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It's been awhile... again. It's mostly because my work and family life are so busy I have little time for myself. I'm going to try to MAKE time, if possible, because I really do miss writing, drawing, and enjoying fandom things. I am mostly at Twitter because it's easier to update, but it's not the same as a journal, so I want to get back into Dreamwidth and Wordpress more.

Quick updates:

* I'm still working as a consultant for Subway as a content designer. It's busy and I'm working odd hours nonstop. Thank goodness I still work from home.

* Joe and I had a couple of health scares over the past few months. I had a endometrial biopsy, and he had his neck checked for nodules. I ended up with negative results for the biopsy, and thankfully Joe didn't need the biopsy, though he did get diagnosed with Hashimoto disease, which is an immunodeficiency. He already has vitiligo, so the Doctor says that having one immune deficiency brings on others. We're just both glad it's not cancer.

* Joe's mother died last month and we had the funeral this last Friday. It was super sad. She was in the hospital a lot, had struggled with her mental health for years, and just gave up recently to stop eating and taking care of herself. As a result, she had a heart attack and passed away on February 6th, the day after my husband's birthday. So it's been a rough month. The hardest part was holding my baby girl as she cried during the funeral mass because she couldn't see her grandmother anymore.

* My best friend got engaged over Christmas and asked me to be her matron of honor. So I'm tasked to figure out where I can take an unvaccinated bride to be and other girls to a drag show, because that's what she wants. Wedding is in September. I also have to start looking for my dress given the color choices. I'm so happy for her. This will be her second marriage and she's definitely marrying a better guy.

* When I'm not catching up with work, I am trying to read more, as well as do some writing and drawing. I'm hoping to finish up another WIPs this year, fanfic and original writing. I'm trying to do a daily drawing exercise, but so far I haven't been very good at keeping up with it.

* I am obsessed with The Untamed. OBSESSED. I watched the show, am starting the anime, and bought the novel to be read soon. I love all the characters, the implied ships, the main ship - OMG, so lovely. For awhile I was just watching one episode a day while I was on my elliptical but I couldn't handle it and binged it within a few days over the weekend. I also finished HIStory 4: Close to You, which is a lovely BL show with so many wonderful tropes and characters. It was a feel good binge watch. I also enjoyed My Love Mix-Up, thought it sorely needs a second season. It was another cute show. I'm back trying to finish Guardian for now as well. I don't even bother with American shows anymore. I just love Viki and Netflix and all their Asian dramas and I'm set! I will say this about US shows, I do plan on catching up with the Marvel shows soon now that most of them will be in one place at Disney+, so there's that.

* I have decided to no longer update at Livejournal. My paid account was coming up and I just didn't feel like I was there enough to justify having a paid account or updating there. I cannot keep up everything so I'm going to just stay here on Dreamwidth. People can find me at Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Wordpress if you really want to find me.

* The kid gave me a cold over the weekend, so I've been struggling with this since Thursday. It sucks. I've been trying to rest and take medicine all day yesterday and today. I have to at least get better before tonight as I have some work today before tomorrow morning's early publish for Subway.com.

* Lastly, I'm really trying to get healthier with my food and exercise habits, but it's been hard. I feel like I'm always starting over. I hope to make exercise a routine and eat less junk. I resigned up with Noom through my work and I renewed my Jillian Michaels fitness app. I just need to find the motivation and stop putting it off. I'm not getting any younger.

* I hope everyone is doing well. I hope to be more active here if possible but work has really been draining lately and it's not going to slow down because Subway is doing a complete redesign of their website that I'll be involved in. So there will be a lot of long work days and after hours work as well.

Take care, everyone! Hope to see you around more.

Current Mood: sick

This weekend sucked a goat's ass.

Not only did Rapey McPerjury get confirmed to the Supreme Court because why not, fuck us, but I also had shit just go wrong this weekend.

But last night before bed I noticed that my clothes were wet in the closet. WHY? Because our roof is leaking. Because we knew that we had roof damage, had a roofing contractor that dicked us around for two months, and now after firing them and trying to find someone new, we get this downpour rainstorm that soaked right through the roof into my bedroom closet. So last night I got no to little sleep because I was removing stuff from my closet, putting down towels over the carpet, and catching water in a bucket. Then I had to call State Farm and then make a claim. I also looked up another roofer, so fingers crossed this place isn't filled with unprofessional shitbag brodude assholes like the last one.

Not sure how much this is going to cost, but now there is interior damage as well, especially to the drywall. I claimed the carpet too but heaven knows I'm not going to get a chance to replace that! I'll just suck up the water with my carpet shampooer and hope that helps. I'd love new carpet in the whole upstairs but not necessary at this time. The water damaged roof and drywall will have to be replaced though. So fun! I had to make a new claim with State Farm, so who knows when we'll get our claim check, and who knows how I'm going to pay for the roof. Haha! Ugh.

Then to make things more fun, the toilet we tried fixing this weekend is still running. It works okay and flushes but won't stop running! Joe woke me up in the middle of the early morning to help him shut it off because he couldn't sleep with the noise. So we have to figure that out too. Might have to call a plumber for this one. UGHHHHH. If we could swing it, I'd opt for a brand new toilet but since we have a roof to fix, probably need a quick fix for now. Or we just don't use the toilet upstairs, which SUCKS, since it's the master bedroom.

I know disasters come in threes so I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

It would be lovely if I got a bonus check or a salary increase as promised. Still heard nothing on that. We'll see. At least my boss is letting me work home if I have to this week to deal with the roofers.

To top it off, we're supposed to have Juliet's party this weekend and if we need to spend time on these issues, I won't have time to get my house in order for this party, AND it's supposed to rain heavily on Wednesday again so I'm really nervous about this leak now.

I just wish it would stop raining. Please Goddess stop raining. At least for a week... Send the rain to California or Montana.

And we saw my mom Saturday and though it was good, she was for whatever reason, an ass to my husband, and he lost it and went off on her at lunch. It was awkward. But I don't really blame him. She hasn't said anything to me about his outburst, and I don't suspect she will since she doesn't confront people nor does she seem to get it when people have issues with her. It's usually always THEIR fault. I'm thinking about talking to her myself if they won't communicate with each other. But I've been so busy with the roof, toilet, child party and other stuff that I haven't had a chance knowing it WILL create drama and I just don't have the patience for that now.

I'm pretty sure the coils I bought for my vape are wrong again. I might just get a new mod because this one is just burning through coils and I might as well spend the money on a new one. Not sure what is going on with it and it's frustrating me because it helps me deal with all this stress, and now it's just becoming another stress.

Oh, and another top off, I got my monthly visitor! Thanks universe! *flips the bird*

We had some high points of the weekend despite all this mess. We did get some more coverage for our house that went into effect Saturday, so I'm kind of hoping the lower deductible and some of these new coverages will help us with our leaky roof. Fingers crossed!

I got to see my BFF and sister Beth this weekend too. Joe and I got some good errands done around the house and finally donated everything left over from the garage sale to charity. So that stuff is out of the garage! I got my beta work done for another story and had a little time to finish some reading. I did a little editing to my own story for the anthology too. I'm not sure when I'll have time to work on it again but I'll try.

Unfortunately I may have to drop out of the Reylo Charity Anthology. I've had NO time to draw or work on it, and the deadline is coming up. So I'm going to mull it over and see how the week goes, but I might end up sending them an email that I am out and try for next year. I'll finish my comic when I have time and then put it up on deviantart. :/ I might be able to contribute writing but right now I have no ideas because my brain is so on edge. Ugh. Maybe I'll come up with something. *shrug*

BUT at least there was new Doctor Who! OMG! My thoughts:
( Spoilers! New season of Doctor Who )

So yeah, that's the gist of my misery. I haven't had any time to write or work on freelancing either. I suck. :(

Take care everyone! Here's hoping your week is better than mine. I have a feeling that this is only the beginning to my woes this week. *crawls back under a rock*

Current Mood: pessimistic
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het_bigbang reveals are out! Both of my artists got back to me about my artwork. The Mad Max author really liked it, and I am pleased. I'm going to pimp their works here because I DID read them to do the art and found them really good.

[Mad Max] My Blue Bucket of Gold by ninety6tears
Rated Explicit. Max/Furiosa, canon divergent.
Max returns to the Citadel to arrange an exchange of favors, but his end of a deal with Furiosa, as well as rising concern for the Dag’s struggles, proves to be much more than he bargained for. New beginnings promise healing, but some old habits are hard to wash out.

[Iron Man Movies] the bolder the lip by sandyk
Rated Explicit. Tony/Pepper, AU after Iron Man 2
Pepper said yes to going to Venice. The secret of Tony's success was to tell Pepper the truth, always.

And the story that wasn't finished but I did art for anyway has at least the first chapter up.

[Riverdale] Jughead and Betty's Epic Detour by Browneyesparker
Rated T. Betty/Jughead. AU
Jughead and Betty take the road trip that Archie and Jughead were supposed to take together. Title taken from "Roger and Amy's Epic Detour" by Morgan Matson but that's as far as it goes. Rated T.

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I'm signing up for this challenge as an artist too. If you're interested:

A 10,000-word big bang for small fandoms! FAQ | Rules | Authors | Beta/Cheerleader | Affiliate (Artist sign-ups will open on Nov 1!)

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I read a really good and HOT fic on KU yesterday. I haven't updated on Goodreads yet because there are two more stories in there to read as a bonus, but the fic was really good if you're into erotica and want something decent to read to get your jollies off. I'm not usually into romance/erotica but I liked the premise and I like to see what sells out there.

It's called: So. Toxic: a virgin, fake marriage by Kelley Harvey.

I have a small shameless addiction to fake marriage / marriage of convenience set ups and I always like to see how they play out. Even as a bonus, these characters are reunited childhood friends which is always adorable IMO. The pacing in this story is pretty fast, and the two characters are likable, even the "bad boy". The writing style is light and amusing, but no where near the juvenile ways of EL James. It can be contemporary at times, but the writing is done well enough that I didn't find it bad or obnoxious. The voice seemed modern enough and fit the characters, like I could picture it.

The book is not without its issues. There is little to no plot, with some plot anecdotes here and there. Tyson has taken care of the baby boy he thinks is his son of a former girlfriend, who is a drug addict. He needs Jo to fake a marriage so he can look like a responsible father to the courts. The only thing I see about Tyson being a good father is what the author tells us. Most of the time he hands the kid off to a friend or something, but the kid does like him. The reason Jo "owes" him seems kind of silly, and we really never know why Tyson is rich or what he does as a job. So their are environmental things in the book that are weak if not non-existent. Jo is pretty milk toast. She has the spunky best friend to threaten the love interest when needed. There is also the evil racist mother trope.

If you can look by any of that, the sex scenes, and they are NUMEROUS, are really satisfying. I tried reading this book during my lunch break, in the break room, with people coming and going and trying to talk to me, and I was definitely uncomfortable. Haha.

If anything it was a shameless treat. It was a fast read, and I liked it well enough to share it. It's good for horny readers and not so much for people that like porn with plot. I'd probably read the author again. The writing style and grammar wasn't bad, which is a plus with KU.

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I can tell most people are phoning in today at work. My boss talked to me and another coworker about mattresses on sale and labor day deals for like 20 minutes. So yeah, it's that kind of day.

I do at least want to get all my emails done today, which is manageable. I don't like leaving dangling work for the weekend.

I hope everyone has a good Labor Day weekend. I'm looking forward to it. Maybe I'll be productive and get some stuff done.

Current Mood: lazy
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http://hkrowe.com/

Just a small blog update! My cover will be publically released on Friday. I know I've shown you guys under f-lock but I think I'll be done tinkering with it by then for the official release. :)

Also, musings about dedications pages and then update on my blog's header bar. I love my blog more now! I need to add links and keep the social marketing going.

Woot woot!

ARROW FINALE TONIGHT! OMG I'M SO EXCITED!!!

Current Mood: happy
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OMG. OMG.

Okay, they've teased about this before. They teased us at the end of Season 4. They teased that Xbox was going to do a series in the Heroes universe with new characters. They teased us that Heroes would continue in the comics last year as a Season 5.

We've heard NOTHING on any of this for awhile. And yet Tim Kring is apparently doing a mini-series. A really short teaser trailer is floating around saying they are reviving it for 13 episodes. No more details than that. Is Sylar back? What about Claire? Are these new characters?

Everything is hush-hush but at least there's hope for fans. It all seems legit. NBC even updated it's Heroes page.

http://www.nbc.com/heroes

Here's the teaser trailer.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpHHfTLY

On one hand I'm overjoyed because lately I've been so "meh" about TV and I really watch a lot less shows lately than I did back in the day. (Plus, I'd love a revival; maybe I can finish some of my unfinished stories.) On the other hand, I'm skeptical. I've seen too many Heroes hopes dashed in the past.

*fingers crossed*

#HeroesReborn

PS. I'm surprised that there hasn't been anything like this on LJ yet, but even Tumblr is just getting wind. I'm hoping to see fan base come back a little bit. I hope we don't ALL hate each other and have moved on. Is there still some love left for Heroes?

EDIT: I take that back. My tumblr feed HAS finally exploded from the news. WOOT.

SHINIES...

Goodbye mr. Holmes by ~monyta on deviantART

The Woman by ~Te-GR on deviantART

She is so awesome I cannot contain my love for her...

I love this incarnation of Irene (Sorry, Rachel McAdams). Brilliant. Also, I ship her with everyone. IRENE/EVERYONE FOREVER.

I'm going to either catch up with some TV or read some Game of Thrones. I haven't decided how lazy I'm going to be yet. (Or if I'm going to cave in and rewatch that Sherlock episode...)

Current Mood: dorky

My feelings on the Doctor Who finale...AMAZEBALLS.

I could not love River Song more than I do now. I LOVE HER SO MUCH. And AMY! SO MUCH LOVE FOR ALL OF THEM. Series 6 is definitely my favorite series now.

I also ignore all the River-hate and Moffat-hate on the internet. Sorry Who fandom, I don't care. Hahahaha.

Also Merlin is back. OMG. Lady Morgana is AWESOME, and I still love her like crazy, even though she's Team Evil. But I think my favorite part about the premiere was Lancelot. OMG. GUH. Santiago, I can't get enough of you.

YUMMY!

Current Mood: chipper

Fandom: Fringe
Title: Olivia and Phillip
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Olivia Dunham/Phillip Broyles
Notes: Done for my Ostara meme for

apckrfan.
URLS: DeviantART | PaperDemon

Preview:

( artwork behind cut )

It's way past my bedtime. Enjoy! Cheers.

Current Mood: tired

( LOL )

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avoidmynose

Hrmm... I dunno. Something might come out of this...

Current Mood: curious

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

castle_fic

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Tower Prep icons:
- Request for Suki/Ian
- various other ships, characters (Ray, Suki, Ray/Suki, Suki/Gabe, Ian/Gabe, Ian/CJ)

Total icons: 39

Preview:

HERE @

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Current Mood: accomplished

Tower Prep icons, from "The Rooks" Season 1, Episode 5

Total icons: 35

Preview:

HERE @

prism_perfect

Current Mood: cheerful

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It's a tie between Lost Girl and No Ordinary Family. Both awesome. Though I'm behind on Lost Girl just a bit. ;_;

Tower Prep is another good show but I think Lost Girl has better writers.

Current Mood: flirty

heroes_exchange is doing a holiday exchange and they need more participants!

I have never done

heroes_exchange, but from what I've seen, it's always been really successful and a lot of good fic comes out of it. Plus,

boombangbing is a reliable mod, so I suggest you sign up if you're still interested in Heroes.

I just finished a big bang for Heroes, plus I'm doing NaNoWriMo this month, so you know I must be mad for signing up. The thing is...I still love Heroes and I want to see the fandom continue.

Sign-ups end today, so think fast, but fics aren't due until January 8th, and the minimum word count is 1,000, so it's pretty manageable.

So yay! I'm kinda curious to see how this goes. :D

Current Mood: happy

( tonight is going to be Epic )

Current Mood: bouncy

WHOOOHOOOOO!

GO BLACKHAWKS!

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through all the muck, at least there was new Doctor Who
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Heroes Reborn
Where I fangirl Irene Adler...
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Another Ostara piece I owe
The Doctor Sighting!
some pimping: Rachel comment-ficathon
castle_fic Fic Fest!
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Writer's Block: Television! Is there anything it cannot do?
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Entries tagged with tv

Update ... is it March already?

through all the muck, at least there was new Doctor Who

Some Recs

Book Update: Official Cover Release, Dedication, and new header

Heroes Reborn

Where I fangirl Irene Adler...

SQUEE in gifs

Another Ostara piece I owe

The Doctor Sighting!

some pimping: Rachel comment-ficathon

castle_fic Fic Fest!

More Tower Prep Icons, various

Tower Prep "The Rooks" Episode 05 icons

Writer's Block: Television! Is there anything it cannot do?

Pimping: heroes_exchange

Rocky Horror GLEE!!

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