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The day after tomorrow!!!

I will be leaving for the cruise! Isn't that exciting? Only less than that forty eight hours before I'm on the cruise ship! I suppose I've used enough ! for the beginning of the post so let us move on to other news.

Today packing went on fairly well and since Mom just picked out what she liked and packed it there really wasn't much of a "Discussion" Fortunately I will be packing my carry on and then... Well suffice it say I'm packing enough to last me for the cruise if necessary. Mom didn't want me to bring the small suitcase so I'm stuffing everything into a backpack and a small bag. Which means that I will have a lot to cram into a small space so packing tomorrow should be interesting.

Oh, I don't know yet if I have gone into great detail about my new Monopoly and Scrabble game for my cell phone. It is really fun! Today we were in the car and I made a slight blunder and asked my older brother John who is a Monopoly Monopoly(I don't feel like being clear right now...) to play a game with me. I got out fairly early in the game and then John had to find out if he could beat the computer..................... Big mistake. About 11:00 I finally got my cell phone back. But it is very fun to pull out a small handheld device and instantly have a monopoly game or a scrabble game I am really going to enjoy it on the cruise.

I had an accident today. I was riding my bicycle and usually when I ride my bicycle I am busy thinking up an epic story line and it is easy tell whether it is a very exciting point or not because when things of importance and excitement are happening in the story I ride my bicycle really, really fast and I usually forget to pay attention to wear I am going. So today in the middle of a sword fight with the villain(Or maybe it was when the heroine was escaping the molten lava... I don't remember) I was turning and I turned to hard and somehow banged my knee really badly. It still hurts a lot and it doesn't like to be stood on. My adrenaline was rushing so much from the story that I kept on going for a bit but I did slow down because my knee hurt. I hope it gets better soon because it does hurt a bit still. However I am thankful that I didn't get hurt as much as some of the characters in my stories, there is nothing like having an example of something worse to make you more content with your own lot.

So, just ONE MORE FULL DAY left until the cruise. Two nights though but those don't take as long. I am not really looking forward to waking up very early Sunday morning to go to the airport but the cruise makes it worth it.

I'm too tired to write much of a post but...

I do want to write something just to get in the habit of writing something every evening because on some shore excursion days(Paris) I am going to be tired and I'll need to write a post. Any way tomorrow Mom is going to go over my clothes with me and decide what goes with what and what goes on the the cruise and what doesn't. Probably the few remaining bits of fashion ideas will perish tomorrow to lie smoldering in defeat only to reemerge later when I get to pick an outfit on my own and then make me look ridiculous to Mom. It is very unfortunate that the three sets of clothing (Things I like; Things I'd wear: Things Mom approves of) very rarely have anything in common. I like fancy clothes it's just most of my fancy evening wear is dark colored(Evening wear=dark colors was pounded into my head, but surprise! Now all of my nice dark colored clothes are OUT and though I bought them for the cruise I can't wear them:( So much for shopping only at the discounted areas where all of the winter stuff was on sale apparently.)

It is very pleasant being able to write all of this now that way tomorrow when Mom goes through my clothes I can nod and smile and say all right take out all of the things I like and insist on my bringing a whole bunch of clothes that I won't wear and will only have to be lugged around in the airport to the great disconvenience of us then when the airline loses our luggage I will still triumph by bringing all of the stuff I really like in my carry on luggage and then proceed to wear it and if Mommy feels embarrassed to be seen with me when I'm wearing a beautiful dark green silk skirt and a white lace top that has lovely flowing sleeves I can go eat somewhere else and enjoy making a fashion statement and knowing that I don't look half as ridiculous as most fifteen year old girls make themselves.

So now that I have a nice long piece of my mind on clothes I can go on about working in the shop. It is interesting how no matter how nice most of my life is I can always find something to complain about, something that could be better... Oh well, I suppose it is human nature but usually I am pretty content and happy and "It could be a LOT worse" is almost my motto. Anybody who says "It can't be worse" here on earth is only asking for it to get worse. So though I am rather tired from a lot of shop work the knowledge that when my paycheck arrives and after the orcs have taken their plunder, I mean after the taxes have been deducted(I do have a high opinion of most of our government and taxes could be a lot higher and I do not mean to call all of the government officials Orcs, but some of them resemble them I think(No names mentioned but I would like to say now that I am a republican and Prolife and a Christian and I think that there is a definite right and wrong.)) Now if you can't remember what I was saying before I reiterate or maybe I should just say what I was going to say which is, "I will be very happy when I get all of the money I have been earning." "Work, Get Paid, Spend it" is a nice way of life just so long as you don't spend more than you earn and don't spend it too wastefully.

Wow this is a really rambly post that has a lot of different things in it! I must be regaining my ability to go off topic and change topics and write about a great many different things.

So now where was I? Oh I'm in my room... Any way I have been learning all of the songs from "The Mikado" and fortunately there is a nice website(Note the link!) that has all of the opera on it(In English of course, though it's the English it was written in about a hundred years ago and the meaning to some of the words have changed.) On there all of the songs are midi files and you can open them in a separate window then read(or sing out loud) the lyrics to them. Just make sure you aren't sent to practice in front of Madame Tussads Waxworks.(Let the Punishment fit the Crime) I really like the music to "The Sun whose rays are all ablaze". For "The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring" my brother Daniel, Andrew, and I have our own variation that we sing when appropriate "Logical Reason and Sense, Tra La, Have nothing to do with this Thing(or Case or Point or Book or whatever...)"

So now that I have typed for about a half an hour(And I doubt it will take that long to read this) I am going to close this post and post it while I can still post posts. Actually "Post while you can still Post Posts" might make a good tongue twister. I am really going to miss internet on the cruise ship but I'll have quite a few other things to entertain me. I just hope the television has a classic movie channel like the last cruise had because I am leaving a lot of DVD's behind.

Now since I hope everybody lives happily ever after(except the Tax Orcs of course) I shall say "The End" and go to bed so I'll have energy to go through my clothes:( Pack :( work in the shop:( and go to Walmart:). This time next week I'll be on the Atlantic Ocean! I might be sick from eating too much ice cream and deserts but I hope that the fresh sea air and plenty of exercise will keep me from getting too sick.

Considering how tired I was when I started I really wrote a rather long post. Hopefully every evening on the cruise ship I'll be able to write a post. When I get back I'll have a lot of posts written(Hopefully...) to post.

This is the Post that never ends... It goes on and on my friend... Somebody started writing it not know what it was and they'll go on writing it for ever just because this is the post that never ends... It goes on and on my friend... Somebody started writing it not know what it was and they'll go on writing it for ever just because this is the post that never ends...........................

My First Virus

Well, just today I finally got the distinction of having a virus attachment sent to me! Fortunately having heard so much about these things I was able to spot it. I still haven't received a Nigerian email asking me to transfer millions of dollars yet but I don't need one.

The cruise is coming and packing is looming above the horizan. I have shopped, shopped, shopped but something occurred to me, with all of the stuff my Mom is taking with her(She is actually bringing flower arrangements and a toothbrush holder with her, It's a five star cruise ship even! And the amount of clothes she's taking... At least she is leaving the kitchen sink behind) I will be carrying nearly everything I'm bringing if not more. Soooo I am thinking that "Packing Lightly" might be a nice idea. Besides since I don't think security would let me bring any of my swords with me I really have no need for a big suitcase. With a fairly large back pack and small suitcase I should be able to manage. After all I just need to bring: Eowyn and charger, Ipod and Charger, Cell Phone(It has a palm pilot built into it and I just bought Scrabble and Monopoly to play on it) and Charger, Tiny Kitty(A doll I have, she is very pretty and "Tiny"), Polly(My bear, very important), Lord of the Rings(I think I need a refresher course in Middle Earth Lore, I can't remember who said "Now for wrath, Now for ruin, and the red dawn!". I think it was Theodan but it might have been Eomir, also I need to learn how to spell the names because I don't know.) and the Hobbit, my beautiful blue evening gown(Indispensable), and then some more clothes and shoes but I don't feel like listing them, besides I don't yet know which I'm taking and which I'm leaving but I don't really want to take a lot. Just so long as I have enough and enough is not a great amount.

So I am really looking forward to the cruise. And it's less than four days away, much less.

Also I have worked over nine hours in the shop this week, that may not sound like much but usually I do not work more than an hour a day with many days in which I don't work. Considering the amount of money I spend and the things I want to buy it's good that I am working more but a lot of my muscles are objecting to getting into shape.

Spending money reminds me, the Power Book is just a bit more than the Ibook so I might want to look into that later, maybe if it is much nicer I might wait a bit longer and get the Power Book, maybe...

Work, Work, Don't Dare to Shirk, While Goblins Laugh, and Goblins Chaff. Round and Round Far Underground...

For some odd reason those lines from "The Hobbit" came to mind. They were sung by goblins as they non-too-gently escorted thirteen dwarves and one hobbit down "Far Underground". The song was much longer and had things about whips and darkness and plainly told what happened to prisoners in the goblin realm.

Now why that song should come to mind I don't know... All I did was about three hours of shop work in Mordor(I mean the shop) today. But that was more than I usually do. Any way there are these boxes that were obviously made for the torment of man kind because they will not fold in the proper way and the clamps will barely fit in them and only one in five will actually permit me to put the lid on properly... I suppose I am slightly at fault because I am not good at them but... I don't really like those boxes.

However since I have gotten an audio dramatization of "The Chronicles of Narnia" time does pass somewhat pleasantly in the shop, when I don't have to worry about the boxes. I enjoy listening to the tales of Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, Jill, Digory, Polly, and of course all of the characters from the seven different books. I kind of like Lucy the best of all of the characters. "The Horse and His Boy" is my favorite of the seven books I think. I like the story of a young boy finding out that he is actually a prince, and a prince that is going to be king someday. It was also one of the few books that have personages get married in it. I think the only other book to have two characters marry each other is "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".

Speaking of Voyages it is only six days until the cruise. I am very, very much looking forward to it. Until we get on the plane is going to be slightly unpleasant because we have a lot of stuff to do before then but... It will probably be worth it. DESERTSSSSS MY PRECIOUS! Excuse the last remark but I seem to have Tolkien in mind this evening.

I know I've written quite enough for a post but I don't feel like stopping. Besides I might be too tired tomorrow to write a post. I have a gorgeous dress in mind. I want to have a dress with pearl beads all over the overskirt and I have made several plans for a dress with that feature, it's just I doubt I'll have time to do make it and if I did make it the way I currently plan I doubt Mom would let me wear it. OH!!! I just thought of something, sitting in a dress that is covered in pearl beads might be somewhat uncomfortable... Maybe I should just skip it for this trip and concentrate on other things, like packing and shopping and other sewing. I still have a few shirts and blouses I would like to have, and I even have the material and the fabric for them. I just have to make up my mind and sew them. I do want to wear some designer clothes, with the designer being Elizabeth Von Fange of course.

Well, it is nearly Ten right now and though usually I am still up for about two hours I am rather tired right now since I woke up earlier, and did more, than I usually do. So, THE END

Rejection, even when expected, is still not pleasant

Your story was not accepted for the Neopian Times because you need to try and be more original. Choose a subject that has not been written about several times, this will increase your chances of being published.

Oh well, My Neopian Times submission that I sent in was rejected. At least it wasn't rejected for bad grammar! Now to "Try, Try, Try, again" but I'll probably wait until after the cruise. I suppose I should look through Neopia and see if I can't find something that has never been written about before and then I would get a different rejection notice!

When I get my new computer...

I plan to do another movie. I would like to do something with a sword fight in it but I am not very good at sword fighting and I don't think my swords would stand being clashed together. Also I plan to do all of the acting parts myself. So... I just brilliantly figured out a way to save my swords and have an impressive sword fight in a movie and do all the acting. All I have to do is have a sword fight with an invisible enemy!!! Isn't that a perfect idea! I just need to randomly wave my sword around and add in sound effects and I have it. So eventually when I have my new computer I'll make a movie. In the meantime I can work on the script to make sure that there is more to it than just a sword fight with an invisible enemy.

Nine days to go until the cruise!

Your story, How to write a succesful How to get rich Article, has been submitted successfully.

Well, I just submitted my article into "The Neopian Times" which, unless you play Neopets, you probably have never heard of. I'm posting my article on here though most of the jokes and humor of it can only be understood by somebody who plays Neopets but... I want to post it that way I shall know all of the mistakes that are in it when the rejection Email comes as it probably will. But if it doesn't.... Well there will be great rejoicing in a post and I'll probably try writing another article. So here is the article I submitted.

The Neopain Times is a place to find out information and not just a place to read the comics. Since most people want to know how to get neopoints there are always plenty of articles on that subject. Therefor since that sort of article is very frequently in the Neopian Times, it is probably a good sort of an article to write. Which means that a "How To" article on writing a "Get Rich" article might be useful to those wannabe Neopian Times writers out there.

Now I have reached the end of my article. I would like to repeat the part about being creative and unique. There are hundreds of ways to earn neopoints, though some(like playing games and restocking) are better than others(playing Scortchy Slots then spending all of your winnings(if any) on expensive food for your pet and hoping it's gourmet) and some don't work at all (Like going to the statue at the bottom of Maraqua and typing in "Give me Neopoints" and refreshing three times). So have a nice day and enjoy playing Neopets!

A story of what might have happened

Once upon a time a long time ago a knight started walking across the courtyard of his castle. He did not look up and see a giant eagle carrying a captive princess and rush to save her nor did he see a band of ravenous vultures ready for fresh meat. Instead he made his way across the courtyard to the gate.

MORAL: Over Ninety Nine percent of the things that could happen don't so don't worry about things until they happen but always prepare for the worst and the worst probably won't come.

I rather like having my story part be in Italics because it sets it apart from the rest of the post. I hope that story was rather interesting though I fear I didn't put in enough things that didn't happen. Oh well, it still may be interesting and I might print it off for lunch and see what the general verdict is.

Oh, and it is now ten days until the cruise!!!

A story I'm currently working on...

I haven't figured out a name for it yet but it takes place near and in Fange and I just finished writing the plot this evening. I won't post the plot since I hope to write it in long story form and I may post it then if I ever write it. Currently I think the plot is much better than "The Royal Crown's of Scotland". It probably won't be a humorous book with ridiculous plot twists but it will be interesting I hope.

In Fange apparently Nancealia is a very common name and usually the heroines of most the stories are named Nancealia. Since Nancealia is my favorite name and one that I am very fond of personally most of my books will probably have that name in it. I hope that makes sense but my brain went to sleep a bit ago and I am about to follow it's example.

The plot is slightly similar to the last book as it is about four main characters and one of them is a prince but the circumstances are very, very different and there are no dragons in this story. And the villain is a villain and his name is Vark. I don't know why I named him that but I did.

Also instead of Nancealia being the leader of the two girls she is actually secondary(in a manner of speaking) and Lellia is actually supposed to be the leader(but she isn't). Lellia is a character that I made similar to the main character in a lot of stories I've heard about in that she doesn't want to settle down and be a lady and wants to learn sword fighting, go off and have adventures, travel in the "Dark Forest"(a place of great danger near Fange that was named the "Dark Forest" in a burst of great creativity) and marry the crown Prince Richar of Fange. And since I was in a generous mood I have decided to let her do all of that but if she wasn't very happy with the duties of a simple knights daughter I have a feeling that as a princess, and later as a queen, she had a great deal more "ceremonial bother".

Well now you have a bit of a preview of "A Story of Fange 1" as it is currently named. I'll probably figure out a more interesting title later like "The Duke of Lorwith" or "Never imprison a Prince without good reason or suffer the consequences" or "Adventures in the Dark Forest"(That will probably be used later) or "Prince Richar" or perhaps "Nancealia and Lellia" would be the best as they are the main main characters. I might change Lellia's name but I am not sure...

Today it is just eleven days until May 2 on which vastly important day I shall board an airplane and fly down to Florida where I will get on a cruise ship bound for Europe! I am looking forward to it exceedingly!!! Then for about seventeen to eighteen days there will probably not be any posts on here but when I get back there will be plenty of posts as I plan to write one everyday and save it is a draft. Then when I get home I will post them all.

It will be sooooo much fun on the cruise ship, 24 hour room service, formal nights, exquisite cuisine, fresh ocean air, exotic ports and shopping here I come! And did I say DESSERTS!!! If the desserts on this cruise ship are anything like the ones on the previous cruise they should be delicious. I'll just have to exercise a lot to make certain I don't gain any weight.

How to get delightful vision

Today I just got another pair of glasses and since I have not written a "How To" post in a while, I think I will. To begin with I have 20/400 vision. Normally people have 20/20. Now 20/20 means what a person with good vision sees twenty feet away. 20/400 vision is basically what a person would see in detail 400 feet away I see in detail at twenty feet away... In other words I have bad vision, but only from a certain point of view.

20/400 vision is actually rather nice, if there is something you don't want to see all you have to do is take your glasses off and viola, you can't really see it. This is really useful in my room as I am not aware of the mess in it with my glasses of. So should you like to have such interesting vision that if you don't want to see something in detail all you have to do is take your glasses off, follow these simple guidelines.

1. First if you don't have glasses already go to an optometrist and get your eyes tested. While there and before he makes out your prescription say you want eagle vision and ask him to make your prescription stronger than you need. He'll laugh and rub his hands gleefully(maybe not in front of you) and give you a stronger subscription.

3. In time you will notice that your vision is a bit fuzzy in the distance. When it starts getting really fuzzy head back to step one and keep on repeating the steps until you have very bad vision. I don't know how long it will take to get to 20/400 vision or worse but it shouldn't take too long.

Now congratulations on achieving interesting vision! You can now take your glasses off and walk up to total strangers and say "Hi Mom! Oh excuse me, I thought you were my mother" and go off and bump into several more people before you finally find the right person.

Now, supposing you tried the previous steps, you got your bad vision, and now you don't like it. Your optometrist recommends surgery(or more glasses) but... Well, here are the steps toward achieving 20/20 and getting rid of your glasses and this works even if you didn't use the above method for making your eyes worse. I am currently in the process of using it but I'm pretty lazy and my eyes are lazier so I haven't been working on it... Your eyes are the laziest parts of your body and also the most complaining... They hate being exercised(which is what the following steps are) and will probably give you many bad headaches(I have had several) but in time they will get stronger and though I don't usually like the saying "No Pain, No Gain".

1. Take off your glasses and don't wear them except for when you really need them.
2. Pick up a book or something with printing on it.
3. Put it to where you have perfect focas.
4. Move it back just a little bit so that it's just a little bit fuzzy.
5. Stare at it and wait. In a little while your eyes will adjust and the words will go into focus, unless of course you moved it too far back.
6. Repeat steps 3 through 5 for a while occasionally taking your eyes off the book and looking into the distance and rolling them rapidly around, this is a very good eye exercise though I don't recommend doing it when other people are around.
7. Soon as your vision improves you can go to the optometrist and this time ask him to make the glasses a little bit weaker. He may recommend bifocals and probably won't be as happy as if you wanted stronger glasses but... Your eyes will start working more and thats the point.

Now even more congratulations as your eyes improve. Just don't mention "Eye exercises" to your optometrist, they don't like it. After all, peoples eyes getting worse is what they base there business on and they are going to do all they can for repeat customers. Doctors are that way too, and beware the dentist that gives out free candy to his patients.

The Scottish Games

Today I thought I would get some practice in keeping notes all day for the cruise. We went to the Scottish Games that were held near hear(about an hours drive away). It was very interesting. There were a lot of clans everywhere! There was even Clan MacMedic whose plaid was a red cross on a white background, flower was poison ivy, animal was yellow jacket, song was "Help", and whose Motto was "We fix". This was all listed on the door outside the Medical tent.

When we(Mom and I) arrived we walked through a Huge parking lot full of cars. Then we entered the main entrance gate where I used my cell phone(I'll miss that in Europe) to call John(who had arrived earlier.). He said he would meet us at the front gate and soon he, Daniel, and Della, a girl from our churches collage and career group, joined us.

We then walked through shops to the Scottish dancing tent. On the way I saw many, many people in costumes and that was very exciting since I like costumes very much. Upon entering the scottish dancing tent we found seats and waited for the dancing to begin. I then decided to keep notes so as we were seated I scribbled away in a very hard to read manner. I wrote down notes on a lot of the dresses I had already seen. Then dancing began and was very bouncy. I for one think that it must be very exhausting because as you are bouncing up and down you have to move your feet in a particular manner and change your arm positions. I think that dancing of that sort would be too aerobic for my tastes.

We walked then to a costume tent where I saw a beautiful dress. It was gorgeous! Of course the price tag of $340.00 was not nice at all but fortunately I can sew and make something very similar for a lot less money. Next year if we go I'll probably make a Scottish Noblewoman's outfit and wear one of my swords, I would look very in place. Also since it is hot and there is a lot of sun I hear-by wish to remind myself to wear a hat, straw ones with wide brims do not look out of place.

Next we saw the main field where at least two hundred bagpipers and drummers were marching around. They were fascinating to watch! I know they do it in the army but to get that many people to play and march at the same time is very impressive.

Then it was lunch time. I was very happy to be able to get a corndog(I am very fond of corndogs) and a water. All of the picnic tables were full so we all went to a nearby tent were some musicians where playing and sat down and ate lunch there. It was very good.

Then the two parties split up with me and Mom going off to shop and look at the tents and Daniel, John and Della going somewhere else. We were starting to look at the tents when we suddenly ran into a friend of ours. I know her and her face well but I can't remember her name but she belongs to our dog club. There was a sheltie herding demonstration later and that was why she was there. She recently turned fifty and got a red hat with huge purple feathers. Personally when turn fifty I doubt I'll wear red and purple since I don't think they match. Besides that if you don't look fifty there is no use making it obvious that you are.

We walked with her to see the dogs and there were many children actually in the dog pen(with permission of course) petting the dogs. She said that next year she could have a fundraiser and charge for the privilege of petting her dogs.

After leaving the dogs we walked around the shops some more. Everything was just a bit out of my price range and I was very good and didn't spend any money or buy anything. Considering the amount of swords and lovely jewelry there that was amazing.

We joined the others and watched several men wearing kilts throw telephone poles. And I am not kidding about throwing telephone poles! It was impressive just how strong they were. Also the Polebearers were interesting, the picked up the pole after it had been thrown.

We found seats on the bleachers and I started actively writing notes again. I wrote four pages full of notes in total, not very large pages but it was more writing than I had done recently. The border collie event started soon and the sheep were brought out. Then the sheep got out. There was no proper fence around the main field, just a single rope, and the sheep ran right out. The border collie didn't get there right away and my brave and active brother John ran after the sheep and started herding them!!! It was impressive, one moment he was on the bleachers next to us, the next moment he was running past the sheep and starting them to run back. Then the border collie arrived and John was able to stop acting like a border collie. He did a good job of it though.

That was the most exciting part of the sheep demonstration. However more than just sheep were being herded. Duck herding was next. Yes DUCKS!!! Of all the ridiculous creatures! There was a lot of flapping wings and waddling as the border collie calmly herded the ducks around the place. They didn't get out.

After the border collie event the announcer announced what I heard was the "Sheep Toss" where you stick a pitchfork into a sheep and try to see how high you can toss it over a pole. Fortunately I had heard incorrectly and it was actually a "Sheaf Toss" which is quite different for a "Sheep Toss".

We were beginning to get tired since we had been there for several hours and started to walk back to the car. We left the grounds, and as the bagpipe music faded into the background I thought how fun it had been and much I was looking forward to going to Walmart, our next stop.

I greatly enjoy Walmart and this trip was a lot more fun than usual. I discovered two things of great interest, one was a blouse that was on sale. The other was something far more important and crucial. Remnants. Remnants are pieces of material that might be left on the end of a bolt of material or that have been cut and the person who cut them changed there mind about them or... Anyway the nice thing about them is this, if it cost $1.00 before it costs only $0.60 as a remnant. That is somewhat significant and very nice. I bought several and was quite pleased at the money I saved. Also I got some new patterns I had been wanting.

Then we came home and Mom and I were so tired we both decided to take a nap. It was about five thirty when we got home(We had left around ten) and when I woke up around eight I asked Mom if supper was ready. It wasn't since she had just woken up and we had a late supper while watching pictures that were taken today. So then I cam upstairs and took a shower and then started writing this post which took about a half an hour to write.

So this is the end of the test post which shows what I might be writing on cruise days. Oh and I forgot to mention I was wearing a blue embroidered top and blue jeans.

The great Art of Drawing

I have dabbled slightly in drawing as many children have but after only drawing strange and unusual shapes that looked ugly I gave it up. I can't draw people... However I do like to design costumes and sometimes it is nice to put them down on paper so I want to be able to draw dresses. In the past I have tried to draw a person with the dresses but this evening I had a wonderful idea!!!

I hadn't drawn anything since I was doing school with scrap paper on my own(about the only time in the past when I have drawn. During Algebra my scrap paper had quite a few strange and unusual drawings on it to match the problems.). This evening I suddenly decided to draw(or attempt to draw) a lovely dress. Well, at first I tried to draw a person and failed miserably. But then great creativity arrived and I decided that since all I cared about was the dress, to just draw the dress. Then an even greater idea came to me. Since I had trouble making both sides similar on my drawing and most of the dresses I plan on designing would be the same on both sides I just drew a line where halfway on the dress would be and I just drew one half of the dress. It works wonderful!!! I actually was able to draw four rather nice looking dresses that I had been planning in my brain. And the really fun part was digging out my colored pencils and seeing how they looked in color. That was exciting! So when I go to Walmart tomorrow I will probably get some new colored pencils since my old ones are not as nice as they could be.

I am very excited. If I had access to a scanner I would scan in the picture and post it but I don't. So instead I shall wait until after I have my new computer and then buy a combination printer, scanner, copier. That will be fun!

Oh and it is just 16 days until the cruise! I am so excited! I will try very hard to keep a careful account about what I did each day and what I saw, wore, ate, and did. Tomorrow I might do a practice day and try to make notes and write down the principle events. Since I am going to Walmart it will be an interesting day...

Today was interesting too. Mom and I went to Barns and Nobles(A book store, I never would have thought of that name for a book store) and got a new Dilbert book. I enjoy reading those comics, it makes me even more happy and contented with my lot and my job. I am glad I have my Dad for a boss and not the Evil Pointy Haired Boss.

And now to end before this posts runs on to infinity. I still haven't finished reading the Dilbert and I need to finish it so everybody else can read it.

A story

Once upon a time, a long time ago A lived in Castle One of Land One. A was young man who was currently trying very hard to become a knight. He had been in training for many years and was a great friend of A so one day A and He decided to set off together to find Adventure. Now Adventure lived at the top of Whatsitsname Mountain and was rather hard to find, if you wanted to find him that is. If you didn't Adventure was very easy to find.

As A and He were climbing up Whatsitsname Mountain they came accros A River. A was very pleased and flatered to find that a river was named after himself and after wading accros it they reached the other side with out meeting Danger, of course they didn't want to meet Danger anyway sicne he was a nasty old fellow. A and He finally reached Adventure and Adventure told them that they would both be knighted if they could rescue two princeses currently being held in the dungeons of Castle Two of Land Two. There upon A and He went to rescue the princess. The journeyed far and when they reached Land Two the endeavored to find Castle Two but that was not as easy as it sounded. But at last they found A. Sign Post who was able to give them good directions to where Castle Two was.

Upon reaching Castle Two, Evil Knight, who was the Lord of Castle Two came out and battled A and He. A and He won and entered the gates of Castle Two in triumph and rescued the princesses, whose names where Princess One and Princess Two. A and He brought back Princess One and Princess Two back to Land One unto their father's palace of Castle Three. The princesses' Father was very pleased to see them again and reward A and He by making them knights and since he really hadn't missed his daughters expensive spending habits very much in their absence he bestowed their hands in marriage upon A and He.

Hopefully They lived happily ever after but since They doesn't come into this tale at all I don't know why I should bother with her.

The End!

The Scarlet Pimpernel and My Current Opinion on Several Subjects

I just finished watching a movie based on the book "The Scarlet Pimpernel", and since I finished the book last night I feel in a Scarlet Pimpernel frame of mind, as well as a rather romantic one(Love stories usually affect me). I almost wish I was a "Lady" and had a title but titles don't seem to come with as much wealth as they used to and it would be bothersome to be a "Lady" with a good deal of debt and botherment. Of course I know very well that money is not the key to happiness, but money does seem to contribute to it and besides that, a fifteen year old girl can dream about what ever she wants to, almost. I think it would be very nice to marry somebody Christian, moral, very much in love with me, strong, handsome, rich enough to take me on cruises and buy me nice jewelry, and preferably the sort of man who would make a very good father. Of course I probably won't get all that but I might. The first three are definites and I wouldn't marry anybody who wasn't those things. Of course my Mom said I can get married when I'm 43 so I know that she is in no hurry whatsoever. Personally I think somewhere between twenty and thirty would be better but I'm not in a hurry either. This is the only time in my life I'm likely to be able to be a lazy teenager and I want to make the most of it. After all it is not every girl who probably can continue to be a lazy teenager past the age of twenty! Maybe then I will change into an active, energetic person who can work an eight hour day but I sincerely doubt it. I hope that if I am going to be an active energetic person I'll turn into one before I'm twenty.

I know this is a very personal post, but someday my future husband might read this and might be interested in knowing that even at the young age of fifteen I was all ready thinking ahead. In fact I even have the house I want planned and I've even given thought to my wedding dress! I all ready own two weeding dresses(purchased at that delightful thrift store for fifteen and twenty five dollars each) but they aren't near fancy enough for my wedding dress(But they are very nice costumes). I think it would be fun to have a medieval/fantasy theme wedding and though I would have the gentlemen wear tuxedos the ladies would have gorgeous dresses with long flowing sleeves and full skirts and my dress would be the loveliest one there(I hope)! I am pretty sure it will have beading or embroidery on it and maybe both.

The house I would like would be a castle! Or close to a castle. More like a building like this
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The 0 would be towers and then there would be a courtyard in the center. There would be balconies looking over it and there would also be balconies on the outside of the house too. It would be two stories though the towers would go up higher than the rest of the house. The tower rooms would probably have domed(not doomed) ceilings. The castle would probably have at least sixteen rooms and many large closets and storage areas because if my children inherit my tendency to collect and keep many things we'll need them.

I already plan to homeschool my children too. I don't know if I have mentioned my favorite subject in school yet, it is my "Multimedia study of interpersonal relationships" and I think everybody ought to have such a subject. Basically it means that whenever I read a book or watch a movie I try to find useful extracts(Like Mary in "Pride and Prejudice"). I currently have learned quite a bit about what to do and what not to do and so forth. These bits of great knowledge I have learned "If you don't lead a horse to water he can't drink", "You cannot choose the lesser of two evils if you don't have any evils to chose from", and "If you don't get yourself into bad situations you don't have to worry about getting out of them." Basically a pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cure. That may sound strange but if by doing enough prevention one is able to escape the disease it is worth it. For though the cure may not be very much you will still have the unpleasantness of the disease. Also NEVER (if you can possibly avoid it) get into debt. If it takes spending less, then spend less or earn more, but DO NOT spend more money than you have. Or at least it is a very good idea not to. Being in debt is very unpleasant. Also always be truthful and never lie.

Now for a change of subject. Today I took a refresher course in Hobbit Lore. Do you know what a "Mathom" is? It is very doubtful but I would not be surprised if you had one in your house or knew somebody who had one. Now for the definition of the word "Mathom". A "Mathom" as a thing or things of which the use of has been forgotten or has ceased to be needed. Antique shops are probably more full of "Mathoms" than some Hobbit Holes. Also for many years in the Shire the post office was kept ten times busier than the police. And the police mainly just kept wild animals from straying and farm animals on their own land and etc. There was very little crime in the Shire and I think that the Shire must have been a very pleasant place to live in, most of the time.

And now since I have written a long enough post I think I shall stop.

Sometimes

The piece of poetry at the end of the last post continued...

Sometimes
by Elizabeth Von Fange

So before I risk not ending this
I shall now make sure I do not
For though I could write much more
I would rather stop!

Which just goes to show that when you feel in a writing mood you should get up and so something else for fear that you will write something as ridiculous as that.

The Aftermath of "Not so and yet very Random Randomness"

I brought it down to supper and I got a comment that though parts of it were very funny it was too "Diluted". Therefore I suppose I should put in more humor with less Randomness, or perhaps not force my posts upon my brothers at suppertime when they want to watch a Dick Van Dyke show.

I still feel like more randomness right now, sometimes sticking existing things together and making something else is very interesting. Perhaps I should make a story instead of a saying though. Since I have been listening to a radio drama of "The Chronicles of Narnia" perhaps I should use those as a base.

Once upon a time there were four children named Daniel, John, Andrew, and Elizabeth. One day Elizabeth did not walk into a wardrobe and did not find fur coats and a wood, instead she walked into her closet and found dresses, tops, skirts, blue jeans, costumes, three hoop skirts, miscellaneous boxes, and many, many other things so that you could not even see the floor or even close the closet door. But she didn't find a single fur coat since her brand new rabbit jacket was hanging on her cabinet door knob where she could see it better.
But as she was looking into the far depths of her closet(and here is where I leave all truth behind because so far I have had a very correct description of my closet(which I need to organize(One of these days...))) she saw a pool of water. Naturally she was very alarmed because if a pool of water suddenly gets into ones closet it may ruin all of ones things that one keeps on the floor, but she suddenly found that she wasn't in her closet any more. Instead she was standing near a pool that had a circle of trees around it.
Some people may find something like that exciting but I wouldn't. For one thing there were insects buzzing around she didn't have three insect killers around her, or so she thought for at that moment three spiders showed up. Of course when she had been wanting three insect killers she had had her brothers in mind and she was not pleased to find three spiders instead. But the spiders spoke and said,
"Please, fair maiden(That part I would like), We are three unfortunates under an enchantment. Would you please help us break it?"
"That depends upon what it is." said she.
"When somebody relates backwards, though as if it were happening normally, the most important events that happened on a twenty-fifth of March that began a new year, then we shall regain our proper forms.."
"Now that, I can do. And though I do not mean to brag, I think I can do better than some people.

She then looked to see if anything was happen to the spiders and she saw them change from tiny black spiders into ugly brown toads.
"Oh thank you! Thank you! We look nice again now!(she didn't agree with that statement) and we shall be eternally grateful. If you look on that stone beside the pool you will find a green ring. Put the green ring on and jump into the pool and you will go back to your own world."
She did so and instead of getting wet she found herself back in her closet where she found that she had been touching a Yellow ring without realizing it, which just goes to show you that you never can tell what you'll find in the bottom of your closet until you look!

There, now I have something even more potentially boring than the last post. Though I do think that my knowledge of the true "The Lord of the Rings" was shown in the retelling. I did have to reference the book a little but not as much as some people might have had to. Some time I want to write "The Lady of the Rings" only I'll probably change the plot a great deal. Considering the amount of rings I have I might star myself, only since mine don't do anything I might not. Well until the next post this is Elizabeth Von Fange signing off and remember

Sometimes things are funny
Sometimes things are not
Sometimes I can write poetry
But usually not

Sometimes I write hilariously
Sometimes I try but cannot
Sometimes I clean up my room
But usually not

Actually I think that is a very good piece of poetry and though I probably won't force this whole post down my brothers throats I might print off the poem.

Not so and yet very Random Randomness

With that extremely interesting and coherent title I shall begin upon my subject. One of the great arts of posting is being able to take existing material and give it a personalized twist. For example, suppose some one said "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.". Somebody else could say, "In the country of Spain the precipitation primarily falls upon the flat grasslands." or "In the plains of Spain more rain falls upon them than in the rest of Spain." or "As I think there are more plains in Spain than any other type of geographical element, it is thereby more probably that rain will fall upon the plain just like it rains more on a hundred acre plot of land than on an adjacent square foot plot of land." or "Rain, Spain, Plain! Plain Spain Rain! Spain Rain Plain! Plain Rain Spain!" or "kewl, rain 1n span 4lls on 2 pl8nz(as my knowledge of that strange language is very small I can't do any better, or worse.)" or "Ethay Ainray Inpay Ainspay..." But I think you get the point that there are many different ways that the same thing, or something similar, could be said.

Now, to get to the idea that started this post. There are many, many old sayings that have been around for a very long time like "A stitch in time saves nine" and "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" "Early to bed, Early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."and "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." So I thought it would be fun to somewhat randomly mix up parts of old sayings and see what could show up. So perhaps I should begin with "A stitch in sheep's clothing that keeps the doctor away makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Now that doesn't make much sense since I had too many of the sayings mixed in so I shall next try with less "Beware of doctors in sheep's clothing!" but since some doctors whom one needn't beware of wear wool that isn't a very correct saying so I shall try "An apple in a wolves stomach is better than being in it yourself." Now that makes perfect sense! Now for "Early to bed, Late to rise, is the way to a sleepy demise." That rhymes but doesn't exactly make sense so, "An apple a day will have you poor in no time if you choose the Mac kind." That makes sense but doesn't rhyme.

I think it is time to add a few more old sayings so "Red in the morning, sailors warning. Red in the night, sailors delight", "A penny saved is a penny earned", "Meet the bear in his den before you judge of his condition." "'Easily in but not easily out' as the lobster said in the lobster pot", "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", and "Eat more Chicken". I know very well that "Eat more Chicken" isn't exactly an old saying but... Now let's see what I can do with those. "A penny saved is a penny not spent.", which leads to "Saving is what happens when you don't Spend" "Easily in, sailors warning, Easily out, sailors delight.", "Meat the bear in his own den before you eat him.", "A penny saved is worth two in the bush." "'Eat more Chicken' as the lobster said in the lobster pot."

That is probably long enough for a post and I hope that it will be at least mildly amusing. I think I shall print it off for supper and see if my brothers find it funny when I have them read it. Sometime maybe I can get a one to five star rating system on my posts so I know what is liked and what isn't. Of course since I would go through and vote all my posts five stars it might not be very accurate...

Taxes

It has been said that nothing in life was certain except Death and Taxes, and many have wished that they came in that order.

I usually think that one should not write or talk much about something that one knows nothing, or very little about however there are sometimes exceptions to this. Firstly, when you wish to impress people with your ignorance. Secondly, when you are with other people and you wish to have your share in the conversation and are willing to be made ridiculous in exchange for the pleasures of conversation. Thirdly and finally, when you wish to make a post about something and though you don't fully understand what you are talking about, you enough to know that you are being charged $400.00 plus in taxes and though you do not fully understand why, how, etc you still are going to lose some money.

It is amazing that with all of the taxes the country is still plunging into debt. Of course since quite a few other people are also plunging into debt ( the amount of credit cards may be partially responsible) one can not expect the nation to not jump on the bandwagon with the people, or visa versa.

However I for one shall attempt to not get into debt and though I may fail miserably(I currently owe Mom $20.00 but when I get my paycheck tomorrow I'll have it.) I shall still attempt to not exceed my income, unlike Lydia Whickam(refer Pride and Prejudice).

It was also interesting to see, along with my tax amount, just how much I earned last year! Considering the fact that I just have $500.00 dollars approximately it was remarkable to see just how much I've spent. Walmart, Thrift store, Small out of the way and pricy shops, the mall, etc. have been my undoing... Well, at least I can see where all of that money has gone more or less. I have started buying my own clothes and I do wish they were tax deductible. This year I think that instead of letting my clothes that I don't like clog up Mom's closet I'll itemize them and send them to the Thrift Store and tax deduct them. I wonder if it would be a federal offense to sew up inexpensive things with my sewing machine and send them to the Thrift Store and tax deduct them. Then since I would be getting something back I could tax deduct the materials and the sewing machine as a business expense!

I could have deducted the fifteen dollars I spent on web address fees to keep this website up if I had gotten any money back from it. Maybe I should have a "Tip" spot where when read a post you really liked you could donate a few dollars so I would feel much more inclined to write more and interesting posts... I think Paypal would be very easy to do that with...

Any way, I probably should just go out and work in the shop to make money. After all, brawn is mightier than brain! Or is it? Any way, even with taxes and everything I still can make quite a bit money out there which will fund me going to Walmart and get my new computer. But I do need to either cut spending or increase earnings and I vote for increased earnings!

To summarize: I am very proud to be an American and if the taxes had been fifty percent of all income with no deductibles, nearly everybody would be very pleased with the present state of things. After all, many things depend upon your point of view and the glass is usually less than halfway empty or more than halfway full than exactly halfway full or empty.

Interesting Points of the Revolutionary War

The great War for Independence was fought quite a long time ago but since it was extremely important names such as Patrick Henry, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Benedict Arnold, John and Sam Adams, and of course George Washington are still known. Many famous sayings came from that time period and though I am afraid I can't quite do justice to them, I can try.

Before I continue I would like to say that I think very highly of the Godly men who were the founding fathers of our country. But since I thought one morning of something rather funny that Paul Revere probably didn't say but seemed to fit, everything else sort of followed for this is a post I have been thinking about since early this morning and have actually done some research on. The events and sayings in it will not happen in the order that they happened or would have happened in the Revolutionary War but I will type them in the order that I feel like.

Paul Revere might have thought before his midnight ride: "A horse. My kingdom for a horse!"

And as Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of Independence: "Bother, I have writers block."

My humble apologies if those were not so funny or numerous as they might have been but I have had a busy day today and my brain is tired. But I do hope that you enjoyed it anyway.

Thrift Store!!!

Today I finally made it to the Thrift Store. I greatly enjoy going there, there is almost always something of great interest. Today there was lovely real rabbit jacket there that I bought. Mom and I usually agree on clothes but sometimes we don't. I say this because she thought that the rabbit jacket was too small and I thought it wasn't. I think I would have bought it even if I couldn't have squeezed into it the fur is so pretty and the price tag of $9.99 was so attractive. I also bought $40.00 more stuff. A few dresses, some shirts/blouses, two skirts and a belt. I am so tired right now I can't even think about writing something funny. Hopefully I'll wake up and get into an amusing frame of mind because at the beginning of the day I got an idea for a rather funny post about the American Revolution and I want to write it.

Also, it is amazing that even though I ought to be saving money for the cruise etc. I've been spending a lot more money than I usually do and buying a lot more clothes. I think I need to stop buying clothes because my closet is currently overflowing!!! I think that I ought to just get creative with where I hang things.

The Lord of the Rings Plot Synopsis

I know that somewhere out on the internet somebody wrote a very famous book synopsis on "The Lord of the Rings". I think that it was famous because it added things unto the story that were not in the book. So since I have read the book through multiple times and know that the name of Eomir's horse is Firefoot and many other obscure pieces of ancient lore, I consider myself fully capable of writing a better synopsis. So now to begin.(Also if you get an F on your report card for copying this because your teacher didn't read the book and only saw the movie don't blame me.)

The book starts with a battle taking place. Arwen, on her way back to her father Elrond in Rivendell, was attacked by ring wraiths and captured. But before she was captured she sent Frodo, accompanied by Sam, with the precious Ring, the only thing that could ultimately defeat Mordor and Saroun, to find Gandalf and with his aid to make their way back to Rivendell and Elrond.

Then was a time for great rejoicing and Arwen presented medals of honor to Aragorn and company.

I highly recommend reading the book for you can not get the full flavor and accuracy of the story from merely a small synopsis. It only took me three days to read the book so it shouldn't take you too long to read it.

Also I would like to add that this post has been written a lot earlier than most of my post. It is only THREE IN THE AFTERNOON and not even ten yet. And it is only about twenty-four days until the cruise!!! I am quite ready to go. It will be so much fun dressing up and eating deserts and seeing places etc.

Let's see if I can write something funny

Right now I think I'll try to write a short story and see if I can make it slightly funny. It will take place in or near Fange since I want most of my stories to take place in that place from now on. Fange is a very large capitol city, I haven't named the whole country yet, but it is all underneath Fange and its kings. So with that intro here I go...

Once upon a clock, a long clock ago there was a very famous clock in the royal museum in Fange. This clock was famous for several reasons, though when you saw it you might wonder why it was so famous. There was nothing really remarkable about it, other than the fact that it was broken from, apparently being shoved very hard onto something round. It no longer kept any sort of time but there was a very interesting tale about it which tour guides attempted to bore visitors with. However despite their best efforts the tale did not always bore the tourists because it was extremely interesting when it happened and without much further ado I shall pretend to be a more interesting tour guide than most and attempt to tell it to you with all of the interruptions from whatever tourists are around.

"It all began a long time ago when there lived a certain clock maker named John Smith."
"John Smith?" interrupted Tourist One who twirled a black mustache, "Why that is my name!"
"It's my name too." said Tourist Five from beneath the brim of his cowboy hat, "Where there as many John Smith's back then as there are now?"
" No," Said the Tour Guide, "Back in those days there weren't as many John Smith's as there are now but when somebody is even remotely famous, people will name their children after them. However at the time he was the only John Smith in his town. It was rather a small town and hardly needed a clock maker so he did other jobs than just making and repairing clocks."
"Like what?" interrupted Tourist Two as he fanned his face with his baseball cap.
"Like helping bring in crops in harvest and helping the Lord of the Nearby Castle(Nearby Castle was actually the castle's name) whenever he needed help for something, which was quite often for the Lord of the Nearby Castle was an adventurous sort of fellow and should have guessed that it would rub off on his only child. Of course if his child had been a boy that would have been just fine but he had a daughter."
"IS this going to be one of those ridiculous stories where a girl wants to be a knight and have adventures etc.?" interrupted Tourist Two as he put his hat back on his head.
"No, not really. Though Rose does play an important part in the story, it is mainly in the fact that John Smith fell in love with her."
"Oh, I do hope that this will be a romantic story!" said Tourist Three, a female teenager with blonde hair.
"And I hope it won't" said Tourist Two. Tourist Three was about to argue the point but the Tour Guide continued hurriedly,
"Actually the story is both romantic and unromantic enough to suit anybody. Now to continue. John Smith had just finished building the clock that you see in front of you,"
"I'm looking the other way, is it still in front of me?" asked Tourist Four, a eighteen year old boy in a black jacket with a red Ferrari emblem on it.
"Um," said the tour guide, "I suppose not. But to continue, John Smith had just finished that clock which he was going to deliver to the Lord of the Nearby Castle when news came that Vade Dath(A distant relation of the McDath's who where in a different story) or Lord Dath as he preferred to be called had just decided to begin the take over of Fange."
"Ug, I hope this won't be an evil villain trying to take over the world story." said Tourist Two, who did not seem very easy to please, in fact his baseball cap said on it, "Picky" but that might have been his name.
"Well, Vade Dath never does take over the world." said the Tour Guide
"You know," put in Tourist Four facing the Tour Guide, "If you added R's in the right places and switched the order a bit Vade Dath becomes Darth Vader."
"Yes, it does, but this story will take forever to tell at this rate so please save your questions for the end of the tour."
"Yes," said Tourist Six in very loud voice, "You should all be quiet like I am, can't you hear how quiet I am?"
"To continue" said the Tour Guide as several of the other tourist told Tourist Six to be quiet, "The news that Vade Dath had begun the conquest of Fange, and that he was beginning it rather near the place where Nearby Castle was, had just reached John Smith as he was setting out to deliver the clock to the Lord of Nearby Castle. So he rode with the messenger to Nearby Castle to see his reaction when the message was delivered. Also, since he was rather short on money at the moment, he wanted to collect his fee for the clock. However when the Lord of the Nearby Castle heard the news about Vade Dath he forgot all about clocks and even several broad hints from John Smith were not enough to remind him of his duty. Well, just as they were all discussing what to do about Vade Dath he suddenly walked into the room."
"This is soooooexciting!!!" said Tourist Three with a shake of her blonde hair.
"Every one was surprised to see Vade Dath" continued the Tour Guide ignoring her comment, "But he just smiled an evil smile and said 'Since I have decided to take over Fange I have decided to begin with Nearby Castle!' He raised his sword and was about to strike down the Lord of the Nearby Castle when..."
"Could you tell me where the gift shop is?" asked Tourist Seven who was passing by and was quite unaware of the reason why several other tourists started glaring at him. He had a passing resemblance to Buster Keaton in more ways than one.
"Head straight down this hall and turn..." began the tour guide.
"WHAT HAPPENED NEXT???" Tourist Three interrupted, almost screaming at the top of her lungs.
"If you would just wait one moment," the tour guide said to Tourist Seven who said that he could, "Well, just as Vade Dath was about to strike him down, John Smith rushed to his aid and smashed his newly completed clock down on Vade Dath's head and that ended another attempt at taking over Fange. The clock was then taken to this museum where John Smith was paid in full and he later married Rose and lived happily ever after. Now to get to the gift shop..."
After the tour guide had left Tourist Four happened to look into his booklet on the attractions of that particular part of the museum and seeing the picture of the clock looked at it. However when he read the description underneath it said "antique clock from the reign of King Larnd. It was damaged when his favorite dog knocked it off the table and stepped on it." he was rather surprised. And I don't blame him.
MORAL: Do not believe everything that tour guides tell you and beware of dogs.

I hope you enjoyed that:)

High time for another post

It is amazing that you can feel that you should write another post, and yet not have the slightest idea of what you are going to write when you start writing it. At the moment I don't really know what I am going to say but I think I should say something. "Something" Any way it is just 25 days until May 2 when I will board a plane heading for Florida where I will get on board the cruise ship!!! Then it is off to Europe!

I hope I'll write an interesting story soon. Currently I have had some good ideas, but... When I write I will write and then I will hit the "Post" button on my website.

Oh, if you have dogs or are a person who likes dogs you might enjoy seeing "Good Boy". We just got the DVD and I think every one enjoyed it. We have gotten a lot of new DVD's lately. Not all good but most enjoyable. The internet definitely makes my job as head of the Entertainment Committee a lot easier. I can view trailers, read reviews, compare prices etc, all from the connivence of my bedroom. It is too bad that with the many technological advances in recent years that ladies clothing is no longer as nice as it once was... Of course I do like blue jeans and they are better for riding a bicycle than southern bell ball dress but... I do like the Medieval, Renaissance, Pre French Revolution, Colonial, Southern Belle, dresses, not to mention all of the dresses from movies in the thirties, forties, and fifties! Oh well, as long as I can sew and go to the thrift store and stuff things in my closet I'll still have a representation of dresses from times gown by, and dressing up is something that I doubt I'll ever grow out of.

Books and Movies, Movies and Books

Very frequently, famous works of literature have been made into movies. Also very frequently ardent admirers of the books have been bitterly disappointed at the failure of said movies to accurately portray the plot, characters, places, etc. Of course, it is almost impossible to please everybody however it is also almost impossible to take a book and make a movie with everything from the book in it, unless it is a very short book. For example, I shall use the H2O method. Now supposing you had a container that was completely full of water. The water is at room temperature. Now supposing you froze the water, it would expand and the container would no longer hold it. Thus when one changes form, one's old container does not not work as well as it did.

Oh dear, I think I have just succeeded in confusing myself! Let me begin again. A book is a book and it is written out in a certain way. You can't see the action happening and you can't hear the people talking but you can read about their exact emotion and tone of voice with out any confusion. Also every action of importance is described. In a movie however you see things and hear them but you don't know exactly what the author intended for you to see and hear and you don't get the explanations and ()'s. So what I am leading up to is that books and movies are very different and it is extremely difficult to take a dog and make it a cat.

Anyway, the basis of this long discussion that I didn't really mean to make so long was this, Andrew and I were discussing book to movie adaptations (Lord of the Rings mainly) and I suddenly got the great idea of making a story adaption of a movie that is an adaption of a book. It could be rather funny. But for some reason I don't feel like writing it, maybe later. Of course I should promise anything showing up because I haven't even been working on "Legends from Fange" lately.

But to conclude, I don't think a movie adaption of a book should be judged by the book. For one thing, since they are different things, some things that are good in a book aren't as good in a movie and visa versa. There fore, though a movie may not be the book, and though things a different between the book and movie, you really shouldn't judge one by the other for each serve different purposes. But I do think that at the end of the battle Helm's Deep in the movie the could have got the fact that Gimli killed forty-two orcs and Legolas fourty-one right, in the movie Gimli claimed that he killed forty-three and Legolas claimed forty-two. I wonder how many hundreds of people have noticed this before I did... Any way, it is kind of interesting to be able to point out such small detail and be able to show that my knowledge of Tolkien is somewhat great. Despite the fact that I haven't read the book lately I still know a thing or two about it.

I would hate to be a professional writer and have deadlines and etc. Because sometime I don't feel like writing, and sometimes I feel like writing short stories and at other times long and though I hope that they aren't, some what boring posts. Any way, you can never tell what will show up next on Bethjoy.com.

Which reminds me, I haven't even mentioned what I was doing all day. We went to a dog show. Since my brother is part of the dog show committee so forth we were all helping and had to be there at a very early hour. So very carefully the evening before I made a list, and planned what I would bring. I even brought everything I planned on bringing but... I forgot my glasses!!! I have twenty four hundred vision, which means that the detail a person with normal eyes sees at four hundred feet, I see at twenty feet. Things are smaller, just fuzzy and it is HORRIBLE for going shopping in. We stopped by Walmart and I couldn't find a thing almost! I say almost because I did discover two cross stitch books on sale... Even with my glasses off I still manage to bump into sales but I didn't get what I wanted to get at Walmart and sometimes they stop stocking things before you can buy them... Anyway, I deeply appreciate glasses and I had a fun time at the dog show.

I shall end with this very useful saying, "Do not go to gamble to Los Vegas, for though you may drive in a twenty thousand dollar car you may leave in a hundred thousand dollar bus." And so that there can be no mistake possible, I am not encouraging gambling or traveling to Los Vegas. Take a cruise instead. And just to remind you. I am going on the Grand Princess and sailing to Europe for a seventeen day cruise on May 2 so for some time after then you will not see posts added here. I'll try to keep careful records of every day on the cruise ship so that I'll remember them properly. And now I am tired of posting so I will stop. I hope that this post makes even a slight particle of sense.

Hmm, this would be nice

My previous short story plot was very well received by Daniel so I think that instead of writing a long, dragged out story I shall merely write a history book. In history books there usually aren't descriptions of places, people, conversations etc. Since I am not good at them anyway I don't think I'll miss them. So soon I am planning to write a history book entitled "Legends From Fange" I was going to write another long book with that title but I think that instead I shall write a short story(like the one in the previous post) about the life and doings of the rulers of Fange. Fange is great city and since Geography isn't too important in a history book since you are expected to all ready know it, I needn't make up a great deal of Geographic details.

Another nice thing is that it doesn't take as long to write and finish a short story as it does to write and finish a long one and it doesn't take as long to read on either. So hopefully this evening I will begin to be a historian and write about the founding (or conquering or renaming) of Fange and the first King. I think maybe in honor of my brother Daniel I might name him King Daniel, but it also might be nice to name him King Eric after my father. Then again I really like the name Aragorn but there all ready is a King Aragorn. So I'll just have to make up my mind when I start writing it.

My Email Correspondent Sarah

And I are planning on writing a story. We have done so before, she writing one chapter then I writing a chapter and so on. Since we have completely different writing styles and ideas about the characters it is sometimes rather interesting what we come up with. But planning the stories is always very fun! we are planning one right now and I thought I would just type a few ideas for a plot... Two hours later I thought I would post the story plot on here as it is somewhat interesting and almost a complete story in itself. The idea for the plot of the story was having a main character who has all sorts of adventures happen to her. Also Sarah liked the name Alizarin so I didn't come up with that name but the rest of what you are about to read is all a figment of my imagination and I hope that you like it.

Princess Violet was on her way to visit her Aunt Hildegard one day. She lived on the other side of a large forest that has a very nice path going around it which took only about a day to travel. Since they had been delayed for some reason, Alizarin, Princess Violet's adventure loving lady in waiting, suggested taking a short cut through the woods, which since it looked like rain and Princess Violet wanted very much to reach her aunt as soon as possible she agreed to take the shortcut.

It was a beautiful night and the stars were shining bright as Prince Kilron and Princess Violet walked in the moonlight. And he proposed to her and she said yes and though they didn't know at the same moment Alizarin was just saying yes to Romoul's proposal. That was a very enjoyable evening and the next day they made it to Princess Violet's father's castle. He was very surprised to see her and find out that instead of going for a quite visit to her Aunt she had instead had many adventures and ended up engaged. But he gave his consent and at a double wedding Kilron and Violet, Romoul and Alizarin where married. On their honeymoons they planned to stop by Violet's Aunts castle but... If a sequel is ever needed what happened on their honeymoon could fill it.