I call this a Christmas Cookie, but of course, it is not yet Christmas and of course it is not my present to you all!

My present to you all is a short story called Nick's First Word and I have sent it off to my web designer, so it should be up some time between now and Christmas, and I hope you will enjoy it! But this is not that story.

Since I put up the first chapter last month on this day, it has become Official Cookie Day, and thus you are due a cookie.

I chose this bit of The Demon's Covenant because it has lots of Nick in it, and chapter one cruelly deprived those who like that sort of thing. Feedback on what sort of thing you wish for in Cookies of the Future much desired.

Major, huge, world-ending spoilers for Demon's Lexicon within.

( Christmas Cookie for The Demon's Covenant )

Only Blizzard would make a trailer for a content patch. But it's so yummy.

I wish I had time to play, but alas I have work tonight. However, the Brother has basically penciled me in to run the new instances with them tomorrow. I asked if I might get a chance to sleep, and he said "maybe".

I just added as many of the Time Life Enchanted World Series as I could find to my Amazon wishlist. I loved these books. I have a used copy of the Dragons one that someone gave me as a gift. The pictures and stories in them are awesome. Of course, they are all out of print, but that's even better because most of the copies can be bought on the cheap. I see a birthday gift to myself!

I'm so glad someone reminded me of their existence.

I think all people who talk on cell phones during a performance should be given this treatment.

.... Dear Roommate,

I should not have to don gloves to tidy up the living room. If you have a cold, please to be learning how to aim for the wastebasket with your nasty, snotty tissues.

Also, just how long ago was it that you had that cold? Have you never heard of emptying the wastebasket before it gets to the overflowing on the ground part?

No love,

Me.


Dear Self,

You just had to don your respirator to clean. Don't you think maybe you should do it a little more often?

Yes, he's gay. Yes, this is supposed to mean he's a neat freak. It shouldn't take you this long to realize that not all stereotypes are accurate.

Get a clue,

Me.


Dear Cats,

Quit shedding. I'm allergic to you.

Not holding my breath,

Me.

I have started, restarted, and scrapped five stories now in my quest to produce one for the LT3 Anthology. I have no idea what to write or where to start at this point. /fail

Dude.

This guy made a dragon-shaped backpack out of leather. *____* He takes commissions too, but no way could I afford that. Alas.

*drools s'more*

Title: Written In The Stars
Author: .delightedly
Genre: Romance/Sci-Fi
Rating: T ('adult themes')
Summary: In the midst of war, a star descends from the skies to save her hunted sisters. For a while, she's protected by the man she loves - but what happens when he decides to leave her? The war is ending, the hunters are closing in, who's going to save her now?
Link: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2749397/1/Written_In_The_Stars

I would really appreciate it if someone would give me some constructive criticism. I am not very sure what's wrong exactly... But I spent a lot of time on it and I would like to hear some opinions. Thank you! :)

I has snowflakes on my profile!

Thank you velithya, alice_montrose and attilatehbun!

**EDIT Wed Dec 9 00:28:16 UTC 2009 **

The notification system has been fixed in the new release... we are currently processing the queue, which is upwards of 12m jobs... please bear with us while our workers chew through this large queue and get your notification / emails out. Some may come more quickly than others due to weights on the notifications themselves, but we are hoping in the next 24 hours to have all the queues cleared and all notifications delivered that had been queued up over the past few days.

Again I apologize for this inconvenience, but we are almost out of the woods as soon as we are done clear cutting some of the forest ;)

Thanks,

** END EDIT**

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

This is for the cross stitch people on my friend's list.

On one hand, staring at a guy's naked chest for hours on end.

On the other hand, this has been contaminated by Twilight.

Dear kitties,

Much as I appreciate it, I do not require your assistance in wrapping these gifts. Please stop playing with the goddamn ribbon while I'm trying to string it around this thing. Also, please to be not attacking the wrapping paper while I'm wrapping. Same goes for the tissue paper.

No, that is not a toy. Stop playing with it. Stop it.

I can't wrap it if you're sitting on the paper. Or the object being wrapped. A wrapped present is not a new toy. Do not eat the fucking bow!

Damnit. You know what? Nevermind. The teeth and claw marks will just give it more character.

No love,
rykaine

Did you know that there is a difference between italicized periods and non-italicized periods? It's noticeable if you know to look for it. Did you also know that one of the things I had to go through and check for in all 80+ pages of my thesis? I had to make sure all the periods were not italicized.

And now, as I'm writing this story, I find myself checking to make sure all the periods are not italicized.

I really hope this is just temporary insanity...

Um. I had a thought to write a little drabble to put in some cards I'm sending out. It failed spectacularly. I simply cannot ever write as short as I would like. Ah, well ^__^ This is all of three pages, which is awesomely short for me in the general run of things.

Note: Luke is from this story, since I doubt anyone remembers it well, if at all ^___^ But I always knew I'd come back to him someday. I simply cannot help myself.

( Read more... )

I've been kind of discouraged lately because nothing seems to want to be written. I must have started at least six or seven stories only to have them die out on the first page. So imagine my surprise when I opened yet another Word document only to wind up with about four pages of story today.

And of course, it would have to be the story that inspired this entry.

Weird sense of humor and cracktastic ideas join together to form totally inappropriate story!

Also, I think this icon is totally appropriate.

I swear to god. I say I can drive, I almost cause a wreck on the highway. I say I can cook, and suddenly the house is filled with smoke -__- If I understand the concepts of modesty and humility even a little bit, it's because when I get even jokingly cocky, shit goes horrifically wrong :3 Did you know growing up, one of my nicknames was Crash? The list of things I have destroyed is very, very long. It's a wonder my mother did not kill me, given some of the pretty things of hers I broke ^^;;;

Anyway. This latest disaster required me to clean out the stove so it could be used again without smoking ^^;;;;; Then I shall attempt to force my damned monkeybread to cook all the way through, argh. Why it's being a bitch, I do not know. Ah, well. It's not me if I'm not managing to make something crash or smoke :3

Now to go take a fucking nap finally sit down and write.

What do you mean 2-4 inches of snow accumulation possible? Yesterday is was only an inch!

I was ready to start skinning cats yesterday, and all my friends would have gotten some very lovely fur gloves for Christmas.

The first 10 minutes after I woke up and sat down at my computer were spent fussing and spitting and swearing at the keyboard because it wasn't fucking typing, nor was it letting me use control commands (ctrl + v, etc). Plus there was this random-ass icon in my task manager that I had never seen before. >_< Fortunately, after another 30 minutes of fussing and swearing, I managed to nix the icon reset the delays on my keys so I don't have to wait 5 fucking seconds before the key acknowledges the strike (which turns out to have been the typing problem).

The overall problem: somehow, the kittens managed not only to open the Ease of Access options window, but to activate it and even select the little ticky box that acknowledges the placing of an Ease of Access icon in the task manager. o_O

Kittens and babies could totally hack into the NSA without trying and without getting caught.

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Am trying to write something for the LT3 anthology. By which I mean I have started, restarted, and scrapped three different files thus far. /sigh

It's quiet and very few people are about, and those people tend to be the friendliest ^__^ I love it love it. Now I go back out into the fray.

I really need to stop listening to Adam Lambert's new album. I've listened to it three days straight, it's not healthy :3 But it's such a fun album, minus 90% of the slow songs.

As per usual, I have more ideas than I know what to do with, and never enough time to write them all, sulk.

The proofs forLiving Words and Of Suits and Swords came today ^__^ I am content with them, yus. Once I approve them, they should be available for purchase a couple weeks after? IDEK. Soonish. And I should be hearing back about Embrace before too long. Then I must begin work on Missing Butterfly and Bastard Prince.

I really want to make something. Now that I have a shiny kitchen, it's so much easier to do stuffs, and I like cooking, I really really do. It's too soon to make the haystacks, but I may cave and make monkey bread. Om nom nom. Or rice krispy treats :3

Writing wise, too much too much. Must finish Jewels and Addison's story this weekend. Then I must decide if I am working on The Duke's Bonded for the next serial, or Kidnapped, and start on whichever I choose. Must also finish up Bound. Would like to knock out the ninjavampire story that I got stuck on, and I swear there is something else I stalled on that needs finished. Hmm hmm hmmm.

Also, nikerymis is a pyschopath. For various and sundry reasons.