Butterfly Cauldron

(Also, I'm not dead. I'm just really fucking tired when I get home at night and can't get my act together to sit at my computer long enough to post. But I'm still here!!)

(Also, EMMY is going to arrive here on August 11!! For THREE months! I get my girl for THREE WHOLE MONTHS! Yay!)

And now, to the meme:

You are in a mall when zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon
2. One song blasting on the speakers
3. One famous person to fight along side you

My weapon of choice: A wand of Zombie Turning, of course! Take that, you walking corpse! Go eat a Republican!

Our themesong: This Much Fun by Cowboy Mouth, because I have a twisted sense of humor. Also, I really like that song. You can hear it here. Don't even try not to dance.

Famous side-kick: Oh please. Like there was any doubt? When we're done with the zombies, we'll pop into the Tardis, head over to Torchwood to pick up Jack and Ianto then head back in time to bask in some Roman Baths. Mrow.



Also? Tag! You're It!

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Veronica, she-of-the-big-headed-baby-to-be, has tagged me and I must comply. Besides, I think these things are fun. So....

Rules: Each person posts the rules before their list, then they list 8 things about themselves. At the end of the post, that person tags and links to 8 other people; then visits those people’s sites and comments, letting them know that they have been tagged, and to come read the post, so they know what they have to do.

1. I desparately want a kitten. I'm dreaming about them constantly. I think I hear them when I'm out walking. I'm being haunted by the ghost of Kittens Future!!
2. I'm feeling more and more "feminine" lately. I've been buying (and wearing!) make-up, I'm now wearing dresses and I've been (willingly) shaving my legs. I think I'm going to blame this on my hormones.
3. The first meeting of my writing group is being held at my apartment on Saturday. I have no idea how many people will be here, and it doesn't matter. I have a novel that's half finished and dammit, I need to finish it.
4. In the last seven months, I've become decidedly more extroverted. In fact, if you asked the people who know me now if I was an extrovert or an introvert, they'd all say I'm decidedly extroverted. This is strange to me, since it's the opposite of everything I've ever known. But I think, being so far away from my family, with no chance they or someone they know (and who will report back to them) is going to run into me accidently, I feel more free to be myself. My whole life, I've felt trapped in my family's shadow somehow. They're a good family, but they have these expectations and I've never felt I quite fit. But now, I can be myself more easily.
5. I want a boyfriend and I feel kinda guilty about that. What I want is a connection with someone else, someone I can have around in good and bad times. And I feel rather like, since all the other things in my life are going well, I should be able to overlook this one.
6. Oh, I've dated three men so far this year, more than I have in many many years. And they've all pissed me off in one way or another. Grr.
7. Lately, I've been thinking that if I were to get pregnant, I'd probably have the baby. This is new, because I'd been pretty damned sure I wouldn't before. My health is reasonably well atm, my job is stable, I have a good place to live and a family that would support me. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm not, however, wanting it to happen. That's what the Pill and condoms are for. Yes.
8. I found my brother's myspace page last night. Unfortunately, it didn't have anything incriminating on it. *sniffle*

And so...I'm tagging Mermatriarch,Mac,Elle,Lacy...and Callie, only she hasn't enabled comments on her blog so I can't tell her :) Oh, and anyone else that wants to do it...you're tagged too.

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Set your music playlist on random, list the songs that come up. Music for your life:

Opening Credits: God/Tori Amos

Birth: Fix Me Now/Garbage

First day at school: Saturday/Go Betty Go

Falling in Love: Happy Right this Second/Trinket

Fight Song: End of the Line/Concrete Blonde

Breaking Up: Everything in It's Own Time/Indigo Girls

Prom: Midnight Train to Georgia/Indigo Girls

Life: Precious Things/Tori Amos

Mental Breakdown: Late Again/MXPX

Driving: I'm Thinking/Autopilot Off

Flashback: In My Time of Need/Ryan Adams

Wedding: Dizzy/Luna

Birth Of Child: Push It/Garbage (Okay, now I'm laughing.)

Final Battle: Shimmer/Shawn Mullins

Death Scene: Ahab/MC Lars

Funeral: Out of Sight/Uncut

Ending Credits: Come on Home/Indigo Girls


--What? No Green Day? Is that allowed?

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So, my British Brain Twin has tagged me. Blame her.


A- Available or Single -- Chronically single (and Cassandra won't loan out her husband!)

B- Best Friend -- JC or Clara

C- Cake or Pie Cake -- Tea and cake or death! Er, Cake.

D- Drink of Choice -- a nice, fruity wine

E- Essential Item -- Ye ole iBook

F- Favorite Color -- Purple, red, green, brown, black, orange -- NOT BLUE. Never, ever blue. Unless you want people to die.

G- Gummi Bears or Worms -- Bears. I like biting the heads off.

H- Hometown -- *sigh* Oakdale, Louisiana.

I- Indulgence -- Good linens and expensive bodywash

J- January or February -- Neither

K- Kids -- Not that I'm aware of.

L- Life is incomplete without -- modern medicine! I can't help it, when you have a chronic illness, meds take priority.

M- Marriage Date -- Excellent question. Anyone got an answer?

N- Number of Siblings? One

O- Oranges or Apples? Pears

P- Phobias/Fears -- Funny story. I used to be horrifically afraid that I was going to get a debilitating disease that would cause me excruiciating pain and suffering. . .And now? Well, when the most horrible thing happens, and you survive, you stop being afraid

Q- Favorite Quote -- I'm sure I've said something witty, but I can't think of it now. Oh well.

R- Reasons to smile -- I'm not dead! My cat and my niece and butterflies and really nice candles and chocolate and flirty 21 year old boys who love, love, love you and...oh, all kinds of things.

S- Season -- Fall

T- Tag Three -- Let's see. Mac and Elle and...YOU.

U- Unknown Fact About Me -- I want to be reincarnated as a cat.

V - Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals -- Oppressor. Totally. Where's the BBQ?

W- Worst Habit -- I am appallingly unsure of myself in matters of romance. I cannot believe anyone would want to be intimate with me :(

X - X-rays or Ultrasounds -- Had 'em both. Hate having to have either.

Y- Your Favorite Foods -- Chinese, Mexican, Italian, steak, potatos, cheese!, chocolate, anything that I didn't have to cook myself :)

Z- Zodiac -- Scorpio, Wood Tiger

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OK, I stole this from Rootie because it's too good not too.


1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
*sigh* I'd say King George, but that would leave Darth Cheney in charge, so I can't do that. Hrm.

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Boy bands. Does that count as a musical artist? No? Hrm. Justin Timberlake. Without him, there would be none of his band's noxious music, plus no Justin and Britney chaos, she might never have gotten messed up and married Fed-X. Which would have been much better for her, so. Justin. Bubye.

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
I'm not a physically violent person, really. But, if I had to punch someone? Hrm. How about the next idiot that gives me grief for being either a feminist or fat? That'll work. Pow!

4. What is your favourite cheese?
I have to pick one?? Er, munester

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?
Fresh-baked yeasty white bread with paremasen and oregano, thin slices of roast beef, honey baked ham and honey roasted turkey breast, munster cheese, fresh tomato, crisp lettuce, Vidalia onions, a dash of salt and pepper, mayo and brown mustard.

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?
Sienna Guillory, right outta Resident Evil:2. Oh, hell yes.

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick?
Ack! One? Only one? Can a whole band count as one? 'Cause uh, MCR or Green Day. Yeah. Okay. Or, ya know, any of the guys I just posted pics of. This question is sooo unfair. Or, hey, any of the girls outta Go Betty Go or Butchies or Sleater-Kinney or....*passes out from the very thought of it*

8. Now that you’ve slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
With all the sex I'm suddenly having? Birth control and some decent wine.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Italy. The whole fricking country is gorgeous, so drop me off anywhere.


10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
Find a nice little place to stay and get some food.


11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. It is…?
Annoying, because I'm not supposed to have alcohol on my meds. But, since this is angelic liquor, it won't hurt me. A really good red wine. I love the stuff

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-travelling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you travelling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
My 13-year-old self. We'll have a long talk about body image, the early signs of Lupus, not tying ourselves down to one guy for the majority of our twenties, giving in and kissing Sera when we have the chance, picking up that damned guitar and learning to play and then moving to Cali when we're outta high school, as well as a few musicians in the area at the time who are gonna make it big. Ya know, the people we should make a point of meeting when we get there. Also? Do not give in to the urge to dye my hair black!

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Zan is in charge. Period. Plus, no fundamentalist allowed. Ever.

14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what’s the premise?
The Fat Girl's Guide to Everything -- featuring size-positive anything and everything, feminist everything and ya know...

15. What is your favourite curse word?
Goddamnmotherfuckingsonofabitch.

16. Your house is on fire! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the item?
My laptop. This beauty holds all of my creative writing and I gotta save that.

17. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren’t really doing anything, they’re just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Are they cute? Er. Wait. Nevermind. Get 'em to clean my house. And maybe go rob a bank because I need the money. And they're mummies, so they can't actually commit a crime.

18. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
Talk him outta killing me, of course.

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What’s it gonna be?
The ability to make people do what I want. ("Mr. Bush, stop being an idiot.")

20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
There was this one moment with my ex. Coulda changed a lot of stuff. So, that one.

21.You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
I'm tempted to say the whole growing up fundy thing, but since that made me who I am.....grr. I don't know. That one moment with my ex. Yeah, that one.

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-travelling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But you can move to anywhere else in the world! What country are you going to live in now?
Italy! I can learn Italian or hey, make them all speak English to me.

23. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
Tipatina's. Awesome music.

24. Hopefully you didn’t mention this in the super-powers question…. If you did, then we’ll just expand on that. Suddenly, you have gained the ability to float. Who are you going to show this to first?
My cat, since she's the only one around. Then probably the neighbors ;)

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
Kurt Cobain. I'll bring him back, get him into therapy and on medication and then turn him loose on the music scene again.

26. The Celestial Gates of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person, etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
My Aunt Vickie. No question about it.

27. What’s your theme song?
32 Flavors -- Ani DiFranco

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Blame Jules. I do :)

1. Name the person who tagged you
2. 8 things about you
3. Tag 6 people.

1. I am an amateur astrologer. I do charts for fun, but not profit. My own chart is so weighted with water signs, it's enough to drown a small nation. My sun is Scorpio, my moon is Cancer and my ascendent is Pisces. Which means I'm more emotionally attuned than your average bear, believe me. I have absolutely NO earth signs in any of my houses, which is a bad thing, because it means I'm not very grounded. Which is true enough, and it has caused me no end of grief over my life. (Also, I have Mars and Venus both in Scorpio. Love and War in the most volitale sign on the wheel? Yeah, that's never gonna be a problem Bah.)

2. Every once and awhile, I think my biological clock starts to tick. For about ten seconds, then it realizes what it's doing and shuts down fast. I'm 32 and sometimes, I think if I'm going to have a child, I should do it soon. And now that I'm in a much more stable job, with really good benefits, it seems to be an increasingly better time to have a child. However, my health issues are not small and well, there's the problem of having no partner. And so, my bio clock goes back to sleep. Good clock. Sleeeep.

3. I've grown increasingly irritated with the calibur of horror movies we're churning out. I adore horror movies, especially creature flicks. However, lately, it seems all Hollywood wants to give us are slasher flicks. Now, I like a decent slasher as much as the next girl, but these films that are nothing but gore and female victimization? Uh, no. What the hell is going on? It is possible to tell a scary, creepy story without turning a woman into a head on a stick, ya know? Anyone remember Hitchcock? Fucking scary and all the gory stuff was kept off-screen. The blood down the drain in Psycho? Classic. Subtle. And fucking sweet! Make me movies like that and I'll be in the theatre all the damned time.

4. I don't think the iTunes random play is really random. I keep having the same damn songs pop up. Now, I like these songs. They're in my iTunes, ya know? But come on...I've got over 1200 songs and the same 50 keep coming up randomly? I don't think so.

5. I have a secret wish to play drums, but I'm so uncoordinated I'd knock myself out before I could sit down. It's true and very sad, since I'd otherwise be an awesome musician. You know, if I had an ounce of talent.

6. I have gigantic feet. Really, I wear a size 11W. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find decent shoes in that size? It is not easy, at all. When I find shoes that I like, that I can afford, I buy every pair I can. Because it's so damned hard to find them. I mean, I know there are lots of us out there, so why the hell is it so hard to find shoes in the right size? Funnily enough, you cannot look at me feet and tell what size they are. They do not look like giant feet. They look proportional to the rest of me, which they are. Everyone guesses I wear about a size 9. Gods, that I wore a size 9! WalMart, the bastards, recently reorganized how they shelves shoes. It used to be broken apart by size, now it's broken apart by style. I believe they did this so they could disguise the fact that they've stopped carrying anything above a size 10. Bastards.

7. I need to start dating again. I want to, but I've not done it in so long, I'm not sure how to go about it. And I'm in a new town, where I know no one. I'd like someone to hang out with and go to concerts with -- oh god! The concerts going on around this place!! So many bands I want to see, but no one to go see them with me. I'm beginning to think I'm going to end up a lonely old woman. *sniffle* And seriously, I need to get laid. Like, really badly. *sigh*

8. I'm becoming a goddamned optimist. I don't know how this happened to me. Good medication, a sudden surge of good luck, but seriously, I don't feel so despondant and hopeless anymore. In fact, I tend to believe things are going to work itself out in the end, even when I'm having a moment of outrage. Well, everything but my non-existant sex life anyway.

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Danke Belledame, for tagging me. I love memes. Shhh. Don't tell, it'll ruin my rep :)

1. I can own property. In fact, I do own some, as part of a sorta family-trust, on the many, many acres of farmland I grew up on. I doubt I'll ever do anything with it, but I can and do own it free and clear, all in my own name.

2. I have an education. Not only was I allowed to learn to read and write, but no one blinked when I applied to college, nor again when I went on for my Masters.

3. I (for the moment) control my own fertility. I have no children because I haven't ever wanted children. I have multiple birth control options, all of which I can obtain legally and (reasonally) affordably from a doctor who won't question my right to have and use them.

4. I have a job. No one looks at me and says "Why don't you just let your husband pay the bills?" No one accuses me of taking a job from a man with a family to support.

5. I can pick my own spouse. Should I choose to marry, no one but me gets to decide who I marry. I cannot be compelled to marry someone of my father's choosing, nor to marry to bring property into the family. Any husband of mine will be a man I want, not someone I have to take. (Although, should I decide I want a wife, I'm gonna have to move to Mass. or Canada. Which may not be such a bad option for me....)

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