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[roxy]

I'm working on a story that I like a lot, and I'm trying to decide if I should post it as a WIP or a complete piece. I'm working on it at the speed of negative snail but I'm definitely working on it. What do you say, my friends? Post or not? It's a Sam/Dean domestic AU, chock full of angst and stuff because that is how I roll. Ya'll pretend like it's important and I'll pretend like I'm not needy as hell.


My other child has moved out and our nest is empty. BG and her little dog have left us. The dog's coming back but the kid claims she's not. I don't know--there are roaches in her apartment. We have this thing about roaches like other people have about snakes or serial killers. It's a phobia so bad that therapy would probably be helpful. Can anyone recommend solutions to controlling them? She's in the city in an old apartment building so yeah, odds are it's a losing battle. This whole moving out thing sucks so hard. There are good points but not many. I know she's got to spread her wings but...SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFF. I miss her. :(

If only I could gather my little chicks and FORCE THEM TO LIVE WITH ME FOREVER!!!!

*koff* Kidding!!

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[mdlaw.livejournal.com]

Post.... Post.......POST!!!!!!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'd post it just to see you here! :D

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

I'm so torn about the WIP vs. complete issue! But what the heck, try the WIP route? I know there are stories I eagerly await the next chapters of.

Mmmmmmmm, tasty angst......

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm so torn. I've been noodling around with this thing and a few others forever--it's all AU now because I've been messing with it for so long, hah!

If I can get one more chapter out of my head, I'll start posting it. It won't be more than a few chapters all together, so it might be worth jumping out there.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Throw it over if you need me to look at it! :-)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

you know you're the best, right? :)

I will send it! thank you! ♥

[tabaqui]

I cannot help you, because i've done both. How much do you have? If you only have one chapter, wait a bit.

Aw, empty house. I can't imagine it. *clings to Monstrous*

As for roaches - oh, gods. HAAAAAAAAAAAATE. This is the only thing i know to do to *help*, though it won't fix. Always have rubber stoppers in the sink drains - they can crawl up and down. Keep the trash as closed up as possible and take it *out* as often as possible. Leave NO food out, nothing at all. Wipe up all counters right away. Put stuff like cereal in rubber-maid type containers and make sure they seal.

Keep everything *clean*. Don't leave clothes or anything on the floor, they like to climb inside. Put shoes on a shoe tree. And short of putting a line of silicone around every baseboard and window, spray for the little bastards and don't push your furniture up against the wall.

Also, if she can stand it, find out what *kind* they are. Some are more horrifyingly difficult to kill than others.

*smooches you*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

oh my fucking god--there are KINDS?????

Will it help if exterminators come? I'll pay for a monthly service for her if it will. I'll tell her all this other stuff though. I know about sealing up food and she should get a better garbage can. We can definitely caulk every baseboard, I'm down with that!

I want her back home so bad, it's stupid! I LOVE having my babies home with me. I know they're safe and happy and I don't have to worry. Besides that they're so much fun to hang out with. I really need to make some friends. It's just that most people my age are just...you know. They're nice and all but.


On the story tip, yeah, I only have about 7000 readable words and a few vignettes. And it's just a diary of what happens from day to day, so possibly boring to anyone but me. :D

[tabaqui]

Oh, bb.
*pets you*
The most common indoor roaches are German cockroaches. Mostly because they're tough and reproduce like bunnies on speed.
*shudders*

http://www.orkin.com/cockroaches/german-cockroach/

Yes, there's a picture.

And yes, monthly zapping would be good, as would the sealing of the baseboards and whatnot. They can get into *lots* of little places. They are detestable. Read that link for 'signs', though - she might only have a few moving in from cold outside/warm inside, and not actually be *infested*. Some of it depends on how clean her neighbor's homes are, too, which is the sucky part of apartment dwelling.

I totally get wanting her back. I want Elf back from spending the night! It's just...better when they're close.
*smishes you*

Heeee. Probably it's fun as hell, but yeah - might wait until it's a little higher word count that you can post over a couple days, and that way we don't feast and then famine. :)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

okay, even warned I still yeeped. But it sounds like she hasn't got an infestation. But the cabinets in the kitchen are very old and screwed into the wall in a strange way--lots of hiding spaces and cracks in the back walls of the cabinets. Maybe we can use that silicon caulk in them. It will make BG feel better anyway. :)

Good advice all around, beloved! *HUGS*

[day221b.livejournal.com]

I hate WIPs as it's always a big let down when an author doesn't finish. However, if you feel like you need an ego boost, I'd say possibly post it to your fanfic LJ with links to it from this one. That way we can follow it and cheer you on. I'm not sure about AO3. I think you'd get a lot more feedback and kudos, but that one I think you would need to judge for yourself if you want to keep it an "intimate occasion" or a "free-for-all party."


As for the roaches? I've always heard filling a lid (like a mayonnaise or soda pop lid) with boric acid and placing them in the corners of your rooms. ALWAYS AWAY FROM THE FUR BABY, though. Make sure the pup can't get anywhere near it, but it should make the roach problem disappear. Also, there are raid squares you can buy and place in the corners of the rooms, again away from the fur baby.

*Hugs you* about the empty nest.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I do need a bit of an ego boost, or at least some sort of feedback. I think the story is interesting but god knows I could be totally wrong! I'm happier posting finished work there--I already have two stalled WIPs at AO3 and that sucks for readers.

We did hear about the boric acid but were afraid for the pup. I'll tell her about this--if she puts it under things it should be good--he really doesn't like things over his head, hah!

Oh, gosh, you have no idea how much this whole month has just sucked for me! At least I don't have to pretend like it's happy times for me, lol!

[day221b.livejournal.com]

I understand about the WIPs. I can't say I haven't been tempted, either. Someone somewhere sometime once told me my perception is skewed. The (constructive) criticism has stuck with me ever since. I think it had to do with an art project I was working on, but I think it carries over into my writing (fanfic,) too. So I understand the need for feedback and the need to keep everything on track. I feel ya. Whatever you decide I will be cheering you on. I know sometimes just having someone as excited as you are helps the creative process.

As for the BIG 'R' problem, I was thinking. I once knew a person who used to put all her food "garbage" - (chicken bones, wrappers, uneaten food stuffs, etc) in the freezer until trash pickup day, that way it would keep the creepy crawlies away as they would have nothing to tempt them. Of course, it being an apartment with other tenants doing their own thing, that makes it all the more difficult because she can't control how they handle their own food situation.

** Hugs you some more. **

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*leans into you*

That freezer thing might not be a bad idea. Anything to help!

sometimes just having someone as excited as you are helps the creative process.

*nods* I feel like when I started out I only needed me, but now it takes a village to write my damn stories. :) I do tend to wander, or the point of my story will sometimes disappear without me realizing it, if that makes sense.

[day221b.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way, Roxy. When I write, I tend to wander, world building, creating a shared past between characters - just enjoy playing in their world so much. I am have super-mad-dangerous skillz with the flashback sequence and should be kept separated at all costs. :D

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*G* Me with the dream sequences--I just gave up recently and wrote a fic that's practically all dreams.

[meus_venator]

WIP's are hard. I know I have one in progress right now is a lot of pressure and guilt to keep up with it and I would totally recommend being at least one chapter if not two chapters ahead before you post the first chapter.

RE: cockroaches I totally agree on the sealed garbage I had them when I was going to college and they're horrible they love paper don't leave newspapers looseleaf paper any kind of paper out they go for it like white on rice. I kept all my food in sealed containers or in the fridge I even kept the couple of plates and cups are used in a hanging basket midair because they'll crawl all over your dishes in the dark cupboard.

One thing I found sort of helpful is they hate salt and if you can get the cockroaches under control in your apartment sometimes what you do get his cockroaches coming in from other apartments so I bought a big bag of salt and I went along the baseboard of my entire apartment and across the front door of the apartment and Ran a really heavy line of salt almost like supernatural around all the moldings on the baseboard and they hate it and I would come home from class and they be dead cockroaches at my front door where some had tried to climb under the door through the salt and the salt got in their carapaces and they dried out! Blocking the sinks and the tub is also another good idea because that's the other place you find them is crawling up out of the sink. Cockroaches yuck!!!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

All my hair stood right on end reading this!! Ak,ak, ak!!! But it's good advice which I will pass on carefully. Because I don't want her freaking out like a huge freaking out thing and shoving all her dishes in the fridge, lol!

I'm gonna hold off posting until I know exactly how Sam feels about things at least. *G* That should take me a chapter or three.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Wow! that's really interesting about the salt. I may have to try that.

[meus_venator]

Well it worked for me. I was leaning against the doorframe talking to a neighbour one night and in my peripheral vision I saw something waving and I stepped back and a freaking cockroach had climbed up the frame of the door and had been inches from my face. I almost threw up. But the door sealed really tightly closed so the only place they could normally get in was under the crack and the bottom and I'd come in at night back from class and find them dead, or half dead on the little bachelor's front foyer floor.

But Garbage sealing and food sealing is the first step. You have to keep all foods and spill cleaned up. My apartment initially also had mice and I had to de-fecalize my stove, they'd formed a nest under the cavity below the burners.... now that was fun.

LOL, it is sounding like the apartment from hell, but after a week or so it wasn't You just have to be sooooper diligent.

The funny thing was this was one of the last apartments I looked at. Another one I looked at when i walked in there was about one dead cockroach per inch on the floor of the whole apartment including inside the cupboards. The landlord said they'd just bombed the place, but I didn't take the apartment. If there were this many dead ones in evidence how many millions had escaped to the neighbours during the bombing and were camping out ready to retake the apartment.

Every time they bombed this apartment I'm talking about the really swanky, expensive apartments around us would be flooded with cockroaches for a couple of weeks. They are an evil demonic menace and will probably rule the planet at some point.... hopefully after I'm gone O.o

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

We've been having a real problem with them just this year. I'm blaming either climate change or the economy. ;)

I googled "natural roach killer borax"

[(Anonymous)]

Because I vaguely remembered Heloise or someone putting out a recipe that was basically Mr. Rogers' Modeling Dough with Borax in it that kills roaches without using the super-toxic stuff in actual bug spray. I found this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Roaches

Please note, however, this is not entirely safe around animals and children, who might not know that you shouldn't eat it. Save the Little Dogs! :)

--Jessica

Re: I googled "natural roach killer borax"

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

Thanks so much! I sent this on to BG--hope it doesn't freak her out! :)

I see that some methods are kind of unsafe--Rocky's a small dog and I'd be afraid of some of the things they recommend as being too much for his little innards to handle. Not to mention that anything even slightly like food hitting the ground is his as far as he's concerned. She'll have to watch him like a hawk--or the obsessed dog mom she is. :)

Re: I googled "natural roach killer borax"

[(Anonymous)]

Well, even if she can't put it around the baseboards, she can put it places like the cupboard under the sink (if there is one) and other places Rocky can't get to. Every bit helps, right?

--Jessica

[gingersnap1224.livejournal.com]

Roaches! Aaaaaaahhhh! I hate them so much that if I found even one in my house we would have to sell it and move. Probably to another state.

I'm sorry your baby is all growed up. It sucks. The upside is that now you can roam around naked.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! That's funny and don't say that because that's exactly what the kid did in her first apartment. Not that I can blame her at all. God, she's working and living in the city and she is *so* not a city girl. :( And roaches are a fact of life in most places. This is going to be interesting, in that rogue elephant goes insane and smashes village kind of way.


It does suck, so much--on the other hand, not to overshare, but there is a silver lining. *leers all smarmy and stuff*

[amyww.livejournal.com]

Hi,

you don't know me from a hole in the wall, but I just had to jump in since I know what you mean about all those things!

I have a WIP that I'm really trying to hold off posting until it's completed, because I *hate* when I read WIPs that never get finished. And I know I only really write on the weekends. I really want it finished.

And two, my nest is almost empty, due to odd circumstances including divorce and my job, i now only have the 13 yo and home and she is very, very busy. I do love hanging out with my kids. I built them, damnit, I made sure they could talk about all kinds of interesting things, and have great senses of humor, and know random movies quotes and song lyrics. I didn't put all this hard work in to have somebody else reap the rewards!

I don't know how old you are, but yeah, other peeps with grown kids can be boring. I live in Stepford Land (literally - an expat community full of ladies who lunch and then put out a newsletter about it and the day trips they take to shopping malls) So, I hear you.

as for the roaches, that sucks. I was an apartment manager in LA for 9 years. When you spray one apartment, they just go to the next and then come back. Everyone's given good advice. Vacuum a lot, get the egg cases. The love dampness, so check under sinks and around the pipes for drips. I didn't know about the salt! See, they are little insect demons.

Keep writing!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

duh--*yes* I know you, stalker that I am! :D

WIPs are the devil. I always am sure I'm going to finish, I really want to, but then this odd inertia sets in and I end up telling myself the story without ever writing anything down. Finish that WIP!

I didn't put all this hard work in to have somebody else reap the rewards!

I know, right? It's so unfair because no one else gets how great my kids are. *sigh*

So, I'm like a bazillion years old and getting the senior discount without even having to ask for it which by the way that senior discount is in no way a consolation for getting old. What sucks worse is people get old and then they get boring. SO FUCKING BORING. It's all look at my grandkid, blah-blah-blah. Who cares!!

I didn't know about the salt! See, they are little insect demons.

My thoughts exactly!!

[amyww.livejournal.com]

Yeah? how cool! I've never been stalked before. You're not boring, I'm not boring. And I'm older than the rocks dirt is made of. I feel like a pedophile talking to people on Tumblr. I like the check, make sure they are at least in their 20s! LJ is safe!

But I'm mad at you because your Lodi stories made me cry and sad and horny at the same time now I have to write something happy and be alone in my bunk. And I don't even like boys!

This show/fandom makes me all confused.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, thank you!! wow, thanks on being cool with me all reverse stalking you from AO3. *koff*

*grins* We are *all* confused in this fandom. Those Winchesters, what they do to us, the way they twist us up, tsk.

[fufaraw]

Oh it figures meus_venator would put down a salt line--hee! I guess this means roaches have a demonic origin?

We still do food-garbage in the freezer until we can take it out. DH has a "delicate" ::cough:: nose.

I was a mess when Son the Elder moved out. By the time Son the Younger did, we were actually pretty happy to see the back of him so we could explore couplehood again. But then they both started boomeranging on us, first one, then the other, then both at the same time, bringing breakup and job loss trauma with them. "I didn't take you to raise! Oh, wait."

StY is still at home. WE moved out. Heh.

Post the WIP, dearheart. We'll nag you to keep going, yes? (Plus, I wanna reeeeead it nownownow!)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

StY is still at home. WE moved out. Heh.

LOL! There's an option!
I figure there'll still be some boomeranging here. I just can't imagine that she's out for good. I know my kid and she's...rare. But in a totally good way that, okay, looks totally nuts to outsiders. :D

Exploring couplehood? Ah! Is this the part where we get to be naughty in rooms other than the bedroom again? I mean--*yes*, date-night, movies out, sure, sure.

[dimeliora.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest chapters, but that's because I'm greedy and I want it now.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*GRINS*

[morrphyc.livejournal.com]

Posting might give you the push to finish that you need. You have a major fan base that is ready and willing to cheer/harass you on. ;-)

Oooh, roaches. *full body shudder* Such a phobia of mine as well. I was about 12 when I found out my mom lied about the fact that they could fly! I couldn't sleep for 3 days. LOL I have two cats that make it their live goal to keep me pest free, bless their little tormenting hearts. Never found anything else that worked long term, sorry. I wish her luck though.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Hah! I would have said in SV fandom, folks *were* waiting for me to post. I might possibly even have preened a bit and thought of myself as a Middle Name Fan *blushes modestly* but in SpN, no one knows who the hell I am, and I've been writing in it for a few years now. I do have a few good friends in the fandom who are really super lovely to me. Thnak goodness, because the ego needs a little stroking from time to time, I won't lie. :)

The poor child!! She's been on the phone with me every day, and I can hear in her voice what a hard time she's having. It's a really major phobia and my heart bleeds for her but what can I do? I feel like I've passed my messed up psyche on to her. *sigh* Her dad thinks I'm catering to her but he's like Superman, nothing bothers him. Thank god. ;)