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* First things first: Happy Birthday silme711!!! Have a great day!

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* Nothing much to tell other that I've been really busy with work and helping out with at my grandparents and trying to avoid the summer flu my colleague has been hosting for the last week. So far I've been successful with all but the last thing. I'm on sick leave for the next few days. I feel like I've been run over by semi. I was all over the place on Thursday but was okay for the next few days until yesterday.

* I managed to meet up with sandrine twice and saw "Bastille Day" with her and slippery_fish the week before last. Then there has been football and the office betting game. I actually won a cinema gift certificate.

* I'll be so very lazy this week I'm already back in bed after the very exhausting trip to the doctor's office this morning. I'll have some chocolate (thoughts of food make me all nauseous) and make some tea and then I'll watch some Bollywood.

* Feel free to rec me fluffy feel-good fics... :)

♥ ...of the car continues. So the brakes are new, all four of them, and the car runs smoothly. I love driving with it now. So I decided to go and visit my grandparents today, or rather they invited me. On the way to them a small, red warning light briefly turns on and then turns off again. It was the warning light for the handbrake. It goes on when the handbrake is pulled, which it wasn't while I was driving. Cure me talking myself down from a minor panic.I told my grandpa and he said it's probably just a loose contact after they attached the new brakes. Well, on the way home the warning light was on the entire time. I think I muscle cramps now, no wonder the way I sat in the car. Argh...

♥ Spent the day at my grandparents since I never heard anything about the planned pool party again. I don't even know if it was really planned or not... My gandma kicked my ass at a cards game, one I always used to play when I spent my summer holidays with them. It's been years since I played. I, again, realized that I'm way too nice and don't really have a strategic mind.

♥ Haven't heard anything about the start of the program either, which is only just a week away. I'm curious if they'll call me this week, if not I'll call them Thursday. Meh.

♥ My muse has left me again. I hate writer's blocks, especially when I'm int he middle of something. In the middle of several somethings actually.
I'm working on my schmoop_bingo card and x5!Jared will have appearances there as well. I really like the Long Way Home verse and those prompts are kinda challenging when it comes to writing x5!Jared

♥ I also decided to try my hands at writing something with "The Curiosity of Chance" in mind. My J2 version of it. The thing is I can't decide who of the J's should be Chance.
Should Jared be the musical one, playing drag and being out but not really and Jensen the jock in a band hoping for his breakthrough? I don't know.. Help!!!!

I also have a new Parkour idea.. or rather I want to finish my first Big Bang idea because I like the beginning and maybe I'll find a way to finish it.

♥ I feel like re-watching SPN from season one onwards. I feel like sitting down and re-watch it and enjoy it without any bias, I don't think it's possible but I think I'll try.

♥ Meme answers I owe:

For elless18
* ( What did you go to school for, and what's your dream job? )

For ithilmenel
* ( *What's your favorite movie? )
* ( Which celeb do you have the biggest crush on? )
* ( What's your favorite song? (current or all-time) )

My latop scared me to death on Thrusday and then on Friday again. It booted, up until the point where it showed the Windows sign, pinged and switched over tot he desktop.. only that it didn't switch but stayed black. There was a mouse pointer, I could move it and all but nothing else showed. Have to restart and do a system recovery. No idea what it was and if it will happen again. Safe mode worked the first time and I could save data and all, just no internet for me.. the second time it only worked for the datas before the recovery. I lost some stories. Anyway, works now and is even faster, I am still suspicious though.

Other things:
-> I am blocked. Like completely blocked. Probably because I lost the rewritten last part of the Dark Angel fic. Haven't written a word since then, not even edited stuff, which I am supposed to do so that I can finally post someone's late birthday present.

-> Did post fic though for the "Wherein verse": "Wherein Jared tries not to be too miserable (and to avoid being kidnapped by Mike... or not)", J2, PG-13

-> switched my Big Bang idea out for another one and I can finally take notes and start planning. I am glad I did it and I think chani_atreides will like this very much (not so mcuh the fact that she'll have to wait even longer now).

-> Bought a new bed and a new bookshelf (because it was on sale), threw out my old bookshelf and the old bed. I can sleep again, at least for a bit and I am rested now...a bit. So it really was the bed? Am still a little doubtful. Kitty loves the new bed already, it's way lower than my old one and she can just climb on without having to jump.
Spent three days sorting through books, DVDs and other things. I threw away about three sacks full of stuff.

-> to add to my massive amount of books (I had no idea I had *that many*) I ordered five more, so yeah I think my days will be filled with reading and hopefully writing again.

-> Allergies are worse than ever.... I don't know what to do, my eyes are burning and my nose is constantly swollen. I hate it. I feel like shit.

-> When I wasn't building my bed and bookshelf I was going three a "The OC" marathon. Found season 2 to 4 for 10 each, so no 15€ at amazon. Yay me. Too much money anyway but I needed it.

-> Podfics are awesome, especially podfics of fics from yoru fav authors and your fav reader. *nods* It starting to become my late night ritual before bed.

-> Mum should be back tomorrow and I still have some things to do around here. Nothing goes over spending Easter alone and cleaning and watching "The OC". Is it me or does that sound rather pathetic?
Well not really all alon, had my cat and grandparents + visitor came by today, brought lunch and cake and 20€ (I so know what that will be... Summer dress here I come). It was a nice surprise.

-> The boys... oh the boys made me smile this weekend. I am so glad that this con went so well. Just the pictures alone... and yeah... Boys.
Thank you Jensen war making me smile. Thank you Jared for making me snort out loud. Thank you Jim Beaver for being just... you... :=)

I forgot where I got it from but ( Jensen *sighs* and Jared :D )

Okay so where did the weekend go? I wasn't even that busy.
I had to work, did some thesis stuff, went shopping (and got drunk afterwards), did not see HP yet, called Jessica for her birthday and spent today with my grandparents.
Not that much.

My grandpa called this morning and even though I should have used this day to do different things I just went.
We ended up cooking together and looking through picts of Ireland they made in June. Sort of funny to see my grandma being all bouny on pics because she recognised things from when she was a little child.
I even got presents and I can't believe that they remember stuff like that but they bought be sheep stuff and candy.
( Look! Sheep! )

Went shopping with my brother before they cease all train service in the innter city. Was fun but exhausting as well.
I got shoes and a top. ( Pictorial evidence ).

Otheer than that nothing much happened. I wasn't online much either due to thunderstorms, power outages, internet outages and the general lack of time.
So yeah, I am a whee bit behind with everything. Did I miss something important?

Oh and I actually managed to get make some headers with which I am rather satisfied.
I actually like my layout color now, it's way better than black anyway.

What I forgot:
I re-arrange my room... again. I couldn't sleep like that anymore, so I changed quite a lot.

I also got a hair cut. Not sure if I like it but it's not that different from what I had before... so yeah.

Happy Birthday Jared!

First of all, I might actually have an idea for Big Bang and I am getting excited about it.

Right now I am taking a break from my thesis and from finishing the story that I was supposed to be done with my the 1st. Those two things are kind of robbing my sleep these days (oh not to mention my furture angst but that won't be the topic here, no worries). So much that I am kind of unfit to be among people. I am so freaking tired, but at least I am not sick.

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Totally girly random stuff.
I hate, like really truly hate the new Herbal Essences. I want the old volume shampoo back. It worked. For me at least. Now I can't do anything with my hair without getting an electrical shock after combing it. I hate having to go and look through other shampoos now just to find one that works again. It took me years to find the right one, not to mention one that is ripping the skin off my head.*sighs* Okay, I am done with that rant.

LJ seems to be back to randomly switching icons again. This time though I actually like the one they switched one of my Alec icons with. Huh, go figure...

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My grandpa is the best. I have been looking for a usb cable for my cell phone and I only could find the real expensive version from Sony, which yeah would work but I didn't want to spend that much money on a single cable.I told him about it when I was there on Thursday and we looked at several catalogues and online shops but couldn't really find anything much cheaper. He called me today and told me about a site he forgot to mention and that I should go and look for the cable and then call him back. The shop actually has the one for my cell phone type and it's only 6.90€, which is really practical since I actually need the cable to get the pictures off my cell phone. It's quite a difference between 6.90 and 23.95. I wonder what makes the one cable that much mor expensive. It's probably just the name.

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Fandom stuff, which means there is the meme at the end of this. So yeah, you are warned. Oh and it's and OTP meme. :)

Oh and I have not seen any of the spn 4.15 clips. I am trying to be strong, so there.
But dude, I would love people to use cuts. Yes, I have laughed about the posted thing and it's cute but argh spoiler... *is miffed* Why do people make it so hard to stay spoiler-free?

Cuteness alert for the day.... Jared and his dogs. Most of you probably have seen the pictures by now and I don't really feel all that good about reposting them, so I won't.
But dude, looking at Jared and the dogs cuddling makes my day better. And I have to think about the picture Jared was talking about, the one on his cell with the dogs and Jensen on the bed. I actually want to see that one.. :)

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Meme time again.
Okay, so this is basically a sentece describing my OTPs. 17 of them to be exact (I never knew I had that many) and all you have to do is trying to find out which pairing it meant.
I know it sounds hard, but if you know my fandoms it shouldn't be that hard (I tried to be obvious, and yes TV shows, movies, books and rps... oh and there are het pairings). I am not doing the screened comments thing, who comments gets it. I am too lazy to do it the other way. :) I have done that meme ages ago but some things have changed since then so yeah.. Behind the cut since it's long and all.
( Guess the OTP meme )

.... at least when it comes to Internet and so on. I was kinda cut off from modern means of communication during the last two days.
It's working now, thank God. Hope it stays like that for a while.

Anway, you can all still comment here for virtual Christmas cards.

Uneventful day, or well not really uneventful since I spent it with my grandparents and was dragged of to the mall.
I never knew my grandpa was such a shopping guru. Interesting.
It was fun, would have been more fun if I would have gotten the boots I wanted. But they didn't have my size and the smaller ones just looked like I was about to go and work on a farm. *shudders*
I have to go and look somehwere else, I need new winter boots.

We ended up at MediaMarkt, grandpa; following grandma's orders (hehe); bought me a present (not that I actually thought she meant it. She told me that I would get something for the lack of an advent calender the other grandchildren got. I mean they are still children. I guess I like to be usrprised.) So I do own "Take That - Beautiful World" now.
And I seriously don't know what I should think of it. I guess I like most of it. Yes, I definitely like "Reach Out", "Mancunian Way", "Ain't no Sense in Love" and "Shine".
Anyway, I almost bought "Dark Angel" as well, because they have the complete series for 39€. It's driving me crazy because they didn't think to write on the box if they have the extras on it or not. It's still 12 DVDs for 39€. I am thinking. Guess winter boots are more important but it's Jensen in there... and...

*goes of to watch Torchwood* I need to stop thinking about it. Like right now.