Tonight, I took my mum to see Hello, Dolly, at the Kings.

( And it actually wasn't half bad! )

Someone said I should post more. Since I have a feeling that I may be depressed, I am going to do just that. I'm going to rabble, rant or just be silly and nostalgic, as the mood takes me. So apologies to my flisties and love love love. You might just want to wince and close your eyes!

For tonight, I'm going to look at one of my favourite TV shows...Dr Who.

( Never doubted him...never will. )

Title: Contrition
Author: Huggle
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing: Nick/Stephen
Rating: R/NC17
Wordcount: 679
Warnings: Spoilers for episodes 1 and 6; features rough, reluctant/guilty sex. PWP.
Disclaimer: Primeval, and its characters, do not belong to me, and no profit is being made from this work of fiction.
Author’s note: This was posted over at Slashfest, but fruitbat00 wanted to read it so here you go, sweetie! Hope you enjoy!
( ”Contrition” )

I didn't feel like going to my friend's candle party last night, but I'd promised to go and I didn't want to let her down. Loaded with the cold, and after being sick with something else two weeks ago, I'm just really run down.

Anyway, my mum and my friend get on but don't get on, if that makes sense. My mum disapproves of her pretension to upper classism, and the way she treats her hubby. Yes, it frustrates me too but it's their marriage and I'm keeping well out of it. But my mum can't keep her tongue in check, and something happened to make her snipe, and my friend semi-sniped back and it was in front of ten other people, and I just wanted to crawl into the sofa and hide there.

I don't expect my mum to change her opinion or views or keep schtum - she's got the right to her opinions. But could she just exercise a little tact? I hate feeling like I'm stuck in the middle. I can just leave them to it, why can't she???

Argh. I think next time I'll just go on my own. Maybe the best solution is just to keep them apart. And I feel like such a heel for saying this, but when my mum and my friend, Rosemary, who's about my mum's age, start talking about their feet and getting their corns removed in front of a younger company? *cringes*

I thought having your parents embarrass you was something you grew out of. Or they did. Oh, and I love that at 32, she still feels it okay to chide me like a child in front of my friends.

Nice.

And now I feel guilty for being annoyed and embarrassed.

My thoughts...needless to say, SPOILERS!!!

( Read more... )

Oh noes!

Life on Mars...I'm at Episode Four and I love it! I adore Sam Tyler in ways I can't begin to describe - and I just want to snuggle him. Poor Sam! It's just sad it only lasted two seasons.

And after hearing Life On Mars by David Bowie, I am developing a taste for his music!

Can any of my flisters tell me a good Bowie album to start with? And does anybody know any delicious LOM fics? Especially Sam H/C and Gene/Sam?

*snuggles flist*

Hi
Someone pointed out to me that when I was reposting Thrall here, I jumped from chapter 3 to chapter 10 and missed out the inbetweenies. *thumps self* So here are the missing chapters; sorry if you've read it already, and that it's disjointed.

( four to six )

Self, I said, don't eat that Iced Bun because although it looks lovely with its glistening white icing, it will surely give you tummy ache.

Why don't I listen to myself more often? *whines *curls up in a little sickly ball*

I'm posting for no other reason than to try out my shiny new icon - my first even that I've actually made (except for a rubbish Jack one) as opposed to just using a picture. *beams*

EDIT: It's too small, and you can't read the text properly. Still...my first icon! *pets it*

Hi, ferret_kitty

My laptop is now back to only playing DVDs intermittently so I have only got as far as the first few episodes of S1 *bows head*. Sorry. I'm going to keep at it, but I think I'll switch to playing them on the telly, that'll be quicker.

So far....

( Cut for details )

Happy Birthday, aretreia!

Hello, Flist

I have fallen victim to a new fandom...The Dresden Files.

Actually, it's more the book than the TV series (which I got on Box set yesterday). The program is ok, but it's nothing compared to the books, IMHO. But I like out Bob gets to have a body, albeit insubstantial, in the show rather than having to hitch a lift mostly in the books.

Still, both Harry and Bob are rather nice. *nods* But Murphy is like a totally different character. Still, you can't transfer it to the screen without making some changes, I guess.

So now I've got: SGA, Torchwood, The Dresden Files, Firefly. I can't take on another fandom! *squeals*

mckaysgirl

I am now the proud owner of two sock puppets, some posters and lots of badges! Yay! *hugs you*

Did you get what I sent you (via email)?

*snuggles you*

I finally got to see Peter Jackson's King Kong. *shrugs* Bit rubbish.

And then, my brain went a bit haywire and I got this idea into my head and I couldn't shake it, so I'm sharing because maybe then it will GO AWAY. Because, just...no.

So, the Expedition arrives in Atlantis, and John is only there because he does really good math, and has this ATA gene, and it's better to live alone and unloved in Pegasus than on Earth, because at least in Pegasus he has the excuse that he's in a total other galaxy.

Things go pearshaped from the start, with the city getting flooded and the expedition barely making it through the gate to another world. Supplies are low, exploration teams are formed, and Dr. Sheppard is assigned to Colonel Sumner's. They head out and find themselves stepping out of the gate onto a barren, rocky island.

It's not long before they bump into the natives...all wild eyed and neurotic, led by a small man with wispy brown hair and intermittent English. Seeing through Dr. Sheppard's laidback persona to discover he is not only hot, but also clever and has the gene, they snatch him, and tie him up to be offered to their grumpy, demanding god.

With Sumner not liking Sheppard all that much, he's not bothered. He can always tell Weir he got ate or something.

Meanwhile, Sheppard awards his fate. He hears crashing and thumping, followed by ow, ow, oh great, that'll get infected and I'll die horribly, which would just be typical. And out comes the grumpy, demanding god (and the natives forgot to say totally scrumptious) and stands to look at Sheppard.

And then he's all like pretty but without substance, and John gets all offended. Which leads to the grumpy one testing him with prime, not prime, and realising maybe he can like this stranger for his brain and his body. So he unties him and they go to the god's all mod cons treehouse, and when he realises that John has the Ancient Gene, he fancies him even more and they get it on.

Because John woke up gay that morning and just never knew it until then.


What the hell am I on? :)

Somebody tell me why I did this?!! I get neurotically obsessive about disaster type situation movies so unless they're fantastically unlikely, like Cloverfield, I should avoid, avoid, avoid.

Which is why I do not know why I felt the irresistible desire to purchase "Threads" on DVD when I saw it in Zaavi? Especially as I'm meant to be saving and should be avoiding things that make me neurotically obsessive and start thinking where I can store excess foodstuffs?

(For those of you outside my fair land of the UK, Threads is a BBC docu-drama type production from the early 80s about Russian / American conflict that leads to several nuclear bombs hitting Britain, and focuses on the aftermath in Sheffield - it's pretty horrific stuff).

Someone please to be slapping me upside the head?

With thanks.

I'm off now until Monday as tomorrow is my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary. I always take it off, but I'm especially glad I did this time as my mum already looks twenty years older; tomorrow is going to be a rough day.

What didn't help today was finding out that one of my branch managers had put in a complaint about me. This guy has been pushing me for the past 16 months minimum; not doing his job, making it difficult to do mine. I've done everything possible to get him to work with me not against me, and in the end up I sent him an email requesting a meeting face to face, so we could try and resolve some of the issues in our professional relationship. I asked him to raise any issues he had with me and my performance so we could start over.

His response was to complain to his boss and request someone else be assigned to him. I just love it that he has done things I could easily have dobbed him in over but didn't, and he gets me into trouble for trying to fix things without going over his head. *growls*

So now I'm probably going to be hauled over the coals. Why the f*** didn't I just go to his boss last year???? What a total b*****d he is. Tomorrow I should be supporting my mum, and trying to just make it through the day, and this will be making me even more stressed.

Thanks a lot, you total a***hole. Time to look for another job, I think.

Hi
I haven't forgotten your McShep list but the DVD player on my laptop is acting up and frustrating the hell out of me.
I'll keep at it.

:)