plebefic headers: Sumary

1. Sumary : And again he was starring at me like that, like if he knew something



2. Title: My weird and sweet geek



3. [link to fic] “I want you to get out!” Adam shouted, ceasing his frenetic pacing for a moment in order to turn his furious gaze toward Kris, throwing up his hands in frustration when he saw him standing there. “Both of you! Just leave me alone!”



4. Summary: Sharing a dark existence and a wish for more, a stripper and a vampire meet and their destinies entwine. The dark alley and its clubs will be the scene of their romance.



5. Disclaimer: Thanks BIGTIME to Train for their song I use here =)

shoes of the day

Onitsuka Tiger Ultimate 81 in 1. pool/ deep blue 2. white/capri blue
3. Seychelles "Enigma" Teal 4. Vanelli "Jirina" Purple suede
5. Naughty Monkey "Rock Out" Red 6. Not Too Coy "Steamy" Blue

belated wedding portrait musings

Wax's mom and granny both have the framed wedding portraits of her brothers (and their wives, obvs.) on their wedding days up with the row of graduation portraits of all three children.

Wax and I are married too, but we don't have a wedding portrait. Actually, when we were eating at granny's house last weekend and everyone couldn't help noticing that she's leaned Wax's portrait against the giant crucifix in her Jesus shrine ("Maybe it'll help!" said Sister-in-Law Metal brightly), I was inclined to be offended by the omission until I realized that not only did we not give her one (because we don't have one), Wax never even mailed the wedding announcement cards to her or her mom because, thinking she would have their addresses, I handed them to her with a sheet of stamps and told her to mail them, and Wax can't be trusted to mail things. (Over a year later, they're still lying on the keyboard shelf under her computer. I still don't know their addresses, either, but I suppose I could get them from one of her brothers. Oh wait, I mean sisters-in-law, of course. It runs in families.)

Of course, she might still fail to put up a portrait if we gave her one, but at least then we'd have a legit reason to be upset.

Since we eloped, for pictures taken on the Day Of we only have things like ( this, )

while the actual wedding announcements looked like ( this, )

which also I'm pretty sure they wouldn't frame in the family shrine since they're not photographic. (Even though I'm very happy with the alternative cartoony style drawn by my little sister!) So... maybe we should get (or make) a portrait, I guess? We've never done that, although we have various unplanned-but-posed photos of us together. Wax said "maybe we should do that this Christmas or something", which probably means she'd already forgotten the conversation by the end of lunchtime.

Also, where would we even do it? I mean, we haven't had a big party in a deliberately picturesque locale, which is how people usually choose their reception spots for backdrops. Our apartment is lame and so is the building, and while Åbo has plenty of pretty buildings, it seems weird to choose one at random. And what would we wear, aside from a plaid hipster shirt like my dad's wearing or a candy-striped terry halter with a bow between the boobs like my mom's wearing in theirs... not that I have either of those.

PS. Happy first night of Channukah.

items of technology that have failed lately

• My camera, which gave up the ghost in early October.


• All the USB ports on my motherboard except the one my mouse is plugged into. The other ones work sometimes, but it can be intermittent. (We bought a USB hub a few weeks ago, but we lost it before taking it out of the package. Sigh.)


• My keyboard (we have a spare which is from the mid-90s and rather heavy-duty, but since it seems to be indestructible, I think I'll just stay with it)


• The touch-sensitive power button on Darth Vader the monitor. About half the time since its failure a week ago, if left on at night he will wake up in the morning without incident when the computer is turned on. Otherwise he has to be unplugged, and then the X server rebooted to get the right monitor resolution.


• Viol, my ipod. I've had her for, I think, almost 3 years exactly. She was a lovely light purple 2-gig shuffle, and I may be the only person I've met who actually prefers a shuffle to a larger ipod: I only ever want to listen to 1 playlist at a time, and I like being able to push the buttons by feel with my gloves on when I'm out walking. Anyway, we have an old pre-video nano, Omena, which works except for the LCD display. So it's like a giant shuffle, really, except that there's no way to see what you're doing to turn the shuffle function on and off.


• Yesterday the washing machine started emitting a toasty smell in the midst of the 3rd load. I turned it off, not knowing what else to do, but it'd better not break when I still have like 2 loads of sheets & another load of random shit to wash.