so, today.

[mylittleredgirl]

Selfishness and whininess warnings apply to this.

My great-aunt is getting moved to a nursing home under great drama and kafuffle, so my mother had to go to Toronto this morning. There's a very good chance she won't be back until after Christmas. My dad is going to spend the week of Christmas staying at Kripalu.

My family Christmas has been cancelled, and I will be all by myself at home the week of Christmas.

So... I'm disappointed. I made a very bit point of not only not making a scene but being very happy and accomodating and encouraging of all this, because the last thing my mother needs is to feel pulled in yet another direction and I'm too old to ruin my dad's plans just because I want attention. But Christmas Eve is my favourite family night of the year -- we have all these lights and candles, and go to church together sometimes, and bake cookies and watch the Muppet Christmas Carol and huddle around the piano singing christmas carols like we live on a greeting card. I also hate being home alone at night on *regular* days.

So I'm disappointed. I haven't yet figured out how to make the best of this. I realize it's not that big of a deal -- and while I really really hate being told "buck up! it could be worse!", you should feel free to think that in your head. It's just... it's Christmas! It's only once a year, and I was looking forward to it, so it's a drag. I'm using the "this is my journal and I am WHINING in it" perogative.

But there is always gleee.

5 good things about today:

1. Watched good DS9 episodes with Gira ("Accession" and "Shattered Mirror", for nenya_kanadka who will wonder).

2. Ran into Bina over at Kripalu, and she told me that she likes DS9 better than Voyager now. I feel evil and victorious. We also made tentative plans to watch Voyager eps that I've missed during Christmas week.

3. Got email from Anjani with request to hang out -- yay! I will get gossip on her new job plans.

4. Was in one room with mystic_isles000, rpgmaniac666 and alosersdream, and the universe did not implode from our Kripalu-Kid-iness.

5. Evening with Dad at Country Buffet and Barnes & Noble.

3 things I did well:

1. Agreed to work at 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve as favor to Sara, and made plans to get trained for that tomorrow.

2. Did some Christmas shopping.

3. Worked a bit on a fic that had been WiP-y for a while... I *can* pick up things I've put down before!

-- Little Red, who is also still happy about her cute little tree, and thinks I should try and get a star for it.

Comments

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

*clings* You can come stay with meeeee! Texan Christmas! It's like...New England in July!!! <333

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Liz! And warmth!

Er... random question of the day: do you wear rings ever? (as in, regular rings, not Rings Of Special Significance. I heart you very muchly in a platonic way, no worries.)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! And herbal teas and chocolate?

Raaaaaaaandom! Yup. I used to wear them all the time but then I lost them (cuz I SUCK) and my high school ring, as pretteh as it is, is, um, ya know, a high school ring. (...but wait, I thought we got lj-married...?)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, shit, did we? Was that when we were in lj-vegas and I was very drunk? ;)

Should we make it official (http://www.livejournal.com/community/marry_a_ljuser/)? Personally I vote for living in livejournal sin. Perhaps we should make a community for that.

I still have my high school ring somewheres, too. It has a soccer ball on it, because we ordered them in grade 10 and we didn't yet have a swim team (which is, you know, where I actually made my small-town highschoolsports fame). *head/desk* I used to wear a ring on every finger because I adore them so, and then got told by someone that that was Not A Very Grown Up Thing To Do. All my rings fall off now anyway since I lost weight, and I'm trying to pretend this isn't just a big excuse to go buy new rings ;)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

We should totally lj-cohabit (can there be legal girl/girl marriages over LJ? :is totally excited about the new wave of the radical LJ future!!:)

Ahhh. Rings. :looks longingly at ROTK:EE and thinks of all the slashy icons to make!! SQUEEE!:

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

radical LJ wave!!!

I'd say "You know, I never actually saw Return of the King", but I think I enjoy being married to you, so I won't say it ;)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

And you haven't seen the Matrix either, have you? :is more amused than "OMFG! :GLARESATYOU!!!::

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, I kinda did, but not really, because it was being projected on a screen outside during frosh week and there wasn't really any sound, and there may have been wrestling with other audience members.

I did see the first two LotR movies in theatres (Two Towers at the midnight showing because I was shanghaied by friends -- do I get points for that?) I also only saw the first Harry Potter movie. And I never saw Titanic, though I understand that the ship sinks.

Consider my media retardation an endearing quirk?

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Hey, lady, 2 out of my three zillion fandoms? I still love you forever. :)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

If we are to be married, it's better if we don't share ALL our interests :)

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Otherwise, we'd get bored and have little to go "Hey, you should look at THIS, you might like it!" or "okay, naptime for me, you go watch...whatever that thing is." Etc. :cuddles:

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Aww, yay!!

And then we can get together and squeee madly in the face of, like, Sheppard/Weir and other squeee. Omfg. *dies of squeee*

I had fun S/W dreams last night!! It was fun! Liz was all "ARGH!" because John was being all John and got them into major international diplomatic troubles, and then he was all "sulk" and she was all "damn. But I still want to kill you." And then I think there was make-up sex, but that part got sadly fuzzy because I couldn't decide who deserved to top whom.

I have, like, things to do... *procrastinates*... hey, if I just joined an automated Atlantis fic archive, like wraithbait (http://www.wraithbait.com) or atlantica (http://sg-atlantis.org/fanfics/index.php), is it rude to spam them my entire body of 'lantis work at once?

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. So much Shep/Liz squeeing that there won't be enough squee in the world to make up for it...or something like that. WHEEEHEEEE.

I LOVE having fandom dreams. WORD. *DIES at the description of your dream* YAY!

It's NOT rude to spam with awesome fic like yours. SO DO EEEET!!!