i want life in every word

getaway_machine @ 2009-12-25T10:58:00

2009-12-25T15:58:12Z

Merry Christmas guys! I hope all of you are having a great one ♥

Mine's been good... and I have the best boyfriend in the world. I love imthelobster a whole hell of a lot, and he is very good to me. :)

We went to my Dad's last night to do Christmas with him. They made me happy just because they did things like buy a new stocking so that James had one, too, and putting both our names on some of the gifts, as well as giving him a couple of things just for him. I'm so glad they're actually acknowledging how important this relationship is to me.
For me, they gave me a Wii Fit, so I'm really happy about that. I've been wanting it, and hopefully I'll actually use it regularly, since I could stand to lose some weight, for sure.

Today we had our Christmas morning together, and we're going to go to my Mom's for dinner tonight. So a pretty relaxed Christmas all in all, but I like that it's not been stressful or too overly crazy.

Hopefully next year we'll be going up to Vermont and spending Christmas with his family. Somehow we're going to manage to make that happen.

getaway_machine @ 2009-12-19T13:04:00

2009-12-19T18:05:58Z

imthelobster and I just got around to watching the finale of So You Think You Can Dance. I'm happy with the winner, but disappointed with the season overall; I just really hope that next season will be better. It was all just sort of blah for me most of the way through. Also, I miss Mia as a choreographer, a LOT. :(

We've also been watching Chuck... do any of you watch? We aren't caught up yet, but I am enjoying it a LOT. We're on epsidoe 4, I think, of season 2. It's a lot better than I thought it was going to be when we started.

Good lord I watch a lot of tv. lol

In other news, I did end up pledging for getyourwordsout. I ended up going for the 200k multi-project. I actually hope that I can make myself focus mostly on one thing, but at least this way if I get distracted by something I won't completely screw myself over, word count wise. I'm getting really excited to start writing again...

getaway_machine @ 2009-12-16T16:49:00

2009-12-16T21:49:50Z

ugh, posting from my phone is annoying...just lost my post so starting over.

I'm thinking about doing getyourwordsout this year. Recently I've been really wanting to start writing again, and I think this would be a good push. I just can't decide between 100k for a single story or 250k for multiple things. Despite the lower word count I think the 100k would be more difficult, but I dunno. Opinions, anyone?

Also, I am clearly VERY busy at work right now. So is there anything interesting going on with you guys?

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getaway_machine @ 2009-12-15T19:23:00

2009-12-16T00:23:49Z

ah, crap.

HI GUYS.

getaway_machine @ 2009-12-03T08:52:00

2009-12-03T13:52:22Z

My nails are sparkly gold and pretty right now. I've become halfway obsessed with painting my nails... oops? It's good, though, because it keeps me from biting my nails, which is a habit I've needed to kick for a long time. My nails are long right now for the first time in a looooong time. :)

imthelobster and I got our Christmas tree up! This makes me ridiculously happy, you don't even know. It has twinkly lights and the ornaments are really pretty, and it really does a lot to get me into the mood for this freaking month. Heh. I took pictures of it on my phone, so I may or may not try to post them up if I can figure out how to get them off my phone and onto my comp >.>

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-18T10:50:00

2009-11-18T15:50:31Z

So. My inbox was exploded this morning.

Huge image under the cut!

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That's a huge achievement for me in the game. :)

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-10T13:04:00

2009-11-10T19:23:37Z

I started to post an entry that was entirely wow-related, but really, almost no one on my flist gets it. So instead:

/begin rant
WHY DO PEOPLE STILL THINK DISC PRIESTS ARE ONLY FOR PVP. WHY?! YOU STUPID DOUCHE I AM NOT A SHITTY HEALER BECAUSE MY HPS IS LOW! MY TARGETS ARE LIVING UNTIL EVERYONE IS DYING ANYWAY AND IT IS NOT -MY- FAULT EXCLUSIVELY THAT WE KEEP WIPING SCBJABCVJKBVLKJSDABNKJVBWKJVBL
/end rant

Aaaaaanyway.

So, elleren arrives tomorrow. For those of you that don't know, that's imthelobster's dad. Ahh! I keep thinking that the house is not nearly ready enough :( Which is probably dumb, but WHATEVS I am allowed to be worried about this sort of thing!

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-08T18:06:00

2009-11-08T23:28:12Z

I didn't post yesterday. :/ I kind of suck? But I was enjoying my first real opportunity to spend time with imthelobster in like.. I dunno.. a week? So I don't feel too badly about it, tbqh.

On that note, it is AMAZING to know that I'm on vacation right now!! Mostly we've just been sitting around doing nothing, and you know what? Sometimes that is all you need. Though we are going to do dinner tonight with fluffymaru, which should be fun. :D

Goals for tomorrow: go to the gym, clean out my car, and possibly finish "The Keymaster" achievement.

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-06T11:13:00

2009-11-06T16:30:24Z

Urgh, I hate PvP. (sffl I don't know how you do it)
At least, I hate it on my mage... I'm tempted to start taking my priest through and being all healy in BGs and see how I feel about that. But first... enough marks for my first war mount vbnjsnlkv. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH ONE I WILL GET! Either the horse or the kitty, but I can't decide.
HERE HELP ME: this or this?
Also I used to love Arathi Basin and now I hate it, whyyyyyyyyyyy. (But strangely enough, I like Warsong Gulch. DO NOT JUDGE ME.)

Okay. More PvP nao.

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-05T12:32:00

2009-11-05T17:45:14Z

My morning thus far:

* buildyourwalls totally burned herself. You guys, I am not the person to have help you with injuries. I have nothing, I know nothing, I am useless.
* Watching the end of Love Actually. NFCNLKNLK THAT MOVIE MAKES ME HAPPY.
* Half-ass watching Donnie Darko. It's on in the background, and I've never seen it before. I really should actually watch it at some point, though. I have NO IDEA what it going on right now, heh.
* Working on Loremaster in WoW. Blegh. Getting bored, and kind of frustrated, with that.

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-04T09:44:00

2009-11-04T15:42:52Z

Why do I like such shitty television sometimes? LOL. I've been watching Dancing with the Stars, and I have no idea why. The dancing really is kind of sub-par haha. But whatever, it gives me something to watch in the background.

So, for the next three days, imthelobster is opening at work, and I'm closing. :( I haaate days like that, especially when they come in stretches, because we basically don't see each other at all. I wish it didn't happen so freaking often. Sigh.

getaway_machine @ 2009-11-03T19:33:00

2009-11-04T00:33:01Z

ARGH I CAN'T WAIT FOR VACATION. hahaha. The closer it gets the more impatient I feel, though.

I don't like daylight savings. I feel all weird right now because the time isn't what it should be. >.> It gets dark so early!

Why does LJ still have Halloween art up? It is past Halloween. :/ It's the little things, people.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY! I found Fade Out (by rachelcaine♥) in B&N today! YAAAAY. I know how I'll be passing the boring hours at work tomorrow ;)

NaBloPoMo

2009-11-01T17:31:33Z

So, barbed_whispers wants me to do National Blog Posting Month, where I post every day in the month of November. I still feel like my life is too boring for this, and I'm still not sure I'm committed to it 100%, but it seemed stupid to ruin my chances on the first day. SO.

NaNo starts today... I still feel slightly weird that I don't do it. I dunno. Good luck to everyone participating, though!

Okay, back to work now. Blegh.

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getaway_machine @ 2009-10-29T09:24:00

2009-10-29T13:30:57Z

I meant to post about this earlier, but I'll post about it now!

This past Saturday imthelobster and I went to see Hanson at House of Blues. I CONTINUE TO LOVE THEM FOR ALL TIME. I don't even care that I get made fun of by some people for liking them so much, because they are sosososo good. They put on a great show and I love their music and just UNF. I'd put a set list in this post, but James put it in his phone and he's at work and I don't remember without seeing it >.>

Also, apparently Taylor decided to trade out his usual scarf for suspenders LOL. High-larious.

In the line before the show, I ran into an old friend, which was pretty cool and kind of strange at the same time. But I haven't seen her in a long time and it was nice to see her again, anyway. Not that a concert is the easiest of places to catch up... but you know.

getaway_machine @ 2009-10-20T10:33:00

2009-10-20T15:25:00Z

So, does anyone else on my flist watch Bones? Other than imthelobster, clearly. I just finally saw the end of season 3, and.... OMGWTFWTFWTFWTF. I am still not okay, grrrr.

Just, WTF ZACK. HOW COULD ZACK?! ARGHHHHHHH

And then next season... no king of the lab! I just, blegh.

Let's not kid around, I'm sure I'll still love the show, because it's really all about Bones and Booth and the AMAZING UST that they have, but STILL.

In other TV news:
* I doubt I'll be going back to Gossip Girl, but we'll see, since it is Crack.
* I can't decide what I think of Vampire Diaries. It's not lulzy like I expected. It's not really good, but it's not really bad, and it's not like the book. So I don't know what keeps me watching.
* I LOVE GLEE. I LOVE GLEE SO RIDICULOUSLY I DO NOT EVEN KNOW.
* I'm an episode behind on Project Runway. I care, but I'm also bored. Bored, bored bored... I wish this season would spice up a little. I mean, I'll definitely catch up and finish the season, but still.
* I am behind on Supernatural, too. It's like a theme, huh? BUT I DON'T MEAN TO BE WITH THIS ONE. I don't even know, the show is SO GOOD. bjsdbjvsblvbsjvb ♥ the Winchesters.
* And SYTYCD! ...not that I have anything to really say about that right now, but since I'm going through the list of shows I'm watching... I have high hopes for this season to be better than last, though.

getaway_machine @ 2009-10-11T11:10:00

2009-10-11T16:00:15Z

I should really download Semagic again. Random.

So I have six days off of work right now! WOOHOO! Or at least, sort of. I have a work meeting tonight, which is actually pretty annoying since it's in my vacation time, but whatever at least it's not a full shift or anything.

I've been really, really bad about reading my flist lately. I'm in the process of playing catch-up now... I may need to take some comms and shit off, because, wow. Some of these comms get waaaaaay too many posts a day. -_- So basically, link me to anything important? 'Cause I got to 120 back and decided I didn't want to read anymore. >.>

..I guess I don't really have more to say than that right now. Hm.

getaway_machine @ 2009-09-22T09:23:00

2009-09-22T13:24:53Z

Apparently, not only do I need to update LJ more often, I need to read it more often as well. I just had to go back 280 entries. ::twitch::

I honestly didn't realize it had been that long o.O

getaway_machine @ 2009-09-17T20:01:00

2009-09-18T00:02:54Z

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

you can tell this isn't actually ashley because i am updating without being NUDGED.

i really like being nudged though, so y'all should get on that.

KTHXBYE!

getaway_machine @ 2009-09-12T17:23:00

2009-09-12T21:23:51Z

my friends are all epic douchebags :D

also, tried to post via text earlier...when did that stop working?

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getaway_machine @ 2009-09-02T18:58:00

2009-09-02T23:01:28Z

ZOMG I GOT A NEW COMPUTER MONITOR!!!

It is a 22" wide screen, and it is SO LOVELY I don't even. :D :D :D :D :D :D

I am justifying this purchase by calling it a birthday gift to myself.

Also, it was on clearance.

BUT OMG MONITOR!!!!!!!!

Also, imthelobster is the best EVER. :D

getaway_machine @ 2009-09-01T09:39:00

2009-09-01T13:40:32Z

Some people can be so pushy >:|
I'm looking at you, barbed_whispers

getaway_machine @ 2009-08-08T19:20:00

2009-08-08T23:35:38Z

I haven't been posting, because I feel like anytime I think of something to post, it's almost always negative. Then I feel bad posting it, because I feel like a lot of people are a lot worse off than me right now -- and not just the random whoever out in the world, but people I care about a lot.

So I decided okay, I'm going to post. But I'm going to do it with a few of the positives in my life.

imthelobster is amazing. I know I probably get somewhat sappy and ridiculous, but it's true, and it can't be said enough.

Having my mom living close by again is pretty nice. (Even if that comes with its own stress - not what this list is about!)

The new house is great! Not everything is unpacked, cause I suck at that, but I love the place. I don't regret the purchase at ALL, and I'm very excited about that.

Raiding in WoW has been pretty awesome lately.

I have great friends. I suck as a friend sometimes, with the not hanging out and not seeing people often, but it's still true that my friends are pretty damn amazing.

And because the icon reminded me: I've been rewatching Avatar, and holy SHIT do I love that show something fierce.

getaway_machine @ 2009-07-26T10:47:00

2009-07-26T15:29:54Z

I keep forgetting to do these, mostly cause I was also going to do the one where you upload music, but I have not gone through and done music.

But I am bored at work, so I'll just skip that one and give myself something to do.

Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

gay incestuous brothers: Lucivar/Daemon FTW! From Black Jewels Trilogy, by Anne Bishop. I have never read another pair of brothers who loved each other so ridiculously.

lewis is the avatar: "but I believe, Lewis can save the WORLD." Basically, I love Avatar: the Last Airbender, and I also love the Weather Warden series by rachelcaine, and barbed_whispers and I are kind of idiots sometimes, but a crossover between these two universes TOTALLY WORKS, FOR SERIOUS, and Lewis if the modern-day Avatar. FOR REAL. Fucking love him. ♥

pink bikies duuuuude: I don't think either simplykatie or I can tell you for certain how this actually started. The first year she and I both participated in NaNo, we spent a LOT of time working on it together. Word wars, competing to see who would win first, encouragement, etc. On one of our many all-nighters that month, we got rather insane... and for some reason, just started repeating "OMG DUUUUUDE, HE'S RIDING A PINK BIKIE DUUUUUUUUUUDE!!!" over and over again. We were NUTS... and it stuck. It's kind of our phrase of encouragement now hahaha.

the bench of sadness: His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman. Basically, the end of the trilogy makes me sob like a ridiculous little baby, I love Lyra, and I love Will, and I love this bench omfg. I love it even more when paired with The Space Between (see icon).

satan wears glitter: I think this comes from a conversation I once had with sky_was_green? I really do not remember, though.

hyotei: Pretty simple one; I am a huge fan of Prince of Tennis (like, ridiculously so. It's pretty embarrassing how quickly I watched that entire series) and one of teams is named Hyotei, and it's (probably) my favorite team on the show.

the big toe: ahaha, okay. So basically, a group of us are all basically the same person. We named ourselves Randy. It started as myself, barbed_whispers, and pancakekiller. Later, simplykatie got added into the mix, as the big toe. Eventually she got upgraded, and now sky_was_green is the big toe. Or at least she was... I think we may have switched them back? Either way.

And the next!

1. Reply to this post, and if you ask me to, I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

1.
For the longest time, my aim user icon was a tree. Therefore, I am a tree. According to barbed_whispers, I am also emo. Therefore: Treemo!

2.
BECAUSE HE IS NOT DEAD, OKAY? OKAY?!?! HE IS BEYOND THE VEIL, IS ALL.
fucking draperies.

3.
The Cabbage Man from Avatar: the Last Airbender amuses me WAAAAAY too much. His cabbages are powerful and dangerous. >.> Mostly I just think this icon is hilarious. Yay mixing fandoms!

4.
Dawn from BtVS. I love Dawn. I know a lot of people don't, and I just don't agree with the hate; I think she's awesome. This icon is to represent my love for her ♥

5.
I LOOOVE Lee in the HDM books, and I loved him just as much in the movie. I think the actor was great (actually the casting in general was awesome). I needed an icon for him, clearly.

6.
Clearly, I deal with the sadness of losing Cedric by making fun of it. >.> One of my fav variations of the "O RLY? YA RLY. OH NOES!" icons that were going around for a while... and almost as good as CEDRIC CAN'T HAVE A TACO.. almost.

Wooo.

getaway_machine @ 2009-07-22T13:23:00

2009-07-22T17:25:10Z

I HAVE INTERNET AND A COMPUTER AGAIN.

I AM SO EXCITED.

Not as excited about other things, but EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

I may post a further update later. We shall see.

getaway_machine @ 2009-07-20T09:02:00

2009-07-20T13:17:36Z

imthelobster and I went away this past weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary (and just to get away) and it was amazing. We went to the beach, near St. Pete but not actually on St. Pete, and it was just... omg so perfect. The weather was amazing, the water was amazing, the view from our hotel room was amazing. I really did not want to come home.

Also, The Village Inn has the absolute best pie ever. It was freaking heavenly, I swear. Ending up having dinner there was totally an accident, since we were looking for a little italian place that we never found, but it was totally worth it because YUM.

In other news, when we got back to town yesterday I went and got my hair done. It's now really short (see: spiky short) and a dark auburn. I LOVE IT. I was so, so nervous about doing it, but I'm really pleased with it right now. SOOO much better than it was before, thank god.

Also, we finally got desks to set up. So now we have internet, and a place to put our computers! haha. I'll be setting those up after work today, and then maybe we'll become involved in the internet world again. (I haven't played WoW in over a week, wtf?)

For locals: look for me at the community market this wednesday. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I should be going. :)