Insane Far Beyond Her Years

Happy Mother's Day to any and all moms among my friends. I just got home from visiting my mom at the rehab. Whoo.

I did finally work up the nerve to publish that Steve/Bucky fic I recently finished. So, go me!

I'm also signed up for the Marvel Big Bang over on LJ. Me and pookaseraph have signed up together because we're writing a COLLABORATION. I have never written with someone else, outside of RP, so it's interesting so far. Our fic is actually a XMFC/Captain America crossover and, what the hell, I'm writing XMFC again. I was pretty sure I was never going to do that ever again and look at me.

My boss is currently driving me crazy because the team planning committee I'm on has offended her deeply by sponsoring a donation drive for a summer food program that will feed less fortunate kids during the summer. But because the soup kitchen is a religiously (Christian) affiliated non-profit, she feels this is INAPPROPRIATE and is highly AGHAST at this turn of events. Now, I get not wanting to support religious stuff but, come on, one-fifth of our department are Christian chaplains! We have to swear to God when we take our oath of service for our jobs! Since she is Jewish, I know her main objection is to the Christian/Jesus aspect but this is a program that FEEDS POOR CHILDREN. No one expected it to be this big a deal. In fact, the other members of my committee were basically like, "what kind of cold bitch objects to helping feed kids?" which made me LAWL, no lie. Plus, considering that I am PAGAN, I really need her to STFU about it. Thankfully, it's over on Friday, so hopefully she'll keep the rest of her objections to herself between now and then.

I should be in a much better mood on this time next week, since I will be less than a week away from lots of beautiful days off. WHOOOOO.

I'm all done, guys!

Find It In Our Hearts is now complete @ 103,800~ words, available (for now) on AO3. (Teen Wolf, Sterek, kidfic)

It's second longest thing I've ever written.

I could cry I'm so freaking happy to be done!

I know I've mostly been doom and gloom for...months...but here's something that is totally not doom and gloom --

I went to the Mad Monster Party this weekend, which is a local horror movie convention, and I got to meet Bruce Campbell! :D

I also stood in line for, oh, three hours to do so but it was worth it!

( And here is where I make everyone jealous by recounting my epic day )

Me and my sister also met: Lea Thompson, Gary Busey and Jake the Snake Roberts. We also got our photo took in the time-traveling DeLorean and the proceeds went to Parkinson's research in MJF's name. :)

So that was a great weekend and I didn't even include my Friday night at the Psychic Fair. The only downside is that I kind of had a "fun" hangover on Sunday from being so busy on Friday and Saturday. What a problem to have, amirite?!

My mom didn't even get in the house before we ended up on our way back to the ER, where I'm sitting now.

I hope and pray that not all nursing facilities are as horrible as the one we've been subjected to.

But, hey, at least I don't have much energy to angst about fic stuff, right?!

:/

My mom still isn't home and there's no word on when that will be exactly. She said the doctor told her 8 to 10 days but I think that was them trying to keep her spirits up because they were way more vague with me.

The doctors can't find a rehab for her but they don't think she's safe enough for home care, so she's in this limbo where she's still at the hospital even though her original illnesses have cleared up. I wish we had a better idea of the timeline but it's not forthcoming. I am...very tired of limbo.

In other news, I used her absence to clean out a bunch of things that she had been holding onto as part of her pack-rat nature. We've cleaned out the extra/junk room that used to be my mom's master bedroom before she got sick, so it looks like I'll be able to claim half of it (she refuses to let go of the chest and dresser than belonged to her dad) as an office/entertainment area. Once the bed is gone that I'm giving to my sister, I should have enough room for a desk and some shelves which will be completely boss. I miss having a desk and little space for all my office stuff. I'm actually pretty excited about it.

And, finally, I finally got the PS Vita I had been planning on since last month. I'm currently at my sister's house downloading FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX and Legend of Mana onto it. Which means that I will do anything else ever again but raise monster pets, make weapons and magical instruments and grow fruit in my orchards, lol. I love that game so much. <3

1.My mom is in the hospital. She has been since yesterday but it took them, like, 11 hours to get her admitted into a room from the emergency room. I am so tired and I had to miss 1.5 days of work which I haven't done since I started. I'm going to be so behind.

2. They had to demolish my house to get my mom out. Doors, door jambs, molding, all ripped out. Plaster cracked everywhere. My new carpet, completely ruined. I wanted to cry when I got home last night.

3. As one would expect, this messed up a lot of my Imbolc plans for this weekend. This makes me sad, too.

4. It's been one of those weeks that just needs to die in a fire. Hopefully, it will get better soon.

Come on, you know you want a hand-written holiday card from me!

I know that the DW/LJ community has kinda dispersed of late, but that just means that those of you who are still around mean even more to me. ♥

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Title: How Still My Love
Author: Regann
Character: Charles/Erik
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own anything; I just play with them.
Notes: None!

Summary: A mysterious sleeping disease, three loyal guardians, and a friend-turned-foe with unclear motives. It might sound like something out of a fairy tale but it's life after Cuba in the Xavier manor for what's left of the so-called X-Men. When Charles can no longer lead them, it's up to Hank, Alex and Sean to figure out a way to protect their mentor, especially once Erik comes seeking an audience. (Variously nicknamed "the Fairytale Fix-it," "Snow Charles and the Three Wishes," and "Alex feels via Charles/Erik." All three are pretty accurate.) ~20,000 words.

( How Still My Love )

So! My new job is amazing and full of things to do and just awesome stuff. It's doing library stuff and paralegal stuff (although not quite so much of that yet) and then also admin stuff and my boss informed me on Friday that there's still so much I have to learn and I'm very excited. I love my job. It makes me cry how much I love it.

The only downside is that I still haven't worked out internet access for myself and I rarely have time to troop it to a coffee shop where I can bum wifi. (This is what I'm doing now, lol.) Hopefully, I shall figure that out soon enough or make more time for coffee-shop-trooping because I miss the internets. ;;

In fannish things, I am working on my Jecht/Auron resurrection fic (slowly) and I've been waiting for the finale of Common Law so I can bang on some longfic ideas. I'm supposed to be working on my star trek bigbang but, um, that hasn't quite happened yet. Bad meeee.

I also suddenly realized I have a ton of Steve/Bucky feels that snuck on me out of nowhere? Maybe I just needed to make peace with my Thor and Loki and Thor/Loki feels first but it just hit me last week that I ship them so hard. Steve and Bucky, I mean. Maybe it was the TWS announcement that finally tipped me over the edge. Two years to anticipate!

Um, I finished a XMFC WIP that I've let languish since March when I was like "FUCK YOU, XMFC FOREVER" for ~reasons~. It only needed about 3,000 words to be finished (it's a one-shot, it is NOT the last Engine of Creation story) so I made myself sit down and write them because I hate fic sitting in my abandoned folder. Holy hell, I felt really accomplished when I had. So, I don't know what that means in the long run, just...yay, I did it.

How's it going with y'all?

So, since my last RL update, I worked my two weeks' notice at PronCo. Yesterday and today, I've been loafing around before I start my new position tomorrow. Wednesday is just orientation at the main HQ; Thursday is my first day on the actual job.

In my awake time, I don't feel all that nervous, but I've been tossing and turning at night for a week now, so I guess that's how my nerves are manifesting. It still seems surreal -- I still can't believe I won't be going back to PronCo eventually. I think it'll take a few weeks at my new job before I lose that feeling. Hopefully by the time my classes start back in mid-August, everything will be settled with my new job.

I'm trying to focus on the exciting aspects of a new job and not the terrifying ones, basically!