I know I've been posting about this, but considering cards go out TOMORROW, I want to make sure I have everyone!

If you are interested in receiving a card from me, and sending one in return (although that isn't required!), please leave a message here :) Feel free to send addresses to one of the following places - xxdearlybeloved (AT) gmail.com or send me a message. I promise I will not use your addresses for anything other than to send cards. I can provide character references if needed.

Yes, msm00nlight , I have yours. :P

So, if you are interested, PLEASE let me know before tomorrow :)

Address!:
Are You Interested In Receiving a CD as Well?:

Or somewhere there abouts. It feels good this year to have actually had a story that just all but wrote itself. There were no moments where I was completely stumped. Sure, I had to skip around sometimes and move to the next chapter, but I always went back and finished. I always knew the direction the story was heading - this was a huge change for me. All in all, NaNo this year, despite it's set backs at the beginning, was probably the best I've had.

A few days later, I'm still holding strong with what I talked about earlier. To be honest, I feel so much pressure has been lifted from my shoulders. I mean, I think I've already hit rock bottom a few times. Don't know how much further I can go, so it can only be uphill from here. Things are changing for me, and I'm hoping they're changing in a good way. Thank you so much for all your support.

Writing wise, I finally feel like I'm back! Honestly, I have no idea when I'm going to write on Hindsight again - it should be my main priority, but I just can't get into it. I think soon I"m going to force myself on a Saturday to sit down at Scrivner and just start WRITING on it. If I can pull a mini NaNo on Hindsight, I'll have it done and out of the way. For anyone who reads Star Trek fiction, I will be writing a Kirk/McCoy fanfic for Christmas. It's due on the 13th, so I better get a move on. I think it's supposed to be a happy fic - I'll really work on that.

I would like to know how 2010 is next month. Seriously? Didn't 2009 just begin? And 17 days after that, I'll have my first wedding anniversary. HOW?! Adults really were not kidding when they said time passes faster as you get older. And on an extremely random note - there are few things more comforting than a cat purring in your lap :) Just thought you should know.

What do you think of the new layout?

Medium: Movie
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Subject: Kirk/McCoy
Title: Back to Good
Notes: I feel like I'm jumping on a bandwagon! I had no idea how many Bones/Kirk playlists there already were! I apologize for adding to the mix, but I thought it might be nice :) Please ignore the absolutely TERRIBLE cover (if anyone wants to make one for me, I'd be eternally grateful!) No art skills whatsoever :) These are songs that have inspired me to write Bones/Kirk fiction! I've already got a few little stories running around, but they're going to have to be paitent until after NaNo. If you like/take the playlist, please leave a comment! I'm really interested to know who likes it!


( Back To Good )

Borrowed the idea from inell

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

For the past week, the intake of food that Mina has been consuming has been going down hill. On Sunday night, she stopped eating completely . She wouldn't touch her food mixture or the cats kibble (she eats out of their bowl when she's running around the apartment), and nothing I did could persude her to eat. I had also been noticing her weight seemed to be dropping, but I don't think I noticed just how severe it had gotten until then. She still acted normal, went to the restroom normal, and did her normal ferret things. I had read that ferrets won't stop these acitivies usually until they're on their death bed, so naturally I was scared shitless. I even ran to the store to get her some ingredients for the duck soup I've heard so much about (which, by the way, is the most FOUL stuff I have ever made in my entire life.)

This morning, I got her into a vet in Oklahoma City I had heard so much about. The charge for bringing her in was ridiculous ($67 for one little ferret? For a check up?), but it was worth it to at least know she's okay. Mina stumped the doctor - we went through the questions: Has she been acting okay? Restroom activities normal? When was the last time you saw her do it? Any previous illnesses, etc. . . Everything checked out fine. Her ears, eyes, heart, lungs, and various other body parts are in perfect working condition from what he could tell. I was so proud, because she was so well behaved for him. Er, at least she was until he raped her getting a fecal sample. My poor baby RAN into my arms with watery eyes, and sat there and SHOOK until he went away after that.

Long story short, she has a perfect bill of health despite only weighing hardly two pounds. There is litearlly no reason for he to be so skinny. I feel like a terrible parent - we DO feed her, and she HAS been eating, but I really don't know when this whole 'let's not eat as much as I have been!" started. I was almost in tears by the end of the vet visit - I was scared he would think I wasn't feeding her, and neglecting her. He told me that pet parents who don't care about their animals wont' spend the time to figure out what's wrong with them. Everything else about her is in great condition; she's quite obviously loved.

So, the plan is to literally force her to eat. I managed to scrounge up something before I left for work that she actually did seemed to like. Wet ferret food, oats, a tiny dab of honey, ferritone, and ferrivite all mixed in together (all stuff I found in a duck soup reciepe. Less disgusting too), and she seemed rather happy with that. So, if we can just get that down her with the ferrivite and get her fattened up again, I think we'll be okay. I ran all of this by the vet too, and he agreed this was a good idea. Nothing in that would hurt her (they honey is a little sugary, but it should be okay as long as I don't put too much in there. It's more of a taste factor too).

So, out with the fleas and in with the weightloss. My poor baby needs a break :( Please keep her in your thoughts. I think we're on the road to recovery, but I'm still concerned.

Going to post this while I'm a little ahead.  Here is a scene I just posted on the NaNo site, and I thought I would share it with my readers :)  I tease that it's the scene that kept killing my computer - a hard drive crashed after I wrote it, it deleted itself, and a computer shut down without saving once.  So, here it is, and I hope it doesn't kill your computer too.

Feel free to comment if you want.  THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT.  I know it's major shit.  And also - the medications that are mentioned are a resulte of me hafl assing.  If I post this thing, I will actually RESEARCH HIV medications, and do an accurate one :)  Until then, you're stuck with the 3 a.m Wikipedia answers.  

( Between God and Me )</div></div></div>

Word count as of 9:00 a.m, November 7th: 8,520/50,000.  Not too terribly far off from where I'm supposed to be.  We're supposed to hit 11,000 today, so I'm really only about 3000 behind . . which seems like a lot, but I've come out of much worse situations.   I'm not letting it get to me, because I know eventually I will hit the inevitable "Where the hell do I go from here?"  block I always get around the middle of week two.  Thus far, it is flowing fairly well.  I'm just now reaching the third chapter, and I have a little of what I stupidly call my "meadow scene" (there are reasons I call it that outside of the obvious Twilight reference xD), except there are no sparkly vampires, or "I LOVE YOU BUT WE CAN NEVER BE TOGETHER!11!11!".  Just a very sick Jamie and Tenshi humoring him.  :D  But it's the turning point in their relationship, and that's all that matters.

To tell you the continuing drama of the The Mac(tm), I can say that we have it resolved.  Sunday evening, I bought myself a hard drive.  Very long story (with many emotional breakdowns) short, that hard drive will not install.  Why, do you ask?  Well, because when the guy wiped the computer before sending it to me, he erased what was a VERY ESSENTIAL PART of the computer.  Even if the hard drive crashed, and the restore disc was in, you still need this VEP to get it to recognize said disc.  Apparently, you can find someone else with a Mac, and hook it up and blah de blah, but it's obviously going to take someone a lot smarter than me.  And Apple never called me back for them to come in and install the hard drive so . . . I said screw it.  A friend I had previous known at one of my colleges was selling his almost brand new MacBook Pro.  With the money I got for selling Harddriveless Mac on eBay (yes, I was honest and told them all of the problems. xD I'm not a cheater), and my husband helping me, I was able to get it.  So I have a new shiny.  I admit I haven't named it yet.  The other Mac broke my heart, and I have abandonment issues.  So, it's going to have to prove it's love to me.

OH.  TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED LETTERS OF ENCOURAGEMENT/CARE PACKAGES.  I regret to inform you due to the Mac drama, I can no longer afford to send care pacakges :(  HOWEVER - I would be more than happy to send the letters of encouragement, and if you would like, I can send you CD's full of music and "I can do this!" . . . In other words, just random song that's in my lame playlist.   Anyone be interested?  If so, send me a message and we'll get to the information.  This will require addresses.  If you're not comfortable with giving me your address, I'm completely fine with that :) I can offer that I really am who I say I am, and I will not stalk you,or sell your information to the black market . . . much :P  I kid, I kid.

I'm going to get to work now, and hopefully I will have reached at least today's word goal by the end of the day.  Here is to crossing fingers and hoping! :D

My icon fills me with happiness :)

I am no goig to talk about the bricked Mac on here. I'm too frustrated, and too upset, and I think I might burst into tears again if I do.  I'll update after I see Apple again on Wednesday.

I'm 1500 into my NaNo.  Very slow start, as I'm usually to about 4K by this point in time, but with all the computer issues I've been having, this is better than nothing.  My beginning is sucktacular, but I'm getting into the groove of writing again.  I've missed this :)

Update more tomorrow.

I am making this a quick note before I start rewriting what I lost on my NaNo.  It's only day one and I still feel incredibly far behind.  It's four-thirty adn I haven't written a word.  *sigh*

This morning was hell.  After determining that no, I can not fix this damn Mac by myself, I jumped on to Apple.   I made an appointment for 11:40 to have the thing checked out.  I jumped in my car, drove up to Northwest Expressway, and stopped for gas to kill al ittle time.  It is at this point that I notice my purse is not in my backseat.  In fact, it's still sitting on my chair.  At home.  One look at my gas tank informs me that there is no way I'm going to get home before I run out of gas.  So after freaking out for a few moments, I find four dollars worth of coins in my car.  On my way home, I call to make a new appointment.  In the fifteen minutes it took me to get from NW Expressway to my house, all spots for the 11-12, and 1-2 have filled up.  I manged to score a 2 p.m appt.

Then I had a small car wreck.  Nothing huge, but my bumper;s kinda dented now.

After having a small nervous break down at home, I dragged Erica with me to the mall and went to see what was wrong with Mac.  Apparently, his hard drive is FRIED.  He couldn't even get it to  . . do something it's supposed to always do.  I have no idea.  Since I seem to be having the best luck today, the hard drive won't be in until Wednesday at the earliest.  Technically I could go to Best Buy and see if they have the same dive . . but I wouldn't get the 90 warrenty if this one craps out, or the service.  He was really nice to me too.  He wavered the help fee, and gave me a discount . . . So I'm getting a $230 hard drive for about a $100.  I'm not complaining.

On the fun side, I'm wearing ny NaNo shirt.  A lady in the Apple store saw it and was excited :D Apparently she NaNo's too.  Awesome.

Now, to decide if I want to sleep first, or just suck it up agnd start writing.  Sadly, I think sleep might win/

I got my brand new (to me) Mac in.  I loved it to death.  NaNoWriMo started.  I had about 1000 words. 

Then last night on a service update/install thing, the Mac restarted, and now it's flashing a folder at me.  Which means my hard drive crashed.  Which, from what I'm reading, should be an easy fix.  You just pop in the instillation disk and go on your merry way through the steps.  Except, my computer isn't recognizing the disc.  I get to the set up, and it's like "destination volume not found!" . . so, I'm fucked.

I have an appt with Apple at 2:00.  Here is to hoping to GOD they can fix this.

Best case senario: They'll pop in their disc, it will run like nothing is wrong, I'll look like a fool, but have a working computer.

Worst case senario: I'm going ot have to buy a new hard drive OR my computer is just fucked.

I'll update tonight.

(in other news, I'm using my icon of Shitfaced the Tribble to hopefully cheer me up a little bit)

Anyone here have a completely unreasonable fear?  Something that just scares the crap out of you, and you honestly can not explain why? I know plenty of people who are scared of clowns, birds, dolls . . . And sometimes they have good reasons, and sometimes they don't.  Since it's getting closer to Halloween, I thought I'd share my completely unreasonable fear.  Because, in all honesty, it is rather ridiculous.  But I swear to GOD thing thing was sent directly from my nightmares.

My unreasonable fear is known as Robert the Doll.  I will not be showing you pictures here - if you're interested in him, you can go look him up yourself.  I was first introduced to him whe I was in the sixth or seventh grade - I had this bad habit (still do) of watching the haunted houses on the Travel channel, and being stupid enough to think I could sleep at night after watching them.  I love horror things, don't get me wrong, but I've always been beyond skittish.  I eventually had to stop letting myself watch horror movies - first off I don't like the blood that is in most of them.  Second off, my imagination doesn't stop to tell myself "This isn't real"  it grows and grows, and before i know it, I'm in a HUUGE panic attack.  

There's a lot of stories behind Robert. I couldn't really do them all justice, so I'll simply provide you with a link :D  ROBERT!  He's been in a few museums - he's been moved around so much because people are rather scared of him.  There are stories of the power just always going out in the areas he is in, or laughter.  Eh.  I don't know so much about that.  I do know, however, I would NOT want to be the last person to go flip off the lights in his area.  OH HELL NO.  There is even a story that you have to be polite to him - if you take his picture and fail to ask his permission, he'll come out in every single one of the pictures.  Again, I don't exactly believe those things (they're more made up to make his story even a little scarier), but I don't think I'd risk a chance either :)

So! What is YOUR unreasonable fear?  (I demand links, or a semi-explination :D This is me being a masochist)

And also - HI TIM :D YOUR WIFE IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO SLEEP TONIGHT! :D

So, I did something very stupid last night.  I bought a MacBook.  It's a first generation MacBook, and I found it on eBay for $400, which was NOT a bad price at all.  Considering the new ones are $1100 grand total.  But my PC is a piece of crap, and I'm sick of dealing with all the stuff it's giving me.  Ever Apple product I've owned has treated me wonderfully so . . what the hell.  I'll try a MacBook.  If I like it, I'll save up and buy a brand new one.  I'm also planning on selling the old PC that I have, along with my old Blackberry Storm, and my old Blackberry Pearl.  They're both on eBay right now, if anyone is interested.    But I did some math.  If I start putting about 100 out of my paycheck into my savings, by the end of the three years I have to live off of it, I should have $7200.  

I need to see someone about myself.  Mom and I sat down a few nights ago and went over a list of problems that I've been having.  The SEVERE mood swings, the hormonal problems, the no sleeping, the panic attacks that are getting worse and worse, the going from INSANELY hyper and happy to bawling my eyes out in the shower . . . everything adds up to something.  I've had mood swings all of my life, but these are just . . bad.  They happen frequetnly throughout the day, and I feel like I have no control over it.  People tell me to cheer up, and everything will get better.  I know this, I really do.  But I can go from top of the world to wanting to kill someone in two seconds flat.  And I can't just MAKE myself be happy - it doesn't work that way.   So, Mom and I are going to call the insurance on Tuesday and find out what they say about therapy.  See if maybe what that doctor a few years ago thought is actually true. But that's a whole different story :)

I'm in the process of outlining for NaNo! FINALLY.  I bought a stack of flash cards, and have been writing down plot points on there.  I'll arrange them later and write out a decent outline.  

Mom ad Jason are out of town, so I've been staying at their house.  It makes it look lived in (to ward off any potential theives) and all to keep Tut from going nuts.  Tut is Jason's 23lb (FREAKING CUTE) tabby cat that has SEVERE separation anxiety.  He also has the tendancy now to "fake sick" when they go out of town.  It's ridiculous.

I'm taking a leaf out of somewhatlacking   's book and going to make a filter for NaNo.  While I know that some of you are really excited for me, and want to keep track of my progress, I'm not going to torture everyone on my friends list with it.  Instead of making a totally new journal like I had thought about, I think I'll just make a filter.    It will be filled with character biographies and pictures (I found pictures of Jamie and Tenshi last night.  FINALLY), and I might post a scene here or there if I'm rather proud of it.  All in all, it will keep you updated on how NaNo is going for me this year, and hopefully will help me with motivation :)

So, that being said, if you'd like in on this filter, please comment below! I'll add you as soon as I get to work.

I saw the Star Wars concert this evening - all I can say is WOW.  It was a lot better than what I expected.  It was similar to what I had assumed - if any of you have seen the DVD extra that came with the Revenge of the Sith CD, you'll know what I saw tonight.  It's the same "music videos" with the music.  Still, there were laser lights, and ANTHONY DANIELS.  I saw Anthony Daniels :D And he was amazing, and ever so nice.  He goofed off - mainly going off on tangents when it came to 3PO xD And on the part where he told about the race through the astroids, he rattled off the odds, and marched around the stage with his arms out.  All in all, I highly enjoyed the night, and would really, REALLY love to see it again.

It kinda dawned on me how surreal the whole thing was when I was watching Across the Stars <3  I seriously have some love for that piece of music.

ANYWAY - I give you pictures!!  They had tons of little props here.  AND AN ORIGINAL VADER SUIT.  I kinda wanted to die.  To save some space, I'm going to link you to an account - you can go through them at your convience! Comment on them, if you wish  I'm interested :D

I'm coming down a little off the high right now.

(I PROMISE I can take better pictures that what you see here.  But I was being shoved around, and mauled, and I had to act very fast.  Not enough time to set up - just point and shoot)

Find the pictures HERE!

My Vader gloves came in! *dances around* And then I promptly did the stupid thing, went to Spirit Halloween, and bought another pair.  Honestly, I don't know which pair I'm going to end up sticking with through the winter - the pair I bought from ebay is pleather - they're a lot warmer, and they look a little more authentic.  The only issue is that my hands are a little too small for them.  On Jennifer, and a few other people I know, this wasn't a problem.  But they didn't fit my hands at ALL.  I still think I'm going to end up lining them, and possibly selling/giving them away as a present.  If anyone is interested in them, let me know :) I can send pictures!

On that note - I SEE THE STAR WARS CONCERT TOMORROW! *flails!*  I'm so excited, you have no idea.  Erica and I decided, because of money issues, that we're going to put off seeing Avenue Q in December.  This leaves me open, and MIGHT leave me a chance to see Mannheim Steamroller when they come through.  They RARELY come to Oklahoma, and I loved them so much last time, I'd give a leg to see them again.  Maybe I can talk the hubby into going with me :D I think he'd really like them too.  We saw TSO last year - they're similar, but I like Mannheim so much better.

I see Wicked with Morgan in *checks date* 32 days!  It'll be a nice little get away, but nothing huge and extended.  I'll miss the hubby, and be ready to come home on Sunday :)

And that's all I ahve to say for right now :) Might blog some more later.

-- The past week has been a little slow for me.  I've had ups and downs all week - it hasn't exactly been glorious.  Oh well.  Such is life.  But I'm so sorry to all of my LJ friends - I promise I will go through my friends list and comment you guys on your stuff.  I swear, that will be done tomorrow, or later tonight.

-- I have decided that "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" is my new favorite feel good movie.  It makes little to no sense and is all around hysterical.  I want to go through downtown San Francisco and just randomly ask people where their "nuclear wessles" are XD  On this note, I would like to announce that I really do love me some Bones.  Seriously, McCoy makes me some happy.

-- I made progress in the Star Wars novel today, thanks to pa_pri_ka , who was kind enough to let me ramble to her, and to point out the half a billion plot holes in the storyline.  Without her, I don't think I would have been able to make headway :D  It now has a slightly new plot, but one I think will work very well.  Thank you so much, deary.  *hugcling* I wouldn't have been able to figure it out without you.  Poor Anakin and Padme - they might never be the same now :P

-- NaNo is under two weeks away, and I'm OMG excited!! 

-- Christmas music from Mannheim Steamroller (YES, I listen to their Christmas music year round.  Bite me; it's gorgeous) really makes me want to write some kind of epic fantasy.  Only issue?  Yeah, I suck at it.

-- I took a allergy med that I THOUGHT was non-drowsy right before work today.  It wasn't.  I'm just NOW starting to not feel light headed and WHOOOOO.  I was a little high today throughout my shift.  According to those who talked to me, I was pretty amusing.

-- I love it when people get a taste of their own medicine :) I'll update about that when it isn't three in the morning.

Or at least that's the thought of this wonderful gentlemen, in this incredibly failtastic article.

For those who don't want to click the link, let me summarize what he's saying: Science Fiction is for boys.  It is to inspire boys to grow up to be engineers, or pilots, astronauts, or WHATEVER THEY WANT.  Because they are MEN, and they are MIGHTY.  And they have a PENIS! GRRRRR!!!! Women, however, have killed it.  We don't have this honor.  Oh no.  We have ruined the science fiction world.  We have feminized the genre so much that men are no longer inspired to be what they once were.  He uses many references - Star Trek being one of the most popular ones he likes to bring out.  By slashing characters in the show, we have somehow ruined the dreams of little boys everywhere.

I'm not saying that i don't see his point.  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion .. .  but it wouldn't bother me so much if he didn't keep punching over and over that MEN are the only people who should be allowed to have anything to do with the Science Fiction world.

Here's a nice quote: Science fiction is a very male form of fiction.  Considerably more men than women are interested in reading and watching science fiction.  This is no surprise.  Science fiction traditionally is about men doing things, inventing new technologies, exploring new worlds, making new scientific discoveries, terraforming planets, etc.  Many men working in the fields of science, engineering, and technology have cited science fiction (such as the original Star Trek) for inspiring them when they were boys to establish careers in these fields.

Forgive me if I'm wrong. . .but wasn't Star Trek one of the first shows to promote women to working alongside the men?  We were no longer in the background.  Look at Uhura! She has a place on the bridge with the rest of her colleagues!  They treated her as an equal.

It's late and I really can't form coherent thoughts right now . . but seriously.  This man needs to be punched.  It really can't JUST be me who is rather offended at this article?

Excuse me while I go ruin science fiction some more.  

I may or may not now own Darth Vader gloves to use as my gloves during the winter.  They may or may not be the coolest freaking thing in my entire wardrobe.   I may or may not be planning to line them with some sort of fleece or fur so that they're incredibly comfortable when wearing them.  I may or may not be way too excited about this.

I also figured out my both the NaNo Kick Off Party costume and my Halloween costume.  Depending on which one will be finished at which period of time.   My first idea is to be Ross - my Cupid character from a few years ago (my first NaNo, actually).  I bought some gauze wings at  Party Galaxy, and I'm going to turn him into a mummy :)  The second is to do Glinda from the Wizard of Oz/Wicked - I found a pink dress that looks both like her original dress from the movie, but I could alter it to look like a pink version of the Bubble Dress from the musical.  We'll mummify her too.  I haven't decide which one I'm doing for the party yet - it will depend on if I can get the Bubble Dress done in time.  It's the more expensive of the two - I'm going to need to find some kind of pink cami to go underneath it.

In NaNo News: I am currently completing an "100 Questions You Should Know About Your Character" for both Tenshi and Jamie.  They are done from the point of view of the characters, and it really has made me think in some places.  I'm actually learning about them as I go.  I won't post it here - I know you guys are probably sick of hearing about my characters by now :) But if you want the questionare, or would be interested in filling one out on your own and trading, comment or send me a message : ) Or if you just. . want to know more about them xD  I'll send it over.

Here we are to our second installment of the "Meet the Characters!"  We've go a few more profiles to go through (Lyla, and Kouji's, mainly).  LIke I said, you're more than welcome to ignore the posts, but comments are always appreciated.  You guys can catch errors and such; God knows I make them.

Meet James Richardson.  He goes by Jamie.
Born James Miller, but was adopted by Jonathon Richardson when he was four.
Born and raised in Adelaide, Australia.  At least half Asian.  He isn't sure what.
Thirty-four years of age.
Is the eldest child of Kristen Richardson, born when she was sixteen years old.
Has one younger sister, Dealyla.
Married once, had a very nasty divorce.  One child resulted from the marriage - Kitlyn.  She is three.
Admittedly went a little crazy after the divorce - drank, slept around like mad, and got into drugs.  This lasted around year.
He is an English professor at a university in Adelaide.
His best friend in the world is a woman named Nia.  She currently lives in the States.
Was diagnosed as HIV+ a few months prior to the story.

Jamie is one of the most friendly people you'll ever meet.  He doesn't believe in having enemy's or strangers, and he's friendly with just about anyone.  He's one of the most popular professors at the college, and by far one of the best teachers to have for English.  He's had it a little rocky in life - his wife Ashlie left him with a six month old daughter and  a ton of debt.  He currently lives with his little sister, Lyla.  In his spare times, he enjoys experimenting in the kitchen (which either result in delicious food, or a night in the hospital), reading, seeing whatever performance is on in town (whether it be a rock concert or an orchestra; he isn't picky), or spending time at home with his little girl. 

So, up until NaNo, I think I'm going to be positing little tidbits here and there about my characters.  It will help me get the feel of them, and maybe tell me a little about them before I shove them into this 50K novel.  Everyone's welcome to ignore these posts if you wish, but I'd really apprecaite it if you'd let me know what you think of them.  Do they seem real enough to you? Is there anything you would consider changing? If you're doing NaNo, you're more than welcome to follow this example, as I'm sure it's not original xD  This will done haphazardly and really in no format.  

Meet Ichijouji Tenshi.
Fifty-Two years of age.
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.  He is the eldest living child of Ichijouji Ryuu and Mikiko.  
He has two brothers, Shin and Maka.  Three nephews.
Married once, divorced.  He is still on great terms with his ex-wife and considers her to be his best friend in life.
Has one child, Kouji.
Gay.  He isn't closeted - he will let you know of his sexuality when asked, but it isn't something he flaunts either.  To him, it is a private personal matter.
Had a partner of ten years, Raidon, but ended the relationship after it was discovered Raidon had been cheating on him MULTIPLE times over the years
Was diagnosed as HIV+ a year or so prior to the story.  This was due to Raidon's cheating.
Has a MD in Psychiatry.  He is also a professor for both Psychology and Foreign Languages

Tenshi's personality is rather withdrawn when compared to his brothers.  He's quiet - choosing to observe people rather than join in on conversations.  He's very strongly opinionated, but isn't one to force those beliefs on others.  He has no religion - most either do not appeal to him, or automatically judge him.  He refuses to be a part of a religion that will condemn him to hell simply because of who he loves.  He adores children of all ages (and they love him), and wishes he had been able to have more with his ex-wife before they divorced.  Oddly enough, he knows just about every musical that has ever come through Japan, thanks to his son.  Some he enjoys, some he doesn't.  It's his guilty pleasure in life. 

I'll probably get a little better at this by the time I get to Kouji xD We've got three more main characters to go :D  Jamie is next!  Input on this would be much appreciated.