• Feeling loads better today. I'm a lot calmer and I've actually managed to get stuff done.
• Shiney new layout! It's not quite finished (I've still got a header to put in) but I really like it.
• My laptop is in a different comp shop now: it turns out it's my actual hard drive that has went wonky so the new guy is going to try and repair it before he replaces it.
• I feel like I've had a productive day. I've done 1.5 loads of washing (the second is in the tumble drier), I''ve made an Eve's pudding, tidied the house, planned/written more fic, am applying for a job and caught up to date with my flist (which feels really strange)
• Is anybody else finding it weird to get into ff.net? I can't get in by typing the address in the url bar but I can get in using a link on my lj.
• I just realised how spoiled I am by the BSG fandom when I went looking for Space 1999 fanfiction. BSG has loads of awesome fics and authors whereas Space 1999 (and a few other fandoms I have to say) really have none and the fiction is distinctly average or worse.
• Speaking of BSG, I've just seen the new Mary McDonnell pics from the finale. I know I said I was going to go spoiler free but the words 'new Mary pics' on a link will guarantee that I will never pass it by. In any case they weren't very spoilery but I'll put my thoughts under a cut.
  ( PICS! )
• *hugs* to the flist 'cos you are all awesome.

Just read that Don S Davis died yesterday.

RIP.

So it looks as if the antivirus updates I installed on my laptop went a bit wonky and got corrupted and thus broke Windows. I know that I have to reinstall that bloody thing on my laptop but I'm going to have to take it into a repair shop as the laptop didn't come with a disc, just XP backed up into the hard drive. SInce I have no idea how to get to this and I don't want to damage it further its off the the shop with it. 

Also, I need to get my exhaust looked at 'cos it sounds like I've got a whole in it. Blah. More money out the window. The good news is that I definitely start work this Monday so I should start getting paid soon. My disclosure scotland still hasn't come through but my boss has managed to annoy the personnel department at the Council enough that they say I can work without the form as long as I don't deal with the public. So I'll be stuck in the basement but at least it's paying. 

Anyway, I'm off to try and not thing about the money I'm spending on the car and laptop which was going to be spent on Mary dvd's (and One tree hill) and the millions of fics I need to comment on by watching some tv and drinking cheapish wine. Later!

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Then, you 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 squee. Whoo!

Icons chosen by caramelapples11 

1.



I love Laura hugs. She really doesn't get enough physical contact on the show and I love the contented expression on her face. Also, one of my better attempts at changing the lightening in a picture.

2.



Dude, it's Bill carrying a bag and saying how man enough he is. Do I really need to say more?

3.



I love the look on Laura's face here (hang on, I seem to be saying that a lot. Then again, I am a Laura fangirl!) and this was my first attempt at lightening a picture (BSG eps are always so dark, especially the ones set on New Caprica). I adore how it turned out, the paleness of her face contrasting with the darkness of her hair.

4.



I love this picture of Laura and I've just recently started experimenting with textures. This is by far the best icon I've done with textures to date and I just love the combination of the expression on her face and the colouring.

5.

Yesterday was awesome. Not only was I left alone in the house for several hours as the rest of the family went to the Royal HIghland Show, I got my glasses back (all shiny with the new frame) and Doctor Who was absolutely brilliant. I'm definitely loving this season more than the others of new who, primarily because of Donna. Not that I don't like Rosa and Martha, I just think Donna is brilliant Can't wait to see next weeks episode: the advert looks brilliant and totally squeeworthy.

Also, today we went to see the slightly mental, slightly deaf grandparents. Came away feeling stuffed full of cakes and then we stopped at what has to be the most amazing Indian restaurant ever. I'm not kidding. We just had onion rings (the proper kind, not the reconstituted breadcrumbs ones) but dude, I could go on about them all week. But I'm not going to because that is enough bouncing for today. 

Now I'm off to write more smut.

I saw this on my flist I while ago and I thought, since I need a kick up the backside to get writing at the moment, I would post this.

Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about my plans for future parts of my current series if you want to, but keep in mind, I may not have anything firm/definite in the works. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.

[4] Bill Adama
[3] D'anna Biers
[1] Galen and Nicky Tyrol
[2] Gaius Baltar
[5] Laura Roslin

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