Here I Am

So new episodes of Greek began airing last night. It's sitting on my dvr to be watched when I have a free moment not taken up by insanity. I also got a present from Amazon today - it didn't say who sent it - but it was Supernatural Season 4. Maybe it's a sign that I'm supposed to finish the flipping season already. I don't know what my deal has been with finishing up the season. Yeah, part of it is that I don't want my boys at odds with one another, but it's not like I don't know that I'll end up at least liking (probably loving) the episodes. At the very least, I could finally catch up on tons of fic that is based on the whole season. And really, sometimes a girl needs her fic priorities.

I got a few Borders gift cards too and since this is me, I went and spent it right away. And it was perfect timing as they had seasons of Felicity AND Alias on sale, so I was able to finish up my collections of both of those shows. I'm especially excited to get seasons 3 and 4 of Felicity, especially three as it's one of my favorites. And I was the girl who wanted Felicity to get BOTH boys. I loved her with Ben, but I also loved her with Noel as they both complemented her in different ways.

As for Alias, I picked up the last two seasons. Not my favorites, but a girl never tires of Sydney kicking ass and Spy!Daddy doing whatever necessary. Still think that Will shouldn't have disappeared...even though it doesn't seem to have hurt Bradley Cooper's career at all.

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I'm now slowly catching up on Burn Notice. I *finally* finished season two and am into season three. I know I've mentioned it before, but it needs repeating: I love Michael/Fi. As a team, I love Michael, Fi, and Sam, and as much as Fi & Sam bicker, you just know they'd have each others backs regardless of Michael at this point. But really, I just love Fi. I think she's the one woman on the planet who can pull off a fanny pack and look cool and tough. And Michael just needs to suck it up and go with it.

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I finished reading Generation Kill last week. Good book that made me want to pull out my dvds. And now I'm reading One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick. I really like the very different views of everything. Wright came at it as a reporter and Fick was in the heart of these battles with real lives on the line. I'm about halfway through and I think what I'm enjoying most is the way Fick explains all these life philosophies that were instilled him. Not just blow shit up, but ways of viewing the world.

There's also a chance I'm a bit biased toward marines, as crazy as they are. My brother was a marine and he served in the first gulf war.

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So I'm trying really hard to adhere to a budget lately. Mostly out of necessity with house things coming up and such. But I cheated and bought myself two birthday gifts. One was a specialized mouse pad of Stitch that says "TommyGirl" because I'm a big loser. The other was season two of Digging for the Truth on dvd, only further proving that I'm nerd. But I loved that show. And not just because Josh was hot. It was interesting and funny (not on purpose - but whoever did the planning of their journeys really should've been fired) and yes, Josh is very hot.

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Is it normal to play Wii Rockband and walk away with the strong urge to play drums? Because now I want a drum set and nobody but me thinks this is a good idea.

New supernatural is so very close. I already told the sister that I got the media room tomorrow at 9pm to watch my boys in HD. And that I didn't want her to watch with me because she just doesn't get my love of them. SPN is one of those shows I only like to watch with people who love it as much as I do...because my squeeing and ahhing and obsessively caring about fictional characters is understandable.

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From hopelessfangirl

MEME: YOUR VERY FAVORITE WINCHESTER-BOYS MOMENT, DO SHOW/TELL ME IT!

( One of my favorite moments from you tube... )

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I'm beginning to think I should make a list of things NOT to do with your resume when applying for a job. I've been getting in a ton of resumes for one of our positions to go through and some of them just shock me. One person took an old resume and scribbled in her current job at the top.

What? That's just LAZY. Retype the whole resume with the new information.

And spellcheck. Not just the resume, but the cover letter.

I really didn't think these things were hard to understand.

So I can't stop staring at this picture of Jared taken by vorpalblades. He is so adorable. Just adorable. Can he come to Philadelphia?

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medie is hosting an impromptu multifandom drabble meme. Go play. I'm hoping to if I can get past my own writing laze of a block.

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Apparently, the whole slash vs. het & gen debate is alive and well. ladybug218 has opened up her journal for discussion of the topic (no flaming!) because she's as flummoxed as I am by the whole thing.

I'll never understand what's so horrible about het. I love the slash for a lot of pairings...but I also love the het. For me, it's all about character chemistry. And I get that we're all different and that different things ping for each of us...so why does it matter so much to some people that what works for one person is a het couple? Why is het so frowned upon by some people?

I guess it goes back to my belief that bad writing is bad writing. Slash writers aren't automatically better because they write slash and vice versa. You either are capable of writing a good story or you're not, and genre designation won't change that.

It's Sam Winchester's birthday!

Give me some Sam (or Sam/Dean) birthday prompts and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks for the good work thoughts. Things are just...not good...right now and I'm not sure what to do. I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason and that karma comes around. I am clinging to these things.

But now I shall focus on happy, good things. Because I miss happy, good things.

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These boys always make me happy and they love each other so much and just...oh, there is never enough Jared/Jensen or Sam/Dean schmoop in the world but y'all provide me with great amounts of it!

2. All of you because you rock and you offer encouragement and you're just awesome. I love you all. I really do.

3. Army Wives is coming out on dvd in June. It's the lifetime series that has Drew Fuller as the perfect husband and has Gordon from SPN as the one guy "army wife" in the group and features some interesting characters. Plus, did I mention Drew Fuller?

4. I'm a tad bit behind on my Supernatural reading, but I highly recommend pheebs1's Supernatural version of PS I Love You. It's Sam/Dean and it's sad and wonderful and just the end is so perfect.

5. I'm mailing my check for winchestercon tomorrow! And I'm totally going to get ladybug218 (And Mylia!!!) to come hang out with me there. And I can't wait to see some of you again and to meet even more of you...because it was so much fun.

I am still recovering from last night's Supernatural. I just love our show and today I was surrounded with people who just don't understand the love. And the obsession with the Winchester brothers. Obviously, they are the insane ones.

I need people to point me in the direction of ( Spoilers for last night's Supernatural... )

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My review of the episode will come when I can think straight about it. Right now I'm going to shower and then watch some Nick Swardson comedy with the boy.

Today has flown by (watch the last 45 minutes of work go slow now) and I've finished some of the landslide of work...but the best thing about today? Oscar nominations!

I'm so far behind this year on my viewing of these movies. The only one I've seen is Juno, which I loved and adored and the music is so addictive and I go around singing "I am a vampire, I am a vampire, I have lost my fangs" all day long. So right now that's what I'm rooting for. Hopefully tomorrow I will see Atonement and then slowly progress through the list.

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For all those that met Jared this past weekend. I'm jealous and a little bitter, but I love you all. And it's lovely that you share your stories/pics/vids and missyjack is awesome for collecting it all for Supernatural wiki.

In truth, I'm not sure I want to meet him or Jensen, mostly because I fear I would forget how to talk and possibly drool on myself. It would not be pretty.

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Once upon a time I read/wrote/recced fanfiction, but lately I'm lucky I get to make it through my friends list. So I apologize to all those here for those things. They'll come again. Soon.

In the meantime...

Pimpage:

femme_fic - The Femme Ficathon, specified fandoms chosen (listed in this entry), you can write/request het/gen/femmeslash, sign-ups until January 30th

flying_leap - 2008 Flying Leap Challenge, Multifandom, themes of “flight” and “leap”, sign-ups until February 27th with stories due on February 29th

sportsbackinsn - Putting Sports Back in Sports Night – sign ups until all prompts are taken with due date for stories as March 20th