KIDS AND KILTS.

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

A late night with music and fire.

As usual, Our Dark Dominant Mistress is in regular, whilst I am in bold.



Saturday night we got to bed about 1:30 AM. It was well worth it,
Perhaps for you, dear. For us, it was a nightmare in print.

Monday morning comes around and I was reminded why people with school age children don’t do the whole late night thing often. Yes, Trinity was with her father this weekend, but Jon and I still had to be up and coherent enough to get her off to school after my ex dropped her off. Which meant we got about 3 and a half hours of sleep.
My calculations indicated that you had to get up at 6am, which, in my experience, is a fairly usual time for parents on a school day. It also meant that your horrible ex and thoughtless child were up a heck of a lot earlier, to get to your place.
And what about poor Trinity? She has to spend a day at school after getting up at the crack of dawn, while all you two do is loll around the house, type a bit, and maybe drive the Foose to the shops. It's not like you've got a day of laundry, cleaning and heavy shopping ahead of you!

We were so tired it felt like a full body hangover this morning. It was self-punishing behavior, crap. But we got to see S. J. Tucker sing again, and that was certainly worth it. We also got to see her sweetie K spin fire . I’d seen videos, but never seen it done in person. Wow.
“Sweetie”. Euurrgghh!

We were on an open air terrace by a lake, and it was chilly last night. Jon and I really regretted not bringing jackets. Darla, wisely, had brought one. Charles, wisely, had brought one.
Do these people not have homes? Families? Lives?

But Jon and I, unwisely, were wearing just t-shirts. Jon and Charles both wore their Utility Kilts, and looked smashing.
Jonboi in a kilt? O_o
A Utility kilt?!? Does it come with its own “Bob the Builder” tool belt? Or a Batman-esque Bat-toy belt? Ooh ooh! I know! A rooly kewl Ninja Bodyguard, Badass, Rambo Was A Pussy, Weapons belt!!
Not to mention, Charles had arrived by motorbike. *pauses to contemplate image of macho cop bodyguard roaring up to venue, on a Harley, in a leather jacket and kilt*
*dissolves into blubbering mass of hysterical laughter*

I did jeans. I tried a dress, but it ended up not feeling like me, so I changed.
Not gawthity-gawth, darkity-dark, tough and ballsy enough, eh Anit...err Laurelle?

We got quite chilled, before the evening was over, as in I was huddling with people for body warmth. After Charles got done helping be safety person for the fire spinning he gave me his jacket to were. I tried the whole, "But you’re cold, too." He said, "Put it on." He’s earned the right to be on the very, very short list of people I’ll let be dictatorial to me.
She continues to struggle with simple spelling and proofreading. Pity he doesn't seem to have any idea about writing and/or editing...seeing as he's so dictatorial and dominant and tough and...and....*rushes off to find candles*

Wait, I got distracted, I was talking about technical difficulties.
“Mmmm...Jon in a kilt....Rawr!! Ohhh! Charles in a kilt....”

Jon and I proved that you can sort of do a tango in about a two foot square space. An awkward tango, but it was worth the effort for that smile on his face.
Ye Gods! This is a scene straight from that Halloween wedding in ID!

We mostly danced in place, or swayed to the music. The kilts made the dancing interesting. I’m not used to seeing a man’s knees when I’m dancing with him, or near him. I like it.
Sounds like Jon might be, to paraphrase a scene from “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, 'feeling a healthy breeze around his privates' for the foreseeable future.

I also just had to add the following, a pithy, succinct comment that neatly sums up my main problems with our Speshul Snowflake.
Over at Karen Knows Best, a person commenting on the post said, in part, the following - “But Laurelle has a housekeeper, and a stay-at-home husband to do all those things. You can’t get a spouse more supportive or devoted than the one she met when he was the teen president of her fan club. She was complaining because he had a doctor’s appt., and couldn’t prepare dinner for one freaking night!
As for the TMI blogging, if she didn’t have a child it would just be tacky, but no one should have to deal with their parent's contemporaneous public sex-diary. She lives with the child, and constantly makes her sound like a burden, publicly bashes the father in one book dedication after another, and leaves her ripe for public humiliation by her peers.
I’m starting to wonder if the constant blogs which are dismissive of her daughter on the one hand, and full of explicitly sexual TMI on the other, are a passive-aggressive attempt to goad her ex into pushing for full custody.”

An angry morriganscrow out.

Comments

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

Wait, can someone give me the rundown of how Laurell and Jon met? Was he seriously the teen president of her fan club? I'm squicking at about 100 miles per hour here and need the gritty and gross details.

[mizmalice.livejournal.com]

I would also like to know.

How old is he anyway? Or her?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Thirded. I'm not sure if "Teen President of Her Fan Club" is just a dig at his age or a factual statement (I'm assuming she's banging a guy substantially younger than she is, considering Anita's close to robbing the cradle right now).

[christraven.livejournal.com]

Welcome to adulthood, everyone sometimes stays up too late and has to do important stuff when they're exhausted....You shouldn't be acting like you're some kind of a poor victim because you need to take care of your daughter.

Hear, hear. I'm in charge of the kennels this quarter in school (Vet Tech program), and I'm consistently up at 5:00 to deal with twenty dogs of varying levels of dominance aggression. Add to that a job (thankfully, only part time), homework for four classes that adds up to about thirteen hours per week, the occasional bit of novel development when I can spare it, and a move into my new apartment with my girlfriend, and sleep is something that I've put firmly into the column of "things more precious than gold right now".

The biggest thing that chaps my ass about Her Speshulness is the fact that she works only about four hours a day (if her blog is to be believed), then goes and does whatever the hell she wants - watch TV, ignore her daughter, drive her overpriced, ridiculous car, whatever. She makes me absolutely disgusted with her whining about how ohsodifficultandohgodmylifeissohard in her blog.

Of course, it also makes me feel better about myself in a twisted way, because I know that if she tried even half the things that I or anyone else in this comm had to do on a daily basis, she'd go batshit-eating-her-own-waste insane within a week. Petty of me, I know, but I get my relief where I can.

[kisstheground.livejournal.com]

i actually have many biker friends who really adore utility kilts for riding. and they don't make a dude look too bad, either, heh.

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was just me but does anyone feel weirded out by the scene with her and the bodyguard?

Seriously, if she is sharing all these personal details about her sex life and personal life, she really has no reason to complain.

[evareia.livejournal.com]

I was wondering this exact same thing. Also, has she never danced with a man in shorts?

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

If she's supposedly tangoing with him she shouldn't be able to see his knees because 1) she'd be too close and 2) she'd be putting him off balance with her head down that far.

I hate it when people who don't tango write about how they "tango".

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

As for the TMI blogging, if she didn’t have a child it would just be tacky, but no one should have to deal with their parent's contemporaneous public sex-diary. She lives with the child, and constantly makes her sound like a burden, publicly bashes the father in one book dedication after another, and leaves her ripe for public humiliation by her peers.

I totally agree with this too.

And I find it horribly ironic that a woman who blogs (paraphrased) 'you have to be careful what kids see and hear because it might make a home' would write a TMI sex expose on the internet where her daughter, and all her daughter's friends can read it.

[plum-arden.livejournal.com]

Does she mean UtiliKilt? And if so, Jon needs to burn his right this very second. That's what *my* husband wears and is sexy in. MINE! Ok, he's moved on to AmeriKilts, but still. He doesn't do "antiquated pants" unless he has to.

As for the rest, like when Charles gave her his jacket, just put it on. Honestly, one of the most romantic things my husband has ever done for me is to give me his coat when I was cold. He didn't do the ultra-cheesy "I'll warm you up" thing. No, he just gave me his coat. I melted.

And yes, her living with her child and bashing the ex, and making Trinity sound like a burden, ugh, as a mother, I couldn't imagine. Ever.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I believe that she does mean "UtiliKilt" but like everything else she gets it wrong. DRIVING SIDEWAYS

[easol.livejournal.com]

I love men in kilts. "Rob Roy" made me drool myself silly. Yet I do not want to see Jonboi in a kilt, okay?

And does anyone else get WAY more chemistry between LKH and Charles than with her subhub?

[nimnix.livejournal.com]

He's one of the few people she'll let "be dictatorial" with her, which basically says everything I need to know. More than I need to know, in fact. She respects him in a way she doesn't seem to respect her own family.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

If LKH decides Sooj is gonna be her new special friend or something, I will seek her out and strangle her.

I also get the feeling that with Trinity, LKH fought for full custody just to take something away from Gary, but she doesn't really want the kid, and in her own way may be sabotaging herself, as the OP said, trying to passive-aggressively hint that she'd rather give her daughter to her ex after all.

[popelizbet.livejournal.com]

Late to the party, but YES.

Hearing her talk about s00j makes me seethe, because s00j is everything she's not.

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who wonders who was home with Trinity? I doubt she was at wedding/concert on Sunday night. Did Gary stay at the house with his daughter until 2:00 am and then trek back home? Did the housekeeper stay over?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I think what she means is that Gary dropped Trinity off at the house early Monday morning, so that she could deposit her bags and change for school.

UTILIKILTS DURR!!

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

DURR! (http://www.ninjapirate.com/utilikilts.html)

Re: UTILIKILTS DURR!!

[darkese.livejournal.com]

Jon to Charles: Quick, look! A bandwagon!! *flying leaps*

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

on and I proved that you can sort of do a tango in about a two foot square space.

Quickly! Call the milongueros of Buenos Aires and let them know of this exciting development! Oh, wait. They already know how to tango on a single tile. Pwned, LKH.

We mostly danced in place, or swayed to the music.

Yes, and? You don't actually know how to tango, do you, Laurell.

Also, I totally don't understand this "late night/early morning" shit. 1.30 is not late. Why, I'd have thought a Writah like LKH would routinely sit up working till that time. And if they went to bed at 1.30 why were they getting up at 5? Unless of course they spent an hour or two shagging. BLECH.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to comment in support of your tango rage. I don't tango, but I do something physical that takes practice (juggling), and every time somebody gets it wrong, or praises something technically easy, it pisses me off.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Laurell, honey, try working an eleven hour shift at Christmas in a bakery on two and a half hours of sleep a night. Then you can complain about taking your daughter to freaking school and then sitting around your house writing.

*cough* Sorry, I would just love to see her try to pull some of my holiday shifts. Then she'd understand what working long and hard is. At least when you write, it's all mental (mostly). And you're not on your feet for eleven hours.

I am so sick of the TMI and her speshul tango-ness.

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

I was a night shift nurse for over ten years, working 9pm - 7.30am, on a very busy specialty medical ward, 36 patients, two other staff, high death rate, with a 6 bed High Dependency Unit included.
I would drop my daughter at the sitters before work, pick her up in the morning, then we'd have breakfast together, check her homework and do some reading, then I'd take her to school.
I'd sleep, some, until I collected her at 3.30pm, then she'd play/do whatever while I dozed until dinner, then bath and back to the sitter. I was a single mum, so I had no-one t0 do all the shit stuff, and that's a big part of why LKH irks me SO much.

[longtail.livejournal.com]

Does Jon actually have a job, or does he just leech of Laurell? I've been kind of curious about that.

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

I don't think he does at all, it would overload her mind, if one of her yes men weren't there...

The Wedding Crashers, Part 1

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

But, Sunday morning Jon and I got to sleep in until 9:00, which made up for the late night. Monday morning comes around and I was reminded why people with school age children don't do the whole late night thing often.

Past tense to present back to past--the tense changes are giving me whiplash!

Yes, Trinity was with her father this weekend, but Jon and I still had to be up and coherent enough to get her off to school after my ex dropped her off. Which meant we got about 3 and a half hours of sleep.

In other words, it's ALL TRINITY'S FAULT that Laurenita didn't get to sleep in on Monday after having sex all night. How dare the girl have to go to school! (Most people would figure that if you're having sex, you're probably not going to be sleeping at the same time and that there may be a limited amount of sleep afterwards, but apparently Laurenita is not one of them.)

It was self-punishing behavior, crap.

Somehow I never thought of staying up late as masochistic behavior. But then, I don't know what Laurenita's whining about. All she has to do is wait till Trinity is at school, then go back to bed and have a snooze. She's self-employed and works at home. How hard would that be?

But we got to see S. J. Tucker sing again, and that was certainly worth it. We also got to see her sweetie K spin fire. I'd seen videos, but never seen it done in person. Wow.

Does "sweetie K" sound like "Special K" to anyone else? Seriously, why can't she call the man "Kevin" or "Wiley"? Kevin K. Wiley's a performer, not a superhero! I'm sure he doesn't have to conceal his secret identity.

There were some technical difficulties that led to the late hour. We were on an open air terrace by a lake, and it was chilly last night.

Technical Difficulty #1: It is May, and it is chilly outside at night. Presumably some celestial technicians should have been working on this.

Jon and I really regretted not bringing jackets. Darla, wisely, had brought one. Charles, wisely, had brought one. Though he was driving a motorcycle, and needed that leather jacket. He was driving his wife's brand new Harley. Very cool. He brought it to show off her new toy, and what a pretty toy it is.

Technical Difficulty #2: Lack of weather-appropriate clothing. Because Laurenita and JonBoi are incapable of stepping outside before leaving for the concert to see if they need sweaters, jackets, long trousers, etc. Clearly, their technicians failed them.

Also, why isn't Charles' wife showing off HER Harley?

Re: the kilts--what do you want to bet that we're going to see one of Merry's Subby Men wearing a skirt...er, I mean a KILT...in the next book?

I tried a dress, but it ended up not feeling like me, so I changed.

...into a weretiger?

We got quite chilled, before the evening was over, as in I was huddling with people for body warmth. I kept thinking of those pictures from the far north where the penguins huddle in groups and switch whose on the outside and inside so no one freezes to death.

Technical Difficulty #3. At this point I was bracing myself for the news that they had had to have sex to conserve body heat. (A story which has shown up in every fandom in existence.)

After Charles got done helping be safety person for the fire spinning he gave me his jacket to were.

A jacket to were? Is that like putting on a jacket to turn into a were-creature? Must be some kind of variant on Hexenwulfen. (Dresden Files reference.)

I tried the whole, "But you're cold, too." He said, "Put it on." He's earned the right to be on the very, very short list of people I'll let be dictatorial to me.

That's dictatorial? Oh, Laurenita, honey. You should have grown up in my house.

Re: The Wedding Crashers, Part 1

[novadivine.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking of those pictures from the far north where the penguins huddle in groups and switch whose on the outside and inside so no one freezes to death.

I think if she saw pictures of penguins in the far north they'd be passed out from the journey. Now at the SOUTH Pole...

The Wedding Crashers, Part 2

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Jon and I proved that you can sort of do a tango in about a two foot square space. An awkward tango, but it was worth the effort for that smile on his face. We mostly danced in place, or swayed to the music.

Tangos involve a lot of steps (http://home.att.net/~larrydla/basics_1.html), sidesteps (http://home.att.net/~larrydla/basics_2.html) and turns (http://home.att.net/~larrydla/basics_3.html). Dancing in place =/= the tango.

The kilts made the dancing interesting. I'm not used to seeing a man's knees when I'm dancing with him, or near him. I like it.

Which would mean that she was looking down instead of looking at his face. I thought that she believes that JonBoi was handsome. Why was she checking out his knees? Hasn't she ever seen them before?

The fire whirling in K's expert hands, with the black lake behind him, and the round, white moon above him, was a fabulous setting.

The FIRE was a fabulous setting?

Jester, who I had not met, did fire eating. A one point he and K did a duet of it, spitting out a spray of dark liquid and fire.

I'm pretty sure that a duet is two people singing together, not spitting together. And could she possibly make the fire eating sound less appealing?

Then, after all this about the concert, we get this information:

This was actually someone's wedding. Emily and Phil. They wanted to have S.J. at their wedding, after all the wedding part was over,

That's called a reception, dear.

and open it up to invited fans.

I don't know if that means that Emily and Phil wanted to open the reception so that fans could be invited, or if the reception was only open to fans who had been specially invited.

We felt a little awkward, not knowing Emily or her family, but I was assured that it was cool, and she wanted S.J. to have an audience.

Which is silly. Tucker WOULD have had an audience no matter what, even if the audience was only composed of the bride and groom.

We felt very honored to be able to share the bride and groom's special day.

"...even though we didn't know them or care about them, and were only there to horn in on the reception because we like the performer."

Re: The Wedding Crashers, Part 2

[easol.livejournal.com]

"A one point he and K did a duet of it, spitting out a spray of dark liquid and fire."

She makes it sound like they're vomiting firecrackers or something.

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

She only got 3.5 hours of sleep? Trinity goes to school at 5:00 AM?

EDIT: WAIT WAIT WAIT. She got 3.5 hours of sleep on Saturday night, it says. Does Trinity go to school on Sunday at 5:00 AM?

THIS WOMAN MAKES NO SENSE!

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

I need to qualify my statements.

I ADORE KILTS - TARTAN KILTS, WITH SPORRANS AND SO ON! I am a proud part-Scot and think they are dead sexy.

However...the Utilikilts do nothing for me, as they are drab, sexless and a rip-off (in my opinion). The whole idea of Jon and Charles attending a concert/wedding reception in, what amounts to, work clothes, also offends me.

[dindrane.livejournal.com]

Is this JonBoi? www.laurellkhamilton.org/Merchandise/JonFrost.jpg

He sure doesn't LOOK like a sex god...

[kerame.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me.

The moment he got with his dommie-mommie, the sex scenes went into the crapper along with everything else.

[popelizbet.livejournal.com]

It makes me so angry that S.J. Tucker (s00j) is beloved of LKH, because S.J. Tucker is the bomb and win, and it just makes me irritated beyond belief when LKH blogs about her. Because S.J. and K aren't lame, they're awesome.