I was just nominated in the NCIS Fanfic Awards for my drabble Darkness at Last. I'm in Shock, I never expected it to happen. Thank you to who ever nominated. :)

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

I'm actually at the stage where I'm sick of everything I'm listening to but haven't found anything to replace it yet. But here is what I have been enjoying over the last couple of months.

1) Edge of The Ocean by Ivy
2) I Hear The Bells By Mike Doughty
3) Should I Laugh Or Cry By Abba
4) Far Away By Nickelback
5) Ventura Highway by America 
6) When I See You Smile By Bad English
7) I'm Yours By Jason Mraz

If they haven't already done it then I Tag: kandz tejas katie087 sa3466996 iwantpie cyad and dani101

Note to self: Do Not watch a Masterchef episode when hungry and you have nothing in the cupboard!

Edited to add: Don't make it worse by subsequently looking through the website's recipe page.

It's happened again. I finally managed to write another fic (and by fic I mean drabble). I blame encouragement from tejas about just giving writing a go and and a conversation with tejas and donutsweeper for this. It woke me up at 1:30am last night and wouldn't let me go back to sleep until I had written it down.

Title: Darkness at Last
Character/Pairing: Tony
Rating: PG
Words: 200
Challenge: Posted to ncisdrabble100 challenge #142 Last.
Spoilers: None
Warnings: It's pretty dark and angsty.
Summary: He doesn't think he can do this any more.
A/N: Thanks to the wonderful tejas for all the support and encouragement.

( Darkness at Last )

Head over to ncis_gen. Due to the increase in fic with het or slash pairings, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find good gen fic in the NCIS fandom.ncis_gen is the place to find and/or post those precious gen fics.

Borrowed from writinginct 

Name a fandom, and I'll tell you my:

1. One True Pairing ship
2. Canon ship
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" ship
4. "You are one sick bastard" ship
5. "I dabble a little" ship
6. "It's like a car crash" ship
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" ship
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" ship
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" ship.

Fandoms are: NCIS, Dark Angel, Veronica Mars, House, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Friends and any others I may have mentioned in posts.

Ok, it's official (not that there was much doubt), I have an overwhelm urge to organise when I'm stressed/trying to study. Last exam period I organised my sister's seed beads that she had spilled. Whenever I try and study I have to make sure my room is really tidy otherwise I won't be able to concentrate until it is. At the moment, while trying to study for my Financial Accounting exam, I have an overwhelming need to reorganise my Delicious bookmarks. It's driving me crazy!

All Tony/Ziva fans, and everyone else, should read Believe Again by Montana-Rosalie. It is so fantastically written. I had tears in my eyes while reading it and that doesn't happen to me very often.


Shywr1ter has written a sequel, which is also great, although not quite the same brilliance.

After watching this for the millionth time, I'd thought I'd share. If you're having a bad day this will make you feel better. And even if you're not, it still puts a smile on your face, or a least it does for me, I can't stop smiling when I watch it ;)

This is probably not the best time to post this as everyone else on my flist seems to be offering them but I have been given two Dreamwidth invite codes. First come, first served. Just leave a comment here or PM me.



Ok, I know I've already pimped this a few times but ncis_awards is now open for nominations and we need people to come and nominate their favourite fics, the two categories I'm handling could especially do with some nominations, Best Crossover and Best Casefile. Come on I know you all read NCIS fic, you must have some favourites, come and nominate them!

I've joined the Dreamwidth bandwagon! I'll probably only use it as a backup for now. I've tried to find everyone on my friends-list but if I've missed you, and I'm sure I have missed a few, let me know and I'll add you :)

Well I finally got my hands on a copy of the movie 'The Mystery of Natalie Wood'. I've been searching for it for months now. I borrowed it of course to see Michael Weatherly but I very quickly found myself caught up in the story.  I've always been fascinated with real-life mysteries like this and this one was no exception. It was not at all what I was expecting. I'd seen a couple of scenes on Youtube and had resigned myself to watching a fairly boring movie other than the MW scenes but it was almost the opposite. Justine Waddell does a brilliant job as Natalie, who I had no idea how many famous roles she had done, and she is so beautiful. MW was fantastic as always ;-), he really does do drama well. It goes for almost 3hrs which unfortunately I didn't realise when I started watching at 10:30pm last night! It is a low budget film and it does show but the story was interesting enough that it didn't bother me and I normally notice things like that. I did a little research about her this morning and its seems to fairly accurate, it had the support of her younger sister (who hates Robert Wagner, so he may displayed in a slightly negative light) and a few close friends, who are interviewed as part of the movie. Such a sad story ( Minor Spoiler ). I would really recommend watching it if you can find a copy (Aus friends, I found it on the online DVD borrowing service Quick Flix). Now I really want to get my hands on one of Natalie Wood's biographies.

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This is so me, except I'm not quite so content with my average life, but otherwise it is so true.

Here is a small selection of the over 1000 photos we took while in New Zealand:

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If the link doesn't work let me know and I'll post them somewhere else.


Highlights of the Trip

Favourite Moment: Tie between white-water rafting, and the massage at the Polynesian Spa.
Least Favourite Moment: Getting Sea sick on the Bay of Islands cruise.
Food: Fantastic, especially the garlic bread!
Will do again: White water rafting
Will not do again: Kyaking
Favourite place: So hard to choose, but probably the suburb of Devenport in Auckland.
Will not forget: Rotorua smelling like rotten eggs, the spectacular scenery the further south we got, relaxing in the hot springs, white-water rafting.
Most interesting fact learnt: 1 in 4 people in Auckland have access to a Sail boat.
Best Motel: The Quadrant (Auckland) - I recommend staying there.
Favourite Souvenir: Wild Kiwi top

I updated my journal layout again. This time I am fairly happy with it because I customised the colours and header, so it is more me, it started out as this. And I finally have an NCIS header, yay! :-) The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't have mood theme pics, anyone know how to write that into the custom CSS?

( I Have Waited 2 Years For This... )(For those of you wondering how my holiday went, it was great. I'll tell you all about it and post pics in a few days)