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And so it continues...

So the daughter has discovered “Victorious” (Nickelodeon tv show, for those of you who don’t know) - not the first show she’s loved but it’s hardcore this one, We I’ve songs on heavy Spotify rotation, she loves Beck, it’s a true fandom thing she has going on.

To the point that she has looked it up online because she’s just been telling me about Bade vs Bori and explained in serious detail that some people want Beck with Jade and some want Beck with Tori but there are some people who think that Tori and Andre would make a good couple...

And all I’m thinking is “my baby is old enough to tell me about a ship war, when did that happen?!”

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Tumbleweed blowing through...

Here I am again, having been hideously remiss in posting here. I think I say this every time I post here now, don't I?

I miss LJ based fandom!

I have been writing, though my stuff goes up at AO3 these days... I think it's because at the moment I seem to have time to either write and post to AO3 or put stuff up on LJ/DW but not to do both. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the hits counter there, it provided interesting reading this morning, as I filled a lonely prompt for comment fic yesterday - MCU, Steve/Darcy, two blue lines - with 200 odd words of fluff. Waking up this morning, less than 12 hours after putting it up, it has 608 views and 53 kudos. I honestly believe if you added up the hits/kudos of my last ten stories, you would not get those numbers!

Nimoy is currently 6 and up to high doh over Christmas. The Elf on the Shelf has been faithfully moved every night and is currently sitting on the tree, waiting for Santa. Himself is working tomorrow, assuming he can shift the bug he has. (I have a cold, his is so much worse. He says.)

I have not seen any of season 2 of The Flash (but am spoilered!) since I watch that with Himself and we're doing an X Files rewatch before the miniseries in January. Just got to the end of season 8 and I still wish the snow had ended on that shot! Finding myself enjoying the MSR more than I did back in the day. I still adore Skinner and love Doggett, and have a new appreciation for Krycek... How they kept bringing him back and you never knew who he was really loyal to, apart from himself.

I have seen Supergirl, up to ep 7 and am really enjoying it. Some of the writing can be a bit clunky but Melissa Benoist is charming, they're doing a good job with Cat and Kara/James, I am all in for. I thought Lucy would annoy me but not so far. Winn, on the other hand... Yeah. Especially after the end of ep 7. *seethes*

That much said, I hope everyone has a very happy Christmas!

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Fic round up...

Tomorrow is Thursday and the only good thing that can be said about this week is that it's going faster than last week which I swear lasted ten weeks all on its own. There's a nice storm brewing outside, Himself is downstairs with a blood pressure monitor on him because, you know, having three discs out in his neck is not medical problem enough for one person, and I'm waiting for Nimoy to fall asleep because she says she's scared of the wind outside. I don't know if she is or if this is tonight's tactic in the never ending war of "Mammy, I'm going to miss you."

This is when I stick on Darius Rucker's "It Won't Be Like This For Long" and play it loud.

Spent last night trying to get caught up on school paperwork, and I now only have one monthly report to do. (Not for nothing does the Irish name for a monthly report have for its first syllable a certain four letter word beginning with C that I never use.) Of course this week is the second of the fortnight so I now get to sit down and do my fortnightly plan, so I'll soon be just as behind again. Oh well. Four weeks to midterm?

In nicer thoughts, here are some random fics posted over the last week or so, all at AO3.

The Enlightened Self Interest Suggestion- Sleepy Hollow, Jenny/Frank, 530 words. Jenny and Frank take a step forward in their relationship.

A New Life -- The Following, Mike/Debra, 6160 words. As the committee hearings begin, Ryan tries to findsl a way to go on with his life.

After the End -- Sleepy Hollow, Frank/Jenny, 671 words. After the end is where life begins

what could she have done, being what she is -- Sleepy Hollow, Frank/Jenny, 447 words. Jenny has trust issues.

Battle -- Veronica Mars, Weevil/Veronica, 351 words. Wading into battle.

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Sleepy Hollow

So despite being way behind on UK tv showings, and them being behind the States, I spoiled myself purposely for the SH mid season finale, because reasons. Thoughts behind the cut, spoilers, naturally. ( unthinky thoughts )

I've not posted here much for the last few weeks but I have still been writing. Lots of Sleepy Hollow, all on my AO3 page. I seem to update that more frequently for some reason, less so here, don't know why.

In a completely other note, Nimoy is five tomorrow. Five! My baby! When did that happen?!

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Glee and random family blather...

So since I'm going to a Glee convention tomorrow and it's the season five Nationals episode on Sky One tonight, and since Himself is on a night shift, I decided to look at it.
( cut for spoilers, just in case )

In other news, I have successfully completed my online course, which will be nice as I now won't have to be chasing it up the last week in August, which makes a nice change.

Nimoy is starting school in September. Hold me.

I am taking parental leave for the first four weeks so won't be going back until September 29. Just before the holidays, we got served notice of a department inspection. The team will be arriving for a week, guess when? If you said September 29, you get a prize! So my first day back is the first day of the inspection... slightly freaking out about that. The only thing I keep telling myself is that they can't come in to me on the first day, because who would do that? They'll have to leave me until the end of the week (I am hoping they'll run out of time, TBH!) and anything that they say will have to be viewed through the prism of "I am literally 3/4/5 days in this room; I barely know their names yet."

That is my hope; I'll probably still be weeping in the corner on the night of the 28th though!

I have, however, ordered Himself that he MUST be off work on the Saturday of that week. Because there's going to be a hell of a night out on the Friday and I'm not gonna be on Nimoy duty while I'm recovering!

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Cute non VM movie related story

Just back from watching Veronica Mars movie-thoughts tomorrow!

Just snuggled up with a sleepy little girl who asked me how my trip was. I told her it was very good but I was happy to be home with her.

She replied "And I'm so happy to be here with you Mammy," and turned around and fell back asleep.

Just wanted to share!

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NaBloPoMo Day 12 and 13

Missed yesterday so here's a two-fer!

12 Okay. Let's be real. We all have lives outside of fandom. What else are you obsessed with, or particularly good at, that most LJ'ers don't know about?

And mind promptly goes blank!

I think most LJers know that I'm a teacher; I'm not sure if they know that I'm very good at maths- I was that girl in the class who didn't have to think about the answer but could just get it and figure it out, and if all else failed looked at the answer and work backwards. I don't know if people know that I like photography and that I'm good at it, even if I don't get to do it as much as I would like...

That really sounds like I'm bragging to me, and I'm not good at that!

13 Post a photo that you love.

Not the best one I've ever taken but this is my little Neverland Pirate all dressed up for Halloween!
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in which the apple does not fall far from the tree...

Not had a Nimoy story here in some time...

So this morning, I left her downstairs playing when I went to get dressed. When I was ready, I went to the top of the stairs and called her to come up so I could get her dressed.

"In a minute!" she calls back.

I can hear her chattering away to her toys so gave her a minute and grabbed her clothes, and I'd just done that when she appears and tells me, "Mammy, I was just making up a story. Because there was a fire in Peppa Pig's house and Fireman Sam had to come and save her."

When I went downstairs with her, sure enough, the Peppa Pig house was out and Jupiter beside it, with Cnady Cat in the crane part and Nimoy proceeds to re-act out the whole story for me.

Three and a half years old and she's making up fanfic - crossovers to boot! Proof I did not take the wrong child home from the hospital!

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Today is Nimoy's third birthday. I have many thoughts about that, someday I might even put them into words.

This is my first time posting to the new LJ posting page. Man, I see what people on ye olde f-list have been complaining about.

I have been writing over the last few days and I don't want to jump the gun or anything but I am looking at my cotton candy bingo card in Evernote, the one I've been highlighting as I go along?

Every square is highlighted.

Unless I've made a boo-boo somewhere, I may, in fact, have achieved a black out.

Now I just have to post them!

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Have now checked and Husband's state of the art blu ray player does indeed play data discs. Including all my Fame discs that

cheapevilgirl burned for me back before Nimoy came along. *squee* This also promises great things for the other files that have mysteriously found their way onto my computer of their own accord; to wit, seasons two and three of Picket Fences, seasons five and six of LA Law (Grace/Victor FTW!!!! The reunion movie never happened!) and season two of Boomtown (which has some of the best Joel/Teresa, not to mention Shirtless!Donnie).

I want to marry this player and call it George.

Summer course continues in the same vein; spent the first hour and a half today being told how to surf the internet. (Sample question from one of the other teachers on the course; "so, hang on, the g in gmail, does it stand for google then, because it seems like they're linked." I managed not to weep.) We did get to learn a couple of search term short cuts, interesting ways to use google docs and a crash course in delicious.com so all was not lost.

Nimoy came up to me today, at random, hit me on the arm and said "Mammy, you're it!" and ran off. No idea where she got that from but when I asked her she said "Ben and Holly". Who says kids don't learn anything from tv?

Speaking of Nimoy, here, have a picture.

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Photo spam!

Haven't done a Nimoy spam post in a while....she'll be two and a half on Monday, people! Where did the time go?

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Trying to organise invitations for my dad's 60th birthday party in a month's time. Why do I not have an appropriate "head/desk interface" icon? Because by the time this is over I think I'm going to need it!

Bit the bullet and signed up both for

mentalist_bb (for which I have a plot) and for

smallfandombang, for which I don't even have a fandom. Castle apparently no longer qualifies, but any of the other ones I mentioned are fine. As, I'm fairly sure, are quite a few I didn't mention. I mean, small fandoms? When do I write in large ones any more??? *g*

Nimoy is a year and nine months today. Where did that time go?

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OK, so is there anyone out there who could shed some light on why in the name of sanity Firefox is refusing to connect to the internet on my laptop, but Internet Explorer is working just fine and dandy? Huh?

Back to school tomorrow for half day of staff meeting and half day of classroom planning. Fun times. Kids in on Thursday.

Please remind me next year to not go on holidays for a week the week before school goes back. Abigail, having slept in a cot in the same room as us for a week, now does not want to go to sleep on her own. Sunday, it wasn't an issue because she was so tired she just conked out. Yesterday it took nearly an hour and a half for her to go asleep, tonight 45 minutes. Both times, I used Supernanny's Sleep Separation technique, bless you Jo Frost wherever you are.

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Trying this out from iPhone. This is the only dog she will have!

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So what's that old saying, man plans, God laughs? Never a truer word!

There I am, last night, and I'm all, tomorrow, sex talk people coming in, I can sit at the back of the room and get all my reports done, la la la... Today at half nine, I get a phone call from smiley_b who tells me HelsinkiMammy can't find my work number and I'm not answering my mobile, since it's on silent, but Nimoy is screaming hysterically non stop for the last hour and can I come home? I do, we head to the doctor and it turn out poor Nimoy has an ear infection in her two ears. We are thinking that it's tooth related but we're not sure. Either way, she is a sad little poppet.

Thankfully NewHelsinkiPrincipal was very understanding when I told her that I wouldn't be back today, and that my reports would not be in on the due date that is tomorrow ( because seriously, I had a day where i was supposed to sit in my classroom while someone else takes my class and this is to happen the day before reports are due. Look in the dictionary, you'll find it under good timing!) Tomorrow? I'm writing like there is no tomorrow!

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According to People Bruce Boxleitner and Melissa Gilbert have separated. I find this quite sad considering they've been together for sixteen years, and I have discovered anew my Bruce love following spending weekend mornings with Abigail looking at Scarecrow and Mrs King!

Thank you for your lovely comments about the cuteness that is my daughter! I may not have replied personally yet but I agree with you all!!!

Only one more day of school til the most difficult entrance exam and I am so ready to be done with the blasted things! Have promised kids that Monday we'll watch Michael Collins..we've been studying him in history so I figure why not? Will lead into discussion of fact vs fiction in the film, I hope, and writing a film review, most definitely!

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Gratitude post..

Things for which I am grateful today...

Recent political events in Ireland have ensured that my SPHE lessons for the month of February will, literally, plan themselves.

Compounding what we thought was a Christmas miracle, Nimoy continues to mostly sleep through the night, and when she does wake, she's mostly able to settle herself back.

Canadian nationals spoiler

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Have not yet used this tool to cut tag, unsure of how it will turn out!

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Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Nimoy enjoyed her first proper Christmas, loved the trike Santa left for her, and the rock and ride Lotty Ladybird that he left at Nanny and Grandad's!!! Good time had by all.

Couple of fic recs that I want to remember...

The Sky at Stonehenge by

yahtzee64 - Doctor Who, Martha/Mickey and it's lovely! Summary: "How'd you get my phone number?" "UNIT." "Figures."

Not got far into Yuletide yet but I did find two...

A Little Help, Sports Night, implied Dan/Natalie, Summary: Casey has decided there are some areas in which Dan cannot be left to his own devices.

Easier Than You Know, Law and Order UK, Matt/Alesha, explicit content and spoilers for 1x07 Alesha. Summary: Written as part of Yuletide Madness. "Matt never pushes for anything, and Alesha takes things precisely as far as she wants to, and so far, this state of affairs is working out for her just fine."

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Off today because of huge amounts of snow that fell yesterday and overnight (seriously, driving up the hill to get to our place last night? Never been so scared driving a car.) Off again tomorrow and since we're supposed to be closing for a half day for the Christmas holidays on Thursday I have my doubts that we'll be in... not so much the snow seems to be the problem as that our twelve prefab classrooms have frozen pipes and thus no water. (Also, are freezing cold even with the heat going full blast but that's another issue.)

Used the day to clean the house and finally put all the pictures into Abigail's "First Year" frame that Nana got us last year. It looks deadly if I do say so myself!

Abigail has been to see Santa...not too chuffed with him but have the photo of her sitting on his lap so yay.

Fandom related question - Continuum was on Sky over the weekend and we had it on in the background. (Hey it makes a change from Waybuloo and WotWots.) Do we know what happened to the Cameron who was sent back in time and saved the day? (May have asked before but remember not.) Any fic out there about it?