My heart bleeded, girl

So I was reading a wonderful story and the author used "phase" when they meant "faze" and it made me pause, as it does, but here's the worst part. IT ACTUALLY TOOK ME A MINUTE TO NOTICE IT. That's right, people do it wrong so often that I'm getting used to it. It's my biggest pet peeve and I'm becoming immune. That's how they get people over allergies, or phobias, gradual desensitization, and OMG, IT WORKS.

My new treadmill is awesome and I walked a bit on it yesterday, and I just kind of stroked it the whole time. My cardiologist, who says my stress test was awesomely normal, wanted to warn me again about running a marathon on a stress fracture, but agreed that I could probably walk it and not end up losing my leg. By the time of the race it will have been ten weeks since the injury started, so I'm thinking I can give it a try. As all the t-shirts say, FDL > DNF > DNS. (Finished Dead Last is better than Did Not Finish is better than Did Not Start.)

Ashley is coming home this evening. She's going to stay until the 29th and I'm really excited to have her here that long. Erin is coming tomorrow, and I think she's working most of the day, which just sucks. I have a bad habit of minimizing her job, not to her face, but in my head I'm thinking, omg, just leave and come home. It's jeans and t-shirts and hoodies. But, hey, it's what pays her mortgage and she's fortunate to have it, and as long as people keep wanting to buy Hollister clothing, for whatever unfathomable reason that might be, she's good.

Anyway, I just want her to come home. Christmas seems to be getting smaller as there's less family around. I don't associate my father with Christmas at all, although I have some memories of Christmas before he and my mom split, but I feel his loss, and I used to have lots of people to shop for and mail presents to, and now, not so much. And Adam is away for the second Christmas in a row, and I have everything all done and I just want someone to be here.

And Ash will be in a few hours, so I guess I should stop being all maudlin about it. Lois and Miles are spending Christmas in Philly with their son, so Horace is already here. He and Neville are napping, but I think it's almost time to go play in the snow. I hope Horace will convince Nev that venturing out into the snow to poop isn't fatal, so I can quit finding little piles of doggy poop under the piano.

I am having great fun writing my j2_everafter story. Thanks to Disney's 7 year marketing plan, Cinderella is in the vault right now so I can't watch it, and if we have an old videotape from when the girls were little, I don't know where it is, but it's not like I don't know the story. And the soundtrack. So, yeah, I think I've gotten over my disappointment that I didn't get Sleeping Beauty.

I was thinking, though. I read a few comments somewhere, I think it was that post about fanfic writing mistakes you shouldn't make, about the CWRPS cast of characters. Someone was complaining about every J2 story having the same supporting cast and wondering why CMM and JDM and "that Steve guy, whoever he is" had to be in every story, particularly AUs. And I used to thing, great, another story where Mike is crazy and Chad is a douche. But then topaz119 and I talked about it, and I guess it's a from of shorthand, and why create a bunch of OCs when you can just use Tom Welling as your blank canvas?

Or something.