fic reccs

I'm terrible at reccing things but when someone makes an effort to write something for me, I'd feel like a real heel if I didn't recc it. These came from this batch of springkink stories. Sadly two of the authors didn't come through for me but still more than half did which is better than last time.

Here you go:

Alive, Roy/Maes (Ishbal fic)

The Courtesan’s Apprentice, Ed/Winry

The Clothes Make the Man, Ed/Winry

Long Cool Woman, Ed/Winry

(these three were all for the same prompt using Xingese clothing)

Sticky Situation, Roy/Maes

A Dab of Honey, Roy/Maes, fan art


And this one is an anonymous story for me from fmagiftexchange
Flow of the World, Izumi

ETA - some of these may be locked to their communities...

Everything sucks

Last night I thought Kanda had his squeaky mouse toy then thought hmmm no i never took that back out of the closet. Hmmmm. Didn't see a mouse.

this morning my migraine wouldn't let me sleep or eat. I get up and Kanda presents a mouse head. So I did hear a real one... My fear is poison since I know the neighbors are all having issues too. I toss the head, go to the bathroom, he tears off and I hear more squeaking. don't see that mouse either but i KNOW it's there.

It started squeaking in here while i'm typing this. They are now actively avoiding the areas they had been in (where i put the traps) this sucks. Yes, landlord should be here today because something is going wrong with the heat pump/ac and that's $$$$ so he'll show up for that issue.

And I'm probably goign to be mostly offline for the next week to two weeks since I'm nearly out of megabytes on my damn broadband monthly allotment. God this sucks.

now i 'm really mad. Kanda shit in front of his box again. I'm now cleaning his box daily but i can't be there to clean it every time he uses it. I'm not sure what to do. Maybe take the lid off so he can see other ways of stepping in if he insists on pissing/shitting right at the entrance. I know i could get one of those fancy self cleaning ones BUT Kanda is afraid of noise and I think that might put him off the box entirely. Suggestions?

My fridge is the tardis

Since I’ve been storing all my food in the fridge instead of my mice-ridden pantry, the fridge is crowded. I noticed plenty of stuff that I didn’t need and things had gotten knocked over and spilled. I’ve been doing a shelf a week. Throwing out bottles of dressing and the like, old jars with next to nothing less, forgotten salsa etc. I’ve hauled BAGS of garbage and recycles out of there and still it looks insanely crowded. How can it look crowded when I’ve removed so much?

And I found more to put in it. I went up to the farmer’s market and Pig Iron Festival in Jackson. At the market for 6$ I got a quart of fresh picked blackberries, a golden zucchini, two eggplants and a cantaloupe. The lady wanted to sell me 3 quarts for 12$ so she could go home. I said I could only take one. I figured my god. It’s a quart. I can’t eat all that. Um…it’s almost empty. Should have bought them.

The pig iron fest was a glorified car cruise with a hog roast.

How am I supposed to vote at fma_fic_contest? There’s always a lot of talent there but this time everyone outdid themselves.

I did get out there and deadhead some flowers and got seeds from my yellow daylilies. I’ve ever seen lilies give up seeds before. While rooting around in the watermelons I got hit in the face with something. I look around and there’s a peeper. Silly frog is making a home in my watermelons.

Landlord came. Fixed up the a/c before it totally broke. Wish he had fixed the windows. It’s gorgeous tonight but I can’t open them since the moron he hired to powerwash the place totally destroyed my screens. He made promises about getting stuff and fixing the bathroom. Uh huh.


And the sucking rolls on. I called around. No DSL anywhere. No cable either (there goes the dream of pitching DISH along with Verizon). AT&T apparently is partnered up with Hughesnet. They claim if I rent the satellite, I’d get 60 meg of download for 9$ more than I’m paying Verizon. My fears are naturally engaged since a) satellite tv blows (he claimed hughesnet was military made and better with 13 satellites to DISH’s 2) b) it’s expensive if you don’t lease, like 400$ to hook up c) I’ve heard a shitload of unhappy people d) the price he quoted was NOT what I saw when I got rid of dial up. It was 20$ under that. On the plus side i would have to call it Maes

I would need to do more investigating. And naturally I can’t because of the limit on my broadband. However, Verizon on the phone today says it’s only 5 cents a meg if you go over. Um I could double my allotment and only pay a quarter in that case. Spent all afternoon talking to them. Guess what. They had NO answer for why the shit reception wasn’t caused by me being in a rural leafy valley like they kept telling me. Denver, slow as hell, Evansville and Indianapolis, better than Denver actually, Berlin OH couldn’t even find the remote computer, Pittsburgh, connected with NO bars and couldn’t load a page. And now the software screws up every time my computer goes to sleep and I have to either task manager it closed and restart the software OR reboot the computer if that doesn’t work. Uninstalling and reinstalling helped not. She’s sending me the upgraded broadband receiver free.

Btw thanks to everyone for their litterbox advice.