Oy. Lost my Capitol One card.

Got a call from Bank of America from the fraud department. Someone's been using my card online (and charged a buttload of money!).

Really? A week without either credit card might do me some good though, right? Either way... both of their customer service agents were beyond sweet.

Ahhhh money, how you can truly fuck with life.

I'm still in an amazingly good mood however, and wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful cards and treats and gifts. They've really gotten my spirits up over the last week. You're all such wonderful people and I wish, from the bottom of my heart, that you all have a fantastic holiday season.

So I had to call the cops last night at 2am on the downstairs neighbors (surprise, surprise!). Their music was so loud that ornaments were falling off of our tree... Yeah, called them because well, it's 2am and turn the fucking music down... and the cops came and pounded on their door for a solid minute. A dude comes to the door and the cop gives him the standard "Turn the music down, it's 2am" speech and then I hear, "What's that behind your back?" (Something falls.) "That a knife that just... that's a knife. Don't like that you answered the door with a knife." The man then proceeds to tell the cops that he "thought he was someone else."

This is after we find a pool of blood and blood drops in the foyer on Saturday.

So I basically stayed up all night because I was terrified they'd find out it was us who called and come to the door. I told my father about it this morning and he whizzed off to get some crazy, police-grade oc spray that's used for riot control.

I'm so done with this; on top of it all (whine, whine, whine, here I go) I'm getting sick yet again. Runny nose, coughing, yadda. This is fine though, as I could give a flying fuck if I'm sick over the holidays. Just one more reason to stay in and away from people.

Bah... wait for it... humbug!

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Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in you own journal so that others can play along.

doom_cherries chose: serial killers, yellow towels, ancient egypt, breaking things, going mad, medieval history, surprising people.

( And away we go! )

I just saw Men Who Stare at Goats and I have to say, hilarious. Really, really good. Smart, funny, George Clooney being George Clooney. Yes, yes. And I promised Samantha that I'd watch Dave today... so I have to do that.


...sorry I'm being so blah lately. I'm just not in the holiday spirit. But I just sent out the last wave of Christmas cards, so hopefully that will brighten some of your days!

There have been a ridiculous number of GOOD TV promos for the upcoming season...and it is making me super excited for what's coming in Jan/Feb 2010!  Well done, Promo Gods...well done!! Enjoy!! 

**Nothing's that spoilery...but don't look below the cut if you don't wanna know!   ( Promos!! ) 

If you find any other good promos, hit me back!  I can't stop watching them!! :D

Apparently I took an almost three month hiatus. It was completely unplanned. Thanks (& sorry!) to all of you who have asked about my RPF - it means a lot that you guys have missed it! I've been writing & rewriting this over & over. It seems that I'm still a bit rusty, given the unexpected break from writing. This is just a short little something & I hope that finally being satisfied with it means that I'm working out all that rust!

Woops, forgot to add that like most of my stuff, yes this is a one shot. Hopefully now that I've started working the kinks out of my writing, I'll have something new again soon. :)

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( Touchy (RPF) )

schnullybaby decided that she need a new header. As she found a nice christmas picture, we decided to make a little graphics battle. You'll find two headers and as you can see we used the same picture and schnullybaby has stolen my font haha so the font is as also the same ;)

Please look at the headers (click on them to see them full size) and then vote! It would be great if you could leave a comment, sharing your thoughts with us and probably even with the number you voted for ;)

( .::headers and poll are under the cut::. )

Last call for Christmas cards! Go here and enter your contact info if you want one! They're going to go out tomorrow if I have to tie Lori and Samantha down to get this done. For real. (At worst, they'll go out Monday and you'll get them after the holidays buuuuuuut, whaddya gonna do...?)

It is simply pathetic that I don't have a "real" winter coat. It's down to about 20 now, -1 with the wind chill and I have a crappy, autumn Columbia jacket that I have to pair with several sweaters/sweatshirts. God Leslie, grow up, start acting like a big girl and buy a North Face.

( Baseball talk! And yes, I know it's only December. Off season, baby! )

I really don't care about Mike Cameron and while I think Lackey is a pretty good addition to our starting rotation, I kind of can't look at him without becoming a little ill. He is, after all, an Angel.

There are some things in the news that I wanted to discuss, such as Ben Bernanke being named "Man of the Year" by Time, dickbag Oklahoma Senator Coburn forcing a reading of Bernie Sanders's health care bill, and Joe Lieberman being just... just a huge fucking dick who's the bitch of the insurance companies... but I got side tracked.

By this. Yeah, I don't even know.

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I've been reading up on the opium production in Afghanistan and reading about Opium Brides and the awful things that happen to peasant farmers... all because of our crop eradication projects funded by the DEA. (I could speak VOLUMES on this; don't worry though, I won't.) My area of expertise in criminal justice is in drug policy, trafficking and the law so this is really, really interesting stuff to me.

I'm beginning some research into the trafficking of heroin and new cocaine trafficking routes to West Africa.

So, if I'm in a crabby mood, you know why.

ETA: I feel like an ass for not thanking people because I JUST found out about this (by getting an email from a person doing a thesis on fan fiction) that I won a House/Cameron fan fiction award on hc_fanficawards in the category of short angst! Wow, that's pretty fucking cool guys, so thank you all a bunch for voting! High fives all around!

there are motions to go through
house/cameron, pg-13, post-Teamwork
thanks: miss_andromache

"You're in Dallas." It's a statement of fact and not a question and his headstrong attitude just pisses her off.

( She's so predictable. )

some things I've discovered:
♣ Sacred and Shutter Island are vying for 'My Favorite Lehane Novel'
♣ my doctor is a crazy; she wants me to see a neurologist.
♣ i can't go long without new episodes of Sunny.
♣ listening to Al Jarreau in my office leads to taunting by the faculty.
♣ the winter meetings for baseball stress me the hell out; maybe once we figure out what's going on with Bay I'll feel better.
♣ dexter excites me and I'm loving this piece I'm writing.

Happy Hump Day!

It's time for an update xD I made icons from 11x10 'Anchor' and I decided to make some stock icons. I've never made stock icons before, so please be gentle with your comments xD

Every comment made my day!


[1] 8 Icons from Mariska Hargitay
[2] 10 Icons from 11x10 'Anchor'
[3] 28 Stock Icons
[4] 4 Banner (Chris/Mariska, Mariska/Peter ....)

Credits & FAQ: HERE

Teasers
t1 t2 t3

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