Melodramatic Fool

Ugh, I need to post. Have fallen out of the habit so badly, and tumblr's mindless reblogging is just so nice when I get to procrastinating about actually saying things, and/or am being a hermit. Anyway, bulletpoints to catch up:

•Had a pipe from the kitchen down to the basement go bad and leak, resulting in the first time ever for making a homeowner's insurance claim. "Minor", but still resulted in weeks of repairs and contractors--plumber, carpenter, water damage treatment company, drywaller, painter, etc, multiple visits of each. And well, not the worst expense, but still expense.

•In amongst that, naturally was time to renew my driver's license and had to plate/pay sales taxes on the new(ish) car

•Had to deal with my aunt's, mother's, and stepmother's birthdays, am now about to my own. Not digging the whole nearly-38 thing.

•Did jury duty, actually got placed in a jury for a county criminal trial. Luckily, found out when it was time for deliberations that I was the alternate juror and could leave. The whole situation massively pushed all my anxiety buttons--I do not deal with new things well, nor with situations involving conflict/arguing. Also luckily, Omaha is 'one day-one trial', so once you do your day/trial (if it goes longer than a day, though mine didn't), your jury duty service is considered complete. So no spending days/weeks on it.

•Family member has gotten themselves into some trouble; nothing I can do for it but listen when my parents want to talk about it. It's not the end of the world, I'm sure they can work through it with some time. Just a strange and weird thing, the way people can fuck up.

•Still haven't gotten to show Sherlock (BBC) to the gals that come over on Saturdays. Stuff keeps coming up. GOING TO ASAP. Am going to demand it Saturday. (Have inflicted Stonehenge Apocalypse on one group of friends; eventually after Sherlock stuff, will make the gals watch it, too. Trolololol.)

•Health willing, as am dealing with a cold for the last few days.

•Over the years, have seen bits and pieces of Nine and Ten era Dr.Who--have downloaded damned near all of the five-so-far seasons, am currently up to s1ep5 of Nine. Enjoying the hell out of it. Need to watch more.

•Have not been raiding in WoW, just doing the new dailies/achievements. But have come to the decision--I'm going to faction switch Akseru from horde to alliance, to do casual raiding with the husband's guild. They seem okay people, stable and low drama, from what I've seen playing on an alt there. I don't like the look of alliance male characters though, so Ak will be changing from a male bloodelf to a female human. In my mental RPG for the character, it actually suits him and is oddly fitting. And it's still him, even when a her. Don't ask :p The husband has done a Figureprints statuette of what he previously looked like for my birthday, and now that that's shipped, will do the faction switch later today. I guess it's come down to that in my very first guild six years ago, I didn't know anyone--but every time since, every time, that I've joined a new guild, I've known RL and/or online friends already in said guild. At this point, I don't want to join somewhere I don't know anyone at all. So this works for me right now.

•PS I am looking forward to more Supernatural, and will be watching s7. I guess the extent of my fanning is just reblogging a bit of stuff on tumblr, and sometimes reading a short fic here or there. It's just sharing my attention with Sherlock, Dr.Who and even Community, and I'm more feeling part of the Sherlock fandom than anything else, atm--even if I've pretty much proven to myself with one poem that I can't write for it for crap :p But I do so love reading the fic. S/J fic yes yes yes ♥

•But seriously: Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock ♥ Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch can shake my boat any day.

•...is that everything? Am I caught up? o_O I think that's everything.

•Oh wait--very, very, very belated thanks to silverraven and cherie_morte for the vgifts. \o/♥ So sorry it took...a month and a half, ugh >_< for me to say something.

I think I have managed to sleep away 95% of today. :/ At least I made a crockpot ham and bean soup, so I wasn't totally useless. I think it's actually annoyed the cats that I've been taking their spots on the couch so much.

Didn't have to concern myself with whether to go outside to look at the supermoon, since naturally here it's cloudy. Way to go, Nebräska.

One of these days when I get to feeling normal, I really need to see if the used game store has any copies of Twilight Princess or Animal Crossing (the Wii one's City Folk, I think?).

Was going to do a voice post of some Irish poet to mark the day, but the cold's totally fucked my voice, so I'll give that a pass, I guess. Happy St.Patrick's Day anyway. http://pusheen.tumblr.com/post/3913523926 Have a cute and yet appropriate-ish gif. (No beer for me, though, green or otherwise--tea, perhaps.)

ormolu did a post "A musing on geek culture" (http://ormolu.livejournal.com/579655.html ) that expresses perfectly issues I've had with being a female geek. After all, you think male geek, you don't think "must be sexy", right? So why's it like that for girls/women? As she says But still, it's annoying and indicative of a larger problem. Even in our own geek culture, we geek girls must fight to be seen as people first and foremost.

Dealing with a cold the last few days, been extremely tired and thus have been doing close to nothing. Also it's messed with my sleep schedule, which is probably obvious. Lucky that there was nothing social scheduled this weekend.

Due to a comment on a thread at that spn poetry community, was introduced to the concept of erasure poetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_poetry). Admittedly, I've only ever had one creative writing class (high school, very basic/general), but all those high school and college AP and honors English classes...? I feel like my education was so lacking, that I'd never heard of such back then.

Anyway, decided to attempt one, using the lyrics of Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son" (it seemed appropriate). Sort of an exploration/reflection on 5.22-6.11 Sam.


Geas


"Carry my peace, rest no more"

I rose ever higher,
but flew too high

My eyes still blind,
my mind mad,
I hear voices
when I'm dreaming
I can hear
a reason my charade is wise--
I don't know
stormy emotion

Tossed about
like a ship,
the ocean winds' voices say,
"Remember nothing
The splendor lights your heaven,
waits for you
My son, you are done
Rest,
don't cry, don't cry."

Because it still needs to be pimped out:
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Speaking of that meme, huge, huge *hugs* to y'all, and extra hugs and thanks to certain of you, you know who you are ♥ You guys, I just ♥♥♥ \o/

♥ also to jojothecr for the present :D I should've said something yesterday, but I was slacking. Thanks, hon!

I feel like this is sort of the lost week or something. o_O Can't believe it's Thursday. Just doesn't feel like it. It's all lost in a haze of sleeping and sinus meds and cough syrup. And so many Halls drops, don't think I've ever taken so many. >_o Just wish it would all just go away already. Kind of tired of having my ass so thoroughly kicked by it, yes. ^^; (PS Hey, flu shot, you going to actually prevent anything this year?)

Re:WoW-- Haven't made much progress with the new alts like some folks have, just haven't had the energy to be gung-ho about it. So Deannajude the warrior still's only 21, though my troll druid is 16, I think. I should run Ak through heroics with the new goblin faction tabard so I can get their mount (that ATV looking thing :p ), but, eh, later. Been trying the quest chain in Hillsbrad based off the Plants Vs Zombies webgame, and...I'm horrid at it. :/ I want the sunflower pet you get after finishing all the quests so badly, but I keep failing and failing at the 'set us up the pumpkin bomb' one. Just sucks, because other people have accomplished it with only some struggling, and me, I just can't seem to get it. Will keep trying, but it's frustrating. And the sunflower pet is so damned cute. :(

My throat is on fire. T___T Can't skip out on the D&D thing tomorrow or the late-Thanksgiving thing in the evening, much less writing for the last 3 days of November. But I really, really wish I could just say to hell with it all. Because seriously, on fire. So hope it's not so bad when I wake up tomorrow.

Also, is there a "hollisharrow1476" out there? Because they're trying to add me to their Yahoo! online list, and I'm kind of not sure who that person even is. o_O So, just curious.

I am tired from D&D. Wtf. Self, could you get more pathetic? (Or maybe I'm just tired, yeah, I know, cold + recent sleep deficit, but still) Anyway, feeling a little better about Bebop. Still down, but I know that just takes time. I need to post a pic of him, will have to look at what photos Mom and I have saved.

( mini/mifu, poem jotted down during game )

I'm sick, the husband's sick, Bebop-cat's sick with something and requiring a vet trip, bunch of errands to deal with all day. Hell, even last night's WoW raid was...frustrating, and I'm having trouble caring about writing today, though I will eventually make myself do something, I guess. Haven't eaten, no coffee (or tea. I want tea.), no idea when I'll get a chance for such.

November, you kind of suck so far.

Hey, self. When you drink a bunch of rasberry apple cider, which is, you know, incredibly *red* and then go and brush your teeth, try to remember about the whole incredibly *red* bit. And not, you know, have a nice moment of panic that something in your mouth is bleeding. Dimwit.

Speaking of bleeding, hooray for fingernails. If not for those, I probably would have lopped the tip of my thumb off. I should be trusted with knives just about as much as I should be trusted with ovens. (Or toasters, per yesterday's incident that set off the smoke alarm after charring a split roll so bad the toaster had a cloud over it. I just... Yeah. /sigh)

Had gotten ingredients to do all the things from this http://theeconolodgediaries.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-arabian-night.html blog post last Friday pre-cold, so made myself start putting things together today. Really don't have the energy for it, but the stuff will go bad if I don't, and a good bunch of the vegetables and the meat were from that little farmer's market place (http://www.tomatotomato.org/) so that'd be a huge waste. All that's left is the potatoes, at least, and broiling the lamb patty things.

Edit: Ugh, must learn to not hit return while fussing with tags. Oh hey, it posted, what \o/

Anyway, heroic Putricide 10 down to 7% last night. So close. And totally unrelated, mmmmmm, Sam Jared Jared Sam, mmmmmmyeah. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah. ♥ Gives me a little sparkle. :)

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I normally don't do these sorts of things when they go around, but honestly, you guys. ♥ All of you. I should say more often how very much I appreciate you all are out there. ♥


In other news, saw Kick Ass last night (yeah, giving going to that one guy's place another chance). Enjoyed it, for the most part, but on the other hand, eh. Felt really meh at a lot of aspects about the ending, especially what they did with such a (har) kick-ass character like Hit Girl. Also rolled my eyes at the sort of Watchmen-ish gore. I'm hoping not every movie is thinking that's the cool way to be now. Bleah.

Aaaaaand, I think I have a cold again. Yeah, I know, it's only been a month. Just thought my allergies were bad, and then that stupid cough started the last couple days, and now I feel sort of ugh. My immune system is full of so many failings and so much incompetence. :p