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's not too late to go ahead and play with my random lyrics challenge. You can either post the drabble/ficlet in the comments or just link to it. I'm gonna make a masterlist up of the ones posted. I haven't had the opportunity to read yet - why is that the things that happen that would make you want to just slow down are always the ones that cause the most work (i.e. - my mother's death...it's neverending).

-The latest Grammar Girl podcast & transcript is very fitting for fandom. It's about how to leave comments. I don't know any bloggers who don't crave comments, but there are many more places than blogs that you can leave comments these days: on news articles, photos, videos, comment walls, and more. Comment writing is something of a new art form, and as many people who get comments will tell you, some are great and some are horrible.

-I actually started writing something today. It's not much, but it's felt like so long. It's probably dreadful, but it's a start.

-Is it weird that my sister and I are almost completely caught up with Criminal Minds? This is accounting for me restarting with her when my mother died (we needed something mindless to do at times) and now we're on 4.15. Oh Spencer, you own me. Really, if you read CM fic, I'll read Reid/Morgan or Reid/Hotch or Reid/JJ. Hook a girl up. Maybe one day I'll have time to read fanfiction again. Woo.

I'll be doing prompt tables until I die...

Challenge: slashfic25
My Claim: Dan/Casey, Sports Night

( Onto the table... )

I can't seem to stop myself. What's wrong with me? It wouldn't be so bad if I was a writing machine like some of my friends, but I'm not.

( The Hurt&Comfort Table... )

Table for philosophy_20
My claim: RPS - Jensen Ackles

( Links will be added to the table as I go... )

My table for the wtf27 challenge:

( Below is the table...nothing on it thus far, just for my records... )

One more table because I'm hoping prompts will get me writing a lot more.

( The Family 15 Challenge... )

My table for 25moments - no fandom claimed as I'll being doing multiple

( Below is my table for 25 Moments )

My sn_holidays story is with my betas and I'm trying to finish up my spn_holidays piece. The problem I have with the holiday challenges is that I want the stories to be perfect and wonderful for the recipient...and that makes it harder to write because I second guess myself a whole lot.

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How is my winter vacation almost over already? It feels like it only just started...and that makes me sad. I really wish I was independently wealthy or that I could enjoy fandom activities as a job. Wouldn't that be lovely?

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Alrighty, off to catch up on friends list and then I must finish this supernatural gift. And then I'm sure I'll be bugging y'all for a beta.

In case I'm not back on, have a happy and safe holiday! I'm hoping to take the night to reflect on things and work on how to make more of myself in the upcoming year. I don't do resolutions, per se, because to me that seems like I'm doomed to failure come March...but I like to think about where I can go in the upcoming year.