The Phial Cabinet

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This is seriously the only way to summarize how I'm feeling right now. Can't lie about it.

Do You Like My Stupid Hair? by queenklu
J2, PG-13
So...remember months and months ago a little fic called Half the Chance to Go? Where Jensen moved out and Jared lost his shit on the phone and then they HUGGED? PLATONICALLY (or whatever)? And then agreed to date? Well. This is that date. (FINALLY.) My exact comment post to this was: "OMG, this is so fucking adorable". Dude, its as adorable as Jared's dimples and Dean's omg-it's-pie-smile, srsly.


Boys of Summer by mijeraar
J2, R
It takes two years and ten months [a handful of weeks and days] for Jared to assimilate to Vancouver Cold. Which, by assimilate, he decides that he’s really fucking sick of it, thanks anyway. Full of sunshine and smiles, a nice short pick-me-up J2 to brighten your day. (If I hadn't thought of the electric bill first, I so woulda wanted to do this!) And if you like this, you'll love Revolver. A light, sweet romantic bit about awkward dating and a future after Supernatural. *glomps*


Let It Out by quasianpride
J2 AU, R
Teenage rock star Jared Padalecki makes a wager on national television that he can get actor Jensen Ackles to make out with him on camera. But when they actually meet, Jared finds himself wanting more than that. A 15 year age difference, rock-star lifestyle, and long distance relationship aren't going to get in his way. Doesn't the description just shout "CRACK"? But its not. It's actually all kinda funny and schmoopy. Tiny bits of angst and humor scattered about too. I ended up staying up wayyyyy too late last night to finish it, if that tells you anything. lol. And yes, it was kinda hot with idea of Jared being way too young for Jensen, which they totally make work but don't shy away from. Also, kinda different with Jared being the musician, huh?

Title: In Vitro
Characters: Harry, Kingsley, Severus . . . after a fashion
Word Count: 100x6
Rating: PG
Warnings: Unexplained plot, vaguely creepy
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: Originally intended for snarry100 but it got weird. Too weird.

( In Vitro )

I love black Friday! I get up late, well late enough. I woke up at 10:30 and was to awake to try to go back to sleep. Then I laze around. Kids pretty much do what they want, and I don't cook a damned thing. (unless you count nukin left-overs as cooking) I think I even ended up taking a nap for an hour or so. Great kinda day in my book.

Is my cat the only one that chirps? I have never heard a cat chirp before we got this one. She hears the Pounce shake or open, and she is all chirps and merorows. Noisy thing. (She's a fat thing too, lol)

I got a reply from the IM. She still refuses to even meet me at the airport. But, the shuttle might not be as bad as I first thought. It is one you book your seat in a head of time. She could have saved me quite a bit of worry had she simply given me all the information, but she still seems to think that the longer the emails are the move evil they are. I might just have to mention that, most likely won't though. At this point I doubt it would do any good. It's really sad, the turn this relationship has taken.

Date night tomorrow. Going to see 2012, have no idea where we are going to eat. Jeff is doing the "I don't care." thing...I hate that.

Hugs to all!

As some of you already know, I am doing a Drawbles Donation Drive.

1 or 2 USD for a smoochy drawble.

Sadly the website of the Grameen Foundation as small donation issues i.e. you currently can only donate USD15 and more. And while that would be awesome I totally understand that that is a bit much.

I am now accepting any reasonable tolerant charity organisation of your choice.

Title: A Happy Memory
Author: Leela (leela_cat)
Pairing: Bill/Neville
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 3 x 100
Prompt: neville100's challenge #97: Patronus
Summary: All it takes is a happy memory.
Beta: the_minx_17
A/N: For alisanne. Hope this makes your week a little better.

( Click to read A Happy Memory )

Torquere Press is having a big sale. And lots of books that I want are 25-50% off. I want to buy those books! But I can't. For some reason, when I go to check out, the order form says: "We are unable to find a USPS shipping quote suitable for your mailing address and the shipping methods we typically use."

That isn't true. Back in July, my mailing address worked just fine. And even I know that they have a standard of $ 13,95 for oversea shipping. Why doesn't the stupid form know that?

The lady from TP told me they haven't changed anything and I should be able to order. Yeah. Should be. But I'm not.

I'm very annoyed, to put it mildly.

Title: The Benefits of Rank
Author: alisanne
Character(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): m/m sex implied.
Challenge(s): Written for slytherins100's prompt #98: Art School
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Severus is always the teacher.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

The Benefits of Rank

Title: Venus' Nipples
Author: faynia
Prompt: #305 (first prompt) by marguerite_26
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Summary: When Private Investigator Harry Potter is hired to investigate the strange behaviour of his client's wife, he stumbles into the last person he expected to find.
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 10,000
Author's Notes: Oh mods, how I love thee, let me count the ways. Without you, and your patience and gentle (and encouraging) prods, I might never have finished this thing. ♥!

And a special thank you to both leemarchais and aislinntlc for taking the time to read through this and point out my many flaws. You're both the greatest!



Venus' Nipples is now posted over at hd_career_fair!

GUYS, LOOK, IT GOT POSTED. FINALLY. Awesome.

...after I've been up for the requisite number of minutes or hours (they were always as changeable and unpredictable as the mood of a cat), I'm supposed to have an annoying white cat trying to curl up on my work laptop. (Which, if this were a normal Friday morning, would be open because I'd be trying to get actual work done on it).

I'd be half-annoyed and half-amused, and trying not to give in to the urge.

On Wednesday, I gave into the urge and let the Luna-chick sleep with her head on the keyboard of my open laptop. Later that day, a vet gave up part of her lunch and we had Luna, our beautiful white cat, put to sleep.

We only had her for about a year and a half, but she clawed her way into our hearts and claimed space in our lives and our home.

Miss you, LunaTiCat.

The post I wrote last night and didn't send 'cos I'd just posted something else and I always feel ridiculous making two posts in an hour:

I like the dressing. Rob makes the best turkey dressing in the world. He makes croutons from sourdough bread & italian dressing, and it's got sausage and ground beef and celery and onions, and chantrelles & crimini mushrooms and cherries and water chestnuts.

And Blossom came down from Wolf Creek and made cranberry relish; yaaay! and I made mashed potatoes, and Gail made apples-and-sweet-potatoes with the recipe Rob got from the WitchesWithBrains yahoogroup, and we had brussels sprouts and candied carrots, and pumpkin pie that Rob made yesterday. And turkey. And gravy made from the turkey drippings.

Mygods I'm stuffed. It's all really, really yummy food. And we'll have leftovers for daaaaayz. Including enough cranberry relish to make piroshkis tomorrow and maybe to have to take to work next week.

And I'm, like, DRUGGED. From the tryptophan. I want to sleep now and wake up... Tuesday. Instead, we have four extra people in our room who are watching the movie "Crowley" while I try to find new fanfic.

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1. The numbered-post posting, I mean. I like lists. :)

2. My Snarry Swap fic is progressing nicely. Added about 3k today. And a bit of solo smut. I'm at a total of 24k now, and half-way through my outline. The old outline. Today, I added #14 to the outline. But that's a bit of an epilogue, so it doesn't count.

3. Thought about writing a sequel to my hp_yule_balls fic. Probably should wait until it's posted.

4. Talking about the hp_yule_balls fic: it's due tomorrow and still needs a title. *ponders*

5. The other day, I once more came across an old post of jodi_payne on torquere_social. In that post she said that she and chrisowen are working on a fifth Deviations novel. It will be set after the series, will be novel-length, and mostly about Phan. I am full of squee.

6. I won a book! In a contest over on torquere_social I won one of tc_blue's contests. I wished for Matchmen, Ltd. Finished the first story. More squee. I think I've found another TP author to fangirl over. Which is brilliant. I love having authors I can buy blindly. :)

7. I went to the post office just now to mail a bunch of books. The post office was closed. Because it's Friday afternoon. For some reason, I was still on Thursday. Stupid post office.

8. On the way back, while I was waiting at a stoplight, I saw the add for a horse show. There was a bunch of white horses in it, and the pale images of a boy and a girl. My reactions to the add went something like this:
a - Oh, pretty horses!
b - Something is wrong with that add.
c - Hey, that boy looks a bit like the Scorpius from hp_cross_fest!
d - The girl looks like a stupid bint.
e - There ought to be a good-looking, dark-haired older gentleman with glasses next to the boy.
f - Think you're reading too much HP fanfiction?
g - No, bunny, GO AWAY!!!!
h - Oh, it's green.

9. Remember my Assessment Centre report? A week ago, I had another appointment with a Minion and I got to read the Top Sekkrit Report that psycho-man wrote. It said almost exactly the same things that I wrote in that post. And then the Minion offered to xerox it for me. Top Sekkrit. Uh, yeah.

10. I discovered a new writer on fictionpress, too. The name's Qui, or qui_te. Will stalk journal now.

IT IS ONLY TWO MONTHS BEYOND THE DUE DATE. ONE MONTH SINCE THE END OF THE FEST. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT IS DONE!

I FINISHED THE HELL OUT OF THAT hd_career_fair FIC, AND IT IS DONE. EDITED AND SPARKLY AND DONE.

:D



The capslock was necessary. Sorry.

Here are my dragons!

I put together a list of Pagan terms for use by nonpagans, specifically writers, at writing_religion: Pagan terminology for nonpagan writers.

It's about 2700 words long. I'd welcome any feedback or questions; part of me thinks it's okay, and part thinks it's about 1/3 done and needs at total rewrite--but if I waited until I thought it was "finished," I'd never get it posted. And there really isn't enough info available *about* Pagans that's not written for people who are joining/members of Pagan religions.

And incompleteness is not necessarily wrong, in this case. It's more important to me that nonpagans understand the complexity of the issues than that they learn the details involved.

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Well, I found out today all roasting pans are not equal. Got the bird out of it's bath, got him rinsed and dried. And then came the time to put him in the pan. I didn't buy a throw away roaster this year, because I had gotten a roasting pan the year before, and never imagined that it wouldn't be big enough...turns out, I sdhould have. LOL The damned bird would not fit.

So, this causes a trip to walmart...on a holiday. Jeff was convinced we wouldn't make it out of there for 2 hours, and was bitching all the way there. Why he insisted on coming I have no idea, it's not like I haven't been driving for, oh something like 17 years. As for the pan, we got lucky! Last roasting pan they had. We decided on getting a real roaster, and not a throw away because we plan on being the Holiday destination when we make it back home.

In the end, my bird turned out perfect. Juicy, delish, and perfectly cooked all the way through. (I also ended up getting a digital thermometer that goes off when you reach a certain temp, instead of time. I highly recomend this if you are planing on baking lots of meats. I plan on putting it to lots of use. Rib roast, here I come!)

I have pictures of my bird. I am just too lazy to find the cord to my phone as well as doing what you have to do to the pics to make them posting friendly. Might do that tomorrow.

For all that went wrong in the beginning, dinner was only an hour late. Not bad, in my oppinion.

I hope everyone else had a wonderful day, whether you celebrate or not. I am very thankful for each and everyone of you. You all have helped keep me sane, by giving me a wonderful way to get away from life. *Great Big Hugs* to you all!