Also wondering if anyone has UoEM if you do that would be amazing lol here's a rec:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7557706/1/What_I_Wished_For

I wanted to post a quick campfire about something I'm getting really involved in with all three of my dogs.

If anyone here has a dog with a nose (hopefully all of them have a nose...), please consider looking into this super fun activity.

Usually with our dogs we do obedience of some sort. Obedience classes, rally, dog shows, blah blah blah. We expect our dogs to perform exactly how we request and don't give them the freedom to be dogs and do what they LOVE to do.

What does a dog love to do? SNIFF!

K9 Nose Work is almost exactly like drug dog training for the police department, except it's for your pet and you don't search for drugs, obviously. I guess you could if you trained it at home, haha. It's also pretty cool because you can't smell where the odor is and your dog has to tell you where it is. It builds trust and a strong bond between dog and owner.

People are starting to use it with shelter dogs because of the benefits it provides to dogs in a setting that is usually high stress.

Anyway, I have one dog who has 'stranger danger' and barks at everyone. Since doing Nose Work for a few months she is now more comfortable around strangers. People can come to the house and if I begin a game with her, she doesn't even bark, she just gets right to her job and then is more confident and relaxed when it's over.

I have another dog who has serious anxiety issues. He's been on Prozac for anxiety. He just stopped taking it, and in combination with Nose Work and relaxation training he was able to have people come over to the house today and let them in without fuss and do his 'job' and he, too, was more relaxed at the end of his game.

Another plus is that after a class, even though the dogs only do about 3 searches each, they come home EXHAUSTED. It's serious business. A 5 minute search is equal to a 20 minute walk - that's how hard they are working.

http://www.funnosework.com/

This is the website you'd visit for more information, to find a certified trainer near you, and to get started having fun with your dog.

Ask me if you have questions, too. :)

I just finished watching Like Crazy and the movie left me feeling kinda irritated at the two protagonists.  Don't get me wrong, the movie was very good but the two people...I can't even.  Reminds me of the horribleness of the Emma and Dexter from One Day.

So is there a movie you've seen or a book you've read where you just felt like slapping the main characters?

Sooo I've been dying to reread Holding Out for you but can't find it and I was hoping someone here would have it!

Here's a rec!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6072423/1/Picture_Perfect

Happy Sunday to you all!  I used to have the following stories loaded onto my Kindle, but I sold my Kindle and need these stories in PDF format now.  Can anybody help?  If so, let me know and I'll PM you with my e-mail.  TIA!

Devil's Angel - ObsessingOverEdward

Mr. Horrible - AlgonquinRT

Bare - StellaLunaSky

Trippin, Slippin, Stumbletumblin - YellowGlue

Purgatory - americnxidiot

Heartache - oohlaalaa

My rec is an oldie but a goodie:  The Acclimation Diaries by booboo.kitty2.0. 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4935575/1/The_bAcclimation_b_bDiaries_b

The Truly Anonymous Twilight One-Shot Picture & Prompt Contest

3 - AMAZING banner artists 

14 - Dedicated judges

1 - Secret Keeper and Chief Chick in Charge

6 - Winners will be chosen by Judges

6 - Winners will be chosen by public vote

97 STORIES TO CHOOSE FROM  HERE.

And you can vote HERE throughout this coming week!

And if any of these links don't work, just go to the main contest page: http://ficcontest.info/

P.S. It's still FFA, so please consider Feeding the Trees!
 

Hi, my name is Rose and I'm twi-aholic ..

I can't stop thinking about the characters all the day long, the original ones or the AU ones .. I wake up reaching for my Lap Top to continue reading the story I'm reading on FF, and I mostly find it on my lap where I slept while reading .. *shakes head* ..

I watched every movie countless times could reach the the thousand .. I speak the words with the characters which annoy every one around me and they eventually leave the whole thing for the sake of staying away from me :(

The forest is the only where I feel like they know what's inside me and seems to .. get it ..

Is there is a cure? not sure if I even want it ..

How you were introduced to twilight?

Is there is any one in here feel like I'm feeling?

Or just share a funny pic about Twiligh fans  :)

Thanks LOL

Positively4thStreet has taken AMtDR off Hiatus, Woot!

Chapter 17

Good Morning Campers, did you remember to set your clock forward an hour?  So how is everyone doing this week?

Homework:  With the weather getting warmer will you be doing more active activities outside or stay more indoors with your workouts/fitness activities?  What can you not wait to do?

24/7 Support - ADF Fit Club LJ Community

Also its never too late to join in. ; )

I mostly started this CF for one particular gif, but as it has a naughty word, it has to be inside. Anyway...

I've got my...

mockingjay pin and my tickets so...

Let's chat.

I'm not sure if anyone will find this interesting, but Ive been pondering it for a while, so...

An old favorite Harry Potter fanfic author updated today. I've been reading her stuff since... 2003 I think, (since I was WAAAAY to young to be reading smut scenes.) This woman has to be crazy--she rarely completes fics, has created her own "universe" (every fic she writes is an AU of another), and each story has 80 chapters at least, because she loves dream sequences and time travel and essentially "re-does" the plot development of a story every ten chapters. She used to have some AMAZING fics that I wish she would complete, but I just cant keep up with her anymore. If I read through everything she's written and did nothing else besides sleep... it would probably take me 6 months to complete everything, at the very least.

Points if you can guess who I'm talking about.

The thing is, she is the last real writer of a dead ship. All the great stories are getting erased as old places for posting become abandoned and lost in cyberspace. The great authors bounced a while ago (or pulled to publish *AHEM CASSANDRA CLAIRE*.) My very first Harry Potter ship (H/G) completely tanked early on due to drama on its main website, even though it turned out to be canon!

I'm amazed the moderators still run the site this author is on, it gets zero traffic. It's... ghostly. And I can't help but feel like so many opportunities for great writing were lost, because people were all over the place back then, due to lack of organization.

Even though this fandom is much bigger than my Harry Potter ships were, it makes me depressed to think about our cyber future. Once upon a time, I could list all the best authors/stories, now I can remember none because the fics have all been pulled.

Questions for discussion:

What is the future of this fandom? If people stopped being interested immediately after BD2, do you think you'd be satisfied by what the writers accomplished on a whole in their fiction explorations? Would you say it ended on a high or low note?

What other fandoms did you all come from? Do you see Twidom following those same patterns, or are we changing as the internet progresses? 

Does anyone else feel personally devastated by the mass loss of fanfiction stories and communites that you were devoted to, years later? When I look at these old sites, I seriously feel like I am being haunted by a past relationship from which I never got any closure. What am I supposed to do with all these... FEELINGS?!?!

This is symbolic of how I feel... at least until I can replace it with a better gif.

I'm currently experiencing the dreaded 'my computer won't start up' horror that haunts all of our dreams...

Since I know this has happened to many fanfiction writers over the years, I was wondering if anyone has any advice?  So far, all of the troubleshooting suggestions haven't yielded anything.

The start-up gets as far as that black screen with the blinking cursor.  If I hold down escape before that screen appears, then I can enter these other menus and run diagnostics... But everything seems to be passing the tests.

I'm really trying not to freak out (that pitcher of homemade Wallaby Darned certainly helped) and would appreciate anything you might have to offer.

To make this more interactive, does anyone have any good technology-based stories? Edward as a robot? Bella giving birth to the child destined to lead the fight against the machines? Some sort of living house scenario (in which the Edward-interface falls for a very human Bella)?

I don't want this on front page out of embarrassment.

A friend of mine linked this article on Facebook:
 

http://www.xojane.com/healthy/other-f-word

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I like that the author is very confident in herself because, unfortunately many women who struggle with their weight are not. My aforementioned FB friend commented that she thought that was the point of the article.

I didn't get that vibe from it, what do you think?

For the interactive part: I'm "overweight" (as one of the commenters called herself, to the dismay of another commenter) and I prefer NOT to use the word fat for various reasons.  How do you feel about the usage of the word in general?

So, I posted some links in a CF yesterday about Babies on a Plane and we all got to talkin' and I felt a little bad that I might be puttin' people off from kids with discussion over essentially the stressful parts of parenting.

Then I remembered this little piece I saw a while back and how I really loved it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glennon-melton/dont-carpe-diem_b_1206346.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

I think it applies to everyone, not just people with kids.

So, I'd like to share it. What are your thoughts? Do you have moments like these? Do you think this link is poo? Did you read it and like it, tooo? (I just rhymed. Woo!)

Yes, share your thoughts.....boo. xo 

Here's the thing - I'm naturally a quiet person. I'm fairly shy and I've never been a stellar conversationalist. Being out of work for a long time has only made my shyness more pronounced.

I started a job this week and I've been told I need to work on being chattier and basically more confident. Since this doesn't come naturally to me, I'm hoping for some tips from my fellow forest dwellers.

Do ye have any tips for overcoming shyness? For faking confidence? For chit-chatting with strangers and filling awkward silences and seeming at ease when you're actually cringing inside?

Or lets just talk  in general about overcoming challenges, in the workplace or otherwise, and how to cope with a new job. or share stories of the affliction of awkwardness.

tyfyt

UGH, so I'm currently going through a horrible break-up. The jerkwad dumped me after six years. SIX YEARS, people! 

So I need your help and want your recs for a fic in which Bella also goes through a breakup (sisters in solidarity!) But I need a happy ending, prefereably E/B, so I know that there's hope. ....And can secretly pray that my Edward will come in, all bronze-haired, and dishelveled with just enough background to make him interesting.

What are your favorite break-up fics in the Twilight fandom? Best of the best? 

OH, and to give back, of course:

One of the most hilarious fics I've read in a long time. Gay Jacob is a riot!

Pinky Swear » by kharizzmatik reviews
Bella always knew she loved her best friend, but it isn't until she finds out he's engaged that she remembers just how much. How far will she go to make him see he's marrying the wrong woman? A story about finding your heart and losing your head. AH E/B
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 20 - Words: 137,730 - Reviews: 5468 - Updated: 3-7-12 - Published: 6-10-11 - Bella & Edward
 

I'm looking for a fic that I can't remember much about.

All I really remember is:

-they are vamps.

-Tanya and Edward are playing chess and she is basicly assulting him through the mind reading.

-Tanya tries to assult him again in the kitchen but Bella uses her power/shield to keep her out and Tanya is unable to even come near him.

My rec: Make Me Believe » bellasunderstudy1
A marriage that was a mistake, a broken heart and a carefully constructed lie.When Edward comes back into Bella's life can he make her believe that he never stopped loving her? Canon couples, E/B.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 36 - Words: 333,249 - Reviews: 2361 - Updated: 5-17-10 - Published: 7-15-09 - Bella & Edward - Complete

Edit: Never mind I found it. It was A Life Extraordinary.

Can we please discuss this update?

I really love this story.

I am looking for two O/S...

1) Edward and Bella tell their love story to the family. I dont remember much but after the proposal, Edward asks Bella if she loves children and put lizrd's child in her hand.

2)Bella works for Edward. He finds her disgusting or something. He always insults her. One day he follows her and finds out that her dad has cancer and she's trying her best to save money or him.

Recommendation:

Color of loneliness

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6633773/1/Color_of_Loneliness

Bella loses her last living relative and falls into a deep depression. She also has an ex-boyfriend whom she can't get away from. Can a gruff contractor named Edward bring her out of the darkness? Rated M for lemons and language. OC.