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just an occasional glance at the bottle of port, which had begun glowing faintly [28 Nov 2009|09:53am] kuwamiko [ mood | groggy ] [ music | you know my name - chris cornell ] How sad is it when you own a couple hundred plus DVDs, in addition to many boxsets of television shows, and when you're the first one up and you wanna drown out the sound of the fucking neighbors braying talking, you end up just putting in your earbuds and listening to your shuffle? Well, I couldn't commit to a movie. Everything is either too serious, not serious enough, or I've watched it too recently. It has to feel right, you know? Even if it's just background noise. Besides, you never know when a random choice will become an obsession - see "Jurassic Park 3" as a good example of that. ^.^;; After all, I put on "Star Trek" last night, then spent the entirety of the movie Googling Kirk/Spock pics... and that's not even my fandom! Well, I really started the search kinda looking for manips with new!Pike (I still wanna see him in BDSM gear, thanks to Gin). But finding shitty fanart and worse manips featuring Shatner and Limoy amused me so deeply that I just kept clicking the links for each following page. And I don't regret it! I actually got the D-face out of Gin a few times, even though I'd have thought she'd already seen everything Kock (Spirk) has to offer! ^_~ Of course, I also D-faced myself several times.... But better I should squick myself than be squicked by Gin! *snickers* Man, I'm glad I'm not in a fandom that has so much horror. I can only imagine if I had a hard-on for Bones and/or Chekov (new movie only), and was looking for good fic and art slashing them..... *shudders* The results would not be pleasant. ^.^ And I actually do adore the new McCoy and Chekov, but not enough to actually, you know, read fic. That's the problem when something is a retread. Yeah, you have loads of established canon, but you also have fic and art featuring the original actors. Who are sometimes not as attractive as the new actors. (Shatner in his prime was hot, I admit, but I favor Chris Pine. And no one can convince me that Limoy would look sexy while having sex. *dies a little at the mental image*) Granted, the fandom I'm currently in (it's more the fandom of "bottom-Dean" than "SPN") has its own horrors, and has a distinct lack of decent new fiction. Right now if I want a good fic, I'm pretty much going to have to write it myself. And that's what I've been doing, and it's what I intend to continue doing. And every once in a while, once every few months, someone actually posts a good fic. When I'm lucky. Which is sad, but at least I'm not reduced to reading about Leonard Limoy banging or being banged by William Shatner!!! ^o^ (Not that I feel superior to you, Gin! I respect you for wading through the dreck - though I'm convinced you enjoy the bad stuff as much as the good stuff. I'm just really grateful that I don't have to do the same. ^_~) Oh, and Gin! You never did answer my question in this post!!! ^o^ Later, if I stop being lazy/feeling woozy, I might post pics from yesterday (which was delicious times a million, btw). I also might put up the Xmas tree. And I ought to get some writing or drawing done. But right now I'm feeling... meh. And I think I'm going to go and read some "Imitation", because I'm in the mood for some explicit John/Dean. Because it's bad and wrong and SO AM I!!!! *leers* post comment

then he was off the wall and away [27 Nov 2009|11:05pm] kuwamiko [ mood | excited ] [ music | tay and gin playing lumines ] Oh, gee, we left the house to get some chips and drinks and we appear to have come home with an Xbox 360 Elite..... Funny how these things happen. ^.^;; Well, my brother told us yesterday about some good RPGs for the Xbox. See, we have all the game systems from Nintendo and Sony (except for anything before the PS1 and the N64) including the handhelds, but we've NEVER owned anything by Microsoft and never wanted to. But we've talked about getting an Xbox, and Tay has been really itching for a new RPG lately. There haven't been any good RPGs for any of the systems we own lately, so.... We actually didn't get the game my brother recommended, but we'll see if we can get it tomorrow. When it's NOT Black Friday. We went out to Best Buy in the evening, after all the crowds were done, and got a kickass deal on an Xbox bundle. For a spur of the moment purchase, we certainly picked the right day to do it! It's like it was Kismet or something. ^_~ So Tay sat and wrote while Gin and I tortured ourselves and each other looking at shitty "ST" manips and the like on Google, and then once Tay made her word count, she set the Xbox up. She and Gin are playing with it now. They've got Lumines on and I may jizz myself, because I rocked that game hardcore on Tay's PSP and I'm realizing now how much I've missed it! Holy fucking hell!!! *swoons* And now I have to email my brother and bitch him out for causing us to get an Xbox. =.=;; post comment

The Importance of Being Ernest Saves Christmas [27 Nov 2009|07:23pm] eider Presenting, Odessa Castle's Holiday Special, an advent calendar of stories and other goodies to unfold through the month of December (if all goes well!). [The title here is a reflection of the last two movies I've watched, however unlikely: Ernest in Love (which is a musical adaptation of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest") and Ernest Saves Christmas (which is actually way funnier to me now that I have lived a good amount of time in the state of Kentucky); both of which have contributed great dolloping helpings to my holiday cheer. That, and the fact that we accidentally wound up downtown just as a horse-drawn carriage came through the Christmas-lit streets bearing none other than Mr. Claus himself! Ho ho ho!] The link that says "Christmases Past" should go live tomorrow, hopefully-- it'll be reposts of the best of our previous years' holiday offerings. :D 1 comment|post comment

passing before my eyes like a quick cloud before the sun [27 Nov 2009|12:24pm] kuwamiko [ mood | amused ] [ music | gin playing ff12 ] Yay for Gin helping me with my Firefox! I truly do suck at computers. [=P Using them once they're set up is usually not a problem, but getting them set up? Psht! Bwahahahah~!!! I've been reading my old poems and songs (some of them are actually poetry - some are supposed to be "songs", only they're lyrics without music), and laughing my ass off! They're from 1988-1991, and they're so amusing! I'm totally going to post them unironically, in a sock puppet account with appropriately emo icons..... Hee! There are actually a few good lines here and there, but overall it's pretty dreadful. ^.^ Tay sent me some piccies of the twins when they were young, to use as reference. Now I need to Google "young boys" so that I look like a complete pedo in order to get some ideas for poses. Heh. Tay's starting the Thanksgiving dinner and Gin's playing FF12. Later there will be movies and maybe I'll do some gaming. Or maybe not - we'll see. post comment

"maybe some sort of anticipation" [27 Nov 2009|09:58am] kuwamiko [ mood | mellow ] [ music | tay playing katamari forever ] So yesterday I was gonna have my brother look at my mail, but he couldn't even get my new laptop online (evidently he has problems with his girlfriend's wireless), so I just said forget it. I'll make the switch to Gmail, there's less spam, and I'll see what I can do about my old email. For now I can still download it on Odin. I finally got to play some Chocobo Hot and Cold last night - hurrah! But now I gotta do the plotty stuff, like Gizmaluke's Grotto, and I'm less than thrilled. I do love FF9, but there's some stuff about it I don't care for doing so much. I actually had Tay do the Festival of the Hunt for me. ^.^;; Today I need to track down my sketchbook. Tay wants youko kits, and I have to at least try. I'll also try for Dandelions!Dean, but I'm so rusty it's not even funny. I've drawn some relatively good pics in the past (like this semi-NSFW one), but it's been a looooooong time. At least the Kaulitz twins are more anime-style than darling Jensen. They're human, but they're angular and pretty and stick-thin, so it may be easier for me to draw them. ^.^ I also wanna find my old "song lyrics". For one thing, I wanna see how awful they really are. For another, if there's anything salvageable, I might be able to steal a line or two for fanfic purposes. And if they're as wretched as I think, maybe I can make a sock puppet account and post them where everyone can read and mock them! Hah! ^o^ Right now, though, I'm going to go shower. And unlike yesterday, I actually mean that I'm going to go shower. ^_^ Happy Thanksgiving do-over Day!!!! ^o^ Eta: Hah! I'm good. I found both the sketchbook and the song notebook in under a minute apiece. ^_~ Now I've showered and I'm overly caffeinated. Let's see what a mess I can make of my day! ^o^ post comment

[27 Nov 2009|05:03pm] duowolf [ mood | tired ] [ music | Just Fall In Love - Dominion Tank Police ] Finally finished up the last of the Xmas shopping though still need to pick up a couple of small bits for the husband. Also got a few things for myself including the first season of True Blood, a load of books and some stuffed toys. These being a Mammoth, a Sabre-toothed Tiger and a Vampire Bat. Very cool indeed. Am dead tried now though as I'm really not used to walking round the city, we used to go there every month now we hardly go at all. *sigh* post comment

Dragon age: Orgins and Sherlock Holmes [26 Nov 2009|08:51pm] duowolf [ mood | amused ] [ music | Closer - School Rumble ] Finished my second playthrough of Dragon Age and I think this one went a lot better then the first one as I got a lot more of the side quests done then I did the first time around. I also liked the ending a bit more it seemed a little bit happier then the first one. Next time round I'm gonna make all the worse choices possable to unlock some more of the achivments just to see how things play out that way. But first I'm gonna try out Sherlock Holmes Vs Jack The Ripper. It seems like a pretty good game so far apart from the fact that the voice acting is some of the worst I've heard in a long time. The other thing that's a little off putting is that all the townfolk seem to have escaped from Innsmouth in the Call Of Cthulhu on the first Xbox. It's really creepy. That said it's a pretty addictive game as you want to see what happens next. Nicly they have used the actual reports etc that were made at the time of the Jack The Ripper murders and I can't help but wonder who they are gonna paint as the murderer in this version. post comment

finally, i dropped it and listened [26 Nov 2009|10:57am] kuwamiko [ mood | overly caffeinated ] [ music | the washing machine ] Re: last entry.... And by "shower", obviously I meant "clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher, clear off the table, set up a centerpiece, clean out the litterboxes, start a load of laundry, and sweep the bathroom floor". And NOW, a couple of hours later, I'm going to go and shower. ^.^;; Hey, Gin! (Or Nep!) You know that line in "Banned From Argo" that goes, "we found him with five partners, each of a different world and sex"? You have to tell me that someone has written that fic! I don't want to read it, I don't need a link, I just need to know that it exists! ^o^ Okay, now I'm really gonna go and shower. While the washing machine is running, because I'm brilliant like that. ^_~ Jan~!!! post comment

the design looked slobbered-upon [26 Nov 2009|09:05am] kuwamiko [ mood | peaceful ] [ music | tay playing katamari forever ] Happy Thanksgiving! It's the one holiday my family celebrated when I was growing up (no Xmas, Valentine's, etc), but it's never been a really big deal. A time to be with family and eat good food and sometimes watch movies. When my Dad's mother was alive I got to see my uncles and aunts and cousins, but now that my Mom is gone, I don't even get to see all of my siblings. That's the way things go, sadly. I'm not going to list the things I'm thankful for, as I've done in years past. Take it as a given that I am thankful every day for almost everything that I have (with only two or three exception). Having one day of good eats to focus on that isn't going to make me any more grateful. I mean it; I take a moment or two every day to realize how good I have it. I think that's how I stay so upbeat almost all the time. ^_^ That said, though, I'm REALLY THANKFUL that Tay was able to get my my Xmas gift early and I'm typing this on my new laptop!! It's amazing and shiny, it has a much brighter screen and a fully functioning keyboard (I know I keep mentioning that, but having a wonky spacebar gets really old, fast!), and everything is familiar, because it's a Mac with a version of OSX, but everything is just a little bit better. =^_^= THANK YOU, TAY!!!! I cut my middle right finger pretty deeply at werk last night. It didn't bleed much, but it's really inconvenient. It's the finger I use for moving around on my mousepad, the one I use for putting in my contacts.... *sigh* And I woke up with a headache. The Tylenol is helping, I think. Maybe after I take a warm shower it'll be gone entirely. But, hey, I'm not werking today, I get to go and see my brother's household for the first time, and we're picking up a Gin on the way home and having our extra-delicious do-over tomorrow!! *glees* And Tay and Gin will do all or most of the cooking - bonus! ^o^ More later, probably. I'm even thinking about taking the camera, since the kiddies are going to be there. ^_^ But right now... I shower! 1 comment|post comment

"get me my shadow" [25 Nov 2009|07:16am] kuwamiko [ mood | sore ] [ music | the new water thing we got the cats ] It's kinda hard to believe that tomorrow is already Thanksgiving. Back in the beginning of October I was whining that I wanted the month to be over, in order to get to some cooler weather and some fun holidays. Now, here I've turned around and it's November that's almost gone. =.=;; But, hey, the weather is a lot cooler, so hurray for that! ^o^ I've found my "home" and "refresh" buttons on Safari. I've transferred almost everything from Odin. I still need to download some other browsers and Fetch onto my new computer, and add to my bookmark bar in Safari, but I'm essentially "moved in". Yays! =^_^= I'm ever so grateful for this laptop - it was very very time for an upgrade! *hearts her tay* Did some more reading of "AtR:DI" last night. It still feels weird to be reading and not writing - especially when I have such an awesome new keyboard. But it's something I need to do, both to fix all the things that need fixing and to get back into the mindset of the story I got distracted from three years ago. And eventually I'll have read through it all and can get to writing new stuff. Then I can finish it, and THEN I can get to writing on my Dean-centric fics! (Oh, and working on my other projects, of course. Heh.) All right. Off into the day. Hey, it's "Friday"! Well, even if it wasn't a holiday, tomorrow would be my "Friday". But I'll take an extra day off! ^_~ Too bad I'm closing tonight.... But at least I can sleep in tomorrow. ^_^ 2 comments|post comment

pairing meme [25 Nov 2009|11:12am] duowolf [ mood | amused ] [ music | Gamble Rumble - Intinal D ] Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms. 1. Jessie/James (Pokemon) 2. Roy/Edward (FMA) 3. Kaworu/Shinji (Eva) 4. Hikaru/Akira (Hikaru No Go) 5. Harry/Draco (Harry Potter books) 6. Rock Lee/Gaara (Naruto) 7. Ichigo/Ishida (Bleach) 8. Leon/Count D (Pet Shop Of Horrors) 9. Touya/Yuki (Card Captor Sakura) 10. Ryo/Dee (Fake) 11. Ryoji/Main Character (Persona 3) 12. Dean/Castiel (Supernatural) 13. Wolfram/Yuuri (Kyou Kara Maou) 14. Ryou/Bakura (Yugioh) 15. Quatre/Trowa (Gundam Wing) post comment

Yet another content-free post [25 Nov 2009|02:48am] zoifox [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | the overnight show ] Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody post comment

the grass dies [24 Nov 2009|08:22pm] kuwamiko [ mood | tired ] [ music | the simpsons ] What on earth makes Pepper think that I'd be willing to get up 45 minutes before the alarm goes off? =.=;; She may be the cutest cat in the world, but that's just not gonna happen! At least Yuki didn't keep us up for an hour wailing (since I got up when he started and opened the bedroom door). They'd both better be good tonight and tomorrow morning! [=P Work went quickly, but now the evening has gone quickly too. Darnit. post comment

autumn comes [23 Nov 2009|08:18pm] kuwamiko [ mood | mellow ] [ music | the simpsons for background noise ] I found a book today that looks interesting and checked it out. I read the first page while walking to meet Tay. Then I stuffed the book in my purse, took out my Sidekick, and started reading "Lay Some Marmalade On Me" instead. ^.^;; I'm still going to give the book a chance. It has what sounds like an interesting plot. It's a supernatural thriller. But I swear, I spent the entire first page thinking about how I would have worded things better differently than the author. (And then I found three godawful typos in the first half of "Marmalade" - so much for my inflated sense of superiority! *wince*) I put on "Aeon Flux" last night, for background noise, and despite the fact that I was reading stuff on the internet and despite the fact that I've seen it twice before, this time I actually followed the plot for the first time! I was kind of surprised by that fact. ^_^;; And am I ever going to NOT get Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts mixed up?! At least Elizabeth Banks stands out in my mind. ^.^ I found a new pair of sweatpants - I had to get them out of the men's section in order to get some that weren't low waisted. Too bad I can't do the same for jeans. Hah! Considering the way males wear their jeans now, forget it! You know, there were a lot of bad fashions in the eighties, but at least back then you could see people's asses! *grumbles* I hate to sound like a cranky oldster, but on "Nightmare on Elm Street" Johnny Depp's ass looked fantastic! Nowadays, we're lucky if Jared's jeans mostly fit his ass on "Friday the 13th", and that is NOT the norm. [=P 2 comments|post comment

I really should not be thinking about these things. [23 Nov 2009|02:01pm] zoifox [ mood | hungry ] [ music | the news ] You know, Professor Layton really is kind of an asshole. post comment

The Howling [23 Nov 2009|10:51am] duowolf [ mood | worried ] [ music | Ame to Sanbika - Gun Frontier ] Just found out they are planning to reboot The Howling movies. Not sure wether or not to be terrified. Maybe they will stick to the books this time and make some decent movies instead of the mess they made last time round. post comment

feather on the wind [22 Nov 2009|08:50pm] kuwamiko [ mood | lethargic ] [ music | ending credits ] Even though we got to the fancypants store late, we still managed to get ourselves a nice free range turkey instead of having to get a Winco one. Pretty good, considering we didn't pre-order, like we did last year. Did all the grocery shopping for our Thanksgiving re-do, but of course managed to forget a few things. Well, there's still time for last minute stuff. We're watching "The Mutant Chronicles" now. It's bleak and yet boring and everyone is either dead or going to die, but there's so much PRETTY. God, I love the actors! Well, most of them. John Malkovich was really kind of annoying, but his character didn't have too many scenes. Devon Aoki and Anna Walton are just fucking beautiful (and both died while I was writing this post - heh). And I have to admit to a sorry sort of affection for Thomas Jane (the low rent Christopher Lambert), even though he's usually in shitty movies. Ditto for Ron Perlman (well, I'll forgive him anything, because he was on "The City of Lost Children"). So, yeah, we'll probably have to buy it, because even though it's bleak and boring, it's a well made film with gorgeous actors, and we own worse movies for less reason. *coughdeepblueseacough* All right, back to more transferring of files. [=P Naturally, moving four years of stuff isn't going to be quick or easy. But there's stuff I can do while Odin is grinding away. Like having ice creams! ^o^ post comment

angry cat [22 Nov 2009|10:27am] kuwamiko [ mood | uncomfortable ] [ music | tay playing her itunes ] Man, the internet is so dead this weekend. [=P And it's weird, switching emails. I'm really not used to Gmail, and not entirely thrilled with it, but if Tay couldn't get my regular email to work, then, well. Yeah. I'm transferring files via a new 8GB flash drive that Tay got me yesterday. It's a slow process. Downloading things onto the new computer is pretty swift, but loading them from Odin onto the flash drive - yikes! ^.^;; And last night, transferring the BJD folder onto the flash drive off of Odin was an exercise in futility. It was going for 4 hours, at least, and was getting close to halfway done when we finally went to bed at 1:30. So I wake up this morning and it's "done", meaning that there's a message saying there wasn't enough memory on the flash drive to complete the task. =.=;; So I divided up the folder into three and I'm giving it another try. Let's hope it works better this time! So, frustrations aside, the new laptop is amazing and awesome, and I have a hard time dealing with change, but this is a change for the better, so I'll hopefully adjust quickly. ^_^ I'm in love with the keyboard and mousepad, I have to say. Odin was hanging in there, but it was SO time for an upgrade. Happy Holidays early!! <3 Now I suppose I ought to go and shower and think about getting ready for werk. *sigh* And I really need to pull my scattered consciousness together and try to make some actual use of my new laptop.... It's disconcerting, simply re-reading what I've written, but it's entirely necessary if I'm going to continue the story in a coherent, involving fashion..... Bloo. 2 comments|post comment

foodie craziness [22 Nov 2009|08:22am] darthneko I'm in experimental recipe mood today! Breakfast came out well, in as much as it was just a hardboiled egg, mashed up with mayonnaise and mustard and a chopped green onion for faux egg salad, spread over a dinner roll, with a side of cottage cheese (dear self - 1% store brand cottage cheese tastes like ASS. v_v) The real experiment is going to be what I'm cooking for lunches next week. Here's the recipe so far, as it's been popped into the crock pot: 1 lb. boneless chicken, chopped up into bite sized pieces 1 bag coleslaw shredded cabbage (which has shredded carrots in it too... eh, whatever) 1/2 cup cooking white wine 1/4 cup lemon juice 1 shot sweet tea vodka 3 Tbsp butter dark brown sugar salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder In a small (2quart?) crockpot: brown the chicken in a few tablespoons of oil. layer half the bag of cabbage on the bottom. Cover with chicken pieces. sprinkle chicken with spices. If you still have room, add more cabbage to the top of the pot. Top with cut up chunks of butter (mine was frozen) and a layer of brown sugar (I'm not sure how much - not too thick, just sort of loosely covered. maybe 1/4 cup loosely packed?) Mix the wine, lemon juice and vodka - pour over everything. Cover and set on low and walk away. I'll go back later to stir it and see what needs adding for flavor. I'm anticipating a sort of sweet and sour and alcoholic lemon chicken. Maybe. We'll see! This is experimental, after all! More reports later, when I know what it's doing. Edit #1 - ahhahaha, I forgot how much cabbage cooks down! Added the rest of the bag of cabbage in after stirring it around, as there was room. Plenty of sauce forming at the bottom. Sauce is surprisingly sweet&sour TASTY. Yay! Edit #2 - mostly successful! The sweet vs sour wasn't blending very well - taking a bite was OMGSWEET! followed by OMGSOUR! aftertaste. No middle ground. So I dredged all of the chicken and cabbage out of the pot, poured the sauce into a pan on the stove, added in about a teaspoon of ground ginger and a dash of cinnamon and a glug (yes, that's my technical term =P) of thai sweet-chili sauce, whisked it all around, added some corn starch to thicken it up, and tada! Not really "lemon", per se, but a decent sweet and sour oriental sauce that I poured over the chicken and cabbage and put the whole mess over rice. Works for me. ^_^ post comment

Dragon Age: Orgins Novels [22 Nov 2009|11:28am] duowolf [ mood | happy ] [ music | In My Dream - Brain Powered ] Just found out there are two Dragon Age novels available which is awesome as I love back story. The first is called The Calling and is about The Grey Wardens and the second is called The Stolen Crown and is about the previous Kings fight to gain back the country's freedom and is a direct prequel to the actual game. Both are written by David Gaider. I'll be picking up both of them once I get paid next week along with the second Mass Effect novel that I hadn't realized existed. post comment

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