I have been inspired by yagkyas  and my last post.



( Seasonal crazy ahoy! )

Tags: generation kill, my fic
Current Location: home
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Christmas Bob - Bucko & Champs

ARGHHHH, I just hit the wrong key and lost a whole post before I could finish it! *tears hair*

I'm going to throw this post out of a moving vehicle at high speeds, try not to injure yourselves.

1. I cracked a molar last week, quite badly. My dentist is awesome and it didn't cost me any major organs to get the filling (my first!!) but If my decay and nightly teeth grinding could have joined together to snap half a tooth off down almost to the nerve, couldn't they have waited until my reactivated private health insurance had finished its waiting period (and why couldn't that stupid premonition happen earlier?!). Anyway, all's well that ends well.

2. Alex Skarsgard is a hotass. 'nuff said. Does Santa take bribes? I'll trade several useful members of my family for a Viking under my tree on the 25th.

3. Work is good. We moved offices FINALLY and I quite like them. It is much more relaxing now I don't have people walking behind my desk all the time.

4. Life is good and I'm grateful. I could, however, take a slight change in the hot muggy weather we have at the moment due to a tropical cyclone up north.

5. Christmas! Holy shit that has snuck up on us hasn't it? Is Santa a Recon Marine? because that was pretty fucking ninja (OK, now I want a story where Brad is Santa and Ray is his Elf). I'm all set having had an easy list of stuff to buy this year, plus I got a $100 Amazon voucher from my parents last week so I could place my order and have it arrive around Christmas. I have been hanging around my post box so much I think the postman thinks I am stalking him.

Alright, the drive by is completed so now I will peel away in a cloud of burning rubber and try not to get caught by the cops for speeding since it's currently Double Demerits over the holiday season.

Byeeeee!

Tags: alexander skarsgård, all about me
Current Location: home
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Barry the Elf - Bucko & Champs

tevere  has just posted a generation kill AU set during the East Timor independence upheaval in 1999 - see summary below


Summary: When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever.


I cannot recommend this story enough. I'm just going to cut and paste my comment to her as I am still reeling a little and I want to read it again RIGHT NOW!

( Cut for mild story spoilers in my comment )

Go. Read.

Tags: all about me, fic rec, generation kill
Current Location: home
Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: snoring dogs

Alexander Skarsgård - the sheer hotness of this swedish actor (generation kill, true blood) has changed my attitudes towards blonde men forever.

Make me your Viking Queen darling, you know you want to. Yum.

(  Om jag kunde skulle jag äta dig levande )

Tags: alexander skarsgård, tv boyfriends
Current Location: home
Current Mood: flirty
Current Music: true blood S2 E07

I just posted this for the star_trek_flashfic  Family Challenge

Tags: kirk spock et al, my fic
Current Location: work (shh, dont tell anyone)
Current Mood: good

June??? What the ever loving fuck?? How is it JUNE?

In other news, the swine flu may not be making much impact where I am but whatever misbegotten form of the flu that has been endlessly circulating through my co-workers needs to end now. I'm just getting over my second bout and it was as pleasant as the last one. Bloody hell.

David Eddings died :( I adored the Belgarion, Malloreon, Elenium and Tamuli series. They made being thirteen and fourteen bearable. God bless, David.

My sister/housemate R has left for her 5 weeks holiday though Europe and landed in Venice the other day. I'm so pleased she's doing this, she's needed a break and a personal journey type experience for a while. I have to say I was thanking God that she hadn't gone to South America once I heard about the Air France flight going down. That is just horrendous, those poor families, it just breaks my heart.

I was trying to think the other day how is it that so many women I know get such a charge from things as simple as clean windows or a restacked pantry? I am still buzzing from the high of steam cleaning the tile grout in the main house. It has come up amazingly and I randomly stand and admire it at weird times. I really should have taken a before and after photo! Then I think that I'm being really odd and make myself go do something else.

PUPPY!! My parents have just gotten a second Papillion male. He is 11 weeks and his name is Barney. His older 'brother' Georgie who is 2 years old is still not convinced that this is a good thing. He's not aggressive but he's definitely a bit anxious about the change. Still, Barney is adorable...puppies make everything better!

( cut in case someone hasn't seen Star Trek yet )

Hmm, nothing else to report. I still haven't won the lotto. Situation normal.

Tags: all about me, kirk spock et al, star trek
Current Location: work (shh, dont tell anyone)
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Chain Reaction - Diana Ross

I just posted this over at star_trek_flashfic 

Current Location: work (shh, don't tell anyone)
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: coughing co-workers

I have two dreamwidth invite codes here for the first two people who email me direct (do not comment here for privacy reasons) at haitchem@gmail.com. Leave me your username and email and a four thousand word properly formatted essay on Why sexy scruffy men are necessary for good television OR Why Vulcans are bringing sexy back. Go!

Tags: all about me, dreamwidth
Current Location: work (shh, don't tell anyone)
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: computer server behind me

Just a quick note in case I have cast any of you into the depths of despair by defriending your LJ. I am deleting LJ's off my friends list for people I have subscribed to on Dreamwidth, hopefully it will stop the doubling effect I'm currently getting!
I'm certainly not leaving LJ but I think I will spend most of my time on DW as I have a paid account and I can do more with it if I want to. I'm still looking blankly at my layout. I finally got the idea to select the 'tramsmogrified basic' style and then cut and paste unamaga  's 'basic blue' style into the custom CSS box. It looks nice but I'd like to change the header into something like the 'Zesty' style stil. I'm going to fiddle around and try not to crash the internet as I do it.Code-savvy I am not. Cross your fingers for me....<deep breath>

Tags: all about me, tech savvy
Current Location: home
Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: crickets

I am trying to customise my layout and theme and I have  small problem. I like the Transmogrified basic style but I REALLY like the banner/top of the zesty style. Is there anyway to combine the two? I thought about just using the zesty style but the word 'Recent' keeps appearing after my journal subtitle and I dont know how to get rid of/move it.

*rubs hands* OK, now I am off to find more icons! I have only 6 of the 75 I get with a basic account. Hmm, recommendations anyone? I'm into Good Omens, Star Trek, JAG, Supernatural, Stargate (SG1 and Atlantis), House, Bones and many other things.

Tags: all about me
Current Location: work (shh, dont tell anyone)
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: computer server behind me