No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. - Robert Frost

How much surprise did you give yourself on Saturday?

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Pukis are cute. :) And now I feel vaguely guilty because there are at least TWO other dolls (not counting Francesca, she'll have a photoshoot soon) that I never took out of their boxes to play. :/ Meh. *look at the pile of random eyes, wigs and clothes that patiently wait to be USED.*

Yestarday I tried to clean my poor closet, throwing away all the doll boxes that I piled there for no real reason, then I decided to play a little with my DIM Leisha. I must say I hate her faceup with passion, but I don't have the littlest wish to send her away for a new one (too much hassle, the italian postal service is crap and I dont' want to run the risk to lose her head somewhere, plus I don't have enough money to spend on that thing now), so I decided to buy a new pair of eyes and maybe a new wig for her... we'll see if things will get better. :P

Anyway, I haven't found a decent name for the two critters, yet. Do you have any suggestion? I was going for something circus-related for Pong (the better thing I could come up with is Tuesday for Pong - from Fat Tuesday) annnnnd nothing in particular for Cupid, even if her colors keep reminding me of caramel beans... but 'Caramel' isn't what I want for her. >:/

Finally caught up with yesterday's episode. Wow.

I still don't like Cap'n Jack much (pretty, egotistical Alpha male that he is) but I do feel sorry for him.

Can there ever be a Season 4 now that Torchwood has 'changed, changed utterly'?

Happy Birthday despotliz

That's me! Earlier in the week I had a conversation with a colleague of mine, musing how I've become a listener of NPR lately, completing my turn to the liberal side...though I still maintain my I am a moderate. He made some comment on NPR's obsession with using Twitter and his refusal to participate. (BTW, my friend is brilliantly smart and makes me look down right conservative.) I told him I "tweeted" and explained my reasoning behind my social networking obsession to this: I participate so much because I hold tight to the dream that one day I will be a semi-famous writer and I'll use them all for marketing/PR!

Now don't get me wrong, I love the "social" part. I love the interaction here on LJ with all of my new friends...and yes, I consider you friends...and the fact that so many authors are my "friends." I've gotten support and love that it makes sense that I've never been more productive in the writing part of my life. There are people who "root" for me to succeed and have kind words when I struggle. I know I say this frequently, but I don't know if many of you realize how much that means to me...really. Anyway, I'm socially networking every which way lately, including something new called Wonderlands and Dreamwidth (which I got access to MOMENTS ago and haven't set up yet.). So here's the roll (I still don't know how to set up a blog roll on my LJ so here's the links:

Wonderlands
Personal MySpace
Seasons of Destiny MySpace
Twitter

Please friend me, if you like!

My physio says that if circumstances were different, this week she would be telling my employer to put me on diminished duties, just to stop me hurting myself worse than I am.

Circumstances, of course, are not different (are they ever?), and my employer is not the kind of person who reacts well to such suggestions.

Still'n'all, I am trying to type less this weekend [he typed - yes, yes, I know. It's irony, 'k?]. The world is not much cooperating, though. The cricket is so awful I have not wanted to listen to it, and I doubt I shall want to watch the Grand Prix tomorrow (this is a very flat season, for a Ferrari fan). I tried watching a Harry Potter movie this early evening, and was very quickly bored. I kind of resent that, oddly: I do not like being a person who disses Harry Potter. I wanted to celebrate it, the whole phenomenon, books and films and all. But - well. Bored.

Also, I have two books I have to read, and I am not enjoying either of them. What I actually want to do right now is open a bottle of wine and a Georgette Heyer (in the interests of research, obviously), but I am not allowing myself either of those treats. If I start indulging myself now readingwise, I'll never finish the books I need to have read; and I drank far too much, stupid amounts on my own yesterday, so alcohol is being withheld this day. Bad Chaz, no biscuit. Or, in this case, booze.

I did also think I might reduce computer-time by not reading my friends page, but - well. Too late now.

On the other hand, I have just peeled three heads of garlic and stuffed a chicken with them, so it's not all awful.

And the turkey-and-pork terrine in the fridge is kinda awesome. I am most pleased with myself over that. It's just a shame I have no one to feed it to...

I am planning a writing site and am fishing out there for ideas that would be helpful to everyone.  For more, here at my journal:

ammonite7.livejournal.com/20688.html

TORCHWOOD!

Bloody hell !!!!

I'm still thinking about it.

After avoiding all doctors for six months I finally decided I'd go get the labs done. I had been feeling overwelmed by doctors and appointments toward the end of the year. So yeah, cholesteral is good 160 total, A1c is lower than it's been since I was diagnosed with diabetes though not where I'd like it. And the urine tests were all normal normal. So yeah, taking care of myself seems to have not been a failure. So now I have to make an appointment with the new doc.

The Kaiser in Tracy was really quiet. Not sure if it was because it was Thursday morning, but it really couldn't have had more than 10 cars in the lot. I got to park under one of the trees.

I'm not sleepy, which is not good since I have a friend coming to help me with planting and moving furniture in the a.m. Need not to be half awake then.

Ok. So why don't we drop Pieterson and replace him with Ramprakash?

Discuss.

Have just caught up with 'Torchwood' day 4. (We watched 'Mock the Week' yesterday instead. Mea maxima culpa.)

Peter Capaldi's character echoes 1964 Jack but on a bigger scale, and it's tearing him apart, but still he does his job and obeys his leader. I think he's a good man corrupted by the situation he's in.

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Gwen is superb in this. Even Lois the mcGuffin (cf Dai the Post, and other Welshisms) is growing on me. Russell T and co do write pretty good women characters. It's also great to see a wider range of non-white characters than usual: does anyone out there think that Lois will join Torchwood?

Saturday tubbysnuggles is coming over ...
I am making Pancakes .... and Waffles
We are gonna have fun playing dollies too!

I wish I had a more creative title for this post, but alas I do not.

The trip to Tampa is booked and we is going! I'm super stoked about the trip and I've started looking up stuff to do. We're pretty much settled on a day at Disney and a day at Busch Gardens, other than that I'm wide open. I'm hoping that maybe we can hit Sea World too. We'll see.

I also bulled through about a thousand words on "Young Jaiman" and I'm going to spend a little time on working out some of the "big picture" Seasons of Destiny stuff before going to bed.

First week of summer school is almost over...thank goodness. And Tampa is a month away!

Moi encore? Well, no quotes for you, mes amis. Just a word of encouragement: Don't give in to a lack of motivation; don't let the blank page, contrary characters, a plodding plot, or busy, hectic life get the best of you today. Show those 750 words who's the boss.

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