*throws phone across room*

Will someone PLEASE send their 8 year-old niece to teach me to text faster than a lethargic squirrel (Sue's inexplicable code word for slow, see: inexplicable.)

Any fandom...not just the two I've talked about. :)

NAME A FANDOM AND I WILL TELL YOU:

01. The first character I fell in love with:
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
04. The character I love that everyone else hates:
05. A pairing that I love:
06. A pairing that I despise:
07. 5 things I enjoy about the fandom:
08. And 5 that suck:
09. Who are my 3 favorite characters.
10. Who are my 3 least favorite characters.
11. What are my 3 favorite pairings.
12. What are my 3 least favorite pairings.
13. Which character you're most like.
14. What is my deep, dark fandom secret.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is pregnant. (Very silly write-up about how, though both she and David Boreanaz are expecting children this year, they are not having them together and of course a reference to a Buffy 2.0)

Sarah's due in the fall, David's wife is due late summer and of course Alyson & Alexis had a baby girl a few weeks ago. If James and Nicky would just find each other and adopt, I could make RPF paper dolls.

You know, I started it. The whole having a baby. Before it was the whole new thing...

( Sometimes Fandom Makes Me Feel Really Fucking Old )

*Oblique **spoilers** for SPN 4.18 and meandering discussion of wank

Today is the 17th anniversary of my wedding to elcazavampiros. I was going to write up The Ballad and Caza and Sue (no doubt a spine tingler) but I am shagged out from SPN glee and a baby who awoke at 4:30 this morning. But I think I can sum up the perfect symmetry Caza and I have attained in one anecdote:

I will awake early of the morning and find Caza in the kitchen sterilizing bottles or doing a load of his whites (I might have the magic of Clorox 2, but my skills are no match for his ancient Chinese secrets) and greet him with a hearty:

Sue: Hey, guy! (ala Saddam from Team America)
Caza: (without turning around) Don't call me guy, buddy!
Sue: Don't call me buddy, friend!
Caza: Don't call me friend, pal!

This will go on in unthinking, South Parkian glory until one of us gets distracted by a caffeine rush or a wiener dog doing a pee-pee dance.

Happy anniversary Caza, mi Caza. I love that you will dance at the drop of a hat to amuse your son. I love that you've told me 3 times today what kind of conference you're at (something about language professors? No idea.) I love that you sound sexy speaking Chinese. I love that you make bread and crusts better than I do. I love that you watch 57 television shows, even if it mean an overheated DVR and watching some of them online. I love that you're a total Dean girl. I love that you're irresponsibly tall. I love you.

Happy Birthday to wesleysgirl (belated!) and to entrenous88! Hope you both have a lovely one.

Why is it that the people most likely to do these never get tagged? *cries* I have nothing but time, people!
ETA: From dancetomato:
But you were tagged by Stoney. Hahahaha! Pwned by my own drama.

First: If you've been tagged (or know someone who has), you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

( Bated breath, bated breath )

I need a recipe for scones that someone who hates baking breads (that would be me) wouldn't find too irritating. Citrus flavors a plus. Thanks!

Bad, bad, bad weekend.

( Blergh: So sick )

Tornado sirens going off.
Wall cloud to the west of me.
Circulation (funnel cloud) about 10 miles west of me.
Jonah, Max, Daisy and Binkley and I are getting in the bathtub with the radio.

On the upside? Golf-ball to baseball size hail is expected. Home owner's insurance = new roof for FREEEEEE!

eta Looks like it's gonna miss us and go north. No hail, tho. :( And my inlaws canceled dinner because of storms between here and there so no pasta for me. Love you guys!

( Tex-Mex, Asian-Indian, Comfort Food )

Recipe Index:
Super-Spicy Chicken Enchiladas
Beef Carnitas
Guacamole and Pico de Gallo
Coconut Curry Thai Chicken
Edamame "Hummus"
Chicken Tikka Masala
Curried Cauliflower with Chickpeas and Tomatoes
Beef'n'Turkey Goulash
Pan-Seared Pork with Kiwi-Pineapple Salsa
Individual Orange Chocolate Cheesecakes

Cut for spoilers.

( TV! I'm actually talking about TV! )

Or (and no offense to The Roots) but, uh, don't.

Today is my one year no-smoking anniversary! I would have totally forgotten this milestone event if not for the fact that I scrapbooked yesterday with my best friend Michele and her sister Pamela, both heavy smokers.

Needless to say, I went home after six hours of paper, pictures and buttons (new obsession is shiny) smelling exactly like the inside of Spike's duster. (Not to be confused with fanon Spike, who is the best smelling thing since baked bread, pot roast and Twilight's Bella Swan.)

( I now solemnly apologize )

This does not, however, mean that I've stopped believing that there's anything hotter than Angelus lighting up a smoke or that those candid shots of Jensen with his teeth clenched around a Marlboro (I'm guessing) aren't panty-droppers. I'm only human, y'all.

So, 2008. You know, same old, same old. Oh, wait...

( Time is what turns kittens into cats )

ETA: Happy 72nd birthday to my Dad today, Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends and Happy Solstice, as well!

( An open letter to Gov. Mike Huckabee )

Those of you who would be so inclined to proof-read and edit, please email me privately at crazydiamondsue@gmail.com. This was written in a fervor at 5:30 this morning. Thank you.

Happy birthday, adis723! I have no idea how long I'm going to get to type, but I'm going to try to do a Top 10 list (I could be top 3 list. We'll see how long that bouncy chair stays amusing.)

( TOP 10 REASONS WHY I LOVE VINNIE SO )

Last night I watched my state re-elect a man who believes that global warming is a ratings ploy hatched by The Weather Channel. I watched a national map on CNN that for hours showed my home state as the only glowing red in the smack, dab center of the country (not that I expected Oklahoma to go for Obama, and I knew other central states would follow, but did they have to post our results so early? Damn Oklahomans, all prompt and stuff.) Oklahoma exit polls showed that voters overwhelmingly went for McCain over religious and social issues (note to Oklahoma: you were one of the poor states before the market collapse. I'm calling you on the clue phone, but evidently SW Bell has cut off your service.)

And yet in spite of that, I still awoke to the glorious headline above. I don't see a red state when I look outside my window. I still see blocks of blue Obama signs, and I still smell hope in the air.

Or it could just be pie. It is November, after all. :)

Yay! Halloween!!


Identify the movies from the following quotes from some of my favorite horror, slasher and eerie films of the past 40+ years. Some are classic films, some are slasher fun and some are must-sees simply because they starred a "Buffy" or "Supernatural" cast member. Some are obvious and some are obscure.

( Big-Ass Scary Movie Quote Quiz )

Jensen was a cheerleader...and so was I. <~~~~ for kittyzams

Ahem. What I used to do before fandom.

Jonah's favorite thing is the monkey mp3 player that he received from his Aunt Vin and Brandi & Sally. Yesterday I actually had time to make a page for his mp3 player for his baby album and I was so proud of how well it turned out, I emailed it to adis723 (who now has a greater respect for scrapbooking. Hah! Suck it, haters!) and decided to share it here.

It's so good, in fact, that I'm thinking of entering it in the scrapbooking craft division of the State Fair next year. Um...who am I, and what have I done with PornyDiamondSue? *cries*

( The Effulgent Scrapbook Page )

And a random question for the f-list: what's up with the under-20 online crowd "decorating" every sentence with randomly placed and utterly unnecessary semi-colons? I constantly see:

;;LOL girl lol;; inorite!!!!;

I actually asked one girl what was up with the semi-colon abuse and she said, "Oh, you mean the little earring-looking-things?" O_O

How are you guys this morning?