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Chris and Amy's Wedding

So you all know I work with books, right?

Well.

Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, is due for release on Saturday August 2.

While we don't anticipate it will approach Potter-levels, it is still one of the biggest titles launching this year... and as a company, we're having a Masquerade Ball themed launch party. Not anything big - we're just a little mall store, and so we won't be having Midnight Madness or anything, and as such we have like, zero budget - but I need ideas for things to do or ways to decorate. I already have some things done...

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Anyhow. Any other suggestions? I know some of you out there are avid fans (crescentmuse, I know you're a reader and an artist!), so what else should I be doing???




carlanime, I thought of you when I saw this.

Rewatching SPN "Fresh Blood"

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Now to watch Fear Itself. Anyone else watch that show? I kinda like it.

Back outside with Lappy. It's cooled down to about 17 degrees... but inside the condo it's gotta be close to 30. The oven-like tendencies of our condo are #2 on my list of Things I Hate About Living Here (second only to the Shower of Misery). Unfortunately, I would be unable to sleep out here even if there wasn't a heat-lightning storm going on as it seems that while I am largely unattractive to insect life during the day, pickings are slim at 3 am and therefore I am the resident buffet.

We went to see Get Smart today, and surprisingly, I really liked it. I knew I would have enjoyed seeing it with Mom due to the nostalgia factor, but Chris and I both had a good time. The Rock - sorry, Dwayne Johnson - was actually really good in it. It was a well-written part, but he almost did a better job than Steve Carell.

OKAY, DUDES WITH THE SQUEALING TIRES: YOU CAN STOP NOW. PLZ THX BAI.

Sorry about that.

In other news, my request fic for Sweet Charity got posted! And it's lovely. Go read Pray Your Gods by apreludetoanend. It's Supernatural season 1 gen, which I asked for, and suffused with a melancholy that is just breathtaking.

I had more to say, but the "wildlife" on my balcony is getting steadily larger and kind of scary, so I'm fleeing back into the oven apartment, and hopefully I'll get some sleep.

Am sitting out on my balcony, in my new lounger. In the dark, while lightning is having its merry way with the clouds (although it calls for hail, there is no precipitation, and it's 10:30 PM and still 30 degrees, for fuck's sake). Hubby is telling me to get inside if I wanna play with lappy. BUT IT IS SO HOT IN THERE. At least out here there is a breeze, unlike the A/C that is only good if you are literally sitting in front of it...

Also, today I had a moment of epic fail with Lappy and lost all my open tabs. I have given up after searching through my history for fic tabs and going to skip=300 on teh flist. *sigh*

It's a beautiful day out.I want to shower and go out to enjoy it. The problem? EVERY TIME I DO THIS, IT GETS UGLY OUT. *sigh*

Anyway, I just posted a flocked entry about books that is flocked because, well, I'm paranoid about any time I talk about things that are even remotely work-related.

In other work-related news, while we haven't been re-interviewed for the large store that's coming in, I do have a temporary promotion. The manager at the store near my house has quit and I'm babysitting until either a new manager is hired (be that myself or someone else) or we get word about the new big store. Fingers crossed, everyone!

Should I scan in and post the black&white artsy photos I took? Chris wants to blow some up and frame them...

Happy birthday _doodle!

Did Billy Idol come out with *another* greatest hits album? And if so, does it mean I have to buy that one too? Hmmm. That reminds me, I should dig out some of my CDs I've had for like, a year, that have never made it into the car rotation.

Title: Anticipation
Author: amy_star_
Characters: Sam/Dean
Rating: FRT
Warning: Knifeplay/Bloodplay. Dark themes.
Beta by menomegirl and wenchpixie, with last-minute tweaking by jpublic, who says that now I officially scare him. \o/

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HOMG. David Usher is playing clubs in Alberta.... with the New Odds. WHY IS LIFE SO UNFAIR??? Why does *everyone* skip SK? *sigh*

In other news, I have a potentially suicidal coworker and a ficlet that I want to post but am struggling with a change I want to make to it... and I don't know if it works anymore. I think I need to learn the art of letting something *go*.

Okay. Off to get watermelon sliced so I can take it to work tomorrow.

I got a bonus from work last week... and I want to spend some of it on something fun. Most of it is going to things like paying back GST the government overpaid me, and some is being squirreled away to pay next year's taxes, and then there are some things I *have* to buy that I was going to put on my (terribly overused) credit cards that I can pay cash for. But. FUN STUFF FOR ME!!!

So it's poll time.


Poll #1206716
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What should I do with my extra $300?

Hubby is really voting for the Wii - volunteering to get me a game to go with it and to trade in the GameCube as a bonus on that. I really enjoyed Rock Band when I was home playing with my brother. But I could use more work-pants and new jeans... and we have friends we haven't seen in forever that it would be nice to treat to dinner on us... plus I get twitchy when I make any purchase that isn't clothes or groceries that is more than $100. Really. I do. Comes from growing up without money, I think... I'm always afraid that as soon as I spend a chunk of cash that something will happen and I'll have wasted money on something that wasn't *necessary*... But I want something FUN!

This is what a flist is for, right?


Anyhow. Still looking for a beta for a short (let's say between 250 and 500 words?) Supernatural dark-fic... if anyone remembers my last foray into dark!fic, well... I think this is darker... and it's really just audiencing it. I just don't know if it works, if I give the story away or if it doesn't make sense, or whatever. If you're interested, let me know... I'm going to try to get on the wireless from Starbucks at lunch so I can send it out in about 12 hours time. :)


Stay tuned for another poll-post... next up, deodorant questions!

New layout, as it is no longer my birthday and it has been overcast/raining for WEEKS NOW OMG... I needed some blue in my life... therefore I am now using Bloom Blue. Also a new title to my journal, as the husband has been requesting I change it for quite some time now.
Bloom is definitely off the rose with my Lappy. *insert angryface here* For some reason, it's running really, REALLY slowly. Some of that is our 'net connection, because it's been a jerk on every computer in the house, but. Even fic I have loaded in tabs to just read are NON FUNCTIONAL. As in I can't scroll down the page. And I can't get to *other* tabs to just close them. *sigh* And it seems Lappy doesn't like YouTube much more than my desktop PC did. Ditto for Facebook, and it pretty much just reboots if I try to access MySpace. Not that I really ever go to MySpace, but there are a few blogs I follow through there. Facebook, on the other hand... it's my connection to people. I openly admit to being an app whore, but ALL my RL people are on there and seem to only want to communicate via Facebook. I've lost count on how many emails I've sent that have not been replied to... yet there they are, throwing sheep at me on Facebook. And it's the best way to gossip about work without being at work, since everyone from work is on Facebook too. And of course, I am just as bad at keeping up with people on Facebook as I am with LJ or email or even the phone. I mean well, but then I get distracted by shiny things.... not even good shiny things... could just be tinfoil... *sigh* Although props to xena_and_gabby, who called me on my Thursday night off last week (although how she was able to psychically guess that I'd be home since normally I work Thursday nights... although maybe not in the future; schedules at work are all messed up and I don't think I will manage 2 days off in a row until... maybe November?) even if it was in large part to cajole me into adding a Facebook app. I really think Facebook might be a recruiting tool for the devil.

All right. Now off to check on supper and get back to watching wrestling....

Shortlist nominatios are out for the SyFy genre awards. I'm of mixed opinions - Stargate Atlantis has been shut out, but Jensen Ackles is up for best actor in a series (won last year by Joe Flanigan of SGA, actually...) and Supernatural is up for best tv series. It actually looks like most of last year's winning actors weren't nominated this year, as Heroes' Masi Oka and Amanda Tapping of SG-1 missed out this year, too.

Full listing of nominees here.


ps - cross your fingers for me, as I have an interview for a promotion tomorrow!

		I will marry wenchpixie.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in New Zealand in our fabulous Shack.
		We will have 3 kittens together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Black 1967 Plymouth convertible.
		I will spend my days as a PA, and live happily ever after.

Happy birthday, onlymefeelinsad!

Anybody else super excited that The Mole is back? I missed the premiere, but I'm watching this week's right now... I'm definitely getting a feel for things already. I have in the past correctly predicted who the mole was.... hmmm...

I have another really bad headache today. The past couple Tuesdays in a row I've had weird haloing in my vision, but not always with a corresponding headache. Then this weekend I got one on Saturday afternoon, which I thought was due to pressure changes - it rained off and on all weekend. Then Sunday my back was so sore that I could hardly move, and by about 9 pm my head was pounding so much I thought I was going to be sick. I woke up at about 3:45 in the morning with chills and because my head felt like it was going to explode. Today I woke up with my back still sore and my head only marginally better... but because my back was hurting, I could't lie down, and sitting up was agony. I spent the bulk of the afternoon semi-reclined in a chair in the livingroom, and in the evening sort of reclined on the couch with ice packs on my head. If this keeps up I might have to go to the doctor. I've had migraines before, but as many as I've been having over the last few weeks is just not normal. I know some of it ties in to the weather and allergies, but this is ridiculous. I am not functional anymore. The other thing it could be is post-concussion syndrome, as about 2 weeks ago I smashed my head on a metal handrail, but I don't think it was hard enough to concuss me... but it does tie in to the onset of the bad headaches.

Fic rec - lemmealone's Fire or Fire. Post-S3 finale, it's gorgeous and hurty yet hopeful, a bit of a casefile and a character study all rolled into one. Oh, boys.

47 As a 1930s wife, I am Average Take the test!

Funny, I did it earlier and scored much higher. The only one I recall changing was saying I did cold-foot the husband, although it's rare and often he seems to like it (the man is a furnace, I tell you, and always complains of being hot.) Hmm.

Because you all have been waiting with baited breath (because indeed I am fishing for agreement :P).

Most of this is C&Ped from an email to nubby_1.

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In summary: Bakeries = tasty. Farmer's Market was good. Boat tour was fun if not quite worth the money. Dinner with parents-in-law was surprisingly uneventful. I have "fun" nightmares. Manicures are of the good, and now I'm all purple and sparkly. Beily's is an eat-at-again place, and have "martinis" called WHERE'S MY MULLET. Srsly. Lappy is the win.