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@ 2009-01-05 09:22:00
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YAY MY ROUTINE IS BACK!!!
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
When the children are schooling
And mommy's not drooling from all the "good cheer!"
It's the most wonderful time of the year!

It's the hap-happiest season of all!
No more excessive feedings
Or children butt beatings
Or frenzied trips to the "maul!"
It's the hap-happiest season of all!

No more in-laws hem-heming
Or laundry for mending
Or neighbors that don't know to go...
No more sister's psychosis
With fights so ferocious
Over dumb things like cups of Joe!

It's the most wonderful tiiiiiiiiiime, of the yeaaaaaaaar!




It's sleeting, I've been out in the cold and don't need to go out again until time to pick up Miss Emily at 4. I can watch movies! I can ignore the laundry! I can read BOOKS, omg! Good god, I love my family, but I am so happy to have my routine and normalcy back, I can't even begin.

I feel the need to write, but I can't get past these two fanfic ideas, and I've not written fanfic in ages. Hmm.

1. Uncas and Alice from the movie version of "The Last of the Mohicans." That was on late the other night and I re-watched it, remembering how cheesy Daniel Day Lewis is: "I will find you! No matter what happens!" *dives into impossibly high waterfall that would surely kill him* The characters I liked were the strong, silent Indians. Rawr. Anyhoo, I got an idea for why on earth Uncas, a bad ass young Indian in his own right, would be into the sickly and weak Alice. (That final scene with the two of them and the ever awesome Wes Studi continues to be a thing of greatness.) You know that in the original story, Daniel Day Lewis' character is into the sickly one, yeah? What the hell, James Fenimore Cooper? Then again, Cooper is one of the WORST writers in American history. Trying to read his books is like trying to walk through hot Jello while attached to a bungee cord.

Also, the music to that movie continues to be great, which is why so many other movies have stolen parts of it. :)


2. (inspired by a comment in Kita's journal) Drusilla, Angelus and maybe Spike encountering Bella and Edward and all the funny shit that Drusilla would do to Bella. I think it would be funnier from Bella's perspective, her going on and on about how perfect Edward is in comparison to Angelus and Spike, but being cut off constantly as Drusilla slaps her, or something. Ha ha ha. Possibly this is only funny to me.

Write stories that will make me laugh or do laundry... [scale hands] Yeah, I think I know what I'm going to be up to today. :D

HI EVERYONE! Did we all make it through the horrordays? (I actually had a nice holiday for the most part, sprinkled with some WTF? moments, but generally lovely. Plus, I got some kick-butt Le Creuset and All-Clad dishes so I'm all about the elaborate meals lately. Speaking of, I made this chicken dish last night and the sauce didn't turn out right. It was more like a soup than a sauce. My recommendations: drain the tomatoes and either omit the chicken stock, or halve it. The flavor was fantastic, though. (I didn't add the capers to the dish, I let people add them to their plates.)

Tonight we're having this pork roast recipe with new potatoes and roasted asparagus. The Mr. is traveling this week, and he's sad that he's missing out. I kind of think he wanted me to not cook anything good all week, but... that ain't gonna fly with Mama Bear. "Sorry kids. You need to eat cereal all week until Dad gets back on Friday."

Oooh! We used the last of the beef from Christmas dinner (the crown roast) including all the meat from in between the rib bones into making carne asada, barbacoa-style. HOLY YUM. We chopped the meat up, seasoned it with cumin and a touch of chili powder, some garlic, pepper and a touch of adobo sauce, and cooked it in a cast iron skillet in the oven until it was fork tender. We shredded it, then transferred the skillet to the stove top and cooked it on a medium-high heat until it crisped up. Some fresh flour tortillas, tomatoes, lettuce, guacamole, salsa, rice and black beans and we were in culinary heaven. YUM. (The Mr. was inspired by Chipotle. I must admit that ours was better. :D)

Alrighty, my oats are ready to be topped with pecans and honey and om nommed by me. How is everyone? Good lord, it is 2009!

ETA: I'm freaking the hell out. My "first" [yes, that first] is evidently friends with the director of my second movie and they pal around. WHAT IS HAPPENING? MY WORLDS ARE COLLIDING. (The director, btw, is like, 26, ten years younger than us. First Time Sex lives in LA. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??)


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[info]drusplace
2009-01-05 03:55 pm UTC (link)
"Drusilla, Angelus and maybe Spike encountering Bella and Edward "

This is not just funny to you and I wish it would be written!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH had a lovely meal at a friends place last night. Homemade butternut squash with a few yams and potatoes thrown in soup (think a puree) followed by a LOVELY pork roast stuffed with a few garlic cloves with rosemary and a touch of garlic powder on top. YUM!

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Mmmm, I have a butternut squash in my possession, and it needs to be consumed soonish. Perhaps I'll attempt your dish for my lunch! YUM.

Let's see if I can do anything with that fic idea... I'm way out of practice.

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[info]lynnenne
2009-01-06 02:53 am UTC (link)
Kita and I are going to host a Spangel ficathon, so you can write it for that! (As long as there's some boysex in it.) It would be HILARIOUS.

I am so glad your holiday stress is OVER! Also, your song made me snort cola out my nose.

ILU, STONEY. ♥♥♥

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:25 pm UTC (link)
There wasn't any smut in it, just a random meeting - then again, the fic doesn't even exist yet... LOL.

LYNNE I LOVE YOU FOR LAUGHING AT MY SONG!! And for more than that, but you catch my meaning. ;)

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[info]liz_marcs
2009-01-05 04:02 pm UTC (link)
You realize that upon mentioning James Fennimore Cooper, I must post my favorite pre-Internet flame evar:

Mark Twain on the Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.

If you are not snorting like a waterbuffalo with laughter by the end...seriously. Twain could be eeeeeeevol when he wanted to be.

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 04:15 pm UTC (link)
Mark Twain is my all-time favorite. The man practically invented proper snark. (Have you read all the things he had to say about the Mormons? Ahahahahaha. Good stuff.)

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[info]gehayi
2009-01-05 04:38 pm UTC (link)
Mark Twain is my all-time favorite. The man practically invented proper snark. (Have you read all the things he had to say about the Mormons? Ahahahahaha. Good stuff.)

Oooh, link?

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 05:17 pm UTC (link)
You could start by reading Roughing It, where he chronicles his visit and with his fabulous tongue in cheek humor.

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[info]gehayi
2009-01-05 05:20 pm UTC (link)
I've never seen that book, actually. Not in any collection of Twain (not even in my own collection) and not in any library. Is there something about it that makes it verboten?

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[info]jadeddm
2009-01-05 06:38 pm UTC (link)
I think I found it here. I haven't had a chance to read it through yet, but it's on my list of things to do.

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[info]fiveandfour
2009-01-05 04:20 pm UTC (link)
I'm half happy, half sad to be back to the routine. On the one hand, I didn't get through my holiday To Do list (not even close), so I feel as though I didn't accomplish anything. I did get relaxed, though not well rested (that's its own story), so I guess that's something. On the other hand, it's nice to have other things besides household chores occupying my mind space.

It kind of makes me wonder just how much humans need a routine - any routine, regardless of what it's for - to feel 'normal'. It also makes me wonder how in the hell I'm going to retire if it feels this good to be working outside the house after less than a week off at home.

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 05:17 pm UTC (link)
I'm definitely on the "needs routine" side of things. I very much need schedules to think properly. Plus, schedules allow me to ignore them, and satisfy the other part of my brain. :D

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[info]abusing_sarcasm
2009-01-05 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Your food makes me hungry. Mmmmmmmm.

Also Spike and Dru and Bella and Edward or whatever you would call it would be PRICELESS!!!! :D

I also have a butternut squash in my possession. Perhaps we should start a club! I get to be president. It was my idea.

And EW! to "the first" hanging about! Especially with younger men. Hm.

*hugs*

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 05:14 pm UTC (link)
MMMMM FOOD. I'm a fan. And I ask to be Vice President (rogue) to your President, thanks.

It's just bizarre that they know each other! HOW? HOW DO THEY KNOW EACH OTHER?! Crazy. IT IS CRAZY CAKES.

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[info]abusing_sarcasm
2009-01-05 05:19 pm UTC (link)
I'd hope that they'd dated, but that's just me.

You know - cuz he could never look at another woman again without seeing your face, yadda yadda yadda. So he turned to men in order to be able to be close to someone without thinking of you. *nods*

I have an active fantasy life. :D

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[info]dampersnspoons
2009-01-05 04:49 pm UTC (link)
DL is friends with your first?

WHAT THE FRACK?? Can we not ever meet new people who aren't somehow all friggin' connected? JESUS.

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I JUST CALLED YOU. What the hell, Beth?????? Isn't that insane?

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[info]anelith
2009-01-05 05:05 pm UTC (link)
Ohh, yes, that scene was seared into my brain! I really loved that movie, I don't care how cheesy some lines were. It had such visually beautiful scenes, shot in the mountains of my home state. *hearts NC*

Our holiday week was very relaxing, it was good. I think for once it was a benefit to be far, far away from family. We had no demands on our time other than our own wants/needs. The only chores or tasks we did were those that we actually wanted to do, that felt good to get done. The rest of the time we lazed around! Very selfish of us. :-)

Now it's back to the busy routine and work/school/activities...

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 05:12 pm UTC (link)
I looooved the exteriior shots of North Carolina, I mean, upstate New York. :D That one long shot of Bridal Veil Falls (before the infamous scene I mentioned) is stunning. And I love the implication that Daniel Day Lewis jumped into that. SUUUUUUURE. :D

North Carolina is utterly stunning.

How lovely for y'all to have some down tim! (Esp. after all the weather damage at your place!) I'm all about that lazing about bidness. Good times!!

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[info]brunettepet
2009-01-05 05:22 pm UTC (link)
Oh, please, everything about the Dru, Angelus, Spike , Bella encounter screams to be written. I'm all post-holiday cedar fever and head cold combined. WTF? I have the outside lights to take down and I want to make a shepherd's pie with grass fed lamb we got from the farmer's market this weekend *kicks stupid whatever the hell I've caught*

Our Christmas and New Year's were great. We lay about in our jammies and watched cheesy 70's chase movies (Grand Theft Auto, andyone?) and ate really, really well. Barbacoa style beef sounds fantastic. Nice and homey and just what the weather warrants.

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 06:36 pm UTC (link)
So far nothing is coming to me on the story front, aside from the original concept. I need to stop dicking around with Solitaire and try to write....

I'm so sorry about the cold, though! That's lousy. That shepherd's pie sounds DELISH, though. I hope you get to feeling better.

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[info]tabaqui
2009-01-05 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Routine is *awesome*.

That scene makes me cry. I know why he loves her. Because she's so *different*. She's obviously totally unsuited to his world, practically useless, fragile and ignorant. But she's there, with her sister, fighting every step, trying to hard.

He can't help but admire her spirit, and love her,as those kind of men are wont to do, the rough with the smooth.

I'm glad everyone hates Cooper's writing. I've never been able to bully my way through all of LofM and i thought it a personal failure but now! Even Twain hates him, so yay!
:)

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Oooh, I love routine. And I'm knocking out some words on that Last of the Mohicans front, so we'll see if I can turn it into anything.

I think EVERYONE hates Cooper, so don't beat yourself up! He's a lousy prose writer, that's for sure. Laborious doesn't even cut it.

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[info]mistletoe54
2009-01-05 06:47 pm UTC (link)
Look you: your routine is someone else's holiday over - mine! Five sets of someone alse's kids to try to get into the spirit of learning on a cold and snowy day is not my idea of fun. At least I get paid for it.

Eep that film skeered me. In fact, there was one particular scene where all the white folks are escaping and walking along this trail thing and the Injuns appear out of the long grass beside them. I found that extremely wiggy. The only other time I had a similar feeling was when I visited the battlefield at Culloden in Scotland. I guess I have an overactive imagination. Either that or it's a past life. He he.

James Horner wrote the music didn't he? He was a popular film music composer at the time. Braveheart and all that. Is he still?

Anyway, I was hungry before I read this post and now I am starving. You enabler you.

Also, Bella bitch-slapped by Drusilla sounds extremely laudable and full of laughs with Angelus sighing gustily in the background and Dru going 'Bad puppy' to Bella and Edward sparkling with incandescent rage and Spike snorting with suppressed glee.Yiss.

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:27 pm UTC (link)
Haha, your holiday is over and I get to lounge about eating peeled grapes and sipping cava! Except for how that means I have to get up early and shuttle people hither and yon... ;)

The second story isn't coming so far, but the first one is. And I really want the second story with sparkling and slapping...

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[info]absinthe_gypsy
2009-01-05 06:52 pm UTC (link)
I had wonderful holidays. although I must admit that in my case, returning to a normal routine means I'm willing to leave the house again. in my house everyones family is too far away to visit, and none of us like the insanity that happens outside the house LOL

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:28 pm UTC (link)
"none of us like the insanity that happens outside the house" HAHAHA. Normally that's how it is for us, too, but this year, they descended upon my house like locusts. :D

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[info]absinthe_gypsy
2009-01-06 07:39 pm UTC (link)
oh shit, it's one of the plagues of egypt!

LMAO it's always ionteresting when something unexpected like that happens

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[info]ethrosdemon
2009-01-05 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Are you REALLY wring Last of the Mohicans fic? I am impressed with your dedication to obsession. Right now I'm eating grapes (with seeds) and half-heartedly looking at jobs on craigslist. I suspect my motivation will continue to be lacking for the next couple days. This time of year is my low ebb.

That left over idea was inspired. I used the bones from our rib roast to make stock. Poor

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-05 07:15 pm UTC (link)
I think I am! I put the movie in to see if I'm making any sense because I'm clearly insane. Mmm, grapes! I'm eating leftover rice with Furikaki flakes and it's a party in my mouth.

If it helps, I'm still in half of my pajamas and eating lunch? Mmmm, laziness!

(Oooh, the carne asada was DELISH. I'm looking forward to any leftover pork for carnitas tomorrow.)

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Wait, I missed the important part of your comment: jobs on craiglists? You freaked or is this a preemptive strike kind of thing? Best of luck, and if you need me to pretend that you sat the MCATs, I can sound professional. ;)

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[info]ethrosdemon
2009-01-06 04:15 pm UTC (link)
hahaha I will totally hold you to the reference! Well, when you write for a living these things happen. I will be ok, don't worry.

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[info]kseenaa
2009-01-05 07:36 pm UTC (link)
Drusilla, Angelus and maybe Spike encountering Bella and Edward

Oh, gawd. Why hasn't anyone written this yet? Dru and Angelus would kick ass! "What? No sex for 100+ years? Whats wrong with you?"

Anyway. Almost through Eclipse. Worst one yet!

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Oh, you have NO IDEA. Breaking Dawn is def. the worst one!!

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[info]kseenaa
2009-01-06 02:44 pm UTC (link)
According to my best friend who has finished it, it is so much crack you laugh your as off at that alone. :-P

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[info]dovil
2009-01-05 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Maybe Buffy and Bella can meet up and Buffy can be all "Angel's my entire life", and Bella can be all, "Nooo, Edward's my entire life and he broods like no other!" and then Buffy can kick Bella through a wall because even though at the end of the day they both went through an unfortunate co-dependance on bloodsuckers routine, at least Buffy grew out of it to an extent and is a person in her own right. Or something.

(I know nothing about Twilight except what you wrote about it (in fact had to google Bella and Edward to find out the reference), but I'm guessing that Edward wears black and broods a lot, it seems to be a given since it's for the moody teenage audience.)

Or maybe since both Buffy and Bella are into the whole overly dramatic music swelling hyper romance of it all and both have almost the same name, they can shack up together while Angel and Edward get all emo and nobody around them can tell the difference.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! You should wander around the house naked drinking tequilla from the bottle, just because you can, yay!

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:31 pm UTC (link)
Happy new Year to you, too!! Ahahahaha, you always know how to lure me in with the good story telling. That's EXACTLY how I imagined it! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm moving on from tequila to rum, and I have to wear socks and nothing else. It's a ritualistic thing. Like a religion, but with booze. Best. REligion. Ever.

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[info]dovil
2009-01-06 11:40 pm UTC (link)
I wish to sign up to your religion - especially if we can sacrifice some nachos to the rum god.

You know what I think - all these romance stories where the women are completely lame and generic with no personalities - it's totally freudian. They're all out to replace their parents with another parent figure that'll take care of them and make all the decisions so that they can be the perpetual child.

But on the bright side, at least we always get first dibs on the lifeboats.

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[info]jazzqueen
2009-01-05 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Drusilla, Angelus and maybe Spike encountering Bella and Edward

Hilarity ensues! I will be thrilled if you write this :D

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:32 pm UTC (link)
Haha, me too! *stares at blank page*

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[info]chosen0112
2009-01-05 11:23 pm UTC (link)
Oooh Le Crueset...Isn't it just divine to cook with? Can you believe I'm drooling over cookware! I purchased TLOTM in a second hand bookstore, thinking it might be a good read. How wrong could I be!
I love your Buffy/Twilight idea....the potential for Bella torture is intriguing.
Lastly, OMFG why can't firsts just move to another freakin' dimension? You know, you could (when in his earshot) talk about how much your sex life rocks now, and how your husband makes anyone else look like they have a fleas penis. I know I would!!

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:33 pm UTC (link)
I TOTALLY drool over cookware. I also got a few more All-Clad pieces to round out my collection and I LOVE my new saucier. <3

Oh, isn't that book horrible? Boring as all hell and a muddle of jumbled up phrases. Crap.

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[info]darlas_mom
2009-01-06 01:15 am UTC (link)
::salivates:: Can I come have dinner at your house? (I am not a bad cook, just a lazy one; tonight was Mac & Cheese with hot dogs, because the thought of putting effort into real cooking just didn't seem appealing when today was my first day off after cooking and dealing with family 24/7 over the holidays.)

As funny as Bella and Edward vs S/D/A sounds, I totally wanna beg you for the "Last of the Mohicans" fic. I've always wondered what Uncas was doing with Alice, too! At best, I've managed to come up with a patronizing and slightly misogynistic "he fell for the woman who needed his manly strength" idea that just doesn't sit well with me. (I think Uncas is better than that!)

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:33 pm UTC (link)
I started writing it up last night, today I get to see if it's any good or just utter crap. Bah, I'm out of practice big time.

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[info]mosrael
2009-01-06 04:37 am UTC (link)
Congrats on routine-returning! In celebration, I bring you these lulz.

This post made me think of you. Also, cats=love.

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[info]mosrael
2009-01-06 04:40 am UTC (link)
OK, in all fairness perhaps this is a more useful link. *edges out of the room*

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[info]stoney321
2009-01-06 01:22 pm UTC (link)
That's a great blog you linked to! I've reading about Oskar all morning. :D

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[info]windstar
2009-01-06 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Ok, I am definitely coming to your house to eat this week. In my house we are clearing out the freezers, so it is burritos and chili and whatever that stuff in that freezer bag is...and I LOVE carne asada!

Wes Studi is one of my crushes from way back, I have loved him in every movie I have seen him in, even when he was the bad guy.

I would so read Drusilla, Angelus and maybe Spike encountering Bella and Edward, especially if you wrote it!

Otherwise all is well, engagement is on and life motors on. We are learning that taking that $10 an hour paycut was probably not our best move, but are adjusting.

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