I just bought 3 new bras!
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nursedarryBut that's only part of what's happened in the last two months, or since I've had time to actually play with you lot.
Before I start cutting this to save you all from having to read the rest of this post, let me just say a HUGE THANK you to everyone who sent me virtual kisses! I tried to send one to everyone on my flist, but my explativing explative modem doesn't seem to like my new house very much, and it bails every five minutes, so I'm actually pretty chuffed to have got as many sent as I did. I am very, very sorry if I missed you out, but please know that I wanted to snog you stupid, even if I didn't.
Right, now. Why I've been gone and where I'm going, and if you'd like to skip to the end, there's some fic for you:)
At the beginning of June, we left our last RAF base for pastures more urban and now live in the centre of Reading. I love it. I'm a 15 minute walk from work, the kids are in a class full of other kids whose names I can't pronounce, there's millions of takeaways and restaurants, and I can walk to the shops, the train station, and the pool. The Tesco Extra is just down the road and it's still only 1/2 hour away from the friends we have in Benson.
The kids have settled in well, and we've got child-care and summer hols organised now. But it was a bit of thing getting there as just after we moved...
He'd not been feeling well for a few days before we moved, and the Friday before the Monday he was supposed to report to training for his new job with Siemens Windpower, he was admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics and fluids. Up till then, he'd been having to clean out the house on the base so we could march out, and get stuff unpacked here - I was back to work by then - and whatever he had - some kind of viral infection or autoimmune reaction was in full swing.
So, I had to take a few emergency days off, put the house on hold and get stuff sorted for the kids and ferry stuff back and forth to him. Luckily we're not that far away from the hospital, and he was out quick, but it's taken him a few weeks to recover. He's all better now and starting work on Monday, which is good, cause he's driving me fucking mad being home all this time. I'm sure it was no picnic for him, either, as he's never had even one day off work sick (unless you count being hungover), and it really threw the poor man for a loop.
Yes, flu season doesn't officially start until October, but for people like me who organise all of the immunisation programmes for the county, we have to have our skates on already. So work has been no picnic either recently. I love my job, and I love my office, but it's been crazy busy (flu is only one of the imms programmes I'm responsible for delivering), and on top of the domestic craziness, I've had a lot to juggle.
During all the chaos, I've had the opportunity (actually, I insisted on them, or I'd have gone barmy) to hook up with a number of wonderful LJ friends.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
being_here and katerina_black were both in Reading not long ago and I had two great evenings drinking cocktails with them! *waves* Come back, ladies! I'll leave the kids at home next time :)
On the 4th of July, I went into London for some good home cooking and mad fangirl chatter withaccioscar and cassie_black12, both of whom I'd missed terribly and now miss terribly again!
On Thursday, I ran into twenty thousand of my closest friends in Trafalgar Square, but the ones I remember the most weregroolover, mayfly_78 and croatoan6000. The girls were WONDERFUL and let me yammer on with my stupid accent and laugh at my terrible jokes. For a much more informative review of the day, please see this awesome post, EDT: which is now flocked, but she's said she'll happily add people to see it. There were also some famous people milling about I think, but I only recall a couple of them clearly.
Next in the pipeline is a wonderfully long visit from everyone's favourite Danish pastry,jtsbbsps_dk, who blessedly is coming over to help me with the kids for a couple days a week this summer whilst Doug is away on this 7-week training course. We shall also be meeting sesheta_66 in London in a few weeks whilst she's over on her UK tour! Wish I could join her for all of it!
Now for the fic -
Last week I received a gorgeous piece of school!smut (how did she know?) from one of my favourite writers. I had actually forgotten I left a couple of prompts over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hd_relief, and was delighted to be presented with this:
Author:khasael
Title: Relax (don't do it)
Summary: It was only a matter of time before Harry's inability to remember Potions information got him in trouble... although some sorts of trouble are a lot more pleasant than others.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3,700
In addition, I was honoured to write this little ditty forcassie_black12 for the harrydracompreg fest - it's silly, not squicky and I had a fantastic time coming up with the plot. Thank you to everyone who commented - I'll reply later tonight when the modem might be more co-operative. Thank you, also, to my fellow mods, sassy_cissa, kittyfic, and enchanted_jae!
Title: The Proof Is In the Potion
Prompt: Breaking the news to Draco's parents.
Rating: NC17
Warning(s): Mpreg, duh.
Epilogue compliant? Not even a little bit.
Word Count: ~8K
Summary: Rita Skeeter does some actual research, and damned if she isn’t shocked with what she finds: Draco in the family way, a secret from way-back-when, and Lucius has the most shocking taste in alcoholic beverages.
All for now - I'm mostly back and really missed you guys.
Before I start cutting this to save you all from having to read the rest of this post, let me just say a HUGE THANK you to everyone who sent me virtual kisses! I tried to send one to everyone on my flist, but my explativing explative modem doesn't seem to like my new house very much, and it bails every five minutes, so I'm actually pretty chuffed to have got as many sent as I did. I am very, very sorry if I missed you out, but please know that I wanted to snog you stupid, even if I didn't.
Right, now. Why I've been gone and where I'm going, and if you'd like to skip to the end, there's some fic for you:)
At the beginning of June, we left our last RAF base for pastures more urban and now live in the centre of Reading. I love it. I'm a 15 minute walk from work, the kids are in a class full of other kids whose names I can't pronounce, there's millions of takeaways and restaurants, and I can walk to the shops, the train station, and the pool. The Tesco Extra is just down the road and it's still only 1/2 hour away from the friends we have in Benson.
The kids have settled in well, and we've got child-care and summer hols organised now. But it was a bit of thing getting there as just after we moved...
He'd not been feeling well for a few days before we moved, and the Friday before the Monday he was supposed to report to training for his new job with Siemens Windpower, he was admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics and fluids. Up till then, he'd been having to clean out the house on the base so we could march out, and get stuff unpacked here - I was back to work by then - and whatever he had - some kind of viral infection or autoimmune reaction was in full swing.
So, I had to take a few emergency days off, put the house on hold and get stuff sorted for the kids and ferry stuff back and forth to him. Luckily we're not that far away from the hospital, and he was out quick, but it's taken him a few weeks to recover. He's all better now and starting work on Monday, which is good, cause he's driving me fucking mad being home all this time. I'm sure it was no picnic for him, either, as he's never had even one day off work sick (unless you count being hungover), and it really threw the poor man for a loop.
Yes, flu season doesn't officially start until October, but for people like me who organise all of the immunisation programmes for the county, we have to have our skates on already. So work has been no picnic either recently. I love my job, and I love my office, but it's been crazy busy (flu is only one of the imms programmes I'm responsible for delivering), and on top of the domestic craziness, I've had a lot to juggle.
During all the chaos, I've had the opportunity (actually, I insisted on them, or I'd have gone barmy) to hook up with a number of wonderful LJ friends.
being_here and katerina_black were both in Reading not long ago and I had two great evenings drinking cocktails with them! *waves* Come back, ladies! I'll leave the kids at home next time :)On the 4th of July, I went into London for some good home cooking and mad fangirl chatter with
accioscar and cassie_black12, both of whom I'd missed terribly and now miss terribly again!On Thursday, I ran into twenty thousand of my closest friends in Trafalgar Square, but the ones I remember the most were
groolover, mayfly_78 and croatoan6000. The girls were WONDERFUL and let me yammer on with my stupid accent and laugh at my terrible jokes. For a much more informative review of the day, please see this awesome post, EDT: which is now flocked, but she's said she'll happily add people to see it. There were also some famous people milling about I think, but I only recall a couple of them clearly. Next in the pipeline is a wonderfully long visit from everyone's favourite Danish pastry,
jtsbbsps_dk, who blessedly is coming over to help me with the kids for a couple days a week this summer whilst Doug is away on this 7-week training course. We shall also be meeting sesheta_66 in London in a few weeks whilst she's over on her UK tour! Wish I could join her for all of it!Now for the fic -
Last week I received a gorgeous piece of school!smut (how did she know?) from one of my favourite writers. I had actually forgotten I left a couple of prompts over at
hd_relief, and was delighted to be presented with this:Author:
khasaelTitle: Relax (don't do it)
Summary: It was only a matter of time before Harry's inability to remember Potions information got him in trouble... although some sorts of trouble are a lot more pleasant than others.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3,700
In addition, I was honoured to write this little ditty for
cassie_black12 for the harrydracompreg fest - it's silly, not squicky and I had a fantastic time coming up with the plot. Thank you to everyone who commented - I'll reply later tonight when the modem might be more co-operative. Thank you, also, to my fellow mods, sassy_cissa, kittyfic, and enchanted_jae!Title: The Proof Is In the Potion
Prompt: Breaking the news to Draco's parents.
Rating: NC17
Warning(s): Mpreg, duh.
Epilogue compliant? Not even a little bit.
Word Count: ~8K
Summary: Rita Skeeter does some actual research, and damned if she isn’t shocked with what she finds: Draco in the family way, a secret from way-back-when, and Lucius has the most shocking taste in alcoholic beverages.
All for now - I'm mostly back and really missed you guys.
