I will (hopefully - need to get the creative juices flowing again) be resuming writing quite soon. And if anyone cares as to how things turned out click the LJ cut.

( Diagnonsense and General Turkey Day Bitching )

Tags: glee fanfic, real life
Current Mood: tired

I feel like every time I turn around it's "something else".
No updates lately...and possibly not for a while. I can't get my brain around writing right now.

Short explanation: First off, the last two months or so I've been exhausted (yet in a constant insomnia state) and always feeling like I was on the cusp of "coming down with something". Monday morning I took a shower, while doing that I found a lump under my arm pit. Couldn't see anything when looking, but it felt like a really really bad bruise (and hurt like a bitch when I put any pressure on the area). Told my Mom and she immediately took me to my GP. He poked and prodded me for a while and hemmed and hawed and then made me go to the hospital on Tuesday. I kept insisting it had to be a cyst from an ingrown hair (a cyst of course being an infection and therefore the reason I've felt run down - "Bridget Logic" at work). I reminded him that it happened once before when I used a razor I didn't realize was dull on my leg and he gave me antibiotics that time and did not send me to the hospital. His response was, "You don't have lymph nodes on the back of your thigh."
Tuesday I got turned into a pin cushion (blood tests/biopsy) and probably get radiation poisoning from being stuck in an MRI tube and all but microwaved for a few hours. While there, my dear dear Mother decides to point out to the doctor two large freckles I have on my back (I'm Irish, my whole body looks like a freckle) and one I have on my shoulder that have all changed color in the last year and two on my face that actually (completely randomly and quite strangely) have been getting inflamed (almost like they were infected) and have also changed color. So those all got photographed.
This afternoon (Saturday) I got a phone call telling me to come into the hospital again on Monday for more tests of some sort (I'll find out Monday I suppose).

Now, the bright side of things - as my friend pointed out - if it was anything serious I'm sure they would have called me sooner then this afternoon and had me back in much sooner as well. My, cynical and pessimistic, brain keeps reminding me that a few years ago the doctors missed my grandfather's lung cancer for over two years (and the man was on oxygen at home - so they KNEW something was wrong with his lungs) until it was so bad that it was basically not treatable.

I'm trying to do the whole "bright side" of things and remind myself that on swollen lymph node and a few discolored freckles/moles doesn't mean shit and this could be as simple as a cyst or even fucking mono.

Either way, I apologize for the lack of updates. It started really just as being too out of it to write anything coherent and has since turned into being slightly freaked out. :-/ Anyway, the very second I'm feeling inspired I shall churn something out - even if it's just a silly one-shot or drabble or something.

(tagged as 'glee fanfic' and 'real life' 'cause, well, I only write glee anymore)

Tags: glee fanfic, real life

Title:  The Moral of Her Story
Characters: Rachel, Santana, Puck.
Rating: R
Word Count: ~3500
Genre:  Pezberry friendship. Puckleberry romance/angst. AU Future.
Warnings: Language.

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy & Co./Fox Broadcasting owns Glee. I definitely do not. At all. Nor am I receiving any form of compensation for this.

Prompt: “Your Prince Charming isn’t coming to rescue you in a horse and carriage, that’s not who you are. You’re looking for a man to be your partner. To take on the world with you. You’ve gotta update your fairytale baby.” - .puckrachel  drabble meme (by:sarcastic_fina)

Summary: Sometimes the fairytale ends with the not so charming prince winning the not so fair maiden's heart. Or it would if they weren't the two most stubborn people alive.

( The Moral of Her Story )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: rachel berry, character: santana lopez, glee, one-shot, ship: puck/rachel
Current Mood: tired

So hey guys -

First off - I've got my laptop back! Yay me! It's got Windows 7 instead of Vista and lemme tell you; it's kind of a bitch to get used to after the half-cracked operating system that Vista was. That being said - the laptop is back and I am writing (again, yay me).

The question I have for you guys is if anyone wants to be sort of a pseudo-beta for me?

I say pseudo-beta because I don't need an editor (well, I probably do - but I happily self-edit in fanfic because it's my way to relax and I don't want to make it super stringent or potentially not fun); what I need is essentially someone who can take a few minutes, read my final, proofed, update first (via email) and basically give me some feedback.

This isn't you going through and looking for grammatical mistakes - this is sitting, reading the update first and then 'talking' to me about the content and what you liked or didn't like (email or even AIM if you'd prefer face-to-face style chatting). Tell me if some part needs to be removed, elaborated on or switched around because it'd help the story flow better or sound better.

It won't be crazy time consuming and I won't need it for every single story/one-shot I write; but I am looking for more then "Oh that was great!" or "Write more!" - if I wanted that I'd just write, post and wait for the kiddies over at ff.net to review. Also this can be totally on your own time - if it's going to take a few days to get back to me I completely understand (I realize that my situation of being home on my computer all the time - even for any occasional work - is not everyone's).

Please leave a comment if you're interested with (hopefully) a link to something you've written and an email address you'd prefer to be contacted at. I'm screening comments for a few reasons - the first being peoples email addresses and the second being that while I'm not looking for an editor in and of itself; I am looking for people who write well (as well as - hopefully - liking my writing).

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and hopefully respond. I appreciate you all so much.

Tags: glee fanfic
Current Mood: grateful

So, just letting my readers know that I shall be fairly unavailable for an unknown amount of time; though, I'm very much hoping that it won't be more then a few days.

Friday night I was on my computer and I got a hard disk error notification. It then went into detail telling me that if I didn't get my laptop serviced and the effected drive fixed before it failed I could potentially lose everything on my hard drive. Needless to say I immediately shut down my laptop and went to sleep.

Saturday afternoon I turned on my computer and immediately got the same error notification. Checked my email very very quickly and turned off the computer. I then got on the phone and made quite a few calls and finally found a place that will give me a free evaluation and estimate on what the cost to fix the laptop is (this is apparently unheard of - 'cause the other places I called all told me they charge around 50 bucks for labor costs to do the initial work of figuring out what they have to fix). They're in the office from 12-8 every day except Sunday so I'm dropping my laptop off tomorrow when they open. It's a 40 minute drive from my house but, thankfully, my mother's psychologist is about 10 minutes from their office and she has a meeting with the doctor every Monday at 1:30pm anyway.

I'm honestly thinking it might be an easy fix because I haven't noticed any issues since I got the laptop back a few months ago from getting a bit of a 'tune up' except for the fact that it's been a little louder then normal lately. To me that sounds like the fan might be on it's way out - but I'm not exactly what you would call 'computer savvy' either. Fingers crossed this is a cheap and easy fix. I am going to ask them for 2 estimates: 1 for the cost of fixing what is broken and 1 for the cost of fixing what is broken and upgrading the entire machine.

I really miss the days when I was employed and wouldn't have thought twice before dropping $1000 on a new laptop. Then again, if I had that kind of money right now I'd be dropping it on a Mac and never needing to even worry about this kind of shit (but with my luck I'd get the one Mac on the planet that actually developed problems). The even "better" part of all of this? My laptop ran like a damn swiss watch until the warranty ran out in February. Now all of a sudden I've got software problems, hardware problems, etc. etc.

So anyway, that's why I'm dropping off the face of the earth for a bit. I'm at the library now but all I really have time to do on their computers is check my email and stuff like that (they put a 2 hour time limit on things). I'm going to print a few of my outlines and try and do some writing by hand (key word being try - my attention span is shitty when I have to write manually because my brain moves faster then I can write and erasing/crossing out just doesn't work as well as a backspace button) while my computer's down so all I'll have to do is type it up once I'm back in business.

Thanks for being patient with me and as always, thank you for taking the time to read my stories.

Tags: real life
Current Mood: frustrated

Title:  When Pi Meets Prose
Characters: Puck, Rachel (with a few other characters popping up here and there)
Rating: R
Word Count: ~4500
Genre: Romance. AU Future.
Warnings: Language. Sex (eventually)

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy & Co./Fox Broadcasting owns Glee. I definitely do not. At all. Nor am I recieving any form of compensation for this.

Prompt: Stumbled across this prompt on Tumblr (by cx7171) completely by accident. "Puck doesn't have a badass job (ie: bartender, musician, firefighter, police officer, etc.). Rachel isn't a singer/performer/teacher/dancer. He's not a single Dad. She's not a single Mom. They didn't meet in High School." I have to admit; I was intrigued because it forced me to really, really think about it.

Summary: A math teacher and an antique book dealer meet and find there's only logic to what should be a most irrational pairing.
( Part One )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: rachel berry, fic: when pi meets prose, glee, ship: puck/rachel

Title:  A Different Perspective
Characters: Puck, Rachel and this teensy, tiny smidgen of Finn.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1800
Genre: Friendship. Drama. Romance.
Warnings: Language.

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy and his clan own Glee. I just borrow them to play with and then put them back slightly more bruised then I received them.
Prompt: When Finn doesn't understand Rachel's fear that she'll never get out of Lima and instead thinks it could be good that she give up on NYC, she goes to Puck for some perspective.puckrachel  drabble meme (by:sarcastic_fina)( A Different Perspective )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: rachel berry, glee, one-shot, ship: puck/rachel

Title: I Can't Stop Drinking About You
Characters: Puck & Quinn w/ a heavy hanging cloud of Rachel around them.
Rating: R
Word Count: ~1700
Genre: Friendship. Angst.
Warnings: Language. Implications of addiction.

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy and his clan own Glee. I just borrow them to play with and then put them back slightly more bruised then I received them.
Prompt: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmotq7Wt71qbpwzeo1_400.jpg - puckrachel  drabble meme (by:sarcastic_fina)( I Can't Stop Drinking About You )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: quinn fabray, glee, one-shot

Title: Down on the Farm
Characters: Puck & Rachel
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~3200
Genre: Friendship, a teensy bit romance

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy/Fox Production Co and all their ilk own Glee. I don't. Don't sue. I've also had a case of writers block like you wouldn't believe...and apparently there are still new episodes coming out. So yea, don't own.

Prompt: Cowgirl!Rachel & Cityboy!Puck because it's always the other way around.- puckrachel  drabble meme (by: bewolke )

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( Down on the Farm )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: rachel berry, glee, one-shot, ship: puck/rachel

Title: Expectations and Explanations
Characters: Puck & Rachel
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~2800
Genre: Friendship, a teensy bit Angsty
Spoilers: 3x02 - I Am Unicorn (this almost never happens that I have an actual potential spoiler! I'm almost excited)

Disclaimer: Ryan Murphy/Fox Production Co and all their ilk own Glee. I don't. Don't sue.

Prompt: Puck is freaking out about Quinn's plans about Beth, but he doesn't want to hurt Rachel with talk of Shelby. She can tell he is upset and helps him. - puckrachel  drabble meme (by: enchantedrose80 )

( Explanations and Expectations )

Tags: character: noah "puck" puckerman, character: rachel berry, glee, one-shot
Current Mood: accomplished