in which I am, like, an adult [kalpurna]

So, guess what I did today? If you guessed BALANCED MY CHECKBOOK, you win! Being as how I'm going to have to manage my own finances fairly soon, I've been asking my dad questions about money every two seconds. Like, "Why do I need a credit card AND a debit card?" And, "Where are the statements for my credit card going to be sent while I'm at college, and how specific will they be?" (Read: if I buy a vibrator, will you know about it?) Tell me your financial advice in the comments, my flist! Except "Pay your credit card bills on time" because I KNOW THAT ONE.

Anyway, it is all TRES exciting, and within the past week I have:

1. Made my very first credit card purchase. (Love Match by Keira Andrews, a gay romance ebook, which was FABULOUS and I loved it and recommend it highly. Do we know her?)

2. Written my very first check. (For my non-restricted driver's license. That's right, my loves: I can now drive between midnight and five in the morning, as well as have more than one non-family-member in the car with me! w00t!)

3. Sincerely regretted ever turning 18. Also, revelled in my adulthood. It's a mood-swingin' party.

In far, far more depressing news (although thankfully my parents are still willing to pay for this sort of thing), both my laptop Rodney and my external hard drive have decided to completely flake out on me. I don't even want to go into the gruesome details, but suffice it to say that Rodney is taking a little trip back to Apple for a bit, and I don't know when I'm getting him back. And my hard drive is equally fucked. AAARGH. Therefore, I may be more or less out of commission for a while, although I will probably have at least some internet access throughout the ordeal.

shoemaster suggested I should, quote, WRITE porn, in an old notebook with school notes that people will think is boring stuff should they pick it up and not even flip through the pages to the porn. *is so sneaky*

ANYWAY. THAT MIGHT HAPPEN.

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I am not 1000% percent certain, but I'm pretty sure that said book is by

bigboobedcanuck. I think. It's by SOMEONE on

queenofthorns's flist, anyway. (Seriously, livejournal? Is thisbig. HEE.)

My condolences on the laptop and harddrive issues - hope they get him back in working order again soonest. *hug*

And, er, g'luck with the writing, then!

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OMG, yay, thank you! I just went over there and fangirled her. (Yes, I did check to make sure she'd written it first. *g*)

I just... sigh. I know that I will, eventually, have all this stuff working again, if only because my dad is all HERE HAVE SOME MONEY I WILL FIX IT. But... it was all shiny! And new! And that was only three months ago! Lameity lame lame.

Yes! Writing! Which I haven't really done in, like, three months! (Hmm. Maybe Rodney is bad for me?)

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Awesome. :D And, you are smrt, yes. I should probably have checked myself, but... yay! Also, how does one buy an ebook? I am intrigued and would, you know, appreciate linkage if you have it handy. (because someone just paid off her visa bill entirely and wants to celebrate by... adding new things to it. *facepalm* do NOT follow my example!)

That really, really does suck. But it's so scary and frustrating when the computers start being all not-worky and all so, really, I think you're entitled to being meepy or annoyed or both for a decent period.

Yaaaaaaay writing! (...too. many. jokes. :D)

This (http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=306) is the one I downloaded and liked so much. Advice on choosing an ebook format is over here (http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=306). Another one I'd totally recommend, without reservations, is Prisoner of the Raven (http://www.torquerepress.com/cart/cart.php?m=product_list&c=116). I also quite liked Clear Cut (http://www.torquerepress.com/cart/cart.php?m=product_list&c=116). As far as buying them, it's pretty easy; just, you know, follow the directions and enter your credit card number. The only hard part is deciding what format to use. I always pick PDF, because it's simple, and it makes it easy to read both on the computer and printed out.

They are honestly such a mystery to me. There are some things I totally get, like the internet? But computer hardware is a vast confusing world I will never grasp.

(OMG. I did not even mean that.)

Excellentness. Thank you kindly! I will investigate and see how I go because I'm running out of McShep. I know, I didn't think it was possible either. ;)

GOD yes. Same here. Though the worst thing is I keep getting landed as "the one who knows about computers" in the family and I really, really don't. I just... know how to use the internet! And it's so not the same.

(*petpet* Sometimes I really can't help myself...)

And now I am fangirling you! Heh. I'm very honoured that my book was your first credit card purchase.

Hope your computer woes are fixed soon!

Yay! It was an excellent start to my credit history, I think. *g*

Well, I mailed it to the repair place, and they're sending out for a part, so hopefully...

They usually say where you made the purchase, or who billed it, not so much the actual item purchased. So if you were to do it through amazon or something like that you'd be okay, I THINK. Where as babeland.com might raise some eyebrows.

I pretty much DON'T use my credit card, except for huge things, like books, plane tickets, iPods and external harddrives (I just bought one today, actually) and use the debit for everything else. Most of my money is in a savings account with a local bank, where as my checking account is a Chicago/Midwest bank. It's odd, so I call mom and say 'cut me another check!' when I get low, but it's my money. And I've never written a check, because I <3 my debit card.

But oh! Don't get slammed with the $2 for using another ATM thing. Go to Dominick's/Walgreen's where ever. Buy a candy bar and get cashback, get a tasty, .65 'fee'. Last year I used the grocery store like an ATM more than the actual ATM in the student center (even though that was my bank, it was just farther).

And yes, write the porn! I so have to work on my GFL fic. *flails*

You are my guiding star, honey. Srsly. When I get to Chicago, you had better not give me your phone number, because otherwise I am afraid you will be getting a lot of "OMG HELP I'M STUCK IN A REVOLVING DOOR" calls. haha just kidding mostly That is such good advice about the grocery store thing! Hey, semi-interesting fact: I know the guy who invented the credit card swipey thing, and every time you swipe a credit card at the grocery store, his company gets like .001 cents.

He is MAD RICH.

It's already up on facebook. STALK ME! It makes me feel special And oh man, you'd fit in with my friends SO WELL. We do have issues with the revolving doors. Like, people trying to go in more than one at a time, only the person in front doesn't KNOW that and it doesn't end well. For one.

The cashback thing just makes like perfect sense to me, but NOT TO MY BROTHER. Drives mom insane. Plus, you get a snack. Though some places are like MRR must be at least 10 dollars. But that was the dollar store way out by the halloween store (which is awesome) and we were actually getting things... /ramble

...Has he got any unwed sons/grandsons whatever?

OMFG WHAT IS YOUR ICON YOU FREAK. I will totally stalk you, don't worry! Unless I get weird and reclusive and don't return anyone's calls for a month, which happens. Uhm, but I'll try and avoid that.

I am so interested in money now! I want to, like, save all my receipts and have a filing cabinet or something. I think this is an expression of my deep, deep lack of organizational skills, and thus my fascination with people who know where their towel is. I had a long conversation the other day about bond trading! It was fascinating!

...no, sorry. He has a daughter in the tenth grade! Maybe you could turn her gay. (After you, you know, turned yourself gay.)

monroe_nell came up with a consequence (http://monroe-nell.livejournal.com/179543.html) for my GFL fic idea. And that was my response. (Along with 'it's get Fraser LAID. Not get Fraser CASTRATED') Then someone else made icons. Hahahaha, well, I know where you live, fannishly.

I keep reciepts for stupid things, or for stupid amounts of time. Like, 'why do I have this receipt for pizza from FOUR MONTHS AGO?' No filing systems here!

Damn! Maybe she could be transgender, and change for meeee. Or if he has nephews he's fond of...

haha i have totally done the writing porn in notebooks...actually, one of them was from mr L's american history class in tenth grade. so then when he was like "you have to turn these in so i can obsess over note-taking" i had to go through the ENTIRE BOOK looking for all the pages, then ripping them out (poor book), turning in the book but still worrying that maybe i missed a page, and eventually missing that good ol' mountain-dew-drinking carolina boy who taught us until he **mysteriously vanished** (lucky us for being faculty brats eh eh?)

that was a somewhat long and useless post. and now youve almost sucked me back into LJ too, as well as fandom. any recent recs from due south fandom?
xx

God, *facepalms*, reposted for the THIRD time to get rid of RL details and spelling errors. I am SO FUCKING PRETTY.

Reposted to remove references to real life details. Uhm, yeah. I should maybe have thought of that earlier?

AHAHAHA *wins* You know, H.H. and I used to write RPS about people at our school during Philosophy class. God knows what Mr. F would have made of THAT... Good times.

I'm assuming you've read everything

cesperanza ever wrote, right? Good. And hopefully, you've also read everything by

estrella30 and

brooklinegirl and

dsudis and

pearl_o and

lyra_sena and

resonant8. Hmmm. *scrolls through bookmarks* Try these: Forty Below (http://brooklinegirl.livejournal.com/385098.html#cutid1), Three Thousand Miles (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/297670.html), Ghosti (http://hth.gatefiction.com/ghosti.htm), and True North (http://crys.mrks.org/fic/tn/truenorth.html).

There's also some FABULOUS newcomers to DS fandom lately, like

mrsronweasley and

justbreathe80 and

joandarck and

lordessrenegade and more people that I can't even list right now. And there's challenge fic being posted all the time now over at

getfraserlaid, like this (http://community.livejournal.com/getfraserlaid/7356.html#cutid1), which is, hi, by a FIRST TIME AUTHOR and features fantastic Fraser. (check out my alliterative skillz!)

And if you get tired of all THOSE, there's this: Recommending Recommenders (http://ds-recs.livejournal.com/67144.html) by

thefourthvine. USEFUL.

GLAD YOU ASKED, MY POPPET? *cackles insanely*

always glad i asked. i need something to fill my time while im at college you know (that was sarcasm tinged with truth: ive been here for 3 hours without my parents so far, and done nothing but walked around campus. which takes maybe 20 minutes. so thank you. for reals).

also i miss you to an unhealthy degree, particularly since we never had our due south marathon.
thanksgiving?

xoxoox

Way to not be signed in, my lovely. Thanksgiving, sure, or Christmas – I have an impressively long break. But really, I recommend that you go to *koff* that place, and get yourself some of your own in the meantime! There is NO WAY you should have to wait that long for DS canon. It is too much fun for that.

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