So, church went well. It was all women in Sunday school, which was nice, and my mom and I spent the in between time reading in the car, because the car was warm and we both love the books we're reading. As a result we were late and had to sneak in and sit on the far right side of the sanctuary, at the end of the aisle (we usually sit in the middle so that people can come in next to us if they're late).

That was actually really good because about ten minutes into worship an usher came and told my mom that she was needed because my little brother had hit his head. Five minutes later, someone else came to tell me that I was leaving. Turns out the boy fell on the steps and landed hard on concrete. Luckily, he hit his head after the initial fall so his knees/wrists took most of the beating. He was pale and shaking and couldn't walk well at all so we went to the ER. There we discovered that he was also cold, which is scary since he has always been warm.

He's fine. He didn't have a concussion, just a pseudo-concussion (that has a name I can't remember) and needed stitches. He's talking again too, so that's nice. Before he was just sort of muttering and nodding. And he's not pale or shaking. He still has trouble walking, but he's much, much better.

Oh! And the guy who did our billing got us a reduced price AND he even discounted our price from last month when my brother was in for his really bad nosebleed/throwing up blood. So yay!

I saw this meme a while ago, I don't know who did it, but I'm bored so I'm trying my hand at it now.

You're supposed to go up to the address bar and type each letter of the alphabet and see which website your browser recommends first. I know firefox does it based on what you visit most, but I don't know about others.

( ABCs... )

Title: Zen
Canon: Power Rangers RPM
Overall Rating: T
Disclaimer: I only own the actual words, not any of the characters.
Summary: 100 themes of Ziggy/Tenaya

Chapter Rating: K
Theme: Music

( The lock on the warehouse door was easy enough to pick... )

I didn't realize until today that I actually reached 50,000 words on my NaNo on Wednesday (clearly I wasn't paying attention, even though I keep track of my words per day). So everyone join my Ziggy avatar in happy dancing or whatever he's doing.

I'm nowhere near done though. My poor characters still need a climax, and then a resolution that will hopefully involve deciding whose world to live in. (Merman and human girl, yeah, they have issues....) Plus, I really want to keep up this 2000 words a day thing. It's good for me.

A few weeks ago my brother made a Family Christmas List and stuck it on the fridge so everyone could write what they wanted on it. I haven't put anything yet because my mother already said, "Star Trek DVD and chocolate." Since I want both of those too, I'm still thinking of what else I could put.

When my Grandmother heard this today she decided to solve the problem by saying we would just both share Mom's or my DVD, whoever actually got it for Christmas. My mother and I exchanged identical looks of horror/confusion and promptly burst out laughing.

Share Star Trek. Yeah, right.

Destiny's Promise is updated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs around room in supreme joy!*

This is actually really awesome because I reread A Fragile Destiny and what currently existed of DP over the weekend. Freaky....

Okay, so, those of you who are members of the Sarek and Amanda group on Yahoo (why are you not members? it's awesome!) already knew and those of you who aren't can't read it, but that doesn't take away from my squee!

For anyone wondering what all this hyperactivity is about you can find A Fragile Destiny (parts 1, 2, 3, 4) in the Sarek and Amanda Archive.

Happy birthday, angellwings06 ! I hope you like your present!

Title: Macy-Bear
Canon: Jonas
Ships: Macy/Kevin
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: I do not own, nor am I in any way associated with, Jonas.
Summary: Macy has a grudge to settle at the boys' basketball game tonight.

AN: I have no idea if Van Dyke plays basketball in addition to football, but I'm saying he does.

So, I don't watch Heroes anymore (everyone I love dies!), but something occurred to me today. When you die you have a bowel movement. It's just part of the muscles relaxing. So, what's up with all these people dying on Heroes? People get blown up and shot and jump out of buildings and they just walk away. Normal-like. As if there's nothing in their pants.

Of course, I am talking about a show where eclipses are global and last for hours, so I shouldn't expect too much. I just think it would be a hilarious fan comic. If only I could draw.

...you'll hear this conversation in my house.

Adult (to the boy): Didn't you wear that shirt yesterday?

Boy: Oh yeaaaaahhhhh... I forgot.

Seriously, that happens nearly every single day.

Also, I saw a figurine at the dollar store that was totally Rose Tyler (done up as a shepherdess). Clearly this means there's a race of weird aliens who are turning humans into cheap figurines and mass marketing them for some insane reason. Where's the Doctor when you need him?

I still haven't finished unpacking from the move earlier this year, so I need to do that before people start showing up and wanting to look around the new house. I'll be using technology to procrastinate, naturally.

This was one of the first Zen chapters I wrote and it's still one of my favorites. I was waiting to post it until we found out certain facts, but I'm beginning to think we're never going to find those things out (plus, depending on whether or not you like the original plan for the RPM ending or the actual canon ending, some of this no longer works).

Title: Zen
Canon: Power Rangers RPM
Overall Rating: T
Disclaimer: I only own the actual words, not any of the characters.
Summary: 100 themes of Ziggy/Tenaya

Chapter Rating: K
Theme: Test

Yay! Reboot fanfiction! Who doesn't love it? And, yes, I know, I'm posting something during NaNo. My S/C bunnies started going all crazy a few days ago and this happened.

Title: Betrayal
Canon: Star Trek AOS (with references to TOS events)
Ships: Spock Prime/Christine Prime, Spock Prime/Christine, Spock/Christine, Kirk Prime/Uhura Prime, Kirk/Uhura, Spock/Uhura
Disclaimer: I do not own, nor am I in any way associated with, Star Trek. But really, let's face it, fanfiction originated with ST and that franchise has only grown as a result. I'm doing a good thing here.
References: TOS "Plato's Stepchildren" and "The Naked Time"
Summary: Spock Prime considers the other Spock's relationships and cannot help but feel sorry to those he once knew in his own world.

( It feels like a betrayal. He tries to remind himself that it isn't him, it isn't her... )

So my love of Spock/Christine reared it's massive head recently and this is what resulted. Icons and a wallpaper. Unfortunately, all the reboot icons (what little of them there are) are manips casting actresses as missing TOS characters (and one text icon).

Preview:


1-9: TOS
10-13: AOS
( Star Trekkin across the universe... )

So, as I was trying to fall asleep last night some dogs decided to have a gang war on the hill by our house (or possibly in the yard of the elementary school.  I'm hoping it's the former since otherwise there would have been gross bits to clean up before the children arrived).  As the yipping and barking and growling progressed, I suddenly thought of the climactic fight at the end of West Side Story (where Riff and Bernardo die) and laughed at the image of the dogs being all gang-ballet at each other.  Then, this morning when I woke up, West Side Story was on TV.  It was creepy. 

Also, this icon has nothing to do with this post.  I just really wanted to use it.  Halloween candy for anyone who knows what ship it supports!


(NaNo word count: 4045)

So, this afternoon my brother said that he wanted to go around the neighborhood to look at all the decorations.  I agreed to take him.  The trip was probably about a mile all the way.  We came home, at mummies for dinner (hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls), and about fifteen minutes later he decided it was time to go out.  That trip was (according to Google maps) about 1.3 miles (with huge hills and a little bit that Google refuses to recognize).  My legs may fall off from those hills.  But the boy got a ton of candy so it was worth it.  And, being the totally awesome kid he is, the second we got home he started giving it away.  He even gave me the full size Reese's he got because I took him.  He's such a sweetie. 

Unfortunately only three kids have come to our house (we're kind of out of the way) and they really weren't kids.  So all the awesome decorations my father put up are going to waste and we'll have all that candy left over.  Okay, I admit, I'm not so heartbroken about the candy.

Also, everyone wish me luck on NaNoWriMo.  I'm totally not prepared. 

I was looking at the tv listings for tonight and saw that "Scooby Doo and the Goblin King" is airing on Cartoon Network at six.  Somehow, I don't think David Bowie is gonna show up.  Sadness.

I was finally watching an episode of Smallville (I haven't actually watched one all season, yeesh) but then Oliver did something so incredibly stupid that I couldn't watch anymore.  I hope Chloe smacks him for that move later. 

Also, White Collar was good.  Not mind-blowingly awesome, but if a premiere is that good it makes everything else seem less good (kind of like the first season of Heroes setting the bar too high for all future seasons).  But it was fun and enjoyable and I'll be watching again next week. 

I posted something on DeviantArt this morning and immediately noticed that I'd messed up my comments.  It took me all of ten seconds to fix them, and when I got back to the deviation page it said that the picture was submitted one minute and twenty-five seconds earlier.  I already had a favorite.  I want to be happy, but it was so sudden that I couldn't quite pull it off.  Maybe I'll be happy later. 

Also, please go look at the deviation.  I'm not plugging myself, I lost the information on who made one of the brushes and it just so happens to come from my favorite brush set.  I spent forever searching DA for the set, but I couldn't find it. 

Title: Zen
Canon: Power Rangers RPM
Disclaimer: I only own the actual words, not any of the characters.
Chapter Rating: K
Spoilers: Beyond A Doubt
Ships: Ziggy/Tenaya, Flynn/Gemma
Theme: Friends

( “Ziggy, they’ll be fine. You don’t need to worry.” )