February's Highlights

As you can all see, I haven't really written a lot during the past month. Hopefully, March will be a better month.

[FIC - WIPs]

x. Lucky (Spike/Angel - AU - NC-17) - Finally complete. Archived here
x. Cherries - Part 1 - Firefly - Mal/Inara - PG13 - Valentine's Day Fluff Fic

[FIC - standalones/drabbles]

x. Drabble: Light - Firefly - Jayne & River - G

[My Recommendations]

x. House-ficlet by inlovewithnight
x. Homestead by inlovewithnight - Firefly - entire cast, plotty friendship fic
x. Like Describing the Alphabet by Mosca - Firefly - Jayne/Mal, Kaylee/Inara

[Other Stuff]

x. Anya plot-bunny
x. Writing meme where people could ask me questions about my writing.
x. Ten Things Meme - ten things I've done that people on my flist probably haven't.
x. FRIENDSHIP FICATHON sign-up post

[Highlights from other Livejournals]

x. FIC: Resistance is useless - Anya/Tara - by missmurchison
x. FIC: Emerging - post-NFA S/X donation story by eliade
x. Discussion: Authorial intent vs interpretation - sparked off by kita0610
x. Essay: Of Spike, Rebels and TMI - peasant_ wonders if Spike is really a rebel.
x. Essay: Good, bad, whatever - beccaelizabeth talks about shades of grey and why she likes Ethan.
x. Essay: azdak talks about Jossverse vampires as the cultural Others.
x. Meta: makd presents The Fandom Project - Least Favored Plotlines
x. Icons: karenbear created the most stunning color/nature icons here.
x. A mother's post about her son and the word 'Fag'
x. Recs: makd recommends Spike/Cordelia stories
x. Meme: eliade answers questions about her writing.

JANUARY, DECEMBER

RL update

After more than a whole week of being cooped up with my kids I am ready to throttle them. Tina is hopping about all the time making yapping noises. Clearly she's suffering from lack of physical excercising. I played board games with her and card games to challenge her at least mentally (Settlers card game with the sorcerer and dragon expansion, Elfenroads, Odins Raben), while cuddling Toyah who had a fever until yesterdays. Both kids are overflowing with noisy verbal and touchy-feely expressions of their love for mommy, but that love quickly evaporates when I ask them to pick up their used tissues. *sigh* They actually march through the house singing songs about how much they love me, Tina improvises them in English, yelling "I loooove you for-eeeeeva and eeeevaaaa and eeevaaaaaa!" Frankly, it's driving me stir crazy.

Hubby is grumpy because of the daily nitpicking sessions - which take ages because Tina's hair has waist length. He is saddled with the job because my eye-sight is so bad. I should probably jump his bones in thanks, but honestly, I just want to be left alone.

Viktoria is terribly clingy while sick, and pretty manipulative in a cutesy kind of way. But today the fever was gone and she didn't even require a lunch time nap. I taught her to play Elfenroads and she grasped the rules very quickly. Tactics she can do, just the overall strategy isn't there yet. Tina is even better at boardgames, thanks to her chess experience. Next year, hubby intends to teach her DBA, a historic tabletop game. Tina is already keen on painting miniatures. Toyah told me today that as soon as she's able to write she will invent fairy tales and write them down for me. *beams*
Even so, I had moments today where I felt like selling them on ebay. Especially since a faint but welcome urge to write reared its timid head a few times. I just hope Tina and Toyah can go back to school and kindergarten soon...

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