Fanfiction Addiction

It's strange to find out that I've had this journal for over a year now!! I didn't think it was that long ago, earlier this year at the earliest.

So what is this journal? Am I going to keep it going? If so what am I going to post here?

Well I, for over a year, thought of doing my own writing once again. I created a blogger blog called Crimson Writer to this exact thing.

So I'm thinking of using my blog here for the same thing. Mish-Mash my pastimes and life as I see fit at the time. I hope to track down and post my reams of fanfiction I previously wrote here whenever I find the darn things.

So I am 41 years old, I am disabled due to a combination of different problems. From congenital spinal deformities, scoliosis, to Rheumatoid Arthritis to Fibromyalgia & IBS among my health problems.

I am single and live with my elderly parents, I have one sibling a younger brother who is a Primary School teacher but is also a fully qualified accountant who is married to another teacher and they have three boys. The eldest just began Secondary School in August, the youngest has just began his last year at preschool. The middle one has began his fourth year at Primary School.

School pick ups as hectic with all three attending different schools. This should settle down next year as the youngest moves up to Primary School and will be at the same school as his older brother until he moves onto Secondary School.

Hi,

I'm just trying to see how posting one of my short flash fics from the DM slash fandoms works out.

So before clicking on the link to get to the full fic please note that the following fic contains two male characters being involved, or becoming involved, romantically with each other.

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 I'm spending a lot of time using my Mum's Acer Aspire laptop these days. To do everything from normal browsing, to writing posts and have installed my word processing program Atlantis today so I can hopefully begin working on my non-blogger-type writing on it as well.

At the moment I actually feel more comfortable typing on the laptop when trying to type longer pieces. Even my new - and wonderful - Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and mouse I feel uncomfortable writing for more than a couple of minutes. I have found this doesn't happen so quickly, and in some instances very rarely, while using the laptop.

I started using the laptop more frequently because my Mum wanted it to be used more often than her previous computer, her small net-book, which she gave to my middle nephew when she upgraded to this laptop, and so that it doesn't sit around in the bag waiting on the short periods she uses it. I didn't use her net-book very frequently and only really used it when she had something she wanted me to fix for her or when we babysat or had to stay in at my brother's house for several hours to await delivery and such. 

She wanted this computer to be used and get her money's worth out of it rather than sit inside the bag waiting for the half a dozen - at the most - times she used it on either a weekly or bi-weekly period.

All I know is it's more comfortable for me to use and also as it mostly gets stored in my bedroom when my Mum isn't actively using it, well it can be a big life saver for me when I am suffering from a particularly extended period of insomnia or am too uncomfortable or in too much pain to sleep at night and the early hours. I have access to the web or can read or even use it jot down notes and write drafts for blog posts. A whole lot better than lying awake all night just hoping I'll drop unexpectedly. Now that makes for a very long and boring painful night.

I am also looking into recording videos to use on my blogs via You Tube with the built in webcam and using free/basic editing software to edit and compress it for possible posting. Or as a video diary to myself. I sat in front of it on Saturday when I was home alone and rambling into the webcam on and off for a couple of hours and even if I don't edit, compress and post it I found the time spent just talking, even if it was just to myself via webcam, as pretty therapeutic. 

Just a quick post to wish all visitors a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

My health has been flaring a lot with the frigid weather here in Scotland and unfortunately has impacted on my well being negatively. So fingers-crossed I will be able to post more often in the New Year. I'm looking forward to trying out my new ergonomic Microsoft keyboard/mouse set my parents are giving me for Christmas, if it ever actually turns up that is!! Dispatched on Friday night and scanned out of the collection depot on it's way to the depot outside my city, still hasn't arrived by the tracking feature on both Amazon and City Link itself. Still both have December 17th as the delivery date!! 

So, have a great festive season and hopefully I'll be posting more frequently in the New Year!

I have not disappeared, nor have I abandoned this blog. Real life has a nasty habur of interfering with all else. Unfortunately I haven't been keeping in the best of health either. So that hasn't helped matters anyway.

Good news is that I am gradually getting back into the swing of things. Albeit at a much slower pace than was my norm.

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Well, my little tablet has arrived. I've been playing around with it for about a week and a half now, 'm still trying to get a handle on it. Apart from a few small niggles I am enjoying it so far.

I've left the protective plastic cover that is put on the screen during packaging to save my screen from damage from either my fingers/nails or the stylus before I get an actual screen protector. My case with built in keyboard is supposed to come with a free screen protector so I should have that early in the next week. I should've gotten it at the beginning of this past week but it took Royal Mail a week from posting date to inform me that the supplier had failed to put sufficient postage on the package and another 24 hours after making up the card stating how much I'll need to pay to get my item through my letterbox to inform me of this. I paid on lunchtime Thursday online and was told my package would be delivered within 2 to 3 working days. So Tuesday at the latest, annoying as it's sitting in the local depo less than 10 minutes from my home and they should've been informed I had paid the under postage (plus the £1 admin fee) within a few minutes of them receiving payment for the fee.

Unfortunately the blogging based apps for use with my journals and blogs aren't compatible with my generic budget brand of tablet according to the google marketplace which is a bit disappoiinting but I guess I'll just have to update by web browser when using my tablet. In fact this is an error with Goggle Marketplace when registering my device, I have since downloaded a few apps that their android marketplace state as incompatible elsewhere with no problems with either install or using. Unfortunately none of these other marketplaces have the blogging apps available so I can't get them that way.

But apart from the mislabelling of my device and Google Marketplace stopping me from downloading and trying apps they decide should be incompatible I'm enjoying testing out the Android system although I've only used my tablet to browse online and test out a few apps.

Over the years I have been online I have been involved in many different fandoms. Some as just a reader and others as both a reader and a writer.

I tend to gravitate towards a particular pairing, so much so that I can't read/write either character in a relationship with any other character except the one I 'ship'. I guess you can call me a shipper reader/writer.

Over the past decade I have read more fandoms than I can possibly remember, let alone recite here, so I won't attempt to do so.
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