And all of you should be green with envy!  Go here and start an amazing journey of hurt/comfort, UST, HEA and archiac magical mystery.  I am not kidding you folks this story is almost 40,000 words of amazing!

I love it so much I would start re-reading it RIGHT NOW, but I have a turkey to carve before the twins think it is snack time!

I would say the best advantage today to working was I did not sit at my laptop hitting the refresh button all day waiting for my prompts to arrive.  Instead I cam home from a loooonnng day and opened my email to my lovely prezzies from the mods.  I wonder how many hours they spend perusing our writing to find just the right jewels for our treasure chests?

If you were the unfortunate lucky soul to get my prompts.  They pretty much tell you what I like, but I will attempt to extrapolate.

I am a self proclaimed angst freak.  This is because I believe in realism (in all things).  Honestly, folks people suffer, feel pain and die on a daily basis  Trust me I know I hear it all day long when I am at work. That being said I do not like gratuitous angst. Make it believable make me feel their emotions.  This being said if it is one of my art prompts that makes your muse stand up and take notice I like realistic looking art.  I am not a cartoon reader; never have been. I am not into anime and I want my people to look like real people.

I am not a prude either which means you can bring on the lemons, but again please make it believable.

All that being said rest assured I am going to squee my guts out over whatever you choose to do and however you interpret my plot bunnies.  Please enjoy yourself I know I am going to enjoy seeing/reading whatever you produce.

Another Monday down...

Work is worky busy and if the little troll monitors don't mind their own business I am going to hurt them.  Seriously a girl has got to pee when a girl has got to pee.  It is not my fault the stupid idiots stuck me with 4 hours solid and no break! I refuse to wear a depends to work!

I bit the bullet and signed up for the exchange.  I am hoping to write like a demon and get it all done by their halfway point check in as I will be moving the end of August.

If you want to know what Irish is up to on the exchange here is what I submitted.  Yes, I will admit to reusing prompts, but that is because I really want to see this stuff done.

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My brother has a freaky swollen face... again.  At first he thought it was a spider bite and I told him to fumigate.  The thing is this is happening every couple of months.  I would LMAO if he turned out to be allergic to Vodka.  The area of swelling seems to be increasing with each occurrence too.  First it was just the bottom lip, then both lips and now it is going into the cheek.  I am posting his picture because I am an evil little sister and frankly the guy keeps trying to win a local public office so it isn't like his face isn't out there anyway.  This way you will all see why I am sooo glad I am the one who came out looking like my father.  I am sooo much cuter than my brother ;)

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Other than that not much else happening in this neck of the woods.

hugs to f-list

Now how did that happen?

I know this is one I did a bit of modification to and subversa requested I post the recipe a la Irish so I made the modifications in my file and *gasps* forgot to post it.  Bad Irish!  So here it is:

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Gyros anyone.  Gyros are basically a Greek Sandwich served on Pita Bread.  Here is what they call poor man's Gyros meat because you can bake it in your oven.

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Next up I think I will have a post that is all deserts and sweets

There are times when things grab you by the throat and as much as you wish to write about them you fear doing so will make them real.  That was my weekend.  On Friday I received 2 separate communications from 2 different people in 2 different states who were both saying company wide layoffs had been issued at 5 PM EST.  I had left work at 3:30 CST thirty minutes before this was to have happened.  I checked my work email from home... nothing.  Then I spent the weekend second guessing and playing both sides of the coin: why it would behoove the company to lay me of and why they would be crazy to do so.

This stressed me out enough to cause spasms in my back resulting in me walking like Quasimodo and having to leave work early to go to the chiropractor.  On the outside I was fine and rational on the inside my body took the brunt.

When I went in this morning the first thing I did was to talk to J, my manager.  I am not one to sit on or spread rumors I go to the source. I was assured by him that NOTHING was discussed at the manager's meeting while I was on vacation about layoffs.  He further chastised me because of my ability to justify both sides of the coin.  In his opinion I need to become more aware of my own worth to the company.  LOL Needless to say I am happy all was just rumors!

Now who wants some recipes???

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I had originally planned to do one post of all the recipes, but that post would be massive so I am going to break it up.  There will probably be at least 3 posts of recipes.

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If there is a dish you see represented in droxy's food pr0n posts that you want the recipe for please comment to this post with what recipes you want so I can keep you all straight.

Seriously folks I brought 40+ recipes with me this trip so things will get boggled in my mind.

Thanks

Freedom from overbearing government