I figured I should do once since everyone else is...let's see...we had a pretty cool Christmas. Zach got me lots of neat-o things: A Domo-kun t-shirt (that says "doki" in katakana...I think that's like a heartbeat...I have to look it up), a set of Skelanimals ornaments, a Skelanimal kitty pin and a Charmander pin (Charmander Charmander!!), a mini Sweeny Todd poster, three adorable little plush beanie babies (A bear, a tiger, and a wolf...he was going for lions and tigers and bears, OH MY but couldn't find a lion...), the first DVD of "Death Note" mostly for the sweeeet Ryuk figurine it came with, a nice warming neck massager, and a sweeeeeeeet back massager (one of those ones shaped like a seat that you put into a chair and just veg out. Very very nice.) My grandmother also sent us matching red fleece Columbia zip-ups which was neat-o too. Our kitties enjoyed their presents, but they enjoyed all of the wrapping paper more. We still haven't bothered to clean all of it up since Nimue has been having so much fun attacking it. She and A-chan are both sleeping right now, gathering their strength for another nighttime Mumma and Daddy assault.

I spent the whole day reviewing fan fiction, which was ok. I'm not sure exactly how long I'll be able to keep this up, but at least for the moment it's getting me to read things that I normally wouldn't. Which is pretty much ALL fan fiction except those written by people I actually know (RL or LJ, whatever.) My composition book smacking rampage seemed to have a slight affect, but of course we still have the problem of BOTH of our RPG mods being unable to get online at the moment. Hopefully that will all work out soon because I've already posted again, meaning that I have to WAIT for other people. Oh well. C'est la Vie (Sailor V? Where?)

I have to go to work tomorrow which is sucky, but it's only for 5 hours which is both sucky and not. It's nice cause it's not a long shift, but I'm a tiny bit concerned that I only have 10 hours this week at Borders. Hopefully it's only a temporary thing and next week it will be back to normal because I'll start getting paranoid that I did something wrong and they're cutting my hours without telling me. I'm already wondering if I'm even still working at Pier 1 cause my name wasn't on the schedule for next week. Hmmm. Very strange.

Damn I wish people would review MY fan fic...*sigh.* You get such a rush from reviews, and then you get used to having them and it really sucks when they stop. I've started posting my fic on both Sycophant-Hex (in Occlumency) and The Petulant Poetess because I'm so desperate for people to read it. I mean, I look at certain stories that, to put it blunty, SUCK (horrid spelling, terrible punctuation, and 2D plots...) and they have hundred of reviews. WTF is that? I put three bloody YEARS into my story, and it's twice as long as the Chamber of Secrets book on which it is based. And I don't want to be vain, but my story KICKS ASS (that is, if you're a Snape fan. Otherwise, um, yeah, you probably won't like it. No, I take that back...it WILL MAKE YOU like Snape! Cause he's purty. In my mind.) Ok, shameless self-promoting rant over. I'm just frustrated. But not really...sigh.

I can't believe I'm almost done reading all of "Discworld." I've read TWENTY-SEVEN of those books so far, which is utter insanity. And I started less than a year ago...probably in February. For Christmas Eve I watched the first half of "Hogfather" again (even without commercials it's still hella long. And FYI, Borders is selling the dvd exclusively. Pick it up! Yay!) and then Zach and I watched Christmas episodes of Futarama and Family Guy. Then we went to bed. It was rather nice...nice quiet Christmas without going long distances to see family. Of course that would be nice too, but we wanted to have one Christmas with just THE TWO OF US for once. I mean, come on people.

Damn this is rambly. Sorry. Didn't know I had this much left in me after all of that reviewing. Got to find something to do now...that isn't napping. Since I have to go to bed kind of earlier than normal...but...want...to...nap....zzzz

There. I did it. I totally just went around and smacked every RPG lady with my composition notebook of utter doom and divine judgment. OK, GIRLS?! Can we PLEASE get this thing moving now? :D I'll give you one day's respite since it's Christmas tomorrow, but after that, let's get back to having some RPG fun!

And just to be fair, I'll smack myself as well. *smack* Ow. Severus' fists of steel cut to the bone ($5 if anyone knows where that line comes from...Nanners might...)

(Hehehe! Look at the little annoyed blue bobble thing! He's soooo cute!! What a FACE!)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPDATE: I just (finally) finished the drabble I promised desdiamonds I would write for her friend, ginnyjf, who wanted a story about Snape at Christmas. This is my first actual canon Snape thing I've ever written, so that's kind of weird for me. I hope my OC, Avrille, won't be too pissed...

Yeah, I've been SICK busy lately. The fun started on Friday. I was scheduled to work at Borders from 9AM to 6PM which was fine until I get a call (at work) from Pier 1 wondering where I am. Because apparently I was supposed to be at work THERE an hour ago. Now I SWEAR that the manager at Pier 1 said that because of various scheduling reasons I would no longer be needed on Fridays and Saturdays there, so of course I signed up for more Friday hours at Borders (thinking I'd take Saturday off as well as Monday so I wouldn't go totally nuts). Anyway I guess the manager at Pier 1 meant that I was only not needed for Friday and Saturday that one week. Which is nuts cause I totally asked her if this was PERMANENT. Oh well. So I felt bad leaving the assistant manager who was on alone to close, so I valiantly headed over to Pier 1 once my Borders shift was over. So, yes, I worked over 12 hours on Friday. That sucked. And yesterday was pretty sucky too. Since we had a major snowstorm here, lots of people were scheduled to work at Borders (it being Sunday and almost Christmas) but of course almost no people came to the mall. I was supposed to be on the front register (AGAIN, which is pissing me off cause I am SUPPOSED to be at the bloody CAFE which I signed up for!) and since I was back-up reg and no one was there, I arranged manga and sci-fi/fantasy books. For EIGHT HOURS. Oh god it was terrible. I just BETTER be in the freaking cafe for the rest of this week or else I am going to be majorly pissed off.

In other news, I think I might need to give up guitar for the moment. I'm just working so much that I don't have the time to dedicate to it that I really need to. It sucks. I'm mad about it. But we need money more right now than I need guitar, so hopefully I can pick it up again once I'm not working so much. Zach and I got a Christmas tree on Saturday, and we're going to try and actually get it decorated tonight. I have to go out and buy some lights...which means I have to shovel my car out of the driveway first (thank you plows for creating your mountains of snow on the entry to my driveway.) Ugh. At least it's sunny out today, but it's still about 23 degrees.

Well, I don't have much more to say. I still need to get some more Christmas presents for Zach...MAYBE I'll head over to the mall today and do that. Ick. I don't want to go all that way, but I won't have much time before the big day and it might be nice to just walk around and relax. Ick ick ick though...hopefully the roads are a bit better.

On a final note, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU RPG GIRLS DOING OVER THERE?! I mean, I know that everyone was busy with finals, but as I take it those were over for most of you a few days ago. Let's get going on this! It's really boring and depressing to check the RPG and see that no one has updated. This could be really fun if everyone would just put in a little bit of effort. I'm working two jobs and I still manage to get a bit in there. It doesn't have to be novel-length, just a few sentences to give everyone an idea of where it's going! Don't let the RPG die!

Hey! I just found out that the TV movie version of "Hogfather" is going to be on TV on November 25th at 7PM Eastern Time on the ION channel! I AM SO FREAKING STOKED!! What a perfect movie for Christmas coming up!