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Back!
So I'm back home after a week in Florida. Things went well, although I realized just how out of shape I am. I'm really going to have to start exercising for Europe. Quick breakdown:
Friday: I went to work really early so I could leave early, but ended up leaving at my normal time anyways trying to get things wrapped up. I had to stop make a stop on my way home to pick up some paperwork for the trip, so we were later leaving than we planned, then ended up wasting an hour and a half because we left without the paperwork I had taken the time to pick up. *headdesk* Anyways, we made it to Mississauga where we stayed the night.
Saturday: We headed out at 5am with my sister and brother-in-law and basically spent the whole day driving. I read much fanfic. :D We stopped for the night in South Carolina.
Sunday: Drove the rest of the way, got in around 4 and checked out the awesome house we were renting. My older sister and nephew flew into Florida, lucky them.
Monday: It was kind of a rainy day so we decided we'd do something indoors. This is our 3rd time to Florida, and each time we've gone I always ask to go to the Kennedy Space Center, and every time, I'm told no. This time my mom finally gave in and said we could go. So of course, we got horribly lost and actually ended up at Daytona Beach. *headdesk* Yes I know they're not actually all that close to each other, I did say "horribly" lost. And since the day was rainy we couldn't even really enjoy the beach, although there is a video of me running down the beach chasing a whole lot of sea gulls....
Tuesday: Disney! And it was a really quiet day, the longest we had to wait in line was maybe half an hour, most of the rides we could just walk up to. The only other time I had gone to Disney was in 2001, just after 9/11 and everything was pretty deserted because people were afraid to travel. I was kind of afraid to go back and have to wait in huge lines, like is more normal, and have that memory ruined, but this time was actually better. Very few line ups at all.
Wednesday: We went to SeaWorld. It was a really, really, *really* cold day, which kind of sucks since we got wet. (Yeah, just our luck that the week we go to Florida they're experiencing record lows in temperature).
Thursday: We did some shopping. Which I didn't actually care for at all. My sister was all excited about going to outlet malls, but well, I'm not really a brand name type of person, so paying $150 for a purse, even if it originally cost $500 still feels way to expensive to me. And none of the clothing stores seemed to have plus size clothing. So I walked away with 3 tank tops. That's it.
Friday: We went to Busch Gardens. We had so much fun last time we went, but this time wasn't as fun. It was still really nice, but we had seen most of it before, and I had been feeling kind of pukey the day before so I didn't go on any of the roller coasters.
Saturday: We dropped Jenn and Ethan off at the airport then set off ourselves. Rather than stopping for a night like we did on the way down we just booted it back to Mississauga. Everyone was very tired and cranky by the end of that trip let me tell you. I almost killed my mom when I took my turn driving she kept telling me to slow down, never mind that I was going 55 in a 70 zone.
Sunday: Since we only got to Mississauga at 5:30 in the morning we all went straight to bed but were back on the road for the rest of the trip by 11:30. At least this time we had lost half our passengers so the van wasn't as full. I spent most of the time watching vids on my laptop. We pulled over and did a frantic search for my Dad's cell phone at one point finally finding it in a bag of chips. :S My mom's trying to blame my dad for this one, but she was the last one to use the phone, so I think it's her fault.
And randomly, I started watching the Torchwood fic comm not too long ago, but I find myself hardly ever reading fic from it, since the author's who post there never seem to give very good descriptions for their fics. Case in point, today as I was catching up on my flist, there was one entry posted where the description is: "Title perhaps self explanatory" except the title is "Enemies?" That is not self explanatory! That tells me very little about what the fic is about! Give me some sort of reason to want to read your fic!
Friday: I went to work really early so I could leave early, but ended up leaving at my normal time anyways trying to get things wrapped up. I had to stop make a stop on my way home to pick up some paperwork for the trip, so we were later leaving than we planned, then ended up wasting an hour and a half because we left without the paperwork I had taken the time to pick up. *headdesk* Anyways, we made it to Mississauga where we stayed the night.
Saturday: We headed out at 5am with my sister and brother-in-law and basically spent the whole day driving. I read much fanfic. :D We stopped for the night in South Carolina.
Sunday: Drove the rest of the way, got in around 4 and checked out the awesome house we were renting. My older sister and nephew flew into Florida, lucky them.
Monday: It was kind of a rainy day so we decided we'd do something indoors. This is our 3rd time to Florida, and each time we've gone I always ask to go to the Kennedy Space Center, and every time, I'm told no. This time my mom finally gave in and said we could go. So of course, we got horribly lost and actually ended up at Daytona Beach. *headdesk* Yes I know they're not actually all that close to each other, I did say "horribly" lost. And since the day was rainy we couldn't even really enjoy the beach, although there is a video of me running down the beach chasing a whole lot of sea gulls....
Tuesday: Disney! And it was a really quiet day, the longest we had to wait in line was maybe half an hour, most of the rides we could just walk up to. The only other time I had gone to Disney was in 2001, just after 9/11 and everything was pretty deserted because people were afraid to travel. I was kind of afraid to go back and have to wait in huge lines, like is more normal, and have that memory ruined, but this time was actually better. Very few line ups at all.
Wednesday: We went to SeaWorld. It was a really, really, *really* cold day, which kind of sucks since we got wet. (Yeah, just our luck that the week we go to Florida they're experiencing record lows in temperature).
Thursday: We did some shopping. Which I didn't actually care for at all. My sister was all excited about going to outlet malls, but well, I'm not really a brand name type of person, so paying $150 for a purse, even if it originally cost $500 still feels way to expensive to me. And none of the clothing stores seemed to have plus size clothing. So I walked away with 3 tank tops. That's it.
Friday: We went to Busch Gardens. We had so much fun last time we went, but this time wasn't as fun. It was still really nice, but we had seen most of it before, and I had been feeling kind of pukey the day before so I didn't go on any of the roller coasters.
Saturday: We dropped Jenn and Ethan off at the airport then set off ourselves. Rather than stopping for a night like we did on the way down we just booted it back to Mississauga. Everyone was very tired and cranky by the end of that trip let me tell you. I almost killed my mom when I took my turn driving she kept telling me to slow down, never mind that I was going 55 in a 70 zone.
Sunday: Since we only got to Mississauga at 5:30 in the morning we all went straight to bed but were back on the road for the rest of the trip by 11:30. At least this time we had lost half our passengers so the van wasn't as full. I spent most of the time watching vids on my laptop. We pulled over and did a frantic search for my Dad's cell phone at one point finally finding it in a bag of chips. :S My mom's trying to blame my dad for this one, but she was the last one to use the phone, so I think it's her fault.
And randomly, I started watching the Torchwood fic comm not too long ago, but I find myself hardly ever reading fic from it, since the author's who post there never seem to give very good descriptions for their fics. Case in point, today as I was catching up on my flist, there was one entry posted where the description is: "Title perhaps self explanatory" except the title is "Enemies?" That is not self explanatory! That tells me very little about what the fic is about! Give me some sort of reason to want to read your fic!
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"Title perhaps self explanatory" No, you're right. That isn't explanatory at all.
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Waking up this morning on the other hand... :)
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I don't know if you've settled on a playdate day, but I'd totally be up for that (I totally *planned* on working on my podfic while I was trapped in the car, but well, I couldn't properly hold my laptop and the mouse angle was odd, so not very much got done). Or if you want to get together some other time. I don't have anything planned this week.
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Give me some sort of reason to want to read your fic!
Amen to that! I'm actually very tempted to stop following the TW comms because I don't really read the fic. As much as I think Jack/Ianto are adorable together, I've got the double-edged problem that 1) I really do OT3 Doctor/Rose/Jack and 2) Jack is too much of a free spirit to stay tied down to one person.
Plus, with TW, it seems like the same people are the ones posting and they tend to post these epic fics that are complete crap.
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Nope. Another year with no visit. There's always next time right? At this point it's kind of a standing joke....
As much as I think Jack/Ianto are adorable together, I've got the double-edged problem that 1) I really do OT3 Doctor/Rose/Jack and 2) Jack is too much of a free spirit to stay tied down to one person.
Ahh, see while I can understand your reason 2, your reason 1 is totally not a problem for me. I was totally sold on the idea of the Doctor as an asexual being. I see that Jack wants the Doctor, but I don't see the Doctor wanting him back. And as for Rose... well, I'll admit, I don't like her. I don't see what the Doctor sees in her as a companion let alone a love interest (and I was totally disappointed that the human Doctor stayed to be with her). *sigh*
Although I will admit that I kind of almost liked S4 Rose...
Actually, the hardest part for me to accept Jack/Ianto was the fact that they really don't seem to be more than fuck buddies on the show. It made me reluctant to get into the pairing because I didn't really see them as shippy, but once I was in, it was all forgotten. It's amazing how differently you see things once you're in the fandom for something. :P
Plus, with TW, it seems like the same people are the ones posting and they tend to post these epic fics that are complete crap.
OMG yes with the epic fics! When they're on chapter 70/? and each chapter is about 2 pages long. *sigh* This is why I don't generally follow fic announcement comms. I'm tempted to look to see if there's a fic finder comm, but after the tight organization of
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When they're on chapter 70/? and each chapter is about 2 pages long. *sigh* This is why I don't generally follow fic announcement comms.
I'm apparently a masochist because I have two or three TW fic comms on my flist, so I get those announcements multiple times. Every now and then I'll glance over one, but usually they drive me crazy with their OOC-ness.
There is a fic finder comm, but I can't find it in a quick search, so apparently they're not very active.
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*nods* I'm not so much an OT3er, but I think that applies to fandom in general. Canon is just a base point for me. 90% of the time for me, my love and total joy in media comes from fandom.
There is a fic finder comm, but I can't find it in a quick search, so apparently they're not very active.
Hmm, maybe I'll try and search them out and defriend the fic comms. I still have a lot of friends giving me recs, so that'll keep me going for a while and I can just add to my list with fic finds....
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I think we're having a playdate tomorrow at
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I'm free tomorrow, so could make it to the playdate, but I don't have any details (she didn't make a general announcement about it).
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