Well, it's been a while since I updated... no really good excuse except I've been sick. I'm starting to feel better so hopefully my updates will become more regular again.

I hope all my friends in LJ world are doing okay. :)

Em

Current Mood: awake

Hi, all.

Well its been a while since I updated my journal, not quite sure why, but things happen. The kids are back in school, so I am hopeful that things will slow down around my house... It really is a futile hope, but it might work.

Xander is now in third grade and loving every minute of it. I think that he is happier this year, because the school decided this year to group everyone according to reading skills and math skills (during reading class and math class), so he will spend those to periods with the 6th graders. I am hoping that he will not be as bored this year that way I have fewer parent/teacher confernces.

The school wants me to have Xander just skip up to the sixth grade, but I am very leary of it. I don't think that he is emotionally ready to deal with that. What I am thinking is that I will see how he copes with being in the sixth grade classroom for two hours a day and then make my decision.

Elizabeth is in the second grade and is now learning the meaning of homework... It's not really that much, about half an hour a day, but to my flighty girl it might as well be 10 hours. I do think it is good though, she can learn to have a longer attention span. :)

On a sad note my betta fish "Darth Betta" passed away, we will all miss him.

Current Mood: awake

So I am listening to some old 90's music today. (I got my High School reunion notice, made me a little bit pensive) And all of a sudden Shaggy's It Wasn't Me started playing. I got this horrible idea for a song fic... Now I have never had the inclination to do a song fic, as a matter of fact I don't even generally like them.

Nevertheless, I got this rabid plot bunny. Could you imagine if Hermione walked in of her lover Snape shagging someone  else on the bathroom floor. He then goes to sexy Remus and his advice is to explain to Hermione that it "Wasn't him".

Then Snape goes on to explain... How it happened.

Please save me...

Current Mood: amused

Sorry I have been a bit quiet these last few days, but this time of year is difficult for me. That said, I was reading the news today and came across a horrible story—well it is not I guess as gruesome as some of the CSI cases, but in many ways I feel that this case is much worse.( Here is the story: )

Current Mood: aggravated

So instead of sleeping, I have been making my own doll... which I gacked from
mugglegirl0908

It is really like me but my hair is much, much longer.




Please forgive the rambling nature of my post but I am sleepy and should be sleeping.
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Current Mood: tired

So I am updating my journal as a diversion tactic. See I am supposed to be finishing the next chapter in The War Within, but I hit a slight roadblock. I am not sure whether I should stop now or write the next scene into this chapter.

Besides wasting time doing this update, I am also trying to get my friend dryelle to play online games with me. But she knows better—even though I haven’t told her exactly why I want to play games. I guess she just knows me too well.

I am starting to feel better, for the last few months I have been battling pneumonia. I seem to beat it and then a few weeks later it is back kicking my arse. I am barely managing to keep the house clean and laundry done, yet I feel so lazy. It is because I have never been good at resting during the day. Now I just kind of sit in my chair or lay in bed typing or reading on the computer between my frequent naps.

I didn’t know that my BF was really noticing the difference, you know men sometimes they are really obtuse, but today he asks me if it would help if we had a maid come in 2 or 3 times a week. My first thought was of course hell yes, but then I wanted to know about how much it would cost. I mean we do all right, but two kids in private school is expensive—especially since I no longer work. However, it turns out that his friend knows a woman that comes in for only eight dollars an hour, so like it is very reasonable. I would most likely be jumping up and down at the thought of some one else vacuuming my floors, mopping my floors and cleaning my bathrooms twice a week if I had the energy.

Current Mood: sick

I was over on a general Harry Potter board and someone decided to enrage the masses by asking this question:
Is there any TRUE christian out there that thinks Potter is ok?

My first though when I read this was that someone wanted to start a fight on the board, but the more I read this person responses I realized that this person actually believes themselves to be right. Now I have read some of the newspaper articles and watched some of the news stories that  also spew this belief and often times wonder if we are reading the same books.

I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and instead of ranting my feeling about this person on that board... I thought that I would instead share them on my live journal.

1. That any book that does not depict magic as evil, is trying to  undermine christianity...

Current Mood: aggravated

So, my bf has learned that technological gifts are the ones that make me squee. But, sometime he gets a little overboard.

Last night he comes home with a whole new router and wireless adapters for all of our network (two desktops, my laptop, and two tivos). Now he called my uncle and got his recommendation on what he thought was good brand. I have no issue with this, but for some reason this network will not set up.

Whenever I hook up this new router it makes my cable modem freak out. It looses its connection with base computer and cable. It just sits there and blinks at me... I am frustrated. I spent 5 hours on this stupid thing last night, it should have taken about 5 minutes.

I finally just reconnected the old router and reset everything, so that I could get some sleep last night. See I am the type of person that would have worked straight through to whenever I got that stupid thing going.

Now, my boyfriend wants me to try and get it running again, and all I want to do is write. I was in my grove last night and instead of finishing my next chapter I spent hours trying to hook up something we didn't need. See bf bought a101 mbps 802.11g system to replace our 101 mbps 802.11g, yes, that right he bought the same thing sans different manufactures.

But, bf has it in his head that this new one is better--so I am now going off to see how long it will take me to get to head bashing stage.

Current Mood: annoyed

Wow, I have never posted 3 time in one day before. Well truthfully I have posted more in the last few days then I ever thought I would.

Now this isn't a huge entry... It's meme time--I gacked this from dazzleberry


You're a Slytherdor! You are a natural leader and
have the personality to back it up. Often
people are hesitant to approach you because
they feel that you will reject them. You have a
bit of a temper but most of the time you're
able to keep it in check; however when you are
really pissed off, people better watch out. In
your life you have a lot of things you want to
accomplish, whether it's for yourself or
another cause. You can be determined in trying
to pursue this goal but your morals are too
steady to allow you to be absolutely ruthless.
You don't let many people know this, but you
actually like the idea of chivalry (but you try
to keep this buried) and you try to live your
life with honor. You don't back away from tough
decisions. Your weakness is that sometimes you
can be arrogant, you forget about the 'lesser
people' and this leads you to underestimate
your opponents. With the charisma of a
Gryffindor and the ambition of a Slytherin you
can be great in life!


Which Mix of the Hogwarts Houses are You?
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Oh and I wrote a short Harry Potter ficlet... I am most likly not going to post it anywhere else... It is strictly Harry and a night of reflection after 6th year. It is AU and does not follow HBP. Also unbeta-ed so all funkies are mine.

( And He Cried )

Current Mood: accomplished

I am making the leap into the world of selling things on E-bay.

My Boyfriend was cleaning out the garage and storage unit today, and decided to give me an ultimatum... See I have a lot of medical equipment shoved in them from Sarah. The insurance company (Blue Cross-- if anyone is interested) thought that we needed all of Sarah's claims filled and taken care of.

So, I have many thing that were either not used or used very lightly for a few weeks. Things like a new Power Wheelchair, the kind that raise and lower, lean back, a electric hospital bed, bath system, personal patient lift, ceiling lift system, new van lift, and a scooter.

I was thinking that maybe I could take care of two stones at once... Get rid of all this equipment we have sitting around and let someone get it at a greatly reduced rate. However, I am not so sure about the E-bay thing. I have bought many thing through them, but selling is a bit intimidating.

Em
P.S I really do just want to rid myself of these things... if you know someone that really needs something contact me.

Current Mood: curious

I have learned over time that some memes are better than others... This is one of those good ones. I used to enjoy doing live action Rocky Horror Picture Show, yes, you all now know what kind of a deviant I was in high school. But damn it, it was fun. We used to have this total hottie that played Frank'n'furter, man he looked so good a teddy.

I have always respected a man that was secure enough in his masculanity that he could wear womens lingerie.

That said on to the meme: ( meme )

Current Mood: tired

So I have been feeling a bit down the last few days... So I thought I would post something to make myself feel a little better. I am going to share some of my Alan Rickman photos. Only a few though, I have way too many to share them all, as mugglegirl0908 can attest to. I let her visit one of my albums of Sexgod!Rickman.

I am placing them behind the cut for size and for some unknown reason some people don't think he is sexy... ( Bring on the Rickman )

Current Mood: awake

 I know that I have mentioned this to a few on my friends here before, but today I came to a realization that no matter how hard we try and forget the truth will always return.

My brother, well he's not really my brother-- he kind of adopted our family, decided that he wanted to get married on Aug, 12 of this year. Now, I would not normally complain about any date that someone wanted to choose for their wedding... However, when you plan on getting married on the first anniversary of my little sister death, I do tend to get a little irational.

I mean my god, how insensitive could you possibly get? There are 364 other day of the year you could get married, any one of which would not cause my mum to cry when you made your announcement. Now, I might have become a little protective over my mum in the last year, but she is taking this loss very hard, as am I.

You see, Sarah was only 22 years old and it really was a shock. I got her up and ready for the day and left for work, then at 10:30am I got an emergency phone call saying I needed to get to the Hospital. And, then she passed away at 11:45am. There was nothing that we or the doctors could have done... It just happened.

Sarah really was a beautiful soul... One that I will miss greatly. Now, I will admit that growing up thing were not easy, but then I don't think they ever are.

I remember watching Sarah struggle with severe Cerebral Palsy: with the people who would talk down to her, the things she could not do because of her wheelchair would not fit, or that she was not physically able to do and yet somehow she managed to keep a positive attitude... She was a stronger person then I will ever be.

I know that she would not want me to be sad, but that is almost impossible for me to manage some days. I try to remember that she always said that she knew she would be happy in heaven... For she would never hurt, she would be able to learn how to roller skate, and she would pick lots of blackberries with Grandpa George, and that is how I try and remember her.

( Picture )

Current Mood: sad

So I have been thinking about cutting my hair. I know people get their hair cut all of the time, but it has been a very long time since I have cut mine.

I do really like it long, but I think it might be getting to be a little to much. I mean my hair isn't exactly wash and go, as it now takes about 20 minutes to brush and if I don't braid it or throw it up in to a bun I end up having to brush out knots three or four times a day.

Also my cat loves my hair... As in let me kneed it and tie it into knots when I love it. Let me steal you hairbrush because it has you lovely hair in it. It odd I tell you something is seriously wrong with Oreo.

Now all of this I could live with because I do love my hair. But today I was doing the dishes and discovered that I now have to tie my hair back so that it doesn't land in the dirty dishwater.

I don't know what to do... I worked so hard to get my hair long (think past wast length), but it has so many disadvantages.

Current Mood: aggravated

I think I should take offense at this meme. It basically rated your nerdiness by how much you knew about science. I love science and technology, therefore I am a nerd.



Now I think that I should mention that while all of my friends would say that I am somewhat intelligent I am no nerd.

Current Mood: aggravated

Yeah, today is ending much better than it started. Today I was going to sit down with a nice piece of coffee cake and a glass of milk and the milk slipped from my hand. It went everywhere… All over my end table and into the fish tank, so my poor Darth Beta had a 100% water change today.

Don’t worry about poor fishy, he seems to be happy and healthy. And believe it or not my end table is shockingly clean.

I got my entry on the Makeover Ho!moine off to my Beta, and should get that back sometime tomorrow. I think I did a pretty good job, but I had never realized exactly how hard it was to write Bad!Sex!

The other good thing is that my music transfer program is working much faster today. Last week I tried to put 25 songs onto my I-Pod and it took 15 hours. That was outrageous; usually it takes only a few minutes, so I was about ready to chuck the damn thing. But, alas it is back to normal and I now love my I-Pod again.

Night all.

Current Mood: bouncy

So, I gacked these memes from ladyofthemasque. They are cut for length and well I guess a little TMI

( On to the MeMes )

Current Mood: bouncy

This is a short peice that I also posted to WIKTT... It has my thoughts on why somone might coin themselves The Half Blood Prince. It will have spoilers behind the cut.

( HBP Spoilers )

Current Mood: blah

Well it is not really spoilers its a plot idea... but does have spoilers for what happens in HBP.

( HBP Spoilers )

Ok so earlier today I was trying to help Bellamar_alt preorder a copy of Harry Potter and the Half –Blood Price at Amazon.com, tonight. Not ordered because to late to be shipped on release date, for those of you wondering. However, did lead to a very nice chat about how many deluxe versions JKR would sell if we were told that some of the extra pictures were of the delectable Potions master.

Now I should probably be ashamed to share this next story but what the hell I know what you guys read too. So I was browsing the different books and Amazon in all its wisdom informed me that one of my recommended reading was the Karma Sutra. Wow… I have not had the joy of reading this book… so clicky, clicky I go.

By the way did order the book (bf will most likely be pleasantly surprised when he gets back), but have read LOTM For Something Special so I imagine I am well acquainted with many of these positions anyways.

But, here is the kicker someone left this review for the Karma Sutra:

I was waiting in anticipation for the release of this book....but found out it was released years ago..

To be honest i found the content a little 'crude' to say the least - when looking for a curry recipe and seeing the kind of thing portrayed in this book i was dismayed!!!!!

I thought a harvey wallbanger was a drink until i read a later chapter entitled 'making a mixer'. It turned out to be a sordid affair in which many people sinned!!!!!

I am slightly confused after reading this book and a little ashamed. Please can someone get this work removed from the shelves or put on the internet at least...(read in confidence).

All the best.

I was flabbergasted, not only can’t I imagine that someone would think this was a cooking book… but that they would leave that review with their real name. That’s right folks I think someone might have had a Homer Simpson moment. “Doh”

Current Mood: amused