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The Awakening by Keira Marcos. Jim/Blair. Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same. A long, good "sentinels are known" fic, what not to love?

Yeah, those longed for puppies has finally arrived...
Monday evening they finally arrived, one bitch and three males. Åska is taking really great care of them... Here are some píctures:

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Gollowing the meme again (didn't I do this recently?)

The BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here. ...
Bold those you've read, italicize those you've started but didn't finish...

OK, I've only used boldsince I pretty much started on all of these one time or another.

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Well, it's done. Åska has been mated twice this week. Hopefully I will have a litter of Finnish lapphunds in the middle of March.

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I work at a library a couple of days a week, and now the librarian have given me the task of finding some new manga series since we don't have a lot of these. The problem however is, which ones are good?

Most of our readers are boys: ages 11-15 yrs. There are some girls too, but we have more "girl manga" so now I'm trying to find those essential mangas that "everybody" have to read... But how to find these... Anybody have any suggestions on good mangas please fell free too tell me...

Yeah! I followed the trend...

OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OHMYGOD, OHMYGOD, OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!

I'm competing in obedience with Åska today, my very first time ever and Åska only does as I say the first time (or at all) 1/4 of the times, it will not end well.... I will never be able to show myself among people that was there after this day... I will probably end up on youtube so the rest of the world will see my shame and laugh....

OK, the drama is over, it will still not end well, but I will drag myself out among people even if I make an absolute idiot of myself...

I think I may have to throw up... I can't believe I was so stupid to register myself for this... Showing dogs and competing with them is so very different from eachother. Now they will be judging me. looking at me...

OK, guess I should go and do something that needs to be done before the horror...

Kracken's fics. Fantasy. Some very good, some to much non-con for my taste. I’m waiting with bated breath for “Sun of the Elyn” and “Catalyst” to be finished
Dan Kirk's Story Site. Some are very good, some not my cup of tea. Waiting for the third story in the “Rich Boy” serie

Ryo’s Through Hardships Unknown.

Twisted Hilarity. Great stories, none completed :-(

aerialsprite LJ. Taming the Tiger – not completed.

Nikerymis fiction. Check the newest entries, not all the fics are here!

Amasour’s fictions here also!

Tygatis fiction

MomsDarkSecret . Fantasy fiction

Xenobia's archives. Wyndrah series!

The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek

Ann Somerville

A couple of days ago I found the most fascinating site. I immeditaly started to try it out, this is the result (it's my first try so I guess it turned out somewhat OK, but I'm far from an artist however!)



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En Amstaff attackerade Ajax i natt. Ajax var nödig (han har ett väldigt tydligt kroppsspråk som visar detta)och jag tänkte att det var väl lika bra att låta hundarna rasta sig en kort sväng. Klockan var kring 00:50 och både Ajax och Åska fick gå med koppel. Åska brukar jag faktiskt ha lös oftast men nu är det så mörkt ute och man ser inte henne i mörkret, så hon fick också gå i koppel.

När jag kom till allmänningen mellan ICA så gick jag längs stigen som leder över den, hundarna hörde något och jag antog att det var schäfern som de brukar ha lös. Plötsligt ser jag Amstaffen komma rusande mot oss, jag försöker sparka undan honom men han är helt inriktad på Ajax och lyckas kasta sig över Ajax och tar ett strupgrepp på honom (visade sig senare att det nog var på sidan av halsen, på höger sida). Då gör jag något som man absolut inte ska göra och kastar mig över Amstaffen i förhoppning om att kunna bända upp käkarna på den, Ajax bara tjuter vid det här laget) Åska skäller som en idiot och försöker evenuellt försvara oss, men jag tror inte det, är nämligen helt inriktad på Amstaffen och Ajax. Jag lyckas få tag om käkarna och försöker bända upp dem, men det går inte förrän ägaren kommer, Amstaffen släpper Ajax och han och Åska springer iväg med Amstaffen efter sig (är inte riktigt klar med händelseförloppet här då allt gick så snabbt) Amstaffen och Åska kommer snart tillbaka, men Ajax är borta.

Jag skriker nått till ägaren om att han inte kan släppa lös såna hundar och han kläcker ur sig en fråga om det var på allvar eller på lek hans hund gett sig på Ajax, jag är halvt hysterisk och ser framför mig hur Ajax håller på att förlöda någonstans långt åt fanders och skriker något osammanhängande om att hans hund gått på strupen på Ajax sen skyndar jag mig hemåt, som tur är hör jag Ajax sitta och skälla på bron hemma hos mig, men jag tror inte mina grannar var så glada åt mig då jag skrek på Aja och han skällde mitt i natten.

Som tur var visade det sig att Ajax var oskadd (har inte hittat något sår på honom i all hans päls, fast det var blod i den). Jag har däremot lite mindre skrubb/bitsår på mina vänsterarm. Kommer dock inte ihåg hur jag fick dem men det måste ha varit medan jag brottades med hunden.


- En normal hund kastar sig inte över en annan hund på det sättet (ja, jag vet att mina hundar får vara lösa och de kan mopsa upp sig ibland, men de har ett väldigt bra språk och skulle aldrig ens tänka tanken på att anfalla en annan hund på det sättet, däremot kan kanske speciellt Åska visa sig dominant ibland, men inte så att hon skulle anfalla en annan hund på det sättet.

- En normal hund skulle ha släppt taget när jag jag låg över den och tryckte ner den i marken för att få lös Ajax. (Ajax hade dessutom gett sig, direkt den andra hunden grep tag i honom försökte Ajax kasta sig till marken)

Jag förstår inte hur man törs ha lös en sån hund, jag vet att den har varit på andar hundar tidigare och jag tror dessutom att han är undan en väldigt hundilsken tik som även hon anfallit andra hundar och till och med valpar.

Nu i efterhand så kom jag ju på att jag blivit varnad att de brukar ha den lös där på ängen på natten, fast det var i vår jag hörde det och jag har aldrig sett dem när jag varit ute med mina hundar, så jag kom inte alls ihåg det. Jag brukar nämligen ta den rundan på kvällen när det är mörkt. På sommaren går jag hellre längs en skogsstig, men den är alldeles för mörk för mig nu, jag vill ju se handen framför mig. Jag borde kanske ha gått hem när jag såg att Ajax och Åska såg något i mörkret (men jag antog att det var schäfern och den är det pli på och dessutom verkar hon inte hundaggressiv), hade jag vänt så hade jag dock bara kommit närmare Amstaffen så det fanns inte så mycket jag kunde ha gjort annorlunda, förutom att ha gått en annnan väg eller valt att inte rasta hundarna alls (men eftersom mina hundar är rumsrena så vill jag att de fortsätter att vara det, det beyder alltså att de måste få komma ut och rasta sig.

Just nu värker det som bara den i armen, vilket det inte gjorde just när det hände. Men nu när chocken släppt så...

Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...

Mrs. Bill Weasley

Your perfect HP man is Bill Weasley.

Take The Harry Potter Husband Test at HelloQuizzy

Quiz
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.(Not doing that either!)
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

It's been a long time since I've posted, not that I haven't checked out some fics, but I've been in lurker mode a lot. I haven't read as many fics as usual either.

My dogs have taken up a lot of time and I've worked a lot too. I'm still working at a kindergarten, which is fun now that I have gotten used to it.

But now (finally) I have two weeks of vacation. Then I will work four weeks at a library and after that is finished I will work 12 hours/week at a library and 22 hours/week at a kindergarten. If everything goes according to the plan...

My dogs have been taking up a lot of time, well not Ajax so much. He gets to take it easy and only come for walks. Åska and I have been to a couple of dogshows and then we have been tracking a lot. I have also decided to let her have a litter of puppies the next time she is in heat, which will be in december sometime...


Under the cut are some pictures of Åska if anybody is interested :-)

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A bit more about my dog Åska + a new pic of her
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I'm feeling kind of low at the moment, my computer crashed last night and suddenly 100's of saved fics and favourite links disappeared, not to mention games I'm playing, written stories and a lot of useful programs. Bu at least I remembered to save my photos before christmas so not all om my puppy pictures is gone...

Well, things like this happens when you don't save what you are meant too, and I knew I should save them I just "never had the time"


On an other note, does anybody got Enahmas "My Man Friday" saved? It has been pretty long since I've read it but I was always glad that I had it in my computer for when I wanted to read it (and now it's gone, gone, gone)...



Well, I'm off scouring the Net for useful links that I should have...

The Tale of a Deed by Auburn. An act of generosity on Ezra's part has unintended consequences for the Seven.Long, good fic. Vin/Ezra friendship, a bit too harsh on Nathan. Overall a very good story. (COMPLETED).

The Simple Joy of Living by Mahaliem. Victor is attacked and Harry Potter and his new auror partner Draco Malfoy must find out why and who attacked him! Harry/Draco. This has been recced a lot in the short time it has been on the net, and that should tell you something! (COMPLETED).

The Living Years by DementorDelta. Severus Snape makes the ultimate sacrifice for Harry Potter. No, not that sacrifice! The other one! And finds Sanctuary in the most unexpected of places. HP/SS Very nice story! (COMPLETED)

In Check by K'Sal. "Kiss me," Kirk said. Why kissing Kirk is the logical thing to do according to Jim! (COMPLETED)

Coming Home by Xanthe. SGA AU. McShep. Top!John Bottom!Rodney. In a world where sexuality is defined by top and bottoms, John and Rodney meet. I like it…(COMPLETED)

Cute As... by Gillian. SGA. Rodney suffers a body swap - with a young Genii woman. McShep. One of my favourite genderswap-stories. (COMPLETED)

Carolyn Says by Lemon Drop. Carolyns view on Jim and Blair. (COMPLETED)

Substitutions by Josan. X-files/Sentinel crossover. Simon Banks and Alex Krycek slowly starts an relationship. Very good, I don't usually read X-files but this one I liked! (COMPLETED)

Yes!

I'm so F***ing happy right now. I live in a very small community, where it's really hard to find work. I manage to keep me floating, with a couple of hour work/week and the swedish Akassa (you are a member for at least a year, then you have the right to get about 80% of your pay back if you get unemployed, this is counted on all work you have done the 12 earlier months).

This summer I've worked at a library for about two months when everybody else had vacation. Today they called froma Day Care and offered me a 50% part time job for a month, maybe longer if it works out. I'm so very happy.

Not, that it's a lot of work really, but it's a n in on other branches and maybe I will find myself a job later after I get some experience from this...

I just called my mother and just babbled to her... And my dogs was barking as mad when they heard my shout of joy. *SO VERY HAPPY NOW* I will make some money and I might have some fun fo once...

NO SPOILERS!

I've finished reading DH tonight, got it yesterday afternoon.

I must say I was happily surprised by the writing style, it was actually very good. Much more like a good fanfic than her first books (this is positive, not a negative thing).

The actual plot didn't come as a chock, and not because of any spoilers that I've read (but of course there were some idiots that didn't respect the wish of others).


I don't think I've spoiled the plot for anybody? It's not liked I mentioned the three dancing dwarws and the heliopaths from the ministry, not to mention the cave troll... Oops...
^^ Just a joke if anybody didn't get it