A Walk on the Weird Side

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I swear to whoever happens to be listening that I'm sorry, okay?  Whatever we did to tick off the Powers That Be, whoever/whatever they are, I'm really sorry.

The last two weeks have been from HELL, I swear. 

I've been sued for collections.  Three times.  In two weeks.

The school is threatening to call Child Services on us because Bug misses so much school due to an intestinal problem that no one seems to be able to identify.  She's always sick to her stomach.

Took her to the doctor AGAIN this week.  Now they're talking about hospitalization, more testing, including some seriously painful stuff, because they can't figure out what's wrong with her.

And last night, Fuzzy totaled the truck.  Only bright spot there is that he was alone in the truck and wasn't hurt.

Someone tell me which gods we pissed off to get luck like this?  And how I can fix it?

Here we go again!  I hope everyone is enjoying this story as much as I'm enjoying writing it!

After the cut, part 3

( Complications Part Three )

Wow, the response is overwhelming!  Hope you guys continue to enjoy... I'll answer comments as I can... BJ, you are a goddess, love...

Title: Complications
Fandom: Supernatural
Author: DJ Sparkles
Rating: FRAO (language, mostly, so far)
Disclaimer: I no own, you no sue.  I’ll put them back when I’m done.
Spoiler Warning: Um, possible spoilers for all seasons so far… don’t want spoiled, don’t read.  BIG spoilers for All Hell Breaks Loose, Parts 1&2, and season 3.
Timeline: Diverges from Canon after episode 3x03, Bad Day at Black Rock.
Beta: Ithil-valon, and Joe.  You ladies just ROCK, you know that?
Pairings: None so far.

( Part Two after the cut of course )

Hopefully someone will like this little gem... this is part One of a multi-part fic, so hold onto your hats... I'm going to try and give everyone a wild ride.  :)

Ficcage after the cut, as always

Title: Complications
Fandom: Supernatural
Author: DJ Sparkles
Rating: FRAO (language, mostly, so far)
Disclaimer: I no own, you no sue.  I’ll put them back when I’m done.
Spoiler Warning: Um, possible spoilers for all seasons so far… don’t want spoiled, don’t read.  BIG spoilers for All Hell Breaks Loose, Parts 1&2, and season 3.
Timeline: Diverges from Canon after episode 3x03, Bad Day at Black Rock.
Beta: Ithil-valon, and Joe.  You ladies just ROCK, you know that?
Pairings: None so far.

( Part One here )

Okay, guys... I know, you're in shock, two posts in two days, what am I thinking? *LOL*

Anyway.  This is the first bits and pieces of a story that bit me and won't go away... AJ/Eddie helped me with the concept and some of the dialogue. 

I don't mean any infringement, I'm just playing in the sandbox and will return everything and everyone I've borrowed when I've finished with no harm done.

This is a DOOM fanfiction.  Hopefully y'all are familiar enough with the movie/game/concept to understand what's going on here... if not, just let me know and I'll try to explain *LOL*

Without further ado...

DOOM: The Next Mission

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Okay, so this isn't great, but it's a start.  This is the third episode in my Lord of the Rings Series starting with Revolution and Retribution, followed by Revelation and Restoration.  This one, however, is called simply, Redemption.

If you haven't read the others, you can probably make sense of this... but I'd suggest you read them first.  No slash...

They can be found under my name at Fanfiction.net... DJSparkles, that is.  :) 

Without further ado... I give you

REDEMPTION
Chapter One
(After the cut, of course)

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Yep.  You read it right.  I've been sucked into the world of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

If y'all can get to fileplanet.com, and are interested, this is a really REALLY neat game.  You get to kill things, go on quests... and if you die, you get respawned in the town.  Nice deal. 

It's called Last Chaos...

Fileplanet is free to join, don't let the ads fool you... and the download is over 400MB so you need a good connection for it to work. 

Yes, I know I should be writing... but as stress relief, this kicks butt.  *LOL*  I'll write when Fuzzy stops being difficult... promise.

Yep, that's right.  More stuff going up on Ebay.  This time it's comic books; about 5000 of them when all is said and done.  If anyone is interested, you can find me on Ebay by searching for user djsparklesafghans.

I got lots of them, believe me... X-Men, Batman, and a whole lot more.

Yes, it's a shameless plug... *headdesk*

And yes, I promise to be writing this evening. 

If I got it from you, tell me please so I can credit?

How to make a Lockheed

Ingredients: 5 parts mercy 5 parts crazyiness 3 parts empathy

Method: Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of lustfulness

This is just a short snippet that demanded to be written and wouldn't let go.  Based on the book verse more than the tv series...

Title: Epilogue
Author: DJ Sparkles
Rating: FRT
Disclaimer: They're not mine.  I don't own them, I'm only playing with them a bit and promise to put them back when I'm done.  All hail the mighty Jim Butcher for creating the Dresden Files... and I promise not to hurt Harry any more than he usually does.  :)
Summary: After a difficult case, Harry has time to recover... and reflect.
Type: Gen
Author's Notes: This takes place in an unspecified future time, sometime AFTER Proven Guilty and possibly before the upcoming White Night.
Fandom: Dresden Files


I’ll probably never know what Murphy did to get three whole weeks off work, because I’m afraid to ask.  All I know is that every time I woke up, she was there.  Holding my hand, touching my hair, telling me I was going to be okay and I just needed rest.

Wow. 

She’d even had Butters come in, once I was a little more stable and coherent, to have a look at me.  He agreed with her; which made me wonder where they were getting their information.  I felt old and used up and ready for a long, LONG nap.  Like maybe about a hundred years or so.  Even my crispy fried left hand, that had been healing, was starting to hurt again.  I was drained.

Well, I guess I had cause.  It isn’t every day you face off with a literal Demon from Hell and live to tell the tale.  I guess I flattened it but good.  Didn’t kill it, unfortunately… you can’t kill something like that.  But I sent it back to its mommy kicking and screaming with a face full of whupass.  Or so I’m told.

I can’t remember.

Morgan came to see me once.  Yeah, that Morgan.  The one who’s wanted to separate my head from my shoulders for a lot of years.  The White Council’s watchdog and executioner.  Warden.  Whatever.  He surprised me, too.  Had nothing but good words to say, told me I’d be all right and that a little memory loss was expected.  Don’t that beat all.  Makes me wonder exactly what I did to make him eat crow that way.

Sooner or later, I’ll remember.  I’ve got to hope for that.  Right now… right now I’m in my comfy little bed in my antiquated apartment with Murphy bustling around out there being all homey, and it scares me.  Murph just isn’t Suzie Homemaker.  She’s a kick-ass Chicago cop with a who-knows-how-high degree black belt in aikido and other martial arts, an expert marksmanship badge, and an attitude to go with it all.  This is a side of her I’ve never seen.  It’s nice, don’t get me wrong… but I’m not used to Murph being all domestic.  Makes me wonder what she’s setting me up for when I do get out of bed.

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden.  Be careful what you conjure by it… because if it’s the wrong thing, I will find out.  And there’ll be Hell to pay.


(There it is.  I crave feedback, guys!  Please?)

Yep.  I lived through it.  I had that milestone birthday thing yesterday... turned the big 4-0.  Funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was in high school... until I stay up all night and the body reminds me I'm not a kid any more *LOL*.

At any rate, that's over, and I don't have to worry about another milestone for a decade.

I'm writing again!  Yay!  Unfortunately, I'm not writing on anything I've already got started *headdesk*  I promise that I will finish them.  It just might take a while.

Guess that's all, for now.

Guess I really should update this more often. 

Um, okay, about me, I'm doing okay.  Back on the meds that actually work, so I should be feeling a lot better and a lot more sociable really soon.  This is a good thing :)

About the fics.  Um... Well, honestly, I've been running over them in my head but haven't had the drive to do much of ANYTHING lately, am hoping the new meds help me finally get back into the swing of things.  I've got bunnies galore and refuse to even start any of them until I've finished what I've got started.  Hopefully the first chappie will go up this weekend.  Meaning, hopefully, the ending of Behind Blue Eyes. 

That's it for now... not much of an update but hey, such as it is, there it is. 

Holidays are over... which means I have to be a good little dragon and get back to work on the store.  Lots of stuff ordered I have to get shipped out today... but that's fine.  Means more money :)

Hopefully I'll be doing a little writing again soon.  Stress of the holidays has been relieved... maybe I'll calm down enough that Jaws will come back.  *shrug* 

Heh.  I called for an appointment ASAP because I've got some broken teeth, right?  Soonest they can get me in is NEXT week.  Oh well... at least they'll be taken care of.  Until then, I sip my meals from a straw...

Right now?  I guess I should get back to work.  *sigh*

Hi guys.  Just a short rant, then I'll go to the good stuff.

Rant mode ON: Anyone who has dogs will understand this one.  I had to stay up late last night (or early this morning, depending on your point of view) to make sure dad woke up to go to work, since it was only a half shift and he doesn't always hear his alarm. 

No problem.  That's not why I'm upset.

My dogs, bless their little pointy heads... I took two MORPHINE based pain pills at 2AM after Dad left because my mouth was hurting so bad.  Broken teeth, long story, not going there right now.  THEN about an hour later, when I still couldn't sleep, I followed them with my Ambien (it's a sleep aid). 

This is when the dogs decided it was time to play.  Run all over the bedroom, bark, try to drag mom out of bed to play, run OVER mom, the works.  I put them outside, they decided it was time for the canine howling chorus.  It's 5AM by this time, I can't leave them out to do that, we'll get a ticket.  Bring them back in, instant replay.  They're out again now and i think they've got the idea mom's not a happy camper... but I still have to bring them in because it's too early to let them bark.

Anyone want to sleep for me?  I can't go back to bed now... too much work to do today (Including calling the dentist to get these teeth removed). 

Ah, well.  At least it wasn't someone trying to get in the house.

No writing for me today, unless I get around to it.  I've got to write up and post twenty-five listings before I let myself do anything else...

Yep.  I've been working on the store again... new magazines going up on a daily basis again.  Reader's Digests this week.

For anyone who's interested, my store can be found on eBay by searching my username: djsparklesafghans.

I offer a wide variety of material... right now there are vintage magazines.  I will be adding Lord of the Rings Trading Cards soon, as well as a wide selection of collector quality comic books and handmade items such as afghans and quilts.  If anyone is interested, take a peek, and mention that you came in from my LJ please.

All that said... things around here are getting back to normal, finally.  We're ready for Christmas, thanks to our very own Christmas angels (you know who you are and we will be forever grateful to you).  And hopefully we will be crawling out of the hole by the first of February.

Yes, I'm still writing!  The final Chapter of Behind Blue Eyes should be at the beta's by the end of next week.  I know y'all can't wait for it... but I want to do it up right for you. 

After that, I'm moving on to The Price of Vengeance, and Redemption, and an as yet untitled CSI:Miami fic that I guarantee y'all will love.  Hopefully I won't get lynched for any of them... but they ought to be well received.

Thanks for peeking in!  This little dragon is headed for my nest; it's 3AM and I've got lots and lots of work to do in about 4 hours.  Catch y'all on the flip!

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