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This started as something, changed into something else, and ended up looking familiar and dead-endish. If I were to go anywhere with this, I'd need to change narrators. So, with everyone distracted by Yuletide and Christmas booty, let me get this off my plate and I can go back to QH17.
( Pegasus has an infinite supply of ways to ruin your day. )
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I love my wooden spoon! It's old and worn, but was part of my childhood. I remember mom stirring chocolate pudding with it, and it seems like it was forever being used to make something yummy. It's so homey and familiar and sturdy, and I use it every chance I get.
Do you have any old, familiar, much-loved favorite utensil or other kitchen-y thing? Something you hope never wears out, and gives you warm memories when you use it? |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lbilover wrote me an adorable wee ficlet about Tater, the Gaffer's lively puppy in her patchworkfamily series. In this series, Frodo and Sam (F/S) live with a wise whippet named Huan, and Tater is one of his pups.
"Tater's Day Out", rated G
Characters: Tater, Huan, the Gaffer, Daddy Twofoot, the Widow Rumble, Frodo, Sam
Words: 600
http://patchworkfamily.livejournal.com/41921.html?style=mine |
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Dec. 27th, 2009 @ 01:02 am
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Fic recs. Some are ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) yuletide and some aren't. ( Cut for your viewing pleasure )
As I have spent hours reading fic just from rec posts, I need to go to bed so I can actually reading moar. That and a review of yesterday's Dr Who
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I had a beruscats today! She's in town visiting family, and we had a lovely visit over lunch. It was so great to see her.
I was going to run errands and Do Things this afternon, but the "mall traffic" out on the freeway is bumper-to-bumper. Maybe I'll take a bubble bath instead, and then climb back into my pj's...
Oh vacation, how I love you. |
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Dec. 26th, 2009 @ 07:44 am
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Sending love to precious mews1945 today.
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Dec. 25th, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
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Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate and happy belated birthdays to aviss, davidbrider, nqdonne, pitchblackrose snookerfran, dora_the_nymph, silvernatasha and webbapettigrew. I hope everyone had wonderful days.
I can haz a yuletide fic written for me! Homecoming George centric fic and I really liked his voice in it. (Tortall fic)
I haven't had time to read more fic from yuletide and I've hardly read anything from harry_holidays. So I'm glad fro the next couple of days to catch up.
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Happy Yuletide! I hope everyone is safe, warm, and doing whatever brings them joy today.
I'm on vacation until January 4, and I've been saving 'days off' all year for this. I plan to sleep, putter, see lots of friends, and finish some projects. I won't be able to post the last chapter of my story until January, but over the past few days I *finally* figured out where it was going, and got quite a bit of it written... 2800 words and counting! And my January challenge fic is done, yay. My wrists get a break now, so I needed to get the bulk of my writing done before today.
I've been going through a bunch of dental work that still isn't finished, but at least there'll be a break from *that* over the holidays, too.
But getting back to hobbits... Isn't the perspective in this picture strange? The hobbits look like giants, and Gandalf is just a wee sprite!
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Happy Birthday, not_alone! Hope it's a great one! Thank you for all the lovely Frolijah "journeys" you've gifted us with. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and New Year, as well.
*hobbity hugs*
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It's a music video!
Music: I Heard the Bells
Artist: Sarah Mclachlan
Clips: Band of Brothers: Bastogne, The Breaking Point
Warnings: Uhm. Might make you cry? Might make you want to hug Roe and Lipton a lot?
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Zen, because-all-you-goyim-will-be-busy-tomorrow edition.
Christmas
* Some lucky guys get to come home for the holidays and are met with good cheer.
* A lot of guys are not so lucky and this is what they have to look forward to, so keep them in your thoughts.
* Santa makes an early delivery to the USS Cleveland, deployed to the Middle East.
* Naval Base San Diego is a subdued and tasteful vista this time of year.
* Santa's elves sign their work before a gift drop over Guam.
* The 12th Annual Randy Oler Operation Toy Drop, where paratroopers donate a toy in exchange for the privilege of getting punted out of the rear of a perfectly good aircraft over Fort Bragg's Sicily drop zone.
* USAF Master Sgt. Cary Loeffler and his wife pull extra duty with underprivileged children in South Dakota.
* Charleston AFB gets help marshaling from Santa, his elves, and the odd reindeer.
* Santa's back-up sleigh.
* As usual, NORAD is tracking Santa's progress.
Vehicle Pr0n
* The French mooching fuel. (The Canadians mooch fuel, too, but they're less elegant about it.)
* Sunset view.
* Lunch on the run.
* Words mean different things in the Navy than in the civilian world. For instance, this is a Wasp.
Hanging with the Undertall
* Philippines: The happiest pre-op patient you'll ever see.
* USA: Welcome home.
* Germany: Someone seems pleased with the Cuzzie Cares Deployment Kit. The kits, designed for the children of deployed servicemen, contain post cards, playing cards, dog tags, a countdown calendar, journals, photo albums and other items. And, of course, a Cuzzie the Bear.
* Iraq. Sour Swinger, a recently returned milblogger, posted another flikr set of photos from his tour.
Miscellany
* Wire-guided missile launch.
* Yeah, firing the .50 cal is fun, but that's an awful lot of brass to police afterward.
* We're from the government and we're here to help.
* The aircraft carrier version of a zamboni.
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From Norway and CamFamily, wishing you a God Jul!
(Those are handmade by my grandmother.)
The cat concurs.
( CamKitty gets the glitter )
Thank you to all those who've sent cards, gifts or season's greetings. I hope what I've sent have arrived in one piece and to all of you, a very good end of December!I am currently...:  loved |
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As read by the lovely nunshavingfun! Please enjoy, let me know if you're taking.
read: the first rule of broom-wielding
listen: podfic (on yousendit, let me know if the downloads run out)
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"I just love Yule dragons, Mr. Frodo! They're so generous with their treasure."
"Bilbo would never believe it, and that's a fact."
"How d'you suppose they managed to wrap everything?"
"Good question, Sam, but let's not look a gift dragon in the mouth. Hmmm, let's open the gold one first. It smells like..."
"Elves?"
"Even better... chocolate!"
My treasured friends, I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, and happy holiday. ♥ ♥ |
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Title: Silly Virgins
Author: saintsomeone
Rating: NC-17 or R for the antipodeans.
Characters/Pairings: Lewis Nixon/Dick Winters with a side-order of Speirs
Summary: Dick makes a reasonable request. Nixon needs advice.
Disclaimer: Utter fabrication of a perverted mind.
Haguenau, February 1945.
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Title: Freefalling
Author: sgteam14283
Characters: Lorne, Cadman
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Language (a certain Marine has quite a mouth)
Summary: Sometimes it's the little things that get you through the hardest times.
A/N: Few things; Written for the Secret Santa exchange over at major_explosion for mackenziesmomma (Hope she likes it! :D)
I'm freefalling, who will be the one who saves me now? |
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