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I decided that it was time to update my fandom list, since the one I had previously is way behind. So it's getting floated up here so I can find it again and keep it up to date.

I decided that I'm also going to leave this open as a permanent request post. I like writing stuff for my friends, and I'll write in any fandom named here. Just need a fandom, a character or pairing, and some sort of a situation, and I'll see what I can come up with.

( The Fandoms )

First, a humorous antecdote from work.

ME: Okay. You take the garbage back, and I'll attack the floor.
COWORKER: ...aww, don't attack the floor.
ME: It looked at me funny.

...I was proud of myself. I don't usually think that fast :3c

L'anyhoodle, in a couple of weeks I shall be taking my pharmacy tech certification test, the reason for my absence from the interwebs--even had to skip out on NaNo and most of

autumnwrite for it. And it is my intention to then catch back up on all my fannish activities, because I miss them very very muchly.

I do already know a few things that I'm going to do/work on: Song of the Wind (MKR), the sequel to A Perfect Act (DC/MK), and finishing That Darn Fic over on the Layton meme, like...a year after I started it XD And some stuff for

100fandomhell because I has ideas, oh yes I do. I also have some maintenance stuff I want to get done on

candyfics, but that can wait.

So! I would like some RECS! Movie, TV show, anime/manga, book, cartoon, whatever! I just want some new stuff to watch and/or read when this whole stupid test is over and done with :D I like just about everything, so lay it on me pleeeeeeeeease? Let us share fannish interests!

*sits back to count how many times Doctor Who appears in comments because I know at least two, if not three of you are going to recommend it here* I had a really awesome review for What You Wish For on ff-dot-net that explained to me why I should watch that show. That was a fun review to read :D

Also, I need to upload more icons here...

The last couple days have been a bit on the interesting side, for various reasons.

Sunday night I went for ice cream with Kat and Rach. I brought Scribblenauts along to show them. They spent probably a good hour playing with the start screen. This led us to coin a couple of very delightful phrases. First, the dinosaur ate the duck and the cake, but wouldn't eat the pig, leading Kat to utter the phrase, "Maybe the dinosaur is Jewish?" And secondly...

RACH: The ninja is riding the llama!
ME: ...you know, if you spread chocolate on that, the universe would probably implode from sheer awesome.

I know that Kat bought the game already ^_~ We went to pick up the new Kingdom Hearts yesterday, and then did lunch. A couple hours into the game, and I'm almost through the tutorial levels. Why must the tutorials be so tedious? Really, it's a Kingdom Hearts game! You just mash buttons until whatever's in front of you DIES.

At least in Psychonauts, the tutorials were designed as fun, challenging worlds *end bitching* But anyway, we can has Roxas. And the game did get my attention when the opening song was "Sanctuary," a song which has a more-or-less permanent home on my mp3 player (two different versions, no less!), right next to "Simple and Clean."

We're having fun speculating about the new character, too--half of this comes straight from the strategy guide description, by the by: a mysterious and pretty girl who has come to be the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII. She has no memories of her mysterious past and, presumably because she's with the Organization, (mysterious!) powers.

...DOES THIS DESCRIPTION SOUND VAGUELY FAMILIAR TO ANYONE ELSE?

Ganked from

kaitodoushi, with the icons she chose for me...

01. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

( Only six icons? Tough choice... )

Just an FYI--I haven't really been keeping up with the internets as of late, i.e. the f-list and comments and everything. Been sort of preoccupied by other real-life things, like trying to convince myself that I will someone be able to fit the entire contents of that pharmacy tech manual into my head and pass a test. Trust me, that's turning into a full-time job in and of itself. So if I miss important things, it's nothing personal. I'm just...GAAAAAAH at the moment.

*blows kisses and wanders off*

You know, of all the phrases I ever thought I would hear/wanted to hear while at work--in a pharmacy--was the phrase, "Yeah, I've got the flu. They don't know if it's swine flu or not, but I've got something." The minute he walked away from the counter, my manager was like, "[Candy]! Sanitizer and paper towels! Now!" So I cleaned the counter.

I got my hair cut on Wednesday. Chopped off three and a half inches, got it layered, got swoopy bangs (which are taking me a while to get used to because they are kind of in my face). I'm fairly pleased with it--yesterday I straightened it, and today I scrunched it with some mousse and let it do it's natural thing, which is somewhere between wavy and curly. And it STILL LOOKED CUTE :D For someone as hair-stupid as me, this does not happen terribly often \o/

I am also now the owner of a copy of Scribblenauts. Has anyone else played? Because it's bleeping addictive. I also sort of splurged on some Victoria's Secret hand lotion and coordinating body spray--they were having a sale, and I had just gotten my hair cut, so I was feeling very pretty :3c

We also watched the finale of America's Got Talent. Mom and I always try to peg the top three and the winner. We were betting on either Barbara Padilla (the opera singer) or Recycled Percussion (potentially the next Stomp), with Kevin Skinner (country singer) as our dark horse. Kevin Skinner won, and it was AWESOME :D Especially when the host asked him what he was going to do tomorrow and Kevin said, "I don't know, I'll figure it out later!" It was a good finale and a good show. ONTO NEXT SEASON!

...it occurred to me the other day that I have a half-finished fic on the Layton anon meme that I never actually did get around to finishing. I should do that because I had a really kick-ass ending in mind for it. And I didn't ever even start on that Victorian AU prompt. And in the back of my mind, I'm going, "NaNo projects! NaNo projects!" We shall see.

And finally, David Tennant has a really sexy voice. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that I have a serious weakness for accents. Ya know. I'm just saying. And

magicbulletgirl and

magic_truth, both of you can just hush up right now ^.~

*sighs and goes back to studying*

Am already working on responses for the five things meme. Also have started half-scratching out some other fic-related things for Torchwood, Layton, and DC/MK. AND LO, THERE SHALL BE EVIL! ...I'm sorry, this is what happens after a hell-hole of a work day when I'm running on less than four hours of sleep. Phear me.

Tomorrow I have the day off, and I have lots of stuff to do. First thing: running out to my storage unit to drop off the check, and to retrieve a couple of things. Here's hoping I don't have to dig too terribly much >_>;;

Then I am going to get my hair cut, something I am very much overdue for. Am planning on getting a good few inches chopped off (the ends are frizzy train-wrecks), and then having them thin it and layer it. I have a surprisingly large amount of hair, and it's all frizzy and naturally wavy. There may or may not be pictures.

I'm probably going to go to the library for a bit and try to plow through another chapter's worth of studying, and then...I may go get a flu-shot. Undecided on that as of right now. Need to get one eventually, since I work in a pharmacy and am getting exposed to all manners of fun things.

And also, on a slightly less-productive note, it's Wednesday tomorrow, which means there is a new Zero Punctuation for me to go yay over! ...seriously, I meant it about the four hours of sleep thing. I REALLY DID.

...it's sort of weird, though. I like my sleep, and I worry about how bad the ol' insomnia has gotten lately, but at the same time, I do my best thinking in the wee hours of the morning. Sprawled in bed with my headphones on, some sort of music keeping the silence away, watching the ceiling fan move in circles...when I was a kid, and the fan was off, I always though the five fan blades looked like a person. Two arms, two legs, and a head. I dunno. Some of my best ideas hit me then. It's not until I have to get up for work that I really regret being up until all hours.

All right. I should go shower.

Glorious weekend of not-working was glorious ^o^

kaitodoushi and I secured another Crystal Star in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. We called it quits a bit early, though, because we were both tired. The easiest way to tell that we're tired when we're gaming is that all the voices we usually make up for the characters (yes, we voice-act the dialogue--which gets really interesting in a game like Phoenix Wright, which has fun typos) all started to sound suspiciously like our regular voices.

I was kicking myself on Saturday, though. The plan was to be up at eight, get dressed, run a couple of errands, and go to the library to study for my test. Weeeeeeeell wouldn't you know that I picked Saturday, of all days, to oversleep very badly for the first time in months? I mean that I overslept by three hours. So...yeah, didn't get a whole lot done. Boo hiss, self. Did pop a sleep aid on Saturday night, though. Slept for nine blissful hours!

There's some potential drama on the horizon via the extended family, but I'll keep that to myself for now. Not directly involving me, my parents, or my sister, but involving some family members we're fairly close to.

I've been wanting to do this meme for a while, but I never got around to it until now. So here we go!

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Things Kudo Shinichi Remembers About His First Childhood", or "Five colours the Torchwood Hub was painted" or "Five Things Layton Will Never, Ever Tell Luke"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

LAY IT ON ME! (And I almost typed that as "Layton on me," which would be fun, I'm sure, but is not plausible.)

Dear body,

What is it with you this week? At what point did you decide that falling asleep before three AM was for weaklings? And when did you come to the conclusion that only babies sleep all the way through the night without waking up every hour or two to blink at the clock and pull the blanket up over one's head? Why was I not consulted on this?

I'm exhausted, and I want to sleep.

No love,
Me

Will catch up on comments and things tomorrow. Right now I'm wiped out, and I haven't actually slept through the night in nearly a week, nor have I managed to fall asleep before two-thirty AM. So...yeah. If you come too close while I am in this state, I reserve the right to flop on you and sleep on you whilst hugging you liek koala. You have been warned.

ETA: ...and a belated glance at the clock reminds me of something else. It's September 11.

Things that make the Candy a very happy girl, in no particular order:

♥ Making new friends (*waves to new chat buddy, whee!)

♥ Having a date this week with the good ol' BFF for gaming (Thursday!)

♥ Day off from work, whee! (Actually, I don't work very much this week, and my tired self is sort of grateful for it.)

♥ My icon :D

♥ Getting a review on ff-dot-net from

fireblazie saying she's falling back in love with Detective Conan (I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it is impossible to actually leave the Conan fandom because it's just so bloody awesome that you keep coming back for more!)

♥ Getting a PM from someone on ff-dot-net asking if they can be my official Spanish translator and have permission to translate a bunch of my stuff (ALKJDFL;AJSFDJJ SO MUCH LOVE Y/Y?)

♥ Torchwood :D

♥ On a point totally unrelated to the above item, finding myself randomly slipping into a very bad British accent (perfectly fine most of the time, but gets weird looks from people at work.)

♥ Reading through all the fics of an author whose stuff I really, really enjoyed, only to check my email and find that they've read, reviewed, and faved one of my stories. (Happyface!)

♥ My team for

autumnwrite *blows kisses*

♥ ...TORCHWOOD :D

So we had a storm last night. It went on pretty much all night. I know this because while some parts are a bit fuzzy, I'm ninety-nine percent sure that I was awake more than I was asleep. Worst case of insomnia I've had in a very long time.

Then I worked today. Ten to six-thirty. One pharmacist, three techs. So Tech #1 was on the computer, entering in prescriptions as fast as she could, Tech #2 was counting like a madwoman, and then there's me...putting up the order, waiting on two registers, grabbing things for people, pulling drugs, putting stuff away, and generally running around like a chicken who has recently become separated from its HEAD.

Tech #1's husband was nice enough to bring McDonald's for all of us. Usually a day shift is scheduled to run for eight and a half hours. We get two paid fifteen-minute breaks, and then clock out for the half-hour lunch. None of us got breaks or lunch or anything. My entire food intake of today consisted of a handful of cold fries, a lukewarm cheeseburger, and two (admittedly tasty) cookies. I felt really bad about the food. It was so nice of him to bring it for us...

And we all wound up staying late, which is usually a semi-no-no. But yeah, between not taking a lunch and not getting out of there until half an hour past my technical clock-out time, I added over an hour to my paycheck. Which I admit is delicious, but for the last hour it was like all my energy had drained out through my feet. I have been warned that I will probably not leave work on time for the rest of the year--which is fine by me.

Over nine straight hours on my feet. Yes. Exhausted Candy is exhausted and should sleep beautifully soundly tonight, and will be catching up on comments tomorrow. And I just collapsed on

ammchan via AIM. She is snuggly ♥

It's that time again!

IM IN UR BASE, MURDERIN UR F-LIST

So yes, go forth and lurk/de-lurk for great justice!

New on

candyfics:
~ Misery Loves Company (Fatal Frame/Project Zero)
~ Of Pirates and Pearls (Torchwood/PotC crossover, god I hate myself)
~ A Perfect Act, Part IV: Bows (DC/MK)
~ What You Wish For, ch. 7 (DC/MK)

chassysaweirdo? IM IN UR BASE, STEALIN UR ICONZ ♥

There are strange men in my house, doing things to our furnace/boiler/whatever it is, backyard tree, duct work, and...I don't even know what else. It was sort of funny--I was about to peek out to see what was going on, and I heard one of the guys say, "She won't be asleep for too much longer." I opened the door, looked at my dad, and said, "Remember me telling you that I'm usually at least awake by eight AM?" Oh, and I actually have my dad's leave to more or less stay in my room all day so I'm out of the way. I also have coffee and a donut.

I am looking forward to this, especially because

autumnwrite begins today, and since this month is going to be devoted to the whole "passing my certification so I can legally continue to work as a tech and have something that could potentially resemble a carrer" thing, I'm giving myself today and tomorrow to get a bit of a head start.

And it appears to be official: Torchwood might be my new fandom. Still have a gazillion ideas running through my head for various other things (DC/MK, I'm looking at you), but...I realized a couple days ago that I have already mentally assigned effin' theme songs to two characters, and I have a handful of plunnies, two of which I actually really adore but which are not getting written until I have caught up with the series and have the whole canon under my belt.

Speaking of which, Lurker Day is tomorrow and I have a long list of things that will be posted. The list of stuff going up to ff-dot-net is longer than what will be going up here on LJ (since some of my fandoms for

100fandomhell were already posted here, but not there), but yes, I am very excited about this! Lurker Daaaaaaaaaaay~

~~I think I need to restart my computer, for it is not being as cooperative as it was previously. GRR, I SAY!~~ Okay, so I typed out that sentence, and then I guess the guys shut the power off for a second or something because my computer actually shut off. And somehow that lost my Firefox tabs, so I lost a lot of the stuff I'd been reading. GRR AGAIN, I SAY!

Newest on

candyfics: One at a Time (Fatal Frame III for

100fandomhell)

I know, I know, I am a giant flake of flakiness and need to get the fanwork exchange up on

professorlayton. But errands happened yesterday morning, work happened yesterday evening, and sleeping happened last night so the seven AM pharmacy meeting could happen this morning. I'll get it up today, I swear.

Torchwood already has me plunnie-ing. I think this might be bad. Note to self: never again should one watch a new series right before one is planning to take a month-long hiatus from fanworks in order to prepare for one's overwhelmingly huge pharmacy tech certification test. Oh well, already got one done for it for

100fandomhell, pimped below (because I'm a whore like that), so I can breathe a bit :D

I got my copy of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box yesterday after having to go to GameStop twice, since the truck hadn't arrived when I went there the first time. So now here I go, my running commentary as I play through it! There will be spoilers as I get further along~

( Must. Find. HINT COINS! )

Will keep updating this as I go.

New on

candyfics:
~ April Fool (Torchwood fic for

100fandomhell)
~ Long Arm of the Law (Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts fic for

100fandomhell)

I have a day off, and I'd like to accomplish some things of great and terrible importance.

First on my list, I will take a shower! *dodges thrown things* I need to call GameStop and ask when the second Layton game will be available for pick-up. Need to pick up a bit and maybe do a load of laundry or two. Got some writing to take care of, and then I also need to get my word-counts all sorted out and reported. And tonight we're going out for dinner because my mom got a fifty-dollar gift-card to Texas Roadhouse for winning an award at work :D

My sister goes back to school on...Thursday, I think. Which means that on Thursday afternoon or evening, my bathroom is getting scrubbed clean. AGAIN. And it will stay that way, fina-freakin'-ly, because I cleaned it twice this summer, and both times she had it trashed within two days. Cleeeeeeeean bathroooooooom! And also having the basement to myself again :D

Next month, after Lurker Day, I'm going to be taking a hiatus from fics. The reason for this is that I need to take my pharmacy technician certification test, and I still have a lot of studying to do, so I think I'll be going and claiming a table at the library and working there for many an hour. My dad was freaking out about it yesterday because he doesn't think I'm studying. My response: it sometimes takes nearly two hours to go through one chapter. I'M WORKING ON IT.

...oh yes, one more thing. I'm still watching Torchwood. Gotten through five episodes so far, and have two more loaded to watch. I have a favorite character and a ship, feel free to judge me. I also have a plunnie for it that's probably been done before, but I have not actually found it done anywhere. Yet.

Torchwood looked deeply into my soul...AND ATE IT.

I blame

gracie_musica.

...

*toodles off for that shower*

New on

candyfics: Blame It On the Movies (Invader Zim fic for

100fandomhell)

Dear self: this is just a friendly reminder that it's semi-bad form to ship a pairing before you have actually watched the show. Shipping something after one episode, however, is totally professional and is to be encouraged! z(^o^)-b

Yes, this means that I have started watching Torchwood. Also, I might have a slight gay-crush on Ianto that might slightly nudge aside my gay-crush on Neil Patrick Harris. Ya know, just saying. Will doubtlessly have more once my computer stops being dumb and permits the second episode to both load...AND PLAY.

So on Thursday,

kaitodoushi and I had an adventure.

( Aaaaaaaaand...cover the nipples! )

All in all? Fantastic show, great time, and great company :D

I have twenty pages left to read in the Dark is Rising sequence. Lay it on me, ending! I also have two drabbles for

100fandomhell scrawled out. Need to get those typed up so I can, ya know, post them or something crazy like that.

I'm calling GameStop on Monday to see when/if Layton can be picked up on Tuesday because I'd really like to get my hands on it before work, since GS is closed by the time I get off work. And then I shall be shunning all human interactions for a time as I glue myself to my DS. I hope none of you take offense at this because I do love and adore you all and give you smooches ♥

So...after doing a little bit of research and poking around on YouTube...

I might give Torchwood a watch.

I may or may not blame

gracie_musica for this :3c

Got all my stuff done today. All I need to do still is top off my gas tank after work tonight, and then make sure I've got my change of clothes, tickets, and MapQuest in a bag to take to work with me.

The reason for all the triple-checking of things is because the movie starts at seven, and I get off work at five. The drive is slated as about an hour and twenty minutes, but last time I drove there, road work slowed us down. So we're cutting it a tiny bit close, but we can has plan! *is evil ninja liek that*

...is it tomorrow yeeeeeet? I wanna go to the movie! *flails around and whines*

I just noticed raindrops outside! \o/

If you don't watch

professorlayton, I made a post yesterday about something ~~nerdy~~ FUN that

kaitodoushi and I did a couple days ago and could not stop giggling over. Because we are big, hungry nerds. Tasty fangirling is tasty! We also played more Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Not really a hard game, but it's very charming!

Yesterday was exciting at work because they caught a shoplifter! Someone had been stealing booze from the liquor department (which is, amusingly enough, right next to the pharmacy), and the missing merchandise had totaled well over five hundred dollars. Well, one of the managers saw a young guy walking out the door with a bottle in his hand and went after him. Asked the guy if he paid for that (guy said yes), asked if he had a receipt (guy said yes), asked to see the receipt (guy admitted he stole it).

It took two guys (the manager and one of the maintenance guys, who saw the manager going out the door and followed to help, just in case) to physically hold the guy and keep him from running. Manager also said that if it had been much worse, in the past he's actually just started calling for help and customers have come over to assist. But yeah, they called the police and the guy was arrested. Wouldn't give his name or an ID, though--said the cops would know him when they got there O_O

On today's List o' Things to Do: drop Mom's check off at the community college for her accounting class. Go to bank. Swing by Deb and Target/Wal-Mart. Top off the gas tank in my car. Get clothes, tickets, and MapQuest ready for tomorrow's adventure, since my time tomorrow will be really limited. Spend a bit of quality time with the ol' word processor today before work.

Tomorrow I work from eight-thirty to five. Then

kaitodoushi and I are hopping in the car and driving to another city for a special movie event. The guys who did Mystery Science Theater are streaming a live show in which they are going to riff on Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, wildly regarded as the worst movie ever made. I have not seen it, but Kat found out about the event, and so we got our tickets online. This shall be fun!

New on

candyfics: A Perfect Act, Part III: Encore (DC/MK)

I have so much stuff to post about from the last few days--work, gaming, Dad's sixty-first birthday and all the accompanying cake. But all I can really think about right now are the following as I remind myself that I should be asleep.

1) One of my fics, "A Perfect Act," should be updated within the next couple days, and the last chapter should go up on Lurker Day. A couple days ago, I was whining at

magicbulletgirl that the plunnies were demanding a sequel. Well, Bex? IT'S GOTTEN WORSE. Now they're demanding a part three, and have most of the plot figured out already. Haaaaaaaalp ;o;

2) Ace Attorney jokes make everything awesome.

3) I am hereby sneaking up behind everyone on my LJ and giving them a big platonic smooch of luff ♥

4)

kaitodoushi linked me to this site, and I gave it a whirl. The results are almost one hundred percent accurate to the point where I almost started to cry.

( My results~ )

Yeah. Just...yeah.

I'll have more at some point. Right now I need to get to bed.

New on

candyfics: Have to Start Somewhere (Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia for

100fandomhell)

...I feel like I had a bazillion things to post about, but I have forgotten most of them in my joy at LJ actually working again!

kaitodoushi and I just spent a couple of hours playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Thus far the game has ripped off Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, and some other stuff AND done a shameless plug for Fire Emblem. Also, we're doing our voices, and Professor Frankly has acquired the rather auspicious British accent of a different Professor, if you know what I mean and I THINK YOU DO :D

Thus far, the game is win and love.

And now a meme to spread happiness because there's...way too much sadness on my f-list right now if you know what I mean and...I think some of you do v_v The contact posts are just...making me very sad *i-is unsure of whether or not to make one m'self* So here's a meme, as ganked from

sky_pirate_tat...

Leave me a comment and I will reply with why I like you. If I don't know you, I'll either make something up or tell you why I like your LiveJournal. You must pay for the privilege by posting a message like this one on your LiveJournal.

All righty, tomorrow I need to ask one of my coworkers if she'll switch me shifts on August 20th. More to come on that if she says yes and super happy funtiemz become a go, whee! She's a really nice person, though, so I'm pretty sure she'll say yes.

I watched a couple episodes of Psych today with my sister, who has season one. I'd seen bits and pieces of it here and there before, usually during breakfast on Sunday mornings before I had to leave for work. I liked it well enough, but it's sort of a "Am I going to watch the rest of it?" It's funny, but the writing's not quite as snappy as, say, Bones.

We also watched the results show of America's Got Talent tonight. First five to the semi-finals. My mom and I have gotten really, really good at picking the ones who will go through, although every once in a while they manage to surprise us. We had it narrowed down to six for tonight. Turned out that the two we couldn't decide between were the ones the judges had to decide between ^^;;

Thought I'd give a little status update regarding fics, since I worked on them today:

- What You Wish For, ch. 7: 774 words
- A Perfect Act, ch. 3: 1794 words
- Song of the Wind, ch. 15: 473 words (IT'S A START!)

Also in progress is my next fandom for

100fandomhell.

...all righty, time to go take a quick shower and get to bed. Got work tomorrow, whoo! *crosses fingers*

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Fun things, yay~

ICON MEME TIEMZ!

Ohmigooooooooood...

Quick update is quick~

I really love this icon, just so you all know~

This is a subject line. Impressive, isn't it?

This sort of summarizes that last few days, actually~

Not quite according to plan...

HAPPY LURKER DAY!

Once upon a time, didn't I used to update this thing almost daily?

PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE DIABOLICAL BOX

Things to do today!

Whooooooo!

Unexpected thing is unexpected~

For the love of the second coming of JOJO!

Stuff. Just stuff~

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I bring stuff of...no great importance, really...

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