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July 16th, 2009
02:23 pm - Torchwood fic: "Pauses" 2/2 (**CoE Spoilers for Day 1-2**)
Title: Pauses (2/2)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Disclaimer: The BBC owns Doctor Who and Torchwood. I'm just dabbling.
Summary: In between Day Two and Three, our heroes have to go to ground, and now it's time for Rhys and Gwen's reactions as they can stop for a bit...a fill-in piece for what happened before Day Three. **SPOILERS FOR CHILDREN OF EARTH**
( Click here for part 2... )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/thinking.gif) contemplative
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July 15th, 2009
06:21 pm - anticipation for movies and carrots and potatoes and berries
Harry Potter tomorrow. !!!!!!! Tickets are all bought ahead of time. I am going with my daughter and two very good friends (and the son of one of them). And daughter has her hair in 7 tight braids until tomorrow, so her hair will "be frizzy just like Hermione" when she brushes it all out to have with her Gryffindor robe and her wand. :) We adults will wear our t-shirts with various book/film things on them, and behave as though we are 13 for a couple of hours...my husband has to go to see it tonight, as he is in a teachers' workshop tomorrow when we're all going.
Farmers Market was lovely today - fresh watermelon slices for sale (couldn't walk by those, nope), lots of flowers to look at, and things to taste.
My icon choice for this post is because I have that (borage) blooming all over the place right now. Plant the stuff once and never have to again, truly. (the flowers taste sort of cucumber-y) We picked fresh purple and green stringbeans to pack in lunches this morning (YUM!) and are waiting for several things to be ready for harvest next week.
My daughter, having pouted when told she's probably not quite old enough yet to watch most of the new Doctor Who, perked up when I told her she could watch some of the old ones...she's seen Peter Davison now in DVD's of "All Creatures Great and Small" and is tickled that he played other characters as well.
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05:08 pm - Torchwood fic: "Pauses" 1/2 (**CoE Spoilers for Day 1-2)
Title: Pauses (1/2)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Disclaimer: The BBC owns Doctor Who and Torchwood. I'm just dabbling.
Summary: In between Day Two and Three, our heroes have to go to ground, and Ianto's not quite finished with what he began...a fill-in piece for what happened before Day Three. **SPOILERS FOR CHILDREN OF EARTH**
( Click here for my first story in a while... )
Current Mood: contemplative
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July 11th, 2009
06:02 pm - 5 Things I Noticed about Torchwood: Children of Earth...
I know I'll have other thoughts later, but these five just stuck this morning.
( Torchwood COE : Days 1-5 *SPOILERS* )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) melancholy
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July 10th, 2009
July 6th, 2009
05:27 pm - Oh dear. Singing where?!
Summer school boss came in to where we were helping kids rehearse for the talent show.
"So listen, would you do something? If you sing, I'll sing in public for the first time."
*sigh* Okay, sure. My only possible partner in crime grinned and said nope, so I just spent
a good hour trying to think of something. I went on iTunes and bought a karaoke version of "Fields of Gold" by Sting (but at a tempo/style that Eva Cassidy did, and arranged and cut the verses. I left out the sensual bits (teaching at middle school, after all) and just made it pretty. At least I think it's pretty. I hope they think so, 'cause there's nothing more critical than one's own students. Yikes! :) They have been bugging me to sing all week, so I guess that's what I'll do on Friday. *shakes head*
Four more days, four more days, and then vacation!!!!!
And on a completely unrelated note: Why the @#*! do we on this side of the ocean
have to wait until the 20th for Torchwood? WHY! (youtube, but it's not the same,
and my DVD set isn't shipped yet)
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06:58 am - It's a birthday!
Hey, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rhapsody11...happy, birthday, my dear!
And may you have many, may more such lovely occasions.
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July 5th, 2009
05:57 pm - Busy day, ear piercings, and growing up...
Well, daughter got her ears pierced and Mama and Auntie K split a pair to get a second hole in one ear apiece. :) No tears (from any of us) and the girl did a really fast, efficient job of it. She got little gold dolphins and we got little gold "dots". A girls' day out - earrings and then get fruit smoothies. *sigh* Fun. My little girl's growing up so much this year... *sniffle*
One more week of summer school. ONE. And then I get four weeks of vacation. Busy vacation, but at least it's a few weeks off.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) tired
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July 4th, 2009
07:16 pm - Fireworks and Festivities (but not in our city, at least officially)
Happy Birthday, country of mine. May we live up to the promise and the potential this year, please...
My husband grilled fresh veggies and salmon patties tonight, and I made oven-baked potatoes/mushrooms with fresh thyme, basil, and rosemary picked from the garden ten minutes before it all hit the oven. That last bit sounded rather hobbity. Yum! And the icon I used tonight is appropriate, as the borage plants are blooming all over the place, reseeding everywhere, and bringing in almost as many bees as the lavender bushes do.
I hit my favorite thrift store and found a pair of pants, which fit and that is unusual, and a set of little ceramic Celtic pins, which was a pleasant surprise!
There will be unofficial, illegal fireworks starting in about an hour, I'd imagine. Sigh. Or a lot of brightly-coloured fog? Sometimes that's all there is to be seen...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) calm
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July 1st, 2009
06:54 am - It's a birthday!
A very happy birthday wish for dreamflower02!
I hope you're having a lovely day, today...
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June 30th, 2009
02:57 pm - unexpected pets and students
Front door opens
Daughter: Mama! I have pets!
Mama: Excuse me?!?!
Daughter: A whole bunch of tadpoles from L's pond! And Daddy says we can keep them!
Now I know how my mom felt when my grandmother let me win goldfish at the carnival and bring them home. Sigh. So out came the old fishtank from the garage, and my husband gets to set it up. Actually, it'll be fun to watch them grow and then release them with her.
I have two classes worth of kids right now, as another teacher's little one got sick, and I had the smallest group. So now I have a big group. But it's a short week due to July 4th being a no-school day. So I'll really, really be grateful for the three day weekend!
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June 27th, 2009
09:23 am - Yawning a good morning....
Wishing a very happy birthday to marigoldg, whose challenges got me writing again not too many years ago. I hope you're having a lovely day, my dear...
Sleeping late was nice this morning, despite the daughter's loud "MAMA!" in the doorway to wake me up at 9:00 (still better than the usual 6:30). Errands and rehearsing and then the huge concert. We got a big article in the newspaper this week, and it's very well-written:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_12685067
I actually have a link to some video of us singing, since one or two of you asked...
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/976106
There are two parts, assuming you can see this from where you are. Skip the first moment or who when our hostess does her spiel. I walk across the stage first so I can drum at the start (Irish bodhran), and then join the singing. It's our winter concert from 2008. I believe that you can click on part two to the right of the video clip. Not the best sound, but pretty decent for right off the sound system. I hope it works...
That concert last year was a tiny venue but over 100 people came. This year, we've been invited to be the guest-artists for Mary McLaughlin, who's a pretty well known Irish singer. Very cool. (my husband and I sing her her Irish Gaelic choir, so it'll be a busy night)
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June 18th, 2009
03:50 pm - One giant sigh of relief...
that you might hear from another state. WHEW. My sweet, sweet husband spent his
whole morning calling local pharmacies until he found one that still had two
boxes of my antihistamine. See, the company that we ordered it from said
it would arrive sometime in July....not too helpful and we'd canceled it and
found a better deal on another site for a year's supply.
But that still left me with nothing to take and feeling like, well, crap.
And I have to be in a recording studio this weekend and begin final rehearsals for a
big concert, and singing while this allergy-stricken is not fun. I can sometimes forget
that all of this qualifies as a disability, until moments when I have no access to treatment.
So, feeling better already. And not panicked. I asked Mom this morning via email
how she stayed sane doing all of this when I was kid and she replied "Now you know why
I'm nuts. Talk to you tonight..." :)
Off to water my seedlings (cilantro, basil, sage) and veggies...
Current Mood: relieved
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June 14th, 2009
09:17 am - Hopefully, whew.
Well, with the allergies ironically keeping me up, I spent a bit searching online and found one store that still advertised the right meds. So I ordered about a year's supply and it'll be here in two days. I hope all goes well and they can still send it to me. (crossing fingers and toes) And I found a couple of single pills I had left around the house somewhere, so I can feel a bit less bleh today in about half an hour.
I have goodies to watch tonight - I found all three seasons of "Hetty Wainthropp" mysteries on DVD at my local used music and book and movie store, and had just enough store credit to get two and put one on hold. So I can gleefully watch Patricia and Dom tonight for a while, while I am getting my stuff ready for the first day of summer school. As is usual, I brought things in for trade, got the store credit, and spent all of it on something on the way out. Heh...
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June 13th, 2009
08:33 pm - Good surprises and Bad surprises
Combination scary day and good one.
Started out, good, though. We went to a garage sale (looking for a bookcase I can paint for my daughter's room) and found this elderly couple selling all sorts of things out including antique microscopes. So my parents and sister still being in town for a few hours, I called to see if Dad wanted to come look. The guy not only showed us the microscopes...turns out he has one of the biggest collections of those in the country, but also has something like eight rather ancient player pianos (those are the ones that are mechanical and play "rolls" of music!) He showed my daughter how they worked and played some of them, and her eyes got really, really big. :) And he had late 19th century automatons that played a real violin and sang like birds. Woah. So didn't expect a museum visit (and his house really is one). Such fun, and he was so tickled that my daughter and sister were excited to see all of it that he gave my music professor sister two old Edison recording cylinders for her research from his ridiculously large collection. Yikes. And he and his wife we so sweet and generous...it's nice to meet warm people like that.
Less good? The company that makes my antihistamine, the one I've taken since childhood, just stopped making it in the form I can take. And all stores pulled it off the shelf without announcing it this week and replaced it with a new form. The new form has something like 15 more ingredients in it (go figure) and I can't take it until I contact the company during business hours. In case you're wondering what difference it makes, I am often allergic to the binders and fillers used in pills, and the most commonly used ones now are used because they're cheaper. So I'm praying I don't have any serious allergic reactions until then, as I don't know what the source of some of the stuff is. Sort of my worst nightmare, that, and coming true. Two meds I require actually pulled off the shelves and replace in as many weeks. At least I have a small amount of the other one. I'm teaching summer school for four weeks, so I can't try anything new until that's all done. Cross your fingers that the pharmaceutical company will actually help me on Monday...they've even pulled things from stores in Canada, which I checked online this morning. Sigh.
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June 10th, 2009
09:06 pm - proud mama...
My daughter, for her 4th grade talent show number, sang "Far Over Misty Mountains Cold", taught to her by her father when he was reading The Hobbit at bedtime this year. And yes, it was the Rankin-Bass version. :) Sometimes she is just so obviously a member of our family...and yes, she sang it beautifully, using, so she says, lots of voice techniques she's been picking up from rehearsals to which she tags along.
Less gleeful? Tomorrow at 8 a.m. is when the school district meeting for summer school starts. They'd better not have cut their budget for coffee and treats, 'cause we're all gonna need something at that hour.
Current Mood: amused
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June 8th, 2009
07:46 pm - family and weddings and such
Three days off before summer school meetings begin.
Tonight before dinner:
Me: "I don't think Mom will mind if you don't go."
Dad: "No, she'll be mad at me."
Me: "She won't mind, really.
Dad: "You don't know your mother."
Me: (thinking...'ummm, I don't?!")
I told my mom about that a few minutes later and she just shook her head. He just really hates changes in routine.
Sang at a lovely wedding yesterday with my vocal group (daughter of a member was getting married outside, under the redwood trees in a circle of stones and rosepetals) - we sang "Seasons of Love" from Rent, "Fields of Gold" (by Sting), and a Sephardic wedding song. And then cracked the bride up during toasts by singing "Chapel of Love" full-on doo-wop style. :) A great way to spend a Sunday. When the bride said in her vows that she loved him even more than chocolate, there was a rather incredulous and impressed noise from all the women in the crowd. Heh...
Tomorrow is cleaning and gardening.
Current Mood: sleepy
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June 5th, 2009
10:06 pm - end of the school year
Finally. I'm home and I don't have to get up early tomorrow morning. I have until the 11th to rest up. (that's when summer school gets set up - four weeks of it this year).
I got a sweet gift from one student and a couple of very adorable notes from some kids in one of my English classes...two that said what they'd learned from me, and one (cheeky boy) that said "you're an okay teacher - not awesome, but pretty ok". Heh. From a fairly typical thirteen year old boy, I figure that's as much praise as I'm gonna get on that front.
I sang the national anthem as part of a trio of teachers at the eighth grade graduation ceremony, so that was interesting and sort of fun. The principal was joking after that he should hire us out for other schools' ceremonies to make some cash for the school...
Daughter was in a play about kelp forests, and the whole mess of fourth graders was, of course, really cute. She was a scuba diver and then she did some puppet work. I cracked up when I realized she'd raided her collection of stuffed animals for props. :) My parents and sister arrive tomorrow, and I'm sure they'll want to see the video of the play.
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June 3rd, 2009
06:29 pm - Birthday wishes and counting...
A happy birthday to my husband, axolotl9. Many happy returns of the day, and I hope that your cold is gone soon, dear. Orange juice and such are waiting in the fridge.
Two more half days of school left and then a two weeks of vacation. Wheeeeee! And I've been asked to teach the GATE kids this summer. Heh...that'll be interesting. And I say that with affection and exasperation, having been one of those kids once upon a time.
The garden is doing nicely...beans are growing up the net about a foot a day, it seems, and there are little squash and carrots coming along as well. Maybe I'll pick a couple of radishes tomorrow.
Current Mood: busy
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May 27th, 2009
06:51 am - Disgust
After watching the news for a few minutes last night, I turned it off in frustration and disgust. My reply? "When California voters passed Prop 8...? This California voter did not vote for it, nor did any other voting member of my family. We believe in basic civil rights. How about some bigoted voters in California? Does that sound more accurate?"
(takes deep breath)
I know that legally, the judges may not have had a choice. Which is why it needs to become a civil rights case and not a state's law case now.
Very glad that my friends' marriage is still upheld as valid and legal. They and their little boy deserve the protection.
Time to fight now, I guess. Next level of legal action? Bring it on.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) frustrated
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