My weekend

Aunty departed today. I wrote my 3 morning pages (mostly diary stuff) Afterwards I spent several hours typing (and gently editing) two dozen (German) poems that I wrote over twenty years ago. Was surprised to find that I still like several of them. One poem I rewrote significantly, and I'm quite proud of the result.
I also worked on Four Fear. I read the story out loud (Mr. E acted as my adience) and found a few minor bumps. Rereading helped me 'upload' the story into my brain. After a longer hiatus from writing that's always a must. Tomorrow morning I hope to get some proper writing done, muse permitting.

Bigamism

I want to be a bigamist. I want to have three husbands. Mr. E can handle the kids, husband #2 can earn (or have) oodles of money, and husband #3 has to bring useful skills into the marriage like a) massaging skills (I'm sure the other two husbands will agree that a masseur is a great asset), and b) the ability to hypnotize me and ask me where I left things.
I just spent half an hour looking for something. A few months ago I tilted the contents of one of our boardgames into a box or carrier, I don't remember which, and either threw them away, or hid them somewhere. The kids had, as usual, neglected to properly return the parts to the box and I decided to teach them a lesson. The idea was that the next time they decided to play the game they'd discover that the pieces to be gone. They'd be suffieciently shocked and resolve to be more tidy in the future. Yeah, not one of my brightest moments. Now the box is empty except for the rule book and the board itself. Hmmm. I'm pretty sure I didn't throw the pieces and cards away, but sometimes, when my temper is particularly filthy, I get a little *cough* irrational.
When my mother got into one of her moods she used to open all my cupboards and sweep the entire contents on the floor, not caring whether my doll china broke etc. - can't say the method was very effective. I still have to force myself to tidy up properly. (Which is one of the reasons why I really don't want to tidy up my kids' crap as well)
I've never done anything as drastic as that, but I do get stern when my kids don't tidy their room. After all, how am I supposed to put the clean laundry into their wardrobes when I can't even navigate through their room?
*sigh* and the oscar for the most dull domestic LJ post goes to...

ETA: Found the contents. Phew. And daughter #2 just meticulously sorted the cards and pieces back into the Candamir-Box. :-)

Fanfic question

A question to those of you who are reading Four Fear:
Do you think the story would work better if I called Oz by his nickname instead of Danny or Daniel? When I started writing this story it was supposed to be short and the use of his real name didn't matter so much. I wanted to show Oz dormant in Danny, but the focus shifted away from him as the characters started to live in my head.
This is a pretty long story now, I'm beginning to feel I should have stuck with 'Oz' - especially since the story has several references to The Wizard of Oz. I was trying to come up with a situation where he gets the nickname Oz, but drew a blank. So, should I go back and re-edit the story? Kick out most of the Daniels and Dannys? Or shall I keep it as it is for now, and make the change when I send the story off for a final beta read?

Blind Justice

Has anyone actually seen the last episode of Blind Justice? Epi 13 is listed in TV.com as aired but I have my doubts. The last torrent was for 12. I would like to have number 13 so I can archive the whole series on one disk. I need free disk space. Is it possible the network pulled the one remaining epi. I know the show is cancelled and I can understand why, since it wasn't exactly stellar, but I enjoyed it, and I've seen worse shows get renewed...
I have reached a state of mind where getting pulled by one of the major networks comes as a recommendation. I hope we'll at least get to see the remaining epis of The Inside.
Looks like House M.D. kicks off its 2nd season at the end of August. Yay. Numb3rs comes back in September. I look forward to Bones The pilot was entertaining. Bones and Kitchen Confidential start September 1st.
Of course I still miss Buffy, and Angel, and Firefly. *points at icon*
*sobs*