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Ficlet: And She Will Know

  • Nov. 15th, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Nine and Rose from Father's Day
Title: And She Will Know
Author: [info]jeprdyfrndly
Characters/Pairings: Nine/Rose
Genre: Romance, Introspection
Rating: G, All ages
Beta: [info]amberfocus
Summary: Nine's thoughts on Rose Tyler throughout the first season as he struggles to accept what he feels for her and what she feels for him.

And She Will Know

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Drabble: Jump

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Ten and Rose

Title:  Jump
Author:  [info]jeprdyfrndly
Characters/Pairings:  Ten2/Rose
Genre:  Drabble, Fluff
Rating:  All ages
Summary:  They stand on the edge of the future.
A/N:  This is the first thing I've written since having my appendix out and my first attempt at a drabble.  Just trying to get my mojo back. [info]amberfocus gave me the prompt: bubbles.  Sorry if the formatting goes wonky.  LJ is playing games with me today.

 

Jump

 

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New Layout and Brief Update

  • Oct. 18th, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Eight/Rose--Who Wants to Live Forever?

Thanks to the very talented [info]alizarin_skies I now have a lovely, lovely journal header of my very own (and matching icon) for my LJ.

I have been ridiculously swamped these past two weeks.  At my old job I was training my replacement and I swear they were going to get every single second of their two weeks' notice out of me that they possibly could.  Meanwhile, I was working nights at the coffee shop being trained by Peter, who took far too much pleasure in telling people he was getting his wife "trained."  *rolls eyes*  He's cute and funny about it, though.

So I haven't really been writing.  I've been so tired that when I have been online I've been goofing off on facebook or spending time, you know, being a newlywed. *blushes*  I adore my husband.  He is the most romantic man on the planet.  I've never been this happy before in my life.  It's wonderful.

I'm done with the old job now and will only be working one again with Peter.  I love working with him.  It's so much fun helping him run his business.  I'm going to be doing about 20 hours of bookkeeping a week and 20 hours of counter service.  I generally like people and I waited tables in college so I don't mind that part, even if it is sort of mindless.  I think part mindless is quite good right now, to tell the truth.

Anyway, I've had a chance to do a bit of writing today and I'm finding my way back into it all right.  Don't know how fast it will be forthcoming, but at least it's going again.
 

Quitting Work

  • Oct. 1st, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
I turned in my two week's notice at work today.  After this last week it's been a pretty obvious choice that I just don't want to be there anymore.  Doing the work of three people on one person's pay is not my idea of fun and the job just wasn't enjoyable anymore.  You should have seen the look on Gigi's face though.  Maribeux is pregnant and quite sick with it so she can't take on any extra work herself.  Which means Gigi is actually going to have to work herself and the look when she realized it was priceless.  When stuff  doesn't get done she'll look like a fool blaming it on everybody else like she normally does.  She doesn't get that we all time and date stamp our own work with a specific signature.  They already know she isn't pulling her weight, even if she is management.  It just hasn't mattered before now.  Now it does.  That'll teach them to use nepotism in hiring friends for management.

It'll be a relief to be out of there.  I wish I could just walk away today but it goes against everything I was taught by my parents.  So two more weeks in that awful place and then I'm going to work with Peter in the coffee house.  We're making it into a regular family business.  Hopefully it won't be too much togetherness.  We get along well on a 24/7 basis.  At least we did on our honeymoon.  I told him, though, that if working together interferes with our marriage I'll go find something else to do.  Sarah said I could always go back to the tutoring center.  They'd hire me full-time in a heartbeat.  Always good to have a backup plan.

Work Stuff

  • Sep. 27th, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
So the thought of working with Peter at the coffee shop is looking better and better.  While I was away from work for the wedding and my honeymoon, my old boss left and we got a new one.  Well, not so new, she was promoted from within, but not by someone who knew her, that's for sure.  She doesn't work.  She has always found a way to get out of doing her share, but has never been called on it because she's close friends with the owner.  Now that she's in charge of our little group she's delegating everything and doing nothing.  I caught her painting her toenails.  At work!  In full view of the clients.  And she didn't even think there was anything wrong with that.

I can get along with almost anyone.  I don't even dislike this woman, though I do think she's lazy.  But I'm not sure I want to do the workload of two people for a job I'm just not that crazy about anymore.  It doesn't pay well enough for me to be stressing myself out, even if I can handle it.  I have other options and I'm seriously going to consider taking them.

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I Have the Internet!

  • Sep. 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Jeopardy Friendly

Yay!  I am so happy.  Not that I didn't like going to the coffee shop and hanging out with Peter but I tell you, it's lovely to have it in my own home again.  It took them two days to fix it, but it's fixed and animal proofed (we put up mesh wiring) and this shouldn't happen again.  Read more... )I'll try to answer my reviews tomorrow.  Thank you so much for them.  I've read them all and you all are so lovely.

I Thought it Would Last Forever (10/10)

  • Sep. 19th, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  Recognizable dialogue is from The Unquiet Dead and The Christmas Invasion.  Thank you for sticking with me for this, my first foray into fanfiction.  I hope you've enjoyed yourselves with my little story and will stick around for the sequel Forever's Just a Word (My Heart Does Not Believe).

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html
5. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3722.html  6.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3900.html
7. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/4604.html  8.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/4723.html
9. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/5500.html

Chapter Ten: War and Peace

 

 

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At the Coffeehouse Again

  • Sep. 19th, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Jeopardy Friendly
And I'll be here for another three hours with my beloved internet access.  I just shipped off the last chapter of I Thought it Would Last Forever to my betas and if they get it back to me within the next three hours it'll be up at a fairly decent hour tonight.  Or else I'll have to go over the corrections or any changes on the phone with Amber and then she'll put it up for me much later tonight or in the morning.  But it's done and I'm well into the first chapter of the sequel which is called Forever's Just a Word (My Heart Does Not Believe).

Just a Quick Note

  • Sep. 19th, 2009 at 3:03 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
So, it's the middle of the night and I'm posting from Peter's coffee shop.  He's at least got internet.  It's good for business.  It's down at the house and supposedly there is a guy coming to fix it on Monday.  Something ate through the wires outside the house.  At least that's how it looks.  So I've had to rely on Subway and its free hour if you buy food there.  The only reason I'm even here tonight is he wanted company while he decorates the shop for Halloween.  Yes, already. *sighs*  Rampant overcommercialism pays the bills.

I need to get my sleeping pattern back to normal soon.  I go back to work on Wednesday and I'm still waking up like we're in Europe.  It does not help that Peter has been working nights this week because one of his employees quit while we were away.  He's hired a new kid from the college who starts Monday and he'll be back on days again.  I can't wait until we get internet back at home.  The smell of coffee is making me nauseous tonight.  I think I may have caught something on the flight home.  Could do with a cup of Oolong, though.  Wonder if Peter has any in with the teas?

Anyway, if anyone needs to contact me and I'm slow getting back to you, slower than usual, I mean, that's why.  And if it's really important tell [info]amberfocus and she'll call me.  I am hoping to have the final chapter of I Thought it Would Last Forever up by the end of the weekend.  It's mostly done, I'm just being a ridiculous perfectionist.  She may have to post it for me, though.  Thank heaven for flash drives and their easy portability.

I Thought it Would Last Forever (9/10)

  • Sep. 13th, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html
5. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3722.html  6.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3900.html
7. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/4604.html  8.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/4723.html

Chapter Nine: Sleeping Dreams and Waking Nightmares

 

 

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Facebook is Addictive

  • Sep. 10th, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
So are any of you all on Facebook besides Lisa and Amy and Rachel?  Because all of the fun games require more crew members or clan members or tribes or whatever if you want to play them without getting your butts kicked.  I'm particularly fascinated by a post-apocolyptic game called City of Ash.  But it's very slow going with such a tiny clan.  Any of you play and would be willing to friend me over there?  Or for Mafia Wars, Pirates, YoVille, Restaurant City, and Rollercoaster Kingdom.  And for Peter, too?  He's a bigger geek with it than me.

Back Home

  • Sep. 8th, 2009 at 6:17 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
I'm back from my honeymoon, still in love, totally exhausted, utterly jet-lagged, and thoroughly shagged.  It was a lovely trip. *grins*  I still can't get over being introduced as Mrs. Lyton.  True it's Lane-Lyton, but that's just legalities.  For out and about it's Lyton.  And I'm loving it.  Although I screwed up when I made a facebook account tonight and just entered in my maiden name.  Not that Peter cares.  When I asked him what he thought I should go by after we got married he said wife.  After I threw a pillow at him, he said Victoria's what he calls me, he doesn't much care one way or the other about the last one.   Comes from being raised by a forward thinking mother, I suppose.

Oh, I'm much too tired to go into details now, but we are safe back and on a holiday travel day, too.

Amber's sent me back the last two chapters of my fic and I'm going to need to rewrite half of the next one based on a gaping wide plothole you could drive a humvee through (her words, I think she's been playing too much City of Ash).  But I know how, so no worries.  Just be a couple days longer than I'd hoped to get it up.

Thanks to you all for sticking with my fic while I go away in the middle of it.  I think you're wonderful.  And double thanks to Amber for posting for me while I was gone.  Internet access was pretty sparse for so many modern European countries.  I guess I'm just used to being able to go into a Round Table or a Subway and get an hour of free access while I eat lunch.  Or even the public library.  Not so much there.  Pretty darned blessed in this part of my country.

I Thought it Would Last Forever (8/10)

  • Sep. 1st, 2009 at 6:15 AM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  Hey, everyone, [info]amberfocus here again posting for Victoria while she's away on her honeymoon.  She won't have internet access until Thursday in Sicily or Saturday in Paris and will try to answer any comments then.

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html
5. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3722.html  6.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3900.html
7. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/4604.html

Chapter Eight: Death and Destruction

 

 

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I Thought it Would Last Forever (7/10)

  • Aug. 24th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  Hey, everyone, [info]amberfocushere posting for Victoria while she's away on her honeymoon.  She should have internet access at her hotel in Madrid on Friday so will try to respond to any comments then.  She's having a great time already and wrote a ton on the plane.

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html
5. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3722.html  6.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3900.html

Chapter Seven: Strange Bedfellows

 

 

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Today's the Day

  • Aug. 22nd, 2009 at 5:02 AM
Nine and Rose from Father's Day
It's five a.m. and I'm getting married in exactly 8 hours.  Cut for TMI about the folks and honeymoon rambling )

Oh, as for my fic, I have written a couple of chapters and sent them to Amberfocus to beta.  If she doesn't think they seem to need any kind of major work, she'll just correct the typos and spelling errors and post them for me one at a time, since she has posting access to my LJ.  I didn't want to leave everyone hanging for two whole weeks.  And I'll be writing on the plane and shipping it to her if we have internet access at any time.  So hopefully you'll get a bit of the fic and won't have to wait for me to come home.

I Thought it Would Last Forever (6/10)

  • Aug. 15th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  I'm sorry this update is so long in coming.  I had two bridal showers last week, plus we are still moving in to the new house and the wedding is *gulps* one week away.  This chapter gave me fits anyway.  I kept wanting to rush things that shouldn't be rushed, but I did finally get it to come out the way I'd planned, so hope it was worth the wait.  It's a bit longer than the other chapters.

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html
5. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3722.html

Chapter Six: Command Decision

 

 

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I Thought it Would Last Forever (5/10)

  • Jul. 30th, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Eight and Rose
Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas:  [info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67 
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  Sorry I got this up later than expected.  If you read my last two entries about the wedding dress fiasco you'll see why.  Plus one of my betas slept all day because she has walking pnuemonia, so just got it back a bit ago. *hugs amber*

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html  4.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/3487.html

Chapter Five: Familiar Unknown

 

 

Ch. 5 )

I Thought it Would Last Forever (4/10)

  • Jul. 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Eight and Rose

Title:  I Thought it Would Last Forever
Author:  JeopardyFriendly
Characters/Pairings:  Rose Tyler, Eighth Doctor, flashbacks to Nine, Ten, Ten2
Genre:  Action/adventure, angst, fluff, romance (in flashbacks)
Rating:  PG-13
Betas: 

[info]amberfocus, [info]amyo67  
Summary:  After several weeks of grieving the death of her husband, the human/Time Lord version of the Doctor, an immortal Rose decides to get her act together and return to the land of the living.  On her way out the door she runs into a familiar stranger.  Can she soften up enough to work with him to save the world and if she does, what will it mean for her future?
A/N:  Sorry I got this up later than expected.  If you read my last two entries about the wedding dress fiasco you'll see why.  Plus one of my betas slept all day because she has walking pnuemonia, so just got it back a bit ago. *hugs amber*

1. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/1912.html  2.  http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2306.html
3. http://jeprdyfrndly.livejournal.com/2579.html
 

 

Chapter Four: At Breakneck Speed

 

Ch. 4 )

They Found It!

  • Jul. 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
Oh, thank the good Lord.  Peter went down to the bridal store this morning and refused to leave until they told him what had really happened with my dress.  Neither one of us really believed that you can just lose a wedding gown.  I mean, come on.  Turns out the assistant to the seamstress spilled coffee on it so she sent it off to be cleaned without telling anyone!  And it accidentally got packaged up like they do for gowns after weddings, in the box that you keep it safe in, all hermetically sealed and whatnot.

So, it's been found.  And they are going to take it out of the box and steam it and press it so that it gets all the lovely box wrinkles out of it and I'm going to have another fitting tomorrow (which should be the last one, if all goes well) and then I can take it home where it will be safe from crazy assistants and their coffees.  The stain did come out according to the dry cleaners.  Fortunately it was very weak coffee with lots of milk so it didn't stain as bad as strong black coffee would have done.

In order to make it up to me, the owner of the bridal store is paying $500 towards the cost of our wedding flowers, which I don't make the final payment on until next week.  And free cleaning and packaging after the wedding.  Honestly, I'm so relieved and I wasn't even expecting anything, but the lady was so embarrassed that this could happen.  And Peter, knowing a bargain when he sees one, took her up on it.  So all's well that ends well.

And chapter four has been sent off to my betas so hopefully I'll get it back from Lisa soon.  Amy's already promptly sent it back, but Lisa has been sleeping in a lot because of her walking pnuemonia (again, poor dear), and I haven't heard back from her yet.  She's probably still asleep.  Well, maybe this afternoon sometime.

OMG! They Freaking Lost My Wedding Gown!

  • Jul. 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Jeopardy Friendly
I am totally freaking out here.  The wedding is in exactly four weeks and two days and the salon has lost my wedding dress.  Lost.  How do you lose something that big?  I know they are a big store, but it was there last week when I went in for alterations.  They didn't take it off the premises (they swear).  How do you do that?  I've spent most of the day, well, yesterday now in hysterical tears and Peter's shoulder is permanently soaked, I think.  This is not supposed to happen.  I knew everything was going too well.  Smooth sailing and all that crap and now...ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In which I justifiably cry and moan )