!!!!
    As of 6:30 am this morning, I am pain free!

    *looks at the stone* Damn thing's got points on it.
    Sunday, November 29th, 2009
    stopthatgirl7
         		12:15a
    Wii Fit Challenge~: Plummet and Die
    Time spent: 1:00
    Calories burned: 287
    BMI: 29.44

    Yup, weight went up again, but I ate a Southern Breakfast (tm)--cheesy grits and real sausage and ate ramen for dinner; this is not a shock. It's also not that upsetting, since I'm viewing things as a restart--I slacked off, I did exercises that were ineffective, and so now I'm starting over. I'm not going to worry unless I start going up for a week straight.

    The cycling game can blow me. I'm not even kidding. I wandered around the area trying to find the last two flags, then said "Fuck this," and quit the game. I had been doing it for about fifteen minutes, and it counted none of that time. asdfghjkl;

    I'll do the short course; the long courses can SUCK IT. GAH.

    ( Also, Wii Fit has a perverse love of making your Mii die spectacularly )

    Current Music: Darius Rucker - I Hope They Get to Me in Time
    Friday, November 27th, 2009
    icedark_elf
         		11:06p
    Here is my [info]one_liners challenge set.

    Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
    Claim: Cloud/Yuffie

    Table Set One
    raisedbymoogles
         		9:18p
    DadadaDATdaDA! Chaaarge!
    Well, another Black Friday, and nobody's been trampled to death by crazed shoppers as far as I've heard. Of course, the day's not over yet. (...I've really turned into a misanthrope the last month or so, and it seems like the start of the holiday season has really exacerbated it. I'm kinda worried about this.)

    Of course, I really can't complain. I'm no more immune to a few bucks off Stuff I Don't Really Need than the next person, I just indulge my inner rabid consumer on the Internet. Although it must be said that Amazon does not play fair in this regard: I went on the site to get some CDs for my mom, and it waved 358/2 Days with eight bucks off at me. With fifteen minutes left to snag it. Dear readers, there are many temptations I can resist, but that was just dirty tactics.

    *sigh* Ah well. Ten days 'til pretty boys in black cloaks on my DS, so I guess I can deal.

    Current Mood: Grinchy
    Current Music: Rock Your Soul - Elisa
    Saturday, November 28th, 2009
    stopthatgirl7
         		12:12a
    Wii Fit Challenge~: My Mii commited suicide...
    Exercise Time: 1:05
    Calories burned: 278
    BMI: 29.34 (boooo~. But it's no one's fault but my own. ^^;; And I'm still lower than when I started out, so no complaints yet--ask me in a week)

    Yeah, I gained weight back, but looking at the last week, I can totally understand why. With the total pigging out that was last weekend and last night (it was a 3-day weekend and friends came to visit last weekend, and yesterday I went out with people to the yummiest Indian place ever and ate far too much cheese naan) and the sheer lack of exercising I've been doing (I didn't do any Wii Fit the whole time I had people here, or the day after because my living room was still set up for having guests and not for me to be able to exercise, so I didn't do anything but walking for five days [busted Balance Board and also laziness] and yesterday [I was so stuffed my stomach cried at the thought], yeah, I can see why. I kinda winced and went, "Yeah, yeah, I get it. No more slacking off."

    So to make up for it, I made sure to put in 275 calories, since that seemed to be the magic number. I have to get back in the exercising habit, so I have to make things enjoyable. So I did the step dance thing, and the "rhythm king fu" thing and the marching band thing, and the obstacle course thing (I WAS SO CLOSE *sob*).

    Then for shits and giggles, I did the "cycling" game, and unlocked the longer course. And went, "Heh, let's try that!"

    ( OMFG MISTAAAAKE~. )

    Current Music: LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - Last Smile
    Friday, November 27th, 2009
    pegunicent
         		3:03a
    Brain is bad
    Previously in our story:

    Three minutes later Sei had appropriated Jack's phone and office and was keeping a nervous eye on his still loco paramour, breaking the unwritten law of their relationship.

    "Irvine? Lamsey. Put Elle on the phone. It's about Lee and I don't have time to play twenty questions with you."


    ( Read more... )
    Thursday, November 26th, 2009
    dogmatix
         		11:37a
    Sebastian and the Beast, Ch2 Pg22
    Title: Sebastian and the Beast: Ch2, pg 22/?
    Rating: Pg-13
    Beta: [info]yume_no_kage
    Summary: Beauty and the Beast with a twist (and a wriggle)
    A/N: Happy Turkey Day! May your stomachs be full and your toes be warm.

    ( Sebastian and the Beast Ch2, pg 22 )


    [Cover]
    Ch 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6&7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
    Ch 2: 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7, 8&9, 10, 11, 12&13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

    Colour Pages
    Field Promotion
    pegunicent
         		7:04a
    I agreed to work tonight, Turkey night, even though it's my night off, because my co-worker's family is going out of town and my own family isn't celebrating until tomorrow which I told him he'd be working for me.

    In retrospect this may be a good thing, considering I've been watching the Bones marathon with my mother, and ended up having the creepiest, scariest dream last night. It haunted me past waking up.

    I was a young boy about fifteen, and my best friend was a photographer, and I was looking through some of his shots of the 'restoration' project going on, which had something to do with an school, a river bank, and a lot of flooding in the past, and the restoration included a lot of mud being taken out of the foundations and other stuff being thrown in.

    I saw bones. Skeletons. In the pictures. And looking into the project got me killed, because the head construction guys were the old students of the school, and had buried three kids down in the mud way back when. Then they shoved me in the mud and buried me. And because it was a dream I'm sitting there pointing at my sneakered feet asking people to just *look* at me and help me and the only people who can see me (besides the bad guys) are the souls of the three dead kids.

    And somehow I managed to pry myself away from the project site (which *hurt* enough I almost woke up) and start walking home, and as I do I pass my photographer friend and wave and he says hi to me like nothings wrong, right up until some girl shows up to tell him I've gone missing, and the only thing on my mind is getting into the shower to get the fucking mud off.

    Then I thankfully woke up with an irate cat wanting to be let outside.

    Point of the story? Don't watch creepy marathons before passing out!!
    stopthatgirl7
         		9:50p
    The Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. XD
    AWESOME.

    megpie71
         		5:14p
    Excuse me while I scream
    There are days when I want to kill my partner. This is one of them.

    As some of you may be aware, we're under a few deadlines at the moment. For one thing, we have roughly 1 week left in our current place of residence. For another, while we've put in an option on a rental place, we haven't heard back from them yet (except for a quick call yesterday which didn't make me feel positive at all, since they were saying firstly they hadn't heard back from our one and only rental reference, and secondly they wanted whole heaps of information about what Himself does for a living). So while we do know we have to move out, we don't know whether we have somewhere else to move into at the other end of it. Stress number one.

    Stress number two: The real estate agent who is attempting to sell the place has one offer, for about $110K less than we need to clear all our existing debts. We discovered today there's a potential second buyer (I discovered this when I spotted him peering in our front windows, under the impression the house was empty). Rather than refer the man to the real estate agents, Himself has decided to try and sell the place privately, and thus save the fees and commissions.

    I've already warned Himself if this backfires, and we lose both buyers, he's going to be hearing about it from me on possibly a daily basis for the next twenty years at least. Other than this, I'm staying the hells out - I don't have the energy, or the stamina, to get involved in arguing with him.

    Stress number three: I went for a job interview last week. I still haven't heard back from the company involved, and I'm suspecting I'll get the usual answer when I do (ie "Sorry, not interested"). So I'm busy waiting back to hear from the recruiting firm, who'll probably give me some kind of vague answer along the lines of "oh, they didn't say" rather than the truth of the matter, which is probably along the lines of me being too old, too female, and/or too fat for the job (it's a helpdesk operator position - by "too fat" they mean "not pretty enough", or "not suitable office totty". Women are under-represented in the IT industry for some reason, and none of the guys can figure out quite why...). So I have this inevitable disclosure to look forward to.

    Stress number four: Himself's parents have made an offer to us of the use of a couple of rooms in their house should we find ourselves without somewhere to go. It's starting to look like we might have to take them up on this. I don't want to do this, since at present I'm stressed enough without having to wear my "public" face all the damn time.

    Stress number five: I'm unemployed. Christmas is coming up. 'Nuff said?

    Stress number six: Day one of my period, and I have cramps and a temper like a bear with toothache.

    End result: while I'm sure my situation has a whole heap of positives in there (as per my nice rep from Commonwealth Rehab Services) I can't really see them at the moment. All I can see is the potential for things to go very badly wrong. This doesn't make me any more likely to relax, or calm down, or want to do anything other than sit in a corner and scream for a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not able to do this at the moment because Himself's folks are over doing a spot of weeding for us (and probably thinking of me as the most lazy bitch in the universe, which is probably true) and I can't really let loose until they've gone.

    Small relief: I've just discovered I can suspend my health insurance rather than cancelling it, which means I've one less expense to worry about. It also means I've another $60 per fortnight to play with when it comes to rent and similar, rather than spending it on the health insurance.

    This entry was originally posted at http://megpie71.dreamwidth.org/5078.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

    Current Mood: stressed
    Current Music: "Not Pretty Enough", the Spooky Men's Chorale
    Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
    raisedbymoogles
         		10:10p
    Mythbusters blather.
    1. Tory's Meat Man freaked me right the hell out. Something about the hipbones sticking out under the skin like that. *shudder* ...On a related subject, NEVER GOING DEEP-SEA DIVING NEVER EVER.

    2. Okay, Jessie's cute, I like her. ^_^

    3. Adam was so totally channeling Sephiroth on that last bit, it's amazing. If my Fluffiroth muse wasn't awake and yammering at me already, this would have woken him up. ...On a related subject, I need those boots.

    Current Mood: sore
    Thursday, November 26th, 2009
    stopthatgirl7
         		1:29a
    Behold, the single most horrifying thing I have seen in a long, long time.
    Bayonetta's "sexy dancing."

    I spent the whole clip of this like this: D: and going, "What am I watching?! DDDD:"



    Speaking of wrong...y'all have to see this to believe it, too. Chinese card game that rips off...you won't even believe it. >XD

    Current Music: Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Starting Something
    stopthatgirl7
         		1:11a
    One more month...
    Squeenix just put out the last FF13 trailer. I'd embed, but they're being "no embed!" jerks, so here's a link to the FF13 website, and you can watch it there.

    ...Yun Fang is going in my party at all times once I have her as a member. Because she is awesome.

    You can also see the new Cid, and OMFG HAAAAWT. *drool* (trust me, watch the trailer; the screencaps do nothing.)

    ETA!

    I love the internet.



    Current Music: Grégory Lemarchal - 5 - il n'y a qu'un pas
    Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
    ladynero
         		11:09a
    Gonna be away for a while...
    .... Because my computer's got a couple of viruses and other nasty things that are slowing it down immensely.

    So, until I can get that taken care of, I'm not gonna be on line.

    Hope everyone has a Happy Turkey Day!
    stopthatgirl7
         		11:17p
    Wii Fit Challenge~: Yay, new balance board!
    Time spent: 36 min
    Calories burned: 161
    Current BMI: 29.2

    I have a new balance board! And it works wonderfully! This makes me happy.

    Today was the first "Getting back to basics" day, and OMFG, I can feel such a difference doing exercise-exercise instead of "fat burning" exercise.

    Mainly in that I am sore. I am very, very sore. My inner thighs are mutinying, and when the game suggested I could now do 30 jackknifes instead of 20, I went, out loud, no joke, "Oh HELL no!" Twenty is still pushing it and my abdominal muscles hate me.

    Also, the game lies like a lying thing. I did the obstacle course thing and was nearly done, and apparently I jumped for real (I was mid-run when a log came at me). This makes the game force quit, admonish you, and start over. And when you start over, it does not count all the calories you burned before. So the "calories burned" is a lie. Bastard. I was SO CLOSE to beating the game; I will make it my bitch, oh yes. XD

    I am sweaty and gross and when the game said, "If you feel tired, it's important to rest!" I took it as a sign. So the water for my bath is running, and once this is done I will go slouch in the bath and let my stress melt away. And hopefully some of the OW PAIN OW from actual exercise will melt away with it. XD
    Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
    raisedbymoogles
         		11:12a
    Because I just banged out a springkink at work and I'm feeling cocky.
    Give me a pairing and an emotion, and I will write you at least two paragraphs of pure and glorious and entirely shameless SMUT for it. You can toss up as many prompts as you like, but I'll only guarantee one response per requester.

    Ganked from (lj)artoni.

    Current Mood: hungry
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