Valentine's Day and Christmas

Had the day off today, plus my check for January showed up in the mail, so I went out to deposit that pronto and take care of the phone/Internet bill.

And I ended up in the dollar store, doing some Valentine's Day shopping -- Note to self: Get a *real* Valentine's Day icon instead of that cynical anti-Valentine's Day icon that is no longer really necessary. I have to admit, it does get irritating when the holiday is reduced to cuddly couple's day, but I've decided not to let this get to me any more. Anyway... besides getting some stuff for my folks and a few others, I treated myself to some new bath stuff, and I have to confess to being particularly goofy for bath stuff (bath salts, bubble bath, bath gel, etc) as long as it's either scented in: rose, lavender, pomegranate or (inexplicably) cherry blossom. It's about the only girly thing I really concede to, and in this case, I picked up a bottle of cherry blossom bath gel and some moisturizing rose petals, since I'd been looking for these like mad lately.

And on returning home, I took down the morbidly dry mini-tree in my room, replacing it with some red and white lights for Valentine's Day.

help_haiti: Please help....

I was feeling bad that I missed out on the Vampire Author Auction to Support Stacie, but it seems that another opportunity to use my fanfic-ing talents has presented itself.

help_haiti is the brainchild of pinkfinity, created -- to quote the user-info -- "as a place for fandomers to help raise money to help in the rescues, recoveries and rebuilding of Haiti following the tragic earthquake on January 12, 2010." You can donate your time and talent, as a writer/artist/vidder, to help raise funds to aide the relief effort for the survivors of this disaster. I've offered to donate my time for "Buy It Now" sale of sorts here:

http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/2706.html?thread=21650#t21650

And my main fic auction is here:

http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/1823.html?thread=20767#t20767

Feel free to post bids/prompts to either one; for the "Buy It Now", I'd appreciate it if you forwarded me a copy of any donation confirmation emails or a screenshot of something along that line (redacted of personal information beyond the initials of your first and last name)

Please help... please? :: Makes puppy-shinigami eyes::

Help Haiti Fic: The Dresden Files -- "Fine Dining"

The first of five fics I've offered in the Lightning Round for the help_haiti community outreach. I still got four slots open and I'm burning to help.

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Title: "Fine Dining"
Author: "Matrix Refugee"
Rating: PG (mild language)
Character(s): Harry Dresden, Thomas Raith
Genre: Gen, humor
Word Count: 932
Comments: Written for yamikonumber7 as part of the Lightning Round at help_haiti, with "cooking lesson" as the prompt du jour. Takes place probably sometime before or after "Dead Beat".
Disclaimer: The Dresden Files series does not belong to me, I'm just playing in the universe and shying snowballs at Jim Butcher's fanfic-phobic rules-lawyers.
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( I couldn't really blame my brother Thomas for getting bored with my usual cuisine out of a can... )

Nicked from metisbutterfly

Eerily accurate...

Renee's Dewey Decimal Section:

909 World history

Renee = 85455 = 854+55 = 909


Class:
900 History & Geography


Contains:
Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents.



What it says about you:
You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in your life, but they've brought you to where you are today and you don't ignore it.

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