I'm so happy to announce that Asher Antonino has arrived! He decided to come two weeks early, on June 24th at 6:03 a.m. He weighed 7 lbs, 6 oz. and is 20 inches long. He's just perfect!

Labor and delivery were fairly smooth, although of course there's always some hiccups. I'll post in more detail about it later (too tired to think right now), but for now suffice it to say that all is well with both of us!

Here, have a picture:

Asher Antonino My little peanut!

Hope you are all well. I think I am going to go sleep for a million years now... oh, wait, I can't, it's feeding time. :p

Hi all! Just a quick update in case any of you were still wondering about me (or even remember who I am :p). I am doing great, and the pregnancy is progressing wonderfully. I am now almost 32 weeks pregnant (or about 7 months) so getting very close!

As I've said before, it's a boy, and we've now settled on the name Asher Antonino - thanks to all of you who gave feedback on that earlier!

Asher is very very active and super-strong. He loves to kick me especially hard when I'm trying to sleep. He also loves to use my bladder as a punching bag. I blame my husband for his son's tendency to be difficult. :p

That's really most of my news - other than getting ready for the baby, I'm pretty much working, eating, and sleeping, and that's about all.

How are you all, my f-list buddies (and any lurkers who stumble on this)? Hope everyone is doing well. Happy mother's day to all of you on my f-list who are moms - I already have way more respect for the institution of motherhood!

Hello all! Thank you so much to all of you who sent me birthday greetings and/or loot yesterday. It totally made my day! BethCTG, thank you for the v-gift of balloons! I love v-gifts. :D

Wow, so I'm 33 now. Huh. Doesn't feel that much different than 32. :p

In another news, I'm doing well, pregnancy is still progressing perfectly. I'm up to my neck in work which is both good and bad - good from a financial sense but bad from an exhaustion sense.

Hope you are all doing well, my f-list buddies!

I'm pregnant! I am so, so thrilled.

Many of you know that I've been trying to get pregnant forEVER (like, for years) and had a miscarriage a few years ago, which was pretty devastating. I'd been having fertility treatments and such, but then with big changes with work, moving to a new house, and other life stressors, we decided to hold off on trying for a while. Not using birth control, but not actively trying. Well, naturally, that's when I got pregnant!

I'm due July 7, 2009, so I'm officially done with my first trimester. I'm breathing a sigh of relief to get past that milestone, because it means the risk of miscarriage is much lower.

Unfortunately, pregnancy is kicking my ASS. I am tired all the time, my depression is back in full force, and until very recently I've had awful morning sickness - now replaced by awful heartburn. Urgh. Still, gift horse, mouth, so I'm trying to hang with it.

Anywho, I am sorry I haven't been around much lately, and with everything going on I probably won't be around much in the near future. I haven't written a word of fic, and my mind has just been in a totally different space lately. Still, I'm hoping that one day the fic muse comes back around.

I'd be curious for any f-listers who have kids, how you handle the balance of work/family/lj. I can't even imagine how I'm going to manage two of the three, much less all three!

Hope you're all doing well. I think of you guys often!

Hello my dears. I know it's been months and I'm rather embarrassed to have disappeared so completely. My RL is totally crazy, to say the least, and looks to remain so for quite a while. I haven't written any fiction in months, sadly. Still, I wanted to at least pop in and say hi and let you guys know I haven't been abducted by aliens or anything. Seems like my only posts recently have been these type of apologies/popping in to say hi. Ah, well.

I did get to spend a week with the very very lovely msliz4857, and now I am hosting the effervescently wonderful ennui_blue_lite this week. We got to spend a day hanging out with the gorgeous rivers_bend and much rock band and fannish squeeing ensued.

Hope you are all doing well. I'm very very sleepy now so I'll sign off now.

MWAH to all of my f-list peeps.

Hello f-list loves! I'm doing okay, though a bit rattled. Wednesday night I was in the ER - I've been pretty much just relaxing and recovering since then.

( cut for TMI details )

Anyway, the upshot is that I'm fine, I think. I hope.

Happy happy belated birthday to flufshepherd and purple_syringes. A million abject apologies for missing the day of - but I'm thinking of you both and wishing you all good things for the coming year.

Happy happy birthday to my darling ennui_blue_lite. I am so lucky to have you in my life, and you are the best friend/cheerleader/mash player/permablusher/artist/writer/snarker/overall amazing human being that I could ever hope to find. I hope your b-day is a great one, hon, and that I will be privileged to celebrate many more with you!

MWAH.

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Sorry I don't have a cool photoshop pic for you. BUT - I'm thinking of you and wishing you all the best and I have PREZZIES for you whenever we can get together! Enjoy Oregon and I'll catch you when you're back. Have the best birthday ever, hon!

♥♥♥

May the year bring all good things your way. I believe in you, hon!

Now that I've recovered from a bout of food poisoning this afternoon (ick!), I've shamelessly stolen this meme from rivers_bend 'cause it looked like such fun!



Do you ever picture one of your flisters in your head, only to find that despite knowing better, somehow you imagine they look like Jared Padalecki, or Hugh Laurie, or Drew Barrymore? Or are there certain icons that you see and don't even need to look at the username to know who's made the post or comment?

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Go to my userpics here and reply in comments with either a) the icon that you imagine I look like, or b) the icon you associate most with me, or c) both.

In return, I will go to your userpics and reply in kind.

feel free to re-post in your journal if you want to know what your f-listers think.

Title: Boundaries
Author: skyblue_reverie
Fandom & Pairing: Harry Potter - Harry/Snape Pre-Slash
Rating: PG-13? R? No overt sexual content, but there are pre-slashy and D/s overtones.
Spoilers: Set generally in OotP, but no real specifics
Warnings: Spanking, underage Harry, author ignorance. (That'd be me, I mean, not JKR obviously. I'm not super-duper well-versed in the Potterverse, so please to be forgiving any errors! Also, I'm American, so any brit-picking is welcome.)
Word Count: Around 2900
A/N: Written as a birthday present for and beta'd by my beloved beta, Essie. Thank you, darling, for everything - you are a beautiful, wonderful, sweet, intelligent, funny, perceptive woman and I'm so privileged to have you as a friend, and, of course, as my one-and-only beta queen. Thanks also to the lovely ennui_blue_lite for cheerleading and boosting my writerly ego.



( Boundaries )

In other exciting news, sige_vic did a Russian translation of Yes, Sir, Jeeves! I was tremendously honored that she asked. Thanks for doing that, m'dear!

Here's a link if any of you are interested.

Hello to all my f-list loves, and sorry I've been so absent again. *is ashamed*

Stuff that's being going on in my life:

1. Bought a house! (Escrow closes July 30th, pics to come soon).

2. Started my own practice (got three clients so far, w00t!)

3. Started seriously brainstorming my novel (thanks to all who have helped with that!)

4. Wrote a Harry Potter fic (Harry/Snape pre-slash with d/s - in the hands of my lovely beta now - it was actually a birthday fic for her. Yes, I made her beta her own birthday present, 'cause I'm awesome like that. :p)

5. Fell in love with Prince Nuada from Hellboy 2. (ZOMG HOT. And morally ambiguous, and graceful, and askdjf;oiawejflkjsdf. LOVE.)

6. ...I know there's tons of other stuff I'm forgetting.

What's up with all of you? I wanna know!

Oh, and by the way. If you've seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (or even if you haven't), you MUST go read ennui_blue_lite's fic. It's one of the best things I've ever read. Seriously.

Part 1 of 2

and

Part 2 of 2

Just a very quick (and very sleepy) post to wish msliz4857 the happiest birthday ever. We just spent a week visiting (and before that I visited with my lovely ennui_blue_lite which I'll also write about shortly).

But anyway, back on topic - I had such a wonderful time and I'm just sorry we couldn't have spent her birthday together as well! Anyway, hon, have a great one and may all the best of everything come to you today and every day. MWAH.

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Happiest of happy days to the lovely valtristus. May your birthday be everything that you desire and more.

*smishes*

Hi all! I'm in lovely Texas visiting even lovelier ennui_blue_lite. We're having a blast, and we were brainstorming our backstory for Sam and Dean (I'm getting her hooked on Supernatural) and I went to write it down 'cause I'm anal retentive like that and then I kind of accidentally wrote a fic. Not x-posted anywhere as of yet, though maybe I'll do that later. Hope you guys enjoy - let me know if I've got the voices down, 'cause I'm not really sure.

Title: The Talk
Author: skyblue_reverie
Pairing: Sam/Dean UST
Rating: PG-13, to be on the safe side (UST involving underage!blushing!Sammy)
Spoilers: None; pre-series (Dean is 17)
Word Count: Around 950
A/N: Thank you so much to my beloved ennui_blue_lite for brainstorming, encouragement (fluffing? :p) and being such an awesome friend. Thanks also to my SPN-guru rivers_bend and, as always, to my beautiful, wonderful, wise beta Essie. This is my first foray into SPN fic-writing, so I'd really love feedback.

( The Talk )

I am so damn proud of my state today. SO. DAMN. PROUD.

*luffs CA Supreme Court*

Ganked from the lovely cosmic_waffles, a meme I've seen running around here from time to time but never actually did before. Come play!

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ...you're on my list, so I want to know you better!

BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE AND POST A COMMENT WITH THE QUESTIONS AND YOUR ANSWERS, THEN REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS IN YOUR LJ.

( questions here, and no, I have no idea what happened to #34 )

Happiest of happy birthdays to jadedgothchild. I hope you are having a wonderful day and that the year brings you everything you wish for.

♥