A touch of glamour

I am putting a cut for talk about rape/abuse.

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So NaNo is in *checks calender* Two and a half months. (How the hell did that happen?) I ML for my area and one of my co-MLs is taking a break this year from organizing and just going to write. She'll host write ins when she can. And the other one that I had hasn't gotten back to me. -_- I'm going to have to e-mail the woman who filled in for her last year and see if she wants to be official.

This is my 6th year MLing. (How the hell did THAT happen?) And it is like trying to round up a bunch of cats. Feral cats. No one wants to show up even though there is activity on the board, no one wants to talk about what interested them in NaNo. GAH! And let's not talk about getting them to show up at write ins. *headthunk.* And on top of that, I'll be going out West to visit the family for Thanksgiving. Not that many people show up that weekend anyway.

I haven't even picked some of the usual places to have write ins. Hopefully November is better for writing this year than the Camps have been.

Last year when I won, I wanted to get this but it had been sold out. When I ordered the ML stickers to hand out, this was the first thing I bought before it was out of the store again. And next month I'll probably get the shirt. It's pretty neat this year.


NaNo Flash Drive USB Bracelet - Yes, I could get a 2 Gig flash drive for dollars elsewhere but still...

Edit in: Of course like all those other rubber bracelets, it gathers fuzz like whoa.

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/284877/watch-the-avengers-gaga-reel.html

This is going to be on the Avengers DVD when it comes out. In fact, there is a four minute bit.

Awwweeesssoome.

And it looks like Clark Gregg is all for the slash fic between Coulson and Steve Rogers. XD

Title: Musing on Revenge
Fandom: Thor
Characters/Pairings: Angst!Loki
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,062
Summary: Loki has some anger issues, brother issues and fath- Let's just say he has a LOT of issues.
Warnings: Angsting
Disclaimer: I don't own Loki, I don't own Thor, I don't own Tom Hiddleston (though a chance meeting...). Many, many thanks to sigridhr for the beta.

( The silver-tongued God of Mischief )

Yesterday, I did my show with my mini and I did all right considering that this is the first time he's done anything like this before. He was too busy looking around when his pasture mates weren't around to call for him. Plus, it would have been nice if the cloud cover had kept around because by 10am, it was humid and running around in black pants is never fun. I felt like I was swimming with them.

The first event I did was basically showing him in his halter and then how he stands, how he is put together. I'm not sure of the exact details on what they look for. The second one was jumping and I have to say that the course they had on the board was confusing. I don't think everything got it exactly right. It would have been nice if they had someone go to each jump so we knew the order. Apparently they did it last year. Ah well.

The last one was basically a 'do whenever you feel like' until 3pm. Needless to say, after the jumping event, I needed to sit down before I collapsed. I need to get myself in shape more as well to do this stuff.

I know there are some things that I need to work on and maybe next time, I'll do the pleasure driving as well.

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The roomie is in the hospital for another night. She was discovered to have thyroid cancer and had the surgery to have the cancerous parts taken out. The first endocrinologist was a complete and utter idiot. With as much as had been taken out, she should have been scheduled to take a radioactive pill to kill the rest of the cells. But he never had it done and she went to get a second opinion. Good thing she did or who knows if she would have gotten the rest of her treatment. By leaving some parts of the thyroid left in, the potential for the cancer to come back was there. Plus he didn't seem to think RLS was a real problem. She had other opinions on that.

So for the past 3-4 weeks she's been off the meds and on a low to no iodine diet. Being off the meds has made her really cranky/tired and not wanting to deal with the idiots. The low iodine diet means that she has to inspect everything for salt intake. Needless to say, you can't just 'throw something together' with that kind of diet.

She thought she would have been able to get out today but the radiation level is still too high for her to not be as much as a risk. She even has to be in a bit of isolation when she is allowed home. So I'll be doing the cooking or doing easy meals for a few days. And man will she'll be happy to have milk and cheese again.

Need to catch up on my writing / posting things now.

Well, had gone up to the barn yesterday because the Vet was coming to check out Fantasy. She seems to be responding to the one antibiotic and moving better than she had been before, which is good. And she likes the food with the extra high fat in it so that would be used to help get her weight back up again and so that it will level out the plane on her back so she doesn't look so bad.

Vet was sort of happy with the tissue of the tear, as it was pink and didn't show any sort of decaying or anything like that. She wasn't quite happy about being able to get in as easy to get a uterine swab but it's the nature of the beast and I'll find out the results on Monday or Tuesday.

I've been stressed for the past week, week and a half when they first told me she was limpy and dropping weight like crazy, which kind of kills the creative bug to keeping myself distracted until the vet had gotten there.

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A little background: Fantasy is an Off-track TB race horse. She won about 6-7 races while she was there. I don't know the circumstances but the owner gave her to a broodmare farm then. This farm was VERY hands off with it's horses. It was a business to them. Get the mares pregnant and when they drop the babies, scoop up the babies and sell them off. She had gotten pregnant and dropped the foal. During the birth, the foal might have caught a hoof as she was coming out or there might have been some difficulty. Again, I don't know the full details of it all. There was a vaginal tear and IF they had a barn where they watched teh mares when they were showing signs of giving birth and assisting, she could have been sewn up right at the moment or something could have been done that she didn't tear. But it was only three days after the fact that it was noticed and by then, well, it's an expensive surgery and what's one mare to them. She no longer had a use as she coudn't birth babies anymore. They were going to shoot her because she was wild from not having much human contact. The woman I got her from had been there to pick up a mare who had been struck by lightning, or was close to a lightning strike, and was blinded. She worked with Fantasy so that she didn't wig out from humans being around her.

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Either way, to get the tear fix, would be about six grand, last I was told when I talked to a vet, but even then, it is risky because of the fact that the muscles there are always moving because of bowel movements/peeing (TMI, I know). so even if she had the surgery, and it would probably be internal to be the most effective, it might not keep/she might not survive it.

The first time this one vet told me about this, he had me in tears because he was making it sound like I was an awful person for not getting this done and how this was hurting her and if I couldn't get it done, she was going to do poorly. I've had her about 6 years now (she is 16) and there are some flare ups where she might get a minor infection but giving her penicillan/antibotics helps push it back.

I would get it done, if I could, but I don't exactly have the kind of cash without winning a lotto jackpot to have it done so I need to do other preventative measures.

(And that vet can suck it. He was being a jerk.)

Well, I've working away on my novel and while I had been further behind, thanks to some word sprints, it's not as bad. There were times when I'd be lucky to get 750 because it had been so humid and hot and the last thing I wanted to do was sit down. But I am powering through.



This was as of last night and the goal last night was 21200 or something like that. It wouldn't be the first time I was behind and it isn't the biggest amount I have been behind. It was...two years ago that I was behind by ten thousand and I made it up in an eight hour session. My butt didn't like me but I had made it.

I'm thinking of posting some bits and pieces and if you aren't already on my writing filter, I can add you to it as I'll be posting to that.

Has some fluffy Caturday!

This is the little boy we brought down from the barn. Needless to say, he is adjusting very well to being a house cat. He's a loverboy. Right now he still has the sniffles though. His name at the moment is Boogie. We haven't thought of any other names that would fit. The ones we had were way too serious for him. :)

Ugh. The past few weeks have been very blah. My writing has slowed down to doing 500 words every couple of days. It's only the last two days that I've kept it going and hope to get it to pick up. I need to sit down and work out what I want to do with two stories that are due the end of March. -_- Let alone the romantic scenes. (Cause I suck hard at those).

It's mid-February. When did that happen?

I need to figure out a way to work out some plot for the stories in a way that I feel is comfortable for me. I'm never good at plottng things out. I've been a pantser.

Pleh.