everything but the girl

January: Happy New Year! am far tipsier than typing indicates.
I think I need a food icon that's more than just cupcakes, or Jensen With Popcorn, because while I don't have gourmet meals all that often, when I do I want to write about them.

February: Out, out, damned gallbladder! But not today.

March: Have I really been more or less off LJ for a week? I'm basically better, post-surgery, and busy with RL work (yay, new clients!) and with a massive project editing a video for my parents' 40th Anniversary, which is this weekend. (Wow, March 5! That was late for a first post of the month!)

April: Show! I would probably quote everything everyone else has said. Except I should go to sleep, so this is mostly a placeholder so I can come back and OMGOMG about the meta and the laundry and the fandom shout-outs and the slash and OMG was this the first time the concept has been mentioned in a network (well, a small network) tv show?

May:
There is something very nifty and karmic about picking the Star Wars-inspired [info]spn_j2_bigbang prompt on 5/4 since, of course, there's two nifty things about today's date:
1. Add the month and day to get the year; and
2. MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

June: In the last two weeks I have learned [skip Azkatraz prologue] 1. When taking kids to a kids-camp thing on a cruise ship put their names on their shoes - they might get taken by another kid who's about the same size late on the first night but you'll have an easier time claiming they're yours the next day at the pool.

July: I haven't made an actual post since about five minutes before they confirmed that Michael Jackson had died! Which means I haven't joked about Sarah Palin - and I'd recently been wondering if I shouldn't get rid of my "We Have a Problem With Her" icon and now the answer is absolutely no, never.

August: Text stolen from kerryblaze: There really is never any easy way to say this. Sometime during the night, simons_flower passed away. tqpannie has more information here.

September: I get in[to Atlanta] on Thursday, either at 11:30 or 2:30, depending on which flight I am on. Anyone getting in at either of those times, please make sure I have your cell in case we can share a cab to the hotel.

October: SHOW! First, a question re last week's episode. I've asked before but it was behind a cut so maybe it was missed? But I am very, very desperate for an icon (ideally animated) from SPN 5.03 of Dean saying, 'Dayenu!' I know Passover is still about six months away, but I believe in planning ahead.

November: Anyone else doing NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month)? I realized a few weeks back that I've been tweeting more than actually posting, and I want to try and rectify that.

December: How is it December already? Seriously, how?

Now the Year End meme:
( How is it 2010 already? Seriously, how? )
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
It's not from a song - but it's from a song intro.

We have chosen a selection of songs that speaks to the nation as a whole during these troubling times filled with economic uncertainty and unbridled social woe, because if there's two things America needs right now that is sunshine and optimism and..... Also angels!

Stay safe, everyone, into 2010 and beyond.

I've never done one of these before - probably because I've never created this many fanworks in all the time I've been on LJ. I did most of my fanfic writing back in 2000 and the firt half of 2001, and then did maybe an additional 10,000 words in the five years that followed. This year, though, I discovered a love for drabbling post-episode of shows I loved, and a bit of an obsession with vidding, so I finally can do ( My Fan Creativity Year in Review )

GIANT Magazine starts the party with their list of the top ten trailer mashups of the year, including the recuttings of Mary Poppins into SCARY MARY, Ten Things I Hate About the Commandments, and, of course, Brokeback to the Future (hence, why I am using my icon-mashup on this post).

I hadn't seen a few of these before, but they're all terrific, as long as you're not actually drinking anything while you watch. So put the egg nog down, and enjoy the YouTube view.

First, an amusing flashback, which lends itself to a poll (except the poll isn't working. : smacks LJ. Will add it when it is...)
ETA: Ok - poll is here.

( 2004 Meme )

Now, on nesting. From what the articles say, most women, while pregnant, nest by doing thngs like scrubbing floors and painting rooms and getting the nursery ready and such. Well, I've done my share of random scrubbing, but my idea of nesting is to get all my electronic equipment in gear, organized and working. So this week, I've tuned up computers, played with wires and cords, cleaned keyboards and monitors, and organized online photo collections.

Is this the high tech form of nesting? Is it going to become common for moms-to-be to make sure that their phone-photo-posting is working well before the trip to the hospital? What about the programming in of the Post by Phone feature for updates from labour & delivery? Or will dads try to avoid things like lamaze class by saying, "Sorry, hon! I need to go to BestBuy to pick up a new SD card for the camera!" and not realise that the wives know that they now sell the SD card at Wallgreens for three bucks more, and it's worth it to not have to drive 30 minutes to get it?