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Well, I gave in. [livejournal.com profile] meryth has a LiveJournal now. He's very excited. I'm not so sure.

The funny thing is that Meryth hasn't even been born yet in my story. He is still the proverbial twinkle in his father's eye. Well, I guess by the time he is born and grown up enough to become an actual character, I'll have a good handle on him.

So last night, I let Meryth design his layout, and this morning, I let him write his bio and his first entry. (His bio is, I believe, a whopping three sentences long. My little note about how his LJ is friend-locked was longer than what he had to say.)

Of course, I don't mind if people on my flist friend Meryth. Actually, he wanted me to make a plea to friend him, but I'm not going to do that because I think that most of what he has to say will probably boring to anyone who isn't interested in the original universe that I use in my stories and RPG.

So, enough about my imaginary friends. My cough is much better today; I think it's finally starting to go away. My right hip/leg still hurts like hell. I did an analysis this morning while putting warrants in the officers' mailboxes about how exactly it hurts to move. It hurts to step forward and then hurts again when my leg is behind me and I lift the foot off the ground. (Does that make sense? Probably not, but who cares.) So it hurts twice per step. I'm pretty sure it's a pulled muscle, not something bone/tendon-related like I originally thought. At times, I can feel it aching down my leg. And, stupidly, I'm pretty sure that it was caused by coughing. I think I aggravated the original injury while coughing. How daft do you have to be to hurt your leg coughing?? Anyway, it hurts like crazy when I cough, so that's where those suspicions come from.

I really want to skate tonight, but I will have to play it by ear. Despite my brave front, I don't want to aggravate an injury that's been bugging me for a few weeks now. I pulled a groin in 2001 (didn'tcha want to know that?) and it hurt intermittently for the next two years and I lost all flexibility in my right leg. I aggravated it once kicking a box of French fries at The Piece. (I am very good at hurting myself in profoundly stupid ways, as you can see. I can never hurt myself doing something scary, like an axel. No, it has to be kicking a French fry box. Or coughing.) But I don't want another two-year injury, if I can help it.

My sister-in-law is home from the hospital and doing fine. Thanks to all who gave me well wishes and happy thoughts for her! :)

Last night, I finally started watching Lost. Jenni mailed me her copy of the DVDs back before Christmas, and I finally got to start watching them last night. It wasn't something in which Bobby was interested, and it's hard to coordinate DVD-watching when one of us is not interested. There are always scads of things in which we are both interested that tend to usurp the watching of things that tickle the fancy of just one of us. So my plan now is to watch an episode every time Bobby has hockey. Last night I watched Pilot 1 (ironic name) and liked it a good deal, despite some eyerolling at melodrama and canned characterization. But that's just me. I can't help myself. And the pervading creepy/scary mood of the program made even those things bearable.

Edit: It seems that stupid Meryth even gets his own tag now. *rolls eyes*

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Date: 2006-03-08 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] levadegratchets.livejournal.com
Good to hear your sister-in-law is doing better! Now it's your turn, but I hear all over people talking about how this cold/flu/cough just hangs on and on.

The funny thing about muses is they exist outside of time, so past, present and future are meaningless. If they're not born yet in a story that fact never has stopped any muse I know from speaking up because ...what is time? :D Einstein must have listened to them!

Not fun hurting, hope your hurts and cough go away soon.

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Date: 2006-03-08 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juno-magic.livejournal.com
Now all of my OCs want journals of their own. But I'm adamant: all they will get is tags of their own at [livejournal.com profile] juno_stories...

But Elentar sends his best regards.

Good news about your sister-in-law. I hope the recovery will be quick and painless!

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Date: 2006-03-08 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juno-magic.livejournal.com
I know about characters expecting birthday gifts all of a sudden... usually right on the day of their birthdays, thank you for advance notice, yay.

Elentar is pretending not to give a damn, as usual.

I'll sort him out tomorrow. Although I haven't really earned the right to write his chapter, I think. (Yay, he's looking daggers at me, so he does care about something after all!) Editing Atlantis is a wearisome business. So many names. So many characters. So many Gods, Goddesses, mountains, rivers, forests - and everything needs a name. And then the legends. What was I thinking????

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Date: 2006-03-08 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com
Okay, so is Meryth one of the main characters in your original novel and are you going to start posting it?

I'm really sorry about your leg/injury. Maybe you should see a good physiotherapist. That really worked for me where all else (including drugs) failed, when I had pulled the muscles in my hand. I hope your cold gets better soon so you don't have to cough and strain your leg. (I know that sounds crazy but I've had those kinds of things happen too.)

I'm glad that your sister-in-law is doing well. Poor thing. She's too young to have this kind of trauma.

Well, I hope you continue to enjoy LOST. The dark aspects are what keep me involved and some of the characterizations, once they start getting interesting. I loved the ending of that first season. (Well, that's been the only season so far, although we are nearing the end of Season Two, I think.)

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Date: 2006-03-08 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com
LOL! Talban thinks Meryth is a scream when he insults Dad! But then he would.

Ah! Now I've got the timeframe down!

Oh, good. You should always listen to Mom/Jenni!

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Date: 2006-03-08 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niothwen.livejournal.com
Ell (my name for both Elladan and Elrohir because *cough* I can’t tell them apart) thinks Meryth is hot and wants to know if he can come play. Ell (the other one) wants some information on Talban.

My advice would be to say no. ;-)

It amuses me to think about how my "muses" are so real to me yet don't truly "exist" to the rest of the world. I like to say that I don't truly exist in theirs!

I’ve always said I don’t have an imaginary friend, I am an imaginary friend. Doesn’t it depend on whose backyard you play in? Even as a kid, I would rather play in their world than bring them home to mine.

Ouch! On the leg injury. I hope you’re feeling better soon. I’m currently off the treadmill due to a heel/achilles problem. Skating sounds like a lot more fun than running in place.....I think you have more of an incentive to heal. ;-)

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Date: 2006-03-08 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niothwen.livejournal.com
Talban has always preferred to call him "sepulchral."

Ummmm. Thanks Dawn. *pulling out my electronic dictionary*

Ahhh. Ell will like him then. He's drawn to the gloomy and tragic type. I know this now after his utter failure to cooperate with my last story where I paired him with a free-spirited and perpetually happy Lindir. He was most annoyed with me, and the story bit the dust as Ell kept trying to commit a kinslaying. Ah well, live and learn. or is that learn or die?

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Date: 2006-03-08 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niothwen.livejournal.com
If the other Ell likes more upbeat types, he'll probably fancy Talban a good deal.

No, they'll fight over Meryth. Or maybe share him?

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Date: 2006-03-08 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niothwen.livejournal.com
Meryth is young. Give him a few millennia. ;-)

The Ells wants to know if that damn "gift of Iluvatar" is effective in Meryth's world. That could be a problem.

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Date: 2006-03-08 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callirhoe.livejournal.com
I think I aggravated the original injury while coughing. How daft do you have to be to hurt your leg coughing??

Actually, something similar happened to me last year. I had a terrible cough that wouldn't go away and hurt my chest and lungs like crazy, and eventually it developed into a pain in the back of one of my shoulders. When I finally went to the doctor, he told me I had bronchitis, which had been aggravated by my swimming and turned into bronchitis + pneumonia. And all the coughing and general havoc within my body caused stress-related injury to a radicular nerve in my shoulder. It sucked -- hurt a lot, and I couldn't swim for like two weeks. :-(

Anyway, I hope that's not what you have, and I hope you feel better! Good luck with the healing -- don't push yourself too hard... :-)

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Date: 2006-03-08 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callirhoe.livejournal.com
Good for you. It's so hard to *not* do your sport -- I know when I had to stop swimming last year, I was freaking out because it was only a month before competition and we weren't yet sure whether I would be able to compete at all. Anyway, though, it's better to take care of yourself and take a break when you need to than to "work through it" and risk making the injury worse. You're doing the right thing.

(Like you needed justification, but I wanted to throw that out there. ;-) )

*friends Meryth*

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Date: 2006-03-08 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com
*covers muses' eyes*

I want to read Meryth's LJ! :)

Don't hurt yourself (more)! It's not the Olympics, not need to be insane.

...

You know what I mean.

Glad your s-i-l is doing fine!

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Date: 2006-03-08 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com
That's good. Don't want to be gimping around for too long! ;)

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Date: 2006-03-08 09:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atanwende.livejournal.com
Ouch. That sounds painful. I think it might be a wise decision not to skate tonight (though I can understand that you'd rather like to). Perhaps the ache will go away on its own. If it was me, it probably would. I seem to be somewhat indestructible anyway. I fell off horses, got kicked by horses, fell with my mountain bike on an icy bridge, twisted my ankle really badly after the bad idea of wearing high heels on cobbled streets and made it out unscathed every time. When I had the bridge accident I did (despite the fact that I couldn't sleep on my side for 3 weeks or so) not even get a real bruise. About two years ago I had a really swollen joint on my right hand one morning and couldn't bend my middle finger anymore. I simply waited and after three days or so it was gone. I do not know what it was and how I got it until now. Who knows, it might happen to you (eh, not the swollen joint thing - which was pretty painful - but the "everything better out of a sudden"). *crosses fingers*

In our family it's my sister who manages to acquire injuries in weird ways (she'd hate me, if she knew I was writing that here, hehe). I'm more the type to do stupid things like forgetting my gloves when horseback riding in winter and afterwards tearing my skin (which gets all sensitive and dry when cold) on a nail. Which is also 'ouch' but always only a matter of days until it gets better. ;)

See, I'm talking a lot about myself on your LJ again. *shakes head* Sorry. :)

Also, good to hear that your sister-in-law seems better. Life has unfortunately a thing for getting into our way with things like that. :(

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Date: 2006-03-08 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atanwende.livejournal.com
I also tend to heal myself really well, partially because I have a tendency to dislike medication or formal treatments of any kind. I much prefer to heal myself, and usually, I can. And I enjoy pissing & moaning about it in the meantime. ;)

Sounds a lot like me. Really. ;)

And I'm the firstborn, too, so your theory might be right. While my sister was often ill when we were children I was always pretty uncomplicated. I didn't manage to escape inheriting my father's short-sightedness though. I'll probably never forgive him (or his genes) for giving me this (of all things!), but not his dark hair. ;)

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Date: 2006-03-09 12:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sirielle.livejournal.com
I've friended him :)

Just to be fair with the artist - credit Anya I. Valle for Beleg's picture you have used for Meryth's icon. Nice girl, deserves it.

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