FICTION OF THE NINJA KIND

They keep asking if she can win the Classic. I keep wondering if they really think they can stop her. I mean unlike every other horse in the field she has never known defeat. NEVER. When she goes out there to run if horses do pre-run imaging she's always the first one across the line. Today, when she goes out there with all these male horses, in a field larger then any she has eve faced why would she see anything differently? I mean, again crediting horses with possibly more intelligence then they have she might know races end differently for other horses, but not for her.

Lets go back to Rags for Riches. Anyone remember her stretch run in the Belmont? She intimidated Curlin. They were next to each other and she laid back her ears and he backed off. He might have been tired, but she won. So these mares do have that edge and the urge to dominate.

So I'm really rooting for Zenyatta. I do feel the European Rip Van Winkle might be a threat with Summer Bird. Sorry, Mine That Bird, but you're just out. It should be really interesting to see how this all plays out.

So far it's been good day for the ladies with the Mile having been won by a filly. The same one that won last year. Goldikova was her name.

MERLIN!!! Bless the internet and BBC for the second season of Merlin. So cute. Totally made my Monday morning to wake up and watch that before work. It made me happy, and I like happy fandom fluff. Plus Merlin is going to have to free the dragon one day which should be interesting. So I now have 13 weeks of Merlin joy to lift my spirits.

Monday: Castle. After watching Nathan on the Emmys as Captain Hammer I was pleased to see that I still enjoy Castle. More fandom fluff. Although I'll add this to my list of shows with bad hair. I don't like what they did to Kate's hair. I really like Castle's daughter though and her unknowing advice.

House: Not worth it without Wilson. The end.

Tuesday: NCIS:I'll continue watching for now. All female characters live. I hate Tony's hair this season (it's a theme for my shows this fall clearly) but I love Tony. And I love how Ziva leaving broke Tony. He had a great line he gave to Ziva but I can't remember what it was exactly. I know they can't really ever get together, but I do really like their relationship. Yes, this show still does have bad women issues see NCIS: Los Angeles

NCIS-LA: BAAAHHHHHH. IDK. I'm not loving it. They disappeared the female team leader. She's not there and they're not mentioning her character. Originally, when the show cameo'd on NCIS I really liked Callum, but I don't think his character works as well in a weekly format. Also:

Dear LL Cool Jay and Chris O'Donnell: THE SLASH FICTION IS WRITING ITSELF. I heard computers explode across your limited fandom at some of your one liners and knowing smiles. I hope you are aware.

Chris and I are not that interested in watching the rest.

Real life is less interesting then TV. I know, most people don't care. However, work is soul sucking. I've been working 11 hour days for the last two weeks and I'm very tired.

Sara moved out to LA successfully. She seems happy. Her room is very pink. And the ceiling sparkles. It sparkles. She lives in a very Chinese-American area. I don't know how she's going to find a job, but I wish her the best of luck.

So sadly some unhappy news on the Rachel Alexandra front: no more racing in 2009. She's not injured I guess they're just giving her a break. I know she's not going to run in the Breeder's Cup, but come on there are other races for super filly to run in. Baffert, on the other hand is burning up CA tracks with his two year olds. However, this is sad trend with Baffert in that he trains super 2 year olds that never seem to make it to three year olds super stars. I miss the days when he ruled the crown.

To my list of things I will be watching this fall I should add Castle. I enjoyed it a lot last spring and I plan to keep on enjoying it.

If anyone is looking for a good mini series about the war in Iraq there are not words enough for me to recommend Generation Kill. You can watch HBO's seven episode mini series of amazingness or you can read Evan Wright's book. I plan on getting the book once I have disposable income. Which may be never. Please see new icon for GK love.

So, it's looking more officially like Chris will be going to the Middle East for a year and we will be apart again. The part of me that has always rebelled assures me I will be fine even if I don't want to do this. Today, as he left to go do his four day shift at Yosemite I knew I was lying to myself. I mean yes, overall, I will probably be fine, but I will be lonely. We've already done a year apart and it sucked. I don't know what I'd do in Fresno-where Chris is the only one I have to hang out with gone. I'm considering options.

Option A: Follow in the footsteps of Chris and try and get a job overseas for a year. He's going to be making good money, but as long as I can pay COL expenses and my loans it would be okay. Japan would of course be my number once choice-but given that it's almost September I don't see that as being very likely.

Option B: Leave Fresno and move to LA, get a job there, and live with my Mother in Law, three dogs and the other fuzzy one. Not sure how I feel about having to start job hunting again. Especially when I'm doing well in my Fresno job even if it doesn't pay as much as I'd like.

Option C: Go to Asia and work. Not sure how this would work. This is my ideal option. The MIL has said she'll take the dog it's just the other fuzzy I'd have to worry about. I think working in Asia and being bombarded with my own new experiences would probably keep me distracted from the fact that my husband was away for a year in a place that frequently experiences bombings.

Option D: I convince someone to move out to Fresno and live with me while Chris is gone.

The benefit of Chris and I both being overseas for hopefully a year long period that would be almost the same is that when we came back we'd have the financial buffer to chose where in the country we really did want to live and to find a job. I guess the same would hold for Option B when he got back.

I don't know. Chris is getting responses from contractors for his resume, and he's almost done with Paramedic testing (finally). It's hard to know what to do next.

On that front it's a little less then one month until my sister moves out to Los Angeles and half of my family will reside in the broken state of CA where the rights of its citizens are not as important as making sure conservatives are happy. Nope, I'm not bitter at all. If you had asked me many years ago if I thought any of us would be in CA I would have said no. I would like to be elsewhere.

I just finished reading The Girls From Ames which was lent to me by Robin who had heard good things about it. It's written by the co-author of The Last Lecture . It was a good book. It made me reflect on my friendships with other girls and women and how truly sad I am that most of them have not lasted. My longest friendship is with a wonderful woman though, and we're not super close but I'm glad Lindsey and I have stayed in touch. I was very honored to be a part of her wedding last summer. However, other friendships like Abby, high school Caitlin, Ann, Kei and Christine (to some extent) have really not lasted even though I always felt very close to those people. Losing Abby hurt deeply, I wonder if she were to be alive today (I really don't know) what she would think of Chris and what happened. Abby and I always made grand plans for the future involving horse ranches and being little old ladies together. By high school though when I found out Abby was dating on accident (I was so anti boy she was afraid to tell me) I knew her heart wasn't in it. However, Abby never made predictions for my future. Lindsey pretty much had it on the nail "You keep saying you don't like guys, but I bet you end up married first." I miss having girlfriends even though I refuse to believe I'm girlie. They give good advice and I could really use some about now. If you have close friends hug them and thank them for their wisdom.

True Blood made my little fangirl heart very happy last week. Now I think I'm going to stop watching before my favorite character gets killed and my little fangirl heart breaks all over again. Not that I know anything for sure since my favorite character is still causing trouble in the books but TB is going to take a turn soon from the books so that's one risk I think I'll just avoid.

Yesterday I helped build a playground in six hours. It was a lot of fun. Today I am ouchy. First of all when they gave me my name tag sticker and it had Hello Kitty on it, I foolishly took that as a bad sign. I thought for sure I was doomed to end up doing some piddling job. And there was the mother of all mulch piles off to the side. I was wrong. Today, I'm alternating between wishing I had been right and feeling very accomplished. The Hello Kitty Team? Yeah, we did decks and poles. Do you know what goes in to building one of those bright playground structures? Oh I do. Those poles are heavy. I was not the most useful team member (Home Depot employees are impressive) but I made sure to stay busy. We got the whole big structure up before lunch. After lunch it was sort of 'find a job and do it'. Thus came hauling mulch. I never want to see a pile of mulch again. Pa Nhia said she'd mail me the pictures. If you're really curious I hear just about every news station in Fresno covered it, and so I'm sure you could find web coverage somewhere. If I do get pictures I'll post them to facebook. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I did it.

Now my thoughts on Torchwood:CoE. I am still broken. I love fandom and many different fandoms but I just can't take Torchwood right now. I really don't think Ianto had to die, but at the same time there are a lot of fangirls out there who need to take a chill pill. RTD has downright been insulting to his fan base on top of everything. I just feel so broken about TW I don't know if I'll ever go back this fandom. If they do a fourth season (which looks more likely everyday) I will watch the first few episodes to get a feel for it, but I don't know if I can keep reading fic. There's some gen fic out there that I liked-but even more so was the complex relationship between Jack and Ianto-mostly created by fandom. Which is not to say it wasn't ever in the show, but really the sheer amount of fanfic out there. This makes me sad on a lot of levels.

Torchwood is a prolific fandom. There's almost always something to read. The second Big Bang is out and I just can't bring myself to read anything. That's downright pathetic. Plus, one of my favorite authors updated and the fic has Captain John and I can't read that either. Kelsey and I are still planning to write our TW fix it fic but she's in Japan for three weeks (with angel cream donuts!!). We'll see.

True Blood. Is my healing after Torchwood pain. So they better not kill Eric. I'm conflicted at the moment between book!Eric and TV!Eric. I was so happy last week when TV!Eric got his manipulative vampire on and traded Bill to Lorena. I think it's brilliant. I don't like Bill. Although, I like TV!Bill more then book Bill. However, in the long run I think TV!Erick and Sookie aren't going to work out. Which sucks. I just want a better Sookie/Eric relationship. They don't have to be sexin' just please give me banter and tension. I'm begging you. And don't kill Eric. Eric on True Blood might be too manipulative and evil for it to ever work with Sookie, but in the books I don't think it works because of Sookie. All I want from second season is the bullet sucking scene. Please, please please. I know why Charlene and Alan Ball decided not to use Bubba in the show, but I'm going to miss him. I maintain, that Jason is just stupid. Also, HBO? Please stop with the orgies. KTHX.

Also-I want icons for dreamwidth. I'm looking into Merlin, True Blood, or Dollhouse. I might even go for Dr. Horrible-if you know icon makers who want credit and make good icons please point me in their direction.

Okay so they're all under a spoiler cut tag because most Americans haven't seen it yet. They're probably already spoiled because if you blink at the TW fandom right now you'd know exactly what happened. However, I'll respect people's right to try and protect themselves from spoilers.

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So I really don't know about a season four. Because TW has lost pretty much all the characters I liked and related too. I would probably watch because the storyline might be interesting, but my emotional investment would be zero.

I might have to be done with fandom at this point. I mean really. This all my favorite characters keep dying thing is not going over well with me. What's the point? And I've reached a point where I don't really have any strong fandoms. SCC is canceled, BSG is over, Buffy is long gone, Dollhouse has potential but isn't there yet. I don't know.

I'm into Merlin at the moment simply because no mater how they tramp over the story I don't think they can kill Merlin or Arthur and I like them both. So there.

Real life update to come soon. Possibly when real life doesn't make me want to curl into a ball and cry hysterically for several hours. Yes, it is that bad right now.

Soooo......I've moved. We have almost been in the new place for a week now. I am still not moved out of the old place. If this isn't interesting enough for all you readers out there, the day we moved Chris got a job offer from North Carolina. Hahahaha. Crap. We're waiting on word about when they need him to start. He's got six more weeks of Paramedic school (and you know four more months on that lease we just signed) before he's willing to go anywhere. I have mixed feelings about (maybe) going to North Carolina.

New place is made of awesome sauce. There is room to do things. There is counter space. My kitchen is wonderful. It has a walk in pantry. I am so sold. Of course my kitchen at the old place is all I have left to move and some closets. I am just so overwhelmed by the disaster area that my old kitchen is I don't have it in me to start on it.

LJ cut to save those who are sane from my ramblings about my irrational fear of men, and my futile and semi-wasted attempts to explain why.
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In other news: Puppy comes to live with me tomorrow. YES!!!!

Well, Mine That Bird is not looking so good. He's being edgy and nervous. HMMMM. IDK. I still think this race sets up really well for him. Or Dunkirk. That's my bed.

The newscasters are going with Charitable Man. I don't know why they think a front runner will do well this year when they normally trash them.

Nervous even though there's no crown on the line. Go Mine That Bird!!!

So here I am, a year after graduation and I'm moving again. Yes, we're staying in Fresno, no it is not going well. We've served our 30 day notice and we know where we want to live. They seem willing to lease to us. It's all well and good. We wanted a back up. So right across the street from where we were going to rent is another apartment complex that takes dogs of all sizes. I set up an appointment to view their two bedroom unit yesterday. On Thursday they called to confirm this appointment. Yesterday, no one showed up. So we're going with the first place.

We would like to move around June 11th. We'd done the math, and we were going to have the money but just barely. Until we found out that Chris was misinformed about his pay schedule. So now, we're short on the money. And the apartment complex we're currently living at states we're not getting any of our deposit (which is over $1,000) back until 21 days from the time we hand them they keys. Which if we have things our way is a week after we move out.

See Chris and I are moving ourselves, by car. We hope to get a U-Haul and two of his friends to help us on Thursday. Chris works 12 hours Friday though Mondays so weekends are out. And he can't miss work. Period. So we'd take position of the new apartment on a Thursday and I have a three day weekend starting the next day during which I would move as much of the small stuff as possible. Then, if that went well I would also be scrubbing down the old apartment so that we get as much of our deposit back as possible. We have to hand over the keys to the old apartment by June 19th. Which would be one week and one day after we want to start moving into the new apartment. I just don't know if we're going to have the money to move by then. I mean yes, I know we'll have it by June 16th, but that only gives us three days to move which Chris says we can't do. Because he can take one shift of his internship off, and that's what he does when he's not working.

To show how stressed I am about this, I have started to dream about it. Last night I dreamed that Robin gave us Scout a full week before we were able to move out of this place. So we smuggled Scout for walks at night. It was a horror. Only it seemed everyone in the complex owned dogs and we were all out walking them at four in the morning together. Huh.

Zenyatta won her first race of the season. This makes ten races in a row that she's won. She really is fun to watch. She up from dead last too. Remind you of anyone?

I am sorry that for the next few weeks this journal is going to be about moving. I'll try and through in something interesting now and again.

I'm still bitter about Sarah Connor Chronicles. Because I really wanted to know what happened in that future.

Alright people it's time for the second leg of the Triple Crown. It's Preakness Day. Break out your black eyed susans and get ready to watch a girl beat the boys. Oh, I will take such joy in Rachel Alexandra beating the boys. I mean, I really hope that's how it turns out. So below the cut are my predictions.

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In other news it's HOT here today. Ugh. I don't like it. We're trying to keep things at a reasonable temperature and it's just not happening. I don't want to do air conditioning.