First Live Journal Entry

[elgrey]

I've had this LJ for a little while now but have been too wussy/busy to get around to doing anything with it. But now that most of the fic I like seems to be posted to Live Journals before its archived, or isn't archived at all, I feel I have to take the plunge.

I'm in 'Six Feet Under' withdrawal after finishing S4 on DVD and now have to wait until next year for S5 to come out. On the upside I really enjoyed watching 'Dirty Pretty Things' tonight and am grateful to the Amazon rental service for all the films they've been sending that I haven't had to buy on DVD. Also impatiently awaiting S2 of Deadwood and Carnivale and looking forward to my Veronica Mars boxset to go from 'awaiting stock' on play.com to 'shipped'.

Comments

Helllooooooooo!!!!!

[lachli.livejournal.com]

'Tis Lisa D here. I foolishly thought I'd have a different user name and be all ambiguous and mysterious on LJ, but failed miserably because I went and friended people I'd known for ages and still talked about the same stuff and now I just end up saying I'm me and not some weird stalker person you've never met before.

Glad to see you've come over to the dark side finally got with the whole LJ thing, I've now discovered where half of fandom seems to hang out and it's been a revelation. I've made lots of new friends and found lots of old ones :-).

I've got to run right now because I need to pick the kids up from school and then we have pony to go and see to. Yep, we've gained a pony since I last spoke to you, supposedly for endless fun and jollity, but the reality seems to be stress, tiredness and a lot of shouting from me at my children to get a grip *g*. No change there really.

Take no notice of Ankh, I've already mocked her cartoon icon, but in return she mocked my galloping My Little Pony icon so I had to stop. I used my FBI boys for this one instead.

Catch up soon.

Re: Helllooooooooo!!!!!

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

Well, I was impressed by your secret identity until you gave the game away by telling me who you were! You could have told me you were a sultry spy who smoked hand-rolled cigarettes out of a silver holder and could kill men with a twist of your thighs if you'd wanted and I would have believed you.

Tell your kids they should go down on their knees and kiss the hem of your garment for getting them a pony. My mother, my older sister and I all grew up wanting for nothing else and spending all our time having to ride other people's. My brother is still scarred by the experience of having horse-mad women all around him and I'm not allowed to even lend his daughter my old Monica Edwards or Ruby Ferguson books in case she gets infected with the same madness and starts demanding that he buys her a pony and they keep it in the orchard. My sister has two horses now, but it's not the same as growing up with one. Seriously, those kids owe you big time. Please send me pictures? What size is he/she? Colour? Breed? Tell me everything!

I'm loving LJ-land so far. It's an all-you-can-read fic buffet out here, isn't it?

Ankh mocked your My Little Pony icon? That's low coming from a woman with a spandexy icon. Do you collect MLPs because I gather there are gadzillions? And are the guys in your icon from the Without a Trace that Scribe was talking about?

Really pleased you made contact, Lisa! It's always great to hear from you.

Re: Helllooooooooo!!!!!

[lachli.livejournal.com]

*g* I was never very good at secret stuff, I like to talk too much!

I know all about the wanting a pony thing, my mom and I were exactly the same. When I was 17 I was at a family funeral and got talking to some relative I never knew I had, turned out that his son(apparently my cousing twice removed or something) had bought his daughter a pony she couldn't cope with, so I, being very thoughtful, volounteered to ride her. Long story short is that I had a lovely summer riding her, they got fed up looking after her and gave her to me, talk about being thrown in at the deep end! Had her for over 10 years and had *so* much fun with her, my grandad then gave my mom £500 to buy herself one and she got Beckie, who we still have now and she's nearly 30. As for the kids, well it was pretty inevitable that with a mom and a dad who ride (I met Peter at the stables where I kept Poppy) and two nans who ride and keep horses that they were going to go the same way. I was spending over £25 a week paying for a couple of lessons and decided that for a little more I could keep one, so when Peter decided to sell his Land Rover as he didn't use it anymore I claimed the money for a pony *g*.

I'll have to do a seperate LJ post with a pic, because I still can't work some things out and I can't make a pic appear here! We bought Seb, he's 13.1, bright chestnut and very pretty. He's part Arab and is bred as a riding pony, so I think there must be some thoroughbred and welsh in him as well. He's 7, which is a lovely age, and is quite fine, I have ridden him, but I think I squash him a bit *g*. Like all ponies he can have his moments and discovered for a while that if he shoved his head down the kids lost the reins and he could just stand there, LOL. At one point we thought we might have to sell him as they just weren't getting on. After a change of yards and some tough talking from me, i.e. get a grip and stop being wimps, all is going really well. Two months ago Laura was crying at the thought of even walking him round a school, yesterday she was cantering around open fields jumping logs, so we're all really happy now. He's definitely part of the family :-). Has some lovely little habits, comes trotting up when you call him, when he's finished eating if you ask him he will pick his bucket up and give it to you and honestly, we love him to bits :-).

Ah, yes those were my boys in the icon, so very pretty and so very angsty, bliss!

I'm using my pony icon and you'll see that Ankh really had no reason to mock it at all, she just has no taste. Chloe used to collect them, but we gave up, they were like Barbie, absolutely relentless, just when you thought you had them another one came along!