In case you didn't know, the MoR contest entries are up for voting here! Somewhere in there, you'll find a story by me - that's right, I finally made it into an MoR contest! Of course, I won't tell you which category or give you any hints at all - what fun would that be? And since Sharon standardizes formatting like scene breaks and other such things that make it easy to find people like me who always use the same formatting, it's going to be tricky! You have to actually know my style to pick me out!

That's what this post is all about! Comments are screened - guess me, get a drabble set in my MoR contest entry's universe! <3

And of course, vote vote vote!

Happy hunting!

EDIT: Also, in the notion of fairness, I won't tell anyone if they're right or wrong until the voting ends. Besides, I can't write in my universe and post it before the voting ends, anyway. =P

This is also posted at DW, which you can find here. Comment wherever you want!

Ah, the end of 2011. It's been a while since I did any real updates, so I figure, why not? Let's look a little at the year in review and speculate a bit about the year ahead.

My year started out amazing. On January 5th, 2011, my son Jacks John Wilson was born at 8:46PM. That means in five days, he will be one. It has flown by, really. One minute, he was 7 pounds 13 ounces and 19 inches long, and now he's at least 20 pounds and 25 inches long. That means he's more than doubled in weight! He can say mommy, and walk a bit, and he's awesomely adorable.

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Parenting has been a serious challenge at times - I've sworn I'm never having more several times - but it's immensely rewarding. The sleep deprivation is really the worst part of it, heh, since Jacks currently thinks night time is daytime, and I'm hoping I can fix this soon, since school starts in a couple weeks, and I'll be getting up at 6AM. X.x There is nothing quite like the feeling when he comes up and 'gives me love' totally unprompted, which is basically just him laying his head on me for a minute with a big smile on his face, or the feeling when he does something I taught him, like give me a high-five or clap. (Yes, I taught him how to give me five - it was one of the first things he learned to do consistently. XDDD)

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As always, I love all my internet friends forever and ever, especially those of you I've known for quite some time, or talk to often. Some special shout-outs go to: verloren1983 for always being around to put up with my random ramblings and for having way more brain twin moments with me than I've ever had with anyone, blue_cage for all around awesomeness and for making art for Jacks <3, llamabitchyo for being amazing and hilarious and texting with me en masse, kelkatan just because, and leilia for her incredible fortitude in her time of extremely sucky illness. Also, a shout-out for Bugeyes, or Nick Davis, my bromance -1 bro, for being the best Ogeeku friend I've made, for being my CAPSLOCK buddy, and for just being one hell of a smart kid. I wish I could name everyone ever, but that would take the rest of my life, so for everyone else, I love you all!

And with that, I sign off from 2011 and await what 2012 has to bring me! Happy New Year, everyone!

"I'm sure the view from heaven
beats the hell out of down here
And if we all believe in heaven
maybe we'll make it through
one more year down here"

- View From Heaven ~ Yellowcard

Oh yeah, it's October again, and I've been feeling pretty nostalgic, since my brother's birthday just passed. Which brought me to looking through my journal entries, because thinking of John makes me think of Terry (my step-mom) and my life as a kid, some of which I've posted just a little about. Holy crap though, I'm surprised anyone still talks to me after 2007-2008. Worst years EVER. God. I couldn't have been more emo. Though I was going through a damn lot at the time. I mean, those two years there was the getting kicked out (or kinda of walking out because I couldn't take it anymore even though I had no place to go) during Thanksgiving dinner, the rape, the homelessness which I spent most of with Tiara, the insane Lane fiasco, I was fighting with Marci, fighting with Ray, living on the edge of my ability to exist and just generally drowning all over the place. It took me a damn long time to recover.

But now, you know, things aren't so bad. There's irritating things, and I'm floundering with sleep deprivation from taking care of Jacks, but all in all, things are decent. I'm constantly busy, and I'm still doing the school thing - next semester, I finally get to go back to campus! I've been taking useless online classes to keep from paying loans while Jacks is small, so I'm so excited to finally be on track - I should be graduating in 2013. Only like nine years after I started. X.x;

Jacks is nine months now. I can hardly believe it. He can say mama, he has two teeth, and he can stand up on his own - it won't be long before he's walking! He is the most precious thing to me in the world.

Things with Ray are pretty damn good. He's working under the table in SF, doing construction. Though he could lose the job at any moment if they cease to need him, for now, we can actually afford to live. It's been a VERY long time since I could say that.

I'm doing a Gundam Wing rewatch in preparation to write for the MoR contest. Yes, I'm trying again. I don't have much time to write, though, so I've got to work it in there somehow. I also got a DDR pad, one of the good ones, for home use, though I don't have much time to play. I think I may have screwed up my knee playing too hard too fast, so I'm hoping the pain goes away soon. >.>;

I've lived a pretty crazy life. A lot of it I had no control over. And though there are still things that are out of my control, and I'm nowhere near where I should be, I'm doing damned good considering where I started. And that's something I can be proud of, right?

It's probably in the car. I need to pay for my LJ because they made it look ugly and I miss my icons. >.>;

Blarg. I missed the MoR deadline because I'm lame and being pregnant makes me scattered, and now that school started, I'll be lucky if I can finish Blind Go on time! And that's only 255 words. >.>;

Now I have two epic stories just sitting there staring angrily at me. Humph.

Also, I love natea21, who is sending me a baby blanket her mom made for the baby!

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I love handmade gifts the best. <3

Here it be.

So I was having terrible stomach pain, but I've been writing that off as gas/acid for upwards of three years now. So that is not what found me in a hospital bed at five in the morning - it was the blood in my vomit that my stomach pain caused.

I assumed ulcer.

I was WAY off.

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Oh, and someone hit my brother-in-law while he was driving our car, so... it doesn't exist anymore. We're buying the car Ray's dad was going to sell though, and since it doesn't need shocks, it'll be much easier with baby. (The other one would have had to be fixed before baby came - it was REALLY bad.)

*Takes deep breaths*

So much to update, so little energy, LOL.

OH. And my mom's executive won the court case to give me $400 dollars a month again, like she used to once upon a time, for school, so I'll be going to school online from home. Yay! Things actually look decent, especially with school money coming - baby stuff will be bought! YAY!

Anyone on my flist in the NorCal area or the upper SoCal area can come to my Baby Shower in October, if you wish. (I doubt it, but you never know. Not many of you even live here, lol.)

Believe it or not, I've kept it short and sweet. Lawl.

Now to go to my doctor's appointment tomorrow, write some more pieces for the Porn Battle before it's too late, and then get to work on Merith's piece, Kracken's piece, and my MoR entries. So much to write! Need to work on World, too, but MoR takes precedence, since there's a deadline. So unless the bunny eats me alive, that's postponed about a month.

OKAY. LISHA SHUTS UP NOW. Finally.

I have a ton of updates, but as I'm just barely feeling better from my surgery (Le gasp! I promise, I'll update later - for now, baby is great and I'm fine - just a faulty gallbladder), I'm just poking in to say hello, I need to write my piece for Merith, Kracken, the Porn Battle, and finish my MoR entries - no, I didn't forget - and that hey, if you have Dreamwidth, I finally fell into the pattern of people moving, so drop me a line and let me know. http://hostilecrayon.dreamwidth.org/ <--- is me. Don't have my icons yet... only 15... blarg. Need a paid account... And now I need TWO paid accounts... Ray's gonna eat my soul. >.>; (Which equates to having to pick ONE for my icons. He can handle me throwing money at one - he gets how important this whole fanfiction/blog thing is to me - but he's only so understanding when we're so in debt we can't afford to pay attention. ^.^;;;)

I mean, with Hikago comm most active at DW, and the Porn Battle moving to DW... and finding Ponderosa! SQUEE! I had to make the account. The main reason I caved? I can post at both places at once! ...Though I fear I may get confused with the whole DW/LJ cross-posting, since I usually address LJ...

ANYWHO, sleeping time for poor worn-out Lisha.

And just a side note - there's DW/LJ porn in the porn battle. Not joking. Check it out. http://oxoniensis.dreamwidth.org/30726.html?nc=1566 (Too lazy to find it right now - maybe I'll find a direct link tomorrow. SLEEP.)

After some soundboarding with kelkatan to consider the merits of cutting or adding, here's the update:


Entry 1:

10,490 Words, incomplete
Vague idea at potential end length

Entry 2:

5465 Words, incomplete
No clue about its potential end length >.>;


No guarantee these will both end up being entered, but at least one of them will make it! I'll make sure of it! For sharona1x2, since she's generously offering an opportunity I missed! And of course, I won't be posting any final word counts or the pairings until AFTER the contest. ^.~

Still waiting on aki_midori To get back to me. Poor thing, soooo busy.

I think it makes this easier that I'm not going into this thinking I have to write a winning fic! Instead, I'm thinking I have to enter, no matter what. The writing seems to be coming straight from the heart. And of course, the muse is taking that and running with it... Entry 1 was originally planned to be over in under 10,000 words. It's already over that and decidedly not finished. Eeeeeevil muse. So much for my attempt to aim for one short piece to make sure I get something in...

...Not that I couldn't just start a new piece for that goal. Though I fear the muse and its explody powers.


So... Put this with my other fics... I guess I've been a busy little beaver when it comes to writing. O.o; Wow. Plus the stuff I have on my current Hikago piece, World.

Wow.

If you couldn't tell from the title of this entry, this post is about my attempts at writing for MoR. I am pleased by my mobile e-mail's ability to compose and have been using it to work on one of my MoR attempts. Aside from not having a spell check, its tendency to add extra lines between paragraphs and the obvious difficulty of cross-referencing on something that shows only one paragraph at a time, it allows for a sembalance of my normal writing style and since my phone has an awkward full keyboard of sorts, I can use it to write! Horray! ...It's much better than the mobile web, which doesn't even allow for paragraphs, which would be why you're getting this LJ entry as a wall of text. So I discovered the text limit of my mobile e-mail composer, and it turns out the sucker can hold over 2,000 words before it cries Uncle. ...Did you catch the hidden meaning there? I probably have a good 3,000+ words with as many themes introduced. Poor Aki, betaing raw text. She's my beta hero! I'm trying, Sharon! MoR FTW!

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Ah, life. Where such wonderful things like crashing hard drives and losing tens of thousands of unpublished words in the blink of an eye can happen when you least expect it.

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I'm done with both of my categories for the Maximum Challenge Contest at Media Miner! I'm actually a bit early this year, which is awesome. I finished them all in two days this time! I had a bit of trouble with one - lots of good entries. When the winners are announced, I'll pimp one of my First Place picks - it's REALLY worth the time. Now that that's done, I have time to work on my MoR entry! <3 I'm going to finish my entry this year if it kills me! ^_^ I'm very excited about it.

Later today I'm going to my Psych Club banquet. It's funny, I ran into my Club President at the mall - remember the guy I passionately fought for to stay in office? Well, in my absence - and partly thanks to my letter - he was reinstated for the remainder of the semester. He's transferring to Berkeley for the fall, and I'm sad to see him go. But he invited me and Ray to the End of the Year Banquet, and I'm happy to go! I'm a little nervous, really, because I haven't been to school lately and everyone will obviously know it. But I'll be back next semester - and with a passion, I hope! One of my roommates is returning with me - possibly two of them. We're planning on taking all of our summer classes together and Poly and I are going to be taking one of our Fall classes together, too. The two roommates that are going back with me - Poly and Jen - don't drive, so we've sync'd our classes so that we can just all ride together. It's kind of exciting and scary all at the same time. I've been so depressed and I just haven't left the house for any real length of time at all lately, so it's kind of intimidating now! It's pick myself up off the floor time again though - and I'll be damned if I let anything stop me. I've just got to pull myself together so I can pull the grades I used to. See, I KNOW I can get A's. I have a whole bunch of the shiny things to show off. I just seem to have fallen into a rut lately... something I'm about ready to drop-kick into oblivion if it doesn't leave me alone. I KNOW I can do better. Now I just have to do it.

Shinies! I must make shinies!

So I've been trying to figure out what I was going to do for Moments of Rapture for ages. I mean, I picked my sin and had a rough idea, but I couldn't make it into anything solid. So here I am at 7 AM, listening to some music, just surfing the web, and what happens? It smashes me over the head. What is it about random morning times when I should be sleeping that are so inspiring? I mean, I swear, practically all my good ideas come in the morning after I'm supposed to be in bed.

But regardless, yay! I finally have my piece started! Now let's just hope I finish it in time... ^.^;;;

And in ending, I would like to quote the movie "Stranger than Fiction"...

"Well Penny, like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method."