Whee!

Well, GameStop doesn't take music cds in trade, so I'm still stuck with Flyleaf, but I did have enough DVDs in trade to take Open For Business down to about $9. So, OFB is all paid for, and I should have it later this week (Tuesday if I'm lucky). Happy dance!

One of the main reasons I want OFB is that it makes the time spent on community lots count. This is a good thing when I'm playing one-Sim households or University. I can finally send them out to kill time. Before, if I sent them on a date, or just out, the home lot would save, and if it was 1 pm when they left for the outing, it would still be 1 pm when they returned, destroying the point of killing time. I searched for a hack, and was informed that it was a feature of OFB.

I'm so excited. I've never gotten a game the day it's come out before. :-D

Huh...

I just had the semi-startling revelation that I've been with Matt for nearly three years now. We dated for a year and a half before getting married, and we've been married for nearly a year and a half. I kind of paused while getting ice out of the freezer, thinking about it. Yeah, we've been together through three birthdays. So it's been nearly three years. Wow.

I just hadn't thought about it until today. Not sure why it hit me like that. I was halfheartedly thinking about why I no longer felt the need to write smut, and paused to think about how long it's been since I felt that need. Three years.

We don't really have a day we mark as when we officially started dating, because it just moved seamlessly from "we're friends" to "okay, so we're more than friends." I claim it was the day he went to West Virginia with me to see X2 with Ellen. That would be around May 5th, 2003. So yeah, three years.

Heh. Now I have something to astound him with when he gets home from work today.

Confession time

I am a dialogue whore. I love well-written dialogue. It's one of the reasons I'm addicted to Gilmore Girls, to CSI, to NCIS...witty banter, fast-paced lines, just get me going.

It's also one of my big pet peeves in the fanfiction world. There are some beautiful writers out there that can set the scene wonderfully, but they just can't capture the flow of speech. Or, even worse, they'll set the scene in paragraph format, but when it comes time for the characters to speak, they switch to script format.

I was lucky enough to have decent teachers early on in my writing life, teachers who taught me that I didn't need a tag after every line of dialogue, teachers who taught me the rules of arguments ("No one in an argument will be able to get out more than three lines of text before being interrupted" ;) ), the flow of speech, and how NOT to write in accents or dialects. I had to laugh when one of my reviews for So High School praised, of all things, my grammar. Now that's a sad commentary on the state of fanfiction.

But hey, it's almost five, when I can perch on the couch and immerse myself in the quick wit of Lorelai and Rory. I think I just got a chill.