Katy's Friends
 
 [Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends View]

Below are the most recent 25 friends' journal entries.

    [ << Previous 25 ]
    Monday, December 1st, 2008
    asylum_promo
    [ immortalje ]
         		8:15p
    various asylums
    [info]dw_fest is a challenge community, inspired by slashfest @ LJ with the difference that this fest is limited to Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures (and any other show/movie/etc related to them)
    - For questions, check out this post
    - Rules can be found here
    CLAIMING PROMPTS IS OPEN! Go check them out here

    [info]tv_icontest is a multifandom icontest. Every challenge will be centered around a different TV Show.
    The current challenge is all about Sarah Jane Adventures. Entries are due on 6 December (Saturday). To enter go here.

    [info]10prompts is a challenge community for fic writers. Right now there are 10 tables (10 prompts each) to pick from. All fandoms as well as slash, het and gen are welcome. All questions can be asked in the rules post.

    [info]harry_slash is for stories, art and anything else that features Harry Potter in a slash pairing. It's open for any rating and pairing (as long as it features Harry and is slash of course ;) ). Any questions left? Ask here.

    [info]stargate_xover is a place where you can post anything that's a crossover with either of the Stargate series. Any rating and any pairing is welcome. Questions can be asked here.

    [info]dw_threesomes is for any and all threesomes for Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sara Jane Adventures. Comment here for questions.

    [info]fandom_caps is an asylum where you can post and/or request screencaps for any TV show, movie, you love. We're open to all fandoms! Go here for the rules, questions and more.

    [info]icon_help is a place to share tips about making icons, post tutorials and questions. You're also welcome to share locations(!) of resources such as screencaps, brushes and textures you like to use.

    Current Mood: cold
    Sunday, November 30th, 2008
    asylum_promo
    [ lalique ]
         		11:13p
    Asylum Adoption
    [info]asylum_adoption

    For people who want to give away Asylums they have created but no longer want
    asylum_promo
    [ your_mods ]
         		11:56p
    [info]your_song
    ( Graphic under cut )

    Your Song is a present day RPG that takes place at the fictional Presley School for the Performing Arts in Yonkers, New York, just outside of New York City.

    Students must audition for a specialty (dance, music, art, technical theatre, drama) to obtain a coveted spot at this prestigious academy.

    All characters in the game are based on famous songs!

    Characters are in their junior and senior years of high school, and must be pursuing some career in the arts.

    So why don't you tell everybody that this is your song by placing a hold today?

    MANY songs are still available, and almost any song will be allowed as long as you can create a character that is in the essence of the original song.

    Launch Game Information in New Window

    Presley School for the Performing Arts ♫ Game Rules
    Characters ♫ Holds ♫ Application

    [info]your_song ♫♪♫ [info]your_mods ♫♪♫ [info]your_ooc
    Monday, December 1st, 2008
    justhuman
         		12:48a
    November wrap up
    Well, most of the wrap up --

    First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! -- Really, really late. I'm remember that I sucked at doing this in a timely manner. So starting where I left off in mid-October:

    November

    December



    Wow, I hope that looks right - I'm trusting Semagic to code that all right. Tossed in the first couple of December b-days as well. Hope everyone had/is having/will have a fabulous time. With special smooches to my wife, [info]thebratqueen, and [info]rockin_violin, who rents me da Boys :-D

    ***

    My word counts are scattered across two computers, so I'll have to do the full stats later this week. For now, I closed out [info]writenao with 217 more words today. No completed stories, but I did manage to make some progress on two of them...maybe three. Really, my brain needs to focus on one of them and let the rest of the bunnies starve in the wilderess ;-P

    ***

    I finished cleaning out the spare room today - Woo-hoo! I have the laundry drying in there now, but that's easy to take out. Next Friday I believe I have a date with the scrapper and the wall paper. Next Friday because I believe that I will be too busy early in the week to consider an evening house project because,

    ***

    Tomorrow - er...later today, I'll be heading out the the ends of the universe. That's right folks, I've got a ride along with one our field engineers to see a live customer install -- out on Long Island. Hey, I'm betting the Long Islanders have nothin' good to say 'bout Jersey!

    BUT! the most important part of the trip will be that I will have a [info]makd and the rest of you won't! :-D Well worth traveling to the ends of the earth to meet up with cool on-line buds :-)
    Sunday, November 30th, 2008
    asylum_promo
    [ liferphoenix ]
         		6:16p
    [info]neutralground Via [info]liferphoenix I dare you to do something different.
    whedonupdates 5:33p
    Update #257 - November 30th, 2008

    http://community.livejournal.com/whedon_updates/66949.html

    Updated WiPs
    </a></b></a>[info]velvetwhip - Boats Against the Current, Chapter Eight, Willow/Angel, Willow/Spike friendship, FRAO/NC-17

    (Read more ...)
    asylum_promo
    [ kabal42 ]
         		5:30p
    Rufusfans
    [info]rufusfans is a small, friendly asylum dedicated to Rufus Wainwright (and family) with postings of anything and everything. Currently there are frequent news updates with links and there have also been graphics/icons posted and concert reviews from members.

    Please take a look and join us if you like the Wainwright/McGarrigle family!

    Current Mood: optimistic
    Saturday, November 29th, 2008
    justhuman
         		10:37p
    Weekend so far
    I was off from work since Wednesday, but in a lot of ways, this feels like the first day off. I needed to go out and hit the wine shop on Wednesday. Thursday was traveling for T-day -- a pleasant affair down and that favorite aunt and uncle's in central NJ. We exchanged Netflix recs and found that we had just returned The Thin Man Goes Home. I knew there was a reason I liked them :-) Last night was a gathering of the moon women. We skipped ritual and went for a night of reconnecting. It was nice to sit around with tea cookies and exchange rants about relatives.

    Strangely, today I did the most work of any other day and still feel more rested. I hauled in the recycling, dumped the compost, and began the clean out of the Wolf Room. The Wolf room started out as my bedroom when I moved into the house. It's in the northwest corner with only one window - it tends to be darker than the other rooms. Normally that isn't a problem except every weekday morning when I was trying to get out of bed on time *cough*. Also, the single window was a pain back in the days of window air conditioning units.

    So when I repainted the other room, I moved into it and ever since them have been trying to think the stuff in the Wolf room so I can renovate in there - strip wallpaper, repair walls, pull up carpet, paint the walls, lay the new floor -- same old stuff for renovations in my house.

    The wallpaper in the room isn't so bad - beige with little pine trees in brown/green stick figures. Really hits the rustic notes that go well with my antique bedroom set. However the top border is *WOLVES*. Friendly looking pack oriented canines. And I tell you, if they were my spirit guides, I'd keep them. However, I am a fox and red-tailed hawk kind of girl, so the wolves must go.

    Besides, wallpaper is evil.

    The good news is that I actually managed to rearrange stuff between my current bedroom the living room and the pumpkin storage room so that the Wolf room is nearly empty. I took before pictures that I'll share later on as I get deep in to the renovations. The best part is that these rooms are all still functional, which is astounding.

    Tomorrow I should be able finish the clean out and maybe spray down the walls and start stripping. The room will then become the Green room. I do think that I'm going to make it my bedroom again because the bed fits better in there. Also it will stand out better against the green than it does against the roasted sesame of the other room. The hope then is to install some nicer storage closets, a sewing table and a spare bed in the roasted sesame room.

    But the final arrangement of furniture is all subject to change.

    I've wrote and not died - yay me :-)

    535 - 17 minutes
    asylum_promo
    [ hexennacht ]
         		8:36p
    [info]hexennacht/[info]rpg_nacht


    The Ministry was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same.

    -hexennacht
    mwpp since 2005
    asylum_promo
    [ sanfranmod ]
         		4:12p
    [info]cityofhills via [info]sanfranmod
    Application | Guidelines | Taken, Held & Pending

    Our next adds are Tuesday, December 02nd! Get those applications in!
    (Adds are done Tuesdays & Fridays)

    City Of Hills is an aim and thread friendly PB/city based community set in San Francisco, California.

    Writers of this community are promised to have control over their story lines. As long as things are kept realistic, the mod(s) will not worry about how much of whatever is going around; especially considering this is a city wide based game. If things get out of hand, the game will address the issue(s) as a whole then. Members of this community have a voice with us and their opinions and suggestions are always validated and taken into high consideration. We also will provide a lot of interactive opportunities for characters. All play by (PB) types welcome.
    Friday, November 28th, 2008
    asylum_promo
    [ bailey_ ]
         		10:32a

    [info]harvest_moon Via [info]harvestmod

    Supernaturals are all around you. They could be the guy checking you out at the bar, the girl ringing you up at the coffee shop, or even your eccentric room mate from college. Salem, MA has always been a little less than ordinary. From the pilgrims to now, it has a rich history of oddities, and strange occurrences.

    Vampires, Shifters, Witches, other Supernatural Beings and Humans welcome

    Now Open

    asylum_promo
    [ selfhelp ]
         		6:01a
    Join bisexuals.
    asylum_promo
    [ perfume_mods ]
         		7:55a
    Perfume: A Fantasy Western RPG
    Guns! Saloons! Prostitutes! [info]distilled
    Thursday, November 27th, 2008
    whedonupdates 10:59p
    Update #256 - November 27th, 2008

    http://community.livejournal.com/whedon_updates/66657.html

    Updated WiPs
    </a></b></a>[info]velvetwhip - Stopping Time: Part Two: Angel, Angel/Willow, Drusilla, FRAO/NC-17

    (Read more ...)
    asylum_promo
    [ 61159 ]
         		8:38p
    [info]housefans is now open!
    House Fans is an asylum for the Fox TV show House. Feel free to join and post anything House related!
    syn_promo
    [ yourlibrarian ]
         		7:57p
    NPR Planet Money
    For anyone wanting to follow along on reporting about the financial crisis as well as some rather educational business topics, I created a feed for the NPR blog site at [info]nprplanetmoney.
    justhuman
         		2:06a
    Free Turkey in the freezer
    ...barely. I've been making larger orders of stuff and freezing, not to mention that I store all the grains flours. But everything is in the cold storage where it belongs.

    Also in the free category, Oprah's giving away Christmas and Holiday music until Friday -- Check it out on Oprah.com

    In the squee category, Friday night at 10 is the Psych holiday special. We meet Gus' sister; there will be the Snoopy dance. Gus and Shawn make other BFFs look like mortal enemies. This show is rated unrelentingly *CUTE*. Also for you Monk fans, that holiday special is on at 9, I believe.

    ***

    In other news of me, I took the day off with plans for doing all sorts of things. Instead I stumbled across the NCIS marathon on USA and became a slug :-) Well I did head out of the house around *6pm* because I realized I was missing a bottle of wine for tomorrow night. There's wine in the house, but not the kind we like with Turkey. Then I spent way too much time wandering around stores and fortunately not buying too much. I hit the LNT to pick orange plates that are a 90% match for the fall colored dishes. I hit Target and picked up another set of headphones - Skullcandy is my preferred brand. The set I own are on the missing list, but that's okay. They'll turn up and then I'll have a set in my desk at work. Then I hit the grocery store where I picked up some necessary ...and some not so necessary items with my turkey. Finally I picked up the wine. Turns out that the liquor store I hit had a nice selection of wines, including organic.

    Of course, when I got home I remembered that I was supposed to evict the second mouse of the season. Actually it's a mouse body. I couldn't find any live-catch traps this season. I have to say that if you're using snap traps, the Victor ones that look like gigantic binder clips work great. Easier to set, so far no little eyes looking back at me, and a breeze to empty out in the trees.

    And wow, it's 2am and even though I don't have to be anywhere until the afternoon, I should probably head off to bed.
    Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
    scratchingpost1
         		5:25p
    I'm doing ok today.
    Both Don and I got through our surgeries without any problems.

    I talked to the anesthesiologist before my surgery.  I told him about the trouble I've had in the past with getting very sick from anesthesia.  Instead of loading me up on drugs to try to solve the problem, he did a spinal on me.  It was the first time I've had that done.  It was strange, but at least I didn't get sick and throw up.  I now have a greater respect for people who are paralyzed or have lost limbs.  Seeing my feet and not being able to move them was frustrating.

    My doctor blasted the kidney stone with a laser.  He still had to remove a tiny piece.  They showed it to me.  It was smaller than a grain of sand.  I have photos of the stone before and after.  I'll post them when I'm more awake.  The pain meds are making me sleepy right now.  I am still on Vicodin for pain because I had to have a stent put in to prevent my urethra from swelling shut.  I have to get the stent removed on Friday morning.  I'm supposed to work noon to 8pm on Friday.  I'll have to call work Friday morning and tell them I might be late.  I already called off work today.  I couldn't work feeling like this.

    If I don't post more later or tomorrow ...

    Happy Thanksgiving a little early!
    Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
    justhuman
         		6:44a
    *YAWN* Why is it morning?
    Hi ho, flist. I'm off in the Hinterlands of Connecticut, while I should rightly be home in my bed hitting the snooze alarm. Hinterlands of CT is somewhere in the vicinity of Danbury. Sorry Conn. and New England peeps - no time for side visits on this trip because I drove up with the co-workers in a rental van.

    I mentioned a while back that we were moving our manufacturing operations to the not-so-far north. It's about 2 1/2 hours from home and work depending on which roads and the state of traffic. Operations are not going to start to move until January, but we're doing meet and greets with the Manufacturing engineers up here so we R&D engineers can continue to support them from down there. I'll probably be on the phone a lot more, but there will be times that I'll have to hop in the car and personally point out that part A really does belong in slot B (no matter what the 15 year old documentation may say about it ;-). Actually, these guys run a tight ship on their current product lines, so once they get over some initial growing pains, I bet they don't need us too much. Wow, where's some wood to knock on? Still, I'm betting by April 2 I'll have my first call about how the instruments are failing their water tests, and I get to impart 12 years of accumulated testing and ranting about how to clean the water bottles.

    *Looks up* Okay, this is why I don't post before 7 in the morning because the whole not awake thing does get in the way.

    *yawn*
    Monday, November 24th, 2008
    asylum_promo
    [ idol_expose_mod ]
         		9:54p
    RULES & FAQ's | APPLICATION | CHARACTER LIST


    [info]idolexposed -- Ever wonder what happens to your favorite contestants behind the scenes of American Idol, when the cameras are off and the lights go down? Who's hooking up with whom? Who causes drama behind the scenes, and what's the latest gossip on the set? What happens to the contestants once they've been voted off of the show, and how do they handle it offstage? American Idol Exposed has all of the answers to those questions, and more.

    Do you play an AMERICAN IDOL contestant or judge, or want to, and are looking for a fun & friendly place to play that is all-Idol, all the time? THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU! Tons of your favorite Idol contestants from each season, still available! Check the taken list to see who is taken and who is still needed -- anyone not taken, is welcome, regardless of where they placed in their season! No writing samples to provide. Five week update limit. Adds done daily. Now open to the Top 24 contestants of any American Idol season! We are very friendly here, and will be accepting of anyone who placed in the top 24!

    Pick your favorite, and join the fun today!

    SPECIFICALLY WANTED: Amanda Overmyer, Carly Smithson, Chris Sligh, Clay Aiken, David Hernandez, Diana DeGarmo, Fantasia, Barrino, JD Adams, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Sierra, Jordin Sparks, Josh Gracin, Justin Guarini, Kimberley Locke, Mario Vazquez, Matt Rogers, Melinda Doolittle, Phil Stacey, Ruben Studdard, Sanjaya Malakar, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell, but anyone not taken would be welcomed!
    asylum_promo
    [ muse_awaits_mod ]
         		1:02p
    The Muse Awaits
    [info]the_muse_awaits is a muse-based prompt writing community which was inspired by Theatrical Muse. Our goal is to bring our writers a variety of quality prompts that will delight and inspire the muses. [info]the_muse_awaits will have dialogue, quote, photo, situational, and writer's prompts to choose from. We love writer feedback and support, so if you have a fantastic idea for a prompt, let us know here at this post.

    If you have a muse/character that you would love to write, we would love to have you. Please read the rules, check the claimed muses post, and send your application to awaits.mod at gmail dot com.

    The Rules ~*~ Claimed Muses ~*~ Apply
    scratchingpost1
         		3:05p
    In 24 hours I'll be in the hospital.
    I got the call from the doctor's office today.  I'm having my stone removed at 5pm Tuesday. I have to be there at 3pm.  Wish me luck.
    Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
    scratchingpost1
         		9:03p
    Need Good Thoughts and Prayers
    My problems with my kidney stone pale in comparison to the news I just got from my mom.

    My mom's husband, Don, is in the hospital.  He was diagnosed with cancer.  I'm told that the prognosis is good though.  The doctor says that surgery and a new treatment could give him another good 5 to 10 years.  On Tuesday, Don is having surgery to remove his testicles.  The doctor believes that his type of cancer was brought on by high levels of testosterone.  Removal of the testicles has been successful in removing the cancer in other patients.  It's Don's best chance of beating this thing.

    So, keep him and my mom in your thoughts and prayers please.  My mom really needs strength to get through this.

    Current Mood: worried
    whedonupdates 6:20p
    Update #255 - November 23rd, 2008

    http://community.livejournal.com/whedon_updates/66461.html

    Standalone Fic
    </a></b></a>[info]velvetwhip - The Faintest Heartbeat, Willow/Angel, FRM/R

    (Read more ...)
    Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
    justhuman
         		10:28p
    Oh wise Flist - or at least the NCIS fans among you
    I should be Writing or dying right now, but I decided to procrastinate fix a point in the last bit I wrote. It involves underwear, Gibbs and DiNozzo. There's a point in the fic where they need to change into special gear and Tony makes a comment - when does Tony not make a comment ;-)

    At any rate, I've got two things on my mind. Gibbs - boxers, briefs or something fancy? Is Gibbs still wearing olive green? I mean, he wears white t-shirts, so I can believe that he's moved on color wise. Gibbs is pretty basic, so I'm leaning towards tighty whitey's unless there's he's undercover or has need of something in particular - like a jock strap.

    Now, I know that MW discussed Tony once in a commentary. Did he say that he saw Tony as going commando or does MW go commando when playing Tony - not that a DVD commentary is the final say in these matters ;-) Tony's a runner, so I'm thinking that he'd go for something with support even when he's at the office. Briefs? Boxer Briefs? With a pouch? Thong? Jock? As long as it's stylish and functional, I can see Tony going that way.

    If you want to check out varying styles:
    http://www.abcunderwear.com/ripsunderwear.html
    http://www.abcunderwear.com/cin2underwear.html

    Thoughts?

    If nothing else, I can add the word count of this post to my total.
    [ << Previous 25 ]
About InsaneJournal