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So I was tagged by liliofthevaley to do this meme the other day...


A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

( 7 random things )


Now, who do I tag...hmmmm: taraleesg1 , dvshipper , magnavox_23 , medlam , godzchild96 , caramel_monkey , cleothemuse .


~Pip

FINALLY got the birthday package (TODAY...at 2:30. Ridiculous!), aaaand guess what was in it?!


*drumroll please*


A brand shiny new external hard drive!!! XD XD XD A nice, 1.5 TB hard drive!


I feel so loved right now.


First order of business (what's happening right now) is transferring the iTunes folder from the 100 GB external hard drive to the new one. Then will be all the lovely resources for vidding (because I never deleted any of the stuff I got for the Shanks vid, hoping this is what they were getting me for my b-day).


~Pip

It's been a little bit since I really jammed to this song...okay, so it was last week when I went to bed listening to music, but that is neither here nor there!


I figured I'd give a nice little 'So here's things' post...So here's things:


+ Guess the most prominent thing going on right now is we (the fellow roomies and I) are on the hunt for a place to live next year. We went looking around at apartments yesterday and today. Found two possible places off campus (one that's REEEEALLY NICE) and of course have Ragans considered into the equation. We've made a pro/con list of all the places and are going back to the two off-campus ones tomorrow to clear up some questions we have (and when I say off campus, I mean LITERALLY across the street from main campus - they are right off Tennessee street).


+ In big home news, we got a new puppy. Madre was telling me that he just showed up at the house. They took him to the vet to see if he had any identification (tattoo or chip, etc) because he had a collar but was very dirty. He wasn't tied to any particular owner, vet said. He figures someone just dumped him off. He's a 4-5 month pure black lab. So of course Smurf took to him instantly (good hunting dog and all) and named him Tucker (apparently he doesn't get the idea that it's kinda...weird reusing a name you already used for a pet...we've already had Tucker the kitteh). What's wrong is Smurf is playing favorites and completely ignoring Harley now...poor Harley. He always got more luvin' from me and Madre anyways.


+ Challenge 1 of Round 1 at shanks_lims  has kicked off!! Sign ups are open through the end of the first challenge, so you still have time to join! And even if you don't have the icon making skills or aren't quite up for ANOTHER lims, keep an eye on the comm anyways. Guarantee there will be much pretteh coming out of it! *nods*


+ Loving my French class! It's actually pretty easy to understand and I've been doing really well. Been acing all my assignments and I got a 94 on my first exam! *dances* I knew taking French would be a good idea - the fact that it's my favorite class this semester is saying a lot.


+ Trip to see the Canucks is pretty much a no go at this point. I don't have a set person to go with, and the dineros situation is even more dire. I am bummed, of course. But I need to, ya know, SURVIVE the rest of the semester so I can't just flit away money to watch hockey. Also, won't be getting my Kesler jersey in time if I did still go, so it kinda takes half the fun out of it.


+ If you haven't seen yet, all new promo for Absolute Justice HERE. We get full on Shanks in this one with speaking stuff and scruffy and HOE-MG I WANT THIS NOW!! A week and a half is TOO LONG!! (thanks to perpetuality1 for the heads up!)


Okie donkie, I think that covers everything right now. I was gonna mention how my loud twitter had stopped working since they had the system down, but it's finally posted again. So that's all straightened out!


~Pip

Just a few things:


- Madre made it through the surgery very well. Smurf called me this morning after she was out, and then I talked to her myself right after Meridian was over (and wow, I bawled so much watching it this time...idk why). She will be able to go home tomorrow at noon, and then Smurf will hit the road and be on his way to pick me up. Found out that Hook is coming with him to help ease up the burden of the long drive - JOY! All I can say is thank GODS for Remmie! *pets perfect little iPod of awesomepops*


- SYTYCD tonight COMPLETELY baffled me! HOW did they BOTH make it into the top 6?!?! There is NO way Ryan was better than Legacy. People who voted just bought into Ryan and Ashley's sympathy story and voted for them OVER the BETTER dancers! *breathes* Doesn't matter anyways - JAKOB will be winning it. When he dances, it's beauty and perfection all rolled into one. I have elected him to be my gay husband.


- HOME tomorrow...or rather, Friday. Which means it'll be cutting close for setting up the VCR for Sanctuary that night. As always...b/c I'm always rushing home for the holidays/breaks to watch some something or other that is premiering that Shanks is in. Over the summer, it was Living Out Loud. Last christmas break, it was Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon. *snirk*


Alrighty, that's all I've got for now. Today has been pretty uneventful - surprising for finals week.


~Pip

I've started considering just having a little notebook with me at all times so when I hear good quotes for subject lines, I'll have a nice collection to go off of. LoL!

( Have a cut to spare the flist space! ;) )


Alrighty - I think that's it for now. I need to go wash my dishes (exciting, huh?) and then possibly study. I kinda know I'll end up NOT studying, but I'm gonna TRY to at least! XP


~Pip


P.S. - October is my LEAST favorite month on SyFail. SG-1 is showing a total of FIVE times all month - all of them in the late slot on friday nights. I'm sorry, but it's really NOT necessary to show horror movies ALL through the month of October. The last week, sure. But not for 31 fucking days! GRR!

So while Lord Danny continues to rip the last S.2 Burn Notice DVD (could I POSSIBLY FINALLY be working on that Victor vid I've been going on about since March?? ;) ), I figured I'd update a little bit.

In school news, I feel College Algebra is going to be my problem class this semester. It's not 'difficult' in a "OMFG, I'm SOOO going to fail this class' way...I mean, it's algebra! But it's also been about 5 years since I last had an algebra class, so I'm just a wee bit rusty. Practicing a bit yesterday helped bring some of it back, so of course I intend to practice a lot more. And for someone who missed all the lecture notes on what the homework covered, getting a 77 isn't such a bad thing. As long as I can pass with a C in this class, I'll be good. My other classes are relatively easy, so yeah...a few A's and a C wouldn't upset me at all.

In kitteh news, River had four more babies. Bindi Sue is now outside permanently. Smurfinator won't let Madre throw the other kittens outside until 'they start causing trouble inside'. Madre was telling me she had tossed Sikozu out - it was just to teach her a lesson, but it still upset me. I asked her not to do that anymore while I'm not home, or to not make it permanent. I wouldn't be able to handle it.

Went and saw Terminator: Salvation last night at the SLC. Loved it. I love that we finally get to see the resistance part of it 'as it happens' and not just someone coming from the future and talking about it. And of couse, having Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese won me over completely. The guy is such a cutie! XD

Then, of course, we ended up going out and dancing at Rayne. *sigh* (Don't get me wrong - love going out and dancing with my gay guy friends...I just...once I'd like to go to a place where possibly *I* could meet someone?? Maybe? XP). I was having fun up until the point where people needed to be taken care of. My lovely buzz wore off quickly once I went into babysitter mode. But it's something I will do if it means my friends stay safe.

On the D*C front, I plan to start going back through the vids tomorrow and getting them posted. I originally considered posting all the panels at once, but like I said that would take me forever to go through all the vids first. So I decided I'll go one panel at a time, get them all watched and checked out, and then post those. That way you guys can be satisfied, and it gives me more free time to work on other things (like fic and vids...oh, and that classwork stuff too. XP)


Alrighty - time to start clipping some of this stuff. I believe Truth and Reconciliation and Sins of Omission are what I just ripped (it's hard to tell with these BN disks). ;)

~Pip

Am listening to one of my 'My Heart Will Go On' movie remix versions...LoL. (I haz two. If anyone knows of any others, wanna let me know?? ;) )

So, here I am, posting from my Ragans dorm room. It's compact...I don't want to say small because I REALLY don't need that much space, especially with a commons room to spread out in if need be. But this room is all for me. I am sharing with no one. You know how nice that is?? If my roommates piss me off, I can just close and lock my door. Though I doubt they'll piss me off...but it's nice to know I can shut out any intrusions. A very comforting thing to know.

The move here wasn't fun or easy...if you saw what I what I was tweeting about, you'd know we got stuck on the Atchafalya Basin Bridge for two hours. From what Smurfinator found out, a 5 year old and a 3 year old had been ejected from a vehicle. What I want to know is why they weren't in some kind of child restraint to begin with?! Total shame, I tell you. The things that could be AVOIDED if people weren't so damn clueless.

And then, of course, after that everything just became something for the Smurf to bitch at...including me right before we left. And I wasn't even INVOLVED in the damn argument they (that being Madre and Smurf) were having. But of course it always ends up being my fault. Whatever.

Though, it wasn't cool to find out right in the middle of their screaming match that Star Trek wouldn't be showing tonight. From what I understand, they couldn't get something or other to get it to play. So they moved the showings around. Now it's going to be showing Friday/Saturday/Sunday. *sigh* Not that I'd rather be here seeing it than where I'll be, but still. I was REALLY looking forward to seeing it tonight...being able to say I saw it 5 times in the theater. Oh well.

But I WILL be able to say I've seen Curse of the Black Pearl 11 times on the big screen come tomorrow evening! You know how cool that is?!?! YEARS afterward, I can increase the number! *dances*

So I've taken pics of my room here (and the commons room/kitchen too), but I've decided to wait until after Chicago to post them. I have no idea what I'll be coming back with this year, so figured it's best to wait.

Alrighty, I just realized I need to make a to-do list for tomorrow, otherwise I'll forget to do or pack something.

~Pip

P.S. Don't forget the three later Victor eps of Burn Notice are on tomorrow at 9, 10, and 11 AM (EST) on USA. You all KNOW I'd love to just sit and watch them, but that's not likely to happen. But figured I'd give a little reminder here (as Jessy Greene's 'Time Bomb' plays - double points for all who get the significance! ;) )

First, pleases me to know some of you are interested in seeing the rest of the fic I posted the teaser to last night. Was working on it a little bit more this morning, and also this morning I figured out where I want the whole thing to go. Not sure how long it's going to take to get there but I hope to get it there relatively quickly so I can start posting more of it for you guys.


I realized it's been a little while since I posted on the status of Lord Danny, so I figured I'd do that now. Smurfinator last week, I believe, ordered a new hard drive for Lord Danny. A better, faster hard drive than the previous one. It was shipped and should be arriving today/tomorrow. Excellent news, for sure. Brain surgery will be conducted upon Lord Danny, and he should be up and running soon! This is good because Smurfinator went out and bought me Pinnacle last week and I've been DYING to play around with it, but he won't let me put in on Madre's laptop. So it's been torture staring at the pretty progam box without being able to test it out! I wanna make shiny new vids!


Finally watched the redone COtG on Saturday...and I LOVED IT!!! I won't say too much because I don't feel like doing a cut to hide a bunch of spoilers, but I believe it's worth it to go out and get it. Was satisfied with almost all they took out (except for the end...it would've made for better continuity if certain things had been left in), and VERY happy with what was added (especially the Jack and Daniel stuff! XD). I do recommend everyone at least see it once, even if you don't think you are going to enjoy it.


Alrighty, I should get back to this fic I guess. I do kinda want to watch more Tudors, or possibly pop in one of the Andromeda dvds I have from Netflix. The fic will most likely win out b/c my brabbits ALWAYS win.


~Pip

"I ALREADY HAVE!"


Yeah...I kinda already have, really.

Just had an impromptu watching of Peacekeeper Wars. Didn't really think it was possible, to be honest. Going in KNOWING something is almost 4 hours long, it usually means time has to be set aside to do such watching.

And yet, Smurfinator came home with a new blu ray/dvd player for the living room, and I just happened to have PKW there with me...and he wanted to test out the shiny new player.


4 hours later, have successfully done a full watch of it...Smurfinator even watched the whole thing with me!


It's the little (yet LONG) things like this that make life enjoyable. ;D


~Pip

To start, Happy Independence Day to all my fellow US flisters! Hope you guys had a good one!! And too all my non-US flisters, happy 4th anyways! XD

It's weird...for the first time in months, I had a day with nothing posted on it since LT took a dive. I was really hoping to get to posting yesterday, but I really didn't have much to post about to begin with. I DO need to catch up on reply to comments (apologies about that! You guys know how I get sometimes!), so I'm gonna get that knocked out after this post.


I DO have something exciting to post about today, though! (And the 4th of July, of all days. Rather awesomepops in my opinion) - WE GOT A POOL!!! *dances* It's one of those above ground ones, but it's not one of the dinky cheap ones either. It has an 18 ft. diameter and is 4 ft. deep. Smurfinator went out and bought it today...why TODAY out of the last FOUR years we've been bitching about not having a pool he decided to finally do it, idk. But I'm not complaining. I was in it already...straightening out the wrinkles in the bottom as they were starting to fill it up with water. Unfortunately, I have to work tomorrow so I won't get to enjoy it until tomorrow night, but still...OMFG. We ACTUALLY haz a pool!!! XD


The results of the video poll are in, and Stand is the definite winner. So tomorrow while I'm in the box, I'll burn a copy to send of to Creation for Chicago Con. I'm not sure how well it's gonna do, but it's better than sending nothing at all.


I think I might have given up on the Victor Sketch. You may have noticed I haven't posted an update on it in a while, and today I started to work on it some more and the inspiration/skill wouldn't come to me. I might pick it back up or just go with what I have already. But I've already started putting effort into another 'project' to take the place of the Victor sketch, so don't expect much right now for said sketch.


Oh, I have decided after a lovely conversation on twitter that I am going to be getting Mega Snake signed by Michael. And while he's signing it, I'll kindly inform him I was the one who got it at Wal-Mart....and did it with massive glee and bouncing. Yes, I know I'm an evil fangirl.


Expect some pic posts soon. I've got a handful of what I snapped in S.FL, and I've also got lots of new pretty to decorate my room with (thanks in large part to belisse ! XD), so there will be more update room pics coming too (b/c my room is a damn art project all to itself and needs updates just like any other project of mine!).


Alrighty, I've got comments to reply to, a list to update, and then the previous mentioned project (Victor sketch replacement one) to bitch over some more, so that's it for tonight.

~Pip

P.S. - The name of that book I was too lazy to get the other night is 'Adventure! Thrilling Tales of Discovery'. It's a collection of adventure tales (both fiction and non) in an Indiana Jones-esk type way...it was the Indy lettering on the cover that caught my eye to begin with. I'm excited to read it...if I ever get to it through my massive to-be-read list! *sigh*