'm' is for Maud who was swept out to sea

[amand_r]

1. If you get a card from me, will you let me know? I want to post the designs, but I want to wait until they've been about for a while. I haven't said it before, but thank you lefaym and used_songs for the cards!

2.

The sodium lights on the boat were so bright Ianto thought he'd need shades. Jack seemed to think that because the water had no painted lane lines he could turn the wheel any way he wanted, and for the past fifteen minutes the boat had been making lazy wavering lines. The boat was rocking with not just the bad weather, but the accumulated effects of the poor steering, and now it listed back and forth perilously. Ianto steadied his hand on the edge of the boat, flipped another scoop full of fish parts and blood over the side and closed his eyes, resisting the urge to vomit.

"You keep doing that," he muttered, "and I'll make you come down here and shovels some of this shite."

Jack's coat billowed about him as he worked the wheel at the top of the pilothouse with one arm. "Ianto! Starboard side!"

Ianto looked aft.

"No no! Starboard! Look to your right!"

Ianto glanced toward the water just in time to see it shoot up from the waves crest and submerge back into the water. He dropped the scoop in the bucket and stumbled backwards, moving his galoshed feet until his back hit the wall of the main cabin.

"Fuck," he mumbled. "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

"Hey Ianto!" Jack called over the wind, his voice almost chipper. "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat, yeah?"


3. Hey! This week, I wanna make a post for all of us imbibers who like a good holiday cocktail. So if you have a good one, yank out the recipe so we can share later this week, okay?

4. SATURDAY, THERE WAS A BIRFDAY!

BARROWSPARKLE OUTFIT:


BITCH, PLEASE:


BALLOOOOOOOOONS:


THOMAS, ILU:


SPIDER CAEK


SPIDERCAEEEEEEK:


OM NOM NOM NOM


PREOOOOOOOZANTS:


BAOBEI, DID YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME?


All right then! Carry on!

Comments

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

That last picture in particular is super cute! Happy Birthday to her!

(And Jack would want to be a Captain in ever conceivable way, wouldn't he.)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they stole that boat, too.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, Vi!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG UR ICON!

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Have seen birfday photos! Can now nap happy! I want to huggle her so bad!

I love Jack as Captain Jack, boat captain. Awesomesauce.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

SHE WAS FULL OF BARROWSPARKLE.

I NEED TO FINISH THIS STORY.

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Jaws! It'll be brilliant. And scary. Jaws made me scream in falsetto even though I'm a belting baritone.

That is one Sparkly Baby! She shines! *spots last pic* She's going to rule the world. O.o

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

SHE WILL DECIMATE THE WORLD.

[brilliant-snark.livejournal.com]

Awww, happy b-day to kidlet! Good day for a b-day (Sat was my b-day too, though her outfit wins hands down. Also, her cake rules.)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT CAEK IS DELICIOUS.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

[easilymused1956.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you hit my hidden Jaws kink! I could hear and see that bloody scene in my head! I LOVE that scene!

Okay, now, V is the most adorablest kid in her B-sparkle. And that Spidey cake was awesome.

You are such a good Mom!

And writer!

Renee

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG JAWS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER. I HOPE TO GOD I DO IT JUSTICE.

Yeah, she's pretty cute. Good thing she likes the sparkle, too!

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

omg agreed on that last picture being ADORABLE. I don't even like small children. :P

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think it's the hair that does it. Flippy hair!

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Awww, that last pic is the Cutie McCuterson of all Cutes. I love that little diva hand too. It's like she's all "Pour moi?"

God, no one ever makes me spidercake. SAD.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THE CARD SHE WAS HOLDING WAS A TALKING SPIDERMAN CARD.

LAST NIGHT SHE BROKE THE CARD. I TRIED TO FIX IT, BUT I COULD NOT. ALAS. :(

I would buy you a spidercake.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

HAHA BARROWSPARKLE! AWESOMENESS

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IF THAT GIRL SPARKLED ANY MORE SHE'D BE MADE OF SEQUINS!

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

I have never seen Jaws but I know that quote.

Those pictures are very cute.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

#1 - Done, BB!

#2 - Just what Jaws needs, a hot Captain and a sexy, capable coffee boy!

#3 - I don't have any original recipes, but look forward to reading what others make. I do need to know what's in a Screaming Welshman, though...

$4 - MAH 6 YEAR-OLD APPROVES OF THIS CAKE. Looks like a great birthday, and V is just adorable!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I am sure that someone will share the Screaming Welshman recipe! It's very very red!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

JAWS!

your kid is so cute - i mean, ppl always say that about the wee little kids, but sometimes they are just lying - V is actually adorable

SPIDERCAAAAAEEEKK!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

SPIDER CAEK MAKES YOUR TONGUE FUNNY COLOURS.

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

SO CUTE! (yes, imagine that in dalek-voice).

And yes, it's still my turn to bat QC back to you -- between holiday ramp-up and work-screwiness, I'm swamped. It'll probably be sometime in January. If you have any other thoughts on it, lob 'em over the net.

~

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THANKS!

I don't have any thoughts, so I assume you fleshed out that dialogue scene?

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

These may be my favorite pics of her ever. And that is saying a lot.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

They are pretty damn cute.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! LOVE the Bitch, Please one!

What's Joan doing with that big open mouth? Catching cocks flies?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I dunnno what she's doing. Hrm.

My kid does not have time for all this wtfery.

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

OMG SPIDERCAEK!

YOU WIN BEST BIRTHDAY EVER, V!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IT WAS TASTY CAKE, FILLED WITH JUSTICE!

[bethcarielle.livejournal.com]

Love the birfday photos. There are dangerous amounts of happy in that last photo.

Crimmas card received! Ianto wrapped in garland, I believe. \o/

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

YAY! TINSEL TARDIS!