Feeling down so I turn to my Spirk videos. I am sharing some of my favorites here but you’ve likely seen most or all of them. I have hundreds of times.
Classic of course
Short but oh so hurty
A favorite
This one combines both
I have three different versions of Spirk videos with this song!
An oldie but a goodie
Love this one cause she uses so much of their parents
This one is Jim focused but it’s one of my all time favorites. And as we know, I am Jim focused too
So yesterday we had some stops to make after work. We needed half and half for our coffee. (random observation, I discovered when talking to someone in Europe that they don’t know what this is there, bizarre). We both drink it with half and half. Years ago I used to drink it with Carnation plain creamer. (off on my first tangent), but one day I taste it and there was a weirdness to it. So I looked at the container and they said “new taste”. I wrote to them and complained. Apparently I was not the only one. They vowed to change it back. It was too late. I had moved on. First to mocha mix (no idea why it was called this because it was just non-dairy creamer) and then eventually to half and half when I decided mocha mix was nasty.
Smart and Final (don’t know where they are at in connection to the rest of the country, but we have them, they call themselves the faster, smaller food warehouse) has the best price for creamer. $1.69 per quart. The grocery store we go to charges $5.99 for a half gallon unless you can get some mega deal. Anyway, we both drink it.
Which brings me to (tangent 2), M is on this kick where he doesn’t want to use animal products. It’s been to varying degrees of success. He declared one day he would be trying to drink his coffee black. Neither of us uses sugar or other sweeteners. I said okay. I gave him his morning travel mug of coffee black. That evening after we came from work he said, nope. He would not be giving up half and half in his coffee after all. HA
Anyway, we are in the parking lot and we wait for this lady in a red car to pull out and she does. And she’s sitting there for a second gathering her bearings I guess, who knows, and all of a sudden this mini-van comes barreling out of his space, backing up at high speed. There is no way he will miss her. She just sits there looking at him. M is blowing his horn at the moron to stop but he just keeps going, right into her. Put a huge dent in her car and scraped up his own. OMG. PEOPLE.
It’s hot. It’s super hot. We are having a big time heat wave for this time of year. (Tangent 3) One of the local Catholic Churches, St. Rose, does a yearly summer carnival the second week in July. I swear if I were a member of that church I would be suggesting, Spring. Yes, a lovely Spring Carnival in March. Who in their right mind would go today when it is supposed to be well over 100. I hear all the “Oh but it’s a dry heat.” Go turn on your oven. Go on, I’ll wait. Let it preheat. Now crawl in. Yeah, that’s how it feels (don’t really do this, duh).
Next weekend I am off to Vegas and yes they are a miserable place in the summer. Their low at 11 last night was 108. But you expect that in Vegas and you are mostly indoors anyway.
My own real picture of Vegas by the way.
This, trust me, is miserable.
Today is going to be a lazy lazy lazy day. Movies, games, hot dogs. No socializing. Sounds splendid.
Another busy week for me.
Tonight is the Queen + Adam Lambert Concert at the Hollywood Bowl
Tomorrow we are going to see Cars 3.
Then Friday is a birthday party dinner for a relative. Then of course after that comes the 4th of July thing. The 4th decided to be on a Tuesday this year and my company decided only to give us that day off even though M has Monday the 3rd off and so does a couple of our friends. And they all work in the same industry as I do. Nuts!
One of the cities around us does their fireworks on the 3rd. I have no idea why, they just always have. This is where M’s cousin lives so that Monday night, we will be headed over to her place to BBQ and watch the works from her driveway on a hill.
Then more family and fireworks on the actual 4th! Too much! HA HA
I am supposed to be updating What Happened to Spock next and I hope to get to it soon but I’d actually also like to update You’re in My Veins. I plan to, hopefully, conclude Forever I Am With You by the end of July.
And nothing is better on a Monday than a pretty picture of Chris
So here we go. You must understand that I took hundreds so this is just a small sampling.
Let me start with the boxer shorts I bought. This was on the back end, M was quite amused.
Next up are just random pictures from the trip. We went on a lake one day for fishing. No, I didn’t fish and nothing was caught. We went to a place in Idaho called Bear World where you got to feed bread to bears who follow your truck. We also went to Old Faithful, Grand Prismatic Springs, and Grand Teton. Enjoy!
Baby Bears
Moose at Bear World
Where’s my bread?
Lazy Wolf at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center
Grand Prismatic Hot Springs (these kill people, I am reading a book on deaths and accidents at Yellowstone and Hot Springs deaths (basically you are boiled and burned to death, out number bear attacks by far)
Grand Teton National Park, what an amazing place
Some pictures just around Yellowstone
Some Pictures just around Yellowstone
Hebgen Lake Day
It’s harder to get pictures of Old Faithful erupting than you might think! Plus it drenched us where we were. Soaked!
One of my favorite areas was called West Thumb. Beautiful. As you can see with those pictures. It’s filled with beautiful, colorful hot springs like the one above. Humans cannot withstand them. In that book I mentioned West Thumb happened to an area with frequent accidents and deaths. They used to allow fishing in the area but the lake there itself has lots of these spring and they burned fisherman. Remember, Yellowstone is a super volcano. This pool above that is beautiful and blue? Is called Black Pool. Many years ago it used to be black but the thermal elements of Yellowstone’s volcano made it so hot that all the life that used to live in the Black Pool were killed off and now it looks like this (Ranger told us)
Sneak peak of something I am working on.
Title: You’re in My Veins
Spock meets Jim Kirk one night at a local bar while he waits for a friend. To Spock’s surprise, they end up becoming friends. As their friendship deepens, Spock becomes romantically enamored with Jim, but Jim is firmly in the friendship zone. He’s a flirtatious commitment-phobe who avoids intimacy (he refuses to even kiss his sexual partners) . In short the absolute worse person for a Vulcan to fall in love with.
“Come on, kiss me,” the female Human whined. For the fifth time by Spock’s calculations. The couple next to him were becoming rather…tiresome.
“I don’t kiss,” the cadet male responded. Again.
“But why?”
Cadet James Kirk, as Spock was familiar with him, shrugged. “It’s just not my thing. I’m not into it.”
“But you’re just fine having sex with me.” She pouted. “Is that it?”
Kirk smiled a little “Yeah, that’s it.”
She narrowed her eyes. “You are such a jerk!” She slammed her empty glass on the bar and stalked off.
Kirk’s smile widened as he seemed to notice Spock for the first time. “Hey. Professor Spock right?”
“Indeed.”
“Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to make you a part of our conversation.”
“Your girlfriend did seem to be displeased with you.”
“Yeah, only she’s not. My girlfriend that is.”
Spock inclined his head. “I gathered that by the way she departed.”
Kirk laughed. “No. I mean, well, yeah, I think she was dismissing me for sure. I just meant she was never really my girlfriend.” He paused. “And why am I even bothering you with this? It’s not like you care. Hey, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you at a bar before.”
Spock nodded. “You are correct, Cadet. I was supposed to be meeting someone here. I surmise she is not going to appear.”
“That sucks. And it’s Jim. Jim Kirk. I mean we’re not even on campus right now.” Kirk leaned a little toward Spock. “Were you supposed to meet Uhura?”
“How did you know that?”
Kirk shrugged. “I’ve seen you with her.”
“As a matter of fact it I was meeting her. But it is clear something came up. We were supposed to go have tea.”
“Why didn’t you just meet her there?”
“It is a new shop that she is unfamiliar with and this establishment is close to her part time job.” Spock entered a message into his tablet and sent it to her. They would have to reschedule. He glanced at Kirk. “Would you be interested in accompanying me for tea?”
“Me?”
“It is only a thought,” Spock replied. “Perhaps you do not even care for tea.”
“Actually I really haven’t had much. Sure. Why not? Obviously my night isn’t going to end the way I hoped it would.” He slid off the barstool and followed Spock from the bar.
Kirk shoved his hands into the pockets of his battered leather bomber jacket. Spock could not deny it looked good on him. As did the dark blue denim jeans he wore.
It was only a short two block walk from the drinking establishment to the tea shop where Spock intended to go. Not one for small talk, he said nothing along the way.
He allowed Kirk to enter the shop ahead of him.
“How about that table there?” Kirk asked, pointing to a table for two by a side window.
“That is acceptable. What kind of tea would you like?” Spock asked. “If you will have a seat, I will get the tea at the counter.”
“Surprise me,” Kirk said with a smile that definitely made Spock’s heart flutter illogically.
When Spock brought the bought of tea and two cups over to the table, Kirk had just been typing something into a small communication device. He put it away upon Spock’s approach.
“I chose Lapsang.”
“Smells like smoke,” Kirk commented.
“It has smoky elements.”
Kirk leaned back in his chair. “Look at me. Learning about tea and culture.”
Spock arched a brow. “The culture of tea perhaps.”
He laughed. “Probably all the culture I can handle. So. Your test.”
Spock poured the steeped tea into the two cups. “You refer to the Kobayashi Maru?”
“Sure do.”
“It is Starfleet’s test.”
“Semantics. I’ve taken it twice.”
Spock nodded. “I am aware. And failed both times.”
“Ouch.”
“The purpose of the test is not to defeat it. It is to learn how you will face death.”
“Hmm. I hate to lose. So you’re telling me if I took it a third time, I’d probably fail again.”
“You are looking at it incorrectly. There is no way to rescue the ships under attack.”
Kirk sipped his tea. Made a slight face, then took another. “Weird, but not bad. What if I re-programmed the test?”
“You would likely face charges for cheating.”
Kirk laughed again. “You don’t beat around the bush.”
“I am uncertain as to the meaning of that statement.”
“Just a stupid old earth saying. So, pretty much, isn’t the test itself a cheat?” Kirk took another sip. “I thought about it. I know another cadet, she’s Orion. She knows a lot about the systems the Academy uses. “
“You intend to coerce her to use illicit means to pass the test?”
“Well, obviously not since I am telling you about it.” Kirk shook his head. “Geez, Spock. I’m not that stupid.”
“Orions are dangerous,” Spock thought to say.
“The pheromones, yeah. But she wears one of those inhibitor bracelets. That’s how she got accepted into the academy. Anyway, I guess I’ll withdraw my interest in taking it a third time.”
Spock inclined his head. “It might be wise.”
“It’s still bullshit by the way. Uhura. Is she your girlfriend?”
“Negative. We are friends only.”
“Why didn’t she show up?”
Spock had checked his messages while waiting for the pot of tea. “Her shift at the department store ran longer than she anticipated. We have rescheduled.”
“Fortuitous for me then.”
“How so?”
Kirk shook his head. “I could use another friend. Don’t you want to be my friend, Spock?”
Inexplicably, Spock found he did want Kirk as his friend. They clearly had little in common and yet…
“Yes, I do want to be your friend, Jim.”
Kirk winked. “Excellent. Tell me about Vulcans.”
Got this from BlueMeetsGreen and Yaoichan.
Relationship Status: Relationshiped
Favorite color: Blue
Lipstick or Chapstick: Blistex
Last song I listened to: Dumbledore’s Farewell from the Harry Potter movies
What I love doing: Running around naked
Kids or Fur babies: Two cats
Number of siblings: 3
Person you person you last texted: SO
Reasons to smile this week: Get to veg this weekend
Worst habit(s): I bite my fingernails, I am too sensitive to criticism
Vacation destination(s) this year: Morro Bay, San Diego, Vegas and Yellowstone
Last movie I watched: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Top 3 Ships:
Kirk/Spock
Kirk/Spock Prime
Aragorn/Arwen LOTR
Top 3 Characters:
At least he’s growing hair back! The stupid beard, though, too LOL
Weekend was pretty chill. I spent most of it not doing anything, really, and that was fine with me. I did do a few chores like laundry that can’t really be put off.
The next two weekends include required social functions so it was nice to have this lull.
I looked at the calendar today and realized it’s only six weeks until my Yellowstone trip. I’ll be incommunicado for the most part from June 11-June 18. We fly out the morning of June 11 and fly home the evening of June 18. I bought the flights a week or so ago and damn they were expensive. You gotta connect too in other cities. On the way we connect through Denver and on the way back we connect through Salt Lake. The airport nearest our destination is Bozeman. Anyway, I know it will be here before I know it.
Over the weekend I chose to delete a work in progress on AO3. The plain truth was I didn’t feel like working on it at present and since it hasn’t garnered much attention, including from the individual who asked me to write it, I decided to delete it. I’ve saved a copy of it in case I ever get back to it, but there are no guarantees. It’s never a good feeling to delete something that some readers may have enjoyed and been following, but bottom line, I needed to do this for myself.
This week I will be updating Dating a Vulcan and Young and Beautiful . I am not sure about anything else since I have decided to slow down on my updating whenever I can. I have other obligations after all. I might get the next chapter of What Happened to Spock done but there are no guarantees.
As usual we seemed to have skipped over Spring and gone straight to Summer. It’s hot here already. There are rumors that next week may not be as hot but I don’t believe it. May is typically warm here.
I’ve watched numerous episodes of a murder mystery series that originated in Great Britain many years ago now. Midsummer Murders. The first six seasons are my favorite because I absolutely adore the incredibly adorable Sergeant from those seasons that assists the Chief Inspector. My friend, Kris, is right there with me. Anyway, I recently decided to re-watch his episodes because I honestly think he’s one of my favorite characters ever and he’s cute besides, so, lol, anyway. He had my favorite line of the week.
In an episode about an old folk’s home, he, Troy, is talking with his boss, the chief inspector, Barnaby.
Troy: Who would want to be 89?
Barnaby: Someone who’s 88.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 