Now that the holidays have started and my job has ended (I can do into details later, but it was basically doing some work with a local university on some research. Field research, which I adore, so I couldn't pass that up!)

I am behind on much of what is happening in my fandoms and online and to my online acquaintances. But that is okay! I can catch up a bit at a time.


O_0 I have 39 messages from LJ news. Wow. Those stack up after a while, eh?

I had a job opportunity I couldn't pass up, so I accepted. I was planning to wait until the baby was older, but money is nice and not letting my credit hours go to waste is comforting.

Unfortunately, this means I don't have a lot of time for fun things online any longer between the drive, the day care drop off, and taking care of my dad.

I'll still be reading fic now and then. Scroll through my f-list sometimes. Maybe the third SG1 movie will be out by the time things slow down? Because I sure ain't watching Universe.

I donno if I'll be up there this year for it, but it's the 40th anniversary. I used to stay at a friend's house the night before, but she got married to her girlfriend on the East coast last year. I don't know if I want to try and make my way up there the day of the parade.

But yea! I'm so happy that there's even going to be kids from a Chicago elementary school marching in it for the first time!

If you've never seen any footage from the parade, definitely take a look. It is a huge, fun, colorful event.

I've been having the crappiest day thanks to the weather being let's-have-high-heat-AND-humidity-yea! and my itty-bitty window air conditioner sucking like a sucky thing.

And then I found THIS recap of the SG1 episode "Red Sky" on the LJ com redial_the_gate.


I am now a very happy little camper here.

This fandom rocks my little cotton socks. (if I weren't wearing sandals right now it would.)


ETA: And now there's FIC by redbyrd that makes me want to squish Sam in a great big hug. Fic. For a meta-ish post. Again, have I mentioned how much I love y'all?

My health, diet, and exercise goals can be summed up in this way:




Though to be positive, the CSA is getting me to eat more veggies amongst the other crap I eat and then do not exercise off.  

I believe it will be time soon to retake my measurements and weight and restate my goals right splat on my journal so that any random passer by can see them.  I need a good Gibbs headslap right about now.

We ran up to the Oriental Institute at UofC  since we had some time to kill.  I probably spent the entire time making Daniel Jackson jokes.    Hubby and the saplings joined in, so we were an entire geek family.  Nice.  Not very busy at all though. 

And of course, now I've got about 14 plot bunnies for tags for The Curse that I don't need right now...


I haven't been online much because I've been counting prairie species in patch of  half native half seeded prairie.  Planning out grids is NOT fun.

I love Crossovers.  I wish I could write crossovers.   And you know what would be so incredibly cool that I would worship the ground of whomever wrote this (or my own reflection if I wrote it ;) )   I want SG-1 to meet  The Real Ghostbusters.   Not movie Ghostbusters, but cartoon Real Ghostbusters.   Totally.    Sam and Daniel  going all geek over stuff with Ray and Egon?    Peter and Winston inviting Jack and Teal'c to hang out and make fun of their geeks?   Egon trying to study Teal'c without looking like he's trying to study Teal'c?


Wow. Gen, ship, or slash, this so needs to be written.   





Been busy here, but I am soon going to have a little cartoon doodle finished for a fic.  Also going to start a new journal for nature and art stuff.  Oh, also need to get back into keeping a log of my health on here.  May just went into the crapper.  

Okay.  I want to create a journal for strictly posts about nature which I would update with things about what I've done after my master naturalist program is complete.   I need it to be completely separate so that I can give the address to people in my class or random people I volunteer with and not frighten them by stumbling upon fandom smut and fandom communities.   Originally,  I wanted to do this on my DW journal and use some of the fancy filters there, but people could still see the communities I add.


So how should a relatively technotarded person go about doing this?   Should I open a new journal on DW and direct some non-fandom traffic over there?   No-ads is a nice draw.   One of the nature preserves/farms I volunteer on for prairie restoration belongs to a gay couple and I don't want gays-are-teh-evil! ads showing up if I post about he and his partners georgous place.   I could do Blogger if I am interested in trying to eventually draw google traffic I guess.   But I'm not really wanting fly-by attention.  I just want to have a place to record my sort of jouney in nature study.  



GRRR.  ARGH.   What to do, what to do.  

I never made a health entry earlier this month.  I had the flu (the regular flu, not the OMG DUCT TAPE THE PLANET flu) and lost eight pounds of good weight.  And of course, people thought I was typhoid Mary every time I coughed.  

So a few bits I need to dump off my mind:

I'm going to post a bit of a WIP soon, either here or on DW or on one of the communities I saw someone setting up for it.  I hope it'll give me the kick in the tushie I need.

for sports, the hawks could lose from now on (though I wish they wouldn't) and I'd still be happy for them.  I swear, the best thing that happened to them is to have Dollar Bill die on them.   What kind of a butthead blacks out a teams home games in their own city?  Look, now we can watch them = team does better!  

I am doodling a little cartoon for jd_junkie 's quite entertaining fic without a title.  Will try and get that finished this week.  Also, lo and behold!  Doodling her toon gave me an idea for another one!  See how that works?  I hope it'll work for the writing as well.

I have many natural things I want to write about and haven't decided where to put that.  I have a dreamwidth account that I have looked at a bit.  

Am currently watching: NCIS season 3, last current season of Psych, still need to catch up on Chuck, and I need to decide what I'll hit next.  Watching Big Bang theory too; that's a fun one I'd never heard of before until the spousal unit ordered it on Netflix.  

The fact that I am a huge crossover freak + the fact I've been a Burn Notice Fan from the beginning +the fact that MS's dynamic appearance is leading to a surge of SG1/Burn Notice crossover fic = a very happy lady over here! 


I love it.  I just love when writers are so talented that they can take characters from two completely different sources and blend them in a way that seems in character and accurate.  I do think it's a difficult thing to do, more difficult that creating your own OC, because you need to fit your attempt at writing  "X" from  "blah blah show"  within  the acceptable parameters of characterization.  You need your reader to think, hey, if  Jack met  Victor, this totally sounds plausable.  If Daniel met Buffy, I could see this occuring because both characters are recognizable from the source.   

For me, if a character deviates way too much from what I recognize, if he/she becomes so fanon that I could stick an OC in there and not tell the difference, the story will lose me.  It might be the best written thing in the world, but if Daniel doesn't seem like Daniel on the show,  I will backclick.  Even if it's an AU, another genera I love, I still need to see the character's personality.

Which is why someone who can handle characters from two sources and keep them recognizable as they interact should have rose petels tossed at their feet!  That is gold in my little fanfic reading world, my friends! 

I am a big ol' Blackhawks fan and they are giving me heartburn every game now in the last run with the Redhawks and now with Calgary.  OMG.  And the Flames were pounding them against the walls early on, so I really thought we'd have some problems that way.  Time to crack out my Chelios jearsy from the depths of the closet.   (though hubby is still mad the the NHL since the last strike. Ah well).  

in yet another typical display of asshattery, this MTV blog I surfed onto was quite mocking over how it was a good thing to close your eyes while watching her sing, and how she was going to have to take lessons in media savvy if she wanted to extend her 15 minutes.  They also seemed almost disbelieving that she was gathering fans already. 

I think the one big thing that stuck out to me is this quote, "Her “Early Show” appearance proved that while Boyle is indeed a wonderful singer, she’s lacking in the whole conventional-pop-star-persona thing."


YES.  AND ISN'T THAT REFRESHING, YOU ASSHATS?   Because I see more people out there every day that might resemble Ms. Boyle than whatever half naked chick pop-singer that is lipsinging to me on stage.  Pllllllllllllllllt.  


I also see some wondering why people are going nuts over this.  I don't think it's just the fact she can sing- these idol and talent type shows always seem to have unassuming singers on them.  I think it's the huge, honking slap in the face  and admittance of stereotyping that went on here.   Because that's what I see commented on most.  She got written off with one look in a way that so many able people in any field might relate to, whether because of how they look or what they way or what age they are (do they ask everyone their ages on these shows, by the way?) 

interesting.

So I've decided I will buy a month of Dreamwidth when it hits open beta.  It'll stop me from buying one more Starbucks drink, so it's like diet in a way ;).  And then I'll just keep posting on both jounals, since there is already a huge, established network on LJ already of both fandom and non fandom things.  New places won't have those roots yet, but there will be the freedom to part of establishing them, so sounds fun! 

Now i have to figure out what to call myself.  I've used heliosphere mostly.  rainy_day for a lot of general forums.  dicranum is a newer one.  I doubt there'll be a huge rush on genus names of mosses, so I think I'll be safe there. 

**.  

I am feeling like crap other wise.  Haven't read anything, haven't written anything, and haven't visited a lot of my lurking haunts.  starting_gate gave me an idea way back at the beginning of march about making recs for stargateficrec  that I've been thinking about.   I might start making some recs at my journal first to see how it goes.  I donno if I could meet deadlines online quite yet.  Not a rec list exactly, but one where I really go into why I liked a story.  Maybe it's because I don't write well that I'm so impressed when someone else does.  I have a lot of fun ideas for stories but not much ability for writing, so if someone writes something that hits the spot, I think they should be showered with appriciation on exactly why it stands out for me.  

I do that to my husband sometimes, where I'll go on and on about some story I read online and why I liked it.  He reads fanfic too, but mostly for fandoms I don't read, and nearly only gen fic or very light het ship fic.  (He said once to me, "If I want to read porn, I'll go pick up something with pictures at the gas station, not read something online."   HA!   I'd have a heart attack at that.  I'm the pervy one who corrupted the innocent guy in this relationship.  

Wow.  This is a meandering sort of post.  

My health goals for April

Well, since my illness has knocked me to the ground, It's going to be like starting from scratch.  I haven't gotten the Okay to start exercizing again, but I should get it some time next week when I go breathe for the doctor.   I plan to try and do weights twice a week to start on the circuit, and then try and do something aerobic for at least 30 minutes 3x a week to start.  

I started getting my CSA drop-offs and have really tried to use what I got.  Lots of root veges and leafy things to start.  They smell sooooo good; it's encouraging!


My "needs improvement list"

Need to convince myself I don't have to limit myself to the gym for the aerobic stuff.  I can fit it in at home on days I can't get out there, or go outside if it EVER. STOPS. SNOWING.  

Not too much knocking on myself here.  I was legitamately sick and hospitalized and blegh.   Though that's no excuse to eat an entire row of cookies.

My "you kick ass" list

sadcakes.   Not much here for the asskicking this month.  Though I did try a new kale recipe, so that's something positive! 

I wanted to say thank you to everyone for your kind words and messages/emails on getting better. And the advice as well! I do still feel kind of blegh and arms and legs feel kind of weak, but it's 50% better than I was before. I'm a bit sad because I had to switch the baby to formula now, but the meds are more important and I didn't want to be near the baby.

I am going to have to completely restructure my workout, fitness, and diet plan to adjust to things. That's okay.

Plus, I have a huge backlog of fan fic to read and catch up on, along with my bookmarked stuff, so that'll be nice.

I cannot wait until I am done coughing though. That can stop anytime now.

This flu strain blows monkey butt. I was admitted in the hospital for pneumonia, but I've been released over the weekend. They caught me very early since I already have been in and out of the doc's office the week before thanks to Mr. Influenza Virus from hell. Now I have to do this nebulizer thing or whatever it's called, but I'm doing okay other than feeling very run down and crappy from the megaload of anti-virals/antibiotics or whatever they were called. VERY happy to be home!

I had to drop out of sam and Jack friends since there's no way I can write now. That sucks because I was excited. And I hope it's kosher to answer LJ comments weeks later on, since I don't think I'll be doing that for a few more days; at least until my head and eyes feel better.

I haven't had a flu/respiratory infection like this in a really long time, high school I think. My partner says it's because I'm getting old. Yo! Thirtysomething is not old, dude.

Hope all is well with everyone else. I'll catch up with the friends list in the future. Going to bed now. Again. This is getting to be a trend.

Well, I was going to post my mid-month update on my fitness goals, and then I thought I'd work on a bit of an assessment of where I am on my WIPs, and then I'd do some catching up on my f-list since I haven't had a chance to read it in about a week.


But instead, I am going to take a bath in my tiny little bathtub because I have the flu. Woe is me. Actually, it's not too horrid, but my head feels like it's stuffed with cottonballs right now and someone is hammering on it. Yippie.

Off to bath and bed. Wow, I really need some more icons.

OMG!!! eleventy11!!!!!   The SG! fic that is showing up on my little bitty friends list!  Was there super-cool-writing-mojo pimped around a little while ago?  Because even the summaries are making me salivate and I have soooo many things bookmarked already.  And I haven't even touched the NCIS fic yet because I'm not reading any until I rewatch. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!



Dude.  You guys rock.  I am soooo glad I decided to cave-in and start a journal here and I can find these things early on instead of 3 years later when I stumble on a rec list somewhere.  

I'm headed to the Southside Irish parade tomorrow, and yet not drinking. It should be entertaining to watch people make asses of themselves though. I haven't been there in years because I was downstate. It'll be nice to see the requisite fifty bagpipe groups and carriage ad for "Flanagan's Wake". 

SamandJack friends fic is nearing it's conclusion.  It's very depressing.  I might end up scrapping it and starting again.  I have a Sam/Jack Daniel/Jack  memory-loss!cliche fic in the works.   I don't know if it will ever see the light of day.  I have been a fan of Stargate for years now, and I have bits and pieces of half-completed gen, Jack/Daniel, Daniel/Janet, Daniel/Sam, and Daniel/Cameron on my computer.  I have only posted one small story out of all of this.  


One day, I would like to write all the cliches.  I haven't wanted to write fanfic for a series so badly since The Real Ghostbusters when I was a wee thing.  No joke.  There are a lot of fandoms I'll doodle for or devour every fic and fanvid available, but I cannot seem to get into the character's heads enough to write for them.  But I hope I can do it with SG1.  There are so many wonderful and crack-a-licious stories I'd like to tell.