Lurker's Corner

Is dismissing the little "time to work...38 mins" (down to 26 mins as time goes on) that Google sends me. zzzzpGONE.

Also, tumblr surfing. someone asked Mackie and Evans which Disney princesses they would be. Mackie = Cinderella because she's broke and Evans = Belle because bookish and not into Gaston, which got me thinking about which Disney princess I'd be.

Belle is a front runner based on bookishness and wolf whacking in the snow. (Never gratuitous wolf whacking, of course; only the threatening wolves.)

Aurora based on my current, fighting a cold before Dragoncon, sleep tendencies is making a showing.

Cinderella put up with some shit and stayed cool. I like that in a girl, especially since I'm having more trouble than I thought I would emulating it.

If not for the dinglehopper incident (trying a little too hard to fit in,) my fellow swimmy Ariel would be right up there. But. Dinglehopper incident. Also, sellout for a man. Yeah, no.

Merida? She's a redhead, I'm a redhead. She's a Scot, I have Scottish tendencies. Prima facie...no, wait. Remember that scene during the archery contest for who gets to date Merida? When her mother is going don't you dare? And Merida does this look and looses the fooking arrow more or less in Mom's face?




Yeah. I'm Merida.

The one I never actually announced I was going on? My cruise was outstanding, barring a one-night test of how good a sailor I am (very, was the answer.) I went wine tasting in Santa Barbara (link is to the only winery whose name I remember which also happened to be the first we visited DON'T JUDGE ME,) visited a wild animal sanctuary in San Diego, saw the Queen Mary in Long Beach and got a hot stone massage instead of going ashore in Ensenada, Mexico.

My parents' cruise, on the other hand, sucked mightily. That first excursion to the four wineries, only one of which I remember clearly enough to get a name? Santa Barbara is a tender port for Princess, which for the uninitiated means you have to take a boat into port from the ship. Mom slipped and fell on the tender gangway, but gamely rode the tender into port before discovering she for serious and for real couldn't put weight on the same hip she damaged years ago in a wreck when at age 60, she was deemed too young for a hip replacement and pinned back together willy-nilly.

Long story short, we know as of this morning that the fall fractured the hip, which was not visible in the X-ray taken by the ship's doctor, and moving between the bed and bathroom on board completed the journey to fully broken hip. On the ship, still thinking it was a deep soft tissue injury, Mom spent most of the time in bed with mostly Frank and occasionally me waiting on her hand and foot.

The biggest favor her doctor could do himself is to tell her she's still too young at 74 for a hip replacement after the ordeal they put her through in the hospital this morning, best summed up by my mother snapping "don't you people talk to each other??" At least they warned me before my eye surgery that everyone would be asking me the same questions to avoid errors.

Why did I have fun on my cruise while my parents were experiencing the tortures of the nautically damned? Because they threatened to throw me overboard if someone didn't have fun, and they could both teach stubborn to a mule.

Iam not here.Seriously. I'm in lacerville,CA, until New Year's eve, posting from my Blackberry, eating cranberry relish and getting berry scented massages at the local day spa. I (heart) my Christmas vacation. Of course, I am now two weeks behind on SGA porn. If you would care to perform one last charitable act for 2006, please comment withlinks to the best stories you've seen go up since 0december 15 to cushion the blow on Sunday of returning to a world of cooking my own food, rubbing my own feet and maidservanting two cats. The world is just a better place when I am well porned. Altenatively, the bitterly envious among you can pre-emptively attempt to top the "I flew through Denver Interational right after a snowstOrm" horror story I will no doubt be working on. I druther have the porn, tho. :)

I'm back from vacation now. [cheeZee grin] Miss me?
( The summer vacation in brief )
How was y'all's last few weeks?