The Good: Went in for six-month checkup with cardiologist. Since my blood pressure was fine (a little high, but no more than could be explained by doctor’s office jitters) and I’ve lost five pounds, he said there was no reason to schedule another EKG until fall.
The Bad: Another blood test. At least […]
Archive for May, 2007
Seeing as some new people have wandered in…
My name is Barb, though I’ll also answer to rahirah. I’m forty-five, was born and rasied in Phoenix, Arizona, where I currently live with three cats, one dog, and my partner of almost twenty years, wildrider, not necessarily in that order. I’m pretty much out in […]
God save us all from men who are convinced beyond all doubt that they have Him on their side.
I suppose it would be tacky to break out the confetti poppers.
OK, so I was going to do another chapter of the S/A historical for the Lynnevitational. And then my main computer crashed, and although I can still access the chapter I posted on LJ back when, all my notes for the rest are still inaccessable, and I was starting to worry that the deadline […]
OK, I went and imported documents into Word to do this meme…
Posted in Fic, Fic discussion, Writing on May 12th, 2007
shadowscast has had the brilliant idea of using Word’s autosumarise feature to create drabbles out of your established fic. You do it as follows:
Open the Word doc of your fic. Click AutoSummarise (on the tools menu), when it has autosumarised tell it to put the output in a new document and that you want the […]
We make our own fun here
Posted in Personal, people are weird on May 11th, 2007
Today when was driving home I noticed a young woman I didn’t recognise from anywhere around the neighborhood. She was kitted out all gothy, and she was sort of trudging along, looking a little dazed. I didn’t think much of it, since it was around a hundred degrees and if I were out […]
Mommy Dearest, Sunnydale style
Posted in Barbverse, Fic discussion, Writing, btvs/ats, meta on May 6th, 2007
(originally posted in response to some fb, but I thought it deserved a post of its own.)
Buffy as a parent, regardless of who she’s paired with, is not an easy sell, nor everybody’s cuppa. For every reader who loves the idea, there’s another who hates it. And Ghod knows there’s enough crappy babyfic […]
And forty-nine Mexican whooping llamas!
Posted in Fic discussion, Personal, meta on May 6th, 2007
(Scratch head) OK, so right after I make the claim that rec communities rarely link to me? su_herald links to what is quite possibly the lamest excuse for a story I’ve ever written. I do not understand the internets.
This morning we took Mom out to look at refrigerators. Hers is old and […]
Cinco de YUM!!!!
Posted in recipes on May 6th, 2007
In honor of spikendru’s Cinco De Mayo card, I post guacamole!
5-6 ripe avocados
1 large tomato, diced
1/2 medium onion, diced
4-6 large cloves garlic, minced
1 small jalapeno, diced
1 dash tabasco
Several dashes Worchestershire sauce
Juice of 1 small lime
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp lemon pepper
Peel and pit avocados, place them in a bowl and mash them with a fork. […]
A Cautionary Tail
Posted in Fic on May 5th, 2007
A Cautionary Tail
By Barb C.
Disclaimers: The usual. All belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy, and naught to me.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: Post-Gift AU
Pairing: B/S
Distribution: Ask and you shall receive, I’d just like to know where it ends up.
Synopsis: In which Our Heroes shop for groceries.
Author’s notes: This story takes place in the same universe as “Raising […]