I was following two stories (WIP) by Danieller123, "Everybody Lies" and the one about Bella who sees a vamp (and calls him 'pire'). They're both gone now :-(

Why? :-(

- Raum

I need your help!

Since I returned back to work in March, I've gained 7 lbs.  :(   It's a combination of sitting at a desk 8 hours/day again, stress, and being tired in the evening and grabbing takeout more often than not.  It doesn't help that I have a natural propensity to pack on the pounds. 

I feel blah as a result, and I'm going to knuckle down and start cooking more.  The problem?  I was raised in the South, so most of what I know how to cook well involves sugar, deep-fat frying, and very few vegetables.  

I need recipes or menu planning help!  I'm partial to stir-fry, soups, stews, and grilled meats.  I'd like to try to stick to whole, unprocessed foods as much as possible.  Plus, I'm a food wuss -- I play it safe and usually stick with foods that are tried and true and I really need to branch out. 

So campers, do you have any good recipes to share? Great cooking blogs to recommend?  Help a girl out, please?  

A rec for your time:

Nightingale by our very own Lady Gwynedd 
Intrepid Isabella Swan leaves England to seek her destiny in the New World as an indentured servant. Little does she know her physical but temporary servitude would soon lead to another kind of servitude altogether. Not a BDSM fic, or even close to it.

PS - WTVOC, I made your chicken soup today with a loaf of crusty homemade bread (a la my Goodwill-purchased bread machine) and it received rave reviews.  My husband pointedly told me to "save this recipe."  So thanks!! :-D

This is brilliant.

Come on in and share the funny!

I'll be here all day, but chances are I'll be too distracted by the action to post much.

You do it for me.

AND NEXT:

Season Premier of True Blood is on tonight!

Who will be watching it? What are you most excited about?

Personally, I am pumped that Christopher Meloni from SVU will be on this season!

Side note, I wont even be watching because I have work till midnight and the rerun is at 11. Womp womp womp. I have to find a friend to record it for me lol

POST LINK AND DISCUSS TODAYS UPDATES!

Its been a week of me doing this daily campfire. What do you guys think? Do you like having it here each day? Tell me your thoughts!

A couple of weeks ago, someone in a "what are you reading" campfire recc'd this book:

I bought it immediately and have been cracking up since page 1.   I decided to take a stroll through The Bloggess' blog (not realizing she was the mastermind behind Beynoce the chicken until last night) and kept going back more and more pages until I skimmed one of her "tour diary" type posts and saw this one:

I'm pretty sure I'm in a coma right now

It stars out pretty benign, then she shares a picture of one of her fans at the book signing....

The Bloggess was pretty dumbstruck that Stephenie Meyer was at a book signing for this book.  But OMG THE WOMAN LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!! (even The Bloggess said her hair was amazing)

So, to make this interactive:

1) Have you ever read/seen something where two actors/authors/musicians end up being unlikely fans of each other?

2)  What is the FUNNIEST book you have ever read?

3) Since this book I'm reading is about funny (and not so funny) stories from The Bloggess' life, come inside and share a super hilarious story from some point in your life!

Hey guys! I was hoping someone could help me. I was trying to download a fic with fanfictiondownloader and for some reason it only copies the first page and then all the chapter titles. I upgraded to the newest version and the same thing happened. I have used this site for over a year so I'm not sure what's going on. If it's not a quick fix can someone tell me another site to use for downloads? Thanks!!

A rec for your time and pleasure....

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7626960/1/A_Forest_Fire

A Forest Fire » by Bedelia
Shock cascades through her body, sparked by his smile. His resemblance to the boy who left her in the forest so many years ago is remarkable, but there is one key difference. He is human. AU.
Twilight - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 27 - Words: 100,500 - Reviews: 1495 - Updated: 6-10-12 - Published: 12-11-11 - - Bella/Jasper
 

Homework:  An new recipes / music you got for us.  Or you doing a new excercise you would like to share with the world?

Also its never too late to start getting healthy.   ; )

So, I'm reading an update and I get to the ending AN and the author mentions not participating in a boycott.

What's this about? I'm guessing this was arranged via Twitter as most FF/fandom info seemed to get passed around and I don't do Twitter so I don't know jack.

What's this about? Is this a long term thing? All summer? Till the world ends? Is there a list of people doing this?

WTF is Archive of Our Own. All people welcome but it's an get in invite place? Is this like LJ or that knitting place a lot of fandom people are on?

I saw one author say they moved their stories there and I must be doing something wrong because there's a "search" box and for some reason when I type an author's name I don't find them and there no way to alphabetized the search results because it's just all over the place.

Explain to the uninformed confused here if you please :)

Ladies!  LADIES!!! (and any men...)

This story was one of my very first obsessions within the fandom.  It went dormant for quite some time, but the author has just finished it up and posted the epi today! I am beyond ecstatic!!!!! I'm planning to go back and reread from the very beginning to get the whole experience. Is anyone else as excited about this as I am?

As for a rec, please please read this story if you haven't!!

Hydraulic Level 5: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4931075/1/Hydraulic_Level_5

Summary: Critics hailed Edward Cullen's novels as "masterful" and "brimstone beauty"-a genius of his generation. To Bella Swan, he was simply the complex man who broke her heart for his career in New York. How does one forget her first love and the new woman on his arm? With whitewater rafting. Skydiving. Surfing. A bit of mischief and sweet, sweet revenge.

I SO wasn't gonna make this campfire. BUT . . . I'm waiting on Manny. As is EVERY OTHER boxing fan. It's sorta ridiculous and funny! So I thought, why the hell not. 

Anyone gonna catch this fight?! Do you think it's weird that Manny has made the world wait? Are you waiting for Manny too? Who do you want to win? Are you excited for this fight?!! 

While her mama crazy in love with Edward, my daughter is really crazy about Barney, you know, the purple dinasour. She love him since she was 12 months old. Now she's 3y/o. She have giant Barney doll, talking Barney, small Barney doll, Barney figurine, Barney lunch box, Barney pajama etc etc. She even learn to sing and speak english from Barney (we are Indonesian). Her english is not bad :) she can count from 1 to 20, she can sing a few songs from Barney, and she learn ABCDetc and she can do small talk with her dad Australian friends from office. Well... im very proud of her (of course, im her mom hehe ). She's very smart for a toddler in her age. Now she's already in KG (already graduate from PG).

Today, there is Barney show in Jakarta, but I couldnt take her there because the ticket price is very expensive :(  its around 100USD/pax. I have to buy at least 2 ticket, right... Too expensive for me. Im feeling bad for her becz I dont know when Barney will have that kind of show anymore (the last time Barney show is 5 years ago). 

Anyway... who is your children favorite character that she/he couldnt live whitout :)

REVIEW :

Soon-to-be college senior Bella Swan needs a summer job. Edward Cullen needs a worker for his new tasting room at Cullen Creek Brewery. She doesn't know much about beer, but she knows how to push his buttons. Romance/Humor, ExB
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 24 - Words: 113,916 - Reviews: 5100 - Updated: 1-10-12 - Published: 12-7-10 - Edward & Bella - Complete

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6536802/1/Strange_Brew

So it's Saturday night, I'm bored, my boyfriend's being a tool, and there's nothing appealing in my liquor cabinet. You know what would make me feel better?

A TMI post!

Come on in and tell me something gross! Share something that would be better kept private! Ask your fellow campers to answer a question that you'd be too embarrassed to ask someone in person! Post a picture or gif that will have me reaching for the brain bleach!

You guys today has been SUCH a fun day for sports. AND we still got the Pacquiao v Bradley fight. (OMG OMG OMG so excited gonna go out to see that fight)

But can we talk about this Heat v Celtics madness?!?!? I've been having so much fun with these playoffs!!

So here's the second sports watch along of the day.(Come join me! Let's watch game 7 together. It's all or nothing here for these boys.

Get in here and watch the game with me. Or talk about NBA. Or the Thunder. Or talk about Lebron. Or who you want to win??!!

I just read on FB that slambrini has suspended writing A Model Marriage indefinitely, and I'm all kinds of sad about this.  I was totally LOVING this fic, and was dying to see if she could sell me a believable HEA.  This was just an amazing story, and it's such a shame it's not going to be finished now.  Anyone else missing it??

For those of you who are not familiar with the story here's a brief synopsis:  Edward and Bella have been together for six years and have been married for two, they have major communication issues, and their marriage begins to have problems.  Edward feels neglected and becomes infatuated with a 21 year old coworker to the point where he can no longer even have sex with his world famous model wife; he begins a very flirty inappropriate friendship with the other person who just happens to be Riley (Edward is bisexual).  As can be imagined, Edward ends up cheating on Bella with Riley and seems to genuinely regret it as soon as it's over.  The rest of the story deals with the fallout of his infidelity.  

I genuinely believed that Edward loved Bella, but based on what I read I also felt that he truly needed/desired being with other men.  The scenes describing his feelings/desire for Riley and men in general were scorching hot and there were ZERO scenes describing his physical attraction for Bella which made for an interesting dichotomy to say the least.  So I was left feeling that Edward had a very strong emotional connection to Bella and was in love with her, but his sexual attraction to men was also very real.  

The story was pulled by ffn, and at that time there were 30 chapters written.  It's a fabulous story and even unfinished it's worth reading!!!!

rec:

Great Vexations by AngstGoddess003 

http://angstgoddess003.livejournal.com/23957.html

My life could be a movie. Sometimes, because of how pathetic it is, sometimes because of how funny it is, and sometimes because of how dramatic it is.

And, today, I just had the craziest day EVER (I hope).

I woke up at 10a.m.

Around 10.30, my cat went batshit crazy and I heard a big noise. Since I live in the South of France where I see the Mistral more often than my sister, I thought it was just a door  slaming. So I checked everyone of them. EVERY FREAKING ONE. Until I heard two other noises from the bathroom. I came in, opened the window, and I sank into one of my worst nightmares : 

My car was burning, consumed by fire.

Turned out that 3 crazy people stole a bank not far from my residence (and i leave in a very bourgeois neighbourhood), got away, threatened a guy with their guns to stole his motorbike, and parked it in my residence's parking, between my car and my mother's. And put the bike on fire to erase fingerprints.

My dear car, my very first car is dead.

I'm so sad right now.

And tonight, I went to my first s** toy party. With my mom. 

God. I'm drunk, car-less, and full of sex toys images.

Who had a crazier day than me?!

I'm not sure I need to rec something, but I do anyway because I love this fic (but i'm too drunk to link it) : ir's the fantastic "MORE", by Carano. Wow wow wow.

I know there are tons of Harry Potter fans about the forest. I myself have never picked up the series and it's not because I think I'm too grown to read it. my mom's right at read it and my grandpas read it. now my 8 year old son is reading it and I want to read the series with him over the summer but I just can't seem to make myself get started. help me! I know there must be something to it are so many of you would love it. please inspire me to get started. Show me your Harry Potter lurve.

I'm posting from my phone so I can't make it pretty I hope to come back later and do so. also I'm using voice recognition so if your son odd typos that's why.

I never am sure if we're supposed to rec but I'm rereading The Foreign Papers by javamomma and thoroughly glad I picked it back up. Will link for you soon. In the meantime just google it <3

Edit: Thanks to whoever added the Harry Potter tag earlier. My phone won't let me "open more than one pop up window". Many air smooches to you love.

Hey guys it's Euro 2012 time!!! I've been excited since Thursday!!!. And I can't contain it.

Anywhoo. Come in here and talk Euro 2012 with other campers. And we can use this campfire as a watch along for the Germany v Portugal game. WHICH, I'm really REALLY watching that Germany team for this. What do you think? Do you watch? Are you excited? Who do you want to take it? Come talk futbol with me!! :)

How about this little treat, to tantalize. I can't think of anything sexier than Pique playing in A SUIT!!

So we all saw janewithay's campfire on MIA muses below. Writers block seems to be a common ailment for the best of us these days. Makes us miss that first time when we posted our first story and got  high from all those lovely responses we weren't expecting- it seems like you're on a roll. You can't do no wrong with an update, all you can do is go up.

And then you fall.

You submit a chapter that gets the dreaded mixed response. The spark seems to be gone. It's not the same. What do you do when that happens? How do you deal? I'm asking this from recent experience.

What do you do when a chapter you submit seems like it has fallen flat?

Maybe I should have been expecting this-no, actually, I kind of was expecting this. My story is a  wip after all, and that comes with a mess of problems in and of itself....occupational hazard, I guess.

So tell me....how do you bounce back?