Yes, yes, it is I - the fantabulous bouquet-catching witness/bridemaid. FEAR ME. :D :D

It was my nefarious plan to catch the bouquet all along. I managed to get myself into a prime position in which I towered over my younger cousins (and the one in the wheelchair) but was blocking the shorter adults behind me. Heels FTW. My aunt tossed the flowers and I reached out and snatched them.

And now I have flowers.
 
I wore my lovely purple dress today, complemented by a pretty purple butterfly necklace my aunt gave me. There were photos and more photos - and we hadn't even left my nanna's house. Apparently I could never relax for any photos over the course of the day, even with the other "witness" who was actually quite cute but obviously not single. And older. 30s, maybe.

Anyway, we made it to the ceremony. My youngest cousin was a very cute flower girl.... and I was an awesomesauce bridesmaid/witness. I was very nervous about signing the license in front of everyone and the camera, but my part was mercifully short. MORE PHOTOS... argh.

Talked to my grandad about life, the universe and everything. Mostly my career prospects and his cancer treatment. He's been very pensive about such things lately, though has also been making very bad but amusing jokes. My mum gave my cardigan to a smelly aunt even though I was cold. I had to use Mum's ... which is MY ... shawl that comes from Italy (care of ellymelly  and kwayera ) instead.

Sat down for food, more food, MORE food and for being pelted by miscreants from the kids' table wielding lollies. I may have thrown some back. Unsubstantiated rumour.

Dancing and merriment, set to the usual soundtrack of party songs. Why don't DJs ever pick anything else? Grrr. Had to be very careful with strapless dress LOL... and "Time Warp" was hilarious because my young cousins were copying the adults. Pelvic thrust lmao.

BOUQUET THROWING - which we all know the outcome of. ;) My brother was yanked into the garter throwing (he was not very enthused), but my grandad meandered on and grabbed it out of the air. LOL. Bachelor fail.

My brother and I escaped. The end.

I still have a bouquet. ;)

And have seemingly been saddled with the task of editing a wedding video. WTF, I only have movie maker. Is this wise?

Just so everyone knows, I absolutely love the short film Sploosh. It makes no sense, but for a fangirl in the year 2006 it was pure gold. A quick, easy way to gawp at Paul McGillion playing a Scotsman without the Atlantis angle. But anyway, that was a while ago and it certainly got me writing a fanfic called Sploosh 3 years ago.

GUESS WHAT. Two chapters of Sploosh totally up on the Pit of Voles! :D This is all very exciting, especially as it is a VOID-FIC finally meeting the world. Finally reaching its conclusion.

I will probably dishonour the deadline I had for Tick of a Cosmic Clock, which has only been a VOID-FIC for 12 months.

One I just stumbled across, which involves a few paragraphs scribbled in 2005, seemed promising and I don't know why I abandoned it - oh, well, apart from having no plot. Basically Rodney refuses either of the two holiday trips home and Elizabeth is concerned. MCWEEEIR.

And now this random bit of fic I just discovered under "I have a problem with this tea.doc". LOL?

SG-1 arrived at the planet. It looked fairly like the images the MALP had sent back – except that there was a crowd of a few million jumping around the Stargate energetically.

^ someone please tell me what I was thinking??? or planning??? NOTE - no fic will be written until Sploosh is done and dusted.

Today I was bad, and JB was evil, because Roswell was on sale for $40. THE ENTIRE SERIES. I'd bought Space Jam and was on the way out, but saw it. BAD BAD BAD.

And yes, Twilight did rip off Roswell in a big way. But then, what didn't Stephanie Meyer plunder?

ANNOUNCEMENT - just got my uni results for the semester. Credit in Contemporary World Cinemas (I'm lucky I got that, lol) and DISTINCTION in Screen Writing II. As if I'd get anything less for a zomie script. AND YES... finally.. my GPA is 3!!!!! I finally cracked a 3!!!!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My brother seems to be in a Disney mood so we watched Atlantis: The Lost Empire, aka Doctor Daniel Jackson's Animated Adventures, and Mulan, which is my favourite Disney of all time.

The DVD of King Ralph that I bought on ebay arrived today. I was very happy and watched it with much glee. I don't know why people speak so badly of it. It's actually funny and has a very thoughtful note at the end. I remembered it from TV years ago, but what I was unaware of in my childhood was that freaking JACKIE TYLER was the stripper girlfriend. LOL WHUT. It disturbed me. And she looks the same, 18 years later. Weirdness. Maybe she's a Time Lady? rofl

But yes. I now have yet another DVD to watch when I need some YAYS. (it's right up there with Encino Man)

NOW. SPLOOSH.

I posted the first chapter omfg! I'm a bit concerned, though, because I've written 3 chapters and am stuck on the 4th. It's supposed to be Ford, Teyla and Beckett - two of which are my weakest characters. Ouch. In my defence, Ford was a very bland character, a "yes" man, so anything I do will be an improvement. As for Teyla, I've gone unusually gung-ho and drawn inspiration from lines such as:

"Shall I just explain to the rest of the Wraith left on the base that you are unavailable to fight?"

^ I think of this line often now. It has this bit of humour to it, or maybe I'm just delusional. It's something that has always typified Teyla to me. Well, frankly, I have a massive bias in favour of season 1 (I still count 2x01 as season 1 themed). A lot of my characterisation stems from that, as I was unhappy with the directions in which the characters/dialogue/motives went.

In fact, I wrote Reflections as a deliberate denouncement of Rodney post-Siege. One of my favourite self-written fics, in which I point out in the McWeir angle that something very strange happened in the relationship between Rodney and Elizabeth. Again, I could be delusional, but I enjoyed creating fanon reasons for the shift. (In Reflections, Rodney was jealous that Elizabeth had hugged John and not him. In Moments, it was Elizabeth's attempt to return to Simon that hurt Rodney).

Anyone looking at my fics could immediately deduce that McWeir is one of my biggest ships of all time. It's true. How did this get onto MCWEIR? *scratches head* ANYWAY, yes. Season 2 was good, but something was missing. Season 3 was thankfully an improvement but then - BLAM. Elizabeth is incapcitated and then Rodney, in one of the most unsound OOC moments, shacks up with Keller.

Ok. WTF. I have nothing against McKeller on umm... principle. But it makes NO GODDAM SENSE. Sometimes I lie awake at night boggling over this. Am I missing something? I'll accept it, I even wrote it into one of my fics, but for the life of me I will never understand it.

Though McWeir is my OTP, admittedly my first ship was Sheyla. It's pretty fucking obvious.

Hey, I see the Shweir angle and I understand it (a hell of a lot more than the McKeller thing) but John wanted Teyla from "The Rising". Numerous episodes following seemed to make it more obvious to me, esp. moments like the way John reacted when she said she was pregnant, and that strange little scene with Ford in season 5 (this scene pretty much screamed it).

But, in the end, Sheyla could never happen because John's character never takes the plunge - I don't think he ever would. Teyla sure wasn't going to hang around waiting.

Whew. I've spent years keeping that inside. I just want to note once more that I really do see the Shweir angle, but it didn't seem to get the same epic-sized hints.

Umm hmm. Who else can I offend today? LOL. I know some of my flisters will probably never speak to me again after my big Sheyla Triumphant speech.

And it's healthy to get it all out there. Yep.

How bout them apples?

+ 12 Merlin related
+ 8 SPN (including actor related icons)
+ 2 misc
+ 1 Aldis Hodge
+ 1 Merlin gif

"Uh huh," I responded.

"Hi yes this is call from Microsoft, your operating system. We've monitoring your computer and it has problem. We need help you fix it."

"Right," I muttered glaring at the wall, unable to believe this was happening on a PHONE. Not email, a freaking PHONE.

"So turn on your computer. Turn on."

"I don't think I will, you skanky fraud."

*hangs up*

OK I've googled it a bit and it is a scam. BE CAREFUL, even though you're all well adjusted and intelligent people. I'm just putting the warning out there so your can pass it on to your not-so-adjusted parents/relatives who would believe anything. (I know a few myself...)

LINK - news article thingy about the scam