updated: 05/23/08 I decided to use ♣ to indicate personal favorites aka the stories I've read so many times I can probably quote them backwards and forwards.

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updated: 05/23/08 I decided to use ♣ to indicate personal favorites aka the stories I've read so many times I can probably quote them backwards and forwards.
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Update: 08/28/08

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updated: 5/23/08 I had to split the Supernatural Rec lists into two seperate posts due to the rec list reaching the 10k word size limit. I'm debating on moving the rec list onto a seperate HTML document. But will have to give that more thought. In the meantime, please update your bookmarks.

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I'm using ♣ to indicate personal favorites aka the stories I've read so many times I can probably quote them backwards and forwards.

Stargate Atlantis

The Price That Life Exacts by cathalin (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!!! This blew me away. I got tears in my eyes, I loved the character voices, and I couldn't stop reading once I started.

friendshipper

naye

Stargate Atlantis

Rewind, Reboot, Restore by rheanna27 (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!! I got tears in my eyes reading this story. I LOVED the character voices, the plot, and the ending.

Iron Man

The Value of Secrets by mayatawi (Tony/Jarvis) This was hot. :)

Stargate Atlantis

Getting Lost Is Easier Than Losing Your Mind by subduction (Sheppard/McKay) This was a ton of fun to read. I LOVED the character voices, the sex was hot, and I liked the team interaction. :)

auburnnothenna

Supernatural

Got No New Intentions by kittyzams (Sam/Dean Sam/OMC) I liked this.

Stargate Atlantis

An Inaccurate Telling by chellefic (Sheppard/McKay) this was romantic, sweet, and funny. :) I had a wonderful time reading.

helenish

Supernatural

Revelations by marinarusalka (Gen) I really like the plot, character voices, and this worked for me. :)

Saturday I was pretty much gone the entire day. Did the monthly meetup with the Houston Browncoats at this really good chinese resturant and ate lunch, then went to a birthday party for a slash writer (pros fandom mostly I think) along with other fannish friends and we went to a Magic Show resturant. The food was awesome, I loved the company, and the magic show was neat. Afterwards, we headed back to the b-day woman's house and had cake and talked for a few more hours and finally at midnight I had to leave because I was getting kind of tired. it's just way too much fun hanging out with fan fiction people.

Then on Sunday, woke up messed around with trying to find the best way to convert RTF's to PDF (tried Times New Roman size 12 font it was too small, then tried size 14 and that was too big. Tried Arial and it just never looked right. Ended up settling for size 13 times new roman because in the wise words of my elder brother, sometimes you just have to leave things at "good enough") I was floored by this concept and it's amazing how many revolutionary ideas I get standing at the deli waiting for someone to slice ham for me. I've been trying so hard to make things "PERFECT" and I spent HOURS and felt like I got nothing done.

So decided to settle for good enough for now. I did mange to fix the margins which I was very happy about. So I think over the next week I'll check out the other PDF/LRF files hosted at the Ebook Archive. And with the PDF's I created I'll go back through and re-master them. As for the LRFs, while waiting in the IMAX theater to see the Dark Knight (which by the way was PACKED and we got there 40 minutes early!) I had my ebook reader and decided to see how the LRF fan fiction files looked. The font was VERY TINY so I'm going to over this upcoming week gather all the LRF files and use a slightly larger font with converting. (thankfully, I think this number is less than 4)

What really weirds me out about converting documents is that I'm converting novels to LRF using the exact same settings as I used for the fan fiction stories and those novels turn out readable. So not sure what is up with that. I'm predicting that because most of the novels are starting out with LIT and HTML containers that it makes a bit of a difference from my fan fiction RTF master copies. (at this point I think I should add a disclaimer to the archive letting people know that the RTFs are the REALLY GOOD copies and the other file types are less predictable) Though I am now trying to change that. But I really want good PDF versions for me if no one else. Because I like having graphics embedded in my stories and RTF is still buggy on my PRS-505.

So anyways, back to the Dark Knight. It was my second time watching and omg it was still riveting. If this movie isn't nominated for Best Picture I'll be VERY DISSAPOINTED. As far as I'm concerned this is the best movie I've seen this year in every way that counts. Iron Man comes close second but it's just not the same...and i'm not a movie critic so I can't say why I feel that Dark Knight deserves Best Picture Nomination (and win) and not Iron Man.

After the movie, my brother and I stopped by Best Buy to pick up more memory for his computer, then went shopping for food, and came home. (memory was a bust, will have to return to store tomorrow) and we just had a make it yourself dinner night. I think I ate too many twizzlers and my stomach felt unsettled...which sucked because my left over spagetti was AWESOME.

Then we spent the rest of the night watching Full Metal Alchemist which is still my favorite anime series I've seen in years. I love the Elric brothers and the first time I watched I cried my eyes out so many times! this time i'm prepared for the angst but it's still heartwrenching. So anyways, I dug up my old favorite FMA icon. :) I'm glad I'm allowed 1200 icons at JF now. I keep finding more icons to add. :)

Stargate Atlantis

Indelible by shaenie (Sheppard/McKay) INSTANT REC!!!! This story left me incoherent with glee. I LOVED the plot, the character voices, and it's long and lovely and it all fits together beautifully. I love the way technology is used and I couldn't stop reading once I started. I can't recommend this story highly enough. One of the best stories I've read this year in SGA Fandom. At this point, you should already be at her website reading. :)

The SGA Big Bang Challenge website is up and running.

And I know I shouldn't make any complaints but I think I got used to the way the spn_j2_bigbang intergrated the artwork into the story. Right now it looks like you have to download the artwork seperately. Maybe I'm wrong I haven't had the chance to go through the stories and strip all the code from the story yet. Maybe the stories I checked were so large when I scrolled through I overlooked the images?

I can't wait to read the stories, almost all of the summaries caught my attention.

Just wish they didn't use the three column website layout on every single story. I'm such a formatting snob it's just not even funny anymore. I think my patience for website designs is at -1000% Especially, now that I'm converting so many stories over to RTF to add to my Sony PRS-505.

Also, in other random news. I've been monitoring the Ebook Archive site stats and it seems like this week no one has been visiting. :( I'm thinking maybe everyone that owns a book reader is on vacation or the intial interest has tappered off so only people who actually use the site are coming. It also could be I haven't been able to add a lot of new stories this last week and a half because I was on vacation myself and I never seem to add stories on weekends.

I'm not going ot read too much into this. E-ink ebook readers are still relatively new and rather expensive so it may take awhile before more fan fiction readers glomp onto the technology.

and it's very weird because I didn't wake up again until after 1pm (after a night of tossing and turning because the Nightquil totally failed me!!!!) and now I'm restless but still feel like crap and don't feel like doing anything.

It's weird how I could go days feeling like I have too much to do and not enough time and then I have days where I think I have the time but don't have the energy to accomplish anything.

Doctor Who/Vorkosigan

Right at Home by sahiya (Gen) I really liked Cordelia's pov.

Due South

Ways + Means by sweetestdrain (Fraser/RayK) I enjoyed this.

He says he just bought an AXE to trim the bush in our backyard that's been growing out of control for the last year we've been living here. (I repeat, it has not been cut/trimmed/nothing! for 9months!!!) in houston with all the rain you can imagine how much this sucker has grown.

So me, I'm thinking tree clippers would be a great place to start with taming this monster of a bush, but no my husband is convinced that an AXE is the way to go. I'm very tempted to see what he ends up doing with the poor bush that doesn't stand a chance against my husband with an AXE.

However, the sensible, responsible part of me, is thinking a hacked up looking bush won't look so great if we ever decide to try and sell our home.....

p.s. it's always nice to have an excuse to use my new favorite icon.

okay for those that don't know, and that's probably everyone but 1 person on my flist. On Friday, I went to CVS to pick up my last refill of my generic tri-nessa birth control. Of course, they didn't have it. So I drove to another CVS and they didn't have it either. So I decided since I was already late for work to go ahead and get the Brand name Ortho-tricyclene and omg. I've been on an emotional rollercoaster ever since. Though to be fair yesterday was stressfull regardless of birth control or not. But today, I was crying at a drop of a pin. I hate it so much and then tonight I was feeling queasy and miserable. :( The funny thing is I used to be on Ortho for years! not sure what happened when I moved over to Tri-nessa but my acne did clear up and I didn't notice any symptoms.

So tonight, I'm going to go to bed early. I got nothing of real importance accomplished today. Well except for my haircut, and buying groceries. It's been an all around sucky weekend.

Here's me hoping the rest of the week goes much better.

Also, my brother told me Tiger if obese. :( and now he thinks maybe she has cancer or a tumor because she's a little big. (I did get her a leash and harness hoping to take her walking and get more exercise. But when we practiced around the house she refused to walk. and I don't like dragging my baby on the floor.

I have 2 pictures of Tiger and Grey and I was thinking of making icons so when I have cat posts I can use icons for them but not I kind of suck at making icons.

It's only 12:45pm and I'm already stressed out and exhusted. For those that don't know, my husband and I drove to San Antonio last night from houston, to pick up my older brother to bring him back to houston to hang out at my place for a few weeks. ( cut for more stuff about weekend and vacation last week )