Well, I gave in.
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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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)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 05:29 pm (UTC)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!
Meryth is nodding.... :^/
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Date: 2006-03-08 05:38 pm (UTC)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 07:02 pm (UTC)Plus, today is his birthday. He is 27 today. So I console myself that this was his gift and it didn't cost me a thing. :)
*Meryth peeks out from behind his handler Dawn Felagund and smiles shyly at Elentar*
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:53 pm (UTC)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 08:02 pm (UTC)What was I thinking????
Is there really thinking involved when the bunny bites? ;) Usually, I'm just trying to get the damned thing unlatched and leaving me alone. Hence the fact that I'm embroiled in two "epics" and a couple of short stories right now.
I am sooo behind in Atlantis. But I want to read it! Grrr...your productivity exceeds the hours of reading time free in my day. *envies* ;)
(I used to love Greek mythology, too, back in the day. My sister and I used to play Greek gods and goddesses, iirc. I was always Persephone.)
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Date: 2006-03-08 06:10 pm (UTC)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 07:08 pm (UTC)Meryth is raising his eyebrows and asking on what bizarre planet Belegil counts as "spunky." :^P
But in later stories (because you know I can never write just one!) Meryth--and, incidentally, Talban and Celinna--are very central to the story.
Meryth's diary (I should have told you) takes place two years ago, starting on the day the boys come of age. So I'm working in two time periods (three, if you count the Felagund/Ciris thing) and hoping not to get too confoosed! ;) But it's all in the name of characterization.
I've decided to take Mom-Jenni's advice and not skate tonight. :) Since I can't even walk down the back path without limping, it seems prudent to take a night off. Since the coughing is subsiding, I'm going to see how the leg feels over the next couple of days. I'm hoping it will heal itself, like it did the first time.
In the meantime, I'm keeping Icy Hot and Well Patches close by!
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:36 pm (UTC)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)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 07:15 pm (UTC)He's meeting all sorts of new half-Elves today! He's also flattered to be called "hot." Talban has always preferred to call him "sepulchral."
Incidentally, Meryth and Talban are twins too, but fraternal, thank Eru.
Oh, and Ell will have to ask Jenni (
I always make my husband look at me funny by suggesting that the very act of imagining a character and a world makes him real somewhere. And then how I envision his story becomes a sort of "fate" for him. For all I know, I am just a character in some nutty writer's novel. Just like Meryth is a character in mine.
I'd rather go to their world too. Meryth rarely comes to my world except to tinker with his LJ and to fight with my Silmarillion muses for my attention.
And ouch on the heel/Achilles injury. :( Achilles tendons gross me out for some reason. Especially injuring them. (Seeing Hostel did not help me in this regard.) Anyway, I *do* love skating, and it is an incentive to heal to get back to it. I was progressing really well too, until I got sick and hurt myself, dangnabit.
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:48 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:54 pm (UTC)If the other Ell likes more upbeat types, he'll probably fancy Talban a good deal. Talban's always flitting around and posting penis icons in his LJ. :^))
Meryth has just rolled his eyes at Lindir and wants you to tell Ell that he knows the type.
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Date: 2006-03-08 08:26 pm (UTC)No, they'll fight over Meryth. Or maybe share him?
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Date: 2006-03-08 08:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-08 08:54 pm (UTC)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 08:58 pm (UTC)So, yeeeah...Ell & Ell better get busy then.
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Date: 2006-03-08 06:45 pm (UTC)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 07:18 pm (UTC)Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person capable of hurting myself by coughing, although I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. :)
My real-life friend, incidentally, recently broke her ribs from coughing. o.O Ouch....
I had a serious talk with Teh Husband over lunch at Subway, and we decided it's best for me not to skate tonight. He knows how I feel: He's a hockey player, and there've been a few times this year where I've had to talk him out of playing on an injury. I'm hoping to be back at lessons on Sunday, but we'll see. :^/
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Date: 2006-03-08 09:04 pm (UTC)(Like you needed justification, but I wanted to throw that out there. ;-) )
*friends Meryth*
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Date: 2006-03-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-08 07:32 pm (UTC)I want to read Meryth's LJ! :)
Don't hurt yourself (more)! It's not the Olympics, not need to be insane.
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You know what I mean.
Glad your s-i-l is doing fine!
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:41 pm (UTC)I'm taking a night off from skating. Bobby and I had a chat about it, and we decided it's best. I don't want to aggravate an injury that would otherwise be gone in a week.
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-08 09:10 pm (UTC)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 09:21 pm (UTC)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. ;)
My sister is also the Walking Murphy's Law of our family. So is my sister-in-law, as evidenced, perhaps, by the fact that she celebrated her twentieth birthday a day after having emergency surgery. (Unfortunately, my sister will probably find this comment, as she is an LJ friend. *waves to
Is your sister younger? My husband and I--both firstborns--believe that younger siblings are inherently prone to struggling.
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Date: 2006-03-08 10:05 pm (UTC)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)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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Date: 2006-03-09 03:02 pm (UTC)I should have known to ask you, that you would know. Thanks!