highlights

[ciroccoj]

• Busy day.
  
  
• Drove Chris to work. Went to Canadian Tire to buy a bike for Daniel. Bought it. Brought it home. Swept & tidied. Got computer expert set up in the study. Chatted with An. Tidied some more. Read a bit. Adjudicated a couple of sibling disputes. Chatted with An some more. Took pix of kids on their bikes - Daniel on the brand new one, Justin on Daniel's old one, and happily, somehow, Justin is more excited about getting Daniel's old bike than Daniel is about his new one. Went to bank to get cash to pay computer expert, as I do not currently have a credit card or personal cheques - all my cheques were related to my credit card. Talked over the computer situation with computer expert. Fed children dinner. Put children to bed.
  
  
• Why am I so tired?
  
  
• The children are in an absolute tizzy about going to Calgary. I'm... not really in that headspace yet. It might be a good idea to get into it.
  
  
• Explained fanfic and copyright to the children. Tried to, anyway. It arose from them overhearing me tell the story of the fanfic author who asked for donations to Chris. Little ears, I swear.
  
  
• Cannot seem to put together multi-idea sentences with multisyllabic words. ::shrug:: Simple is good.
  
  
• Started thinking about public breastfeeding the other day, in relation to fanfic. Yes, there is a connection, to me. Don't worry, you won't be able to figure it out ;)
  
  
• And speaking of fanfic, my discovery of fanart the other day led me to the following:
  
  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince fanart
  
  I'm so jealous. I can't do people poses worth a damn. Faces are about all I can manage; getting limbs to look anything like they belong to people and not oddly jointed mannequins is just impossible for me.

Comments

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Hey, guess what? That artist posts to LJ so we can all enjoy her newest stuff! Her name is seviet You can also join a special slash version of her offerings at slashiet!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

God, it should so no longer shock me when people who seem to be totally all about the G- to PG-rated het also do slash. And yet. Really, really must grab myself a clue one of these days.

Thanks for the heads-up! I had just bookmarked her site to visit every so often hoping for HBP updates, but this is much better. Now I don't need to take up bandwidth. Yay!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Slash is the new black. :) Except not so new, I guess....

Still, I don't think I've seen any of her art that is EXPLICIT. So don't panic! :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

So don't panic! :)
Oh, I don't panic at explicit slash :) Wince? Sometimes. Cringe? Occasionally. Stand and enthusiastically cheer? Um, yeah, that too ;) But not panic.

It just amuses me that it still shocks me a little, despite the prodigious amounts of slash, good, bad, and indifferent, that I've read in at least ::counting:: 6-10 fandoms, depending on whether you count different Star Trek and Law & Order incarnations as one fandom or many. Mouth dropping open and shrieking out loud "And then Skinner did WHAT with his WHAT to Mulder??!!!" would have seemed charmingly naive to anybody watching me, that first time oh so many years ago when I was somehow totally ignorant of the word "slash" (despite having read Star Trek fic since I was about ten) and stumbled across in an X-File that I'd honestly thought was about Mulder and Skinner getting to know each other better on an out-of-town assignment.

Ten years later, though, it's just a little sad ;)

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

I just lost 45 MINUTES to that site! Damn you! ;)

I wish I could draw. ::sigh::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Hee!! Score!

Oh, um, I mean, sorry :)

You're going to Calgary?

[ninja-kat.livejournal.com]

Sorry...did I miss something? I had no idea you had plans to go to Calgary. Or did you already tell me this? I wouldn't be surprised if you had and my seive of a pregnant brain has since forgotten it.

When are you going? How long will you be gone?

Re: You're going to Calgary?

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Oh, we're not going to Calgary. They are. While we're in Winnipeg for Chris' dad's wedding. Then we come back, then go off camping with Todd & Susan & Turtle & Zany. I'm hazy on the dates, but it's around the end of August and we'll be back before school starts.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned all of this, but hey, pregnancy brain. You've had one or two or three dozen more important things on your mind ;)

Is Monday still OK to come over? I can bring the kids in late afternoon with something for them to watch and then Chris can pick them up as soon as he's done work, if that would be OK. Otherwise, I can ask Laine to look after them, which is no problem at all; whatever works best for you.

Hope your last work week went OK.