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Lovely trailer with Robin Williams being Robin Williams, and Sarah looking all grown up.





I can't wait to see it.

So, finally finished getting caught up with Doctor Who, so I'm all ready for the new season, which is a long way off, sob.

Anyway, cingergal, I really liked the finale. Quite a bit. :-)

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Just got home from seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness, and my head is full. LOVED IT!!!! So much action! So much fun. My one complaint from the first movie is that I did not care for Simon Pegg's Scotty. That was entirely fixed in this movie. He was as awesome as the rest of the cast. And Benedict Cumberbatch was beyond awesome. So I am a very happy Trek girl. \o/

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So, I've mentioned before that I have a problem with cow's milk. I actually went to an allergist about it and discovered that it wasn't a true allergy (I don't start to react until I begin to digest it) and that I was actually "cow dairy intolerant." I've been careful to make the distinction between that and lactose intolerance... because I don't have a lactose intolerance reaction. There are no digestive problems, no gas. It's all respiratory... stuffy nose, plugged ears and, if I get enough of it, my lungs get in on the action (and if I have even a little over a sustained period of time, I get sinus infections and bronchitis).

The thing is, I remember going off milk as a child for these very same issues... and at one point being given a prescription for this stuff that was described as being an enzyme (which I now think might have been lactase), then later using Lactaid when it came out and having it be relatively effective. Eventually, it seemed like I'd grown out of the problem and didn't think about it again until a few years ago when my doctor recommended I go dairy free for a bit again and see if that solved my sinus infection problem. And it did.

So, for the last few years, I've just avoided cow's milk... and found that I actually don't care for the stuff much (it tastes sort of rancid to me now) and I'm perfectly happy with substitutes. But I recently remembered the enzyme treatments and using Lactaid and decided to try an experiment. I picked up a thing of Yoplait Lactose Free yogurt and tried eating it... and had no reaction.

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BTW, the other thing I discovered is that pre-flavored yogurt is WAY too sweet. I've gotten so used to adding just a bit of Torani syrup to plain goat yogurt.

This story was originally published as a Charity Sip by Torquere for the It Gets Better campaign, but the rights are back with me, so I'm sharing it. It's sweet and romantic rather than heavy on the smut and it's around 7,600 words.

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Hello BtVS/AtS fans! I'm still here! *waves*



Divided Destiny
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Rating: Teen.
Characters: Spike, Angel, Illyria, Buffy, Scoobies + cameos from more or less everyone in the 'verse.
Feedback: Is bloody ambrosia! (The secret ingredient is otter...)
Setting and Summary: This is the sequel to ‘Maybe Someday’ (or, more accurately, Maybe Someday was the prequel for this), in which Spike, Angel and Illyria turned up in Rome and encountered Buffy (Sept. 2004). During the following week Buffy and Spike started dating (and working through their issues), Illyria picked up some handy portal opening powers and Angel got a lead on someone who used to know the Wolf, Ram and Hart. This fic starts the evening after that fic ended. The story chronicles Angel, Spike and Illyria’s attempt at taking down W&H. Can it be done? And if so, what will the price be? (That’s all the warning I’m going to give you, OK? Don’t yell at me later. Also see quote below.)

SPIKE: What do you think all this means for that Shanshu bugaboo? If we make it through this, does one of us get to be a real boy?
ANGEL: Who you kidding? We're not gonna make it through.
‘Not Fade Away’

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So I didn't forget Seasonal Spuffy (thanks Gabrielle), and my entry can be read here:

Title Promises to Keep (Miles to Go Before…)
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13
Words 3500
Setting An AU post-Chosen (very AU for AtS season 5)
Genre Road Trip




Also on AO3 if you prefer



(I completely hate the title, btw, but this is my best effort as of 11pm last night. So. Just let your eyes slide right over that part.)

Very warm wishes to you, and hope you're having a simply wonderful day today. :)

I have a wrap-up post to make about my trip, but for now I'm posting my premiering vid from VidUKon. I was so amazed that there were people at the con who knew the series, and that even some of the people who didn't grokked what the vid was doing.

Pick Up the Phone
Fandom: Awake
Artist: The Notwist
File: 39.9MB avi
"If you're telling me that the price of seeing them, feeling them...of having them in my life is my sanity, then that's a price I will happily pay."

Streaming at YouTube here, and embed below

The phones are still boned. Apparently it's not just us, either. Receptionist knows of at least one other local business struggling. Our cable company, bought out last summer, finally transitioned over to them like a week ago. I blame that.

Then the printer/copier. I made a bunch of copies this morning, no problem. I tried to print something and it didn't work. Tried again, nothing. Cleared the cache, nothing. Turned off the machine. Turned it back on.

Nothing.

No power.

So, I changed sockets to our power strip.

No power.

Pulled out the machine from the wall and it came back on. Loose cord? Didn't like being so close to the wall? That happens to our wireless stick--if it brushes the wall, the wireless goes down.

Technology man...

Luckily I still have internet. Hope to watch Revolution from this past Monday while folding and sending out invoices this afternoon while boss is in a trial.

He's gone most of the day (gone now) but I have tons of work to do.

I did get all Mating Games things done and have written the Fullmoon Ficlet, just need to edit it. Then I need to continue it because it's the beginning of the second part of what seems to be a fucking new Peter/Stiles mating bite series. Really, GIVE ME ANOTHER TROPE!!!!

I need to write one more ficlet and I'll have bingo for Teen Wolf. The deadline is next Friday and I'd still like to get the other three Peter/Stiles ones to make a down through the across I'll have. One of them is definitely doable with this new series--knotting. Which, surprisingly, I've never written.

After the Royals lost again--really, giving up four homers in a NON-homerun park???? I watched the last two Vampire Diaries. Yay!!! I love that 'ship. Always have. But then, bad boys, man!

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Well, need to work...

Still stuck with phone only.

Memorial Day weekend. The smell of smoke and meat, the firecrackers and occaisional gunshots. The guy who was arrested by tge cops a while back from next door is back----and had a showdown in the street with four extremely loud women who coukd be heard at least a block away. My neighbors next door do not have inside voices. They also seem to think that claiming it's....simething something day means it's get out of jail free and they can do whatever they want----including parking a vehicle ten feet from my front door and turning the stereo up so loud it ceases to be a sound and becomes instead something like the blast wave of ...something.

The neihhbors on the other side, by contrast, let me know they were having an engagement party. I missed it. Their idea of talking does not involve doing so so loudly that it blasts through my house. A group of guys gsthered in front of the house, passed a bottle or can discreetly, and.....their voices could not be heard at all. Not one syllable. There were was no garbage ir litter the next morning either.

I'd like to clone them.

Got out one of my swords last night and sharpened it, then put it back beneath my pillow. Very therapeutic.

Someone lijes to burn leaves around here, even though it's been illegal forever. There's going to be an awful lot of drinking this weekend, and nothing memorial about it, except perhaps by my neighbors on the one side. They obviously care about their behavior.

Maybe I can get stuff done. Back hadn't been hurting too bad. I have laundry to do, maybe I'll plant some stuff. When the neighbors aren't around. Loud Stereo People will adk you if it's too loud, and even tell you gaily to just ask, but strangely enough, they apparently never notice the volume at which the cops get called. They do, however, get offended when you shout to be heard over the bass, because that is SO rude. They're very sensitive like that....but they think that their music is somehow contained inside the flimsy drywall that makes up the badly-renovated walls of this latest rental. I've had some neighbors that let slip they'd been booted from two places already that year. They always leave holes in walks and huge piles of garbage. One neighbor set fire to what looked like a couple of rooms of the stuff----which she had dumped on someone else's property, so the city could fine them and not her.

I need to get out of here.

Doing What He Ought To Do, Spike/Buffy by gillo.

Recruit , AU Season Four Spike by shapinglight.

Victrola , Spike/Angel by hello_spikey.

Love's Gentle Touch , Spike/Xander by skargasm.

Chapter Eight of Think Of Me As Your Family by velvetwhip.

frenchani lists ten things that made her love "BtVS" forever .

And shadowkat67 also has thoughts about what made "BtVS" great .

Spike/Buffy icons by gillo.

William banner by comlodge.

ONTD talks to SMG and Danny Strong about the ten year anniversary.

The HuffingtonPost salutes ten years of BtVS. And so does LAMagazine .

Happy birthday to two dear LJ friends, "singinglark and vampkiss! I hope both of you had a wonderful day and an even better year to come!

And a fic for seasonal_spuffy.

Rated G. Ten years after...

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It's my day at seasonal_spuffy, and with my characteristic degree of preparedness, my fic is incomplete. Here, however, are some icons. Feel free to take any - credit is nice, comments make me happy.


   

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Interesting meme -

A - Age: 53 .... How the heck did that happen!!
B - Bed size: Superking (6' wide and 6'3" long) - has to be with two tall people sharing.
C - Chore you hate: Ironing! Mr Cee is amazing and does it all!!
D - Dog's name: Never owned one although I do like dogs I'd hate to leave it alone in the house all day.
E - Essential start to your day item(s): Coffee and breakfast and the Interwebs!
F - Favorite color: (favourite colour) purple :)
G - Gold or Silver: I like gold better but I like both!
H - Height: 5'11"
I - Instruments you play: I could probably still play the clarinet. I can play descant and tenor recorder and if my nails are short enough classical guitar.
J - Job title: Quality systems officer - Access to HE
K - Kisses or hugs: Both!
L - Living arrangements: house in the SE suburbs of London/borders of Kent countryside, with Mr Cee, occasional Eldest and Youngest Cee, 4 cats and 4 fish :)
M - Mood: sleepy right now.
N - Nicknames: Mr Cee calls me 'sweetie' the big softy!
O - Overnight hospital stays other than birth: Tonsils and adenoids removed when I was 5 but that's all if we aren't counting birthing babies.
P - Pet Peeves: Intolerance
Q - Quote from a movie: cheating here as I was re-watching Sherlock yesterday "We solve crimes. I blog about it and he forgets his pants."
R - Right or left handed: Right.
S - Siblings: 1 younger brother.
T - Time you wake up: alarm goes off at 6.15a.m but I usually start to wake up about 5a.m. even at the weekends which is annoying.
U - Underwear: Of course!
V - Vegetable you dislike: Marrow or raw celery - I pretty much like all the others.
W - Ways you run late: I hate being late and usually arrive far too early!
X - X-rays you've had: Feet (there were machines in shoe shops that x-rayed your feet when I was small - mine must be radioactive!!), right thumb as I dislocated it when I was 5, stomach when I was 6 as they thought I'd swallowed a safety pin, lots of dental x-rays, right foot last year.
Y - Yummy food you make: I enjoy baking and cook good cakes and biscuits, I also make a mean focaccia bread, and Italian pasta.
Z - Zoo favourite: definitely otters.

That was fun!

1. I need information and local assistance for her.
She does not have a computer. I might be able to change that.
2. She just got a whole bunch more cats dumped on her, including bottle
babies, so she's frazzled. If you're sending her food, could you send a
bit more?


...I swear to God, I'm moving her to Michigan when I move. But until
then.....??