Hi! Things!

1. I've been home sick with, at first, a UTI, and then a lovely reaction to the antibiotics. Seriously, I've never had a headache like the one I had yesterday in my life. I practically wrapped my pillow around my head to ease it. Today was filled with a long nap, lots of tea and water and the second season of Call the Midwife, because I love the fact that the ladies are front and center THE WHOLE TIME.

2. My Het Big Bang is making slow progress at the moment after my whirlwind of writing. BUT! It shall be done.

3. We are moving! Again! Back to Scotland! Yay?

Actually, it is Yay, we liked it up there and I think I can get a pretty good job. We've already found a decent flat for not very much in a good part of town. Hardwood floors and a view of the Firth of Tay. Although, I hate moving SO MUCH. Argh.

4. I have now seen Mad Max: Fury Road and Spy and I loved them both for pretty much the same reason. Women, front and center, being fantastic. Being badass and vulnerable and funny and, at the end of the day, taking no crap from anyone. Awesome and very entertaining. I mean, even if you aren't interested in anything apart from watching something entertaining - these two films are darn entertaining.

5. I just discovered that my local Tesco (boo, hiss!) has Libby's pumpkin in a can! *flails* I can never find this stuff over here. The amazing aj had to post me some once! They're probably SO overpriced, and I know it's summer, but I'm making pumpkin pie this weekend, I don't even care.

How is everyone? Staying cool?

Happy Thursday! ♥

I just hit 10,000 words on my Big Bang! Thank freakin' goodness!

I know, only halfway, but baby steps. Baby steps.

And 28 Weeks Later is on tonight and I'm thinking about watching it. Is it worth the time? I loved the first one.

Finally saw Inception. And in case you were wondering? Yes. It is that good.

( Spoilery comments )

And now back to my Big Bang!

So, I think I've managed to get the whole A-Team in Spaace under control. I will henceforth be working on my Star Trek Big Bang. (Yay McCoy/Chapel! I love these crazy kids!)

( Aren't they loverly? )


MemeTime!

Go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics the movies that you've seen. (Not necessarily that year.) Mark in bold the movies that you own on video, DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever.

I'm cheating and just marking the ones I saw and liked. At the time. I might have a different opinion these days.

The year was 1990 and it's a rather long list.

( You picked the wrong goddam rec room, didn't ya? )

So, I saw The A-Team movie last night. It was surprisingly not bad. It had explosions, scenes with people building stuff, enough testoterone to knock out a city and was pretty funny. Also, when did Will Tippin get hot? Goodness, gracious Bradley Cooper's pretty.

Now for that Self-Reccing Meme that's going around. Can I just say that this last year has been truly an amazing year to write in? I've met such wonderful folks and read some incredible stories and learned so much.

( Self-Reccing Meme )

Sharing is Caring

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

I'm sure most of you have seen this, but in case you haven't, here's the trailer for The Price of Milk with Karl Urban. I've kind of watched it repeatedly for when he says "Coows!" It just kills me. And makes me want to move to New Zealand, because, dear Lord is it beautiful over there. (The scenery, not just Karl!)



I made some awesome Guinness Stew last night, so here is the recipe to try it for yourself. I actually made it without the beef and added more potatoes, carrots, mushrooms (thickly sliced) and red peppers. It works really well as a veggie dish. You can use a substitute for the beef bouillon as well!

On a completely different note, there is a gentleman outside my (rented) cottage painting the exterior wall. I don't really mind this, because it really needed to be re-painted. However, he just appeared earlier this week and started hacking and sanding away at the plaster before he started painting. Our landlords told us nothing about this. My husband, who works from home, all of a sudden had some guy outside the window banging away and there are paint chips in my flower pots.

Am I being unreasonable to think that maybe this deserved advance warning? My landlords are rather elderly and probably don't think of this as being my house as it is their property and therefore they can do whatever they want. But, a note through the door would have been nice.

Here are my answers! If anyone has any other top fives they'd like, feel free to ask. I really don't want to work on the massive spreadsheet I've got in front of me and I really, really don't feel like cold calling people. It makes me feel weird.

For vega_ofthe_lyre

I did two of the ones you requested.

'Top five fanworks produced for the ST Reboot fandom thus far'.

I have so many favorites in this fandom, it's embarassing. The coolest thing about ST reboot is the fact that if it is well-written and makes me laugh, I will ship it. While McCoy/Chapel is my most favorite, I decided to list the stories with slightly obscure pairings. and apparently, i have a thing for genderbend!fic

Burn the Maps It's a road trip with Kirk/Sulu. There's a big ball of twine. It's epic. Seriously, read everything this writer has written, you will not regret it. She's got a great story with allusions to Sulu/Chapel, which is my super sekrit ninja ship. ADULT

Five Times Montgomery Scott Had Less Than Big Brotherly Thoughts About Polina Chekov girl!Chekov/Scotty It's adorable and spot on. ADULT

Five Steps on the Path to a Shifting Destination — Star Trek: XI — girl!McCoy/Kirk — NC-17 Van Halen FTW! ADULT

The Village Verse It's been rec'd all over the shop, but it's so lovely and funny. GEN

after that long kiss I near lost my breath girl!Sulu/Chekov. Aliens made them do it. So dreamy and really good. ADULT

Top Five Book-to-Screen Adaptations

Orlando by Virginia Woolf - Dear God, Tilda Swinton is awesome.
To Kill a Mockingbird - I wanted to be called Scout and have Atticus Finch be my dad.
Titus Andronicus - Directed by Julie Taymor. Intense and visually increadible.
The Stand - I'm counting the mini-series as a movie, because, you know, Gary Sinise and Rob Lowe. Damn.
The Lord of the Rings - Yeah, I went there.

For melodyclark

Top 5 episodes of Northern Exposure

The Bumpy Road to Love
Get Real
Mi Casa, Su Casa
The Russian Flu
The Aurora Borealis

As you can see, I love Adam! And the show could have just had Joel nattering on while Marilyn sat quietly and I still would have watched. Chris could have come in from time to time and quote something awesome.

Thanks ya'll for the great prompts!

I went for a walk last night with the husband and it was almost about to storm after finally having having a truly hot day. The hill smells like Battenburg cake. All Marzipan-like and sweet. I think it's the combination of an absurd amount of heather and sheep. Possibly the cows too.

In other news, I really loved Wall-E. It is the most abstract film Pixar has ever done. No freakin' dialogue for 40 minutes! And it was good! The adults I went with loved it and the kids in the audience seemed entertained, but I'd love to know if anyone has heard a kid's opinion.

And in more news, I've jumped on the delicious bandwagon and am attempting to tag fics and stuff I like. So here: http://del.icio.us/seren23