I Feel Just Like Paris Hilton...With Boobs

[crazydiamondsue]

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 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 uberaeryn
QaF RPS by adis723
Spangel Human AU prison fic by toobusy2write
and
Salon worthy Peace Corps stories by camisha

Oh! Wait!!! I read reremouse and 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.

Comments

[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...

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?

[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?