So I'm still alive but not finding time for much fandom other than reading some fic before bedtime. I don't even watch tv anymore, other than the Packers, Curious George, and Thomas. I've stumbled across some nice fics though that I will rec one of these days.

Hubby and I decided our lives weren't crazy enough though, so I am expecting third (and final) baby in May. So far so good, but I am generally not a happy, glowy pregnant type. The nausea and throwing up are thankfully over but I'm getting big enough to start getting tired by all the chasing of the 2 and 3 year olds.

Random complaining:

A3O do you hate Safari or is it me. You are great in concept but it would be nice if you worked occasionally. Tired of the Whoops screen. FF.net thank you ever so much for retroactively removing every symbol in every one of my stories, thus rendering them unreadable. Like I have time to go back and fix them all with your crappy line divider or chapter them.

Amazon, you suck mightily. Ever so glad the Kindle 3 actually has less PDF support than Kindle 2. Nice that PDFs that read fine on my 2 show up blank on the 3. Calling it a problem with the PDF file when it works on every other device I have and through your converting software is not holding any water. Your device is the one with the problem. Five hrs of wasted time with your tech support with the only resolution being that I have to use my computer to download the file, email it to you, wait a couple hours, log into amazon.com and send it to kindle and hope you continue this service is not an option that makes me a happy camper. You are not the only maker of book readers.

Yeah, not so much with the happy glowy.

So I caught 20 minutes of IPS the other day (one of the few current shows I know anything about since I'm begrudgingly now a non-TV watcher). OMG, Mary McCormack is pregnant. I take silly pleasure in the fact that she's huge. Huge! I was huge with my kids so I feel kinship. :-) But in the 20 minutes I caught, Marshall had one of his short but intense and so very heartfelt 'I will stand by you no matter what always' Marshally speeches. God I love that character! He is a thing of beauty! If I had time for TV and/or fandom, I would totally be writing IPS fanfic and making Marshally icons.

Oh and AO3 is beautiful in concept (View Entire Work is the best thing ever!) but it is always crashing my browser. Gah. But I have found a whole bunch of long stories (yay for sort on word count) to read at bedtime. Hooray.

Hope all is well.

Shady

To cornerofmadness and evil_little_dog, lovely Buffy shorts. COM, I love the Darla and Dru trip to the park, the which is scarier frogs or bunnies conversation, Dru's valentine heart, and "It beats being her little juvenile delinquent." Wonderful ELD, I adored Spike mourning Joyce, and The Learning Process - a tutorial indeed. Thank you both for the wonderful reads. I'm so glad you're both still dabbling in Buffy.

So I was at the doctor yestereday and was flipping through a Time magazine and happened upon an article about fanfic. Pretty descent article, but a reminder that I miss it terribly. Two young kids and a crazy work schedule and daily chores and so many other things competing for what I feel like are scraps of free time. So no fandom. But I miss it. And I'm home sick today - just a cold, but I decided to use the excuse to have a time out. Hubby bought me a Kindle a couple of years ago and it supposedly allows you to upload docs to it somehow, so I'm looking for fics to experiement with. And of course since I'm out of just about every loop these days, I don't know where to start looking for some good ones. I'm after long, gen or mildly shippy, teamy goodness from KR, SG1, Firefly or Buffy (man, no time for TV leaves me with really dated fandoms). Or maybe I'll go looking for a long case file type X-Files fic. But if anyone has the story for me, please do tell.

I hope you're all doing well.

Shady
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Thank you all! I wish I could reply to everyone but things are very hectic right now. It's sooooo good to see that you guys are still around. I have this fear that one of these days I'm going to have time in my life again and I'm going to find that everyone has gone away. I miss you all!! I should hopefully have some time to catch up while out on maternity leave since big sis is going to be going to daycare at least half days 3 times a week. I hope all is well!

My second daughter, Rachel Josette was born on 3/12 at 5:59 pm weighing 9 lbs, 5 oz and 22 1/2 inches long. She's a big chunk of chocolate as her dad says. And she has a lot of hair, like her sister.

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Roo had an ultra sound yesterday. The good news is that for the most part everything looks really good. No sign of the heart issue that AJ had in utero which is a big relief. This baby does have some cysts that are a marker for trisomy 18, but doesn't have any of the other markers that typically go with it. So they said it wasn't anything to worry about and the chances of it being trisomy 18 is something like 1 in 8,500. So I'm okay with that. The baby was moving all over the place. Roo's feet are up by her face and we saw her open and close her mouth like she was talking a few times. We didn't find out the sex (I'm using she as a convenience since we used he for the last baby). That's kind of driving me nuts because part of me would really like to know. But the ultra sound tech was relieved that we didn't want to know. She said that a lot of people are disappointed and she said that she always feels bad and awkward when that happens. We agreed with her that it would be much harder to be disappointed in the delivery room when they're holding their baby in their arms. I felt that way with AJ - that I might be disappointed if I found out before she was born - but this time I really don't care. I'll be happy either way. I just always wanted a little girl. And now that I have a little girl and am happy and settled with being a mom (which I wasn't at all sure I'd be when I was pregnant the first time), I'm totally happy either way.

But it was really good to see her squirming around in there. I've been feeling it for a long time now (since 12 or 13 weeks - and it was pretty definitely baby at that point even though it was supposed to be way too early to be feeling her), but seeing the little one in there is always so exciting.

And not to be outdone on the exciting front, Alyssa took her first steps on Tues night. Hooray, AJ!! She's 14 months which is good. Hopefully by the time the baby is born she'll be a good walker which will be a relief because I really can't carry two of them. She's also starting to say a few words (all done, up, down) in addition to Dada. Mama is nowhere to be heard. ;-) Oh, and she knows her colors. We give her markers (with the caps on) to play with and she loves to carry then around with her. We've been pointing out colors to her forever and she actually knows them now. We can ask her to pick out a particular color marker and she will. Or if she's got them in her hands we can ask for one of the colors and she'll give that one to us. She knows triange, circle, and square too. It's all very exciting (and I'll stop bragging about my kid now!)

The morning sickness seems to finally be going away ... after 20 weeks. Ugh. I'm still gagging whenever I change poopy diapers but the all around sick feeling is finally going away.

I wish I could be working out this pregnancy. Walking was so good for me last time, but unfortunately, there just is no time with a toddler around. I would have to give up sleep to get in a regular walk and that just isn't going to happen. I really need the sleep!.

So that's pretty much my life right now.

Shady

Being on travel for work, there was time for Hulu. Some not so coherent thoughts on the shows I watched. Spoilers below.

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Man, the Packers are just stinking up the field and Favre is having a huge game. *sigh*

Oh, second trimester, how I hate you with your false promise of feeling better. I have morning sickness that's worse than the first trimester and it sucks even more because IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DONE NOW.

So, yes, I'm pregnant. Due March 14th. And I am really happy about it and excited to have another baby, but I am sooooooo tired of being sick. And it sucks because I never seem to have the energy for AJ and I fear that it's going to have some life long affect on our relationship that I wasn't able to be a good mom during a crutial time in her development.

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So that's pretty much what's up with me. I try to lurk around when I can. I miss fandom though. I miss reading and writing fanfic a lot. But unfortunately, it's on the backburner for a while. I have this fear that in a couple years when the kids are more self sufficient and I get to have some time again, I'll show up and you all will have moved to somewhere else and I'll have no idea where to find you. You'll all be writing 154 character fics on Twitter or something. ;-)

Okay, I missed the flail. I miss the brilliance. You all are going to have to explain it to me because I didn't get it.

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So why do I keep watching sci-fi on Fox?? Why?? I don't know. Masochism, I guess.

Again, the Execs at Fox should be shot.

But does anyone know if the creators of TSSC knew they were getting the axe prior to finishing the filming of season 2? Because man, is the body count high!

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Babykins fell asleep on the spare bed during a feeding this evening after having only a half hour nap this morning and refusing to nap this afternoon. She's exhausted so Hubby and I decided not to move her out of fear of waking her up. Which means that I have to guard her because she will roll or crawl herself right off the bed if she wakes up.

So.

Some thoughts on NCIS because I have finally caught up with the second half of the season.

When did you get so cryptic, show?

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And In Plain Sight. Flist, do any of you watch this? Cause I think it's kind of good. More depressing than I want it to be sometimes, but really good at other times too. I just don't like it when the witnesses are also depressing. We have Mary's family for that - they've got it covered.

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And did anyone else think that Burn Notice was just *off* last week? It was like they had a new writer who was trying way too hard. Everyone seemed off. From Mom at the end and Fi throughout and the excessively distracting editing and going overboard with the normally perfect, pithy little captions for people to doing it for EVERY character introduced in ways that were repetitive and not so cute. I assume this will be a one shot, bad ep, and not a trend because it's usually quite good, but I was WTF-ing throughout the show.

And, yeah. That's what I'm watching these days.

Okay teeth are among the biggest evidence that neither Evolution nor Intelligent Design are correct.

If there were a million years of refinement or any intelligence involved, BABIES WOULD NOT HAVE TEETH UNTIL THEY WERE A YEAR OLD.

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So, having a child means lots of illness. And it started right away. B got a cold, gave it to our daughter and she gave it to me. It's impossible not to get sick when your child is sick. So. I've been home from work this week, which means I can actually do something fannish (since otherwise, there is simply not time for ANYTHING). I finally watched SG: Ark of Truth. I bought it a long time ago, and started watching it, but the whole Merlin/Ark story line was boring during season 10 so I really couldn't get into it. But I finished watching it and it was ... okay. Nothing for me to get excited about and probably not really worth the money I paid for it. But in watching the ComicCon panel, I heard that Continuum was a time travel story. Time travel plots are some of my favorites and it's got Jack so I'm thinking about getting it. No spoilers please, but is it worth buying?

And I also got to see the first episode of the second half of Battlestar Galactica S4. Our cable has On Demand and I really don't watch anything anymore unless it's on On Demand (or on after A's bedtime). I missed probably the last 2 or 3 eps of the first half of S4 and din't really care, but ... damn. It's good again! That show is a rollercoaster of good and bad. It has its amazing streaks and really lame streaks. But it's kind of exciting that it may go out on a good note.

Here is my table for 10_cliche_fics

Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Jack/Sam

The Prompts:

Sexual Healing	Right first time	Never felt like this
Sex Pollen	You want us to ... what?	I hate you. So much.
We're pretending, right?	Let's go again!	Where did you get that?
	I'm lost for words...

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Yes, these would be the smut cliches.  I'm branching out.  Or something.
*headdesks*

Tags: cliche fics, sg1 fic

Short, very, very short little ficlet I was inspired to write while the wee one was sleeping. It makes me sad that I don't have much time for fanfic anymore so it was nice to play around with words and try to craft something again, however short.

Fandom: Knight Rider TOS (um, yeah, that's funny) / KR2K
Author: Me
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own them. Universal and/or Glen A. Larson have that honor.

Summary: Coffee, a fall day, and a moment of reflection. Michael/Bonnie, in a vague way.

Author's Notes: This takes place in the Disintegrate universe because in my head, that's where they live. It's their home now that there's another universe out there where they don't seem to exist. But really all that means for this short is that it's post Knight Rider 2000 with Bonnie and Michael in a relationship and living in Michael's cabin by the lake.


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Tags: kr fanfic

I have been wondering why I've been requiring so much sleep lately. When A sleeps, I sleep and I've consistantly been surprised when I get 5 hours before the 4 am feeding, spend an hour feeding her, get up for the 7 am feeding spend an hour feeding her and then sleep until 11. 5 + 2 + 3 = 10 hrs. Huh? But the last two nights she's slept through the 4 am feeding and I've put her to bed earlier so I'm getting a solid 7 hours and waking up ready to get up. So even though it's been working for me (because I've been able to sleep several times until 11), clearly sleeping in separate naps is not the same as sleeping the night through. 4 + 4 just doesn't equal 8 in this case.

Okay, so seriously? Spending $150,000 on clothing totally trumps getting $500 haircuts. The bar has been raised on political vanity. I mean, I know she's in the public eye and needs to look good, but come on. I bet $150,000 in six weeks would be a staggering sum even by Nancy Reagan's standards and she was no slouch when it came to buying clothing (and at least it was her money not campaign contributions).

I'm so tired of the 'aw shucks, I'm just a soccer hockey mom up there in Alaska.'

My flist is flooded with yuletide posts. *sigh* I've done it for three years and have really enjoyed doing it a lot and there is just no way I'll be able to do it this year. I was trying to think if it would be at all possible, but I'll be back to work and it's just not realistic. But it makes me sad. :-(

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*accidentally spits coke*

I'm sorry ... what?

Not that I don't appreciate the reference, because I do, but something requiring a little less brain bleach would have been preferred.