1. Right now, I should be packing my suitcase so I can go to bed, seeing as I have a 5.30am wake up call. But D's off seeing Tori Amos for the second night in a row (she was disappointed in last night's setlist, and tickets for tonight were half-price, how could I not encourage her to go again and hope for better?) so sitting around being unproductive is working for me right now.

2. I'm hooked on the Glee soundtrack. I could listen to Kristin Chenoweth all day. Alone is one of my all time fave karaoke songs, and I love the music from Cabaret. She does both fantastically. Somebody To Love is my favourite on the album though.

3. Games For Days by Julian Plenti is also constantly on my iPod at the moment, but as much as I love his solo album, I do wish for a new Interpol release soon.

4. I'm about to be without the internet for 6 days. I can only imagine how much I am going to miss.

5. My boss, who's been wanting to talk to me for ages about my role, finally cornered me today! Seriously, we had our first meeting about this back in March when I was feeling a little despondent, and 8 months later we get around to finishing that conversation :). He wants me to become his quasi-PA and integrate me into a few areas of the business, and I'm really happy about that. So it looks like I won't be made redundant any time soon. FTW!

6. We have a charity event in Australia (I think it's now spread to other parts of the world) this month called Movember, where men get people to sponsor them to not shave for the month, and the money raised goes to mens health awareness such as depression and prostate cancer. It's hilarious seeing guys at work and on the train looking scruffy. I've sponsored my 37 year-old brother who has never been able to successfully grow a moustache - his weekly updates are hilarious. It's one thing I love about my family, we're okay with making jokes at our own, and each others, expense without anyone getting offended.

7. Supernatural won't be ready before I go to bed, so I think I'll wait until next week and watch both at once. I hope I don't get spoiled too much.

8. I am so looking forward to this holiday, I cannot even tell you. Being away from my usual vices, having clean and healthy food prepared for me, being forced to get up at dawn... I'm hoping I come back feeling better than ever!

Have an exciting week, everyone!
Okay, it's time to go pack for real.

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

 1.  Okay, so I've read articles, tweets, and a lot of reaction posts, and I've responded to a few too.  Now it's time for me to go back to what brought me here in the first place... the thought that there might be some great fic about hot guys!!  So, where's the fic gone??  Where are some AU's for me to read!?  Is it time for spn_j2_xmas  yet??  I'm looking forward to reading fabulous, fluffy, feel good, well written stories!  No more fandom stuff, just good fic, art, and episode reactions!

2.  Speaking of spn_j2_xmas , I've started mine!  Huzzah!  I haven't written anything since April and thought I must have been broken.  Hopefully not!  Also, if anyone has time to beta somewhere over the next 4 weeks, I'll be eternally grateful!  I'm not sure how big this will be (I'm guessing anywhere between 2000-6000 words), J2, kinda college!fic.

3.  Three more days at work and I get to go on a holiday!  YAY!!  We're heading to a health retreat in Queensland for 4 nights where I won't be given coffee... I don't think they realise what they're doing by denying me coffee!  And today, we found out we don't need to babysit on Saturday anymore, so we moved our flights forward and will spend Saturday at Seaworld!  I haven't been there since I was 13, so I'm much looking forward to it!

4.  Three weeks later and my infection is gone, I'm just left with this horrible wheezing can't-get-enough-air-between-coughs cough.  I'm hoping it's gone by the weekend because that will not be fun in a pressurised cabin!

5.  Work have freed up so much of my time lately by employing other people/changing roles that I'm actually twiddling my thumbs a little.  I hope that when my boss gets back from his holiday that we re-scope my role, otherwise I think I may be out of a job by Christmas, and I've just spent most of my savings on this trip to Queensland!

6.  D and I are looking for somewhere else to live.  We pay cheap rent in a great location (3 mins to my work, 5 mins to her tram), but now that we have a screaming 2-month old next to us on top of the screaming 2 year-old underneath us; coupled with no aircon, we're going a little batty.  Hoping to find a nice 2 bedroom unit within 5kms of where we are for only a few hundred more a month than what we're paying now.  I don't like our chances.

7.  I've got 7 weeks to lodge a visa application to go and live and work in Canada before I'm deemed too old.  I don't think it's going to happen, and that makes me a little sad.  I've been wanting to do it ever since we went to Vancouver in 2006.  It's the only other place in the world I've ever been to where I've thought "this could be home".

8.  So I broke my non-WIP rule while I was sick and got hooked on this little fic by tinalia  The Radio Wedding Verse.  It's up to chapter 8 of I don't know how many, and it just leaves me wanting more!  Basically, Jensen agrees to be set up to find the perfect person to marry by a radio station and his family, and when he gets to the altar, he finds that it's Jared.  It's sweet, it's funny, it has some good dialogue, and a building tension that I know will eventually explode!  If you're okay with reading WIPs, then I recommend this one for a feel good piece.  I'll probably rec it again when it's completed.  chez_amanda , I hope the next part is almost at posting stage!!

 Dear Fandom,

Today, you sadden me.  Actually, it's not fandom itself that saddens me, it's the small but particularly vocal faction of it that believes they are speaking for everyone.

( cut for me having a whinge about people hating on the boys because of their personal lives, when they have been so awesome and forthcoming with interviews and at cons for the past years... )

When I'm sick and feeling poorly, I often worry that it's just a case of man-flu and that I can fight through it.  ( cut for woe is me I'm sick of being sick stuff.... TL;DR I have a chest infection and it hurts. )The only problem with being housebound for 4 days (with another 2 on the way) is that I'M GETTING BORED!  Oh my goodness, does anyone write non-WIP RPS anymore??  I think I've read everything that's been posted lately that doesn't have a (1/?) next to the title.  I'm currently going through ou_peachus  recs just trying to find some stuff I haven't read.  If I don't get something decent to read soon, I may even do something stupid, like start my spn_j2_xmas  which will end up being completely incomprehensible in my current headspace.  If you have any recs of the "oh my god, how can you not have read this already" variety, please let me know*!

Hope you're all happy and well, send wellness thoughts my way pretty please!!

*of course, these fics need to be happy ending non-cheat/death fics!

 1.  17 days down and still haven't had even a sip of alcohol.  I've probably only had 3 nights where I've craved it, but the worst was on Friday night when I was out with the guys from work.  There were 6 bottles of Chandon on the table, and it was so hard not to join in.  My virgin pineapple/watermelon daiquiri was delish, but man, I missed that slight buzz you get from champagne!

2.  My sister's boyfriend is going to the US for 6 months, and leaving on our next public holiday.  As my sister hates driving in Melbourne (and would hate it even more driving through the tears), I've very kindly offered for them to drive to mine, and I'll take them the rest of the way.  Yes, this will involve me being ready at 7am on Melbourne Cup day.  She's very supportive of him doing this, I don't know I could be.  We'll miss him for sure.

3.  You know you're getting old when date night is dinner followed by grocery shopping.  So romantic.

4.  No SPN for a whole week?  How will I distract myself?!  This season is better than ever, yet I'm kind of hoping it's the last.  Go out with a bang.

5.  I've got my spn_J2_xmas assignment and I'm scared!  I got another good author to write for, which is so much more nerve wracking than normal.  If anyone has any plot lines for a college!fic or teacher!boys, please let me know!!

6.  D and I have booked ourselves 4 nights at a "lifestyle retreat" in Queensland next month.  The theme of the retreat is "nutrition" and it's costing us a pretty penny, so I hope it's as energising, relaxing, and informative as they claim!  Also, looking forward to some sun!  The worst thing will be that they DON'T GIVE YOU COFFEE FOR 4 WHOLE DAYS.  We'll have 2 hours before our flight going home, I think I'll be sitting outside mainlining it!

7.  I saw my first production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" this week and I never realised that the whole thing was singing, no dialogue.  It's quite a strange, dark musical.  Some of those songs are fabulous, but I don't feel any need to see it again.

8.  TMI, but being a girl sucks sometimes.  "That time of the month" was 2 weeks late, so starting from Friday I've had 3 days of grossness and bloating and feeling blah.  I'd rather get it on time and have less severe pain.

9.  They're creating a few new roles at my job around me which will actually encompass some of my duties.  I'm not sad about losing those aspects of my role, and my boss has mentioned several times about freeing up more of my time to do more stuff for him, but sometimes I wonder that I may just end up being made redundant... then I go and book a $2000 holiday with my savings *facepalm*.

10.  The retreat we're going to is in the Hinterland of Queensland, which is near where we did our 42km hike with work.  This time, I'm actually going to exercise before it so I don't disgrace myself with my lack of fitness again!

11.  Less than 10 weeks until Christmas - YAY!!  My favourite time of year for sure!

 1.  I'm going Ocsober - no alcohol for this whole month.  Drinking it a little too regularly at the moment to end a large day at the office, including a rather big night at our National Conference on Tuesday.  First time I'd been that drunk in 6 months, and I really really don't like it.  I hope I didn't say anything I shouldn't.  I'm too old for this shit.

2.  Food detox starts tomorrow - enough is enough.  Between D and myself we've been a little too lazy lately.  Less junk, less take out, more fruit and veg, more home cooked meals.

3.  I caught up with some school friends last night and it was so good to see them all again!  The kiddies we have around are getting so big!  I still struggle to think that we're more than old enough to be parents, but it's nice to know that we can still have the maturity of our 16 year-old selves.

4.  Now that the conference is over, I finally get my real job back.  It's time to knuckle down and focus and do it better than ever!

5.  I learned at the national conference that I'm no better at dealing with confrontation than I was 2 years ago.  I have to let other people be the bad guy because I don't have the authority, confidence, or spine for it.  I wish I could have done that better.

6.  Supernatural is hitting it out of the park right now.

7.  I'm doing a fun run next week and my toe nails are still not quite recovered from the hike 6 weeks ago.  I hope they survive another 5 kms!

8.  I have this sense of foreboding over me with going to work tomorrow.  I hope it clears and I have nothing to worry about!

9.  I have to rec leave my heart out of this by elless18 .  She's one of my fave authors, and I'm beginning to think that it's because she likes all of the same plot devices that I do!  This time, it's 35K of fake!boyfriends and it's AWESOME!

1.  I know so many people whose birthdays are this weekend, including my cuz, the fabulous jadeluxe .  What happened 9 months ago?  Australia Day?  Do people get *that* patriotic? :D 

2.  AFL grand final is on next weekend, and I'm going to be watching it on an island in queensland with my boss.  Sure, I'll be on a stunning island with free alcohol and the sun on my back, but I'll miss having wine and cheese and biscuits and kabana and dip and watching it at home with D.

3.  Our national conference is finally here next weekend, which involves me being on a plane to Brisbane at 6am grand final day.  I seriously can't wait until it's over and my work load can get back to normal again.  You will never believe how long it takes to coordinate a 3-day 200 delegate conference.

4.  I went and saw the Dali "liquid desires" exhibition with what felt like the rest of Melbourne this morning.  It's quite an interesting journey that Dali had in his art - so easily influenced by others.  Some disturbing, some fascinating.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.

5.  D's miserable at the moment, and I feel so helpless.  Her job pretty much sucks, and she's been putting on the brave face and battling through it for so many months now.  Now the dam has broke, and I wish I knew how to do more than just listen and be supportive.  I gather this is how she must have felt in my darkest days at my old job where a day when I didn't cry was a good one.  I've told her I'll support her whatever she decides to do, but fuck I hope she quits that place.  She deserves so much better.  It's not the best market to quit a job cold turkey, but I want my vibrant positive girl back!

6.  I'm one of the few people that absolutely loved season 4 of Supernatural (apart from a few episodes, obvi), but season 5 is hitting it out of the fucking park.  I know we're only 2 episodes down, but I'm loving every second.  Oh, the angst, the heartache, the humour, the music, the acting... it almost has a "The Stand" quality to it this season that is just so appealing.

7.  If you haven't read _mournthewicked  's as this sunset turns to morning, go and read it now!  I'm always a bit of a sucker for J2 high school fic, but this one pressed all of my buttons.  Jared is awesome and funny and supportive, his mum is hilarious and warm, and Jensen is this crushed flower that comes alive slowly but surely.

8.  I'm sticking to my promise to my body of no more than 2 cups of coffee a day, and I have to admit I feel heaps better for it.  It's weird, but having 2 in the morning really wasn't good for me, I'm discovering.  I also went to my first yogilates class last week, and it was surprisingly good.  Maybe it's something to do with being 30, but I'm not so skeptical of these things any more.

9.  After debating how we were going to fit in our proposed Rome-Venice-Switzerland-Paris-London-Dublin-New York-Toronto-Vancouver-San Fran holiday next year, we've decided that we have to decide between USA vs Europe.  After trying to talk ourselves into Europe (because we've done Canada, Vegas, and LA in 2006) we realised that we were doing just that and talking ourselves into wanting to go there more.  Truth is, I don't want a holiday where all I do is walk around and see beautiful old cities and museums and read and learn so much my brain wants a rest at the end of it.  Not to say I won't ever want that, just not right now.  I'd rather go somewhere I speak the language and can let my hair down a little.  So it looks like we'll be hitting the US of A next year!  The itinerary so far includes San Fran, Napa, Yosemite, Vancouver Island, Toronto (to see rellies), New York, Washington, Orlando, Miami, New Orleans, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, and maybe Hawaii.  Doable in 5 weeks, right? :D

10.  Heather Nova is playing on iTunes at the moment.  I forget how much I love her sometimes.  Speaking of music, how did I miss how awesome Doves are??  And for the Interpol fans, head out and get Julian Plenti's album right now!  It's awesome!

11.  I'm going to be an aunty again!!!! YAY!  We were not expecting that at all!  My brother and his wife decided that if they are going to have a 3rd, it will have to be in the next year.  They have 2 boys already, so I'm kind of gunning for a girl (because I think the sis-in-law would adore having another girl in the house, even though she's completely smitten with her boys), but we all think it will be another boy.  My 3 year-old nephew is hoping for a brother, and thinks it should be called Jack if it's a boy, and Sparkles if it's a girl.  Hmmmmmm.

Okay, body, you've made your point.

You don't like promises I make you being broken.

Like when I tell you I'll start giving you healthier food.
Like when I tell you that I'll cut down on the coffee.
Like when I make a deal that if you make my sore back go away, I'll start doing yoga or pilates or yogilates.

The headache and back twinges are duly noted.

From tomorrow, no more than 2 cups of coffee.
Only healthy balanced meals and limited sugary treats will pass my lips.
Next Wednesday at 6pm, I will be at Recreation Glen Iris working on my core and aligning my chakras.

Now, if you could work on the part where you stop attacking me, I'll work on the part where I'm nicer to you.

Kind regards
Sim

I've been tagged by munibunny so here goes...

Firstly: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
Secondly: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.


Lots of pillows or just one?
One, "high and firm", although I am also known for overlapping the two pillows in the middle of the bed and resting my head in the crack between them.
( here for the rest... )

Tagged - whoever wants to really, but for the sake of the meme; jadeluxe , bigbrodom (are you still around, Dom?), 60schic , chez_amanda , cutiecay22 , misstyxx , earth_dragon,  dancinbutterfly  no pressure to do it though!

 1.  My laptop decided to die a horrible death this week.  Aptly timed too.  It was right after I'd taken 10 pages of notes and spreadsheeted 2 hours worth of analyses at a workshop I was participating in at work.  Literally, it was fine when we packed up, and when I got home with the intention of emailed it to myself, it refused to boot up.  Luckily for me, D's brother is an IT genius who works at a school near us, and he managed to save every single file from my hard drive.  Crisis averted!

2.  I've had nothing but problems with my HP Compaq Presario - so after much deliberation, I'm now the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro!  Still trying to work it out though.  Conversion from PC is not easy.

3.  I finally shelled out the US$25 to get a paid LJ account.  It's worth it for the "expand" feature alone.

4.  Our neighbours need to move.  Their kid has to be nearly 2 now, and last night we woke up at 2am to screaming... then just when you're about to fall asleep again, more screaming.  We've also just discovered that our new next door neighbours are expecting in 4 weeks.  I'm all for procreation - I adore kids.   But we live in an APARTMENT BUILDING, people!

5.  MasterChef Australia is over, and I miss George, Gary and Matt.  I didn't mind that Julie won, but I think Justine deserved it more.

6.  My desk-neighbour at work left on Friday.  He may have been the "office grinch", but he was good at what he did and we had many laughs over the 7 months we sat next to each other.  I'm going to miss him.

7.  Carlton - wtf?  16 behinds?  And against Collingwood??  To think, I wanted to go to that match.  So glad I didn't!

8.  The workshop I went to earlier in the week was held at my bosses beach house on the Great Ocean Road.  It's amazing.  Upstairs is just a wall of windows looking out on the ocean.  It was actually used as Max's house in one of the Mad Max movies in the 80's.  It's pretty spectacular, and I don't blame them for heading down there all the time.

9.  I've hardly read any fic lately because I've been so sensitive - any cheating or too much angst causes such a flood of emotion in me, I've only been reading the stuff I know is safe.  I'm so lame.

10.  At my colleagues leaving drinks the other night, the conversation somehow got onto "Aqua".  I'm embarrassed to say that I still know the lyrics to "Dr Jones".

So I've been a bit down lately.  Now that I'm slowly lifting from the fog, I can see that I'm not the only one.  In fact, in the last few hours, two of my facebook friends have posted about being in a rut (well, one girl called it a life ditch but I gather she means the same thing).

( ramblings about me, my health, and my job... )

Can anyone tell me if this at all involves one (or both) of the boys cheating on each other??  I'm curious to read it seeing as I've read the others in this verse, but don't want to waste another few hours on a story that contains cheating.

Fic title: tell them we’re like magnets
Genre: RPS Slash.
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: The story of Jared and Jensen's life together reads sort of like a fairytale. Come on, childhood friends growing up and falling in love? It doesn't get much sweeter than that. But now their perfect summer has ended, and it's time to go off to college. They're more than ready to tackle this new chapter of their lives together, but deadlines, scheduling conflicts, and epic misunderstandings threaten to make the journey harder, and the outcome uncertain. The boys soon learn that not everything comes easy, that sometimes just being in love isn't enough, and they find themselves struggling to keep their grip on what matters most - each other. (Fifth installment in the reinventing love 'verse. Previous reading is highly recommended.)

( Also - I highly recommend some of the others I've read: )

so sick of reading fics with cheating in them.

time is too precious at the moment to "unwind" with something that ends up involving cheating. 

if you have to warn someone that it's a wedding/kid fic, why not cheating as well?

grrrrrrrrrrrr.

/rant

1. I just had a great weekend with my niece and younger sister. My niece recently turned 14, and we thought as a present that we'd take her shopping and give her a girly weekend with her aunties. It was really nice for the three of us to hang out like that.

2. Can't Hardly Wait is still a really good movie, even 11 years on. I can't feel my legs. I have no legs! hehehehe. And I couldn't believe all the people in it that have become more famous since - I mean, people like Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry Connolly, Jenna Elfman etc were pretty famous already; but seeing a very young looking Jason Segel, Lauren Ambrose, Jamie Pressly, Amber Bensen, Clea Duvall, Selma Blair etc was hilarious.

3. I've had a shit of a week at work. I was already busy, really busy, to the point of going in early and staying late and still letting a few things slide even further behind. Then, the CEO and his PA decided that she should leave, and I get lumped with this major project that she's been coordinating. Turns out that what's been done needs a massive overhaul, so I'm starting it again from scratch. They're due this week. And it's a shame that the PA left, because I did actually like and get along with her.

4. My travel writing course is next Saturday. I hope I have the brain power to take it in. $160 is a lot of money to spend on something to then not pay attention.

5. I don't have time to read all of the big bangs that have been posted. I hope people rec the worthwhile ones.

6. Ted C and his blind vices may be full of complete shit (which is the opinion I'm leaning towards), but if there's one thing for sure, he's definitely wanting us to think that JJO and DDD are Jared and Jensen.

7. The Proposal was really good, in a cheesy kind of way! Utterly predictable, but pleasantly romantic, Ryan Reynolds is great as the harried assistant, and there are some good one-liners. It's definitely not going to change the world, but it did give me the warm fuzzies.

8. Pushing Daisies is wonderful and it regularly makes me go awwwwwww!

9. I can forget about writing anything for a while, I think. Brain is too full of work stuff, too tired at night, too busy on weekends. It sucks, but I think the break is what I need.

1. You can't force yourself to write if you'd rather read. MS Word has been mocking me for weeks. It's not that the ideas aren't there, it's just the in-between words that hold sentences together that are missing.

2. I recently had my 1 year anniversary with my job, and my boss handed me a $50 Coles/Myer voucher and said some really nice things about me. He said that I was the backbone of the Ops Team, which is nice seeing as I've spent the last month feeling under-appreciated. It's not like I need to be told that I'm doing a good job on a regular basis or anything, but an occasional pat on the back goes a long way to keeping me happy and not feeling taken for granted.

3. Our HR Manager resigned last week. That's the 17th person in the past year - to me, that's a huge turnover for an office of 40. I can't help but wonder if I'm missing something!

4. One of my friends from uni sent me a wedding invite - he and his girlfriend are living in London, and getting married in Italy. Man, I'd love to go, but getting enough annual leave and money raked together for it is next to impossible when it's only 2 months away.

5. I paid off my personal loan and my credit card this week. It means I have no savings, but I no longer have debt (and interest!) to pay off. I've got a savings plan so that I do have enough cash for an overseas trip next year.

6. I'm going to try going to the gym in the mornings before work, seeing as I can't seem to drag myself there after work at the moment. I usually get out of bed at 8.15am, it will be interesting to see how long I last at getting up at 7am on these chilly Melbourne mornings.

7. D played poker online pretty much all day today. An hour ago she called me over to show me that she was on the final table for a tournament that initially had over 3,700 people playing. She came 7th and won more money than she'd clear in 6 months at work.

8. I was feeling very bummed about fandom wank, J2 maybe not being a realistic possibility and only a fantasy just like I feared, and the behaviour of certain fans at Asylum, and then I heard that a plane with more than 200 passengers had fallen out of the sky, and I got a very healthy dose of perspective. Those poor families waiting on news. I only hope that they can find the black box so they can be at peace.

9. I'm really disappointed with The Chaser at the moment. I understand they have to try and pull their pranks overseas now, seeing as everyone in Australia knows who they are, but it would be better if they pulled funny pranks. I miss their days of CNNNN when only a few politicians knew who they were, and they could take the piss without overstepping the line.

10. I am so excited about spn_j2_bigbang I cannot tell you! I wish I could have participated myself, but with only 1200 words on paper, it was never going to happen.

11. Anyone else addicted to "Farm Town" on Facebook? I've been a member less than 24 hours and already I've logged in about 10 times.

so Ted Casablanca confirms that Jensen Ackles has been the subject of a blind vice and I've yet to see it spill over in to fandom wankery?

This has to be a first.

Fingers crossed it stays that way. There's been enough wank after Asylum to last us YEARS, and I really don't want to have to find a new fandom.

1.  I've enrolled in a one-day travel writing course.  It's not for another 5 weeks, but I'm looking forward to it.

2.  Good News Week doesn't need to give me an excuse not to watch it, but its special guest, Gretel Killeen, only gives me another reason to not tune in.

3.  Speaking if Gretel Killeen, for someone that doesn't care if she's never on television again, she's doing an awful* lot of guest appearances. (*awful being a literal term)

4.  D's currently playing The Cranberries on iTunes.  Takes me right back to 1995 and sitting in physics with Mr Judd (the stud).

5.  Season Four of Supernatural has been my favourite so far.  Apart from Heaven & Hell, which should have been so much better.

6.  I think Katie Cassidy should have played Ruby through season four.  I didn't hate Genevieve Cortese (indifferent is probably the best word to describe my feelings), but D and I did high-five each other at the end of 4.22.

7.  I've had 3 of my favourite people at work leave in the past month.  I miss them.

8.  Sunday night, Channel Ten, best television line-up; Merlin, MasterChef, Rove, Harpers Island.

9.  I have an intellectual crush on Todd Sampson from The Gruen Transfer.  One more episode for the year.

10.  I will be recommencing my weight watchers point counting/food diary tomorrow.  I may also go to the gym.  Why is it so much easier to eat bad food and be lazy?

11.  I am a sucky sick person.  When D and I get sick at the same time, we can't make a decision between us on anything.

12.  I've never seen Zac Efron in anything until I watched 17 Again last night.  He's surprisingly good.  And the boy can certainly move.

13.  I've got three fics I want or need to write; one for entourage, my aborted Big Bang J2 fic, and a few timestamps for my The OC fic I wrote last year.  Why is it the one that I need to write first is the one I want to write the least?

14.  I found out that my boss appeared in around 10 episodes of Blue Heelers - an Aussie cop show that I was obsessed with 12 years ago.

15.  I'm going to have a good work week this week.  I have to.  So sick of feeling indifferent to my job.  I want the spark back.

1.  MasterChef is possibly going to be my new favourite reality tv program (other than The Amazing Race, of course).

2.  I wish the US version of The Biggest Loser would come back on channel 10.  I don't mind the Aussie version, but I do miss Jillian and Bob.

3.  I think Merlin is a little brutal for its 6.30pm timeslot.

4.  I don't know if I can watch the Logies tonight.  Gretel Killeen* makes me stabby. (*hint on my "how well do you know me?" quiz on facebook).

5.  I can go out and have a good time only having 1 drink an hour.

6.  I'm over reading WIPs**.  I'll now not read them until the whole thing is posted.  You can promise all you like that you'll finish it, or that you'll post once or twice a week til it's done; but seriously, I read so many J2 that I lose track more often than I'd like. (**fics that become a verse do not count, as these are generally whole stories to begin with).

7.  I've had many things to look forward to or work towards over the past few years.  Now that Sydney is over, I'm a little lost as to what to work towards.  I'm finding my job quite uninspiring, and there's nothing like a big holiday or a hobby to make work that place that you go to make money.

8.  I'm going to try Body Combat with a girl at work tomorrow.  I'm worried I'll be unfit and unco!

9.  I'm considering enrolling in a travel writing course at my local TAFE.  Don't know what I'd then do with it, but it might be nice to learn something about writing without having to share my soul in fiction classes.

10.  I'm looking forward to getting copies of Pushing Daisies and Chuck.

11.  Anthony Stewart Head is on Merlin.  He's still awesome.

12.  I finally have a Dreamwidth account (ms_soma on there too) but haven't had time to check it out.  Maybe later!

13.  I went to Ikea today and didn't purchase a single item.  That has to be a first!