If it weren't for my bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all

Dad's visit - the new car

Okay, so the whole point of my dad's visit was for him to help me make a new purchase/lease on a new car, because I'm crap at haggling/dealing with car sales people, etc. I'm fine at the outset, but once they start getting into the nitty gritty of the terms and moving things around and using terminology I'm not familiar with, I get lost. And then I feel really flustered and uncomfortable and hating the whole situation, because it makes me feel like I'm being taken for a ride without knowing it.

Well, no one could have predicted what ended up happening. ( It just wasn't meant to be, I guess! )

The Pets

Jaime/Talis: They're still not best friends or anything, but by this point they definitely tolerate each other's company, and from time to time, even enjoy it, I think. Sometimes Jaime will deliberately bat at Talis playfully, or flirtatously run by in order to provoke Talis into running after him, or nip at Talis's tail when he walks by. They constantly sniff at each other, and the other is better and better about letting the sniffing go on for longer and longer periods of time without complaining.

Then! Yesterday! They were both on the bed with me, Jaime was sleeping on the left edge of the foot of the bed, where Talis normally likes to be. Talis was next to me, got up to go to "his" spot, saw Jaime there, and instead of chasing him away or whining until I did something about it, he just flopped down just below him! And when he moved again, it was to sleep right next to Jaime, and their tails even touched! At one point Jaime woke up and meowed when he felt Talis on his tail, but he didn't seem overly concerned and didn't leave, just went back to sleep!

( Photo evidence! )

TV Meme

Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

There were several contenders for this one, but in the end I have to go with Friends. I was never as obsessed with Friends as I've been with other shows, never wrote fanfic, wasn't completely invested in any one storyline for very long. For the most part I was content to go where they led. There were episodes that were hysterically funny and episodes that made me cry. It was probably the show my friends and I quoted the most from, and made us crack up every time. Almost every episode is memorable in some way, which is saying something considering it was on the air for 10 years. On rewatch you can jump into any episode from any season and enjoy it without having to watch everything that came before. It never fails to bring a smile to my face or make me laugh, which is a big deal on days when I find it hard to do either.

Potential "Ask the Author" D/G Podcast PSA

Had another lovely lunch yesterday with the D/G gals. Since we've done a few of these now, lyndsiefenele suggested that we get together at some point to do an "Ask the Author" roundtable podcast for the Fire & Ice Archive. There's a call for questions/topics here, so if you have any suggestions, let us know! You can ask (almost) anything under the sun and we'll answer as many as we can. The participating authors are myself, Adelagia, Elle Blessing, and Lyndsie. (Links are to story pages for each author.)

Right now there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of interest, and if that's the case, that's fine too -- and would be good to know. If no one is really all that interested in hearing us talk about D/G or blab about our stories, etc., we'll just nix the idea. It was just a fun thought!

If you have trouble accessing the FIA site as I sometimes do, go ahead and post any questions here (and which author you're addressing, if a specific one) and I'll pass them along.