Birthdays!

Two lovely people celebrate today, so I'm wishing the happiest of birthdays to krichira and mostcrazylady.

I hope that it brings you all that a birthday should do and more.

::hugs::

The State of Me

As that analyze your LJ meme said my writing based on recent posts was 'simplistic', I feel compelled to write something that isn't birthday posts or those short, sweet locked ones. Not that my usual style of babbling is going to elevate me to 'pedestrian' or whatever comes next on the scale.

It was a busy weekend; David came back from the UK at Friday lunchtime and as it was a PD day I took the girls swimming. Which isn't something I feel like doing today; the snow's pretty much gone (again) but it is bloody freezing. My face aches from standing out at the bus stop.

We worked on Lauren's general store project. We did things that were too dangerous (cutting out door and windows with a Stanley knife, sawing a piece of wood) but she nailed the wood to supports herself to make a counter top and then we had fun thinking of stuff to put in the store.

I couldn't resist making some Play Doh carrots which turned out rather awesome if I say so myself :-) We'd been saving scraps, including the top off a beer bottle to use as a pie dish. it got lost and David, who will do anything for the kids, bravely opened another beer so we could have a new top and L made a cherry pie.

Very exciting football (soccer) game on Sunday. Stoke, my team, who are in the relegation zone :;whimpers:: played Aston Villa who're pretty high up the league and were all over Stoke. Cruelly, they scored at the last minute in the first half so Stoke began the second half 1-0 down when scoring even one goal looked impossible, never mind two to win.

Then at around 78 mins (of 90) Villa scored again, this incredible, unsaveable fluke of a goal.

Despair!

But Stoke, and this is why I love them, don't give up. Ever. They ended up scoring two goals in the last three minutes of the game and got a point no one was expecting them to.

That's how you play the game.

Never give up: never surrender.

It works for football as well as Galaxy Quest.

I have a to-do list a mile long (archives to update, fic and meta to write, housework, OMG, so much of it!), but I'm ignoring it all to get caught up on the novel. I fell behind with the kids being home on Friday, so to catch up I need to write 2000 words today, not 1000.

I'm doing that first.

Right now.

Right after I make myself a cup of coffee.

Sentinel Moonridge Fic: Crossroad Blues Jim/Blair NC17 1/2

Here is the second of my fics for Moonridge '08 that's now timed out. It was bid on by 20 people, which is incredible; thank you all so much for your donation and I hope that you enjoyed the story.

Many thanks also to my beta reader, mab_browne for her very helpful comments and t_verano for her support when I got stuck.

The story is, as the title suggests, set after Crossroads, and is 16,500 words. No kink, some angst, a happy ending. I've split it into two as it's too long for one post.

The opening few lines of dialog are from the episode script.



( Crossroad Blues )

Go to Part Two

Sentinel Fic for Moonridge 'Crossroad Blues' Jim/Blair NC17 2/2

Here's the second, final part of Crossroad Blues.

( Crossroad Blues Part Two )