Fractured Thoughts

So I was planning to finish my hlh-shortcuts fic this week as I will be away from 6th-7th it would be good if I could at least get it off to a beta before then (as the deadline is the 10th). With that in mind I have of course decided to abandon the fic I was writing and start a whole new one..... of course.

I prefer this new one I think, it's practically writing itself (which means finishing it before Monday is actually possible, and usually means the end product is better) and I think I actually have a (mostly) in character Duncan which is a first. So I have two partly written fics which fit the brief given, whichever gets finished (or if by some miracle I finish both) whichever is better will be my secret santa fic :0) then who knows I might have another fic to post in January.

Hmm... on a totally different note I was at the gym the other day and as I was leaving the changing rooms two cleaners came along. Was slightly bemused by the fact the female cleaner went in to clean the men's changing room and the male cleaner went in to clean the women's changing room. I'm sure there is some boring explanation involving rotas but it does seem an odd division of labour given that there was both a female and male cleaner there.

Have actually started to write something for my hlh_shortcuts fic... it's a miracle. I have a whole 120 words done (all at work... :0)). Of course I only really have the one scene firm in my mind, hopefully the rest of the story will come to me later. Though another plot bunny that would work sprung up whilst waiting for the bus this morning. Maybe I'll start writing both and see which one flows better as I go.

I've sort of forgotten about the Mag7 mininano for the last few days, oops, am going back to it now. Why is it the only time I want to write is when I'm at work, and am thus... supposed to be working.... on things that aren't fanfiction. After all if I do it at work, I would probably have to say I get paid for doing it, plus you know eventually my bosses will complain that none of my work gets done.

In other news, now that I have been in my job 6 months (how did that happen it was supposed to be a short thing until I got a proper job) I get free gym membership. This means free gym, free swimming, free classes and free activities at any city council leisure centre. Brilliant :0)!!! So now I am back to regular exercise for the first time in months. Went to a gym induction on Sunday, swimming on Monday and today I'm going back to the gym. My shoulders and calves hate me but otherwise I feel fantastic. Hopefully that will get the scales moving downwards again too, would be nice to get down to the 140's for Christmas, it's great though when I think this time last year I was 195 lbs.

Wow haven't posted anything for awhile so here I am. Had my birthday on Wednesday, 1 year off 30 now (which is my personal deadline for having a decent job, home and life in general. I'm not totally unrealisitic I'm happy with another rented property so long as I'm not doing the student like sharing again).  Had a fun evening, my lovely housemates bought me champagne and chocolate cake before we headed off to the pub.  Completely blew the diet of course but I delayed my cheat day until then so it fits in anyway. Most of my family sent me money this year including my Grandmother who sennt a very generous #500 (my keyboard doesn't have pound signs) which should nicely fill in the difference between my income and the absolute minimum outgoings for a few months and hopefully by then I'll be earning again.

In my quest for fitness I decided to start doing the C25K (a programme which gradually gets you up running 5K a day in 9 weeks), I just did W1D1 (definitely need to work on that fitness). Though I am a lot healthier than when I started (or rather restarted) this fitness drive at the start of november. So far I have lost 19lbs and can now do the fitness videos I've been using without collapsing in a puddle of sweat half way through.

In more fannish news I've been working on another highlander fic 'old games' which has been about half done for months..... it's still about half done but it's a longer half done (it keeps growing). I'm going to start being more regulated about writing, doing a little every day. We shall see how that goes.