Fractured Thoughts

Hey all,

Have just realised it has been a horrendous length of time since I looked at LJ/DW. I'm still around, just haven't been on LJ/DW for awhile. I've been sucked into the black hole that is supernatural fanfiction. I am on a mission to read it all... But unlike my other fandoms this one seems to be... a little big. I don't think I'll be able to catch up on 6 years worth of fanfic.

This is strange to me, I've read just about everything there is to read (in English) in the highlander fandom, probably twice at least (or anything ever recced and still available online), at one point I'd read all the highlights of the gundam wing fandom (I'm now totally out of date, I rarely read anything new just catch up with updates of a few favourites), made fairly significant dents into Charmed, Magnificent 7, Hikaru No Go and Prince of Tennis and in the last few months just about all of the recced stuff in the Leverage or Loser fandoms. Supernatural though appears to be a never ending supply. Am unsure whether this should please me or not, on the one hand will probably never run out of new stuff to read, on the other think of all the fic I will miss.

Anyway I'm sure you can see now why I haven't got round to checking my flists. New leaf, I shall try to be a better flister and keep up with peoples posts.  And I really, really must start writing fic things again, I have lots of snippet type ideas i should probably commit to screen.

I now have a shiny new laptop :0).

I'm pretty pleased, perhaps the best bit is the keyboard, I have a nice new keyboard that is actually nice to type on and it makes me want to write. My netbook is great and portable but the keyboard is a little the worst for wear and the keys are small, I can type on it but typing on this is much nicer. The old laptop couldn't access the internet and again the keyboard isn't great.

My best wishes to all my friends in Japan and Pacific regions and to those of you with friends or family out there.

Back at work.... I want another holiday :0). The mornings may just kill me but part of me is glad to get back to a routine. I put on 5lbs over Christmas (which could have been a lot worse) and I have to wait for work to renew my gym membership before I can get back to it (grr I'm trying to make sure I keep active anyway whilst I wait). Hope it'll drop off quite quickly this month with going back to stricter eating and regular exercise.

I spent my break well though, I'm behind on Bleach again so have started to catch up and I have finally got round to watching Leverage ... I'm now half way through the first series - brilliant am loving it so far.

I also got curious after someone mentioned the Strachey Mysteries, so have made my way quickly through all the films (twice), the first two books and pretty much all the fanfic I could find. I think I love movieverse Donald & Timmy. I think they are the most clearly in love couple I have ever seen, I've been trying to think of any couple I know in real life who are that happy to see each other and am coming up blank (though some of my friends came close on their wedding days), actually that's a rather depressing thought.

Writing wise I'm still whittling away at the unfinished pile in my hard drive... mainly working on a mag7 (ATF) fic at the moment. Though I have highlander, gundam wing and doctor who fics simmering too.  Though there may be a series of multi fandom ficlets coming out first if the persistent plot bunnies of the week have their way. Hmm... that reminds me, must post my hlh fic and the politics and reality update to the various archives I have dotted around and add them to my index.

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.

I am beginning to suspect I've been jinxed today. My day started with someone running into the bus on the way to work.... No one was hurt, or even shaken (I didn't even notice the impact and the car driver just drove off, presumably also unhurt) but the bus' bumper sadly didn't make it. So after transferring to another bus I was 45 minutes late into work this morning.

Lunch was out today, because one of my co-workers is leaving, I managed to smash my head as I was climbing out of the car and then triip over a step on the way to the table. Shockingy I managed to escape work without serious injury.

Then this evening I made the mistake of doing Zumba.... I am the world's most uncoordinated person, somehow I managed to punch myself in the thigh. My hand came off worst, 20 minutes later it's closing properly again.

Think I'll go to bed before I fall down the stairs or something.

Thank you to everyone for the encoragement in response to my last post. Thank God I'm finally in the new house. That was a nightmare, organised one person to move me Saturday, they take a look at all my stuff and double the price and tell me they won't do it that day. Wonderful..... I manage to track down someone nice who'll move me today instead, but of course that means I've only just got things in here and I haven't had a chance to clean the old place. Looks like I'll end p having to take a day off work after all ... If they'll let me.

I swear I'm jinxed I always end up moving on a really hot couple of days just to make the whole thing trickier. Heat, heavy lifting and anixety conspired to make me feel sick so I was hardly able to eat anything for the last 48 hours which of course left me feeling worse. On the plus side starvation and shocking amounts  of water loss mean I was down 3lbs this morning. I'll put it back on of course when my body starts paying me back for starving it but all my stuff is safely in my new house. Now I just have to find the time to clean the old one.....

As those of you living in the UK know (unless you'e been living under a rock or in a cave with no TV, radio, internet or any other way of contacting the outside world) but probably not the rest of you, tomorrow is the general election here, and it's going to be close. And I still haven't made my mind up on who I want to vote for ( the more I listen to them talk the more things I find I disagree with each of them about)..... maybe I should throw some dice.

So here I am at work, just finished the last of my to do list and passed it on to my supervisor to read, so she says 'just have a break for a few minutes whilst I read this and I'll get back with any comments'. So here I am probably won't get to read through all the entries I'm behind on but I can make a start :0).