always been crazy

Davey got his FAFSA completed and submitted applications to Bridgewater, Manchester, and VWCC (for the CCAP). I'm not sure I'm ready for this whole kid-in-college thing.

Jordan Staal (aka favorite!Staal) scored his 100th goal as a Carolina Hurricane last night.

Shane Claiborne said on twitter this week: "Christianity is not just a ticket into heaven and an excuse to ignore the world we live in. Our faith is about transforming the world... not escaping it. We want to see God's dream come 'on earth as it is in Heaven.'" (of course, Jarrod McKenna recently said "We're not called to transform the world - that's the Holy Spirit's work. We're called to love." Although these sound contradictory at first glace, I think they actually work together. We transform the world by love and the Holy Spirit works through us and that love.)

Judith Painter, a teacher from Andrew Lewis Middle School, has been to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award for K-12 from teh National Council for Geographic Education. Mrs Painter taught both my kids, and we love her. Here's an article from earlier this year about a trip she took to Antarctic last year through a National Geographic fellowship program.

Links of Interest:

Bilbo the cat apparently has a podcast where he just purrs.

Lil Nas X is first out gay musician to win a CMA - I've been following Lil Nas because he's like Jayden's best friend. Also, I've had to listen to Old Town Road approximately seven billion times this summer.

8-year-old living in homeless shelter wins New York chess championship

Forvo - a website that is a pronunciation dictionary; you type in a word and see how it's pronounced!

Cows swept out to sea by Hurricane Dorian are found months later on the Outer Banks - I mean, we have wild horses in OBX, why not have cows?

LEGO recreation of the Battle of Helm's Deep - someone has too much time on their hands (and too much money - do you know how much legos cost??), but it still looks awesome!

Street artist adds fake shadows to confuse people - Damon Belanger created 20 fake shadows in downtown Redwood City. They look really cool. You can find more of his work here.

Hold On - Hootie & the Blowfish have a new song! And a new album called Imperfect Circle!

South Sudan Promoting Adult Literacy to Maintain Peace

24 of the best Marvel cast moments of the decade

Father-Son Duo Helped Create 51,000 New Beehive Colonies Across the Globe

World Crazy:

Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary -From what I gather, it's like a watch or a fitbit and it keeps track of the number of times you pray. It's weird to me, but then again Catholicism is weird to me, despite my mom's family being Catholic and myself attending quite a few services growing up.

Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change - karma?

Fic Rec:

Hawkguy and the Devil by titC
Marvel || Clint Barton/Matt Murdock || 35k
It began like a lot of these things began for Clint: with a beautiful lady knocking on his door and asking for help.

Life of Crime by neveralarch
Marvel || Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, Clint Barton/Carol Danvers, Kate Bishop/America Chavez || 35k
A supervillain AU where Clint shoots arrows at people and gets beat up a lot. So, not really that much of an AU.
As a supervillain supercriminal contract worker with a morality deficit, Clint Barton leads a glamorous life. You know, stolen cars, dangerous women, a really confusing relationship with a meddling do-gooder, the works. It's pretty awesome. Except for, uh, medical bills, the mob, and being on the run all the time. That part isn't all that awesome.
Fun read, lots of snark.

Motion Parallax by Laughsalot3412
Leverage || Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer || 8606
So, apparently Amy's boss was part of a criminal gang.

The Real World: Bed Stuy by jendavis
Marvel || James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton || 143k
This is the true story of two strangers, tasked to live in an apartment building, get their shit together, and have their lives (probably) monitored by Natasha and Steve, to find out what happens when people try to stop being agents and assets, and start getting real.

unexpected tidings by BeStillMySlashyHeart
Roswell New Mexico || Michael Guerin/Alex Manes || 22k
The Evans' adopted two children that day. The third stayed behind. In one universe, the third child finds his way back to his brother and sister after just a few years. This is not that universe. Here, it takes twenty years and a Manes to reunite the three siblings.

There is, as always, a growing list of things I wanna say to yall and don't have the time or appropriate internet access to be able to do it. And I know yall are tired of hearing me whine. Poor me.

irisgirl12000 was telling me an awesome story of GK-characters in a Robin Hood Prince of Thieves AU with Brad as Maid Marion. Tell me that's not awesome. :)

The only fic I've read in a while was a. Brad/Ray this weekend, and I really enjoyed it. I'll find the link if you're interested.

I'm really liking The Walking Dead, but am content to discuss it offline (my brother + several of my friends are watching), since shutyourface doesn't like the Z word.

Castle is my favorite thing on TV right now, I'm watching Criminal Minds b/c Reid & Morgan & Garcia will never not make me happy, I'm voting for Brandy & Maks on DWTS ("Stars with the Dancing!", as my kid calls it) b/c I like Maks (and Anna, but she & Kurt are my second choice, I think), I missed the most recent ep of SPN but Sammy is pissing me off and I still am not impressed with the idea of S6 even though we're halfway through it, no one is my favorite on Survivor, the dad & daughter team on Amazing Race is my favorite there (I loved the Glee boys before they got eliminated!), and Psych has new episodes starting this week! Also, I saw previews for the upcoming new eps of Leverage, so that's YAY!

I have tix for the midnight show of DH, and plans for meeting up with a group for that. One of you linked to an article/interview with the boy who plays Dudley Dursley, and then Matthew Lewis was tweeting about Tom Felton being on his TV and he tried to call him but Tom has his phone off, and really, all our fandoms are the most adorkable people in them.

Twitter seems to be my only link to the world lately. Brian Schechter, Gabe Saporta, Jason Nott, MGG, Kirsten Vangness, Tom Conrad, and a few others are keeping me quite entertained, even if I can't remember the reasons why off the top of my head. Plus, the pics of Bden (who is still my favorite!) from Halloween and of Stark Sands as Justin Bieber totally made me laugh.

Um, what else... Oh yeah! Best of luck to all of you doing NaNo!

I'm not following the MCR craze. I'm just not feeling it.

My holiday wish list: jeans (I'm down to one pair - I had the worst day at work last Wed b/c I had a hole in the back of my pants and if I pulled my top shirt down to cover it my bra straps would show, and on top of that I started my period. Superblah!), getting to see AI (really, it's so unfair that everyone else has seen it multiple times! *whines*), and books (Pass the Parcel, Dragonsoul, the 3rd book in the Looking Glass Wars series, Jim Butcher's Side Jobs).

Fucking A, I just accidentally erased the rest of what I was gonna say. Stupid crackberry.

G'night, loves, hope yall have an excellent start to your week! <3

After work last night, I met up with Mom & the boys at the Red Sox game, then came home and watched Leverage (!!!! Christian fucking Kane, YUM!) and went to bed. This morning I had assessment testing for another job at 830, so I got no online time. But I did get drabbles written for all the prompts yall left me, including the Ryro one, lol. I also have a Sookie Stackhouse book to read today, but I can't do that for 8 hrs. So, more prompts? Please?