Beach and fanfic (my own)

Yesterday I went to the beach, actually for the first time all summer. I live really close, too. But I was working and I'm not much of a beach person, and we were at my grandpa's a fair amount on the weekends and stuff, and I was just lazy. But anyway, we went yesterday and it was SO GREAT!

It was a lovely, lovely day - really sunny but breezy and not hot at all - I think it was in the 70s. We wore t-shirts and katie wore jeans and I wore capris (cargo capris. It's weird for me to say "I wore capris" because I just got two pairs of capri cargo pants as hand-me-downs and I've never worn them before and I just don't picture myself in capris at all.) and we were pretty much comfortable. We got hot dogs and just lay on the sand and then we filled our large coke cup with water once we'd emptied it of coke and built a teeny weeny drip castle with two towers (Orthanc and Barad-dur, but if they were conjoined twins - aww, Manchester!Greg and I had a joke that we were formerly conjoined twins). Then this family sat down really close to us, but it was ok cos we took a really nice, long walk down the beach along the shore. Some people were swimming, but I think they were crazy cos the water was quite cold.

Anyway, it was really lovely and relaxing and idyllic. I went with (twin sister) Katie and (Katie's boyfriend) David (introductions cos there's some new people on my friends list, so just in case any of them are reading this. . .) and I was very nice to David! :D It was a lot of nice lying in the sun and listening to the surf and the murmuring of other people enjoying the beach, and feeling the sand in between my toes and everything. Getting all wind-blown and sun-baked. Very summery, despite it not being that hot.

I also came up with the beginning of my next fic while I relaxed - although I'd forgotten a pen so I couldn't write it down. But I remembered it. This one (my fourth) has been different because it's a semi-sequel to the last one, written in response to positive feedback and interest. So I feel like there are expectations, plus, I tried to write it, tried to come up with a lot, instead of, like, thinking about Shige until something sexy happened to him and writing about that. Thinking of myself as someone who's written fanfic is really, really funny and weird. Even though I've only written a couple, after about 6 years of reading fic and never considering writing it, period, it's odd to think of. It's exciting - I like thinking that I have the ability to affect people. I mean, the fanfic I've read has helped me discover a lot about my sexuality. Thank you, akuma and rose argent! XD So it's sort of interesting to think that I might do that for someone else. And apart from that, it's just cool to think that I could turn someone on and give them enjoyment. My last two fics, aka my second and third ones, got a pretty good response, it's pretty awesome. Although I do find waiting for comments and seeing how many I'll get very stressful. Even though I'm just posting these because I'm hoping someone else will get some enjoyment out of them, I now find myself wanting to be really popular. XD I don't know.

Also, I feel like I've sort of lucked out a bit on the last couple ones, so I don't know if I can be consistent. It's hard! And I'm not a writer, I'm just putting down my fantasties in a way that I know I've found sexy in the fics I've read. So yeah. It's a bit "what am I getting myself into?" But mostly, it's "Hahaha, I'm writing fic!"

Also, they're quite explicit and I'm not a hugely secretive person, so it's not hard to imagine that someone I know in person will come across this journal and read them and it'll be, like, someone from work - who actually do think I'm pure and innocent - and I'll be very embarrassed.

Anyway, I just watched Grease with mom and Katie. What an awesome movie. I love, like, all the songs. And Olivia Newton-John is soooo shiny. Hahah, we watched Xanadu the other day. O_O GOOD LORD. She was shiny in that, too, though. With her little voice and her big round eyes and all her blond hair. We've decided "Everything's perfect when you're Olivia Newton-John."

I'm super-excited, in other news! Katie, who has been totally resistant to all things JE has become interested in playing the "Arashi Identification Game"! In which I show her a picture of Arashi all together or individual pictures and she tries to figure out who's who! She knew a guy who looked like Ohno, apparently, so she can basically always get him. And all my JE mags are from 2005 so Jun usually has a perm, and that makes him easier. She's starting to get Nino, but Aiba and Sho are still confusing - she forgets which is which, plus, their hair varies a bit in the mags I have. Also, she sitting right beside me now, waiting for me to pull up more arashi pics on my computer. So, bye!

P.S. Katie just reminded me her only other interest in JE is that she really likes the name "KAT-TUN". She's like "hahaha, it's like cat tunes"