Weeks Status: Pretty painful, ackshully.
Dec. 7th, 2009 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiOw. OW. I'd rub my sore spot, but then I would be rubbing everything, and that's NSFW.
This weekend was... um, full, to say the least. I got all but one bit of my shopping done. Aunt Mary's gift is being ellusive. *sigh* That was pretty much all of Saturday. Saturday night was wrapping it all up. Sunday was made of ouchies. Here's the backstory:
We have horses. Said horses usually stay in our own pasture, but our gates were coming very close to breaking. So, while we set about repairing them, a neighbor was kind enough to pasture them for a while. Devon (a cousin) and I transferred them over. That was a few weeks ago. Yesterday (Sunday) the gates were fixed! So it was time to bring our babies home, right? Well, Devon didn't come out yesterday and neither Mary nor Papa are in any condition to handle horses, so it fell to me. Diamond and Lady were dolls. Diamond was happy to be back in his home pasture, and Lady seemed to think that I needed grooming, but they were good. Tempy was the problem. She's "only a pony", but what that translates to is that she "only out-weighs me by 700 pounds". And she's smart enough to know that she has the advantage.
Normally she's not that big of a problem. I'm good with horses, and Tempy tends to keep to mischief rather than real trouble-making. Yesterday was not a normal day. I managed to get her about half-way when she went for it, biting, kicking and rearing. I went down, and it's really only fast reflexes that saved me from becoming so many squishy red stains on the ground. I didn't feel it yesterday—I guess rounding Tempy up and getting her into the pasture kept me from getting stiff at the time. This morning? I hurt. D:
However, this makes my household 3 for 3 this week in "embarrassing falls". Papa into the water trough, Mary into the car, and me into the muck. (sweatdrop) We are evolution in progress.
In less owie news, I finished the last bit of my third prompt! \o/ I sort of want to run them through someone else's looking glass before I send them on. They're shorties, so it's not really needed, but I'd sort of like someone else's opinion on whether or not I managed the prompts. (waffles)
With luck (that is, the servers don't explode) I want to finish editing the NaNo this week. And then I need to find a beta for that. Ouch. @.@
ETA: A ramble. I had something weird happen while I was shopping at the mall on Saturday. I wore my Kingdom Hearts II shirt, right? Because I luffs it and it's comfy. I was stopped seven times by guys complimenting my shirt. This wasn't even in places like GameStop, which I could have understood. It was places like Dillard's, wha? Okay, I know they were probably hitting on me, but... why? I wasn't dressed up (seriously, my hair was disgusting and thus braided, and jeans + sneakers are not anything special), and I'm usually not hit on that often. Are female gamers that thin on the ground? Because by the time number four happened, I was starting to get mildly confused.
This weekend was... um, full, to say the least. I got all but one bit of my shopping done. Aunt Mary's gift is being ellusive. *sigh* That was pretty much all of Saturday. Saturday night was wrapping it all up. Sunday was made of ouchies. Here's the backstory:
We have horses. Said horses usually stay in our own pasture, but our gates were coming very close to breaking. So, while we set about repairing them, a neighbor was kind enough to pasture them for a while. Devon (a cousin) and I transferred them over. That was a few weeks ago. Yesterday (Sunday) the gates were fixed! So it was time to bring our babies home, right? Well, Devon didn't come out yesterday and neither Mary nor Papa are in any condition to handle horses, so it fell to me. Diamond and Lady were dolls. Diamond was happy to be back in his home pasture, and Lady seemed to think that I needed grooming, but they were good. Tempy was the problem. She's "only a pony", but what that translates to is that she "only out-weighs me by 700 pounds". And she's smart enough to know that she has the advantage.
Normally she's not that big of a problem. I'm good with horses, and Tempy tends to keep to mischief rather than real trouble-making. Yesterday was not a normal day. I managed to get her about half-way when she went for it, biting, kicking and rearing. I went down, and it's really only fast reflexes that saved me from becoming so many squishy red stains on the ground. I didn't feel it yesterday—I guess rounding Tempy up and getting her into the pasture kept me from getting stiff at the time. This morning? I hurt. D:
However, this makes my household 3 for 3 this week in "embarrassing falls". Papa into the water trough, Mary into the car, and me into the muck. (sweatdrop) We are evolution in progress.
In less owie news, I finished the last bit of my third prompt! \o/ I sort of want to run them through someone else's looking glass before I send them on. They're shorties, so it's not really needed, but I'd sort of like someone else's opinion on whether or not I managed the prompts. (waffles)
With luck (that is, the servers don't explode) I want to finish editing the NaNo this week. And then I need to find a beta for that. Ouch. @.@
ETA: A ramble. I had something weird happen while I was shopping at the mall on Saturday. I wore my Kingdom Hearts II shirt, right? Because I luffs it and it's comfy. I was stopped seven times by guys complimenting my shirt. This wasn't even in places like GameStop, which I could have understood. It was places like Dillard's, wha? Okay, I know they were probably hitting on me, but... why? I wasn't dressed up (seriously, my hair was disgusting and thus braided, and jeans + sneakers are not anything special), and I'm usually not hit on that often. Are female gamers that thin on the ground? Because by the time number four happened, I was starting to get mildly confused.
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Date: 2009-12-07 07:26 pm (UTC)Also, I can beta if desired, but I tend to maul quite savagely, so be warned. :)
I hope your bruises get better! Ponies are vicious little sods, just ask Thelwell.
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:28 pm (UTC)That seems so odd to me. Maybe it's because I have friends who are gamers and, coincidentally, are usually female. Maybe I'm just in the right fandoms. *huffle*
I don't mind savage e-mauling! :D It makes me a better writer, yes? Or at least a more humble writer. Which would you like and how would you like to see it? I have (highlighting is happiness!) 1) Cap listening to 20's-40's jazz/swing/big band, Tony actually really liking it, 2) Genderswap (always a girl)! 8) Steve finding girl!Tony in the lab and, despite knowing she made the suit, being surprised while he watches her work and 3) prompt o' porn.
THEY ARE. We have a hypothesis that size is the reciprocal of evil. So far, SO TRUE.
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Date: 2009-12-08 04:20 pm (UTC)Well, in theory. ¬_¬ Do you gdoc? Is good for beta. :D Any of those is fine.
It works for dogs, too. Tiny dogs are vicious. D: My theory is that as viciousness is less serious in smaller types, people are less fussy about eliminating it from the breed. Hence the generally quiet Shires compared to, oo, Shetlands, which are basically a bundle of teeth, hooves and hair.
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Date: 2009-12-08 05:01 pm (UTC)I do! The question is, does GDocs love me today? I will send you the porn, since it's Ults, which is thin on the ground sometimes. :D (Do I have your e-mail? It hides from me! ;-; )
YES. That was actually what happened with Tempy; when she was a tiny foal, my cousins played chase with her and let her rear up. (facepalm) We have a five pound Shih Tzu and I always have to remind people that no, it's not cute when she growls and nips at you. Would you take it from a Doberman? Meanwhile, some of the sweetest animals happen to be giants.
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Date: 2009-12-08 05:06 pm (UTC)I believe I have your email, I will email you and then you wil have my email. It's like a system.
Oh man, not good. It's kind of sweet when a giant dog crawls into your lap because he doesn't realise he's not a tiny puppy anymore. The same does not apply to biting.
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Date: 2009-12-08 05:18 pm (UTC)It's a respect issue is so many ways. A dog that respects you as the pack leader will not feel the need to be aggressive/defensive, or to put you in your place. And no matter how many times I explain I get, "But she's so cute!" No. No, no a thousand times no. (headdesk) I love my family, but they drive me insane. /old rant is old
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:55 am (UTC)If you need someone to read something relatively short, I'd be happy to do it. I get student papers on Thursday, but I *am* a professional reader so... yeah. :D
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Date: 2009-12-08 03:31 pm (UTC)All three are relatively tiny. I think all of my big-fic OOMPH is being absorbed by NaNo editing. But they are holiday prompts, so if I accidentally got yours, you shall be spoiled (onoz).
If you want to risk it, the choices are 1) Cap listening to 20's-40's jazz/swing/big band, Tony actually really liking it, 2) Genderswap (always a girl)! 8) Steve finding girl!Tony in the lab and, despite knowing she made the suit, being surprised while he watches her work and 3) prompt o' porn.
One more to find a beta for! (trawls the interwebs)
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Date: 2009-12-08 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 07:26 pm (UTC)LOLZ
Date: 2009-12-08 07:59 pm (UTC)Re: LOLZ
Date: 2009-12-08 08:19 pm (UTC)greatunique tastes that only mix with the most humiliating of results. But technically-a-virgin is on the radar, after NaNo is edited! (Editing page 65 of 112 @.@)Re: LOLZ
Date: 2009-12-08 08:22 pm (UTC)Oh, NaNo. I am so eager for it, so eager I am.
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Date: 2009-12-08 09:37 pm (UTC)Pressure! D: I'm hoping to have it mostly edited before I depart on Epic Roadtrip of Togetherness and Incidentally Finding Out How Well the Cats Travel. I feel sorry for whoever ends up being the second pair of eyes though. I keep running into bits where I wrote notes to myself that I don't remember writing and that don't make sense even in context.
Note to Self: Shiny Pants! BLING.
Me: o_O
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Date: 2009-12-08 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
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