snugglemint

 First order of business...

HAPPY PI DAY! :D


Second order of business...

I'm going to try and do my own little word war game that people were at least receptive enough to do once. 

It's pretty much like your basic word war, but this is longer and there is a punishment for not finishing it. (Punishment optional.)

Length: 1 Week. 14th - 21st

Quota: You choose your own quota. Though being that this is a week long, I would prefer that these all be at least 5k, but if length isn't your style, then do what you think you can do in a week.

 Punishment: Your punishment is tailor made to you. If you don't make your quota, then you pick what motivates you most. It might be not reading fanfiction for a day, not watching tv for a day, or it could even be that you have to work out for 30 minutes for a certain period of days. Whatever you want to do.

NOTE: Punishment optional, you don't HAVE to have a punishment, I just find it to be a good motivator for me. It acts like a deadline for me when I can't seem to get my arse in gear.

Example: I want to write a minimum of 10k  and if I don't get it done then I am not allowed to read fanfiction for two days. (Trust me, this is killer when you have a desk job at work and free time on your hands.)

So, if you want to participate then please comment before with your quota, punishment, and your starting word count. Then at the end of a week come back and reply to your original post with your end word count. 

For those of you doing the WW for hd_writers this weekend, that post count DOES count toward this one. Just in case some of you wondered.

Good luck. <3

Originally posted by beren_writes at <lj comm="help_japan"> and <lj comm="help_nz">

 

BABIES!

I'll try and get individual pictures of them. I was lucky Kira jumped out. She got right back in after I got this picture. Dark grey one is not so patchy anymore. 

Firstly, my bebe, Kira, is going to has her kittens today. 97% sure. She had wheedled her way into a hidey spot and freaks out when we try to keep her in the bathroom where she previously enjoyed being in there. (Male cat wouldn't leave her alone, so we'd put her in there to give her some peace and to get her acquainted to the space where she'll be keeping her kittens.)

She never cries. Ever. Never meows. Nothing. She just purrs. But today she broke my heart for her crying. I didn't want to leave her. Stupid work.

We'll see. I hope she has them before lunch but then I hope she doesn't. I want to see them and make sure she's done because I don't want to have to leave her again in the middle of having them, but at the same time I don't want her to be alone when she has them. It's her first litter, so yeah.

I just really hope that they're not all black. (The almost racist things you say.) Kira is a pretty Siamese (not full blooded) and the male cat that impregnated her is solid black. I want pretty Siamese babies with blue eyes!


( Cut for the insanity of my dreams )

 Stolen from lonewhiterose 


( :D Yay! )

I'm making this a happy post. HAPPY, DAMN IT![Poll #1712523]

 If anyone wants to play, leave me a comment and I'll choose a colour that reminds me of you, then you can list ten things you like in that colour or ten things that colour reminds you of. -Stolen from Tartlet.-  treacle_tartlet  gave me yellow. 


If there is one color I don't like, it's actually yellow, so this one is a tricksy one. But I'm sure I can do it!

Maybe.


( Picture Spaaaam )

This took a lot of thought, and while it as some generic choices, I think some of them also say a bit about me. :) It was fun, Thanks for making me rethink yellow, Tartlet. <3

And this is why today is awesome. :)

Dear Snugglemint,

I really admire the way that you procrastinate at your place of work. Your dedication to fandom is inspiring, what with your powers to ignore the call of real life duties to immerse in the deliciousness of a fanfic.

It's smart thinking the way you delete your history every day after work and keep your cool when someone walks behind your desk because you know any sudden movements will only look guilty.

However, the way your lips twist in that goofy way and sometimes break into a full powered grin is a dead give away. No one enjoys work that much. No one. Also, randomly laughing for no reason, also a no-no. Please learn to control your facial expressions and if you can't, might I suggest botox?

Sincerely,
The Snugglemint Who Still Wants A Job
Wondering-Why-You're-Wasting-Time-When-You-Could-Be-Reading

 When I got home, I decided to take a nap. 

This... ahem... nap... turned into a six hour long dream of me being part of this group that tries to change things for the better in non-violent ways. But, apparently, I'm just too damn Slytherin to change thing peaceably and I get a little forceful with something... or rather, someone when I'm trying to help the situation.

Well, I get in trouble for this and need a time out, or rehabilitation, or... to be shunned and never heard from again or something because I am then put underground as punishment. Think like an underground network but boiler room style. Almost everything in metalwork. 

So anyway, I'm chained, literally, to a post thing beside this girl and left there. There, my dream decides that this is likely a dead-end venue and changes it so that I can freely roam around. But I'm still trapped... underground... with other people that showed too much... "aggression."

Later, around 3 am, I tried to take another nap before work and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Hard in the sense that it just wasn't happening. I laid here until about 4:30 or five before I finally fell asleep and during that time I found it.... not at all boring.

Anyway, the dream I had then was strange. Straaaange.

It started at this like... restaurant, but I was outside, sitting in a parking lot, and the parking lot was on a sloping, sloping down toward the restaurant. Well, the car kept fucking up and the parking wouldn't stick, so I was having mini panic attacks every time the car kept going.

Well, there was a car beside me that had this dude that kept flashing his card like he was going to give it to me, but never did.

And... then.... the world fell away.

Literally.

The ground beneath me gave way. For whatever reason, there was this long string of assorted objects all strung together and I had to climb up this thing so that I wouldn't fall into oblivion.

I actually got an aerial view of this too. We zoom out the world is whole and round and then it's like it just disintegrates all around the edges and in some places further in til the Earth just looks like an ugly rip in space than a planet. And then.... it... squished itself... into... a cube. 

I. Don't. Know.

So once it's cube world, we zoom back in and it's like a whole new world where everything is done differently. They are stripping things down and I'm sure that if I make a wrong move they'll chain me up underground or put me on a train with an evil ghost, or maybe even take me to their zombie pit and toss me in. 

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But then again, maybe they'll just boot me off the planet. Who knows.

Sooo anyway. Apparently someone died. I don't know who but once again I found myself in the role of "resister" and we're on this bus going across town to bury this body. I guess we have it with us because... how else would we bury it, but I never saw it. So in true dream fashion maybe it's magically done.

We're on this bus type thing and I'm sitting in the floor and laid out on the seat are these figurines of monuments that we plan to decorate the grave with in awesome resister fashion. And the girl with me is talking about how we had to pay "25 cupcakes to get this ride."

And then I woke up.

And I wonder who is going to eat those cupcakes, what's the shelf-life of them, and why so damn many? 

Clearly, cubeworld has a few bugs before it launches.

o.O So yeah. Those are my dreams.

I'm sure many of you don't care, but it's actually kind of fun for me.

Maybe I should make a filter. 

 

Okay, so some of you might know that Hex Files was having some trouble financially and that the lovely Leo decided to open up a comm to raise money for them. 

Well, part of this was opening up an auction which you can get to by clicking the banner above.

There are five auctions going on right now for fic, one of them is mine. (There are also other auctions for crafts and art going on. :D!)

I don't expect to get any more bids, but you guys should definitely go and bid on some of the other authors. <3 I know that they'll turn out AMAZING fics for you guys.

(Note: Here's why I don't think I'll get anymore bids, I have one bid now and it is AMAZING, I can't tell you the amount of flailing I did when I saw this. Someone bid TWENTY DOLLARS on a fic from me. Homuhgawd. The squealing was borderline epic and has thoroughly blown my mind. I just can't even you guys. <3 Massive love to my bidder. Also, I think it's safe to say that this is why today is awesome. :D)