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  • Breathing

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    I’m not complaining.

    Okay I am.

    But lord work is crushing me right now.

    I work for a mega corporation. Myself and my two co-workers have the heaviest burden in the company for what we do. There are only the three of us handling literally thousands of what our particular job consists of (yes I am being deliberately vague). And they are all time sensitive.

    So what happens?

    We take on more work.

    Yes the powers that be, decided to give us the work from a couple of other states within the company’s empire. Adding to an already heavy burden.

    Then I am taking off for a couple days next week which only makes me more anxious about the work.

    And there’s no doubt my writing is suffering from it. My brain is fried. Make no mistake. I hope to have another chapter up tomorrow or at least before I leave.

    What this means for you my friends. I may be short with you sometimes, but don’t cut off contact with me. Just have patience though since sometimes I might take a bit before I can respond. But do not feel bad that you are “bothering me”. Sometimes you are the light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

     

     

     

  • Ramblings of the Week, July 8, Saturday Edition

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    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.

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    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.

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    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).

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    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.

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    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.

  • Flash Fic Friday, July 07, 2017 Prompt

    My prompt this week was Jim figures out Spock has a bit of a Turbolift Kink

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    Now that the time had come, Jim was maybe getting cold feet. It had seemed like a good idea. But now that he thought about it, maybe not so much. It had all started with Uhura.

    “You busy?” he asked her as he came upon her sitting by herself in the mess.

    “Not really.” She gestured to the chair across from her. “Sit down.”

    He handed her a cup of tea and sat down with her coffee.

    “What’s up?”

    “Any secret to wooing Spock?” Jim asked without bothering with more small talk.

    “Like what?” She rolled her eyes. “Other than flashing that smile of yours that melts him into a pile of goo?”

    Jim felt himself blush. “Does not. I just want to do something he’s into. Something that might excite him.”

    Uhura smiled. “The turbolift.” 

    She had gone on to tell Jim that Spock had a turbolift fetish. He so did not want to think about Spock and Uhura getting it on in the turbolift as part of this fetish.

    But now he had it all planned out that they’d be in the turbolift and it would break down and—

    “Captain.”

    Jim jumped. “Oh, hey Spock.”

    Spock got onto the turbolift and the doors closed. For some reason he thought of that time he’d ridden on a turbolift before when he’d asked Spock if they made a good command team.

    Jim folded his arms in front of his chest and didn’t look at his first officer.

    Spock reached over and stopped the turbolift.

    “Spock?”

    That was not part of the plan.

    “You are tense.”

    “Well.” He licked his dry lips. “We probably ought to restart this.” He went to reach for the lever but Spock stopped him.

    “What is wrong?” Spock demanded.

    “Nothing. Just…” And then suddenly Spock was up in his space, backing him against the bulkhead. Jim sucked in a breath. “It’s-it’s true.”

    “What is?” Spock tilted his head in confusion but he did not pull away. If anything he got closer. His lips mere inches from Jim’s.

    “You-you do?”

    “Captain?”

    “Kiss me.”

    “Is that an order?”

    “Spock.”

    Spock gripped his jaw in his hand and pressed his lips to Jim’s in a kiss far too erotic for the turbolift. Jim moaned into the kiss, wrapping his arms around Spock’s neck.

    The boatswain’s whistle whined.

    “Scott to Captain Kirk.”

    “Uh.” He sighed against Spock. “Kirk here.”

    “The turbolift seems to be already stopped, Captain. Did you still want me to—?”

    “Never mind that, Scotty. Kirk out.”

    Spock arched a brow.

    “That. Well. Anyway. I guess it’s true.”

    “What is, Captain?”

    Jim realized he still had his arms firmly wrapped around Spock’s neck. And Spock didn’t really seem to mind.

    “You have a turbolift kink.”

    “A turbolift…kink?”

    “Yeah. Uhura said—”Jim took in Spock’s clearly puzzled expression. “Hell. Joke’s on me, huh? Son of a bitch.”

    “Am I to understand Nyota implied I like to get…intimate…in the turbolift?”

    “Yeah.” His jaw tightened. “Guess not.”

    “I would prefer we adjourn to you quarters for intimacy.”

    “Yeah. Okay but—”

    “Now.”

    Jim blinked. “What?”

    “I mean…now.”

    Spock squeezed Jim’s crotch, tearing a needy whine from him. Then he reached to the side of Jim and re-started the turbolift.

    Less than twenty seconds later it came to a grinding halt.

    “Oh, shit.” Kirk hit the comm. “Scotty, I thought I told you to forget it.”

    “Sorry, Captain. Not my doing. Powers off in all the lifts. Working on it.”

    “Damn.” Jim ran his fingers through his hair, and then glanced at Spock who was watching him with a shiver inducing intensity. “Uh. Keep me posted. Kirk out. Spock?”

    He found himself pushed against the bulkhead as Spock once more squeezed Jim’s dick.

    Spock leaned over and whispered in Jim’s ear. “Perhaps I have a kink after all.”

  • A Break

    Tomorrow I will have a flash fic up.

    So…I have some news.

    I’m stuck. I stare at every one of my works in progress and I have nothing. I should be updating My Devotion next but I can’t even make myself open the file. I did open Dating a Vulcan. Managed to force out like two paragraphs and went…no.

    I don’t feel like working on anything.

    You’d think these two would inspire anyone.

    But I presently have nothing.

    And so…I’m taking some time off, hoping I return to being inspired to continue my stories. Right now, I am seriously burned out.

     

  • If You Get the Chance

    Check out my buddy’s new fic. Her first one for AOS, which I betaed for her. Give her some love, if you can. It’s a lovely fantasy!

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  • Flash Fic Friday, June 30, 2017

    My Prompt this week was: A Love Confession

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    “Are you ready for this?”

    Spock glanced at Nyota. Not at all with apprehension. Vulcans did not feel apprehension. Nor anxiety. “Is there any particular reason I should be concerned?”

    She smiled at him. “Of course not. Have you rehearsed what you are going to say?”

    Spock blinked at her. “Rehearsed? Why would it require me to rehearse?”

    Nyota squeezed his arm. “It doesn’t require it, Spock. I just thought in case you were nervous or anxious—”

    “I am hardly anxious, Nyota.”

    She sighed. “Just…when are you meeting him?”

    “In ten point three minutes.”

    “It’s going to be fine, I’m sure.” She stood on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek.

    Spock had thought it would be fine, but now, he was hit with a sudden realization that what was about to happen would be a mistake. It wouldn’t go at all the way he wanted it to go or the way even Nyota kept assuring him it would go.

    “Good luck, Spock.”

    “Luck is illogical and—”

    She shook her head and offered him another smile and then turned and left his quarters while he was still speaking.

    Up to this point he had been so certain. Now he had nothing but doubts. He returned to his desk and sat behind it, pulling up his terminal and deciding to go over his latest lab results. Science was the answer. Logic and science.

    When the door of his quarters buzzed, Spock looked up in surprise. He noticed that a good forty-five minutes had passed. Which was not at all like him.

    He stood up and came around the desk.

    “Come.”

    Jim stepped inside. “Spock?”

    “Captain.”

    Jim’s lips curved into the tiniest smile. “Well, now that we have established who we are, weren’t we supposed to meet for dinner a while ago?”

    “I love you,” Spock blurted out.

    “Uh.”

    Spock knew he was blushing. He could feel the change in the temperature of his face and he was really quite certain that a loss of consciousness was not at all impossible in the next five minutes.

    “Well.” Jim said. He rubbed the back of his neck. Took a step backward, Spock noticed, feeling fainter by the minute. Jim cleared his throat. “How-how long?”

    Could he even quantify it in such a manner?

    “Five hundred twenty six days.”

    “Oh.” Out came the tongue Spock was just a little obsessed with to trace over Jim’s bottom lip.

    “Jim—”

    “But we’ve only been doing whatever we’ve been doing for twenty six days.”

    Spock made himself nod.

    “So those other five hundred days—”

    “Yes.”

    Jim blew out a breath. “I’m not sure how to process this.” But he took several steps forward, which was entirely better than back. He was suddenly in Spock’s space. Very very close.

    “If you do not return my regard, we can attempt to pretend I did not speak of this,” Spock said quietly. Spock could not. Never. But he would pretend for Jim’s sake, if that was required of him. In order to maintain a friendship between—

    “Is that what you want?” Jim’s soft words hit Spock. His eyes were so saturated blue that Spock thought he might just drown in them.

    “No.”

    “Good, because.” Jim angled his head so that their lips were very close and could easily touch. Spock hoped that they would kiss. He never got tired of kissing Jim. He never would. “Because. I love you desperately.”

    And then, Jim’s lips were on his and Spock grabbed him by the arms, pulling him closer still, and there may have been an attempt by Jim to climb Spock, and Spock, just might have, let him.

  • Ramblings of the Week, June 26, 2017

    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

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  • T’hy’la Bang Post 2017

    Well it’s up folks.

    Who Am I to Say has officially been posted on Archive of Our Own. Glad it’s up and done. This has been a challenging challenge for me. And not all because it was hard to write the story. It flowed easily. It’s romantic and lovely, in my opinion.

    I did it and that was an accomplishment. Hope you enjoy

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  • Pictures from My Trip

    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.Boxer

    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!

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    Baby Bears

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    Moose at Bear World

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    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)

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    Grand Teton National Park, what an amazing place

    Some pictures just around Yellowstone

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    Hebgen Lake Day

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    It’s harder to get pictures of Old Faithful erupting than you might think! Plus it drenched us where we were. Soaked!

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    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)