I'm finding it harder to find the time to come to the library right now. So I won't be around for a while. I'm still reading some ongoing fics, still watching some journals, still writing and making art, but I'm just not up to posting much. Love you all and I will miss you.

I'm finding it harder to find the time to come to the library right now. So I won't be around for a while. I'm still reading some ongoing fics, still watching some journals, still writing and making art, but I'm just not up to posting much. Love you all and I will miss you.

I'm so tired of seeing posts where I moan about how my life sucks. So I'm stopping posting for a while. I'm following a couple of fics and some other things so will still be reading, but I'm not going to be here until I finally get me head straight.

One random thing, a girl I used to work with at the library, and with whom I was really quite friendly with, and I have kinda reconnected a little on Facebook - mostly because she changed her profile pic to a convention shot of her with J2. I asked her about it, we got chatting. And it turns out the pictures of Misha at the JiB con holding the tiger print pants? Were from her. Not the photos. The pants. Angie, Angie, Angie... you're a married woman sweetie...

Like I say, I'll be around, but not posting.

I'm so tired of seeing posts where I moan about how my life sucks. So I'm stopping posting for a while. I'm following a couple of fics and some other things so will still be reading, but I'm not going to be here until I finally get me head straight.

One random thing, a girl I used to work with at the library, and with whom I was really quite friendly with, and I have kinda reconnected a little on Facebook - mostly because she changed her profile pic to a convention shot of her with J2. I asked her about it, we got chatting. And it turns out the pictures of Misha at the JiB con holding the tiger print pants? Were from her. Not the photos. The pants. Angie, Angie, Angie... you're a married woman sweetie...

Like I say, I'll be around, but not posting.

1 - yes, I'm alive!

2 - yes, I have a new name! Used to be mara_sho, now I'm whiskyinmind.

3 - I miss you guys!!!

I'm still not quite ready to be back online yet, but I will be very, very soon. Please know I love you all and I miss you all and I will be back before you know it!

1 - yes, I'm alive!

2 - yes, I have a new name! Used to be mara_sho, now I'm whiskyinmind.

3 - I miss you guys!!!

I'm still not quite ready to be back online yet, but I will be very, very soon. Please know I love you all and I miss you all and I will be back before you know it!

I can't catch up. I can't get online.

I can't do anything.

I'll be back in a week or so I guess.

(although, have to say this: a Vibrating Mascara Brush? Really? Who the hell needs a vibrating mascara brush...)

I can't catch up. I can't get online.

I can't do anything.

I'll be back in a week or so I guess.

(although, have to say this: a Vibrating Mascara Brush? Really? Who the hell needs a vibrating mascara brush...)

I could regale you with the thrilling tale of where I've been for the past week or so, but that would imply that it is a thrilling tale, which it isn't.

I am sorry to have been awol for so long, and I'm even more sorry that I've been so remiss with the sites. I will have a proper update very soon.

Promise.

Sho xx

I could regale you with the thrilling tale of where I've been for the past week or so, but that would imply that it is a thrilling tale, which it isn't.

I am sorry to have been awol for so long, and I'm even more sorry that I've been so remiss with the sites. I will have a proper update very soon.

Promise.

Sho xx

Taking the time I'm ignoring real life to catch up with my online stuff and I realised I haven't actually updated my own site with half of the things I've written/created lately. It's 'cause I'm lazy to be honest, and even though I love working with code, updating an already existing page is kinda dull.

So... I'm halfways towards considering implementing a blog on the index page which will be quicker to update. I toyed with this idea before and used a programme called Cute News for a while, but got so much spam on it it's beyond the joke. So my question is this: should I embed a blog on the page, and if so what's the best one to use? I guess I could embed the fandomsbitca LJ on there, but I kinda like being able to control the page design better than LJ does. I was leaning towards WordPress but I've never used it before - anyone out there in LJLand used it and have any reviews on it?

Or, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears!

Also - please go go nominate at the Salt & Burn Awards? We're doing better and the quality of the nominees is kinda awesome, but the quantity... isn't.

Cheers!

(eta or maybe I shouldn't even be thinking of coding right now since it took me four attempts to get the HTML right on this post!)

Taking the time I'm ignoring real life to catch up with my online stuff and I realised I haven't actually updated my own site with half of the things I've written/created lately. It's 'cause I'm lazy to be honest, and even though I love working with code, updating an already existing page is kinda dull.

So... I'm halfways towards considering implementing a blog on the index page which will be quicker to update. I toyed with this idea before and used a programme called Cute News for a while, but got so much spam on it it's beyond the joke. So my question is this: should I embed a blog on the page, and if so what's the best one to use? I guess I could embed the fandomsbitca LJ on there, but I kinda like being able to control the page design better than LJ does. I was leaning towards WordPress but I've never used it before - anyone out there in LJLand used it and have any reviews on it?

Or, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears!

Also - please go go nominate at the Salt & Burn Awards? We're doing better and the quality of the nominees is kinda awesome, but the quantity... isn't.

Cheers!

(eta or maybe I shouldn't even be thinking of coding right now since it took me four attempts to get the HTML right on this post!)

Sorry to have been so damn flaky all week. I've had... issues (to put it mildly) and those are still ongoing.

I want to take this time to thank each and every single one of you for reading this journal and for putting up with/supporting me through the bad times. It means so much to me to know that even when I feel at my absolute worst, I always have you to turn to.

I'm not going anywhere, I'll still be here, in fact I'm hoping to post some fandom type things like fic and graphics soon, but I'm (as I put on twitter earlier) "taking a hiatus from real life". I don't think it'll work really, it never does, but right now I want to think about the good and not focus on the bad.

Love you all.

(still looking for book reccs btw - even if you think it's so far outwith my normal reading habits I'd never go for it, you'd be suprised at my range.)

(also, I've added internet access to my mobile phone account which is how I've been managing to post more at nights but it's limited access unfortunately.)

Sorry to have been so damn flaky all week. I've had... issues (to put it mildly) and those are still ongoing.

I want to take this time to thank each and every single one of you for reading this journal and for putting up with/supporting me through the bad times. It means so much to me to know that even when I feel at my absolute worst, I always have you to turn to.

I'm not going anywhere, I'll still be here, in fact I'm hoping to post some fandom type things like fic and graphics soon, but I'm (as I put on twitter earlier) "taking a hiatus from real life". I don't think it'll work really, it never does, but right now I want to think about the good and not focus on the bad.

Love you all.

(still looking for book reccs btw - even if you think it's so far outwith my normal reading habits I'd never go for it, you'd be suprised at my range.)

(also, I've added internet access to my mobile phone account which is how I've been managing to post more at nights but it's limited access unfortunately.)

No beer, no munchies, no winning rugby.

Sho not a happy bunny.

Sho has new icons. Sho may have developed a new fascination for Misha.

Sho may stop starting sentences with Sho's name any time soon.

Sho's also drooling liberally over the library computer keyboard thanks to the JDM pictures doing the rounds.

mmmm pretteh...

This is my (now semi-regular) post to say I am hopelessly behind on my flist, I'm never gonna catch up. Please to be telling me important information? Like... uh, upcoming nuptials and the future patter of tiny feet, the announcements of which I may have missed? *mock glares at certain people on the flist*. Dudes, you know who you are and you probably think I suck because I haven't said so before but: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Right... please? Link me? Tell me news? Keep me in touch?

No beer, no munchies, no winning rugby.

Sho not a happy bunny.

Sho has new icons. Sho may have developed a new fascination for Misha.

Sho may stop starting sentences with Sho's name any time soon.

Sho's also drooling liberally over the library computer keyboard thanks to the JDM pictures doing the rounds.

mmmm pretteh...

This is my (now semi-regular) post to say I am hopelessly behind on my flist, I'm never gonna catch up. Please to be telling me important information? Like... uh, upcoming nuptials and the future patter of tiny feet, the announcements of which I may have missed? *mock glares at certain people on the flist*. Dudes, you know who you are and you probably think I suck because I haven't said so before but: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Right... please? Link me? Tell me news? Keep me in touch?

Um... when did this happen? I'm in the local library and - shock horror - I can actually open pages on my LJ. My own journal, my flist, my messages page. I'm confused.

I've given up trying to access anything on my sister's computer - mostly because whenever I'm there nothing opens and I spend all day with four children who have the attention span of goldfish.

So... I'm kinda back? Kinda? Only when I can get to the library though which isn't as often as I'd like, but on the other hand it does get me out of the house and interacting with people.

( rambling stream of consciousness feeling sorry for myself nonsense - ignore it, really, it's nonsense )

Basically what I'm here to say is that I will have some time to spend online now, I can't download anything, certian sites are still restricted, but I will be around a little more.

Some of you will have noticed over the weekend that I had a little money in my phone and could actually answer texts - I now have 12pence. Which means I can't text anyone any more. *sigh*

Right, I've been composing this for about twenty minutes now and it's gotten really rambling so I'm going to look for a job now. (Before I throttle the very loud people currently hanging pictures for some local art exhibition right behind me.)

(ETA - as always folks, I'm so far behind that I'm never going to catch up, so please to be linking me to anything and everything?)

Um... when did this happen? I'm in the local library and - shock horror - I can actually open pages on my LJ. My own journal, my flist, my messages page. I'm confused.

I've given up trying to access anything on my sister's computer - mostly because whenever I'm there nothing opens and I spend all day with four children who have the attention span of goldfish.

So... I'm kinda back? Kinda? Only when I can get to the library though which isn't as often as I'd like, but on the other hand it does get me out of the house and interacting with people.

( rambling stream of consciousness feeling sorry for myself nonsense - ignore it, really, it's nonsense )

Basically what I'm here to say is that I will have some time to spend online now, I can't download anything, certian sites are still restricted, but I will be around a little more.

Some of you will have noticed over the weekend that I had a little money in my phone and could actually answer texts - I now have 12pence. Which means I can't text anyone any more. *sigh*

Right, I've been composing this for about twenty minutes now and it's gotten really rambling so I'm going to look for a job now. (Before I throttle the very loud people currently hanging pictures for some local art exhibition right behind me.)

(ETA - as always folks, I'm so far behind that I'm never going to catch up, so please to be linking me to anything and everything?)

I can't do this anymore.

Although my sister now has broadband in her house, I can't get my own LJ to load, nor can I get my flist to load. I can't keep in touch with anyone right now, because this is my primary means of communication and it's failed me. I don't know what's going on anymore because I simply am not online and no one is telling me because they think someone else already has. I'm out of the loop and it makes me miserable each time I log in and watch the pages try to load and then just hang there doing nothing.

So for the foreseeable future, I'm putting this journal on hiatus.

The sites are kinda on hiatus too because I just cannot get to them on a regular enough basis to maintain them.

I've been on LJ for years now and I've been involved in fandom for far longer than that, I've made so many amazing friends online - some of whom have come in and out of my life from time to time, some of whom will never be able to get rid of me - I have a place in my heart for each and every single person who reads this journal. For each of you who has come through the tears and the joy; who've seen me falter and who've helped me pick myself up again.

I love you all.

Thank you.

I miss you more than words can say.

I can't do this anymore.

Although my sister now has broadband in her house, I can't get my own LJ to load, nor can I get my flist to load. I can't keep in touch with anyone right now, because this is my primary means of communication and it's failed me. I don't know what's going on anymore because I simply am not online and no one is telling me because they think someone else already has. I'm out of the loop and it makes me miserable each time I log in and watch the pages try to load and then just hang there doing nothing.

So for the foreseeable future, I'm putting this journal on hiatus.

The sites are kinda on hiatus too because I just cannot get to them on a regular enough basis to maintain them.

I've been on LJ for years now and I've been involved in fandom for far longer than that, I've made so many amazing friends online - some of whom have come in and out of my life from time to time, some of whom will never be able to get rid of me - I have a place in my heart for each and every single person who reads this journal. For each of you who has come through the tears and the joy; who've seen me falter and who've helped me pick myself up again.

I love you all.

Thank you.

I miss you more than words can say.