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Lately, my whole life has been an experiment in terror. When it comes to suffering, I'm right up there with Elizabeth Taylor. (Yes, Vin, that was for you.)

First thing: My website, Beauty Effulgent, is unavailable. Because I can't get into my hotmail account, I missed the notifications that ivillage is no longer hosting member websites. So that means my fics, my recs and my tiny archive are offline. As well as my mood theme, dammit!! 'Cause right now, pissed would be GREAT! They're offering to transfer the accounts to Lycos, but I liked ivillage - it was small and didn't have pop-ups. Crap.



Two months ago, I had a nice thing going on LJ. I had a WIP I enjoyed writing, a lively repartee with my flist and I was adored by hun...doz...at least six people.

Now I have a computer that must be travelling back from California to Oklahoma via carrier pigeon or stolen demon gang motorcycle. It's taking that long, anyway.

Also:

A website that doesn't work (may not EVER work?) and hours of linking put into it.

A house that won't be mine for another week and living my entire life in one bedroom, obsessively watching TV and reading Cosmo...okay, kinda like college, so really, kind of fun. Except no sex. Wait a second - exactly like college! (Kidding, Caza. Like freshman year, okay?)

An undying love of Spander that blinded me to all else. I get my computer at work back online and what have I read today?

I can't tell you everything about this, but a sneak peek of [livejournal.com profile] stoney321's Buffyverse parody of "Annie" written for Yin's ficathon. Let's just say it involves a song called, "It's a Hard Cock Life," and something so dirty!bad!wrong she's going to have to make several humanitarian gestures. In a word: it's fucking brilliant.

Also:

Spuffy like it was meant to be by [livejournal.com profile] uberaeryn
QaF RPS by [livejournal.com profile] adis723
Spangel Human AU prison fic by [livejournal.com profile] toobusy2write
and
Salon worthy Peace Corps stories by [livejournal.com profile] camisha

Oh! Wait!!! I read [livejournal.com profile] reremouse and [livejournal.com profile] camisha's "In From the Cold" tag fic. Ha! Spander 4-Ever!!!

I want my laptop (and the uncompleted last chapter of Sunday so that it can become the completed last part of Sunday). I want my new house (and someone else to move my furniture in.) I want my website back up and functioning. I want the phone to ring and someone else be responsible for answering it. (Sorry, random work thing.)

Again, this email was just made to inform anyone trying to access my website that it will be temporarily down until I figure out what's up with Lycos. All of this bitching was tongue-in-cheek, btw. Except about the website. I am wicked pissed about that.

Date: 2005-03-02 08:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com
ext_1720: two kittens with a heart between them (red 1)
*snuggles* If you're looking for a new webhost, the frugal_fan community talked about good, cheap hosts not that long ago. And there's nothing wrong with other than Spander. Provided you still come back to Spander :)

Also, I better be one of those six. Just sayin' :D

*cuddles you and waves a magic wand to make all your problems go poof*

Date: 2005-03-02 08:54 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
Ooo...new place to host? I'll have to check that out. *smooches you for guiding* I'd certainly put you amoung the 6 people I was sure adored me. *hums and cyber braids your hair*

I'll always come back to S/X. I just found it amusing that once I got my fic reading abilities back up, the first things that came my way weren't Spander. I'm actually trying to catch up with "Letters" at the mo. And to poke you for more SSTW, if you feel like being poked...

Date: 2005-03-02 08:56 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ladycat777.livejournal.com
ext_1720: two kittens with a heart between them (Default)
Both of those are on virtual hiatus until my rpg partners have time again to play. We all want to -- ability, she is lacking. But we'll come back, never fear :)

*purrs as the hair braiding*

Date: 2005-03-02 08:54 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com
You caused me to read this entire entry w/ Dolly Parton's twang in my head and I love you for it.

I want the phone to ring and someone else be responsible for answering it.

*nods vigorously*
And that is exactly why I took the day off.


I finished what was the last posted part of the sequel to the Hollywood!Addict!Brian QaF epic. I didn't know it was the last posted part. I'm devastated. *taps vein on arm* Need more. At least the update wasn't that long ago (January). I may have to join the mailing list. Oh, this is bad. So. Bad.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:01 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
I would write you some QaF methodone right this minute if I could smoke. Sorry, I can only write when I can smoke, which makes writing at work impossible. I know - it's bad - it's stinky - it's wrong, but it works for me. And pots illegal. Or so the Russians would have us believe...I have no idea what that quote is from, and I've been saying it for years...

Date: 2005-03-02 09:06 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com
No. Methodone bad.Do you realize I've read 157 chapters in 5 days!! I need to go cold turkey, take it one day at a time.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:42 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
That sounds like I was referencing smoking pot. For the record: I do not write while high. I *have* written while high - poetry in fact - with [livejournal.com profile] uberaeryn. It went like this:

Sue: For upon glistening mount, first light did gleam, dark did displace, and gentle silence broken by...

Kathy: Give me some candy, cheese face!

And that, children, is why you should never take drugs and write. Unless you're Radiohead. Or Pink Floyd. Or Doves...

Date: 2005-03-02 09:45 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com
1. Quit 'splaining yerself, I totally understood you! Dork.
2. What's wrong with writing fanfic while high? Um, forget I said that. Can other people see this!?!?! Eavesdroppers.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:51 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
I know *you* knew but I was afraid others would be reading this and think that I wrote Sunday high. And they might try to ply me with drugs to get me to...hey...wait a minute...

Wrong number! Wrong number!

Ah, drug paranoia jokes are funny. I want that you should make me some icons. Wanna? Just bases with like one quit phrase on them like:

Quit it!
Sumbitch!

And other ejaculations that occur to me.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:53 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com
LJ isn't emailing me you replies. Hurrumph!

You said 'ejaculation', I heard you! Careful though, the walls have ears.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:54 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cityphonelines.livejournal.com
Oh and yes to the icons, get 'em to you by tommorrow afternoon. Any other phrases that tickle your fancy?

Date: 2005-03-02 09:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] savoytruffle.livejournal.com
thanks, babe! you were and are adored by me. absence has only made my heart grow fonder.

gotta say, i'm totally not a huge spangel fan, but "bent justice" is hella good.

and worry not, the function of moving briefly away from spander, is only to revitalize your love THE one true pairing. of this i have no doubt.

*smooches* look at it this way, things have nowhere to go but up from here.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:36 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
S/X will always be my fic favorite because I love Xander with an insane love that defies that fact that he is fictional. And while I love S/A on the show, sometimes the fic leaves me "whaa?" That said, Bent Justice is like an HBO movie with really hot actors. Really, really hot actors. I'm still owing you concrit on those essays, I know. I'm trying to make them coherent. (And, ok, I was distracted by that "Annie" thing. I admit it.) *g*

Date: 2005-03-03 06:45 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] savoytruffle.livejournal.com
please, take your time with the essays. it's not like i'm on any sort of deadline or have even written them recently.

and yes, HBO movie describes it well.

Date: 2005-03-02 09:21 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julia-here.livejournal.com
Not to be a terrible person, but "No More Snakes and Ladders" updated Monday, and it is a thing of fierce beauty and grand scaritude.

Depressed as hell about your website, myself, because rereading Sunday was one of those things I was using as a carrot for getting through a stinky, muddy, blood spattered day yesterday and having to get out and do the same thing again every day until all the calves are on the ground.

I would help you move but I'm sort of distant. I love the whole new house dance, and am always much better at doing other people's hard work than my own.

Also, my beta's out of town and I'm ahead on revision and should be writing new chapters and Ida Wanna.

So far today's big accomplishment was defriending someone who I decided was leaking crazy into my head.

Not the GOOD, Sue, kind of Crazy, the late night political call-in radio show brand that I try so hard to avoid.

Julia, something about watchin "Surprise" for the thirty-leventh time puts me in a mood and destroys any vestige of logical sequencing in what passes for my thought processes

Date: 2005-03-02 09:55 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
Depressed as hell about your website, myself, because rereading Sunday was one of those things I was using as a carrot for getting through a stinky, muddy, blood spattered day yesterday and having to get out and do the same thing again every day until all the calves are on the ground. That so beautiful. Really! It made me feel all gooshy and giggly.

I could probably look over a chapter or so if you want (it would be tomorrow, though, I'm getting ready to leave.) Is this yoru Irish Rose story that I'm needing to start reading? *g*

LJ is too crowded to let the crazies take root. *nods emphatically* Well, the really crazies.

Surprise doesn't quite put me in the mood that Innocence puts me in. Something about the way Angelus says, "Love ya, too," makes me want to shag him silly. Because I'm a masochist.

Date: 2005-03-02 10:10 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julia-here.livejournal.com
No, I'm fine with the beta-ing, and the beta taking a break in Orlando (the beta, by the way, is Dragon's son, as in the Dragon with the gorgeous drawing of James Marsters on his official site). It's the squeezing out new words in the unwritten chapters that I'm failing at.

I know what has to happen out three chapters, which is part of what;'s screwing me up: what fun is it writing stuff I already know?

I had sufficient online debating insanity on several boards at AOL that I never need to read or produce it again, and as the hostess of the rolling insanity is apparently not going to write any more fic, I feel safe in defriending, although it is rather a strange process. emotionally speaking.


Julia, wanting to spend an irresponsible sum of money on something I don't need, just for the rush, except I can't find anything exciting.


Date: 2005-03-02 09:28 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_sharvie_/
Wow, that seriously sucks! I hate computer woes! [livejournal.com profile] ghostgirl13 opened a hosting site recently. I think it might be what you are looking for. Here is the link. http://www.jaded-paradise.net/ When I finally get a website she going to host it for me too. She has a lot of know how about computer issues, she even taught me the basics of Photoshop, she might be able to help.


And here is a suggestion about getting your house moved in and not by you...movers. Wait, before you say no...I love movers. You call them up, they come over to where your truck is (full of stuff), and they unload it. When I moved to where I am now, the movers were about half the cost of the trip, the other half was the truck rental, but total, an out of state move only cost us 500 bucks. Not bad when some ways it takes thousands to do it.

Look into it, if you want, have just a few guys carry the really heavy things. They'll have a minimum hour so use them till the time is up, but it is sooo worth it. I'm never going back to doing it myself.

So does all this computer trouble mean you can't beta my Spander Ficathon assignment? *pout* Say it isn't so!

Date: 2005-03-02 09:58 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
Really? Squee! A new hosting site??? I've gotta figure out where ivillage has my website held captive so I can get stuff off of it. I'd love to pay movers. I wonder how pricy it would be? Everything's tucked into garages, shouldn't be a big deal...

I will always beta for you! I'm emailing you my work addy right now.

Date: 2005-03-02 10:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_sharvie_/
What I've come across is that is can range from 40 to 100 dollars per hour (yah don't go with those guys). Some cities cost more due to heat and stuff. They'll usually have a 4 or 3 hour minimum, and they have a set number of guys, you can go up in number but not down. So for us we got 2 guys for four hours, it cost us not quiet 200 bucks. I've never had them pack a truck from storage so you'd have to ask about that and they don't travel, so you'd need a crew for the in and the out. These type of movers are under the yellow pages under...movers. So you might find some that have their own trucks etc. that might work better for you. Plus there are regular movers like Mayflower but this is much, much cheaper. Call around and see what you can come up with. Good luck.

Oh, and thanks for the work addy, I'll be sending the first chapter along in about two days. I have 10 chapters written and 5 more to go but it isn't all edited, so I need to get that done one chapter at a time. Otherwise I'd never make the deadline, the 5th.

Oh and Bent Justice just got updated so go read! She'll be making another post tonight so if you don't want a lusty cliff hanger wait for later. I adore that story!

Date: 2005-03-02 10:05 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] stoney321.livejournal.com
Sue!! I'm going to hell!! That special hell, where people aren't having naked orgies while high. yo know: the special kind of hell where you live with your in-laws and they wake up at 5AM to pray to the Baby Jesus to save your sinnin' daughter-in-law from the porn hell she done got herself in!

Hee! WHY AM I SO HYPER TODAY??

Goldurnit about that website thingy. Looks like _sharvie_ has a good option for you, right?

Date: 2005-03-02 10:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
Hell sounds so...wait a minute! You are going there. You're going to be lying across the bottom of the bed with my feet propped on your butt and Caza's drapping over your legs, watching Angel (very quietly with the closed captioning on) and chewing your Nutty Bars equally quietly so that they won't know you have food in the bedroom and that you didn't bless it before you ate it...

I'm kicking in $5 toward your donation to Blanks with Blanks because it's so wrong it's right...

The website sucks! I hate that, because it was such a low maintenance site. And my hits were over 3,000! And now I have to start over. *pout*

Date: 2005-03-02 10:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] stoney321.livejournal.com
What would be REALLY fun is if I showed up at your in-laws with a prairie skirt, flannel shirt buttoned everywhere there's a button, had my hair in a braid with an Angel Bang and asked them if they knew who Joseph Smith was, and that they can be Gods one day?

OH MY GOD. I'm totally coming up right now to do that.

Date: 2005-03-02 10:28 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
I laughed so hard I think I deviated a septum. Dude - last night there was a special report on "The Fleecing of America" regarding senior citizens as the victims of scams. Eddie said, rhetorically, "It's always the seniors." His parents both jumped in with, "Well, that's because they grew up in a country where you could trust people - a country where someone's word meant something." Eddie, being a smartass: "What country's that?" Eddie's mom (not understanding ass of smarts): "The United States!" Eddie's dad: "When the United States was free!"

That is so something I'd yell out, ala the Simpsons, to mock conservative paranoia. I bit a hole in my lip trying not to howl. Ah, good times. Throw on the prairie skirt and grab The Book of Mormon and come on!

Date: 2005-03-02 10:51 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julia-here.livejournal.com
Maybe you could buy them a copy of Stephanie Coontz's The Way Things Never Were as a thank-you gift after you move out?

I mean, they can't be that much older than me... I mean, of course, 34,000 or so, beore there werehumans on this continent?

Julia, remembering a whole lot of no fun at all in the 'fifties

Date: 2005-03-02 10:48 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ex-dovil323.livejournal.com
We're the cool people with no computers! Soon it will catch on and everyone on the internet will be doing it.

I still worship you even if you don't have any fics. Where are your fics?!?! Argghhhhh!

I'm 12 and I'm still giggling over 'It's a Hard Cock Life'. Tee, hee!

Date: 2005-03-02 10:56 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
You know what we should bring back? Chain letters. I would write to you and four others and then you would follow suit and make everyone who received do the same and if they did - James Marsters would have a career! We'd revolutionalize fandom.

Give me 15 minutes, a glue stick, a star shaped cutter, a pic of JM with appropriately emaciated cheekbones and I'll get the letterhead started...

My poor fics. Alone in cyberspace and probably being laughed at by the scrapbooking and knitting sites also jettisoned from ivillage...

Date: 2005-03-02 11:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ex-dovil323.livejournal.com
Give me 15 minutes, a glue stick, a star shaped cutter, a pic of JM with appropriately emaciated cheekbones and I'll get the letterhead started...

Bwah ha ha! You funny! I say we just slap a couple of cheekbones, a lip, some blue dots for eyes and then use some white pipecleaners for hair and wahla!, it's JM. In my dream I was quite rude to him over breakfast. I was going, yeah, it's probably a good idea doing the whole convention thing. You keep doing that hon. I'll never get an invite to another imaginary breakfast at this rate.

Though who knows, maybe Scooby Doo 4 will come out and SMG and JM can reunite and have dirty wrong sex in the back of the Mystery Van.

iVillage sucks. I say we storm it and burn it to the ground and spread vicious rumour about it.

Date: 2005-03-03 02:26 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] violethamster.livejournal.com
*pats you*

*attempts to move your furniture with the power of my mind!*

Date: 2005-03-03 02:29 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
Hee! Did I make up that you updated the S/X story you started for dovil? Didja? Where is it? Where is it?

Date: 2005-03-03 09:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] anelith.livejournal.com
Oh, where to start... I was going to email you and ask how you were, and then had the bright idea to check your journal! Slow thinker, me. I see you are suffering the tortures of the damned. Why on earth does Best Buy still have your computer? Just can't let go of all the slashy porn stored on the hard drive? I can see the guys in the back room clustered around, saying, "No, no, we haven't downloaded that one yet! You can't send it back until we get it all!"

How's Caza's tooth?

I'm glad you're reading Bent Justice, it's fantastic. Also In From the Cold is incredible. You've got to catch up on No More Snakes and Ladders, though, it's great.

Haven't seen any QaF so... never gotten into any QaF fic, except [livejournal.com profile] nasty_shrew's crossover fic.

I was about to wail, "Where's those Peace Corps stories?" because [livejournal.com profile] camisha's on my flist and I haven't seen them, but now I see from the comments that you've apparently got a sneak peek -- I'd be all jealous if I didn't think that we'll get a look later! I knew she'd been in Africa; I'm glad she's putting it down.

Date: 2005-03-03 10:00 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com
So that's why I haven't gotten my laptop back! Maybe the Best Buy guys are the ones who keep nominating Rodeo for awards? *scratches head*
It's supposed to be fixed, we're just waiting for it to come in the mail.

Caza had his dentist office visit (and got the good drugs) and now he's due for some sort of root canal/new toothin'/fixin' it up kind of deal. But he's no longer moaning in pain, and that makes me happy.

The only reason I haven't started "No More Snakes..." is that I know they've got a lot written and I'm I'm afraid of getting sucked in and not being able to keep reading until 2:00 a.m., if I wanted. But, oh, once I get my laptop back...

I started watching QaF through Netflix after catching a random ep on Showtime (I don't have cable.) The writing on QaF? Is terrible. But the boys? Are pretty. I'm shallow. I feel no shame about that. The fic writing in QaF is actually better than the screenwriting. Life's funny...

[livejournal.com profile] camisha was the only who bit when I asked for RL stories. She's a fantastic writer, and I'm all sucked into her RL adventures. Really, really good storytelling.

So you're all settled in post wedding?

Date: 2005-03-04 11:35 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] anelith.livejournal.com
I'm still getting out from under all the chores and trying to catch up with the very prolific people on my flist. Also Nathan's birthday is coming up next month and it's time to start planning for that. It won't be a big party, but even a few kids demand lots of activities, the little hellions. And in early April you can't count on a good sunny warm day, so I must keep in mind that everything might have to happen indoors (perish the thought)...

Hey, I was hoping that you could answer a question for me. Now that I'm reading a BtVS/QaF crossover, and you are obviously a QaF expert now, I would like a clarification on a QaF issue. Since Brian and Justin (and a few other characters from QaF) are in this story, I'm a little confused about the relationship between Brian and Justin. I know that they sometimes are together? But not always? Is one or the other jealous? Do they have other boyfriends? Waaaah! I just don't understand this modern world, where people don't fall in love and stay in love and stay together! (She says as she sits knitting in her rocking chair gumming her dentures...)

Are you about ready to come sleep on my guest bed in cold snowy Boston, or are the in-laws just barely tolerable?

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