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In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


My #1 goal is to not cancel my plans to go to Misti-con. Which I contemplate every day.

#2 goal is to turn in any and all stories for fests on time. I almost did it last year, but missed by two.

#3 goal is get some weight off--but that might be hopeless at this point.

#4 goal is to drink more water.

Lastly, try to make it to work more often. Heh. That will depend on my mental health more than anything. And I have to achieve the last if I hope to achieve the first.

Have to import all my LJ entries here, I hope it's not difficult because I should have been backing them up all this time, so there are many.

I've added a bunch of folks, and hope that those I didn't add will add me.

That's it for now.

Daydream Believer

As always, many thanks to my lovely beta islandsmoke.

And a HUGE thank you to helenarickman for my super sexy gift The Vault. D/s and very yummy.

It was a head-on collision. (He's bruised but, thankfully, okay.) The other driver crossed over into his lane. My son swerved but still got nailed.

His car is probably totalled--the airbag deployed.

Since he just bought a house, he's going to need help to rent a car for a week--of course it has to be Christmas week--I'm trying to see if they can make it with the one car until after Christmas to save some $$. He won't be going to work for a day or two, but since he works for Amazon, yeah--busy time of year for them.

He's going to see his doctor today. He was checked out in the ER last night--no broken bones. He's very sore today.

In other shitty news, a very close friend of my Hubby's is moving to California. My Hubby is devastated. He's happy for his friend, but it's been ages since he had a close (male) friend--so he's taking it hard.

2016 can fuck right off.

And they posted my gift second!!

The Vault

It's a Dom/sub story, with Snape as Dominant and also as a teacher of sorts. The rating is T, so there's no explicit sex, but it's wonderful. Oh, such a lovely portrayal of a nervous beginner and an experienced Dom.

I loved everything about it. I also hope the MA decides to continue it because the way they ended the story leaves room to continue.

There's art for mundungus42 that's beautiful and hot.

Run, don't walk over to the comm and give the authors and artists some love! It's only just begun!

Finished stories for two of the fests I signed up for and turned them in. Only one to go.

I took some pressure off myself by realizing that my stories don't have to be long to be interesting. :) That helped.

Hubby had his first improv class on Tuesday. He came home smiling and that's wonderful to see. Also, he's been on a stay-cation this week, (I've been working so he has the house to himself) and I told him he can't go so long without time off again. He is back to his usual sweet self. I didn't realize what a prick he had been until he wasn't anymore.

Work still sucks balls, but it's only until 9/1/2020. I can make it that long.

Here's pics of the house, my kids and grandkids decked out for Halloween. Loads of pics ( under the cut )

Going to see "Doctor Strange" tomorrow night and more Improv on Saturday. Also, my DIL's birthday dinner before the Improv. So, busy weekend. :)

Today is the first day of early voting in my state and since I am off (took a random vacation day), I decided to go vote.

I dropped Hubby off at work and headed across the street. One of the early voting locations is very conveniently located.

Since I live in a red state, I brought my tablet with me in order to have a book to read while I waited in line for the place to open. It was a preventative measure.

It's a good thing I did because the stupid in the line, it burns us, precious.

Let's see, there was "you don't really know if your vote counts because: hackers". Which is stupid because:
it's virtually impossible.

See also: "Can't trust computers." "Government can go in and change votes in the computer." "I wish I could see my ballot before and after (FYI--you can)."

Then the always popular: "We're really just voting for a vice president, anyway." Really? Is that how you're justifying voting for the Orange One? If you're voting because you think Pence is a "better" option, you haven't done your homework:
He's scary on woman's & LGBT rights. Very scary.

I would be equally happy with Hillary or Tim Kaine (aka America's Dad) in the presidency.

When the folks in line started talking about how happy they were that people have to show a picture ID here in order to vote, I couldn't keep quiet any longer. I said, "I'm not. It's the most un-American thing I've seen." There were shocked faces and some started to say something about voter fraud and I shut them down. "We have voter registration cards. That's enough. Again, requiring a government ID is against the Constitution.". Then I returned to reading my book, seething inside.

When I was shown to the voting machine and the volunteer was going over how it worked, I said-"You wouldn't believe some of the things I overheard in line about computers." She rolled her eyes and said, "I spend 40% of my time explaining that it's impossible to rig elections." I wished her luck and thanked her and she smiled at me because she realized I was sincere.

I have a feeling she's voting for Hillary, too.

Now, I'm going to try to finish one of my fest stories today and get it off to my beta reader. The HP world should take the bad taste out of my mouth.

Originally posted by severosmertamod at FIC: After Hours (NC-17)

A collaborative effort between me, my hubby and the tattoo artist. I designed it, hubby drew the heads, I drew the bodies and the artist added the stars and the writing. I wanted something to celebrate my OTP.



When I'm 80 and the great grandkids ask me about it, I'll tell them that Nana used to write naughty fan fiction and got a tattoo to celebrate it.

What do you guys think?