Hi there. Hi guys.

[minxy]

Okay, so today? Is the first day I'm officially late for a ficathon. It's not that I haven't started writing, or that I don't know where it's going. It's not that I'm not *trying* to write the darn thing down. It's that I don't have TIME. Jesus. I'm sorry Teal'c. I'm sorry.

Fortunately, I know the mod.

Dang, you know, I even have beta comments back on the piece I was going to submit to the secondary character's Carnival of Squee. You remember that? Yeah, that was a while ago. It's hard to even figure out if it's worth finishing up. Seriously, that's where I am.

I'm invested in finishing the Teal'c and Daniel friendship story, though. That will get done. Just, obviously, not on time.

Thank goodness I know the mod (and she's REALLY NICE LIKE THAT.)

So, over the weekend, I met Ryan Stiles and Kato Kaelin. My life is wierd. I've also been working too hard and the Boy Who cooked me dinner, rather impressively. He's so cute. He's non-commital in word, but in action, dude... he has me convinced I'm not the only one crazy attracted. Which is good, because I'm not entirely in control of my reactions to that boy.

In other news, work has been intense. Also? Non-productive, unfortunately. But it wasn't my fault, so there will be some good leveraging power out of that, at least.

Man, I thought I'd have *more* time when I hit the off-season for sports. NOT SO MUCH.

I miss you all. I'll finish some stories soon, I swear. Didn't some show a lot of us watch have a season premiere or something? Yaowsa.

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[princessofg.livejournal.com]

we miss you, too.

your boy kind of sounds like the boy i eventually married. hee.

and your work versus fandom thing sounds disastrously like my own life.

*clings*

have fun! don't work too hard! we'll still be here! I haven't seen Adrift either, but you know me -- a one trick pony.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

I will deny ever saying this but RL is more important than fandom life. Don't sweat it. Season premiers: Heroes, House and SGA for me. Chuck is good. Bionic Woman, ho-hum jmho.

[raqs.livejournal.com]

YOU MET RYAN STILES!????

I WOULD DO HIM IN A HEARTBEAT.

YOU MET RYAN STILES?????@!@!!!

DID HE SMELL GOOD??

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

He was quite wonderful. If Kato Kaelin had not been so fereaking odd, I would have had a lot more energy to memorize little details like whether Ryan smelled good.

He was gracious and charming and smiley and friendly. My friends and I ended up at a table by ourselves when folks went home at the end of a day of golf without staying for supper. Ryan was placed at another table and walked by several times, always saying hello and stopping to chat for a moment when he realized we were the only ones there. We offered him some of the extra salads available. There is a photo somewhere with he and I both in the frame. I, alas, am trying to figure out why Kato is holding my arm straight up in the air at the time.

AND, I would like to point out, I knew exactly who he was, being a fan of Who's Line Is It, Anyway (both the American and British versions), so I could actually appreciate the approachable celebrity of the guy. Very charming.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Yeah, it's the whole deadline thing. I am an overachiever, you know, it bothers me intensely to fail. Plus, I would really like to share the stories in my head; I'll be home earlish tonight, maybe I'll actually manage a little writing?

One can hope.

My life is Damn Fine, and I do appreciate it. If I've learned nothing else from fandom, it's that DVDs are your friend and you can always play catch-up.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

I am very nearly at the point where I can admit that I'm a little crazy about him. I don't want to admit this, you understand, because we seriously had this big 'why it will be a bad idea to get into something serious conversation.' He's still around, though, and I try very hard not to be crazy, and he keeps coming around and.... dang it would be nice to just marry the guy and be done with it. All these butterflies in the tummy are just distracting, really.

*clings* Share with me your wisdom on how to get through the non-committal phase, would you?

Fandom will manage without us, I feel sure, it's just that I'm so *fond* of you all. I really am a SG-1 girl at heart, though, so I'm happy to just muck around with my characters behind the scenes and let y'all fall out into whatever new fandoms you will. My fandom is RL predominantly, I guess. I wish I weren't missing deadlines, though. Thank goodness I've only signed up for this one.

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

oh, i'm not going anywhere. it's sg-1 alll the way for me. so not done yet.

no investigating or pimping of new fandoms going on at all. no worries.

about the prince: i had had a string of idiotic relationships where i plunged in and was all heart on my sleeve and was very free with expressing emotion and just let it all hang out. and in one case i got involved with the guy much too soon and didn't end up liking him and hurt his feelings really bad. in a couple others it fizzled and i felt bad and stupid for not noticing that i was just twitterpated and that the relationships had 'temporary' stamped all over them.

so i actually fell really hard for the prince, really fast. but i was dating someone else when I met him, playing the field, if you will, and so I really was busy a lot (which he told me later he LIKED. He LIKED it when he'd call and I'd be friendly but say, No, Busy, can I work you in at six on the 23rd? He liked that. He thought it showed I wasn't clingy. He has a horror of clingy.)(Luckily I really am NOT clingy.)

So we went on like that for a while and I slept with him on the fourth date, which for me at that time was WAITING A LONG TIME, and when I realized I was smitten I decided I WAS NOT GOING TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY THE L WORD DAMMIT.

And I wasn't. He said it first.

Luckily for me he was falling for me as I was falling for him. I suspected, but I kept my mouth shut and was not always available when he wanted to go out, for about two months, three months I guess. I remember we met in August and I went to a Halloween party with another guy....

But our "noncommital" stage went on for, oh, I don't know. Over a year. We'd stopped seeing other people without telling each other we had, but it was pretty clear. Because we spent a lot of time together after work, and by the following spring, he was basically spending five nights out of seven at my place.

I was 34 and he was 33 when I finally said to him, listen, if you were serious about wanting kids, and you want to get married first we'd better start thinking about that.

later he would claim I pressured him. But he was joking. He said, yeah, I guess you're right and went out and bought a ring without telling me and gave it to me two or three weeks later at a restaurant over dinner.

I could tell he was crazy about me. He just wasn't much of a TALKER. Still isn't. Actions really do speak, you know?

Don't know if that helps at all. But it's fun to think about it. We've been married 11 years, together for 14 or so, and our boys are 9 and 7. It was my third marriage and his first. He claims he'd never fallen in love before me. He said the L word after about four months, I think. and I knew he was serious when he took me home for Thanksgiving. Boy did I get the treatment. Interrogation! I guess his last girlfriend was a jerk. He's the baby of the family so they are all kind of protective.

good luck!!!!!