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This is everything from January, 2007 and onward. Before that, it'll be at my AO3 page.

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Current Mood: relaxed

I have a bag of Tyson (Cooked) Breaded Chicken Tenders. It got left out and defrosted (completely, as I understand it), and when Matthew discovered it, he put it in the freezer. It's now completely refrozen.

Am I risking food poisoning if I heat these tenders up and eat them tomorrow? (or, well, later today)

I wouldn't even consider it with raw, uncooked chicken, but these are the pre-cooked tenders that you heat in the oven.

Thoughts?

All my holiday cards have been mailed! *collapses*

For those of you who have little ones, don't forget to Track Santa this year.

One of my favorite holiday-themed stories ever, a series of five (unrelated) shorts by

chase_acow: Five Ways Jensen met Jared at the mall during the holiday season. My favorite is the first one. I can't read it without crying :)

Some holiday music links:

The best version of my favorite Christmas song ever: Bob Seger - Little Drummer Boy

Another favorite Christmas song: Nsync - I Guess It's Christmas Time

A song that supposedly wasn't written about Christmas at all, but is still a favorite of mine this time of year: Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

One which I can't listen to without thinking of Brokeback Mountain, and my Joey/JC a/u where Joey owns a ranch *g* John Denver - Christmas for Cowboys.

Bob Segar doing Little Drummer Boy live, in Ypsilanti, MI (file format: .mp4, size: ~85MB)

( And finally, for those of you who are 80's kids like me, the original BandAid doing 'Do They Know It's Christmas': )

Hope you enjoy the links :) Happy holidays, everyone. *hugs*

http://raemia.livejournal.com/18347.html - a FAQ of stuff concerning and related to Release 88

Well, two links *g*

http://helens78.dreamwidth.org/1179580.html - A very poignant story about Fandom. And Livejournal.

http://factionary.livejournal.com/2116.html - the author of this titled the entry "Reasons to move to Dreamwidth". I found it more interesting just for a list of the way

igrick is behaving; how little he cares about Livejournal's userbase.

I don't know, y'all. Will I move exclusively to Dreamwidth (or anywhere else)? Not likely, at least not any time real soon. I am in the queue to (finally) import my LJ over to the DW account, and I may start doing the cross-posting thing (or not, I haven't decided). I'm kind of waiting to see what, if anything, LJ does in response to the 10,000 or so comments its received regarding this latest code push.

Someone posted...somewhere, I can't recall now if it was in the

lj_releases post, or somewhere else...that DW had somewhere in the vicinity of 21,500 new accounts created yesterday. That translates into a hell of a lot of lost revenue for Livejournal -- whether from paid accounts, account extras (icons, v-gifts, userheads), or just ad revenue. I was thinking of lost revenue in terms of paid accounts, etc., and then saw someone commenting in response to a user saying "I'll just let all my paid accounts expire and be a basic (free) account"...that unless you have an Ad Block program, LJ will still get revenue from the ads on the site for every basic account user. I'm not sure how that works, if you have to click on an ad or if they get some revenue just from the ad being there when a user logs in, but yeah. If I had the option of a paid account expiring and just using a free account, I would pack up in a minute and head out.

For now I suppose I should quit fretting about this and go get some stuff done.

ETA: A third link: http://news.livejournal.com/140511.html?thread=98346463&style=mine#t98346463

In addition to the glitch (or whatever) that has caused custom comment pages to be disabled, it seems that some people who turned OFF automatic payments are finding those have been turned back on. Y'all might want to double-check, if you turned yours off.

Proposed upcoming changes - http://manonon.livejournal.com/6816.html (This user has only translated the original proposed/prototype page. The actual prototype page is here: http://tema.livejournal.com/1042212.html, and it's in Russian.)

Scroll down to "settings" and click on "userpics".

They're taking away the extra line where we credit who the icon maker is. You'll have the option of browse the computer or enter a link, and one line to put text/keywords.

Also, from Twitter:

igrick: @veselova102 They don't like that we've removed the comments subject.
veselova102: @igrick they'll get used to it :)
igrick: @veselova102 I've no doubts ;)

Way to stay classy, LJ employees.

(Not that I'm holding my breath.)

Petition: Livejournal, stop changing what isn't broken.

No, this isn't my petition; I found it while perusing the comments on

lj_releases "Release 88" post. But just in case anyone else wants to sign it... :)

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The most recent changes to LJ. The home page looks bulky and clunky. I keep wanting to downsize the print, but that isn't going to fix it. Also, the new comment pages? No. No thank you, even.

I've been on LJ for nearly a decade. I got an account reluctantly, because I didn't think I would be able to find time to do anything with a journal. Now it's kind of my link to social, cultural, political, everything. But for each "fix" you do on something that wasn't broken to begin with, LJ, you make me want to go somewhere else. Yes, I have a permanent account, so you're not making money off me in that regard. But, finances allowing, I buy extra icon packages. I buy virtual gifts for friends. I buy paid time for others when and where I can.

You probably won't really notice a difference in your revenue if I, by myself, were to leave. You might not notice it if a hundred or even a thousand people leave and take their business elsewhere. But I'd be willing to bet eventually the numbers will stop working in your favor. Maybe then you'll wish you'd actually embraced the concept of 'customer service', and listened to your userbase.

One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

I wish every teacher was this open-minded -- because teaching kids as young as first graders, that's when they're most open and accepting of things.

I feel like I'm still in a constant state of catch-up, from setting everything to the side while I finished up finals and so on. In the last couple of weeks I've had wonderful mail! Thank you to

twasadark,

mistyzeo,

azziria,

agt_spooky,

dine,

kashmir1,

zortified and

rainbow for the cards that have brightened up my home :)

meinnim, thank you for the card and the magnets. They're on my fridge, adding to my fannish representation there.

chase_acow, thank you for the card and the SG1 dvds.

Also! Huge thanks to

pensnest for her gift, and to the anonymous someone who sent me a Kroger gift card. You are awesome :)

Now I just have to get my cards done and mailed...

I have a story I'm writing for my nieces, for their Christmas present. I'm hoping to be done with it soon. Is there anyone who would be able to read it over for me and tell me if it needs anything added or changed, or whatever? It's at about 1700 words right now; I figure it'll end up between 2500-3000 words.

This is aimed at little girls, almost-seven, and eight, so think princesses and magic and talking mice.

Thanks :)

Got it sorted, thank you :)

Colombian Bishop Worries That Gay Dad Could Develop Sexual Attraction To His Two Adopted Boys

When asked about Mr Burr’s suitability as a father the bishop said, “I do not know him and I am not accusing him of anything, but one thing is clear and that is that he has homosexual tendencies and he is going to receive a boy of 10-years-old and an adolescent of 13, and between them there won’t be a father-son relationship.” He continued, “He will receive two children at an age when they may be attractive to him, which could be a temptation“.

To balance the crazy a little, though, is this fantastic article about a supportive family with a transgender child: Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality. The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care. Check the first page for a picture of the now-14-year-old twins, Jonas and Nicole.

I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/20016/uncensor

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"A Muppet Christmas Carol". It started out as a small-child-friendly concession, because I love the original black-and-white 'A Christmas Carol', but it was too creepy for my son when he was really little. But it evolved into Christmas Eve tradition: we sit down with snacks and blankets on the couch, and pop in the Muppet Christmas Carol.

There are others we enjoy watching (including, now, the original Christmas Carol), but that one remains a constant, have-to-watch-it-on-Christmas-Eve :)

Episode: 2x12 - Alaheo Pau'ole
Format: .avi
Size: ~348.9 MB
Link: Megaupload

Enjoy :)

Shamelessly ~~stolen~~ borrowed from

faunaana; this dude bears more than a passing resemblance to one Jared Padalecki (at least from the side). YUM.

( Cutting for not-quite-safe-for-work, sideways nudity. )

chemm80 has done a podfic of my 2010 Big Bang, Out of the Night That Covers Me!

Details and links here, at her journal. :)

And because I don't think I ever squeed happily about it here,

exmanhater did podfic for my 2009 Big Bang, This Course We Plotted, as well as all the timestamps. Links are here.

Fandom is awesome, y'all.

So, I'm sitting here on the couch in my nightgown, covered up with a comforter while I finish my final chapter of homework. I haven't showered today, I haven't brushed my teeth, or my hair -- in short, I'm a mess (and I don't care because it's 630p and I'm ALMOST DONE WITH SCHOOLWORK).

Matthew just called me and said, "hey, mom, Justin's got some friends over and he wants to bring them over to meet you now, is that okay?"

*facepalm*

Needless to say, I said NO.

Title: Blood Debt
Pairing: Sam/Ruby; implied past Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Words: ~900
Warnings: Blood play/consumption; ( Under cut. )
Spoilers: None
A/N: I re-watched some of S4 last night – particularly 4x09 /4x10 – and this just kind of popped into my head. I'm still amazed that I was able to write something, even if it wasn't either of the things I need to be writing. Hope you enjoy :)
Summary: It's been days since she fed him and hunger rattles through him, sharp and bright; a knife-edge slicing into him.

( Blood Debt )

( President Roosevelt called it 'a date which live in infamy'. )

A lot of time has gone by since that date. It's been 70 years. The majority of the survivors of Pearl Harbor -- and WWII in general -- are gone; the ones who are still around are in their late 80's and 90's. There's been a lot of wars and conflicts fought since then, and horrible, tragic events get lost within a tide of other horrible, tragic events.

I read an article on CNN.com yesterday, where concern was expressed by the Pearl Harbor survivors, about how it's not being mentioned much any more. Matthew told me tonight that nothing was ever mentioned in his American history class about Pearl Harbor. This makes me so sad, because tragedy -- wherever it happened, whenever it happened, whoever it happened to -- shouldn't ever be forgotten.

I've heard and read in different places (including the article linked above) that members of our government (the US, that is) made it possible for the attack to happen. I don't know how much truth there is or isn't to that. But however it came about, it needs to be remembered.

It needs to be remembered so it never happens again, anywhere, ever.

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