Irony is the Shackles of Youth

I am trying a new recipe for Lemon Shaker pie courtesy of The World Needs More Pie. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the recipe. It calls for slicing lemons, ring and all, and macerating them over night. So basically, I'm making candied lemons and then baking them in a pie. I am 100% okay with this (especially since I already had lemons on hand to make watermelon lemonade).

My only change is that I don't like pies with the top crust, so I'm leaving it off. I'm also cheating by using a frozen store bough crust. I have warm hands so making biscuits, pie crusts, etc. that need to remain cold is a pain in the butt for me. Hence, I cheat.

I will report the results tomorrow!

Since I don't have very good tracking software on my site I don't often get to see all the very "interesting" hits that it gets. Instead I only get to see the top 20 hits, which are usually very bland and involve people either looking for me or some sort of fanfiction. Today though, I have not one, not two, but three great hits that have made the top 20.

"is touya akira gay" I think we all know my answer to that question.

"goo sex fanfiction" D:

"digimon tomato yaoi" Was the normal tomato yaoi not enough for you?

Updated my website. I didn't realize I hadn't put what I have of the (A)Typical Gundam Wind Fanfic up on the website so that's up. Fixed a typo in one of my other fanfics and put up the Ransom story. I also worked on the Kidnapped Bride story and hope to have a completed part of that at some point.

Tonight is grocery shopping and homework. And maybe some more writing.

In the interest of updating my website (don't all run to see, I didn't) and because I recently read some Gundam Wing fic that I enjoyed, I've been slowly going through my fanfic folder to see what can be put up from my days in the fandom.

You know what you should never do? You should never, ever go back and read through fanfic that is over 10 years old. Most of the ideas are solid (some not so much), but some of this writing is terrible. I want to go back and yell at my younger self. Specifically, I want to go back and yell at my younger self about beginning sentences with contractions. DO NOT DO IT EVERY OTHER SENTENCE.

Part of me wants to take all the Gundam Wing stuff, hide it, and hope no one else remembers it. I'm not going to though. It will get put up on my website (with possible the exception of the freaking song fic I wrote. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick). I made a promise to myself that no matter how old or how bad it was, if I posted it once and got feedback I need to post it again. Because someone, somewhere probably remembers reading it and I don't want them to have to spend hours on Google or The Wayback Machine desperately hoping to stumble across an archived copy.

Yes, that is the voice of experience talking. Why do you ask?

Must resist urge to edit for all content and not just typos/grammar mistakes. At least I have no problems with editing old stuff that I didn't finish and therefore didn't put up. It really needed it. I'm not sure I could ever finish it because of the style changes between then and now. Surely it would be awkward and obvious.

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I still really like the stories I wrote where the Gundams from Gundam Wing all have spirits and they are all dragons with distinct personalities. No, I don't care how cheesy it is.

I use to do a post every once in awhile called Those Crazy Referrers back when I was still regularly posting to my pitas page as opposed to livejournal. I had a nice tracking service that would track every single search engine hit I got. Once a day I would check the hits and keep a list of the craziest ones. Once I got about 20 or so, I'd do a post. Ahh... those were the days. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I don't have such a thing on my livejournal or my webpage. The only thing my webpage shows is the top twenty search agent hits for each month. As you can imagine, these are pretty generic since they usually are hits I get more than once.

That being said, for old times sake, I give you Those Crazy Referrers 2007:

January: digimon davis and crazy digimon emperor yaoi fanfic As opposed to those times when he was sane? I mean, were you watching the same series I was?4
February: coils surrounded him Why yes, yes they do. Mmmm....
March: tied up and tickle tortured Please to be finding this some where else.
April: how to kill a dragon Should I be scared that someone needs this information?
May: digimon bad davis Bad Davis. Very Bad Davis. No Ken for you. *snicker*
June: digimon yolei her butt Okay. Sure. I don't even know what you were really trying to find with this search.
July: calvin hobbes fanfiction sex Let me get on maderr so she'll write it. XD
August: naruto popsicle So what flavor would it be? Orange? I'm going to say a Sakura popsicle would be strawberry and a Sasuke one would be blueberry. No body knows what flavor Kakashi is. He is mysterious.
September: Alas, all hits for this month that made it into the top 20 were very generic. Sigh. So let's move onto October where someone was wondering...
October: are there any beautiful virgins left in the world Yes. But I can guarantee they can't be found on my website. XD
November: dragon m%c3%a9di%c3%a9val Right then. Can you please learn how to construct a valid search before hitting the enter button?
December: tomato fanfiction/digimon AHHHH! CROSSOVER HELL.

Granted, these are pretty slim pickings compared to what I use to get, but still worth a chuckle. If only there was a way to get a tracker to track all the referrer hits for all my pages without coughing up any money.

Fictionpress!Tsaiko v. 1.0 is open for business

Review away

Note to self: the basic html you do on stories to get them read for FP makes it easier on you to get them ready for your website.

That translates to possible updates of the website for the rest of you.

Eight of my Fushigi Yuugi stories are now up on my webpage.

You'll notice that the descriptions are pretty brief. That's because I haven't quite gotten up the courage to reread them. ^^;