luvxander

It's not even December yet and I'm already sick of Christmas. The stores and locations around here started playing Christmas music a week or so before Thanksgiving. They've had their decorations and things out since even before that.

Can someone just shoot Santa and let us all out of our misery.

Add to all this that I have no money to buy anything for anyone and feel guilty when people buy me stuff if I can't return the gesture, and this just feeds my depression.

Also? This makes me feel like the world's biggest loser, but...I miss my Mommy. She moved from here in Mobile to Tennessee this past September. Prior to this move, I had lived with her for over 34 years and, quite literally, never been away from her for more than a week at a time. I know I should be a grown up and be able to move out and be all independent and stuff, but I really just want to curl up with my mom on the sofa and watch TV that I'll complain about or listen to her tell me about all her various doctor visits even though I know she's totally a hypochondriac.

To be honest, the woman drives me insane, but she's my mommy and I miss her.

Go ahead...tell me how lame I am.

I have no clue why I suddenly have Hold On by Wilson Phillips stuck in my head.

Does it make me insane that all I really want right now is someone to hold my hand while I watch TV?

That whole hurricane/tropical storm thing they've been warning us about. Yeah, that was huge. oooo, it rained. There was wind. Come on, this is Mobile, Alabama....if there's a day without wind and rain, THAT'S when we call the National Guard. Yet people were still freaking over it. Whatever! Just get out of my way and continue your freak out.

In other news, there is no news really. My life is dreadfully boring. I'm mostly just biding my time until True Blood starts up again.

The search for a part time job still continues. Classes are going pretty good, anxiety over Algebra not included.

Oh, we got the announcement for our Computers project today. WTF? We had over a month to work on project 1, we have less than 3 weeks to do project 2? And project 2 is WAY more difficult than project 1? Are you freaking kidding me?

Oh oh oh oh!!!! V is tonight!! I can't wait. I know there's only been 1 episode so far, but I have loved V since I was wee little bitty, and this re-imagining is like letting my wee little bitty self free in a big ass candy store with no limits.

Anyone have any V icons that are shareable as of yet?

Please tell me there's someone else out there squeeing over this show with me? Don't leave me hanging people!

I was looking for fic to read and, logically, turned to the fic rec tags of my flist peeps. So, yes, I totally blame turnonmyheels for my now feverish desire to watch the entire second season of Gossip Girl. In fact, I've just gotten back from a friend's house where I went over on the pretense of hanging out, but in reality was downloading her DVR eps to my flashdrive.

Have I mentioned that I love those people who get the good, expensive DVR's that cut out commercials and the like?

Now I'm frustrated because I finally have all the eps on my laptop, but I can't watch one because I'm supposed to meet another friend at the theater in just over half an hour to watch Star Trek, FINALLY!!!

Remind me again, why did I seek out an active social life? All it does is interfere with my TV schedule.

CJ has gone insane.

I left work at 2:15 this morning. It is now 7:45 in the morning. I have to be awake in 5ish hours. I'm not even a little bit sleepy.

Just finished reading a Sentinel/BtVS crossover by lit_gal, Experience Curve, which is the sequel to Learning Curve. I loved them both. So much so that I actually put off watching One Tree Hill on tuesday night, and Torchwood last night, so that I could keep reading.

The pairings are Jim/Blair, Blair/Xander, Xander/Spike. But Riley's character is introduced later in the story (Riley/Buffy, nothing explicit), and now I have a huge hankering for Riley/Xander fic. I don't know how many people on my flist still keep up with the BtVS fandom, or still have their links, but would anyone be able to point me toward long or longish Riley/Xander fics? I still like the smut and porn, but these days I seem to go more for the caring, romantic stories than the smutty.

If anyone can help, thanks loads.

Night, people. *weeps bitterly*

I know, I haven't posted or been online in a while. I'm sorry, to those of you who care, but work has been awful. Remind me again why I work retail? The good news is that the working conditions have improved a good bit since the Assistant Manager from hell got transfered to another store. The bad news is, we've all been having to pull extra hours because, a) we always have extra hours at christmas and b) we're a manager short until after the holidays.

What brings me here tonight is something that I can only describe as a public service announcement and which, I'm sure, will (or should) earn me enough karma points to ascend to nirvana my first go around.

I was sitting around tonight after work, bored as hell. So I went over to Netflix.com, where they have this nifty 'watch instantly' feature you can use. I thumbed through the horror section and came upon this movie called, The Wolves of Kromer. Never before have I hated a movie with so much passion. It was like a train wreck. I was offended by it's very existence, it was so bad. And this is saying something. I've liked movies before that other's thought were utterly disturbing in their awfulness.

The actual review I left?

"I rated this movie one star simply because there was no option for a negative rating. The only thing that can be considered 'horror' about this movie is the fact that it was made. I've never seen anything this awful in my life. The acting is atrocious, the writing is horrible, and my 8 year old niece has directed better works in her bathtub using nothing but rubber duckies."

And that was me being nice. Of course, it has yet to show up on their site, so I'm not holding my breath that it'll be seen.

In related news: I really don't want to go to work tomorrow. I want to stay home and play. My laptop, Daniel, died on me. Thanks to my mom loaning me some money until payday, Daniel was able to be reborn in the form of a much better laptop and I just installed my PC version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

*sigh* I guess I should get to bed though, since they don't accept playing games as a reason to miss work. (they so should)

But, before I go, here's a meme I stole from jacklemmon

Band Name: Victor deGrazia
Album: Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano

1. The Islamic Society of Central New York
2. 155th Street (IND Concourse Line)
3. 1631 in music
4. Spellbound
5. Dymock
6. Saint-Marcellin
7. Southport Lord Street railway station
8. James Henry Carleton
9. Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District
10. Johann Haller
11. Luis Martínez (boxer)
12. Dang Wangi LRT station
13. M-Kids
14. Brea Olinda High School
15. Le Rêve du Diable

So, what do you think? Clasical Grunge?

The only thing I learned from this meme is that soft cheese should never have a runny center. In fact, no cheese should have a runny center unless it's been microwaved and poured over nachos.

Sorry I've been so quiet lately. I totally blame xanphibian. She has gotten me completely addicted to this hugely epic length crack AU rewrite of the entire HP series. Every moment I'm not at work, and many moments when I AM at work, have been spent devouring this.

I'm actually coming out of it right now to ask you guys for a favor. I remember seeing, and have been told about, Harry/Draco manips. There was one person that was said to be really great at them, but I can't remember the name. Do any of you know where I can find such things? I tried google, but it snapped at me and bit my fingers.

Also, I did this first impressions meme thing. Go over there and talk about me? I'm not asking you to lie, so only stuff about how great and wonderful I am, okay?

And now, I return to the life of Harry and Draco as they embark on the journey of love. Also, they're about to leap into battle against Voldemort. *bites nails*

I haven't read flist tonight at all. Got off work late, then ran with Mom to the store for bags full of snack/junk food to keep in the house. Our only redeeming quality is that, instead of soda, we bought Propel flavored water. But, to offset that, we got a LOT of chocolate. We're horrible, but we're happy(ish).

Also, just wanted to let a few people know something, in case you mind (and if you do, I can totally take you off, if that's what you want). entrenous88, ladycat777, neverneverfic, viciouswishes, and xanphibian - I added you guys to my "network" in del.icio.us. I've had the account thingie for a while now, but I just never really knew what to do with it. But after losing all my links, once again, I've found the beauty of having a back up.

Also, if anyone else has a del.icio.us account thingie, and doesn't mind, you can leave me a link in comments and I'll totally add you. This will also keep down the pleas for more fic links. It won't stop them, but it'll reduce them by about 2.5%

My del.icio.us account, if anyone's even remotely interested - luvxander

One last thing. I have a question for anyone that may have a PSP and know the answer.

I have a PSP and someone mentioned that you can save txt files to the memory card, using a USB cable, and the PSP will act as a ebook reader. Does anyone know if you have to have the program like you do for video files? Or can you just plug it into your computer and move the files to it like an external modem.

Last last thing - does anyone mind if I save your fics in txt files to carry around with me? I doubt most will, but I wouldn't want to offend, even accidentally.

Night all.