Nicole's Place

Okay, so Wendy challenged me to write a drabble with the same word I gave her!!! See: http://wendymr.livejournal.com/40967.html

To think in suggesting it, I had my mind on a cheesy unrealistic proposal, but didn't write it myself that way either! Anyway... thank you, Wendy!! Here goes:



The Ring


I awaken; she’s staring at me. Crying. She doesn’t understand. How could she? Adventure to adventure, some laughs, one heart to two, one kiss… but this isn’t something we’ve faced. She doesn’t know.

I do. Life. Death. Life. New body. Death. Life. It never stops. I chase it. Around. Myself. My life.

How can anyone make sense out of one history lived with so many faces?

She’s crying.

I haven’t seen myself yet. Is it bad? The fear’s returned. Who am I this time?

Her tears…

I hate my new form already.

When does it stop? Do circles ever break?

And that's a good thing, because I'm taking one. Tomorrow. But man, it's been so crazy leading up to it. I worked tonight until 10pm, which is when they basically kick you out of the office and make you go home. I'm in PR, do copywriting, and other miscellaneous creative projects for a travel company. I love it, but this week has been insane. All my projects are piling up and there just doesn't seem to be a lot of time for me. My back hurts, my wrists hurt, I never have time (or energy) to do my OWN writing and because of my lack of internet a good portion of the time, I feel very disconnected from everyone, too! BUT, there is a bright side and it's ALL to do with my upcoming vacation. I get to pass so many of my work projects to others while I'm away, and the one really MAJOR project - a 20 minute video that I'm producing, from the script writing through conducting interviews (6 of them) and placing interview snippets throughout the script and replacing Voice Over w/ Interviews, etc etc - is pretty much out of my hands for good. There's a new point person for our editor to contact while I'm away, and the deadline for the final video is only a couple days after I return, which means that I get to miss some craziness that others can deal with!!! That I would otherwise deal with. Well, I can't help but feel happy about that, even though I'm so tired right now because of the whole staying-at-work-until-ten to get everything in good order for the new point person. Anyway when I get back, I only have to approve things! That's easy!!!

I'm really hoping that this week and a half away reinvigorates me and gets my creative juices flowing again. I need to write, to put the stories in my mind on PAPER!!!

And another great thing about when I get back is that I'll be moving into my new place. I'll have wireless (hopefully right away, but with me, who knows - technology really does hate me), I'll have my own TV to watch LOTS of DVDs (cough*DoctorWho*cough!), and I'll have lots of peace and quiet to catch up on some reading *g*.

Anyway, sorry to go off so much about work... I'm just really burnt out right now, and really am excited to take a break from it all, and come back to what I know will be a more relaxed situation.

Hope everyone's doing great! Sorry I've been so MIA. Soon, hopefully, things will be back to NORMAL!

~Nic :)

... oh man, just realized that I have to pack. And fly! Tomorrow. I don't LOVE flying. But.. hmm... I should pack.

I can't believe I can post. Yay internet! Yay LJ tutorial! Yay computer ICU! Unfortunately it's super late and I have to work tomorrow, oy. This weekend was so nice and relaxing though. I had a few friends over for a game night on Friday, had some furniture delivered to my new condo Saturday morning (way too early... was VERY tired), and then just BBQ'ed and bopped around :)

I know, this is the most boring post ever, but anyway, figured I'd post it anyway ;)

~Nicole~

I've just sat through a little tutoring session with Wendy, so I think I have the hang of this whole Live Journal thing... I know, I know, but I'm slow with the uptake. Word, I can handle. Surfing the net, I can handle (mostly). Anyway, now I think I can handle this too! Wahoo! And... AND!!! Yes, and... John and Annette have saved my computer again! It just came out of the ICU... again!! And John has taken away all the nasty little things that somehow got ticked or something, so anyway, I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN!!!!

And I'm having a fantastic time here, in good 'ol PA. Annette's mom is hysterical, her animals are so cute, and the company couldn't be better! Seeing Annette, Wendy & John has just been awesome... we went to Hershey Park yesterday - survived the rollercoasters (okay, so Wendy & I sat one out), and had a ball! The day before, I met up w/ them at a ball-game, and we all got dinner, which was great, just catching up and seeing each other. The Yankees lost that game (oh well!), and I don't know how I feel about the fact that I laid on some Yankees sheets earlier today... sad, I think, lol~ Not really :) But I do prefer the Superman sheets, haha~

I head out in a couple hours, but it's been a fantastic weekend!

This one's for dave7</lj>. Seriously, who's wrangling who here?

Prelude



I smile, look at her and she already looks like she’s getting further away. Her words are sincere. She has no idea.

… feels like there’s no one…

She smiles, says her part.

“Yeah.”

There’s no sense telling her. This can’t last forever. No one lasts forever. Except me. I go forward. Go through motions. Go through life. Go with her and her and her and…

… Rose.

Different from them all. Special. How much she means…

I want it to last. I want her words to be true.

He comes. The moment’s past. But it doesn’t change our ending.

I want to thank, once again, my awesome BRs! dave7, you rock, and I adore you! Thank you for brainstorming with me, and then for BRing the snippets I'd send you; you honestly have no idea how much you helped me!! And wendymr, thank you for taking a so-so document and making it look SO much better!!! Again! You're the best! Honestly! :) And dark_aegis, my initial DW enabler... thank you :D

This story was written for the Rose Tyler Ficathon for dynapink, and I really hope it does justice to the prompt!



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