I have tons of necklaces... and I have one of the trees from Urban Organizers or wherever. While I do like it, it falls over all the time (probably cause I have tpo much junk hanging off it lol) and it's not very creative, imo anyway. So I was thinking of getting a REAL tree branch, and putting it in a pretty vase or bottle. And then I'll have a real tree thingy to hang jewlery on? And perhaps I could wrap some fairy lights around it aswell. Cute idea, yes no?

I'll post some pics after I make it up.

Happy turkey day/Thursday, flist!

Chris didn't get to come home this year, so i'm off to enjoy bad food and family drama at my grandparent's.

I have a feeling my dessert when I get home will be extra strength tylenol. Whee.

Why does my ISP always wait until right before they leave to shut off my internet? Don't they realize that JUST BECAUSE I AM LAZY AND FORGETFUL I still need my internet? Sheesh. I walked in today, it was shut off, and they are closed down until MONDAY. Not going to work! Stupid, backwoods local ISP. They don't even have online bill pay. If they DID I would not have this problem.

So I used my phone and found a cheap-y ISP and signed up and TADA.

Anyway.

It is FREEZING in my house. I think i'm going to curl up on the couch with a giant mug of tea and watch SYTYCD (which I am totally not happy with this season, but w/e) and Glee and attempt some Christmas knitting. I only have 8 inches of the BACK of Chris' sweater and I have yet to even pick up yarn for the rest of my planned knits. Oops?

Hot males!

This list is not all-inclusive - think of it as a teaser instead, as my full list of all males I find hot would run a whole day. Also, it reveals a certain tendency to go for Anglo- and Gaelic fellows, in addition to fellows from my home soil.

( Four hot Norwegians )

( Non-Norwegians )

Got any to add or want to underline any from my selection? Bring your pics!

Cleaned my room today so you know what that means- Pictures: ( Read more... )

Post an anon request for a fic you'd like to see for Christmas. If you see a request you'd like to take on, feel free to! I shall in any case do at least two, and see what else time and my brain will allow.

No real restrictions on fandom, but I am naturally more likely to write fandoms I actually know.

This post brought to you by six am on a Monday morning - everyone's favourite.

Managing a new low, some vandals have destroyed the Gingerbread City in Bergen. Over 600 gingerbread houses, decorated by kids yesterday with the city to be put together this week. See, it's a non-profit activity aimed at children and children with developmental disabilities. It's been running for several years. People love it.

Pictures from previous years. You can see some of the destruction here.

That's just so utterly low I have no words. But people are pitching in to rebuild it, so I hope they manage.

Meanwhile, Hollywood, I have two pleas:

1) Please, please, please let British actors you cast either keep their accent (it won't bite, I promise!) or give them a dialect coach or something. Because listening to British actors not quite managing to sound American pains me and listening to them in their original accent would just please me. Rawr.

2) Please, please, please get American actors who are trying to do non-American accents some tutoring OR just have them do it all American and count on some suspension of disbelief. Because this half-half is bloody annoying. Also, throwing "ja?" at the end of a sentence does not make you German-sounding. Really. And The Swedish Chef is not a guide to Scandinavian accents. Really. And no, playing it like a stereotype that walked out of a tourist guide written by someone who has never visited the country does not make up for the actor utterly butchering the language.

... Yeah, I shouldn't get into that rant or I'll be here all day.

Meanwhile, they've cast Heimdall in the upcoming Thor movie and oh my. Granted, the comic it's based on isn't exactly staying true to Nordic mythology to begin with, and I guess this kinda reinforces it. Because the Viking gods are generally depicted to be pale in colour, mostly because the Vikings were and we all tend to envision things based on our perspective, you know? The Vikings were no expcetion. So I did blink a bit initially, I must admit. (There's even a Black Viking trope, as I learned.)

But I found myself really warming to the idea and you know why? Because neo-Nazis are going to have a fit. They've always tried to hijack Nordic mythology for their own racist, hateful agenda - just as the Nazis themselves did. To say this displeases me is putting it mildly. That's my cultural inheritance they're twisting and getting associated with their shit.

So I shall sit right back and laugh and laugh and laugh and hey, the dude isn't bad looking either. Win-win!

Er, wow. I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted. Things have been kind of crazy (in a good way) around here! The last time I posted was to say I had a new job...well, that job has now resulted in two promotions. I was promoted about a month in to Med Partner (pill pusher for old people, whee) and one week ago I was promoted to Assistant Director. I'm now basically second in command to the entire community. It's...kind of insane, rofl. I'm honestly still in shock - they announced our AD was retiring and said they wanted to hire from within, so I tossed my resume in just for the hell of it, never ever expecting to actually get the position. I actually came really close to crying when my Director called and offered me the job. SO. Yeah...i'm now salaried management, and working a normal schedule of M-F, 8-5. I got to sleep in past 4am for the first time in ages this morning, and I kind of don't know what to do with myself now that I have free weekends!

So what's been going on? I'm completely behind on everything - my old schedule had me so exhausted all I did was sleep when I wasn't working, so i'm totally clueless. Fill me innnnn.

*hugs everyone* I missed you guys!

Slides Towards the Future
by misscam

Summary: Afterwards, she does wonder - Was it inevitable even knowing the future, or is seeing the flash forward what made it so? [Mark/Olivia, Olivia/Lloyd]

Rating: Teen. Some non-explicit references to adult activities.

Disclaimer: Not my characters, just my words.

Author's Note: The show will undoubtedly make this AU. Um, yeah. I'm writing FlashForward fic. Oops.

( If philosophers can argue over it for decades, Olivia Benford (maybe-to-be-Simcoe one day) doesn't have much chance of certainty. She can watch her life in slides forwards the future and still never know for sure. )

Hello all! :) Another long-time lurker and a first time poster... all of your places were starting to make me jealous... so I figured WTH and am going to share with you 2 places that I lived at (I will sometime soon take photos of my 3rd place), both when I went to school at UCLA. Class of 08!

The first one was a not-so-nice studio apartment that I considered a dorm since it was on the street where alot of the Greek fraternities are housed (alot of sleepless nights let me tell you... especially when we had a mob that decided to BURN A COUCH AND A CAR OUTSIDE MY WINDOW when our team beat USC *facepalm*). But perhaps what makes me biased about that experience was that I shared the little room with a not-so-pleasant girl, hence my lack of photographic documentation.

The second apartment was a studio I had to myself a year later in Westwood, and I LOVED IT. The manager was like a second dad, and it was a much calmer location (at least no fires) within walking distance to the school and everywhere else in Westwood (including the occasional movie premiere, woot)!!

You'll see my nieces occasionally in my photos but none of me... I was very unhappy with my weight back then, and I'd hate for people to feel that image represents me now, lol. I was a nerd and blacked myself out when I occur in these pics... please don't think it's me being snotty... just embarassed!

Things you'll see recurring in my rooms no matter what the year: MOVIE POSTERS (I think only my 'Kill Bill' ones are missing in this series), MERMAIDS, DISNEY, STUFFIES, Ladybugs, roses, the occasional ballerina, Harry Potter, Princess Diana, and other random British stuff (I'm a Very Patriotic American, but I love the U.K. since I got to study there for a semester).

( Hope you enjoy! :) )

One of my favourite books is by Douglas Adams and isn't The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Rather, it's a little book called Last Chance to See that is utterly non-fiction and all the more sad for it.

In it, Douglas and Mark Carwardine (a zoologist) travel around the world to see various endangered species. At least one of these have been officially declared extinct in the wild since the book was written - the baiji dolphin.

Whenever I read it, I get an urge to explore. To see all the wonderful things this universe has to offer. Especially knowing that not all of them will be here forever and the chance to see them is limited.

I wish I could see everything - a supernova, a star being born in a nebulae, what May 8th 1945 in Norway was like, a Triceratops, the first Norwegians, the forming of the moon, the library of Alexandria, mammoths, the Decan Traps, the silence at the great depths of the ocean, the storm that never dies on Jupiter, a binary star system and so many, many other things.

None of these things are possible to see for me and this makes me a little bit sad. But there is still so much I can see. A shark. A tiger. Angor Wat. The ruins of the Incas and the Maya. Penguins in Antarctica. The Amazons. Nine billion diffrent people on this Earth.

There is how much I have seen. Fjords. Northern lights across a winter sky like some painter gone mad with green. Midnight sun. Kangaroos. The redness of Uluru against the blueness of a cloudfree sky. The stones of old Rome. An ampitheatre of Greece. A Buddhist temple in Thailand. A city of Svalbard, covered in snow and framed by darkness. A blue-tongued lizard taking a liking to my hair.

To quote the Discovery Channel - The World Is Just Awesome.

What would you like to see, if given the chance?

Anyone willing to make a few icons for me from bases I've cropped? I am rubbish and have no photoshop. I offer gratitude and return favours/bribes.

I give you stupid shit on a Monday:

- Did you know white are facing racism and being discriminated against in Hollywood? That Heroes' writer sure seems to think so. Poor, poor him, never given any advantage. Except all the ones he has from birth, of course.

Oh yeah, my heart bleed for him. Won't someone think of the poor white males?

(Hey, I think of white males - if they're hot enough! Actually, that kind of goes for all males. Mmm, hot males of all kinds.)

- "No but I don't see the big deal. What is so horrible about it? Think about it. It's just sex you didn't agree to," says (hopefully) a troll or an utter, utter ass about rape. Yeah.

I mean, what's so bad about murder? It's just death you didn't agree to!

- A guild on my server is accused of ninjaing and shitty behaviour in PUGs. Some members take exceptions. 27 pages of wankiness ensue.

World of Warcraft is serious business, if you didn't know.

In better news:

- Book overdue by 50 years returned to library - with a 1000 dollar check to cover late fee..

- Sweden returns skulls to Hawaii to be reburied.

- Australian sniffer dog missing in action for eight months in Afghanistan is found in good health.

- A Zambian journalist has been acquitted of pornography charges after sending officials pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park,

Off to kill some Yogg-Saron!

Where do these lamps come from? I've seen quite a few rooms with them. They're white and look like they have ...embroidery or something on them? Anyway, they are too cute. Thanks! (Click can on the pic to make it bigger btw...)