Happy New Year

Happy New Year, everybody!!
*rushes back to entertain guests*

Completely redundant fishy post

Our aquarium is now fully populated: two black catfish (Spike & Angel), 4 metal-colore cory cats (The Scoobies), 1 Siamese Fighter (Blue Devil) and his 4 wives (The Spice Girls), and 15 neons (The Loony Toons). We love them dearly, even though their food is smelly. :-)

December's highlights

I decided it might be a good idea for me to post a list of fic I posted or recommended over the past month. And I'm shamelessly stealing the posting format employed by su_herald. So, this is the list for December:

[FIC - WIPs]
x. Dealing (Ethan/Lindsey - NC-17) - 8c, 9a, 9b&c, 9d, 10a
x. Lucky (Spike/Angel - AU - NC-17) Part 1

[FIC - standalones]
x. Catching up - (Spike & Lorne - PG13)
x. Host (Giles/Ethan - R) - Commentary Track

[My Recommendations]
x. S/E drabble by willshenilshe (written for me! Yay!)
x. Revenge and Deep Insight by beccaelizabeth

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

wesleysgirl wrote me Spike/Ethan!!!!!! *does dance of joy*

TITLED: Untitled
AUTHOR: wesleysgirl
PAIRING: Ethan/Spike
RATING: NC-17
SUMMARY: Spike and Ethan cross paths inside a library...
COMMENT: In this wonderfully snarky story wesleysgirl nails both characters perfectly and there's smut as well. Both characters are jaded but not unsympathetically so (at least that's my opinion), especially since we sense (without being told) that they are both more rounded and complex than they are willing to let on.

*sighs happily*
*clutches fic to bosom*

2004

It's still the first of January, and I feel I ought to look back and think about the year that has passed. I know I tend to whine a lot in my LJ because often just putting my feelings into words helps me get over them. There are times where I feel trapped in my life, where I wish I had more time, less noise around me, and more energy to do interesting stuff with my little vampires kids. I often feel that my life and mind are fragmented, cut into too tiny pieces, so that I can never do anything wholly. I write, but always over a long stretch of time, and sometimes I lose my thread entirely because RL just... cuts it off. And I never spend as much quatlity time with the kids than I wish in more quiet moments.

And then there are times where I smack myself, because my kids are sweet little creatures and my husband is funny, kind, reliable, and just adorable (we're Siamese twins related by heart and mind, often saying the same thing at the same time. We can communicate without words!). We're lucky where it counts. And even though I often moan about not having enough material happiness, the killer flood reminded me how fortunate we are to have a roof over our heads, books, clothes, and wonderful amenities like dishwasher, TV, DVD player, computers, internet access and the peace to enjoy them. When we are sick we get treatment, our children go to kindergarten and school instead of having to work or fight in wars. And that's not all, we also have wonderful and generous friends, online and in RL. On the other side of the globe my father is waiting for his last remaning kidney to fail and death to claim him. He is alone, except for his wife - there are no friends around him. He always put his business before family and friends, always chasing that elusive promise of profit, but at the end of the day he won't have passed on anything, except for his genes. Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?( Read more... )