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I'm gonna leave the whine out of this post, lol, but a couple good things that happened today: Took the kids (Ronnie, Davey, Holdon, & Chloe) to see the new Spy Kids movie, which was thoroughly enjoyable if you liked the other Spy Kids movies. Baby brother is paying my speeding ticket for me. (Baby brother is also freaking out worrying about me, which is NOT HELPING my stress levels) The Administrative Secretary to the Assistant Superintendent of the schools called and said that we only have to pay half the tuition for the year to keep the boys in Salem. Sunday is Neville's first birthday party. I blew Illy a kiss and she caught it and hugged it to her chest. Lots of good things to try and focus on, right?

I've been moving my fics to a fic journal, tabbys_fics (lol, I know, creative, right?) but since I fail at tagging or memorifying things, I have to go back through and try to find them all, lol. Right now I'm only back to the beginning of 2009, but here's an in progress masterlist if you're interested. And a masterlist for what I've written with asimplechord, which of course all links to tabby_and_iris.

I'm working my way through comments and such. Apparently spending a couple hours at the river yesterday was majorly overdoing it (which, really, wtaf? I used to spend DAYS at the river without a problem!) and didn't do anything other than enjoy the Mike-and-Harvey show last night. (Yes, I know Harvey thinks his name should come first; that's why I didn't write it that way.) But I figured I'd answer the general questions from this meme here and then if you play along and put this in your journal, I'll just come along and tell you something I like about you! :)

1. Name: Tabby
2. Birthday: June 03, 1980 (I thought about leaving the year off, but I think most of you know about the grand adventure surrounding my 30th birthday last year, lol)
3. Where do you live: Southwestern Virginia, in the Roanoke Valley. We're in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and I can see mountains in every direction. And name all of them if someone asked. We're actually a pretty small city, compared to real cities, lol, but we're the biggest thing around for hours.
4: What are you studying/What are you working as: Not a damn thing. I'm becoming an expert at inappropriate napping?
5. What makes you happy: my kids, my family, my friends, music, words
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last: Ronnie, Davey, & Holdon singing Lady Gaga while they're killing zombies? Um, I've got the new Luke Bryan album, Tailgates and Tanlines on repeat in the car. :) If anyone wants it, I'll share.
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ: About MY LJ? Um, good is that I sometimes share interesting links that people may not have found otherwise. Bad is that I bitch and whine A LOT.
8. An interesting fact about you: Ask me when I'm not depressed?
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment: Not hardly. Unless you count my flist. I'm in love with a bunch of you. <3
10. Favorite place to be: these days, bed *sigh* Really, though, anywhere there's mountains and clean water and fresh air and the right kind of noisy quiet.
11. Favorite lyric: sometimes, well it's all I can do to breathe, but I'll be all right with my brothers and my sisters around me
12. Best time of the year: fall! hoodies and woodsmoke and bonfires and the crunch of leaves and apple butter and fall festivals!
13. Weirdest food you like: ketchup and potato chip sandwiches

RECOMMEND
1. A film: Mars Needs Moms - just came out on DVD, and like I said when we saw it at the theater, it's definitely my favorite movie of 2011. Very well done, and different.
2. A book: Just Like Heaven
3. A song: Soulshine by the Allman Brothers (my alltime favorite - I'd musicshare it if my harddrive was hooked up to the laptop at the moment, but it's not)
4: A band: EMPIRES! what? you're surprised? fine. how about MADRONE

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Art rec: GO LOOK AT THIS FABULOUS PIECE OF ART THAT howifall CREATED FOR KINK-BINGO.