Here I Am

It's been awhile since I've done an update and I apologize. I'm trying to stay up on the reading, just not commenting as much as I would like, and when I go to post something, it seems boring or whiny. I try to keep a lot of complaining out of fandom fun as it takes the fun part out.

I'm also not really up-to-date on most shows at the moment except Criminal Minds, Project Runway, and The Mentalist. I was caught up on Brothers & Sisters for about a minute there (how much do I love Kevin and Scotty? So much! And how much do I love that Tommy came back even for an episode? VERY MUCH!) and after work tonight, I'll watch last night's Big Bang Theory because one can never have too much Sheldon Cooper in her life, but that's it.

Hopefully over Thanksgiving holiday I'll have time to catch up. People keep trying to make plans for me and my sister, including my one older brother, but I just don't think it's a good idea. We've decided to go low-key this year - I hope it didn't hurt anyone's feelings, but I don't want to go somewhere and start randomly crying or something. Or worse, what if I'm perfectly fine - will people be like, "First holiday without her mom and she's fine?" So no big plans except meeting up with my usual friend crew to see a cheesy movie afterwards - this year it looks to be 2012 at the moment.

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In case you're interested and don't want to wait until Black Friday, Amazon appears to be having a good sale on some tv shows on dvd. I managed to get the last season of Brothers & Sisters for 24.95 and Castle is only eighteen bucks. If only money grew on trees...

In the meantime, my thoughts:

Criminal Minds: I continue to love every character. they're my team, no matter what. ( spoilers for last two episodes... ) I need to read some more reid/morgan and reid/hotch. I'm behind.

The Mentalist: I love Jane. I love how he just does whatever he wants and people just learn to go along with it. I love the whole team. I love how well they work together and what each of them brings to the group. ( For spoilers for the last couple of episodes... ) This week's episode looks interesting with Red John back in the forefront.

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I have been writing this month for mininanowrimo. My daily goal is 150 words and I haven't done a lot over that on any given day, but I've met each days goal. I'm slowly working on another girl!Niko story for veritas the quest as well as a new original novel idea. I'm sort of writing it all over the place, not worrying about how it fits together until I have a better idea of it in my head. It's slowly formulating as I write some scenes between the main characters and probably the majority of those scenes will end up getting tossed. Such is writing.

I'm also very excited about my yuletide assignment. I was matched up on one specific fandom, but I think I could manage another one as well. And my yuletide recipient had a great letter filled with things that got my brain moving. I like to mull yuletide over for a bit though before writing the first draft. I find it comes out better that way.

It seems I still have access to insanejournal for the time being. Woo-hoo. Of course, work has been insanely busy and I had a huge mailing that had to get done, but none of the contact information was correct when it was given to me. Wonderful.

I've been considering writing more of my girl!Niko stuff for Veritas the Quest. I have this huge desire to jump ahead a few years and let her hook up with Calvin. Because I ship Niko/Calvin whether it's slash or het. But I'm trying to be good because there is a lot of stories to tell between my last short piece and where my brain wants to go. Le sigh. Sometimes making sense for readers is no fun.

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I'm not sure I've mentioned my latest obsession. It's Criminal Minds. I'm almost done season two and will quickly move into season three. I'm madly in love with Spencer Reid. He totally fits my type of the nerdy, socially-awkward guy. And I love the idea of him with Morgan. The two of them have a great chemistry (when wearing my slash goggles) and they complement each other well.

Of course, I already have too many fannish muses battling for control. I don't need anymore. And it's always a little anxiety-inducing when I first undertake a new fandom - never sure if I'm doing the characters justice and such...