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The Power Rangers Day 2015 fandom friendship exchange is now open! Go forth and read all the AMAZING stories we have this year! ♥

After some consideration, the deadline for PR Day stories has been changed. Stories are now due by midnight MONDAY MORNING. That means please get them in by the end of TODAY, folks!

Let me know if you're having any issues!

Friendly Countdown Reminder: Stories are due at 12:00am CST this Sunday!

Anyone concerned about meeting the deadline for any reason at all, please let me know as soon possible and we'll see what we can do.

Last call to sign up for PR Day 2015! Signups close at midnight tonight!

Reminding anyone interested in PR Day 2015, signups will be closed at 12:00am CST on Sunday the 12th. Don't forget to sign up!

LOOK AT MY AWESOME SHIRT starlit_purple GOT ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY. BECAUSE SHE IS AWESOME. ♥



IS IT NOT FANTABULOUS?

It's time for powerrangerday signups!

You can sign up at AO3 here. Signup forms can be edited as many times as you want until signups close June 25th. Assignments will be due on August 17th, so we can get everything up by August 28th.

Go! Offer ALL THE PROMPTS!

(Seriously, I want to write things.)

My awesome job as a Secret Agent for The Borg has ended.

I wasn't fired or anything - the assignment as a temp ended. But they didn't hire me. I found out yesterday that the reason was my 'overall metrics', despite the fact that they REPEATEDLY told everyone that they don't hire based on that. And they don't want me back when they need more help later.

I'm bummed, to say the least.

I spent the last week mourning the loss. I LOVED that job. I loved the people, I loved the company, and I loved what I did. I worked my ass off learning their products and trying to understand my customers and up my productivity. Losing out on it hurts, because I really *wanted* to be there.

There were downsides to it though, which I've been reminding myself of. For one, I've written barely a couple hundred words in the past *three months* while I was working there. I haven't been on Yahoo consistently for ages, because I only recently discovered that my computer can handle gaming and chatting at the same time. My temper has been shorter, due to stress from work and lack of outlets as I wasn't writing or chatting as much. I spent most of my days off trying to recoup my energy to deal with another week, and I was cranky and stressed if I didn't get that one full day to myself. I was constantly worn out from the amount of time and energy I was putting into my work and my customers and my co-workers.

I was really happy, though. For the most part. -Sighs-

The good news is that I'm still employed by my temp agency. I talked to my handler yesterday, and apparently I'm high priority to get into a job now, which is good. Turns out they love that I finished my assignment with perfect attendance, didn't do anything specifically 'wrong' there, and I have admin experience. I'm still job hunting on my own, because I'm leery of how long it's going to take them to actually *get* me into a position, but I did get serious cred with them from this, so. That's worth a lot.

Still.

So I've been playing lots of Harvest Moon and things and reading fic. Browsing internets. Trying to get ideas for my Power Rangers Universe Building Exchange assignment. I'm finally halfway through re-watching Masked Rider, and have developing headcanon and the beginnings of a fic. Just two more spinoffs and eighteen seasons of PR to go!

It's not the end of the world, and I'm getting over it. I'm just ... not quite there yet.

Today is not quite the day I'd hoped it would be so far, but I'm cheerful and happy enough that I mostly don't care.

There has been lots of reading of good fic. Wordsplat, on of my favoritest Tony/Steve authors started another adorably fluffy story with Medieval Tony/Steve. It is very cute and kind of heartbreaking, but in a good way. And then guardian_of_hope posted the story of FEELS AND THINGS AND JUSTIN with The Only Thing That Stays The Same. I may have squealed loud enough that I had to cover my mouth and be very glad that earlier I decided against moving to the living room where Shi-chan is currently sleeping.

I'm hungry now though, which sucks because I don't want to wake her and I wants eggs and veggie bacon ...

I finally have somewhat of fingernails now, for the first time in my life since I was six years old. They're not super-long or anything, but they're long enough that texting and typing has become annoying, and I've accidentally scratched myself a couple of times. Shi-chan bought me some sparkly gold nail polish awhile ago, so today I decided to paint my new nails in celebration. I'm a little sad because it turns out they're actually clear with gold sparkles and not sparkly gold, but it was a fun experiment. Now I'm pondering getting plain gold to paint the sparkles over, and trying to come up with a scenario in which Antonio would have sparkly gold fingernails because I can totally picture this now.

And cheesy eggs with veggie bacon has now been achieved! ^^V

I have plans to play games with Brother today, but I keep staring longingly at Changing Tactics and wondering if it will finally start cooperating so I can finish the chapter of Antonio/Jayden fluff. Also because I was reading thesecondbatgirl's post about Remix, and I was thinking about doing it. Then I realized that Changing Tactics is already sort of a remix of punkpinkpower's lovely Roads Untraveled and was amused. I still like the idea though, if I could think of something to do for it.

I'm also contemplating posting my queer_fest prompts, but there's one I'm hesitant about, because as much as I really love the idea (I was thinking of thesecondbatgirl and her love for Adam at the time), I'm not sure if it will be accepted under the rules of the fest. >.O

Mostly I'm kind of being lazy today even though I shouldn't be. But damn, it's nice.

-Trying to find willpower for gaming-

Disclaimer: I love Gamers. Hardcore Gamers, Casual Gamers, people who only game once in awhile. I have friends on every end of the spectrum. I consider myself to be a Casual Gamer.

That being said, ( Gamers are assholes. )