Hello Friends
This is a super short week for me work wise. As I am only working today! WOO HOO. Got the rest of the week off. I wanted the whole week but with my cruise taking up forty hours of my PTO it just wasn’t doable. Next year!
Happily the rest of the week is mine. I can’t wait until Friday when I can begin to decorate for Christmas. Sunday the 26th is our annual decorate the family’s house for them. I’m bringing wine! But we are getting an early start that day at 8AM.
I drove in this morning, of course, so at least I don’t have to wait to go home for someone else!
Tomorrow night we will finally be seeing Thor.
So, my friend, Appreciative One wrote a story on AO3, that was her fantasy as she was growing up where she was an officer on the Enterprise who ended up stranded with Spock on a remote planet, and they mated, had a baby, and lived happily ever after.
This was her fantasy until she realized there was Spirk. After writing her fantasy and having me express repeatedly how bad I felt for Jim, she decided to fix it with a story from Jim’s point of view. This story is called Life is But a Dream. I thought I was “helping” her write it but after the first two chapters which we did indeed co-write, she asked me to write the rest of the story, where I found a way for Jim and Spock to be together. After all they are T’hy’la.
So I am doing my best. Trying to get it done this week too because I already have a lot to write as it is. It’s The Original Series and is incredibly sad and angsty and has M/F elements, so you are warned if you check it out.
I’ll also be working on the third chapter of Celebrate Me Home. I won’t deny it will feel good to work on that story with a very happy and in love Kirk and Spock after the angst of the other one.
Anything else? I don’t know.
I did put up the first chapter of my Regency Pinto tale last week. That one will be fun to work on as I go along.
Since it’s Thanksgiving Week I have specific movies I will be indulging in before the big day. Home for the Holidays which is about a very dysfunctional family at Thanksgiving. I can’t even tell you how much I love Charles Durning and Robert Downey Jr in this movie. Two of my favorite performances ever. Charles Durning was a character actor, chubby with white hair as far as back as I can remember. I’ve loved him in many things but there’s just such a poignant charm about him in this movie. And Robert Downey Jr as the gay brother. I just love love love him.
The other is Planes, Trains and Automobiles. A silly, silly movie with John Candy and Steve Martin, and yet there’s also such a sweet poignancy about it as Candy tries to get Martin home for Thanksgiving.
Oh and there’s A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, too.
That’s about it for me. For my US friends (and I think that’s most of you) Happy Thanksgiving.
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17 responses to “Ramblings of the Week, November 20, 2017”
I regret to inform you of the passing of AO.
Your writing just killed her dead.
She was discovered, lying, drowned, in a huge puddle of her own tears.
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They found this note to you:
Glad you get some happy time this week, with only 1 day work, seeing Thor, while I’m driving to the kids’ ranch.
I want to see pics of the decorating, since alcohol is involved. I’m thinking something akin to Sanford & Son’s place, but with Christmasy stuff. haha
Happy Thanksgiving, my bfforhoweverlongyoucanputupwithme
I bow to your good … writing.
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HA HA nah not Sanford and Sons. It will all be good. I won’t hit the wine until the afternoon.
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You know I write angst, my dear. And how can this tale be anything but angsty? But I am sorry I am making you cry. See how Spirk corrupts you?
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Yes. Fast. Hard. Thoroughly. I even hate my own self now, since Anne was me.
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Home for the Holidays!!!!! nuff said.
God so heavy on the angst. It’s breaking my heart. But I’m loving how the other stories you’re actively writing is sort of balancing it out. Some more than others, of course!
Enjoy your week my dear! And happy Thanksgiving!
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One day of work! Sweet! I worked today, will work tomorrow and Wednesday even though the kids don’t have school the program I am working in will be open. I do get paid time and a half though and pay for Thanksgiving so I’m not complaining too much 🙂
Enjoy the rest of the week! I do want to see pics as well of the house decorating. All we put up is a snowman on the door, some candles in the windows, and maybe a sign stuck in the ground by the front steps.
I enjoyed seeing Thor. I hope you do as well.
I need to watch Home for the Holidays now 🙂
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JJ – RIP to AO! She’ll have company, namely me! The angst is surely ratcheted up!! );
Hope the Holiday week goes well for you. I also have only one night to work this week, tonight. I didn’t sign up for overtime this week and Thanksgiving is my
Holiday off this year. And since I discovered I had too many vacation hours accumulated… (I can only carry over 150 hours into the new year) I got someone willing to work two of my regular nights to work this week. Problem is there is only two other people (and one person from an agency) that can do my job, so it limits who I can ask.
I’d like to decorate the house this week, but my plans have a way of crashing… so we’ll see.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving. You’ve put me in the mood to watch some
Holiday movies!
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Eve – I can’t “like” anything on this blog, but for the record, I do! ha
Sisters to the end, a very angsty end, I see!
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PS I love your Thanksgiving photo above!
Lol!
I might steal it for my Star Trek friends on Facebook.
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Feel free!
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Tell me that your story “Life is But a Dream’” is just that!
❤
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Like Pam waking up to Bobbie in the shower on Dallas?
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Yes indeed! Exactly what my thought was!
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I’m in the midst of cooking Thanksgiving dinner… turkey, vegan foods for my three teens etc. Did I mention I hate cooking? Love to eat, hate to cook…
Anyways I heard this song on the radio and it shouted Spirk to me. So I’m sending it to you.
“Breakin Me” by Jonny Lang
Right now I can’t think which of your angsty stories it matches up with best… Maybe most of them??? Lol!
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Yep, I have that song of course lol
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Lol!
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