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Chris and Amy's Wedding

happy belated birthday to vampyremoon!

*re-vanishes from internets*

Vacation is almost over. I fly home tomorrow night, but everyone here has to work tomorrow, so it's kind of a wasted day. Then it's back to work Tuesday... my next day off is next Monday.

I am horribly behind on everything - but I am trying to catch up! I have sweet charity assignments to post next weekend, so stay tuned.

Battery on Lappy dying... gotta run!

happy - somewhat belated - canada day! i spent my day celebrating in the nation's capital, among the throngs of people. had lunch, mojitos, iced coffees; saw all the insanity of major's hill park, rideau street, and parliament. watched fireworks in front of chateau laurier.

now i'm tired, my neck is stained red from the beads i was wearing, and i ache all over from too much walking with too heavy a bag.

but it was a good day.

I am really fucking pissed off right now.

I'm on vacation, visiting the family, staying at my parents' place.

I had a shitty sleep, tossing and turning all night, every little sound waking me up.

then, around noon, my dad's creepy, loud friends showed up. I was just getting up. They are so creepy I don't feel comfortable getting in the shower when they're here, even though they're downstairs. I don't feel comfortable getting food if they're here. One of them just left, unfortunately, it was the louder, less creepy one - at least if it had just been him here I could have had lunch. But no. The one that's still here - at 3 pm - is the one who has a history of behaving inappropriately with me. (when I was about 13, he liked to come up behind me and massage my shoulders and then whisperin my ear about how nice I looked, etc. I will NOT go near him, I don't care about the fact that he's teh dad of a former classmate. He says fucking inappropriate things about his own daughter for fuck's sake. I want him OUT of the house.)

So now I'm tired, cranky, hungry, wanting a shower... this is NOT the way I wanted to spend my time off work, trapped in a little room when it's stifling hot and I can't even bring myself to have the door open to let in the air conditioning.

This time around, I have a selection of recs that are set anywhere in the timeline prior to season 4. After such a tense year, I thought it might be nice to look back a bit and remember what it was like before all the angels and worrying about freeing Lucifer.


Unaccustomed As We Are by apreludetoanend; gen, PG-13, post-Mystery Spot.
This one is fairly short, sweet, and has a fun mystery to solve. I'm not much of a Bela fan, but the Bela in this is note-perfect.

formative by shoiryu; gen, PG-13.
Dean and cigarettes. Oh yes. Mostly teenage!Dean, and I really enjoy the way the author portrays Dean's mild, youthful rebellion. It also has a lot of sweet moments of Dean being an awesome big brother.

Drown in the Wonders by nilchance; gen, PG.
John looks at his newborn son in wonder. Such a beautifully written piece, and full of awe.

Perennial by roque_clasique; Sam/Jess, PG-13.
This has a hunt mixed with a little bit of schmoop with a little missing the family - something for everyone! The author makes Jess seem like a fully-fleshed out character, with all kinds of little touches that seal the deal for me. I also enjoy seeing Stanford-era Sam hunt on his own, and the detail in the hunt is great. Plus the memories Sam has of his childhood just about melted me!

Five Cigarettes That Sam Smoked by essenceofmeanin; gen, PG-13.
This was apparently the author's first SPN fic, and what a way to start! This one is indeed a "Five Times" fic, and i love it. It outlines some of the pivotal moments in young Sam's life and throws new light on his relationship with Dean.It's one of my favourite examples of this style of fic.

The Crowded Room by kellifer_fic; Adult, gen, 2251 words.
So few words for such an amazing, creepy, fantastic story. To quote Kel's summary: Dean never realised how right he was when he started thinking that there was a stranger in his passenger seat. This story is a fabulous concept riffing on season 2 and the PsyKids. I can't recommend this enough, and to say more is to give it all away. This is the must-read of this set of recs.

Roll call - are all my Washington,DC-area peeps all right?

(FYI - major collision on the Red line, just north of DC, tonight at around 5pm EST.)

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still mostly hiatused. RL is crazy, I'm falling farther behind on all my deadlines, sleep is not happening except in 45 minute bursts... thank God for my "vacation" to visit family. I use quotation marks because I bet I'll be more busy than I would be if I were not to go home.... but it's a welcome distraction.

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.

( Harper's Island musings here... spoilers for the ep to air Saturday in the US )

Anyway, I want to play Guitar Hero Metallica, but I end up in more pain than it's really worth. *sigh* So I will probably end up just trying to sleep instead.

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• 03:20 So not looking forward to work in... 6 hours. #

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• 05:47 uh... so I did start playing plants vs zombies... and haven't slept yet as a result! #
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• 00:38 Dammit, @WilWheaton! Now I just lost the game too! #
• 00:38 Correction - @wilw mademe lose the game. #

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• 23:45 Chris has been playing Plants vs Zombies for the last week solid...now I wanna play! #

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• 13:34 Back home. Sunburnt. Tired. Happy.
  
  Also - happy birthday to my fellow birthday people, especially @madders and @JewelStaite! #
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Shopping has been a success! I now own a cute little black vest top, a new black hoodie, a purple sweater-top thing, season 1 of Third Watch, some cherry body scrub from Body Shop (it's a sugar-scrub, which I've never used before, so I'll have to remember that I can't get it wet at all! Or else it will be cherry soup!) and some hand soaps... We also did groceries, and I think we're going to get KFC for supper so we don't have to cook. We don't eat it often - maybe twice a year, if that - so it's not too horrible. We wanted to try the Grilled menu, but it's not available in Canada yet! We also had ice cream at the Double Decker Bus this afternoon, so I call it a good day so far.

Off now to put groceries away and to put on more aloe lotion. Sunburns suck.

Should I post the pictures I took while I was in Drumheller?

Am home from my visit with the dinosaurs. Kinda wish we'd had one more day, so everything felt less rushed, but I HATED the hotel beds, so... it's kinda even. Managed to get rather impressively sunburnt on Sunday - I am terribly pale, and so my whole neck and the edges of my face got extra-crispy when we were out. I think we spent about an hour total (as in, we were in and out of little buildings) out at the coal mine place, and my hair was in a ponytail then, so the back of my neck was somewhat covered... but the edges of my shoulders got burnt a little. I didn't notice. Then we spent about 30 to 45 minutes at the Hoodoos taking pictures, and my hair was pinned up... and that's when the real burn started. It was midday, and we were up on a rock face, with nothing but sun. I should have known better, but apparently I failed. Then we were out at a canyon, taking pictures for another half hour-ish, again up high with no shade anywhere... I didn't even realize I had burnt until later, when we were at a museum and my neck was prickly and itchy... then I scratched and it felt like I'd used an acid-tipped dart to do it! *sigh* So far no blisters, though, which I am EXTREMELY happy about. I burned in the place where I have had THREE previous sunburns bad enough to have to go to the doctor for burn treatment (although I haven't had that happen in... thirteen years?) so I was very afraid of blisters. I guess now we'll see if I actually have the ability to tan, huh? Normally I burn a little, then after the burn I just go back to pasty white. Maybe this time I'll actually get some colour...?


So today is my birthday. I have to frost some cupcakes, drop by work (it's someone's last day) and then I have to go to the bank and I want to see if I can find some new clothes, because I have a gift certificate. And I think I'm dropping by the Body Shop for some scrub-type-stuff. I need more exfoliation! Tonight I think we're either FINALLY watching the last two episodes of SGA or working on the Eureka DVDs.

And happy happy birthday to madders, who has the great taste in being born on the same day as me. ;)

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• 18:49 Packing to go to Drumheller... yay dinosaurs! Unrelated but awesome - #jensenacklesforcaptainamerica #
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I've hand-picked ten of my favourite Supernatural and RPS crossovers for you this month!

untitled by chash. RPS/Twilight. This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Jared plays Bella's part, Jensen is Edward... but not. I'm in no way a Twi-hard, but this was brilliant.

Look What My Baby Can Do by dramaphile; SPN/Transformers, gen, 700 words. Also funny. And I could almost believe the Impala as a Transformer - and a badass one, at that.

Younger Son by maychorian; SPN/Stargate Atlantis, gen, PG, 2228 words. It takes a special story for me to like SPN/SGA crossovers, and I LOVE this one. To borrow her summary - McKay told him not to go in that room, but John Sheppard is at least half cat, with the same curiosity problem. Meanwhile, there's something in Sammy Winchester's closet.

demon-touched sophists by smokeringhalos; SPN/Angel, Lindsey/Sam, R. This is rather AU (even for crossovers), but the characterization is interesting and the sex? HOT.

Multiple short fics posted by tigriswolf - SPN/Leverage, SPN/Ten Inch Hero and just SPN; PG. These are all great, and all have a moment of "Holy crap!" in them. I think my favourite one is the Ten Inch Hero crossover, though.

Rule #7: always be specific when you lie by anniehow; SPN/NCIS, gen, PG. Though I'm not fannish about NCIS, I do love the characters dearly, and the author really makes this whole story work. Even the deus ex machina works it.

It could grip it by the husk by deirdre_c; SPN/Merlin, gen, PG, ~3100 words. I have been living in Canada under a rock and so have never seen Merlin, but this still rocked like a rocking thing. The absurdity of Winchesters at a Ren Faire is note-perfect and actually believable, and of course, the author also brings the funny out.

Like the White-Winged Dove and Living on a Prayer, by nwhepcat; SPN/BtVS, R. Oh, Faith and the Winchesters. Bonus Castiel. The House on the Rock. Boston. Slayer visions and angelic healing. This story has it all. Better yet, both fandoms are well-represented and the story captures the feel of both at the same time.

War Stories by july_july_july; SPN/Star Trek (new movie), gen, PG-13. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but I have seen about a million trailers and been spoiled silly, and this story made me want to a) see the movie NOW, and b) see MORE IN THIS UNIVERSE. Because in just a short piece, the author created something that caught me completely.

Hey Little Sister by mhalachaiswords; SPN/SGA, PG, gen, 1870 words. This story has been made a little bit more AU since season 4's In The Beginning, but the story itself is wonderful. This is a story about John and his family, and really captures a side to him that has been underrepresented in canon. In my head, I would love to consider this as real backstory for John.

Off to Drumheller to see dinosaurs, with no net access. Back on my birthday. :)