DanuDaughter

NOT my dA name - I'm staying with this account, but for those of you who know my real name, rest assured, you are not going to have to reconcile another of the odd ways Irish names are spelled verses how they sound. My name is the same - sounds the same, means the same...  I've just changed the spelling.  Instead of the modern anglicised spelling (as far as any Irish name really can be anglicised) I now use the Old Irish spelling.  Now, for those who pay attention to my journals and account profile page, you've probably already noticed that other than signing my pics, I don't publically display my name much - Internet Security 101 there, rea

I swear, we must have been truly AWFUL people in past lives for karma to dump this much hell on me & Robb recently. I have been non est for the past while as I was rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy (in other words, my appendix decided to try and kill me), and while I was in there, first Lady came down with a UTI, and then our apartment was destroyed, thanks to pipe bursting it the apartment above ours. So yeah, not only have I been ill, but I couldn't even go home to convalesce. Robb and I are staying in my parents' place, and while I am grateful to them for it, we can't stay here indefinitely, but so far things are looking

I guess it's sorta weird to come into a fandom this late in the game, and it's very odd for me considering I haven't read past Order of the Phoenix (money and so on kinda conspired against me getting my own copies, and the damn things are never available in the library). However, it's happened - I've gone full circle, and am back loving the series and characters as much as I did (maybe more) as when I was around the 15/16 mark and reading them for the first time - I was late coming to the books too.  Hadn't even heard of the series until two girls in my class and I were walking somewhere (can't even remember where) just after Prisoner of Azk