belinda rec

[lobelia321]

God, I've missed that woman's writing. Am too jetlagged what I love about it but I love it, I love it a lot. It's by eyebrowofdoom and it's Dorli and it's understated and straightforward at the same time, and so beautifully terse, and so beautifully Dorlish -- how I've missed the fridges full of beer and the 'oy, mates, let's fuck's. Somehow, they hardly ever drink beer in HP.

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[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Somehow, they hardly ever drink beer in HP.

Which is weird, innit? Because they're Brit boys!

Wasn't that fic just a vicious delight? I adored it.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Vicious delight is such a good way of putting it!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I concur. Utterly gorgeous and satisfying. Welcome back, btw. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, brilliant. Although I hate angsty Dorli. That is such a downer and so not Dorli.

*has brief fanon dogma moment*

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

Yes but there's a *girl* involved!

A *Girl*.

A *GRILE*.

Well okay, maybe not a GRILE. But a girl, certainly.

I concur about HP and drunken fucking. The HP universe lacks laddishness.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Precisely!!!

I am traumatised by girls in fanfic.

Just as I am traumatised by boys on LJ.

'tis a weird world, the world of my psyche.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The HP universe lacks laddishness.

It totally does. I mean, in lotrips even the total girly boys are laddish. Even Lij drinks beer!! And Orli says 'mate'!

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

Quack!

[freyafloyd.livejournal.com]

I have just been reading your journal and am going over to look at this fly thing because..

I have given up work!

This is temporary. I am going back to work after Easter if I can find a new job. I am in college one day a week but other than that I am truly back in the land of housewifery. I will attempt to hunt you down online, as I now have the time to do it. I am not shining my sink because it is enamel and so will not gleam.

Also, I like the fact that Jude always gets punished for being beautiful.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

CORDELIA!!!!!!!!!

*breathless with happiness to see you here!!!!!*

I love Flylady. I am totally addicted to it. And it has made my home life much, much better. In a quite astonishing way. And now I'm using her to tackle my finances. And I've downloaded her Office Control Journal so there will soon be no area of my life left that is not flywashed!

Well, except porn. Of course. Although I like to liken my shiny sink to Orlando's shiny arsehole. (So, um, shining my sink is like...?! Hah, I'll be licking it next.)

The Stepfordian Flyperson has tips on how to clean an enamel sink, too. Never fear. She is adaptable to anything. There's a link somewhere on her copious site on how to SHINE the ENAMEL sink.

I can't believe you're back! And joining the Fly madness! natasha1805 sucked me into that.

I can't believe you scrolled back through all my posts to get to the one about Jude Law's beauty.

[freyafloyd.livejournal.com]

I am in the early stages of addiction. My sink is very, very shiny. I have deviated from the rules; I have been shining my sink whilst wearing knee high black boots. I believe this is acceptable as boots are very difficult to remove (probably more difficult than lace up shoes). I am so far following the basic rules, the decluttering method and the evening routine. Today I am going to put together a comprehensive morning plan.

Sink shining - is it primarily akin to sex or a sacramental religion? I really can't decide.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I'm out of the very early stages but still fairly euphoric. I scoured my sink plughole until it came up gold. This made me very happy: I found treasure! I never would have believed that my sink could make me happy; up until January, I didn't even think of it as 'my' sink; it was just 'the' sink.

I, also, do not wear lace-up shoes. We do not live in North Carolina and it is not practical. I also wear boots!! Maybe we could progress to lace-up boots?? High-heeled and thigh-high??? Ah, flyfucking in the land of the shiny sink. (As I explained in another post, all sorts of people could be buggering each other, bending over that shiny sink and seeing themselves come in their reflections. And then one could shine up that sink even more with their cleansing come... but I digress!)

This makes sink shining sound like sex but I tend to think that it is more like your second option: sacramental religion.

I found sink shining best, and I remember the next thing I liked were zones. I decluttered religiously zone per zone. This week I am deviating because I have decided the children's room needs decluttering. I gave away about 30 plastic bags of clothes! I discovered I own 30 undies! What woman needs 30 undies? And still I was hunting through the house every morning for underwear. I threw away about 35 single children's socks!!!

What's the next thing I did? I was very bamboozled by 27-fling boogie; I'm still not very good at it but I like doing it to the car. Every tiny bit of leaf counts! I now dust the dashboard! I keep a dustrag in the glove compartment!!! (*falls over*) I've also stashed soft cloths and brillo pads in all the bathrooms and I scour as I shower (!!!!). The house is amazing!

The next thing I did was the menu planning. I used my own recipes and made up three weeks' worth, week by week. Now I rotate. I love knowing what's for dinner in the morning! I've also got morning and afternoon and evening routines scribbled up in the kitchen, and oh yes, I have a family calendar!

And then I started to devise a Flylady for the Office routine until I discovered she already has one on her site. And now I'm starting in on my finances. And I have set up the yahoo calendar function to send myself motivating reminder emails a la Flylady throughout the day: 'Smile!' and 'Write something for 15 minutes.' and 'Write your conference paper, you can do this' and so forth. Tonight I had Family Fun Night and played a game with the sons!

I am clearly insane. But welcome to the insanity!!!

Oh, and I do the laundry.

*boggles*

[freyafloyd.livejournal.com]

According to Flylady:

Wisdom starts with the desire for discipline.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

FL says that? I keep thinking 'babysteps'.

I have realised that I love discipline and have always, mistakenly, believed myself to be a chaotic, disorderly person. Whereas all I needed was a system. Oh, and therapy. Which I've now had. So that I can wipe a countertop without having my mother sitting on my shoulder and sucking out my life's blood through my left ear.

[freyafloyd.livejournal.com]

I have thrown stuff away that has been waiting to be dealt with for three years. Due to the evening routine everything is straightforward in the morning. However, I am clearly not as addicted as you.

[freyafloyd.livejournal.com]

Also, I cleared out both my bags today because Flylady told me to! I do think the being told what to do element is enjoyable. The more I declutter things the more I realise that clutter has caused me misery. The clutter has made every job take twice as long as it should take. There is no longer a pile of bills on top of the piano or small vikings on the windowsill. I am going to buy a family calender this weekend.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

As I said in some post somewhere, housework for me is very much cathected. So after decades of being cathected negatively (mother!), it has now switched to obsession. It is not a neutral act for me! I washed our wind-up radio with such enthusiasm that I destroyed its solar cell, and I scoured the bathroom basin until the enamel chipped off... ack.

A small penalty to pay, though.