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The recent discussion on warnings and triggers has gotten me to thinking a bit, and instead of contributing in a major way to the discussion at large, I thought it might be time to post my personal warnings policy.

Introduction )
Warning Labels )
Kink Labels )
Ratings Line )
Final Notes )

-bs
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So I'm a little late this year doing this, but I had a really lazy holiday, and enjoyed most of it.  As is normal, I'm taking the old list and updating it for this year, which means it won't change all that much, especially as this functions mainly as a reminder of things I need to work on. 

Household Maintenance )


Household Updates )

 
Garden Plans )


Landscaping )

 

SCA skill sets )

 

Read more... )
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And here's the To-Do List for 2019.  Major goal this year is to start making serious efforts to replace things that need replacing.

Maintaining the household maintenance )




Updating the house is a never-ending project... )



I want a garden of candy canes! )




LANDSCAPING )



SCA skills )


Stitching Fever! )




Fannish Endeavors )


Personal Administration )




Health Maintenance )



Furniture Projects )



Wishlist )

So, we got some new stuff, and got rid of some old stuff, which is about the way it's supposed to be.

-boogieshoes, the busy
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So, here's my yearly round-up post.  I know a lot of these To-Do/ To-Done lists tend to stay the same year-in and year out, but it's still a good idea for me to review them.  This year, I said I was going to emphasize household repairs.... um.... you didn't hold me to that, right?

Maintained the household, but not improved... )
Household is holding... )


Garden plans had to be adjusted on the fly )


Some landscaping improvements happened )


SCA skills elude me... )

Stitching Accomplishments do not mean Stitching Finishes... )


Fannishness...  )

I'm personally... not very organized... )


Here's to my health! )

I can't make furniture )

Wishlist Fullfillment )

-boogieshoes, in review

-boogieshoes, the busy
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I was idly thinking about the Magnificent 7.5 AU i started long ago, and may even finish the first story of.  Some day.

When I was a young fan-girl, and The Sentinel was still fresh and awesome and so completely fandom's little black dress, a woman named Susan created a GDP AU of the Sentinel... and I ate it up.  And it was my not-so-secret fetish for a while. And then I started to pick apart the holes, because that's what I do when I'm really fascinated and in love with an idea.  Basically, if I start picking it apart, you know I really like it.  So the GDP AU was kind of awesome, and should have really showcased how bad a Guide's life could get in the universe set-up, but I noticed some things like... Blair was the only Guide who was ever abused, despite a governmental institution ripe for abuse that was very obviously corrupt and full of corruption.  Every other Guide's relationship with their Sentinel was nearly glowingly perfect.  Yet the exposition and GDP set-up made it a point that the Guides were in a very precarious position, kept imprisoned and chained to their Sentinels in law if not in physical iron.  It was weird to see a system where you *know* power-hungry assholes would get off on abuse of power, and in fact, the in-universe history pretty explicitly detailed cases of it, but it was never shown on-screen except for with the GDP Guards....

Now there's another show at this time called Renegade.... featuring the lovely Lorenzo Lamas.  And being the young fan-girl crushing on Lamas' magnificent chest (I sh*t you not, I think the first 3 episodes never showed the man in a shirt under his vest), I *of course* was thinking it'd be cool to show someone else's life being turned upside down due to the GDP rules - a Guide for Reno Raines (played by Lamas)! heh, and guess who would have an angsty Unrequited love crush but his female Guide!  Who would be a variation of me, of course.  Because fan-girl crushes.*

Fast forward a few years, and an older-but-hopefully-wiser fan-woman is binge-watching Renegade, grinning and giggling about how cute Lamas was back in the day.  And I got to thinking... in the Mag 7.5 AU, which I've been noodling about lately, I should totally make every new Guide I introduce girl-boy-girl-boy-etc... you know, keep the cast even.  Well, I've already got Chris's Guide pegged as a girl, and I had a random thought that Reno could actually be a damn good partner with an ex-military guy... which would be an interesting story in and of itself**....

But this means I have a really good excuse to drool over a younger Lorenzo Lamas again, and brush up on my Renegade... and I have ZERO problem with watching a cute man with a nice chest! :)

-boogieshoes, contentedly drooling over Lamas


*Incidentally, it's a really, really good thing I like to build in my head before this stuff ever makes it to paper.  talk about drawer-fic...
**It also means that the Guide on Ryan Kelly's team, if I'm allowed to borrow them, is going to wind up being another female***
***It also means this post has gone from light and funny to more serious than it was ever meant to be.  I swear, I can kill a laugh at the comedy show!
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Well, it's that time of year where I see how things have gone last year....  note that for most of the text below, the black text is actually coded black, not 'automatic' - some weird thing about the html means when i highlight and hit 'automatic', the color isn't changing... so just an fyi.
I feel like I did more this year... )

-boogieshoes, the busy

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I started the 2017 list with a wish that things would get better - that obviously happened, especially with regards to health!  So, this is the 2018 list:


HOUSEHOLD MAINTENANCE
yet another maintaining maintainer )

The items I'm specifying this year will help with the heating and cooling bills.  And since I'm in the middle of organizing and downsizing - this can only help, hah.

HOUSEHOLD UPDATES

improvement things )



GARDEN PLANS

my garden is *quite* contrary, thank you! )

The iron bit is actually almost done - need to drive the last bit to the recycle place and get it totally done.


LANDSCAPING

... is being worked on )

SCA SKILL SETS

i still need some, heh )



STITCHING GALLERY
this list is actually smaller this year! )




FANNISH ENDEAVORS
and i'm trying to get this list smaller... )



PERSONAL ADMINISTRATION

is being administered )



HEALTH MAINTENANCE

is being attempted... )



FURNITURE PROJECTS

this section resides in OZ, I'm pretty sure... )




WISHING THESE WISHES WERE MINE

So does this one.... )


For me, the big things this year are: electronic organization, weight reduction now that my body's not fighting me, and working on archery.  Which of course means I have to get the archery stuff out in the yard to practice!  I'll get there....

-boogieshoes, the busy
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So, I cleared my 'to do' list so I could concentrate on writing fanfic for the Mag7 Christmas stockings... and I'm having a hard time getting motivated.  I'm actually having a hard time getting motivated to stitch, too, either on the machine or hand embroidery... it's kind of annoying, because it's the perfect time to do stuff, and I feel like I'm moping.  Oi.

The only good thing is... I've been getting back into Misty Lackey's Valdemar-verse again lately, trying to get into the Mags saga....   And I say this is a good thing not because I'm reading, but because I feel like she's jumped the shark a bit... and that urge to complain and set out my argument might push me into getting excited about this stuff again and dreaming and thinking 'what would happen if?'  I don't know if this is chemo-brain or not, this feeling that i just can't get into anything creative, can't focus.  But I'm going to start laying out my argument anyway, in an attempt to jump-start some brainwaves.

So, Lackey's formula for Heralds of Valdemar has an abused youngster miraculously saved by a Companion (intelligent, telepathic, white horse), who goes on to serve the Kingdom of Valdemar in capacity as a Herald, who is basically a combination law-giver, first responder, and dirty trickster-on-the-side-of-light.  She introduced us to this world with Talia (Arrows of the Queen) and pretty solidified it with Vanyel (The Last Herald-Mage).  I loved those works and still think those characters are very deep and well-rounded, with a good, solid set of motivations.  I kind of got disgusted with Lavan Firestorm and Brightly Burning, and couldn't quite make myself read Takes a Thief, Skif's story, on the chance that she'd screwed up with him, too, and Skif is an awesome character.  And for a while, I stayed away from the universe because of other pretties that were written better, I felt.  Then came my current issues, and I started re-reading some Valdemar-verse fanfic (The Grass is Greener Series is amazing... and hilarious, and on AO3), and I got all excited again, and decided to pick up the pro books.  And that's where Mags comes in.

Lackey stuck to her best formula for Mags's back-story - he's a orphan that a mine-owner picked up with other orphans to and put to work chipping gems.  Because the mine owner is an a$$hole, he barely gives the kids enough to live on, barely enough to keep them warm, etc etc.  One day, a Companion comes to the mine looking to Choose.  The mine-owner chases him off, only to have a full Herald come back with his own Companion and the original.  Mags, of course, is the Choosee.  Mags is a strong personality, and the saving Herald Jakyr, is a complicated individual.  When the two finally get back to the Palace, Jakyr tells Mags that a new Trainee system is going into affect with his class.  That is, they're building a new Heraldic Collegium in addition to rebuilding Healer's and Bardic's.  Previously, all the Heralds learned on an apprentice system, basically, and the full Herald who first found the Trainee took up the new Herald for mentoring.  It is pointed out that there are over 60 Herald Trainees, and that the Heralds are basically going from an organization where everyone knows everyone else to one where there's about to be too many Heralds for personal relationships.

This... has the potential to be a good story.  And if Lackey had set it about 2-300 years after founding, I'd think it would be well placed.  Unfortunately, it's not.  It's explicitly stated that this is about 75-100 years after the last herald-mage.  In between Vanyel and Talia, the size of the kingdom has doubled, expanding to the north and the west.  But even at Vanyel's time, it takes him a week on horseback at normal horse-pace to get to Forst Reach (his birth home) to the west of the capital.  Figure this is about 200 miles or there-abouts.  And the border is even further - witness his hectic ride to Highjorune in Magic's Pride.  So at Vanyel's time, Valdemar is a rough square about 460 miles wide and maybe 500 miles high.  In this setting, there are at least: 

1) The Monarch, Heir, and Monarch's Own Herald
2) The Seneschal's Herald and the Lord Martial's Herald
3) The 4 Guardians of the Web, which were not any of the Herald's we knew in the first LHM book.
4) The courts of Haven - it's been established that Haven has several local courts which include attention from Heralds stationed at Haven just for that purpose as needed.
5) The Weaponsmaster always seems to be a Herald, and at least some of the regular teachers are Heralds.

So if we assume there are 4 courts in Haven with Heralds in attendance every day, then there's always at least 10 Heralds assigned to Haven proper.  We can assume at least half-dozen more for teachers.  16.

In addition, there is:
6) Regular Courier Heralds, assume 2 per major road, or 8 total.
7) Regular Circuit Heralds, and we're never sure exactly how many circuit locations Valdemar has.  But, if a circuit is a 200 x 100 mile swatch, then in Vanyel's time, there were 10 circuit Heralds as a consistency.... (I'm making a guess, here, because it's difficult to estimate distances with a guide of 18 month circuit, every place hit twice.  I'm probably wrong... but I'm also probably wrong about how big Valdemar is, too.)
8) Ambassadorial Heralds, which may not be usual, but do occur.  Say 3 random/ roaming Heralds.
9) An on-going war with Karse.  Vanyel replaces 5 Herald-Mages by himself at one point, and it is clear that this is in addition to all the other Heralds out there.  I'm sure those Heralds weren't the only ones fighting.

Ok, at this point, with a complete non-understanding of how big Valdemar is, we have at least 42 Heralds in Valdemar at the time of Vanyel... this is not including Vanyel himself, or his Aunt Sayvil.

It's pointed out in Mags's book that there are 60 new Trainees, and one character exclaims that's enough that every single Herald, including the King's Own, would have to take 4 apprentices if that were the case.  Um... 60 divided by 4 is 25.  Assuming the actual numbers didn't change in 100 years, there's plenty of heralds on tap for that.  Not that I'd suggest it, but 42 Heralds (plus Van and Sayvil, minus the Crowns) could easily divide up 60 trainees into 2 per with room left over.

The other side is how many people does it take before you're not on a first name basis with everyone in your organization?  It'll be different for everyone.  But, frex, my real-work office has about 200 people in it, and I can ID by site, although not name, about 80%.  Some people know all the names, some people know all the faces.  But 200 in a time when memorization is a handy skill is not that much.

There's another thing - at one point, Vanyel mentions the palace servants are used to Heralds talking to thin air - that wouldn't happen unless Heralds are pretty pervasive, to the point of being commonplace.  Also, Heralds are common in Haven, and in the towns closest to the city, who are used to courier riders and the like. 

What it comes down to, to my mind, is that it just doesn't jibe.  Either at Vanyel's time there's a lot more Heralds out there, or there can't be that many Trainees, and thus the time-setting is all wrong.  I get that Valdemar is about to undergo a major expansion, but like I said, it just feels like this should have happened way earlier in the country's timeline.  Like the *first* major expansion.  Remember that the Companions live an average of 10 years before Choosing, and that they have to have a herd large enough to generate future Companions, and make up for losses.  So they're not just having kids at replacement rate - they're growing in numbers to ensure a growth of chosen.  So 10 years  ago, no one noticed a crop of 60 fillies and colts when there's a grand total of 40 Companions, half of whom can't bear children, and half of the ones that can are out on circuit? 

Now that I think about it, no one's ever explained the inner workings of the Companion's Herd.  Someone should talk to those guys.

In any case, if this were the first major expansion of Valdemar, where the people have begun to spill over the defensive city walls and scatter about the outlying countryside - I could totally be there.  But the Heraldic Collegium being new *after* Vanyel's time just doesn't work for me, and I'll probably retcon the timing of it in my personal canon, and assume any references to Vanyel were accidentally copied in by an over-enthusiastic bard.

-boogieshoes
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what it says on the tin.  I'll post an update monday-ish.  not expecting any issues except after-surgery soreness, standard, 1 ea.  try not to worry guys.

i've been thinking of nanowrimo this year.... probably can't do the whole month, but maybe i can put some time in on projects i've been wanting to write on... here's hoping.

-boogieshoes, ready for alien baby delivery
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I've been experiencing a resurgence of interest in Sentinel-fanfic, not sure why.  My mother's father recently died*, so it's possible I'm feeling really nostalgic 'remember the good times' feelings as a way to deal, but anyway....

So, Sentinel fandom and Highlander were the first fandoms, at the same time, that I found myself involved in.  I know what attracted me to both shows, the 'what-if?' factor.  For Highlander, it was 'what if these long-lived people existed?  how do they view the world?  And I could do a bit of meta on that, but that's a separate post.  For Sentinel, it was 'what if these people existed, how would it change things? And not? And *wow*, there's a reasonable scientific basis for the senses occurring, even if the mystical stuff is, well mystical! (But I love the mystical part anyway, lol.)

And so I find myself re-reading fanfic as archived on AO3, and reading some of the fanlore wiki, and realizing that fandom really had a far-reaching affect on a lot of *other* fandoms.  I knew that, of course, because you see all those Sentinel AUs all over the place, even in fandoms like TeenWolf where it the main audience may never even have heard of the show the AU is referring to.  But Sentinel is, as someone once said, 'the little black dress of fandom'.  It really does go with everything - even with properties that don't actually need any more things to hit the supernatural/ mystical/ existential button (like, Dragonriders of Pern, Heralds of Valdemar, Supernatural...) you can see the Sentinels everywhere, and it's fun. 

And also, I find myself being inspired to write, although I know it won't happen right away.  I want to write, sort of as a gift to Sen-dom, a piece with the same style of Asimov's 'Commentaries on the Bible'.  Only, on the fictional book, Burton's 'Sentinels of Paraguay'.  And I find myself wondering how many 'quotes' people have made up from that book.  And also thinking I need to re-watch the series so I can find canon quotes.  And then I thought, it would be great if these commentaries were able to pull off something like Cesca's utterly incredible "Written by the Victors" (fanlore entry, AO3 story link), using historical sources describing the controversy over 'the Ellison case' (complete with quotes from TSbyBS, the published-unpublished book, entries from 'The Memoirs of Simon Banks' which has an edition out annotated by Daryl Banks...).  Something which leads the reader to assume that in that future time when the Commentaries are written, Sentinels and Guides (because I swing that way!) are common, or at least commonly known about, and part of the everyday fabric of society, much like the Bible and it's influences.

And I definitely want to finish my Mag 7.5 piece, which is a fusion between Magnificent 7 and Susan Foster's GDP universe. 

Speaking of which, I think I read one of my own comments on the fanlore page about the GDP**, at least it sounded like me.  But it was capitalized correctly, and even now, I'm only half-way into capitalization unless i'm writing an actual story.  (I got into the habit of not capping in posts during college, when we actually had to worry about how many bits and bytes the messages used...)  Anyway, the comment was to the effect of, "The GDP-verse is an incredible idea, with some great world-building, and some really lousy execution."  It's the 'great idea/ lousy execution' part of that that makes me wonder if it was my quote.  Certainly i'm not the only one who's said that, but that particular set of words is a common turn of phrase of mine.  And whether or not the fanlore page has my comment or someone else's, i stand by the evaluation - there's a lot of writing execution factors in many of the stories -strained wording, plot holes, flipping tenses, etc - and there's a lot of 'didn't think through the implications' factors in the stories, too, like making the US, Canada, and America one giant country with no explanation of how it got that way, and the impact on history.  Which it would have had, and how much and what would depend on when and 'where' the uniting had come from. 

Still, as ideas go... it has a ton of potential, and I really wish I could come up with ideas like that on my own.  Alas, I am, like the commercial, not the person who invents things, just the one who likes to make them *better*.  And yes, I'm well aware how egotistical it sounds to put it that way, and 'better' in the case of fanfic and other arts and crafts is a matter of opinion, for sure.  But the whole 'sussing out the puzzle pieces and putting it together to see the big picture' thing is an innate part of my personality - i *think* about things like this, ruminate over them.  cogitate.  If i were a cow, whole pastures would disappear beneath my hooves as i thought over the whys and wherefores and hows and the 'what does it really mean?' 's part of stories.  I don't think of this as particularly creative, as I associate creativity with originality... so I'd never take credit for idea origination.  But yeah, a large part of my interior motivation to write fic is 'gotta fix it'***.   I just hope i don't insult anyone in the process...

So here's to nostalgia, and the most delightful little black dress in the world, and inspiration to write! *chugs a glass of tullamore dew*
-boogieshoes

*Grandpa was 95+, and we all knew it was going to be this year, I think.  He died the best death possible, if such a thing *is* possible - in bed, surrounded by family, lucid until he went to sleep.

** The GDP universe is one where Sentinels and Guides are known.  Sentinels are up-held as unassailable heroes, and Guides are pretty much 2nd class citizens, with laws and customs in place that make it difficult to impossible to protect a Guide from an abusive Sentinel.  The Guide Development Project, charged with training and protecting Guides until they are matched with Sentinels, is sometimes the source of the worst offenses, but can rarely, if ever, be held accountable.

*** This is also a major reason I tend to be hesitant about writing a lot of things I think about.  I don't ever want to imply someone's idea is broken or not worth it.  I wouldn't spend time on it if I didn't think it had some merit.  But I sort of wish I could stick an explanatory note on a lot of my stuff - 'I'm putting beads on the cross-stitch pattern!'  Because like my stitching - I wouldn't do it if I didn't like the pattern, but I love putting beads on it to make it 'better'.

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2017 appears to be starting off on the right foot at least.  I remember last year, I started by getting the flu that was going around - TWICE.  Things never quite picked up after that.

This year, I hope things are better, both in general and for personal health/ house health/ etc.





HOUSEHOLD MAINTENANCE

potion no. 9 especially )


HOUSEHOLD UPDATES

i'm gonna make this house my home )




GARDEN PLANS

i will get things to grow, darnit! )





LANDSCAPING GALORE

and i'll have a pretty yard! )




SCA SKILL SETS

i especially want to improve arch-ing )




STITCHING GALLERY

i'm really trying to finish old stuff before starting new stuff. really. )




FANNISH ENDEAVORS
i promise this year will be better! )





PERSONAL ADMINISTRATION

i expect to nail this one again... watch me fall on my face )






HEALTH MAINTENANCE

tum-te-tum-tum - hey, donuts! )


FURNITURE PROJECTS

ah, the sweet sounds of saws! )




WISHING THESE WISHES WERE MINE

alms for the poor? anyone? )



So, a final note here - especially with the fannish things and trying to keep up community journals and things, I think the home PC being set up will help a lot.  I've already mentioned the advantages of the pilates up there. :)

-boogieshoes, busy as a beaver
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Well, 2017 turned out to be a busy year, and part of that was the improved health over 2016.  I never seem to make all my goals, but having the list and keeping it updated really helps a lot.  Let's see what happened this year:


Household Maintenance )


Household Updates )


Garden Plans )


Landscaping Galore )

SCA skill sets )

Stitching Gallery )


Fannish Endeavors )


Personal Administration )

Health Maintenance )


Furniture Projects )

Wishing these wishes were mine )


Overall, I'd say 2017 has been a good year. I felt productive at work and at home, and my health has had a great improvement.  I'm really looking forward to the new year, and doing a lot more.  Hopefully, that will include fannish endeavors - I'm working on setting up my DW account to mirror the set-up and feeds I had on my LJ account.  I'm trying to update my FB to be more me-friendly.  I'm going to try to spend Saturday afternoons/ evenings on the PC doing writing or other electronic-related things, probably starting around late March.  But I'm happy to be alive, and in 2016 at this time, I wasn't even sure I *was* alive.  So... let's get to the new year, eh?

-boogieshoes, the much improved.
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So, I'm not too late on round-up and to-do lists this year. I finally got around to setting up the office, and this figures into my 'done it' file. Poor Abbie (my dog) is sitting next to me wishing i was sitting on the couch, instead of said office...

Anyway, on to the listy!



household maintenance is expensive! )

*dusts off the house update list* )

This is purely the section for the partierre garden. )

$50/mo doesn't go far )



the SCA is awesome! )

look, i finished stuff! now i have to finish it, lol )

still in mag7 honeymoon... and still biting off more than i can chew here... )

i nailed this one! )


I've always said flexibility is over-rated... )

*runs away screaming* )


*sighs sorrowfully at the wishlist* )

and that's all she wrote today. my wrists have been getting pretty sore lately, probably carpal tunnel or arthritis, so the 2017 To-Done is going to have to wait for another day. Probably tomorrow, since I don't want to lose momentum. In Feb, at my normal check-up, I'm going to ask doc about my wrists, though...

I survived 2016, which turned out to be a shitty year for a lot of people. My hope for us all is that 2017 is much better. We need much better in our lives. And I'm not talking politics, I'm talking good jobs, good friends surviving, and good family of choice loving us. So 2017, take my advice: take off your pants, and slide on the ice!

-boogieshoes, wishing everyone a happy new year
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my birthday is next week.  high on my "most wanted" list is a steamy Escorts AU fanfic.

Buck/ Chris anything.

Supernatural anything.

Kidfic with Buck or Chris the little ones (but not Buck and Chris both little in the same fic).

Sequal to "Loser Takes All" - what happens the next time someone gets in trouble? ;)

I have a special love for Vin is psychic/ gifted in some fashion stories.

I quite like the Yellowstone AU - gen or slash, more please?

Crack!fic... wing fic.... Crossover fic - i lover "Xander's real parents (Xander from BtVS)";  love the Highlander AU fics; how about some more Sentinel/ Mag7 fics, any time, any place, Sentinels known or not. :-)

All that, and if the Lord and Lady are truly pleased with me - a break in the weather.  I'm getting tired of 80% humidity and 95F weather....

-boogieshoes, humming
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The To-Do List is undergoing a lot of changes from the 2013 version, mostly based on lessons learned, and with a goal to keeping better track of all the things I *really* do, which don’t always get put on the list.  The better I know how much I actually do, the less I feel like a slacker when things on this list don’t get done.


the house that boogie built )


Rosemary's Garden... )



SCA where my heart lies )


Mmmm, counted embroidery )


This is not the canon you're looking for... )


Now serving customer #1 )


I shall have my health )



BS the Carpenter )


GREED IS GOOD )

-bs, busy as a bee

ETA1: 22 Mar, first major update
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Spent the last couple days reading Pern-fic, and decided there just wasn't enough Pern-fic in the world. Then the opening line to this came to me at lunch....



in which Chris drinks coffee... )

-bs, giggling like an idiot
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My birthday is the 17th of this month, and I am greedy. Well, not really. I want some fairly simple things this year, albeit they may not be easy to get. My wishlist for this year’s birthday is:


  1. Someone to buy me a kit from Herrschner's.They’ve had some great deals lately, and I’m tired of not having the money to take advantage of it. Le sigh.
  2. Master the Single Brussles Stitch, also known as the detached buttonhole stitch. It seems like it should be fairly easy, and perhaps I’m doing it with the wrong weight thread, but it’s kicking my arse right now. And it plays a major part in my proposed stumpwork piece for my first SCA Arts & Sciences submission. So, you know, I kinda need to figure it out.
  3. I’m dying for a long, meaty Mag7 ATF:AU (or Skip Trace, although that may not be possible since Charlotte wants to file the serial numbers off, iirc) casefic told from Chris’s point of view, where:

    1. Buck sees ghosts like they were solid people
    2. This turns out to be a major plot point/ help in figuring out the case
    3. Vin seriously starts questioning Buck’s sanity, and pulls some stupid stuff because of it
    4. JD is afraid of Buck after his gift is revealed
    5. Somewhere in the fic is the line: ‘The first time Chris caught Buck talking to a ghost, he almost had him medically discharged from the Navy.’ (This can be modified to fit the scenario if necessary)
    6. Adults or other kids in Buck's childhood were physically abusive, and he has the physical scars to prove it. Buck never discusses them with the others (but Chris knows about them)
    7. Bonus Points if this is a Chris/Buck fic
    8. Points squared if they have a safe-sane-consensual D/S relationship
    9. And cubed if that is also a central plot-point somehow…
    10. 100 million points if Josiah’s girlfriend is actually a pre-op transgender XY.
    11. A Gazillion Million Points Raised To The Infinite Power Times Infinity if you can then transfer all these plot-points into a novel-length Dragonriders of Pern fusion-fic, and make it believable.


  4. And also, I’d love it if someone made me Dragonrider!7 icons.

Pretty please? Someone?

-boogieshoes, giving her fellow mag7 fen 'the big eyes'
boogieshoes: (fresian)
So I think I will end up rolling over most of the 2013 list straight to the 2014 list.  Part of that is the result of unexpected trips to Germany and Lenexa for work, and part of that is that I under-estimated how much stuff I could do on the house, regarding energy levels and actual monetary levels.

General Comments on life )

Learning to be a home-owner )
Learning to be a groundskeeper )
Affairs of the SCA heart )

My happy place... where i don't spend near enough time! )

A conversation with the canon )
Administrative privileges... )
My health is healthy )

but my furniture is stale... )


Reports on my GREED )



And that’s been my life in 2013: settling into the house, having a lot of life changes, and doing a lot of work, both fun and not.  It was a very good year overall, I felt, both at home on this personal level, and at work.

-bs

boogieshoes: (fresian)
For 2013, the To-Do List is now filled with some House-related items, which is fun.  Mostly.  When it’s not yet another learning experience. *grins*

House-hold doings this year )



Green Bein's )


Lady Brigid the lacksadaisical )



Stitching Monster Me )



Fandom Activity )



Life like a Mentos Commercial )



Wishlist )


-bs, the busy, the greedy, the just darned cool ;-)
boogieshoes: (fresian)
... and not quite sure how i managed to spend 200USD at a new grocery store today.  i blame the dogs.  the largest one of which managed to bite my boob last night while we were playing, and the smallest of which likes to steal the large one's toys.  brave little dog.... ;-)

the good news, for those keeping track of things i 'need' on my way to starting to write again, is that i bought a desktop/ tower system over the weekend, and i'm nearly done buying cubicles for the office... mostly because there's only so many that will fit in there.  the bad news is that i still have a ways to go, yet.

-bs, poorer...

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