- Location:The Room of Requirement
- Mood:
angry
Sick as a dog. It's not swine flu or any kind of flu for that matter supposedly. I had the test done where they stick two giant q-tips up your nose and check the goo that comes back out and it was negative. But if it's not swine flu, it must be a close relative. My eyes are watering. My nose is running. My head is stuffed up. I'm hacking up my lungs, am achey and with a low fever. (98.6 may be normal for some but not for me. Normal is about 97.5)
I'm staying at home and not working. I don't want to give this to any of the little ones I work with, so many of them are medically fragile that the littlest cold turns into a hospital trip.
BTW, speaking of dogs. This is Pippin.
I may have put this up before. I don't remember. But I don't care. He is such a good dog. Someday I will get a good picture of our other dog, Frodo, and put it up so as not to slight the poor thing.
- Location:My Bed
- Mood:
sick
- Music:An Encore Of Hacking Lungs by Bronchitis
Title: The Slow Path Home
Author:
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callme_al01 Fandom: Doctor Who New Series, Written for Tardis BigBang Round 2
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC and not to me. Rats!
Genre/Characters: H/C; Tenth Doctor, OC, Rose, Donna and maybe some others later on.
Rating: PG
Beta:
aibhinn , Also many thanks to chocclarefor her invaluable help with British things. Spoilers: Brief mention of 2009 Easter Special in the first chapter
Warnings: The first chapter is a bit bloody and has some graphic violence. Nothing after the first chapter will be like that.
Summary: "It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy
( Follow Me To Chapter 15... )
- Location:My Bed
- Mood:
- Music:Hacking Lungs by Bronchitis
Questions from
xebgoc I see that you've only had your LJ for a little over a year. What brought you here ?
I saw that my teenage pallies
burningstarsxe, goddessreason, suangelita , and shadowempresshad one so that got me interested. 2. I love The Slow Path Home (even if I'm awful about commenting) - where did the idea come from ? Have you written much other fiction ?Glad you like it!
I hadn't even started watching Doctor again until almost 2 years ago so my family and I gathered around the computer to watch all of seasons 1,2, and 3, one show a night pretty much, so we'd be caught up for when season 4 started. I just felt so bad for the Doctor at the end of Doomsday that I started making up a story in my head about what happened after that. It's changed some since Journey's End and I had better hurry up and finish it before the Christmas Special this year!
The only other stuff I've written is one story for the OT3 Ficathon and that short little Halloween story I wrote as I was killing time between visits.
3. Have you ever been involved in any other fandoms ? Nope.
4. One of your interests listed on your 'user info' page is antiques - what sort and where do you go to find them ? do you actually restore them ?
About 5 years ago, my parents downsized from their home of thirty years and put 99% of their stuff in storage until they got settled in a new place. My Dad passed away shortly after they moved and a year later, a big moving van full of their "stuff" from the storage space pulled up in front of our house and vomited it all out on our house. My Dad was a horrible pack rat and kept all the stuff he got from 2 of his brothers who died and his mother. It's kind of an eclectic mix. Alot of it was filthy and moldy from spending years and years out in their garage. We try to actually use the stuff as much as we can so we cleaned up a lot of it. We don't really restore stuff ourselves but my husband did just finish fixing up my grandmother's curio cabinet so that we could use it in the house. A lot of the stuff my Dad kept was pure junk but he was very attached to it. I wish I had appreciated it more when he was alive and could tell me about the things.
5. If you didn't do what you did, what would you like to do as a career ? Actually, I've thought about this! IF I could go back in time and know what I know now, I'd be an optometrist specializing in pediatric low vision.
- Location:My bed
- Mood:
content
Taken from rosewarren
• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
1. What made you decide to host an exchange student?
Truthfully? Because I was first told that it was only going to be for five weeks! The agency that we've hosted students through before called up because they were desperately looking for some one to host this kid. I'd sworn that we'd never host another kid through them....not because of the students that they've sent, they've all been great! But because this agency is a screwed-up mess. I figured five weeks, no big deal! I can put up with the idiot agency for that long. I should have known....
BTW, Valentina is a great kid. We are enjoying having her with us.
2. How long have you had your current job? I guess about five or six years now. When we moved here, I started to work with an Intermediate Unit, which is a school agency that falls inbetween the local school districts and the state department of ed. I enjoyed my work but my last year there my new boss was an insufferable @@%!!! and my daughter had just finished three miserable years of middle school and was begging us to homeschool her for HS. I was already doing a little bit of EI contract work for the county and they were begging me to take on more so I threw caution to the wind and went totally independent. I love it. Even with the filthy places and creepy parents I have to deal with at times.
PS: I don't know how the state where you live handles Early Intervention but you may want to look into doing some work with it. A lot of teachers I know do it for a little extra money for Christmas, vacations, etc.
3. What's the best thing about having a son? Not having to explain all the "femine stuff" to him as he grows up. Other than that, I've enjoyed having a boy and girl about the same.
4. Who is the DW author that makes you drop everything in order to read their newest fic? Do you mean the BBC books or fanfic? If it's BBC books, I never really notice the authors so I couldn't tell you. If it's fanfic....hmmmm.....you, wildwinterwitch, jlrpuck, aibhinn and probably a couple of others.
5. Which do you enjoy more - reading fanfic or writing your own? I guess it's a tie. There are so many writers that are much, much better than me. Then there are so many writers that are so abysmal that it makes me happy to know that I can write better than they can! Kind of a selfish way to look at it, I guess.
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
sleepy
- Music:Who's Crying Now? by Journey
Un-beta'd so all mistakes are mine.
Title: Happy Halloween!
Characters: Ten, OC
Rating: Absolutely G!
Summary: The title says it all
Happy Halloween!
“When's Doctor comin' back, Mom?” Aiden asked.
Emily turned from the stove where she had just finished emptying a box of spaghetti into a pot of boiling water. “Same time as you two asked me fifteen minutes ago. Soon. He said he'd be back soon.”
“But it HAS been soon!” Sophie complained. “It's been soon for a long time now.”
“Soon is a relative concept, my dear. Especially when it comes to the Doctor. Have him explain it to you one day.”
Sophie rolled her eyes in disgust. “But we're ready to go Trick or Treat now! And he's the one that's gonna take us this year! He said!”
Emily gritted her teeth and counted to ten. “Yeah, he did. And it's still almost an hour before Trick or Treat starts. You couldn't go now anyway.”
Aiden pulled his mask off. “My costume is hot!”
“And who told you NOT to put your costumes on so early? Hmmm?” Emily asked. She held up one hand and rubbed her thumb and forefinger together. “You know what this is, it's....” The children finished her sentence for her.
“The smallest violin in the world playing My Heart Bleeds For You,” they chorused.
“Yeah, well, since you know so much, go take off your costumes and wait patiently somewhere else.”
Sophie and Aiden didn't take their costumes off and neither did they go somewhere to wait patiently. They continued to sit at their usual places at the kitchen counter, watching their mother with mournful eyes.
Forty-five minutes later, Emily was ready to kill the Doctor. She's lost count of how many times her two youngest children had pestered her about the Doctor's whereabouts. He'd been here at home nearly all day, helping her drag the Halloween decorations down from the attic and onto the porch where he eagerly helped her set up her usual display of cobwebs and creepy creatures. The two of them had had a blast together, each one bringing out the kid in the other as they stretched fake cobwebs across the bushes and hung cackling witches from the roof of the porch. Then suddenly, just as Emily was going to leave to pick the children up, the Doctor had jumped up from the floor of the porch where he was plugging in some pumpkin lights and exclaimed, “I'll be back in a tick!” and took off running down the street.
If he doesn't show up in time to take these two Trick or Treating, Emily thought to herself. I'll strangle him with those cobwebs!
Just as Sophie and Aiden kicked their whining up another notch, Emily heard the backdoor open and slam shut. The Doctor came flying through the kitchen, clutching a couple bags. “Where the heck have you been?” Emily demanded.
The Doctor skidded to a stop. “Sorry! Took a bit longer than I thought to find what I needed.”
Sophie and Aiden jumped up from the counter. “Doctor! LET'S GO!!!! It's time for Trick or Treat!”
He waved the bags at the children. “Hang on! Gotta put my costume on!” And he turned to run upstairs. The two of them sat back down at their seats, deflated and disappointed that they still had to wait.
“A costume?” Emily said aloud to the kids. “Did you know he was going to wear a costume?” They shook their heads no.
Ten minutes later, they heard the Doctor's footsteps pounding down the stairs. “Ready!” he said triumphantly as bounded into the kitchen. “What do you think of my costume?”
Emily and the children stared. He was wearing a rumpled pair of black pants with odd, wavey-looking white pin-stripes and a long, brown raincoat that had definitely seen better days. “I got these at Goodwill! Marvelous place, that! I think I'll do all my shopping there from now on.
“What's that on your pants?” Emily finally managed to ask.
“Pin-stripes!!” the Doctor said gleefully. “I wanted a pair of pin-striped trousers and they didn't have any so I bough a bottle of white out and put them on myself. Dries quicker than paint! Brilliant! Don't you think?” Some of his enthusiasm was beginning to wane as noticed the subdued reaction of the his three friends.
“What are you supposed to be?” Emily asked. “A well-dressed flasher?”
“What? No! Of course not!” he replied. “OH! I forgot! The most important piece!” He turned his back to them and began to rummage in the pockets of the raincoat. He bent over, put something on his head and then turned back. On his head bobbed a pair of green, ping-pong ball antennas.
“I'm a space alien!” He grinned mischievously at Emily, while he held out his hands and waggled his fingers towards Sophie and Aiden. “C'mon kids! Let's go Trick or Treat!”
j-cut>
I am bored and sitting in Michelle's Cafe waiting for my next home visit.
Un-beta'd so all mistakes are mine.
- Location:Michelle's Cafe
- Music:Some Kind of Folk Stuff They Play Here.
Well, I had no idea where this loverly establishment was located so I got Dad to give me more complete directions. I found it fairly easily. Their's was the second most run down trailer in the place. The most run down trailer was the one next door that was vacant and had no steps. It wasn't looking too promising but I hoped for the best.
Dad met me at the door and I stepped into an absolute pigstye. It wasn't the dirtiest place I'd ever been in but it was a darn close second. The first thing that hit me was the stench of old dog pee and a yappy, growly little mutt that nipped at my pants leg. Junior came running over, happy as a lark with a giant boil of green snot hanging out of his nose. The place was small and packed with all sorts of crap. The floor and carpet were filthy and I did not take my shoes off as I usually do in someone's house. I wanted to keep at least one part of me clean. Girlfriend lay on the couch under a blanket. The TV was blaring the Cartoon Network. (Hey! At least it wasn't Jerry Springer!) Obnoxious sister was there as well.
I guided Junior over past the TV and took up my usual working position of sitting on the floor cross-legged. I would have sat on one of the couches to work but the rug was cleaner. Junior plunked down on my lap. Suddenly a little voice behind me said, "Hi!" I turned to face a little boy around three years old. He had a t-shirt on backwards and was wearing a pair of shorts where he had both legs stuffed into one leg hole and pulled up so high that he had one butt cheek and and his little weenie hanging out for all to see. Needless to say, he had no underwear on.
All I could do was burst out laughing. His mom called him over and fixed up his clothes while I tried to get started with Junior. Today was an absolute disaster with him. Sister and the little boy were both constantly in my face and Junior's as I tried to work with Junior on finding pictures in books and pointing at them for me. They tried to snatch the books out of my hands and when I wouldn't let them, they'd fuss and pout. Girlfriend hollered at them ineffectually from her nest on one of the couches. Dad was equally useless with his hollering but at least he was at the sink in the kitchen doing dishes.
The two older kids started fighting over a hunk of Play-Doh and moved their battle to the couch behind me. It turned into a game where the girl was jumping up and down on the couch while the boy used the back of the couch to literally start climbing the walls of the trailer. Junior sat huddled on my lap while I wiped a never-ending flow of green snot from his nose.
I was really disappointed today. I had a lot of hope for this Dad and Junior because when they were living at the Grandmother's trailer, it had been a good bit crazy and chaotic, it was at least clean and there were plenty of appropriate toys around for Junior to play with. There was not a single toy in girlfriend's trailer to be seen today. I asked Dad where I should come next week and he said back here. Oh. Joy.
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
sad
- Music:Russian Rap
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
geeky
- Music:Happy Birthday To You!
Title: The Slow Path Home
Author:
callme_al01 Fandom: Doctor Who New Series, Written for Tardis BigBang Round 2
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC and not to me. Rats!
Genre/Characters: H/C; Tenth Doctor, OC, Rose, Donna and maybe some others later on.
Rating: PG
Beta:
aibhinn , Also many thanks to chocclarefor her invaluable help with British things. Spoilers: Brief mention of 2009 Easter Special in the first chapter
Warnings: The first chapter is a bit bloody and has some graphic violence. Nothing after the first chapter will be like that.
Summary: "It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy
( Chapter 14 )
- Location:The Room of Rquirement
- Mood:
recumbent
- Music:none
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
- Music:None
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
- Music:None
Despite all that, I think I am going to like working with this kid. He is sweet and cute and even with the menagerie, the trailer is fairly clean. And they had the TV on but it was tuned to an educational show. Unlike two of the houses I went to this week where one had a raunchy movie on and the other had a Jerry Springer-type show on spouting filth-right in front of the toddlers I was there to see. So there is good going on in this little guy's life.
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
- Music:None
From
nipplemuggins
I tag...everyone who can be bothered to do this ;)
1. What was the last thing you put in your mouth? A pack of Ritz Peanut Butter Crackers.
2. Where was your profile picture taken? Gallifrey
3. Can you play Guitar Hero? No. Never tried. My son can.
4. Name someone who made you laugh today. Ayden Schaffer-Doan
5. How late did you stay up last night and why? 10:30 PM
6. If you could move somewhere else, would
7. Ever been kissed under fireworks? Nope.
8. Which of your friends lives closest to you? If you mean LJ friends, I guess jlrpuck or pacejunkie.
9. Do you believe ex's can be friends? Don't know. Never had an ex and I hope I never will!
10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper? I'd drink it to prevent dehydration and death.
11. When was the last time you cried really hard? Not for a while. Like a couple of years.
12. Who took your profile picture? The Doctor when he was home for a vacation.
13. Who was the last person you took a picture of? My nephews.
14. Was yesterday better than today? Not really. I have a headache.
15. Can you live a day without TV? Easily. I can't remember the last time I turned it on.
16. Are you upset about anything? A few things. Not upset really, just worried. And I'm not going to go into them here for public consumption.
17. Do you think relationships are ever really worth it? Absolutely.
18. Are you a bad influence? Absolutely!
19. Night out or night in? Depends. More often a night in. I tend to become non-functional after 9 PM.
20. What item could you not go without during the day? My car.
21. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital? One of my little students.
22. What does the last text message in your inbox say? I don't text.
23. How do you feel about your life right now? Fair to middlin'.
24. Do you hate anyone? Yeah, but I'm not going to name names.
25. If we were to look in your inbox, what would we find? An eclectic assortment!
26. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass? Heavens yes!
27. Has anyone ever called you perfect before? God no.
28. What song is stuck in your head? The Russian national anthem. Our exchange student just played it on her laptop.
29. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be? The Doctor wanting to know if I'd like to take just one trip.
30. Wanna have grand kids by the time you're 50? Maybe. It's only 5 years away. OH MY GOD!
31. Name something you have to do tomorrow? Get an MRI.
32. Do you think too much or too little? Much too much.
33. Do you smile a lot? I don't know but I don't think so.
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
- Music:The Russian National Anthem
Title: The Slow Path Home
Author:
callme_al01 Fandom: Doctor Who New Series, Written for Tardis BigBang Round 2
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC and not to me. Rats!
Genre/Characters: H/C; Tenth Doctor, OC, Rose, Donna and maybe some others later on.
Rating: PG
Beta:
aibhinn , Also many thanks to chocclarefor her invaluable help with British things. Spoilers: Brief mention of 2009 Easter Special in the first chapter
Warnings: The first chapter is a bit bloody and has some graphic violence. Nothing after the first chapter will be like that.
Summary: "It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy
( Chapter 13........... )
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
Reeses Squares (No-Bake)
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 lb powered sugar (3 - 3 1/2 cups)
1 1/2 cups of peanut butter
1 cup butter, melted
1 12oz bag of chocolate chips(Milk chocolate or semi-sweet both work great. I actually combined the two once when I didn't have enough of the one flavor)
1. Combine graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and peanut butter and mix well.
2. Blend in melted butter until well combined.(I use a mixer. This stuff can be pretty thick.)
3. Press mixture evenly into a 9 x 13 inch pan.
4. Melt chocolate chips in microwave or double boiler.
5. Spread over peanut butter mixture.
6. Chill until just set and cut into bars. (Can be very hard to cut if left in the refrigerator too long.)
Very easy to make and VERY EASY TO EAT!
- Location:My Bedroom
- Mood:
- Music:Strange Russian Rap Music Wafting Down The Hallway
- Location:The Room Of Requirement
- Mood:
- Music:Really Odd Russian Rap Music
With a reliable computer, I am finding more time to write. I write a lot in my car between home visits and with this laptop, I can usually just rely on the battery instead of having to plug it in to old cig. lighter.
I'd have more time to write if I didn't have a garden. Or a job. My free time at home has been largely taken up with paperwork and canning. This month I have to send off my billing to four different agencies. More $ but more $ also = more paperwork! Plus there is always a ton of other nitpicking little crap the government desk jockies like to send my way.
Most of my Brandywine tomatoes have the blight so they won't be good for anything. I have a few San Marzano and a ton of cherry tomatoes coming out my ears but I don't have the time to deal with them because of my peppers. So far with my peppers I have made:
11 big jars of Hungarian Sweet Peppers Stuffed With Saurkraut. (YES! They taste great! I dare you to try one!)
Several pints of Pickled Hot Pepper Rings.
8 pints of Hot Pepper Butter.(REALLY, REALLY GOOD SANDWICH SPREAD)
I still need to make my Rhubard and Hot Pepper Jam.
(Yes. We like hot peppers around this house.)
The druggie mom of a child I work with has succeeded in convincing the pediatrician that her 2 1/2 year-old has ADHD and needs medication.
I need to buy new pants for work. I HATE buying clothes. Especially pants. It is nearly impossible for me to find decent jeans that fit. Not only because I weigh too much but also because I have short legs. Regular lenght is too long but petite is too short for me. Can we say "High Waters" after they shrink in the wash?
My daughter has her first work appearing in an Art Show today. I am very proud of her. That is the highlight of my week!
- Location:My Room
- Mood:
- Music:None
I finally got Chapter 13 of The Slow Path Home done and sent off to beta. Between my computer woes and work/life, I just have not had the time to do much of anything with it until today. Today I am at home alone and I am spending the whole entire day writing. Housework can go to hell for 24hours!
I can't promise when I can post Chapter 13.
aibhinn is getting ready to start back to school and REAL, PAID work must come first! I absolutely concurr with that. As soon as I get it back, I'll post it. I promise. - Location:My Kitchen
- Mood:
- Music:Something I Don't Recognize On Radio
I like my new laptop. It is pretty and shiny and runs really, really well. It does not make strange grinding noises, give off heatwaves, refuse to start up or shut down on a whim. When I get rid of the ugly, swirly background wallpaper and replace it with something Doctor Who related, it will be perfect.
- Location:My Kitchen
- Mood:
- Music:Too tired to play music.
It's a Compaq Presario CQ60. Probaby not the best or the fanciest but it sure beats the heck out of my old one, even when it was working correctly. The only drawback is that it will not be ready until tomorrow. They have to get it all booted up and loaded and try to transfer files from my old one. For getting a FREE NEW LAP TOP, I think I can wait a day. Barely...
A $4,000 stander for $70.
A $500 table for $20.
A fairly decent Dell desktop for $100.
A BRAND NEW LAPTOP for FREE!
Today was a great day!
- Location:The Caribou Lounge
- Mood:
high
- Music:My Squeels Of Delight!
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