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Mom took the kids to a ballgame even though it's been raining all day. My brother got her actual reserve seat tickets for a few games, including today, plus kids eat free at the ballpark on Sunday. So, I'm being lazy and am still in my pajamas (we were supposed to go watch my nephew's tball game this afternoon, but it was rained out) and was gonna do dishes but my stepdad decided that he had to come do laundry instead. And we have extra-low water pressure at the best of times so now I have to wait to do dishes.

I should really be studying for my finals but I'm quite obviously not.

Know what I miss? CHATS. We used to do fangirl chats on Sunday afternoons. Before that, there were Tauri chats on... Friday evenings? Maybe Thursday evenings? I don't remember when, but I REMEMBER BEING THERE! Idk, I just miss having people online to ramble with about nothing and everything, but everyone has real lives and also my flist is now so multi-fandom that it kinda makes things difficult to pull everything together.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this previously, but a stray pregnant cat showed up at our house a few months back and my stepdad started feeding her and she had kittens under the house. She finally brought them out in the open yesterday, and there are eight of them, and they're all tiny and adorable and feisty, but now we have to figure out what to do with them. Why is nearly everyone I know allergic to cats?

I hope everyone's having a great weekend! I can't believe it's the middle of May already!

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Dishes are done YAY! That's about all I wanna accomplish today; I set my goals high. Just talked to mom & the game is in the top of the 8th inning, so they'll be home shortly. I also need to be thinking about getting dinner going. And maybe folding/sorting the pile of laundry sitting beside me. (It's mostly SOCKS and I absolutely HATE socks. Which is why we actually have a sock basket but it's overfull at the moment so I guess I'd better match some up.

I'm gonna sign in to Y!M (I'm tabbycat6380, if you wanna add me) and if there are more than a couple people interested, I'd be willing to start a chat. Very unstructured, feel free to sign in to chat and go in and out of the conversation as you do other things. But yeah, let me know if you're interested.

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Okay, so I've been thinking about my big bang and why I hate it. I think it's probably a combination of things. Also, I'm a big fan of numbered lists this weekend, I apologize.

1. The obvious - I've been dealing with this fic on a regular basis since January. Most of the time when I have something that's not finished, I put it to the side and it sits forever. I couldn't do that with bigbang. I had to keep rereading and adding and thinking about it and worrying about it. So I did just get plain tired of it.

2. I started out with one idea, but when I started actually writing it, the story didn't follow the direction I thought it was going to. So while I really liked my original idea, the finished product is so different that it's hard to like it the same way.

3. I like AUs. But writing an AU, it's so hard to actually get the voices right, and have the characters still be *them* when at the same time they're in a completely different situation.

4. I think that I started out stronger or more solid than I finished, and I don't like feeling that my fic is unbalanced.

5. I'm accustomed to writing for me, and if others like it then it's a bonus. But bigbang has the potential to be read by more than just my circle of friends and (to me) that just means more potential for people not liking it or getting my feelings hurt because my fic gets skipped over for more popular authors.

Okay, I'm gonna quit whining about it now b/c I know yall are tired of it, lol. I LOVE YOU FOR LISTENING THOUGH!