TERRI

Could Bones and Booth get any more USTy?

RMMC

Hi folks. Nothing new really with my mom. She's still not eating much and most doesn't stay down long. The hospice is trying her with Prilosec on the thought that she's nauseaous due to too much stomach acid from not eating. I went up there last week on Wednesday after work with my brother, his wife and son. Never again. It was a hell trip. The radio blaring in my ear, constant conversation from my nephew about anything and everything of no importance and loudly over top of everyone else speaking (he's 12 and should know better...and his parents shouldn't have let it happen...for four hours straight) my brother talking almost as constantly or yelling at something (another driver, his wife, kid, etc) and my sister-in-law quietly pouring oil on the flames. :blast: We stayed the night at my s-i-l's parent's home (they're in Florida) which was about an hour and a half from mom's. On Thursday, I made dinner for everyone. I also discovered that my nephew, with whom I'd had to share the backseat of the car for about six hours total, was coming down with something and nobody thought to warn me. We won't even talk about that they shouldn't have brought him up north to see Mom if he was sick...okay, I did. GAH! :banghead: I cooked and cleaned up the kitchen (swept & washed the floor, washed the counters, appliances and sink). My s-i-l dusted the rest of the house. My brother and nephew did outdoor chores (leaves, washing windows.) Friday, we were suppose to go home and I had plans for the evening. That morning I'm told that we'll not be going home until later...much later. :hanged: Then another 4+ hour trip...with the car being bone-chillingly cold as my brother and his son can't stand anything above 40 apparently. Any future trips, I'll either be alone or with ANYONE else. {/rant} Sorry about that. Back to mom. She only ate a little while we were there and actually slept for most of the time. She's upset about having to take so much medicaton just to do virtually anything (up to and including daily bodily functions) and when she has a good day is rebelling and not taking her meds and is surprised when she gets worse. Then she doesn't want to take them because she feels so much worse. She's driving my step-dad (and me via long-distance) nuts. We've all tried to explain to her (including the s-i-l who's an RN) that it's like her blood pressure meds; even when you feel better or worse you still have to keep taking it or else it'll never work right. So...I meant to be here more, but I've been a bit depressed and stressed (work has the 'calendar year end snits' going) and end up just reading or sleeping when I'm home. I'm missing my friends both here and RL to keep me on an even keel. I need to get out more, but am needlessly paranoid about missing any important calls. One of my friends (and a fellow Browncoat) dragged me out to the movies on Saturday to see [u]Happy Feet.[/u] It was just what I needed. Two hours of silliness followed by dinner and a few hours of gaming. 'Coats are the best folks! :smile: Thanks again for all your well wishes. I've told my mom about them and she says to thank all of you. *hugs fellow Browncoats* ***** RMMC

TERRI

I know that it's really stupid to tell people this and not expect people to now know, but usually, most likely, my posts have nothing to do with their titles. Usually, I get the quotes from Futurama or Family Guy or some stupid thing that my friends say. Like this post. Nothing to do with Gwen Stefani and all to do with several posts ago where I had the title something to do with her. The quote was from Brian on Family Guy, and I thought it was a pretty funny standalone joke. I try to do the ones that only have one person talking, and are kinda one liners. As for my own feelings about Gwen Stefani, I actually like her music, and loved her when she was in No Doubt. So, yeah, just thought I'd put that out there. If you cared. Or not. You know, whatever.

COPILOT

I didn't get any e-mails from booster events about it but I can't seem to make it to the site. My computer goes wonky. So anyone who knows anything please contact me? I have a ticket but I'm not sure I can go anyway. ~ All the love in the 'verse~

HOBBLEIT

Hi there, I was at the hospital today. The consultant cleaned my ear with a suction-y thing (as usual) and now my ear hurts and I feel sick. At least she says it's geting better, after 7 years and 4 operations. My ear's actually been bad since I was 6 but it took til i was 13 for my GP to refer me to Dryburn. TTFN Jennifer -x-

DESKTOPHIPPIE

My boss used to live in Sweden and recently returned from a visit there. When she came back, she started lighting candles in the centre, saying it was a Swedish tradition she missed a lot. Apparently, Swedes are nuts for candles and have them lit in almost every public place. I love candles. I absolutely love them. I never imagined I'd be allowed to light candles at work. Needless to say I was all for the idea. The first evening we lit candles at the reception desk one of them went on fire. As in full on flames and smoke. It was a voltive set in a jar of lavender. When the wax ran out it ignited the lavender and... well luckily I was there and spotted it pretty quickly. I had to smother it with a cloth to put it out! Now we stick with small voltives only. It really adds to the place though. I have a small cinnamon candle lighting at the moment. Mmm... Tomorrow is December 1st and it hit me that we don't have any decorations up at the centre. So I bought a mini Christmas tree! It's a real plant, but it's been dusted with gold sparkles and comes in a cheery box that doubles as an advent calendar and plays "Jingle Bells" when you press it. I know, I know... it's commercial and silly, I'm a bad little Hippie. But what the heck. It makes me smile :)

BELLONA

...and i'm [i]completely[/i] freaked out. The Boyfriend (nearly five months - yay!) has invited me to dinner with his parents this weekend to celebrate his 18th birthday. And, okay, so [i]technically[/i] it's not the first time i've met them, but does "hello" and a lift in the car really count? Anyway, his mother is [i]terrifying[/i] - she's a primary school teacher!! Makes me want to wet my pants and hide in the art cupboard all over again... *ahem* :blush: Back to the subject at hand, I think. The woman can bring a 17-year-old boy to heel with a blink and I'm supposed to stay in the same room with her without melting into a gibbering heap? I'm sure she only invited me because she ran out of food - she's going to cook me and serve me up like a lamb chop!!! I don't [i]want[/i] to be lamb chops!! HELP!!! b ps. apologies for my [i]looooooooooong[/i] absence from the BSR, but passing exams, deciding your future and saving the world from the evil sock monster (an epic battle, i assure you) takes up a lot of time. but sob no more, i am back and raring to go. that is, if by "go" you mean hibernate for the next three months...

MAL4PREZ

When I finished posting Easy Tickets, I estimated that the next series in the, um, series would be ready sometime in November. And here we are, the last day of the month, and guess what... Not so much. It's not due to lack of effort! I have been writing lots. In fact, I'm well past 100K words right now. (FJ was 70K and ET was 150K) but it just keeps expanding! The preliminary bit - which sets up the meat of the story - is just getting done now. After months of work! This part only is 10 chapters and 70K words (yikes!) including an intro chapter and then one chapter from each character's POV. This explains why it's taken so long - it's not easy to arrange it so that the main storyline advances and I always pay sufficient attention to The Man (Mal, of course!) while still getting into the heads of 8 other very different characters. I have to be in the mood for each one, and that can’t be forced. After chapter 10, the fun really gets to rolling. Much of it is written, but it needs filling out and arranging. There's a lot to do! I'm not sure how long the whole story will be; certainly 20 chapters, maybe as many as 30, possibly more. I really can't estimate when I'll finish, but it will be awhile. Past the new year and beyond! :( I don't have much more to say about it than I did in my last blog. Maybe I'll say it again though, and add that I think you folks who liked my previous fics will really like it. There's angst, there's sex, there's drama, there's Simon in lust, Jayne being Jayne, Book being pious (and, occasionally, armed), River being a teenager, Kaylee dealing with anger, Wash stepping up, and all kinds of background on Zoe and Mal and Inara. Also - throw in a whore or two, some new Companions, a few troublesome Alliance types (some you already know, some you may not expect to see again) and, finally, spice it up proper with a few shipfuls of hungry Reavers. Wow - I guess that's more than I said before, huh? Anyway, I hope you readers will still be around! I've noticed that fics are getting a lot fewer hits now that the fervor over the BDM has passed. That's a shame! It's scary to work so hard for a dwindling audience. Not that that will stop me, but still... I'll be at the Flan or BBB or BE Screwed or whatever it ends up being. I hope to meet a lot of you there! -Mary/mal4prez

SAVEWASH

Hi again! For those of you who read my previous blogs, I did it! Somehow I managed to write over 50,000 words of a novel in only 28 days. (And the thing isn't even finished yet!) I didn't know if it would be possible, but I just had to try it and I'm so glad I did! (And so did thousands of other people at www.nanowrimo.org) It was kind of my own personal challenge to myself. I'm glad to be done and back to my "normal" life (whatever that is), but I did have fun and I feel a sense of accomplishment. Now I'll try to post a little more often here and get reacquainted. Thanks for the supportive messages on my previous blogs. Once a Browncoat, always a Browncoat.