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03:08 am: Cooking Question Quickie

I was wondering for those of you who cook, if you know anything about mixers and feel up to sharing.  We need a new one, and I'm wavering over what to buy.  I don't bake enough to bother with a stand mixer, so I'm looking into hand held ones.  The credit cards will be hit hard enough for Christmas, and my budget is limited.  That usually rules out KitchenAid because I so rarely see their products on sale.  My food processor is Cuisinart and it's great, but that doesn't mean they make good mixers...

Sorry, I'm babbling again.

What I'm trying to say is, does anyone have a product or company they can recommend for a good mixer?  Inexpensive is good, but I'd rather stretch my budget if it means it will last for a good while.

08:35 am: Fic: A Search's End
Title: A Search’s End
Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter or Final Fantasy VIII
Summary: Laguna Loire wasn’t what Ginny expected. Or who.
Pairings: Past Harry/Ginny, past Laguna/Raine, hinted at Neville/Luna
Warnings: Angst, mentioned character death 
Universe: A Flip of the Broom
Author’s Notes: I never thought I’d write in this universe again. If my computer hadn’t died, I wouldn’t have. This came to me as I was copying everything from the net onto this computer. I began to wonder what would happen if someone went looking for Harry and what the effects Ultimecia’s time compression spell might be, and this was born.





Tags: ffviii, harry/ginny, hp, laguna, laguna/raine, neville/luna

01:32 am: Kelly's Great Link Hunt of 2007
My computer died.  It died a horrible, file eating death.  It's death took everything with it.  The things I do have saved to floppy (yes, I still used my floppy disks; wish I still could) are gone.  The cheapest computer that met the standards I set didn't have a floppy drive and I didn't have the money for extra stuff that, according to the little twerp helping me, was "old and out dated *insert snooty voice here*".   I'm thanking God most of the stuff I did have saved I also printed out or based off my scribbles in my notebooks and composition books.  What's really lost are all my random idea and research documents, you know, those things that are like seventy five pages long per story and full of odd scenes that struck while I was working on the main story and bits of research I did while surfing the net.  I'm already working on recreating that from memory.  Some of it, anyway.  The research and character note files for each story are going to be a pain the recreate and some characters are probably going to have slight personality shifts because of that.  I never bothered to print all those out and kept those only on the 'puter so I didn't have to keep track of yet another disk.

But what I really need help with are my links.  I had this giant collection of links to sites I used for research when I was writing, random prompt generators, reference sites, everything.  I also had a huge collection of fic links.  So, if you have a favorite site you enjoy using for research or an author you like or favorite fics in the FF VIII, FFX, Firefly, Highlander, Harry Potter, Buffy/Angel, Law & Order, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Gundam Wing, Stargate, or crossovers involving at least one of those, maybe you could recommend one.  Please.  Pretty please with chocolate dipped biscotti on top?  I wish I could remember author names, but *shrugs* I'm drawing a complete blank on a number of them.  And the ones I do remember, I've already hunted them down.

Please?

If you're a Harry Potter fan in need of a funny, I have to recommend Once Upon a Freakin' Time.  It's keeping me sane with its funny as I put everything back together.

03:59 pm: NaNo Blues
What is it about having a deadline that makes my muses and bunnies appear for everything but the one story I'm supposed to be working on?  My NaNo story is stalled around 10,000 words but stuff for my other stories is practically flying out.  

*sighs*

Time to bait the bunny traps.

Tags: missing bunnies, nano

02:17 pm: Fic: Family Reunion
Title: Family Reunion
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary:  “I’m not allowed to date outside my species.” 
Characters: Angel, Xander, Harry
Warnings: crack, past Harry/Voldemort, tipsy Harry.
Author’s Notes: This is the type of story that gets written when I’m on a sugar and caffeine high. If anyone else sees potential here, feel free to take the bunny and run with it. I’m still trying to figure out how my NaNo bunny birthed this bunny to do anything more with it.  I don't even know how Spike got his hands on Harry, just that he and Dru had a falling out somewhere in Surrey and Spike was lonely, drunk, and bored, making kidnapping a wizard seem like a good idea.






Tags: au, buffy, crossover, epb, gen, hp, one shot

07:58 am: Drabble: Side Effects Verse
Title: Side Effects Tidbit
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Timeline: Takes place during the Winhill side quest.
Characters: Selphie, Harry, a chicobo
Warnings: Fluff




Tags: crossover, ffviii, harry, selphie, side effects, tidbit

02:49 am: Fic: Time Travel 101
Title: Time Travel 101
Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter.
Summary: A new world, a new life, time with his parents, all things Harry hoped for. Now he has to live it.
Pairings: James/Lily, Peter/OC
Author’s notes: Just a random bunny that hit me in the head. I know there are other time travel stories. This is my shot at one.
Chapter summary: Time travel is fun...until you have to live with the consequences.






Tags: au, hp, time travel 101

11:35 am: Fic: Side Effects, Chapter Seven
Title: Side Effects
Disclaimer: I don’t own Final Fantasy VIII or Harry Potter
Summary: After killing Voldemort, Harry had planned on taking a long overdue vacation. However, Harry is Fate’s favorite toy, and she has plans. Two hexes and an accidental portal later, Harry finds himself dropped in the middle of another reality where people fear magic and a Sorceress is intent on taking over the world.
Pairings: one sided Quistis/Squall, hints of future Irvine/Selphie
Warnings: Swearing, death, violence, and eventual slash as the main pairing.
Author’s notes: *does the happy dance* I finished the breakout! I finished the breakout! I finished the breakout! Okay, I’ll stop now. What you really need to know is I played around with Quezacotl’s summon, how Squall’s gunblade work, and the effects junctions have on weapons. It will affect all weapons in the story, the gunblade just happens to be the first example that came to mind when writing this chapter. Oh, a squinch is a cross of a squish and a crunch.
Chapter Notes: Harry and Quistis have a mini-clash, Irvine feels like an idiot, Squall has weapon attachment issues and scares the shit out of everyone, and of course, there's a creepy teleporting dog and a game of Hit the Pedestrian.





Tags: crossover, ffviii, hp, side effects, squall/harry

04:52 pm: Just one of those days
You ever have one of those days where you're the squirrel, life is a Mack truck going eighty miles an hour heading your way, and then, when its all over, you can hear the universe say, "Fuck you and the goat you rode in on!" and your just left wondering "When did I get a goat?"

Yeah, I think it's time to go to bed.  You know, before the Mack truck decides to start backing up.

11:03 pm: Letters to No One 2 of ?
Title: Letters to No One
Disclaimer: I own nothing. I don’t own Harry Potter; I don’t own Gundam Wing, and I’m sure I’ve seen this idea somewhere else, (I think one was Harry/Draco and the other Sirius/Remus) so I don’t own the basic plot, either. The only original biggie plot type thing in this is that the relationship between the writers is completely platonic.
Summary: Harry needs a diary, Heero needs a shrink, and Hedwig likes stirring up trouble.
Warnings: Spoilers for the books and the series, swearing (who didn’t see that coming?), character death (ones that were in the books and series), and a too smart Hedwig.
Timeline: It starts towards the end of Harry’s fourth year and after Heero and Trowa begin the search for Noventa’s family. It skips around a lot, and the timeline of the Gundam Wing series and the Harry Potter books have been shifted around some so everything fits.
Characters/Pairings: Heero, Harry, Cho, Relena, Petunia, Duo, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa.
Author’s Notes: This Cho knows the importance of keeping secrets, even from friends and family. I’m going to try to keep her as close to her canon self as possible while adding this into her personality. 
Chapter Notes: This chapter has quite a bit of filler. Interesting filler, but still filler. 






Tags: au, crossover, gen, gw, hp, letters

06:25 am: My PS2 is calling
After much thought and posting my two cents in the latest LJ_Biz post, I've decided the call of my PS2 is far more important.  I finally got my copy of FF VII back and I am going to finish it this time damn it, come hell, high water, or lack of caffeine.  If I don't post something in the next five days, you can assume I fell asleep on my PS2 while playing.

If anyone here cares, this is the link to the latest round of BS from LJ:  http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/242136.html

ETA: I'm taking a break from getting my butt kicked by the Midgar Zolom. I'm starting to wonder if getting Beta is worth the repeated butt kickings this early in the game.

Tags: ffvii, lj biz, rl

06:39 pm: Fic: Wishes Revisted
Title: Wishes Revisited
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything in here except the most basic concept, and I’m sure someone else has at least thought about writing something similar, if not already written it.
Summary: AU: Looking at the small child clinging to the tree, Halfrek decided Vernon and his sister were going to die slowly and painfully and perhaps be introduced to her friend Bubba the Chaos demon before she was finished with them.
Warnings: a pissed off vengeance demon, child abuse.
Sequel: Unfulfilled Wishes
Characters: Irvine, Harry, Halfrek
Fandoms: Harry Potter, Final Fantasy VIII, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Author’s Notes: Thank God, I finally finished it.






Tags: au, buffy, ffviii, hp, wish verse

01:53 am: LiveJournal rant/babble
First, I will never post or reply to anything after being up for 48 hours straight during a heat wave again.  I randomly babble way too much.( Read more... )

Tags: lj ranting

04:25 pm: Fic: Plushies and Frogs
Title: Plushies and Frogs
Disclaimer: I don’t own Card Captor Sakura or Harry Potter
Summary: “I am not a plushie!”
Author’s Notes: I’ve been trying to work with Ron more when I write. After a little playing around, this is all I’ve got and it’s more Neville than Ron.






Tags: ccs, crossover, gen, hp

03:39 pm: Here we go again

http://liz-marcs.insanejournal.com/260277.html


You think some people would learn from their mistakes.  Fandom is so massive and communicates so well little lurkers like me will find out about this.  I guess it's time for me to get off my butt and make some time to post on my other journals.

Tags: lj ranting

03:03 am: Fic: Cold Chicken
Title: Cold Chicken
Disclaimer: I don’t own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter
Summary: Hiei might be stuck as a kitten, but it will take more than a few pieces of chicken to make him purr.
Timeline: Takes place during the summer before second year.




Tags: crossover, gen, hp, one shot, yyh

09:48 am: A Good Finish
I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so this all behind a cut.  Though I don't think there's anything too book ruining in here...



I'm going to bed now.  I hope you people enjoyed it as much as I did.  Good night and sweet dreams.

ETA:  The caffeine's slow in leaving my system so I'm checking out ffnet, just for giggles to see if there's any DH fic yet...I've already come across four, in two minutes, four separate stories based of chapter thirty three and six twin fics.

Tags: hp, seventh book babble

09:09 pm: Evil, evil, evil habit...
I have this horrid habit of reading the last page or two of a book before I start.  It's something I picked up when I was young and only had fifteen or twenty minutes to find a book to read.  I would read the last page to see if what was there would make me want to see how the story got to that point.

I just did it with the seventh book...

And one thing I really did not want to happen, happened.

Why?  Why?  *sobs*  

He's just so...and she...and the...Ehhh!

I'm going to get back to everyone who read LtNO, and then I'm going to sit down and read the seventh book, and pray the romance, if there is any, doesn't come off as some bad love potion fanfic hook up like it did in the sixth.

Tags: hp, seventh book babble

12:25 am: Fic: Letters to No One 1 of ?
Title: Letters to No One
Disclaimer: I own nothing. I don’t own Harry Potter; I don’t own Gundam Wing, and I’m sure I’ve seen this idea somewhere else, (I think one was Harry/Draco and the other Sirius/Remus) so I don’t own the basic plot, either. The only original biggie plot type thing in this is that the relationship between the writers is completely platonic.
Summary: Harry needs a diary, Heero needs a shrink, and Hedwig likes stirring up trouble.
Warnings: Spoilers for the books and the series, swearing (who didn’t see that coming?), character death (ones that were in the books and series), and a too smart Hedwig.
Timeline: It starts towards the end of Harry’s fourth year and after Heero and Trowa begin the search for Noventa’s family. It skips around a lot, and the timeline of the Gundam Wing series and the Harry Potter books have been shifted around some so everything fits.
Characters/Pairings: Heero, Harry. 




Tags: au, crossover, gen, gw, hp, letters

09:52 pm: Ahhh! Damn it, I'm running out of bandaids!

**Rant Alert**

Dear Jackass Next Door,

The Fourth of July is a great holiday (one you used to get drunk and scatter beer cans burnt out fireworks all over my backyard) and I understand you're very patriotic.  However, it's not the Fourth now.  It's the SEVENTH!!!!   One more firecracker that scares the hell out of my cat and sends him running this way and climbing up my legs so Mommy can protect him is going to result in me calling the cops on you.  Put the beer away, give your loving, sane wife the matches, and GO SLEEP IT OFF!

Sincerely,

Pissed Off Neighbor

**End of Rant**

Tags: rant, rl