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This is just a quick punt for the Supernatural Postcards project which a) I think is a great idea and b) seems to be really appreciated by the guys at the set.

Postcards in South Africa seem to be terminally boring and touristy, so I've taken to making some of my own.

This one I sent a few weeks ago - it's A4 in size


And this one I made over the weekend, to send tomorrow - also A4. Won't get there by Thursday, but no matter.

Fab Four full size


Whenever I look at it, this keeps running through my head "Bad boys, bad boys! What you gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys!" LoL

Anyhoo, if you get a chance, send the guys a postcard!

Courtesy of the wild, wacky, talented, recently newly employed and all round mensch pdragon76. A meme. Not my usual thing, but this one is sufficiently rambling and interesting. Lets hope my answers are equally interesting...

If you wish to take part, then:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

My answers to pdragon76's questions are below the cut

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So there we have it! Hope you don't regret those questions. Heh.

So I’m off on a wee holiday tomorrow *g* Going for a week to Cape Town with my sister. Now my sister just happens to work for Wilderness Safaris and part of her job is that she gets to stay at the various lodges, resorts and hotels they sell to their clients – essentially for nothing. This is so she has a better grasp of the services etc that are offered, and is able to sell it to the overseas tourists. She also gets to take someone along on these trips – and this happens to be me! \o/ So free accommodation in luxury hotels is not going to be sniffed at.

Just in case you might be interested, these are the places that we are going to get to stay in. Pretty damn fancy and completely out my price bracket on an ordinary day, that’s for sure!

The Cape Grace

The One & Only

Le Quartier Francais

The Twelve Apostles

This last one we’re going to because my brother and his wife have recently taken over as the general managers so we’re actually going to see them (including the nephew) and aren’t actually staying in the lodge proper. But it looks like an amazing place!

Bushmanskloof

So if over the next week any of you post some chapters to your fabulous stories and you’re waiting on tenterhooks for my comment – cause I know you do ;o) – then I’m afraid this is why I shall be absent! Think I’ll cope though...

Au revoir!


PS I'm also hoping it might be a little warmer down there than it has been in JHB for the last two weeks. I'm tired of being just slightly cold all the time...


PSS Also got a new (2nd hand) car today! A lovely bright blue Chevrolet Aveo. I'm very happy with it :o)

Pardon the pun, but I went to see Angels and Demons today, and thought it would be a fun subject line. Fun movie too, if you don’t take these things too seriously. Anyway, I did some manipulation art of Sam the other day, and decided to have a go at Dean after watching the finale on Thursday…

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So you see - Angels and Demons.

So I have a question about that last scene...

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Love me the boys!!!

This is just another piece that I did for South China Sea by tabaqui, the J2 AU set in Vietnam. She asked for one with both boys in the picture, so I gave it a whirl.

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It was a public holiday in South Africa today, so last night and today, I went on a bit of a photoshopping spree. A little bit of Dean and Sam, a little bit of Jared and Jensen. All but one are manipulations, all clean. So to speak...

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Phew! And that’s me.

PS Went to see Wolverine this evening – great fun! I really enjoyed it. Hugh was amazing, but I would’ve loved to have seen more of Taylor Kitsch as Gambit. Definitely not enough of him…

Morning all! Quick SPN fic rec here - it's a glorious coda to 4.16 (On the Head of a Pin) and works perfectly for anyone who felt that It's a Terrible Life and Zachariah's pep talk wasn't quite enough to get Dean Winchester back on his feet. Go read it now!

Jonah of Dalhart by oselle

Say, does anyone on my flist know what has happened to big_pink's journal? Every time I click on it, I get this message:

Invalid URL
The requested URL "/", is invalid.

Reference #9.c427a5a5.1240580335.0

It's very weird because while I am using my work pc all other lj links are fine. Hope she hasn't deleted... :o(

You know what I hate? When people don’t get it when you tell them you don’t like big fucking spiders. When you tell them that you are in fact, scared of them – whether or not this fear is rational is immaterial. It’s there and for you it’s real. But they chuckle, they joke, they think you’re just a squealing girl. They don’t realise that when faced with such a creature (as I was late last night) that there are tears, and shaking and trembling and a pounding heart. That you get trapped in your room for an hour trying to figure out how you can get it out the house because there is no way you can sleep knowing that it’s still inside. That once you do get rid of the damn thing that it takes another half an hour to calm down enough to sleep and that you feel the need to sleep with the bathroom light on so your bedroom is not pitch dark should you wake up during the night. That part of you doesn’t want to sleep in case you have nightmares about spiders. That all of this and only five hours sleep leaves you feeling unsettled the next morning. And they laugh when you tell them about it. Yep, I hate that.

On the other hand, considering I did manage to catch it and take it outside, and it was the biggest spider I’ve ever seen in my life, I’m quite proud of myself. I just wish my sister would hurry up and get back from her holiday so she can take back spider catching duties!

Fuckin’ things.


If you're brave enough, this is what I was up against last night. Alas, we get them quite frequently in our house, but this one was a particular monster.

Giant Wandering Spider. Or Rain Spider. Or Palystes. Or just a big effing spider.

Taylor Kitsch is here in my country! In fact, in my city! He's been cast in a film called The Bang Bang Club which is about a group of four photographers active during the apartheid era through the shift to democracy. I had heard that he was in it (also Ryan Phillipe and Malin Ackerman from Watchmen) but had no idea that they had started filming. It was a big surprise to see him linked to a movie about South African history, but then I remembered that he was in Wolverine, directed by Gavin Hood, another local boytjie. Methinks that might be the connection.

Anyway, there was an article in today's newspaper which I tried to scan here at work. The quality is not great, but I it's passably legible if you're interested. Seems Taylor had to lose 16kg for the role!!

Article

Hmmm... would be pretty cool if I bumped into him somewhere :)

oselle has posted the final chapter of Lazarus Came Forth!! Go and read. Go and read now!

I got inspired to play around with the boys in photoshop again and made some manipulations of Jared and Jensen to go with fleshflutter’s amazing J2 story Someone you might have been It’s the boys as kick-ass secret agents and it is fabulous! It is slash (the story, not the pictures), so fair warning, but it is such a good spy story! Anyway, the image of the boys as super cool secret agents was too hard to resist.

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Usually I don’t bother with these sort of ramblings, mostly because I’m not terribly eloquent at getting my thoughts down on paper, but also because I don’t normally have deep, thinky, thoughts. However, when one is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, one’s mind does tend to wander. This is of course all speculation, I have no idea what’s going to happen (and don’t want to know) and Show likely won’t even go this route. But it doesn’t hurt to muse.

So under the cut are musings about our boy Dean – spoilers up to Ep14 and for a certain scene in the new promo that is floating about.

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Supernatural it seems, can also bring out the poetic writer in us. From last year my cousin (who I got hooked on Jensen Ackles - always referred to as His Hotness - and Show) has been hoarding episodes like a squirrel hoards nuts. She got as far as Long Distance Call and then stopped, saying she couldn’t watch the end of Season 3 until she had Season 4. Then Season 4 came along and still she resisted. Until Wednesday that is. This is the email I got on Thursday morning:

What can I say ......... it was inevitable. I saw it coming. Months ago I knew how this would pan out. But I was strong and resisted. Took verbal abuse from fallen souls, sat by whilst my spouse gave in to the force, But all in vain. Last night ...... I let it happen. The desire finally overcame me and despite knowing the price I'd pay, I gave in.

I thought I would be able to contain the force, to manage it within my timeframe, but I was sorely mistaken. And now? I'm screwed. I want more, I want it all. In the wee small hours of the morning I sat glued to my chair. Hiding behind the cushions, alarm on, drink in hand. Eventually when I could no longer keep my eyes open, I ventured to bed, only to be kept awake further by shadows moving above me. Yellow eyes watching through cracks in the curtains. Growling night crawlers baying at the doors.

As I rose this morning, dark circles under my eyes, the force struck again. Washing the sleep from my eyes and beating the world record for showering, I gleaned another hour before work. But now I'm hooked. Fallen. Past recovery with no hope. Can I last the working day? Who knows ?

And, it's YOU I blame. You Samantha. It's all YOUR fault !!!!!!!

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

Four episodes on Wednesday night, another on Thursday morning before work.

My work here is done. *g*

A guy at work forwarded an email to me today from someone he knows. It had a message and pictures attached that I just had to share:

It has been so hot in South Australia for the last week…40+ degrees celsius everyday and very dry.

A guy at work lives at Maude. His wife sent him these photos of a little Koala which just walked into the back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. She filled up a bucket and this is what happened!

See under the cut for pictures of amazing cuteness

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I feel for you guys in Aus, I really do! Anything more than 30 and I'm starting to melt. Must admit that I'm terribly jealous of all the snow going around.

Oh god. I'm just kinda floored right now. It's just been posted all over the net, from an announcement on Jim Beaver's Myspace page, that Kim Manners died last night from lung cancer. I didn't even know he was sick.

Jim is in mourning for one of the best friends and best directors he's ever known--Kim Manners, who died last night from lung cancer

What a dreadful, sad, awful thing to happen and my thoughts go out to his family, his friends and everyone he worked with, especially on Supernatural. They're such a team, all so close. His loss will be keenly felt.

:(

If anyone is interested in seeing a selection of photos from my trip to Botswana, I'm afraid I'm taking the slightly easy route... Out of everyone's photos I managed to narrow the selection down to only 57 pics!! Only.

Anyhoo, I thought that it would take a hell of a lot of work to post them all in LJ (and probably end up being multiple posts), so I've uploaded them to Facebook and you can have a look there. I'm pretty sure I made the album available to everyone...

Here's the Facebook link (with captions): Facebook album

Or the Photobucket album (no captions): Photobucket



A few to start off with...

Gosh. *blinks* So much hate out there. Why? The boys! The boys are back!! \o/

So it wasn't the best ever episode, but it was by no means the worst. Not by a long stretch.

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Boys!! They're back! *glee*

*sigh* Back at work after a month long holiday so to cheer myself up, I thought I would just share this wonderful little piece of art of John and Weechesters by trolleys posting in trolleys_art

Too adorable!!

Also, this one, by the same artist: Dean gives Sammy a Christmas present

I really, really hope not! But I don't know how many of you have heard what has happened - see this post for a link to the story.
http://ginnytonnick.livejournal.com/1024699.html

I'm not that worried about losing what's on my lj, because I don't use it much. But I sure as hell am worried about losing contact with those on my flist - and those who aren't! I do an awful lot of cruising on LJ - Supernatural related of course. All those comms, fics... Ack! There is so much out there. I shudder to think of it all disappearing.

Anyhoo, just in case, I've opened up an account at Insane Journal, under the very same moniker of catsbycat. Maybe its an idea for you to do likewise?

Just a thought - use it, don't use it :) And lets hope LJ doesn't go bung. I wouldn't be happy about that at all, no sirree!!