Happy Birthday, Wesleysgirl!

Picture me baking cakes, blowing up balloons, wrapping gifts, singing -- no, let's not go there...

Doing everything to make this a special day because you're totally awesome and deserve it :;much love::

I hope you're enjoying today and being thoroughly spoiled by everyone because it's Your Day.

I did a 700 word John/Nick snippet for you and borrowed Nick but he's good as new, honest :;brushes the sand off him::

( Sand and Salt )

Rec Me Up

I read an X-Files fic yesterday and wandered around a bit reading more, mostly Krycek/Skinner or Mulder/Krycek. Wow. Some serious kink out there :;blinks:; I never watched more than a dozen episodes but yeah, I can see it, I guess. and, hell, even if I can't, the fic was good.

Interested me; Skinner gets/got a fair bit of attention in that fandom, right? Yes? No? Maybe? I've also read the wonderful Mermaids Singing by Lyrica (Sentinel/X-Files) and Skinner's this incredibly hot guy everyone wants. Caldwell, though, am I missing the fic for him? Because different character, sure, but the face is the same, a little older, still hot (I love that most of my fandoms have at least one man who's getting sexier with every birthday) and the general air of command is still there, not to mention a fair bit of crackling tension between him and Elizabeth and him and John, and there's that interesting personal plot in S2...

So if I were to ask for Caldwell slash, any recs? :;looks hopeful::

Cars

I have done nothing today and it's taken me all day to do it.

I can't even do nothing quickly and on time.

I'm feeling all muzzy-headed and bleh; not as bad as over the weekend when I had a killer headache and was falling asleep all the time, but close.

We went car shopping; ours is a '95 Intrepid and the A/C broke last summer, the driver's seat lists to one side and David thinks the suspension is on the way out.

Which still didn't stop me drawing in a sharp outraged breath when a man on the car lot told us GM would give us $2000 trade in and when I said 'why?' (Dear Lord, why?) he replied 'because they want to get it off the road and crush it'.

We're looking at Honda Pilots and Ford Freestyles; any personal experience of either would be handy if anyone knows them.

David is in Montreal; back late tomorrow. He was in Ottawa last week at the same hotel we stayed in over Christmas so he got to play with the shoe shining machine outside the elevator.

I want one for Christmas. They are so cool :-)