Hi everyone. I posted here back in May, about 10 days after I was diagnosed, asking about experiences people have had with side effects of interferon vs. glatiramer. A lot of you responded and were just amazingly supportive. Thank you for that. Your feedback helped me make a decision. (Just to update any of you who might remember me: I chose to go on Copaxone.)

I have a new question to ask. For the past couple of days, the occasional and very mild tingling and numbness that I sometimes feel in my right leg has gotten more pronounced. Now it's nearly constant, and though not painful, is very disconcerting.

Is this to be expected, in your experience? Is it just something that is likely to come and go? Or should I be worried that it could be the start of a new exacerbation?

All in all, I've been doing pretty well. I don't have any problems doing anything I want/need to do (except that I look like a total goofball when I try to run), and I am still riding my horse and going up and down stairs, etc. All in all my symptoms have been very mild since the first exacerbation subsided, back near the beginning of June.

I would really appreciate hearing your comments. Thanks. This community is fantastic!

I have this mental image of myself sometimes, something that I'll actually act out in real-time where I imagine I'm holding something--this, idea or image or thought--in my hands like a Rubik's Cube or a puzzle box or something and I'm shaking it and turning it around and around to both admire and examine it and I want to take it apart (a little like the goose with the golden egg) and see exactly what it is that makes it so, SO shiny.

I feel like that about this story.

Wait. Let me back up. Remix opened today. I've talked a lot before about how Remix is my absolute favorite fandom activity, my High Holy Day of Obligation in all matters fannish. And it's not just the writing, though I generally do love that too, it's also seeing what someone else has made.

In My Brother's Keeping is one of those stories I really love and feel a certain prideful thrill for having written; I can claim nothing for the remix of it, the genius of some other writer, but I feel something of that same prideful thrill for having had anything to do with the inception of its ideas. It's all the things I've talked about when I talk about what *I* like about Remix and remixing: an idea almost entirely different from the original and creating something that stands completely on its own (and beautifully so) but that also reflects back at the original in these really artful ways, making the stories complementary pieces like twin jewels in a single setting.

I mean...okay, I feel like I'm giving myself too much credit there, but I really am so completely enamored by this remix, the ideas behind it and embedded in it, the central, absolute, upfront SamandDean that sinks through the core of it, and all the really COOL embroidery and detail work that goes around that central core.

As I said in my comment, the story was not written for me but it's still a great gift and a pleasure to read. I know I'm going to be thinking about it for a long while.

Finders Keepers (Sin Crouching at the Door Extended Remix) Sam/Dean, NC-17.

If you do read it, please give this lovely anonymouse a tip of the hat; Remix always gets far too little feedback, imo, for the amount of effort undertaken by these writers.

I got a few new icons last night including the one you see here which I LOVE. The others are to remedy my lack of leverage icons (I now have TWO) and get a Merlin icon (well Arther, really). soylahtayplease is totally responsible for this. I haven't started reading fic - I think I need to watch more before I dive in to that... but I am enjoying it...even if I rant through out each show about how STUPID various people are (usually Uther and Merlin in case you were wondering). I also rant about what has changed from the canon I know and love but that does not seem alter the fact that I now have my dvr set to record it. Does anyone else notice how everything is soylahtayplease's fault? Because it's TRUE.

In my fiction writing I am noticing an unfortunate trend. When J2 au's were the shiny new thing that everyone wanted more of... I was slaving over my epic NON-au. Now that fandom's taste is swinging more toward non-au I am dipping my toe into AU territory. Dear ANN - you are doing it wrong! *facepalm* Though speaking of my writing, I am still very much enjoying working on my political J2 au. I have FINALLY started actually getting to plot parts of the fic and Jared is push push pushing at Jensen's walls and it's all sort of delicious and angsty. Well, I think it is anyways. *g*

I am paying bills and getting my banking in order which while a pain always makes me feel so much better about the world and LIFE and also allows me to sleep at night which is ALWAYS a good thing. Especailly as my sleeping pattern has been woefully disjointed lately. Sleeping in way late and not getting to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning. It's BAD. And I think it's why I am waking up with headaches every day, too. I am hoping to get that back on track now that I am about to begin working with my singers. (Tomorrow is our first rehearsal!)

Lastly, I've sort of fallen off the birthday wagon - but it's Jared's birthday today! Hopefully he is having a wonderful day with family and friends celebrating however he sees fit. This is a lovely picspam of Jared through the years. He was SUCH A WEE BABY back in the day!

I must now go and get back to work but I hope y'all are having relaxing Sundays (or you know, Monday mornings if that's where you are).

So, The Ugly Truth comes out this Friday! Woot! I know there is probably not enough Craig in it, but to have him larger than life on a movie screen sounds fabulous to me, even for a few seconds.

I found this interview with Gerard Butler, he talks a little bit about how he loves Craig. :)

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17051.html

i have some surgial things that belonged to my G Grandfater, some stuff from my g parents, and parents. susan has more of that kind of stuff, some furniture and things. there were other things.

i've no one to pass any of it on to so it will end up in an auction, yard sale, or goodwill,  just like everything unwanted and belonging to the dead, does.

makes me sad sometime, that.

This is mostly noteworthy because I've had two eggplants languishing in my fridge since last Saturday's farmer's market because it has been too hot to cook all week. (I have some of those green-bag thingies for produce, which really do work quite well. I loves them.) I went with a layered eggplant and polenta casserole only I skipped all the bits where you basically cook up a tasty marinara sauce from fresh ingredients and, uh, bought a likely-looking jar of sauce at the store instead. Lo, I am a lazy-ass cook.

Also, hi! I missed my LJ-versary earlier this month, eight years, how time flies, etc., etc. And... you know, I haven't been around much. Except for occasionally spamming comments, which reminds me, NBC is going to wimp out on ending the world again tonight at 8 central \o/

(I was just folding my laundry and had a moment of "WTF, someone lifted all my socks??" before I remembered I'd been wearing sandals all week. Fail, brain. FAIL.)

Saw the new Harry Potter yesterday and loved it, my only (non-spoilery!) comment is that there were several scenes where I could swear someone CGI-ed away poor Daniel's stubble. I'm probably mistaken, but once the thought occurred to me it would not go away.

Also saw (500) Days of Summer, which I expected to be cute and sweet and now think might be one of the best relationship movies I have ever seen. I can't stop thinking about it. Or bugging tsuki_no_bara about it because she's the only other person I know who's seen it.

I loved the finale of Harper's Island, am in denial about Kings ending, and am pleased that Dirty Sexy Money is temporarily back on my teevee except for the fact there was not enough Jeremy in last night's ep. I've also been writing fic... for characters no one will remember in fandoms no one's ever heard of *laughs* But I do that sometimes, no surprise. May have stuff worth posting soonish.

Here, have a link! Steampunk Tableware

My house is full of "Schtuff". Nobody in either side of the family ever got rid of one blessed thing. I have furniture from The Civil war era, some flatware from The Revolutionary war era - and before, a music box from the late 1800's, a p;iano from a whorehouse in NOLA from the late 1800's, China from England....pictures, letters, books, jewelry. And my daughter will have to decide what to do with it. I am getting rid of all the stuff that is "New". I am tired of the clutter. Hell, if I wasn't afraid that I would be haunted foreve, I would get rid of a LOT of the old....

im in cinci if you guys didnt know.

drove down friday for the funeral which is today.
i'm sure it will be sad but at least it will be over. i dont like loose ends. susan will read the eulogy and i will read a history of dorothy's life. there are several preachers who will speak.
im sure the little church will be packed as there are so many relatives.

susan is weaving a wreath of roses on the back porch an there is not much i can do for now.

we had a good day yesterday, ate good food, had poor service, drove around. went to an auction which was ok.

hope ya'll are having a good weekend.

so tired of not having energy. Who's blood do I have to drink to get any????

Another from the hot ASL guy

Ok, Charlie just inflicted this on us, we all have tears streaming from laughing.

Party guest inflicted this on me

The party always likes this video

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