Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
gininacnwy	11:04p	WOO!!!! My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul GininaCnwy goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a Vampire Wal-Mart cashier. corryn831 tricks you! You get a dead frog. elveneyes11 gives you 17 softly glowing chocolate-flavoured pieces of taffy. emptystare31305 gives you 6 light orange coffee-flavoured jawbreakers. jesusthdvl tricks you! You lose 8 pieces of candy! novemberstarr gives you 1 dark green orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. pinnedxupx gives you 4 light blue cola-flavoured wafers. saferwaters tricks you! You get a toothbrush. silentchick18 gives you 2 orange vanilla-flavoured gummy worms. thylatterfool tricks you! You get a wad of paper. x_raychick tricks you! You get a piece of paper. GininaCnwy ends up with 22 pieces of candy, a dead frog, a toothbrush, a wad of paper, and a piece of paper. Go trick-or-treating! Username: Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
slashart [ angel_gospel ]	4:07p	Original Character Slash Art This picture is for my story, Boy Bride. If you're interested in reading my story, visit my journal. Story Summary: When Jibriel's tribe is slaughtered, and he himself is taken away to be sold into slavery, he thinks life can't get any worse. But then he is purchased by a witty wizard, and given as a gift to a handsome, yet reluctant master. Maybe, if things can't get worst, they can get better? It certainly seems that way. LeonxJibri Kiss Under the Stars It's one of my first pics that isn't simply in anatomic position, and it was a little hard to draw. I'm still a newbie at art, but I think it looks nice. You be the judge. :) Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
highlandericons [ icons_of_isis ]	2:43p	12 Highlander Icons In a multi-fandom sci-fi post. Want, take, credit icons_of_isis or isiscaughey, have. Comments are love. Teasers: (Fake cut to icon journal and the rest) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
gininacnwy	1:23p	Forsaken Job A bonus chapter through Grace’s pointed of view. I hear a familiar beep as scan away at this God forsaken job of mine. I technically don’t need to work at all. Not at this age anyway, but any time I can sort of be on my own is a blessed thing. I do love and most times appreciate Alexander and Jeremy’s company but I have been with them for a good many lifetimes now and I would like to see what it would be like without their constant presence. This job would be a total escape if they didn’t insist it was necessary that they be near me at all times. They say it is for my safety and back when we first made our little group it was believable but I really don’t feel as if I am in any danger now. The one thing that I am grateful for in this job is some how the two of them did not get hired in the same department as I. They are nicely put in the back of the store as stockmen. Meanwhile I somehow got put into the cashier department. I think it is because of my friendly attitude with people. Right? How I laugh to myself when I deal with these people this facility calls customers. I know I won’t be at this job for very long because I cannot stand these people who come up to my register each day. I have never met a ruder group of people in all my living. They think my constant politeness is because my job tells me so. If only they knew that my act was a way to keep them alive. A way to keep my anger under control and so I won’t snap and then Jeremy, Alexander and myself would have to move again and hide. Of course I have never actually snapped on anyone but the point remains. I won’t kill someone out of annoyance. No matter how good it would feel at the time. In this late hour two women come up to my register. The eldest of the two stands there quietly with her cart as I smile and bag her items like I would with any other customer. Once I have finished with her transaction and she starts to take off the bags she announces, “Do you have to make the bags so heavy?” That’s when things started turn pink. I took a deep breath in and watched her take her bags off and move to an empty register to re-bag what I had just loaded for her. On to the next lady, she only has a six-pack of beer. I scan and bag the contents for her and she hands me a gift card. I continue the normal procedure as I normally would with gift cards only when I slid the card in the slot it was not reading. Which meant I would have to hand-key the numbers on the back and wait for the customer service manager to come and approve it. Once I started to do that the woman interrupts with, “Do you know what you are doing?” A nice shade of hot pink turning to magenta is what I see. I sigh and respond, “Yes mam. I do. Your card would not read when I slid it through so I have to hand-key it in.” She huffs and puffs like the bad wolf she is and starts to tap her foot. No manager in sight, I look around to see if I could get one soon. The lady then broke our silence again, “Why didn’t it work? It always works. Etc, etc…” Using the same explanation as before I continue to look around for some sort of help when she shouts, “Can someone show this girl how to work this?” Red is starting to over power all of my sight. Through my teeth a say, “I know how to work this mam, I just need my manager to approve it.” With her rude mouth she responds, “Why? My card has never had a problem before. Why doesn’t it work?” and I slightly, oh ever so slightly shout, “Because it doesn’t work!” and I stormed off to find a manager as soon as possible before I break her little neck. Finally I find my customer service manager and sternly explain to her that she is needed at my register for an approval. She quickly goes to my register and approves the gift card and finishes the transaction. Oh I was tempted to follow that lady to the dark parking lot to teach her some manners. When they both left the store was back to being empty and I stood there holding on to the register with my eyes closed. ‘Just breathe Grace. She will find her punishment another way. Karma just works that way.’ I stood up and started to clean my register I said under my breath. ‘I hope her beer mysteriously breaks…” and then I mumbled something I should never say allowed. I feel him near. The air is sweeter and my blood rushes throughout my body. I will always feel him near me. His blood runs in my veins and I thank all that is great in this world for that. It is like a portal to his emotions. What ever he feels I feel as well. It makes it almost impossible to have an argument with the man because if I should say the wrong thing not only will my own guilt come into affect but also I would feel his pain from my words. I look before me and I see nothing but a sea of Blue facing me. I have always loved his eyes. Even as a little girl, those eyes were the very meaning of beauty for me. Jeremy stood there silently and as always I stood there frozen in his presence. This always happens to me when he catches me off-guard. He speaks, “It’s time for your freedom my lady.” ‘Freedom?’ I think to myself. ‘Freedom of what? I know I wanted to have some alone time but I never meant for them to leave me...’ then Jeremy raises his eyebrow and points to his watch. I laugh nervously, ‘Of course he meant freedom from this job. It’s time to clock out. Why must I always over-react?’ and think to myself once more. I logged out of my register and walked silently to the back of the store with Jeremy to the time clock. Because silence bothers me so I said, “Is Alexander meeting us by the clock?” Without looking down Jeremy responds, “Yes. He had to finish up a box.” When we reach the doors Jeremy holds it open for me. He is always the most perfect gentleman. Even with the undead chivalry is still very much alive. I am trying to get a sense of what he is feeling but he has gotten very good at disguising his feelings from me. At least when it is nothing too dramatic. One swipe and we are free from our jobs and I go to get me things from my lovely, tiny cube they call my locker. “I don’t know why you even bother putting things in there.” Says Alexander as he comes into the locker room. “You took longer than expected.” Said Jeremy. As Alexander fixes his glasses he says, “Well, I would have been here sooner but apparently this lady’s whole six-pack of beer busted on her and she demanded an exchange. I had to get management to get her out of the store.” He smiled directly at Jeremy and to my astonishment that was the very thing I had wished for not even ten minutes ago. Alexander patted my shoulder and walked out the door. Jeremy and I followed shortly after. Jeremy and I walked together slowly or it seemed slow to me. I looked over to Jeremy and what I saw made me want to burst into tears. He was smiling, my Jeremy was smiling! He hasn’t shed a smile since I can’t remember. It has been a very long time though and then it all came flashing over me. His joy and my joy combined radiated through me and to him I am sure. He was happy and proud. I could feel it in my veins. If it weren’t for the slight scent of beer on his shirt I would never have believed he granted my wish. This was the first thing that he had done for me that was out of protocol since the 1940’s. Trying to hold back my emotions, I found it very challenging because the same feelings that I was trying to push back were coming through me from another source. He still loves me. My Jeremy still loves me even after all these years. I finally felt his true feelings since that night over a half-century ago. Feeling my wall breaking loose what really did me in was as soon as we walked out of the store and the cold night air hit my skin. I couldn’t hide how I felt anymore because like me, Jeremy could feel everything I felt. It would surge through him as it would me. Even though it was completely obvious he knew how I felt I still tried to physically hide it. I let my hair down and covered my face. My thin wall of hair would certainly be would enough to hide from him. The tears were welling up in my eyes and I tried as hard as I could to push them back. My breathing started to stagger and that is when Jeremy grabbed my arm and we stopped in the middle of the empty parking lot. “Grace what’s wrong?” he asked. I could hear the worry in his voice and the worry started to flow through me now. I just shook my head because I knew if I said anything everything would crumble and my tears would rain down on my cheeks. His hands brushed back my hair and then I met his beautiful eyes again. I hated how I ruined his happy mood with needless worry. The wall broke and my tears started to rain against my will. I wrapped my arms around his neck and I started to babble. “Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Jeremy. I know it was a little thing but you don’t know how much this means to me. Oh Jeremy thank you so much.” I could feel his happiness return and he then wrapped his arms around me waist and held me tight. His scent was everything I needed. I could feel him stroking my hair. Then we pulled away and he wiped away my tears. The deep fire within burned my skin every time he touched me. Then he did another thing that he hasn’t done for quite a while. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. The fire now rushed through me when his lips touched me. And at the same time I was calm. Every time he does that it’s like a safety blanket. The world is peaceful and I feel safe again. We walked to the car and Jeremy opened the back door for me. I got in and smiled at Alexander who was in the drivers seat and then the door closed and I looked and there was Jeremy, sitting by my side. He was just doing everything out of the ordinary tonight. Completely exhausted I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. I felt my head gently slide down on what felt like a soft but firm pillow. I opened my eyes and looked up. Jeremy was smiling and as if his eyes could be any brighter they shined through the darkness. He whispers, “It’s ok Grace. Just go to sleep, you are very tired.” I smiled and turned my head and even though I knew this was just temporary it felt like heaven. He kissed my forehead again and I moved closer to him. Then Jeremy, my best friend, my watcher, the love of my eternal existence, took my hand into his where it remained for the long drive home. I closed my eyes and I floated off to sleep. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
news [ theljstaff ]	5:32p	US Elections, style=mine, beta profile, Snap, and Bollywood U.S. Presidential Election Community With a historic U.S. election coming down to the wire, causing a lot of buzz in the U.S. and abroad, we thought it would be cool to create a community with a global view on the 2008 election. To that end, we've partnered with various news providers, including The Independent in the UK, Gazeta in Russia, and Mint in India, to allow their journalists to engage with the LiveJournal user community, asking questions and posting news stories for comments and discussion. Our goal is to encourage a lively and spirited debate between users and news providers worldwide on LiveJournal itself, and also to allow republication of user comments from within this community in print and online media outside of LiveJournal. In this way we hope to facilitate cross-border public discussion of the issues and personalities involved to provide a better understanding of the internal political debates here in the U.S. as well as the international perspective of the U.S. election. Whether your views swing red, blue, purple, or neutral, come check out us_election2008 and let your opinions be heard. Persistent style=mine for Paid Users Many of you know that you can add the parameter ?style=mine to a journal URL in order to view that journal in your own journal's style. In the spirit of giving users more of what they've been asking for, we're giving our users with Paid Accounts a persistent style=mine option. If you want to override other journals' styles with your own all of the time, just turn on the "View all journals and communities in your own style" setting at the Viewing Options page. This will make it so every journal you view will always be shown in your own style. In addition, you can use the navigation strip at the top of most journals to quickly toggle between the journal's original style and your own style. Head over to paidmembers for more information on this new feature. Speaking of paid accounts . . . . Paid Account Sale Ending Soon One minute before the stroke of midnight on September 30th (11:59 p.m. PDT on 9/30/2008, to be exact), our paid account sale comes to an end. Act now to get 20% off the purchase of a 12-month block of paid account time. Check out our paid account sale page for details.  In addition, we wanted to remind everyone about the permanent account sale, coming in November: stay tuned for more information on pricing and other details. New Profile Page in Beta We have long wanted to make the profile page easier to navigate, so we have committed our best thoughts to paper (or .pdf) and put the redesigned profile page into Beta. If you want to participate in beta testing for the profile page, go here. The design team has been hard at work incorporating a lot of feedback from the folks over at lj_design into the process, reorganizing information to make it easier to scan and process. This is just the start of the conversation with our users about how to improve the profile page, and we encourage your feedback over on the lj_design post. Our goal is to continue the evolution of the profile page to best suit user needs. Snap Implementation Changes We're changing the "Enable graphic previews" setting on the Viewing Options page from a journal setting (whether or not other people see it on your journal) to a user setting (whether or not you see it site-wide). You do not need to make any changes to your settings—whatever you had selected as a journal setting will be used as your new viewing option. For logged-out viewers of your journal, your viewing option will determine whether or not Snap is shown. Idea Bollywood Club Community Some people dream of being famous in Hollywood, the so-called Motion Picture Capital of the World, but across the globe in Mumbai there is another dream factory—Bollywood. LiveJournal has partnered with Zoom TV to present a behind-the-scenes look at Idea Bollywood Club, an American Idol-esque show with an Indian twist. If you're keen to find out more about the show's contestants, or want to show your support for your favorites, head on over to bollywoodclub and make yourself heard. All next week the show will be live-blogged, providing an extra bit of insight into the running of the show. Current Mood: pretty happy (420 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
highlandericons [ missfnb ]	11:51p	Multi-fandom including Highlander [40] Veronica Mars, Pilot [10] Beauty and the Beast, Belle [6] Robert Pattinson [27] A Little Princess [29] Highlander: The Series, Comes a Horseman, Revelation 6:8, The Ransom of Richard Redstone (*WARNING for language on a couple of these*) Previews: The rest are HERE at fancynewicons. Comments are love, and if you like what you see, please feel free to WATCH the community. Current Mood: awake Current Music: "Flashlight" -- Parliament (Comment on this)