Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

I've had alcohol. This is not a goosd thing for a lightweight like me. Sorry fi I make no sense here.

Extra happy Christmas to Curriejean, cause I just got her card and it was much more clever than mine was. My little anti-halmark with dragons thing that i gave to people this year.

The post ripped it open though. Stupid post office. I hATE them.

Love all ya guys I gues. I dunno, I love alot of stuff. Like cookies.

Hello, I recently received one of the best early Christmas gifts ever, and I wanted to share:
A whole lot off old books and hats!( HATS! )

Cause I was bored.

And it was here.

I stole it from silver who got it off da somewhere.

It has Godzilla in it.

( Rawr )

My Dragons want visits, please.

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So, around his twelfth birthday, my nephew Armand had a seizure. Specifically a Grand Mal Seizure.

Those are the really bad ones, like you see in movies, where people convulse. The seizure you see in Alien? That's a Grand Mal. Except that they usually aren't followed by s little phallic alien bursting through your chest.

Now, my nephew's seizures were, for a long time, a mystery. He didn't have epilepsy, encephalopathy, or any of a whole slew of diseases with long gibberishy names with Latin roots that usually cause seizures. He had, what I have jokingly called for years 'mystery disease x'.

The doctors didn't know what the hell was wrong with him.

They knew he had 'frontal lobe seizures' which means his personality was affected, and he has mood swings. He has almost no energy, he can't last an entire day at school.

He's almost fifteen now, and they've finally, finally figured it out. I almost liked 'mystery disease x better, he had a chance then. I could joke about my nephew being a bona fide medical mystery, and demand to know the location of Dr. House before. Now it's all deadly serious.

He has something called 'Alpers' Disease' that affects the brain. It's a kind of Mitochondrial Disease, a defect in the mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria are little pill shaped things inside your cells, that you may or may not remember from biology class as the things that store your cells energy. And they have such an important job that they have their own DNA. A defect in this DNA, causes Mitochondrial Disease, which can cause the lack of energy.

Alpers Disease in particular is a nasty thing that usually makes an appearance early in life. And those affected usually die before they reach ten years of age. To not have any symptoms until twelve is very rare. The disease slowly destroys the brain and liver, hence the seizures. Patients slowly love their memory and comprehension, kind of like with Alzheimer's.

It is always fatal, leading to eventual liver failure. There is no know cure for Alpers'.

Not really sure why I'm posting this, except that this is really badly understood disease that hardly anyone has heard of. People with it can be fine one moment and awful the next. Look perfectly normal one day, and the next day not be able to balance enough to walk at all, and not be able to string together words for sentences.

This isn't one of those diseases like cancer, with a million celebrity fundraisers and charities, no one knows about it. About the only person who champions it is Jack Black, Who has a family member with Mitochondrial Disease. At least we have the guy who stared in School of Rock and Kung Fu Panda on our side.

This Penny Arcade is possibly the funniest ever. But it's funny in the way the movie 'Waiting' was only funny to people who work in restaurants. If you've EVER worked holiday retail, then you are well acquainted with the mythos of the magical toy land in 'the back' that most customers adhere to.

Sorry, folk, the back has nothing in it, except 1) the break room 2) the bathroom 3) a whole lot of empty shelves, that are empty because you stupid morons keep buying shit faster than we can get it!

And trust me, the employees do hate you. holiday shoppers. You make their lives hell, you spoil their usual do nothing jobs, some of you curse them out, or accuse them of being rude irrationally, when they probably have something they legitimately need to be doing that is preventing them from spending twenty minutes with one person. I even once had someone throw their change in my face, because I'd handed it to them wrong.

But I relished the chances to go in 'the back'. That's where the soda machine was. And I've found the length of one short song on your i pod is usually the proper amount of time to stand there wasting time. A word of wisdom to anyone suffering hte holiday season on the wrong side of the counter at Target.

So, this is Adam Lambert, finally in a live performance. He looks like a troll doll. An evil, gay troll doll. Who is trying to pretend that he's bisexual.

WHy the hell do people like this guy? Seriously.

Thoughts, friends?

This is my nephew, Aiden, who decided today that he wanted to be Doctor Who. He saw I was wearing my semi-trench (It goes to my knees), and thus asked if it were a trench like Doctor Who wears. Ten is his favorite, thanks to me. We've watches some episodes of Doctor Who, he adores the Christmas Invasion! Well, after he asked me to wear my coat, which yes is the wrong color, we found a sonic screw driver (it's just actually a screw driver handle). We took some pictures. Personally, I think the coat looks a bit more Jack Harkness-ish on him, but he has no idea who that is, (for good reason, Jack isn't really PG) so ...

I thought that he was so cute that I had to post these pics. Yes, that is the Christmas tree already up.

How is our Junior Time Lord looking?

Title: The Resurrection of Torchwood 3: Part one Children of Earth, Redux
Rating: PG-13 for now
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, mentioned Jack/Doctor 10 probably other people. Maybe that Lois girl. Not sure, I didn't find her too interesting.
Summery: BIG spoilers for COE. I'm fixin' Torchwood! I am undoing all the awful stuff that happened post Adrift. That's right, all. This is the first half of my COE fix-it. with Doctor 10, for the win. Warning, I'm hardly ever being 100% serious, you must realise that to read my fan fiction. There is a slight sarcasm in all of this. And I will explain what's going on here, just wait. Un-beta'd

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 So, I'm feeling a little....conflicted today. 

( Stitch is troubled...he needs desserts! )

Meme from hanuueshe. 

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. Pick the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. 
First book I ever voluntarily read, first fantasy. Holds a very special place in my heart for introducing me to sci-fi/fantasy.

2. Watership Downs.
The depressing bunny book, yes. I adore it. For whatever reason, whenever I need cheering up, I read it. It's sad, but so very hopeful in the end.

3. The Lord of The Rings.
This book changed me. I never wanted to read it, thought it was too long. I am now so very glad that I did. The greatest work of fantasy literature ever, if I may be so bold.

5. Dragonflight.
So, I had read Narnia, begun LOTR, HP. A lot of fantasy... about BOYS going on grand adventures, or in which girls, it is said, shouldn't ever fight in wars. Then, at twelve, an art teacher recomended the Dragonriders of Pern books, that begin with Dragonflight. Lessa, the main character, is female, and she's no one's sidekick, doesn't take no from anyone, and certainly will not be confined while there is fighting to be done! I had never really seen this in a fantasy till then. Women power.

6. The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy.
Funniest book I've ever read. Also among the smartest, in an odd way. Everything is meaningless, it all means 42, but don't panic. 

7. Harry Potter.
Rocked my world, at ten. Spent my summer at eleven secretly hoping to get an owl from Hogwarts...

8. Incidents in the Life of  a Slave Girl.
You will cry at this. It's awful but wonderful. A real account of slavery, from an ex-slave.

9. Something Wicked This Way Comes.
By the ticking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes...
Bradburry is a special kind of brilliant. As is this book.

10. Flowers for Algernon.
Charlie is not very bright, till they 'fix' him, with treatment that makes him a genius. But only for so long. He and the mouse Algernon. This book made me cry, I will always remember it. 

11. Farenheit  451.
My first anti-utopia.


12. The Last Unicorn.
Fantasy that is so very beautiful and sad. 

13. Where the Wild Thins are.
Yeah, kids book, but so very meaningful for me as a child.

14.Dune
Science fiction that redefines science fiction. Everyone should read it.

15. Coraline.
Fear buttons. FEAR THEM! I love this book, it walks the line of being too scary for children, but is so well written.

This...This is amazing! A llovely, award winning sort Watch i you've not seen it!

What the fuck is the deal with Final Fantasy?

It is so bloody boring! The fights are all: Monster Attacks. One character Attacks. Monster Attacks, Another Character Attacks. Repeat process. All complete with bad boring animations and music! YAY!

Some one need to tell me what the deal is with this shit, please.

Well, world, brace yourself.
Another fifteen year old has discovered fanfiction.net.. My own nephew, too.
I'm sorry, people, I'll do my best to make sure he beta's before unleashing his crap HP fanfic on the world.
Yes, Harry Potter. He is full of much originality.

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