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I have finally beaten Daniel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it is now time to write a post with lots of Exclamation Marks:) This evening, much to my surprise, I defeated my brother Daniel in a game of Lord of the Rings Trading Cards! I haven't counted how many times Daniel has beaten me, but it's been more than five, maybe more than ten, games in a row. Until this evening I have never defeated Daniel. All of my losses have been recorded on my website so you might be able to figure out how many times he's beaten me if you want to figure that out. Oh, and the first game I played Daniel this evening, he won! He overwhelmed my ring bearer on site four! However I did manage to survive all the way to site nine where I won this game. So that was good:)

I haven't over burst with the excitement of the situation, actually I'm rather quiet. I suppose I'm being mature and reflective. Sitting back and watching the ending of a seemingly never ending saga, and wondering about what excuse I now have to buy more trading cards... The heart of man is never satisfied and that especially true of the hearts of seventeen year olds:)

So at any rate, I'm quite glad I finally defeated Daniel! Apparently I finally figured out a winning deck combination, and the interesting thing about that deck combination is that it was inspired from Daniel's deck. After all, if Daniel's deck has won that many times there had to be something right about it. It was a Ent/Hobbit deck so I built an Ent/Hobbit deck and I built a better one than he had! So that was quite pleasant. So now, since I've won against Daniel, I can move on to new challenges and start building decks for the fun of playing them and making interesting situations and testing out new possibilities and perhaps trying to get my brother Andrew to play me. After all, this game is three player and it would be really fun to play a three player game!!! However, first, I think I'm going to inform those of my family who are still in ignorance of my victory. Then, or before, I'll probably send out emails to all of my friends that I email to tell of my victory and hopefully both of them will be glad to hear of my triumphant victory!

MORAL: It is very hard to kill an Ent... But a Balrog does a pretty good job at it. And if you don't understand all of this it is not because your mental facilities are not all that they could be but because you might not know what I'm talking about. And I think I'd better stop because I'm beginning not to realize what I'm talking about...

Merry Christmas!

My brother John and his wife Erin are definitely excellent buyers of Christmas Gifts. From them I got a Master Replicas light saber that glows and makes light saber noises when you move it around and "extends" and "descends". It's REALLY neat! You can see it in the above picture. It was also very much of a surprise.

Speaking of surprises my brother Andrew got me a travel light that clips onto a book and Mom got me a little jingle bell necklace and my Aunt Glenda sent me a check for me to buy a "prom" party dress with. And I got a very fun little toy, an Idog which moves it's heads and flashes lights and can be used as a speaker and is oh so cute and can tell when you pet him. I like pets with an on/off switch.

I also enjoyed opening the presents I already knew about, the new doll and three outfits, and the DVD's. It was also very pleasant finding out what Kermit the Frog had given me, a new gold colored belt! And one that fits too!

In other news... Today I "finished" or to me specific, I declared "finished" a twenty-four page story that I started five days ago. That was a pretty impressive achievement for me to work consistently on something for five days! Not to mention actually completing it!

I've had a very enjoyable day but it's important to remember that presents and having fun is not what Christmas is really about, Christmas is about Jesus Christ and how he came into this world to save it and how he died on the cross for the sins of the world and how he's coming back to this earth someday, So I will close this post with "Merry Christmas"!

Twas the day before Christmas...

Two more presents for me appeared today!!! So out of a total of 40 presents underneath the three nine are for me and I know what is in five of those.

Tonight we are going to a special Christmas Eve service and for some inexplicable reason, I fell like dressing up! So although we won't be leaving for a while I've already been thinking about what I'm going to wear tonight. I just picked out what jewelry I might wear. I haven't worn much jewelry this year although I was very fond of jewelry in the past. So it was really fun and exciting going through my jewelry collection again. I have a collection of jewelry, and although most of it the cheap stuff that looks like the expensive stuff I do have some nice amethyst and other semiprecious stones and a few really nice pieces of jewelry that were presents from either my Dad or my Grandmother. So that was fun.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow morning, and seeing what is in all of those presents and what Andrew got from Professor Harold Hill and what I got from Kermit the Frog and what my brother John is bringing over and so forth.

I'm also looking forward to the completion of the story I'm currently working on. I want it done before January but that is going to mean a lot of work. But it could happen.

I just found out we are leaving in FIFTEEN MINUTES!!! Oh dear! I haven't eaten yet and I still need to pick out which pair of black pants I'm going to be wearing with my beautiful new frilly pink blouse and locate my shoes...

It is still strange...

My computer has convinced itself that it doesn't have an IP address and therefore won't connect to the internet. So the time for using the internet on other computers hath come... I could have expected something like this happening when my older brother Daniel is away from home for Christmas, something has to occur to make sure that he is missed.

At the moment I am using my mother's computer to post from. It is so odd typing on a keyboard that is not a laptop computer keyboard and to actually sit up to type. It may take some getting used too but I hope that I'll be able to post again from my laptop before too long.

Christmas is not far away!!! Today I got to open a present! They that shall remain anonymous but who had lunch at our house today brought presents and I carefully examined them. Quickly I found just which one had my name on the label and I began examining the box. I determined that five of the sides were cardboard and that the top was of plastic and I also detirmined that from the size of the box and the fact that it was for me that it probably was a Barbie doll which is doubtless a logical present for a Seventeen year old providing that seventeen year old is me. After examining my own present I took a look at my brothers and thought that it was probably something to eat.

A great deal of time, hinting, and wheedling later I was permitted to open my present. I did so. It was a Barbie doll! I had guessed correctly!!! She is a very pretty Barbie and was called Christmas Morning Barbie and I've already made her a new outfit. Though it didn't turn out too well...

Andrew next tackled his present and after delaying a long time in his task of opening the present without tearing the paper or even removing much tape he revealed that it was something to eat, so I was right again! That made me quite happy.

I enjoy opening presents and guessing what is inside them is very fun though I do get stumped occasionally. The two presents for me that I do not know the contents of have me really, really, stumped. One of them rattles, but only on one end, and the other sounds like a smaller box bumping against a larger box. I'm looking forward to finding out what's in them... And then there is the mysterious problem of no presents from my brothers being underneath the tree... At least not ones addressed to me. However, there is still time, and I know John has one for me at his house that he is bringing over on Christmas. I'm glad we are opening presents in the morning, the suspense is starting to increase rapidly!!!

In other, non present related news, I have started writing a new story which I started the day before yesterday and wrote ten pages on and yesterday I wrote five pages on it and following that pattern presumably I should be writing two and a half pages today but so far I haven't written on it at all but there is still time for that. And now, since my Mother just came inside and might be wanting here computer I shall end this post.

That was strange....

Two days ago(I think) my computer refused the internet. It simply wouldn't connect, and that meant no posts no emails and no surfing the web. But now it appears to be back! And that is nice. Very Nice! I'll probably write a post about what I've been doing in that time period later but right now other things are calling...

There was not an awkward pause

I did some more writing this evening. Almost four pages worth. I wrote the words "The End" to a seventeen page story. At some point I think I'll go back to this story and make it longer so it will have the length of a "Long" story. There could be a lot more to it.

It's rather fun writing romantic parts:) Since I was writing towards the end of the story I wrote the proposal in tonight. That was quite enjoyable:) The story still needs work but I'll probably just leave it for the present moment as it is and probably work on something else.

(Incidently this was written a few days ago)

Today is Wednesday though it won't be for long

I have been somewhat lazy today though I did get some things done. I finished making a Christmas Present for somebody and put it underneath the tree. I also wrote a bit more on the story I'm currently writing on so hopefully it will be finished before the end of January or maybe even the beginning. However my writing is not something to be quite counted on yet.

Oh, my Dad was telling me that some of the clamps we make(I think it was the Mega Claw) will be used to light a Canadian stage play of The Lord of the Rings. I thought that was interesting. So if you want to use the clamps that hang(or rule) them all use clamps made by THE LIGHT SOURCE!!! And save middle earth! Or something like that...

Rebuilt my deck a bit last night I did. Started writing a new story today I have

I played a game this morning between Daniel's deck and my own. I didn't play it to it's conclusion because the game could have only lasted for two more turns and it was pretty obvious that I was going to win and that nothing Daniel could do could prevent that. I've beaten Daniel's deck before but never when Daniel was playing it. Our next game should be quite interesting. We both have very, very, very powerful decks and I hope that mine will prove to be the more powerful.

The soundtrack for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was released today I bought it from Itunes and downloaded it onto my computer. It's a very impressive soundtrack and I've been enjoying it. And while I've been enjoying it I've been writing on a new story that I started today. So far I've written four pages of ideas and plot and characters and a page on the rough draft. I'm currently not writing for humor but hopefully some will seep into the story. I'm hoping it will be an interesting story but time will tell.

I might take a nap this afternoon as I am a little bit sleepy but maybe I just need a little smackeral of something to eat. Then I'll probably continue writing on Relinia and Rosy or A Story of How Dragons Can Really Shape the Events of History which probably won't be the final title but it's the current one I have. And Relinia and Rosy are not dragons but there are dragons in the story who shape the events of history and there is a very handsome and courageous prince and lots of other things in the story that I have yet to think up.

A short fairy tale and It is currently Monday though it won't be Monday much longer

I meant to write a fairy tale today. I haven't gotten around to it, yet, so maybe I'll just go ahead and do it now.

Once upon a time there was an old king who had no children. Due to the two previous mentioned facts, that the king was old and that he had no children, the king who was old and had no children decided that he really ought to chose a suitable heir to the throne to take his place after his death since he was old and had no children.

Therefore the king who was old and had no children(I suppose you probably know that the king was old had no children by now so I may not be mentioning it again.) announced one day that there was going to be a grand contest and the winner would become king, or queen as the case might be, after his death. However, any who tried and failed... well, we shall see what will happen to the losers.

The news of this contest quickly spread throughout the entire kingdom and before a day was over there few who had not heard the news. Crowds of villagers, nobles, peasants, merchants, and everyone else not covered in the previous categories soon showed up outside the castle gates for the contest was open to all with no exceptions. Many wondered what the contest would have them do, whether it might be a riddle to be solved, a deed to be done, a test to be taken, or something completely different.

In a small village there was a miller, he was well thought of in his community, who had three sons. The two eldest were considered to be very fine fellows though they had a distaste for working with their own hands but the youngest son was considered the village idiot. Naturally, the two eldest sons expressed their desire to go to the capitol and try their hand at becoming king. And naturally their younger brother said that he would like to go too and naturally he was laughed to scorn before permission was given for him to go along with the rest of the family for the Miller decided that he himself would try his hand at being king.

So the entire family set off towards the castle. Along the way they passed an old woman who was trying to take in her laundry but the wind was blowing so hard that she was experiencing great difficulty with this. The youngest son decided to help her and after he had done this the old woman thanked him and then she gave him an old sack, much worn but still serviceable. He thanked her and went on until he saw a large tree that had fallen onto a mushroom and the youngest son paused from his journey long enough to move the tree off the mushroom, and the tree expressed grateful thanks for no longer having to be in contact with such a disgustingly squishy thing as a mushroom. The tree was an apple tree and had many large apples still on its branches and since the tree made no objections the youngest son filled his sack with apples and hurried on to catch up with his family. Eventually they arrived at the castle.

There was a very long line outside it, as might be expected. Every few minutes some would be let in and there was a steady stream of rather disappointed persons going out who apparently hadn't succeeded. It was many hours before the miller and his family had their chance to get inside the castle, and once they were inside the castle they found that they still had yet another long line to go through so the shadows of evening were beginning to fall before the miller, who decided to go first, was allowed into the presence of the old and childless king.

The king looked rather tired but said to him, "What has trees that nobody sees?" The miller looked at the king but he couldn't think of a proper answer and after a moment or two a rather fierce looking guard said, "Answer or be disqualified." but the miller still couldn't think of a proper answer so he was sent out and his eldest son brought in.

The eldest son fared no better than his father and his brother fared no better than either. But when it was the youngest sons turn he actually gave an answer to the question which was, "Apples" but that, apparently, was not the correct answer to the question therefore he was sent away. However the trip was not a total loss for him for he started peddling his apples to those outside the castle gates and sold them for twenty times their worth to the hungry and tired persons who did not want to lose their place in line to go buy food. With all of the profits he made he bought an orchard when he got back to his village and settled down and married the pretty daughter of a neighboring farmer and was quite contented with his lot and never regretted that he didn't become the king.

However the quest for the next king was still going on. For about five days there was a steady stream of the subjects of the king coming to try their fortunes but at last the stream began to slow down to a trickle and eventually it was decided that everyone in the kingdom must have tried and failed and no new king had been found. However the old and childless king did not look disappointed, instead he ordered that the records of his kingdom, according the most recent census, should be brought forward as well as the book of names that each person who had come to the castle to try to be king. These records were brought and the king carefully examined them and when he was done he ordered his carriage.

The king had written down the addresses of the only three persons in his entire kingdom who had not come to the castle for the contest. The first two addresses he tried he found that the persons mentioned had died before the start of the contest. However the last one led his way to a small, but neatly kept, hut by the edge of a forest. Outside there was a young man briskly chopping wood.

The king got out of his carriage and walked towards the young man. When he noticed his visitor the young man stopped chopping wood long enough to bow politely and then he recommenced his work. The king, after waiting a moment said, "Have you heard about the contest?"

"Aye," the young man replied, "I doubt that any have not heard about that."

"Why haven't you tried competing?" the king asked questioningly.

"I have my business to attend to." the young man replied, "When one has a job to do one shouldn't go off on wild goose chases."

The King looked pleased, "A King," he said, "also should attend to the business of his kingdom and not go off on wild goose chases. I hear by announce you the winner of the contest and my heir." Upon hearing this declaration the king was the only one present who was not greatly surprised and indeed, when they heard the news, the whole kingdom was surprised. However the young man worked very hard at learning how to become king and a good one at that, and he succeeded and when the time came for him to become king he did a very good job of it and his reign was long and prosperous and unlike the old and childless king the young man married a lovely princess and they had eighteen children who all turned out very well and won for themselves fame and fortunes in the wide world.

So everybody lived happily ever after. THE END

MORAL: Minding one's own business is often more profitable than standing in long lines for days upon end, unless your business is standing in long line for days upon end and if that is the case I would highly suggest changing your occupation to something more profitable.

I lost again to Daniel, but it was closely fought...

I think I now have a deck that could probably bring about the defeat of Daniel. I was very close to winning this game. At some point I will probably defeat Daniel but that point hasn't come quite yet. I may edit my deck just a tad bit to make it stronger as currently I can't really beat Daniel's minions. Probably adding a few cards that will heal my companions would also be extremely helpful. But now, I think I'll do something else...

I think I neglected to mention that I went to see the movie in costume

Here is the outfit I wore to go see the movie. I finished making it rather late last night since it was somewhat of a last minute decision to go in costume.

I am standing next our christmas tree and I had curled my hair for the occasion. I really enjoy watching The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It was a great movie. I'm very much looking forward to it coming out onto DVD.

I have now seen the movie, and it was impressive!!!

I loved it! I would highly recommend watching The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is perfectly acceptable and a very good movie. It deserves eleven out of ten stars. Now I'm looking forward to it coming out onto DVD so I can see it again, and again, and again!

There, The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange is posted

The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange is up in my website after long last!

And now I need to get to sleep! I've done quite a few last minute things tonight in preperation of tomorrow. I made a costume piece to wear with existing costume pieces so I can look like a Narnian Princess when I go see the movie tomorrow. I put my hair in curlers for that purpose as well. I finished The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange so that it would be done so tomorrow when I probably will get inspired for another story that I already have the basic idea for I can write it without having to bother about thinking about The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange. Anyway, I need to go to sleep now so I hope you'll read The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange and enjoy it. Good night. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and seeing the 9:50 showing of, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange

9/24/05
The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange
Written by Elizabeth Von Fange

Chapter One
9/26/05
The Adventure Begins!

Hello, my name is Elizabeth Joy Von Fange. A few days ago from the time I started writing this sentence I had just completed another story entitled The First Lengthy Rambling Fantasy Story of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange at the end of which I sort of led into this tale. So you might enjoy going back and reading the previous tale in case you haven't already.

This said this story can to some extant start and this is a lot shorter opening than I used on my previous story.

Now to set the stage... There is a well lit room of hospital white in a bustling spaceport and as I don't want you to get used to long and detailed descriptions since you won't be getting them throughout the story I won't give you one here.

At any rate there are several teleporting platforms which one can use, for an exorbitant fee, to instantly transport oneself from any of the main cities of the galaxy that has a teleporter installed in it to another teleporter in another large metropolis.

As the story begins I am about to enter one of the teleporters in the room in which I sort of described and drop the narrative style I've been using for a more personal one.

I'm coming from a place quite remote from the Galaxy of Yxalag as you would know if you've read the previous book. With a swooshing feeling I appear and since the operators of the machines assume that I paid the exorbitant fee of money from what ever point I teleported from they left me pass while saying "Welcome to Jlayis" though they probably were wondering where I got my strange gear for I was not dressed for a science fiction story but rather for fantasy/medieval tale and hung on my belt was a sword and I wore a gown of dark green with a train and long sleeves that fell to the ground.

After looking around me as I walked out of the teleporting chamber I concluded that I really wasn't dressed in the proper style and that the proper style was pretty ugly for everybody wore more Japanese inspired clothes than fairytale/european inspired clothing and all had a definitely futuristic look.

I walked along trying to look as though I knew where I was going and what I was doing because sometimes when you are fooling other people you may possibly fool yourself. In the last adventure I had stumbled right into a large war and I wondered whether I was going to be doing anything of the sort in this story. Despite the fact that I am the authoress of this story I have very little idea of what is going on and only a faint vague idea of things that might possibly happen but that hasn't stopped me from going ahead with this story.

Since knowing the current news is important I went to see if they had newspapers in this galactic trading center and I found that they did have newspapers but that I didn't have any of the galactic currency necessary in order to purchase a newspaper. This looked as though it might be my first adventure in this story for the newspaper salesman was rather upset and being that he was not exactly a man but a large green rather slimy looking alien with large teeth and fangs and he didn't like, it seemed, to have persons touch his inventory and not pay for it and even deign to read the headlines before paying for it and when they did come to pay for it they didn't have the money to do so and I just lost my place in the sentence.

Suffice it to say he was rather upset and I decided to leave and leave quickly. I had at least read the headlines of the newspaper, it had said, "Zargle Tremough Findroven II" and I reflected that even if I had been successful in purchasing the news paper I probably couldn't have read it since it was written in a different language from the one that I spoke.
9/27/05

I walked out of the news stand and stood in the street for about three seconds before I was nearly hit by a speeder and I decided to stand on the sidewalk. I was wondering what to do next when I saw a young woman who was about twenty-one walk out of a nearby building with a puzzled expression on her face. She looked across the street and saw me and since I did stand out from the crowd she walked over.

"Are you from the planet called 'Middle Earth' by any chance?'

"No," I said, "I didn't know that planet was in your galaxy."

"It isn't but I read a book about it and you look as though you came from it."

I was highly complemented as you might imagine. I asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Zellinia Kremeshlious Midernia Rovist Smith" she said, "But my friends just call me Zella as do most of my enemies." she said and a troubled look came into her pale blue eyes.

At that moment before I could think of a reply, much less make one, something happened. Enemy space ships filled with green martians with eight eyes a piece did not come flying through the air wrecking havoc with their demolition guns but two rather large speeders went down the road at a very fast pace and ran down an older man as he was crossing the road. Zella and I quickly rushed to see if he was alright and not road kill and we quickly got him off the road and onto the side walk and I was rather thankful that green martians had not showed up on the scene.

Zella apparently knew who the stranger was for as we sat him down on what faintly resembled a park bench she exclaimed, "Professor Yniarb!" Hearing his name spoken Professor Yniarb opened his eyes and faintly mumbled in a voice that would have had a strong German accent if there was a Germany in this galaxy, "What... What happened?"

"You were hit by two speeders." I said, "Though probably only one hit you but I couldn't tell which one."

"Where they grey speeders with a blue stripe and red windshields?"

"No." Zella, who was very observant said.

"Good, then it wasn't the police. But were the speeders..."

"They were red with white stripes around them and on top of them and from side to side and..." Zella began before being interrupted by Professor Yniarb

"Did they have blue windshields?" he asked eagerly.

"Yes." Zella said.

"It's just as I feared, they are after me already! I must get to Tenalp Emoh at once!" and then he fainted off again.

I sat back thinking that if I was trying to make this story quite exciting I was probably succeeding well (I hope) but that the humor in it was probably lacking and I might need to work on that. But exciting isn't bad.

"We should probably get him off the street." I said after another of the strangely striped red vehicles came by with someone shooting a blaster at the Professor from a only slightly opened window. The shots were fortunately blocked by the shielding device in my pack.

"I agree." Zella said, "But where should we go?"

"I think that Tenalp Emoh would be a good idea." I said remembering that Professor Yniarb had said that he needed to go there.

"That's halfway across the galaxy from here and my ship wouldn't make the trip even if it wasn't impounded."

"Impounded where?" I said.

"Oh, at the impoundment place" Zella said in a careless way that meant she wanted to change the subject.

"How much would it take to get it unimpounded?" I said. After having no clear idea of what would happen in this story I seemed to have stumbled across an adventure at last and I wasn't about to let it go.

"Twenty thousand would do it." Zella said with a look at me as though she hoped that I would be able to provide the amount.

As I had just found out, I had none of the currency accepted on the planet, not even enough to buy a newspaper that cost just three. However, in the previous adventure, I hadn't had any money either and some had turned up and since I am the Authoress of this story and since I like to go shopping I felt quite sure that some money would turn up.

We sort of supported Professor Yniarb in between us and with me leading we walked down the street. There was an imposing archway at one point down it and as soon as I walked through loud noises were emitted and at first I thought I must have violated some sort of security thing but instead an official looking person stepped up to me and said, "Congratulations! You are the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 life being to pass through that arch! You've just won a million!" I was quite pleased and stated that I was so and the official looking person left after handing me the million and Zella said,

"You're really lucky you know that?"

"It's not luck," I said, "I'm the authoress."

Since I now had the money for it there was very little difficulty in getting Zella's ship unimpounded and we soon were onboard. It was a small craft and, though I didn't notice it at first, very old and outmoded in comparison with the latest ships that would be built a hundred years from now. However it was serviceable and Zella, after fueling up, set the course for Tenalp Emoh. Professor Yniarb was still unconscious and we put him in one of the beds in the crew quarters which were quite small. However, after thinking about it, Professor Yniarb got the captains quarters, which like the crew quarters were quite small but unlike the crew quarters which had two bunks the captain's quarters only had one.

Leaving whatever planet we were leaving behind us Zella took off and I hoped that Professor Yniarb would wake up soon so I could find out who "They" were and what was so important that "they" were after and why Zella's space ship didn't have anything that even faintly resembled a refrigerator. Upon making inquirers I learned that food was in capsules and Zella showed me a rather small capsule which I swallowed down with some water and though Zella informed me that I had just had enough lunch to meet the minimum health requirements I didn't feel very satisfied. Zella looked quite thin and I thought I now knew why.

I aimlessly wandered about the ship, there wasn't much to wander through, while Zella made some adjustments in the cockpit and I wondered just what I was going to do in order to fill the minimum daily writing requirement of two pages. I was very close to doing this already and I just needed to write a little more.

I then remembered that I hadn't really introduced myself very well though most of you who read this probably will know something about me.

I stopped in front of a mirror, or to rephrase that, a highly reflective wall panel, and looked at it. I had brown eyes and dark brown hair that I had lengthened to waist length in the previous story but had somehow in the teleportion process gone back to it's former length of being about midway down my back.

Though I suppose it's vain to say it, I'm fairly pretty and none of my features are glaringly too large or unnaturally too small and I have two eyes in the proper place and no more than one nose.

A quick check informed me that I had written the minimum requirement for today so with a glad heart I thought that Professor Yniarb would probably be waking up soon...
9/28/05

I was right. Zella stepped out of the cockpit and informed me that the course was set for Tenalp Emoh and as though he was cued, as soon as the words Tenalp Emoh were spoken Professor Yniarb woke up. He stepped out of the captains quarters and walked over to use.

"I hope that they did not mark our departure."

Zella was about to respond when I burst in,

"Who is they?"

"Your grammar is incorrect." Professor Ynairb told me. It was not the first time I'd been told this. "You should have said 'Who are they' since the word "they" is plural and "is" is singular."

"Then who are they?" I said. "And why are they chasing you? And what do they want? And why do you want to go to Tenalp Emoh?"

"That's a lot of questions." Professor Yniarb told me. "I do not know which question to answer first..." He paused for a moment in thought but he was temporarily relieved from making a choice for at that moment something hit the ship and it violently moved about and Professor Yniarb, who was still a bit unstable on his feet, was knocked over and hit his head oh something hard and was knocked unconscious.

Zella quickly rushed to the cockpit. I dragged Proffessor Yniarb to the couch where he lay deathly still, and I then rushed to the cockpit.

"It's they" Zella said. "Or so I think. See, were being attacked by two space ships and they are painted red with that strange stripe formation."

I looked on her scopes and saw that it was so. Another hit on the ship sent it rocking.

"A few more hits like that and we're done for!" Zella said as she prepared to take evasive action with the controls. "You'll have to man the guns!" Zella said and then bent in concentration on what she was doing.

For a moment I wondered where the guns were and when I asked Zella told me very hurriedly.

I quickly went where I was directed and saw the guns. Now I was faced by the problem of turning them on. I saw a switch marked "On" and "Off" and switched it to "On" and the guns seemed to turn on.

How to run them was now the problem. I sat in the control chair for them and looked at the controls and buttons.

A screen turned on and I was rather glad to see it do so for it was helpful. Aiming at things is certainly not what I'm good at but the guns did have a help mode for ammeters and I soon was firing away beautifully but unfortunately I was usually missing the target completely or closely missing it. Finally I hit but the gun was so inferior in comparison to other guns which could destroy one of the enemy ships with a single shot that almost no effects were seen.

Despite Zella's skill as a pilot several times already shots had hit. "You might want to destroy those ships about now!" Zella said over the paging system.

I was trying hard to do so and I decided not to waste time on finding the controls that would allow me to talk back to Zella until I had destroyed a ship or two.

Apparently Zella's voice had awakened Professor Yniarb and he stumbled in to see me a few moments later.

I noticed his entrance and said, "Do you know anything about running guns?" I asked hopefully.

"I am a professor of linguistics." Professor Yniarb said, "And though I study physics and mathematics and I do not study the operations of guns."

"You might do better at this than I'm doing." I said and I looked at him pleadingly.

"I'll see." Professor Yniarb said as he sat at the guns. During the next few minutes he gave me a very detailed account about what was wrong with the guns and how the projected angle of the scope was incorrect and quite a lot of other information which I did not understand and sounded extremely technical. But I was right about it, Professor Yniarb was a better gunner than I was. The sight of they really motivated him I think and soon the two pursuing ships were quite damaged when all of the sudden they stopped pursuing and left.

Professor Yniarb and I hurried to the cockpit to see how Zella was doing.

"Well, that raised my heart rate quite a bit." Zella said as she endeavored to calm herself.

"My adrenaline running quite a bit too." I said. "But I'm glad it's over."

At that moment all three of us suddenly and simultaneously realized just why they had run away. It wasn't because of Professor Yniarb's superior gunning skills it was because of...

"Space monster at twelve o'clock!" Zella said, slamming on the brakes and turning the ship to the right as quickly as possible. I was about to mention that it was actually only ten o'clock when I remembered that one can give directions in where to look by mention the time of the clock and that twelve o'clock meant dead ahead and I looked dead ahead and there was a huge space monster.

"It looks like a green specimen of Eallyray Igbious from the class Monstrositious." Professor Yniarb said.

"I don't like the look of it's teeth." I said.

"I hope it doesn't see us." Zella said as she quickly began leaving the vicinity.

Unfortunately it did see us and started pursuing. It went a lot faster than we did. I couldn't help wondering how any sort of creature could exist and move in the total vacuum of space but one of my brothers had told me long ago that something won't seem strange and unnatural unless you try to explain it so I'm not going to offer an explanation. Professor Yniarb probably could have explained it though.

Zella was looking worried since the space monster was moving a lot faster than the ship was. She was looking around on her scopes and suddenly she breathed a sigh of relief for she spotted another ship. It was a large military ship and looked quite capable of dealing with large space monsters.

Zella started typing in a distress signal and when she was done she sent it to the other ship. The first sign of response came a few minutes later when the other ship altered it's course and started heading towards them and the space monster.

However the space monster was catching up very quickly. Zella was looking seriously worried and suddenly left her post and starting getting her important belongings together into a pack. My pack was still on my back since it had an anti-gravity device on it that made it seem almost weightless.

A few moments later the space monster caught up with us. "Quick this way!" Zella said running down the corridor which wasn't very long fortunately. We followed and as we did their was a crunch and several long jagged teeth came into the space ship. Zella opened the escape pod and all three of us rushed into it and Zella hit the eject button and since fortunately it was on the side of the space monster that did not face into its cavernous mouth we were able to get away while the space monster proceeded to chew the ship.

The other space ship was now nearby and soon used it's tractor beam to haul us in. We entered a large well lit hanger and the escape pod was set gently down and the hanger bay doors were closed.

A very official looking officer in a military uniform stepped forward and behind him was a rather handsome looking young man of about twenty-five who also wore a military looking uniform but it wasn't quite military.

Zella opened the escape pod's hatch and clambered out. No one seemed surprised. I climbed out and gracefully stepped away from the escape pod. Several looked surprised at seeing me but their surprise was nothing to what they expressed when Professor Yniarb stepped out of the escape pod.

"Professor Yniarb!" the handsome young man said, "I was on my way to see you! I'm glad to see that you are safe."
9/29/05

"I'm quite glad to be safe." Professor Yniarb said, "I'm glad you came along just then. What with they and the space monster things were looking a little dark."

"Do they know about it?" the young man, whose name by the way was Raldan.

"I'm not certain." Professor Yniarb said, "but if they don't know they certainly have guessed something. At any rate they've been pursuing me and were doing so until almost up to the point you cam along."

"This is disturbing news." Raldan said, "I suppose you want to go to Tenalp Emoh at once?"

"Yes, naturally." Professor Yniarb said.

Raldan gave an order to set the change of course and then he was about to lead the way out when he stopped, turned, and said, "By the way, Professor, you haven't introduced me to your companions yet."

"You're right, I haven't." Professor Yniarb said and he turned and looked at us and suddenly a puzzled expression came on his face.

"Actually," he said, "I don't think I've been introduced to them yet."

Although in real life I'm not sure I would have been equal to the situation I was in the story. "My name is Elizabeth Joy Von Fange," I said, "And I'm an Authoress amongst other things."

"And my name," Zella said trying to sound important, "is Zellinia Kremeshlious Midernia Rovist Smith. I'm a pilot"

"And I'm" Raldan said, "Raldan Havornlel the Third. And," here he smiled ever so slightly, "I'm a prince."

Zella knew he was a prince as soon as he had mentioned his name and blushed to think that she hadn't recognized him before.

I however, though I had harbored suspicions of his rank, hadn't officially known until now. I curtsied and said that I was honored to meet him and Zella attempted to do the same.

Prince Raldan said a few polite words and then led the way out of the hanger with the rest of us following.

At the moment I was almost wishing that I were a bit older than I currently was for my mother considers the tender age of seventeen to be much to young for romance. However as I'm sure a real romance when I'm old enough will be more interesting than a fictional one when I'm not I stepped calmly aside for another heroine who, being twenty-one, was old enough. However I'm not saying that you've already met the heroine who's old enough though I'm also not going to say that you haven't. Still the fact remains that Prince Raldan was quite handsome.

We entered a lounge and the four of us sat down and Prince Raldan, much to my delight, ordered refreshments and they tasted very good. Though it isn't one of my chief pleasures I do enjoy eating when I haven't done so in a while. And by while in this present instance I mean over an hour.
11/18/05

We spent a few minutes eating before any serious conversation started. Rella didn't seem to mind the break from minimum daily health requirement food capsules and Professor Yniarb showed signs of a greater appetite than one would think common in professors.

However Zella's curiosity finally overcame her desire to eat and seizing her opportunity when Professor Yniarb was also slowing down in his eating she asked, "Professor Yniarb, who are they and what are they after you for?"

Professor Yniarb was about to answer when suddenly something collided with the ship and all were thrown about and Professor Yniarb fell forward and knocked his head quite hard on the table.

"Asteroids!" someone said of the ships intercom. Prince Raldan quickly got up and headed for the command center and as he went I heard him say, "There shouldn't be any asteroids within..." and then he was out of the room.

Zella and I helped Professor Yniarb back to his seat and I commented, "You know, I'm beginning to suspect that it's not such a good idea to ask who they are or what it is."

Zella looked at me in surprise, "Why?"

"Because just about every time we do something happens to Professor Yniarb and eventually he might be seriously damaged with all of these bumps on the head."

"But don't you want to know who they are and what it is?"

"Well..." I said and paused, "I must admit my curiosity isn't greatly raised on the subject at the current moment. I'd much rather know when I get to go shopping."

Zella looked at me in disbelief. "At a time like this you just want to go shopping???"

"Well, I suppose so. I'd like to find a store which has some new clothes because green velvet is rather hot and it restricts one movements somewhat and the train goes all over the place and besides that, I already have strong suspicions as to who Prince Raldan is going to marry so that's not what I want to find out."

Zella did not reply immediately for just then several more asteroids hit the ship and and Professor Yniarb fell forward but this time his fall was cushioned by a plate of refreshments which fortunately were not of the type that had toothpicks stuck into them. Professor Yniarb's hair looked a little interesting when we once again picked him up and set him in the seat.

"I wish we could strap him in." I said, "So he wouldn't keep falling."

"Now why couldn't I have thought of that?" Zella said as she quickly located the chair's seat belt and promptly fastened the still unconscious Professor Yniarb into his seat."

Around then Prince Raldan came back into the room. "We've encountered an asteroid field." he said, "However it's not on any of our charts."

"Well," I said, "if you see any small fighters don't bother with them and avoid small moons."

"What?" Zella said.

"I was referencing a movie." I replied. "Though really, in the movie tit seemed to turn out for the best that they went to the moon and found out that it was a apace station and..."

At that moment another asteroid struck the ship and I stopped referencing one of the six science fiction movies I'd seen.

Prince Raldan got up off the floor and headed back to the main control room and Zella and I followed him although we were uninvited. There were a lot of buttons in the cockpit control area of the ship and I was very thankful that i didn't have to figure out how to fly that ship because by the time I figured it out we probably would have been smashed to smithereens in the asteroid field.

"Have you got the analysis on how big the field is?" Prince Raldan asked an official looking man who sat in front of an enormous computer screen and seemed very intent on what he was doing. "Yes, it's N class as far as size goes and R class are far as intensity of motion and L class as far as amount of particles and why couldn't they let you put any card in a blank spot instead of just having to wait for a king?" A quick glance at his screen informed me that he was playing Solitaire. "I know how to play that." I said. It was about the first thing I'd really known how to do that I'd seen on board a spaceship so far and I was quite pleased at discovering that I did know how to do something.

Ignoring the remarks on Solitaire Prince Ralscan was carefully analyzing the situation, "Do you think we'll be able to get through it all right? We're already some ways into it and going around would take up a great deal of time besides putting us a bit to close to the war zone."

"War Zone?" I asked quickly. I hadn't know that their was a war going on before.

"Yes," Zella said to me, "Zargle Tremough Findroven the first started the war and since his death three days ago it seems as though his son Zargle Tremough Findroven the second is going to finish it."

"Or be finished." some unidentified person in the command center muttered underneath their breath loud enough to be heard by everyone in the room.

"And which side are we on?" I asked.

"The people of Raldanstrovere are committed to a strict position of neutrality." Prince Raldan explained to me. Then he suddenly seemed to notice that Professor Yniarb was not with us and he said, "Where is Professor Yniarb."

"We left him in the other room." Zella replied.

"I'd better check on him." Prince Raldan said and he walked back while Zella and I followed. Professor Yniarb was no worse than we'd seen him last and soon another shock of asteroids sent the three of us scurrying back to the command center.

"Are we almost clear of them?" Prince Raldan asked as soon as we arrived there.

"Not quite but almost. A few more minutes." the pilot said.

"Our shields are still over fifty percent." another of the ships officers mentioned and several other reports then flowed in but since I really didn't understand all of the terms and I didn't know the purpose of a lot of the persons there I won't write down what all was said. However by the expression of relief on Prince Raldan's face I thought that things were going fairly well.

And apparently they were for we soon reached the end of the asteroid field and everyone let out a sigh of relief until we noticed the fleet of star ships under the command of Zargle Tremough Findroven the second which was headed our way.

"I hope they haven't heard about it" was Prince Raldan's comment as he ordered evasive action.

"Even if they have." I said, "They probably don't know that Porfessor Yniarb is on here." I replied in a hopefully comforting way.

"Good," said one of the characters in the room in a very sarcastic voice, "Then they won't think there is any use in our ship and just blow us up."

"Well if that's the case...." I said as the ship was starting to be fired at, "Maybe I can do something." I then pulled out the instruction manuel from my pack and found that it did have a communicator of sorts but it wouldn't communicate with forces under Zargle Tremough Findroven the second so instead I flipped back to the chapter on smoke signals and, after cautiously performing the preliminary details I typed in the message to be written. It read

PROFESSOR YNIARB IS HERE AND HE KNOWS ABOUT IT SO DON'T DESTROY US PLEASE

It is very polite to say please so I thought I'd better stick that on there. However the comment of the officer who was playing solitaire was, "That'll make us sound like wimps." I decided to add something to it...

IF YOU DO ATTACK US THEN DIRE THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU

Since I'm the authoress of the story it wasn't exactly an empty threat. However from the way they got into attack formation I assumed that neither message had done any good.

"We're in for it now." Prince Raldan said. I was rather surprised by the attack since nobody had been asking who they were or what it was lately.
11/19/05

Everyone began taking battle stations and Zella and I attempted not to get in anyones way, and we were fairly successful. Pretty soon the ship was being fired at and we could hear the explosions, I think. though I also think you aren't supposed to be able to hear sound in a vacuum and space is presumable a vacuum and it must be a pretty dirty one since there are a lot of cleaners fro vacuums though they generally aren't used in space and how... A large shock broke off my train of thought and I decided maybe I'd better see if my pack had any useful things about it for this sort of situation. I grabbed my user manuel and began scanning the table of contents.

"It's too bad the fuses on our destructo bombs are so short." the chief gunner said regretfully and loudly.

"Yes, " a miscellaneous person who probably either had something to do with attacking weaponry or knew what the gunner was talking about, "They'd explode us before we could get away."

At that moment the officer who had been playing solitaire turned around and noticed the user manuel I was reading. "Does that thing have PIA teleporting capabilities?"

"Should it?" I asked flipping to the chapter on teleporting to see if it did. However another officer, who wore glasses and looked extremely technically capable said, "If it's mode l(here he said a string of numbers and words that I didn't understand and couldn't repeat), which it is, it does."

"Great!" the officer who had asked if the thing had PIA teleporting devices when he found out that it did, "Stand over here." he told me and then pulled out a cable from a zippered pocket in my pack and plugged it into a socket on the wall and told the gunner, "release that destructo bomb when I yell 'NOW!'."

The gunner got ready. There was about two minutes of tense waiting which would have, in a movie, been filled with suspenseful music and close ups of persons faces looking worried, excited, confident, and possibly some shots of outside showing the increasing dangers surrounding us and maybe even a shot of Zargle Tremough Findroven the second either Muhahahahaing or perhaps saying "I have you now", or maybe "We will crush them like little tiny flies!" or something like that.

However as this is not a movie you'll just have to use your imagination to figure out what those two minutes were like. I was standing there and was primarily wondering what PIA teleporting was and whether the word "socket" was the proper one to use to describe what the cable had been plugged into and whether or not is was a cable and whether or not that bomb would explode when we were there or when we weren't.

However, another of the younger officers was contemplating other matters and finally broke the silence by saying "But won't setting off a destructo bomb violate our status of neutrality?"

"Self defense!" the gunner shrieked and a before there was any other discussion the person who was supposed to shout now shouted "NOW!!!"

The bomb was released but we weren't there when it exploded.

Chapter Two
We arrive somewhere

Apparently my backpack teleported us, including the entire spaceship, to a very different part of the galaxy and it was assumed that in the part we had left there was a great big explosion. There were sighs of relief and exclamations of triumph being made by the various persons inside the command center and as I looked around I thought that perhaps I ought to have given the characters in there names and perhaps descriptions but since I hadn't it was a little late now because I kind of doubt they'll come in the story again for the place where we had teleported to was none other than Tenalp Emoh where Professor Yniarb was trying to go to.

Prince Raldan led the way out of the cockpit to the room where we had left Professor Yniarb. He had regained consciousness and we, Prince Raldan, Professor Yniarb, Zella, and I, walked out of the ship. I now found myself in about the same sort of room that I had teleported into at the very beginning of the book, only fortunately for us and the room this one was a bit larger so it was able to contain the rather large space ship that had just teleported into it. Unfortunately it looked as though none of the doors were big enough to get it out again but then, I realized, they could always teleport somewhere else. At any rate that problem was left behind as prince Raldan led us out of the building.
12/8/05

"We should go and discuss these matters at," Prince Raldan began when I interrupted with, "that store." and pointed. They looked in the direction I pointed and saw a large elegant clothing store which I had noticed the instant I laid eyes on it. The window displays showed several very lovely dresses and without further delay I started walking towards it.

Prince Raldan said, "Well, it doesn't really matter where we talk I suppose." and followed with Professor Yniarb and Zella. Zella was also shooting admiring glances at the window displays and seemed to enjoy the prospect of going into the store.

By the time they came in I had already picked out an outfit I liked and was rapidly moving on towards more attractive options. I wasn't sure about sizes but fitting rooms were available and I was soon much to busy to notice Princes Raldan and Professor Yniarb standing in a quiet corner and talking in low voices about they and itt. Zella also was looking around and didn't hear the conversation.

In a surprisingly short time I purchased a few outfits and put on one of them, a very lovely yellow dress with fluttery sleeves and lots of pink flowers embroidered all over it and I had found matching shoes. Prince Raldan looked admiringly in my direction when he noticed me and for a moment I enjoyed that thoroughly but since I wasn't going to be the final heroine for him I soon redirected his notice to Zella who had just walked out in a lovely dress of pale pink which set off her charms exceedingly well. She decided to buy it .

Professor Yniarb didn't allow Prince Raldan very much time to observe us for he quickly resumed the conversation and for another few minutes they were deep in discussion when a messenger entered and handed a notification paper to Prince Raldan who proceeded to read it. From the expression on his face one would have assumed that the news was good, which it was, and he soon mentioned it.

Apparently they had a meeting at some place with a confusing name that I didn't know how to spell and for some reason, which was mentioned, somebody had dropped something which had a metal in it into the main reactor core of wherevery it was and it had caused a great explosion and there weren't survivors so Professor Yniarb didn't have to worry about being pursued by they anymore.

Also, due to another explosion caused by a certain destructo bomb the war was now over and all present were glad to hear that. Professor Yniarb was especially pleased to hear about the fact that he need not worry so much about the safety of it. I was about to inquire about what it was but the word "Clearance" printed in large letters on a sign over a rack of extra pretty evening gowns that I hadn't noticed before caught my notice and Professor Yniarb had left before I remembered that I was about to ask a a question.

Approximately about that moment I heard a familiar sound which I recognized as my cell phone ring-tone and picking it up I heard my mother's voice informing me it was time to eat lunch. I said, "I'll be right there." and pulled out the teleporter device and managed to send myself back to my own room where I quickly changed into ordinary clothes and went downstairs to eat lunch with my family leaving Zella and Prince Raldan to handle their own romance.

Chapter Three
A bit more information

In case you are wondering here is some information that might answer some questions you might have such as, "Who are they?", "What was it?", "Did Prince Raldan end up marrying Zella?", "Why aren't you mentioning any of the questions I'm thinking?", "Why was this story so short?", "Will there be a sequel to this story?", and "Why didn't you mention more questions?". I shall now answer these questions. To begin with...

1. "Who are they?" They are, or perhaps I should say were, a mysterious race of unkown beings who since nobody ever saw them, nobody knew quite what they were or who they were. The peculiar shape and color of their spaceships were known and about the only way to identify them. Also they were fond of having conventions and meetings at which all attended.

2. "What was it?" It. Or if you want to be more specific, Professor Yniarbs "it" was, or is, an invention that is, or was, extremely useful but far to technical for me to understand at the current moment. It doubtlessly had a name but It works well enough for the purposes of the story.

3. "Did Prince Raldan end up marrying Zella?" Yes, they fell very much in love and got married, had twelve children and stopped then because the number thirteen was unlucky.

4. "Why aren't you mentioning any of the questions I'm thinking?" I beg your pardon, but I don't really know what your thinking and I only mentioned the questions that I was thinking.

5. "Why was this story so short?" Because I prefer writing fantasy stories and I lost the inspiration for a science fiction story. Besides that I was tired of this one and it was time to start writing on another story.

6. "Will there be a sequel to this story?" Probably but it may not show up for a long time.

7. "Why didn't you mention more questions?" As I think I mentioned before, I'm tired. And I couldn't think of any more.

8. "Is this the end of the story?" Yes but just so it's clear, THE END!

My trading cards have come and the tickets have been bought!

And naturally, I'm quite happy about all that:)

For the second time in my life I will be going to movie theater to see a movie. And for the first time in my life I'm going to see on a movie on the day it comes out!!! The movie I'm going to see is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I'll post a review on it after I see it.

In other news, my trading cards arrived yesterday. Since then I have built a deck which I hope will beat Daniel's.

And in further news I decided that I'm just going to finish The First Lengthy Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange however since it is only twelve or so pages I think I'll change the title to The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange. It will probably be on here later tonight or tomorrow. After seeing the movie tomorrow I'll probably have a lot of inspiration for another story and I'll probably want to start on it.

So now I'm going to end this post and grab a snack.

A short story about They

They were coming. The tension inside Base 767 was intense, so intense you could have shot a hole through it with a blaster. But nobody tried to do this, they were far too busy and blaster shots were being reserved for other purposes.

Lieutenant Ronma Skylon sat at her post in the docking bay and was trying to concentrate on the report she was supposed to be filling out about the condition of the lighting fixtures in the docking bay. These were hung with clamps manufactured by The Light Source since they were best clamps around and the base was a top quality base. Since she was not writing about the clamps hanging the lighting fixtures which would have been more interesting simply because they were made by The Light Source and had excellent designs and features Ronma was having difficulty concentrating on the lighting fixtures and the condition thereof, especially when they were coming. Still, routine work had to go on but more persons than Ronma Skylon were having difficulty concentrating on it.

Ronma had just managed to get about halfway done with the report when she heard familiar footsteps entering the docking bay. Without raising her head she lifted her eyes and glanced towards the entrance in time to see handsome young Captain Strono Ryles enter. She did not observe that he looked in her direction, probably because he didn't, but still she couldn't resist a slight flutter of the heart in case he would notice her and before she was done thinking about how delightful it would be if he did notice her she realized that her communicator was buzzing loudly. Quickly she picked it up and said with a sigh, "Hello", then recollecting herself she said in the most professional voice she could manage, "Lieutenant Ronma Skylon speaking." The conversation that followed was strictly routine and was primarily about making sure that a warm reception was ready for them. Fortunately for the officer who was attempting to talk to Ronma Captan Strono Ryles had just walked out of the docking bay.

It was not long until they could be seen in the far distance heading rapidly towards the base. Emergency sirens started blaring though everyone on the base, with perhaps the exception of the oldest of the janitors who habitually slept through every announcement and meeting, knew that they were coming and when they were coming. Soldiers quickly lined up. Docking bay workers scrambled to get to their correct positions. Twelve cooks came rushing in followed by eight soldiers carrying a large table and five more soldiers carrying plates and Bill Brutlock, the strongest man on the base, carrying an immense container of silverware while beside him walked his pretty girlfriend carrying napkins.

All of the officers on the base with the exception of a few who were on duty positioned themselves near the table. Ronma still hadn't finished her report yet and worked harder at forcing herself to concentrate on it despite Captain Strono's reentrance into the docking bay.

A few tense moments went by then the great docking bay doors swung open and they landed. Tension, excitement, apprehension, curiosity, and several more words similar to them were very appropriate to the situation though perhaps breathless agony of expectation might explain best the moments between when the monthly supply ships landed and when the great doors on them finally opened and several persons came out bearing chocolate cake. There was a huge sigh of relief throughout all those assembled. They had come, and they had brought the chocolate cake and that was all that mattered to the generality of those on the base.

Several cakes were quickly onto the table. The fragment chocolate cake spread it's aroma throughout the room and once again there was silent expectation. The chief chef took up his careful sharpened and polished knife and began to cut. As Captain Strono glanced around he noticed that all eyes were on the cake being cut, all eyes save one pair and those belonged to Ronma. He noticed this because when he looked in her direction he observed that she was looking at him. Their eyes met for a brief moment then Ronma blushed and dropped her eyes and began working on her report with an alacrity which hitherto had not been observable.

Due to his high rank Captain Strono Ryles got a piece of chocolate cake rather earlier than most and once he had gotten it instead of commencing eating it right away as anyone would have expected he slowly walked over to Ronma's desk and once again caused her to become rather oblivious to her report but since she had fortunately just finished it that didn't matter.

The sweet aroma of the chocolate cake perfumed the air and Ronma looked up, as she would have done even without the aroma of chocolate cake. Captian Strono smiled and said, "Would you like some cake?" and Ronma said "Yes, I would" and he promptly handed her the piece of chocolate cake and she, after giving him a beautiful smile, started eating it. The chocolate cake was delicious, which was why everyone was always excited around the time for its arrival, and for a moment while savoring the first few bites of it Ronma almost didn't think about the fact that Captain Strono had finally noticed her. Though as a matter fact he hadn't just noticed her, he had been noticing her for quite some time but she just hadn't noticed the fact that he had noticed her as he had not before noticed the fact that she had noticed him and while noticing each other neither had noticed the other noticing them and can I make this more confusing? Probably but I'll get on with the story.

Ronma was not long allowed to eat the cake uninterrupted. After a few bites Captian Strono asked her to the dance that evening that was to be held in honor of the arrival of the chocolate cake and as soon her her mouth was empty Ronma accepted. They went to the dance that evening and danced every dance together when they didn't sit them out and though there was no moonlight there was chocolate cake and that worked quite as well.

Little more remains to be said. As you probably guessed at the point of the story when Captain Strono was first mentioned, he and Ronma got married and lived happily ever after and if you didn't know that this was going to happen until know then Surpirse! Perhaps I should have written more of this story but for a short little story this is probably long enough. Otherwise it might go into the category of merely Short Story instead of Short Little Story or perhaps it really belongs in the category of Short Science Fiction story or Short Romance Story or perhaps something completely different but be that as it may I shall now say THE END

I banged my elbow on the door of the van

Now isn't that a fascinating subject? And I think I'm being sarcastic. Maybe. I'm not sure. My elbow hurts a bit though which is why this probably won't be a long post. I did print out a to do list this week but I haven't exactly been keeping up with it. So I think I'll stop writing now and rest my elbow though one doesn't exactly type with ones elbow but it is a part of one's arm and it does have an effect. So, end of post. I'll try to have a new story on here at some point soon.

Today I bought the fabric to make Cinderella's Ballgown

So at some point in the near future I'll probably make the gown. I got some very pretty fabric. It's called costume satin and was $2.00 a yard. I bought five and a half yards of light blue and one and a half yards of white. I'm making the Disney Cinderella ball gown in case I didn't specify that. It ought to have a pretty full skirt since over four of those yards are for the skirt.

Guess what I did yesterday(Besides forgetting to write a post)

I ordered some more trading cards... They were on "Weekly Special" so I thought I'd go ahead and get them to aid me in the final and utter defeat of my brother Daniel.

I haven't felt much like writing lately. I'm not sure why. Oh well. On Friday, hopefully, I'll get to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. I'm looking forward to that. I still haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going in costume.

And I still don't feel like writing... Maybe I have the wrong music playing. Oh well. I sort of have and sort of haven't had a productive week this week but next week is yet to come. I'll probably print out a To Do List then and maybe I'll get some more writing done on The First Lengthy Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange since that really ought to be done soon. So now I think I'll end this post.

Christmas is Comming

And I forgot to write a post yesterday. Next week I really need to print out a to do list.

For the present however here is the movie that Andrew and I made on Saturday. Watch Movie. And in case you were wondering, our real hair is covered by wigs and there are only two actors playing all of the parts. Special Effects I can do:)

In other news... The place where I last bought trading cards from is currently having a few very nice "Weekly Specials". And I have a Five Dollars of an Order of Twenty-Five Dollars or More coupon code. And I need to get a lot of Language done since I'm rather behind. And I have some extra money since I decided to wait to buy an Ipod until later. And, as far as I know, a hoard of pink seals are not currently bitting there way underneath America and further damaging the earth's structure holding the nation above the billowing ocean foam. All of these things together point to a possibility of me ordering a few more trading cards at some point this week... I think I'm going to try and catch up on school so that I'm at where I should be according to the schedule and then make the order and not open the cards when I get them until Language is done. That should get it done:)

It's only a couple of days until the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe come to movie theaters! And I think I'll get to go see it on the day it comes out! And I'm looking forward to that:) I may not go in costume this time but it might be an appropriate thing to do as, even if I didn't feel like making an outfit, I have several already made ones that though they might not be replicas of gowns in the movie could still look like they are of similar fashion. But I'll probably leave my swords at home.

At some point I need to consider further into the problem of what I'm going to be getting persons other than myself for Christmas.