Just Playing Catchup Here

I had (and still have) this long (very teal deer-ish) post on my holiday weekends. But those are now the distant past, so I'll sum up:

Christmas Weekend: Quiet, finally got to sleep in. Didn't get a lot of writing done, but got a lot of relaxing in. Was half a good Jew, had Chinese food but no movie on Christmas Day.

New Year's Weekend: A lovely, lovely time was had with mah peeps, jrosemary, rabidchild67 and lauracollared. We were having so much fun, the year changed and we didn't even realize it. I am still missing them.

This weekend: Well, the first half of it. Had to get up early, open house at noon but someone wanted to see it early (10 am), which meant I had to be up and dressed and the place presentable by 9:30. Which scuttled the sleep-late plans. I was up and out by 9. And the freakin' Boy Scouts had taken over my Starbucks. Not the boys themselves, but all the scoutmasters. They took EVERY DAMN TABLE AND CHAIR in the place. For the record, I don't like the BSA - they are government-supported bigots.

And freakin' douchbags. This isn't a convention center, it's a Starbucks (and I'm fully aware that staying at the same table for 5 hours is probably just as obnoxious).

But they left and I got to work. And finished my polyamory big bang story.

::twirls with happiness::

It's 51k. That's only topped by We Shall Come Home, and it didn't take me a year to write. The story is in beta now, and it will have lovely, wonderful artwork by weaselett. Because it's a big bang, I can't string out the posting, so it will go up, complete, on January 23. Nothing like starting the year off with a nice, long, angsty story.

I have to say I was a little sad when I posted the final chapter of We Shall Come Home (the link above is to the AO3 version, which can be downloaded and read at your leisure), it was like my baby had grown up and left me without waving goodbye. I've gotten lots of lovely feedback, and will be responding to all of it - even for the past chapters. There are a few timestamps in the works (and over 5k of story that I had cut), so you'll be seeing what happens to Peter, Neal and Elizabeth, as well as a few of the OCs I created, over the next few months.

My next projects are to finish the 2011 State of The Fic monstrosity, the fic-can-ukah extras that I promised, and then sink my teeth into a few ideas I have percolating.

I do have to say, it will be nice to have new canon. January 17th can't come soon enough!