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My current project(one of them at least) is creating a new language. It’s a fascinating undertaking. I’ve written a list of the most common used words(at least the ones I’ll be using the most) and now I’m busy translating. It does resemble English a bit, possibly more than Old English. I still have to figure out the grammar etc. Words first though. The grammar will probably be much, much simpler than our English. Like the adjectives will ALWAYS come right before the word they modify and there will be no such thing as “diagraming”. Probably there won’t be as many types of words either. Nouns, adjectives and probably Verbs but I’m not certain that there will be adverbs, pronouns, and the rest. Though there probably will be “A”, “the”, and “and”. When I have more of the language written I’ll probably post some of it on here. I suppose I could post some now “Nogish Gregat Dag Alet”. Which roughly translated to English means “A noisy green dragon to the left”. You see how much shorter and concise my language is than English. Sometime I will invent a name for this language.

I’ve now posted the three posts that I wrote during the trip. The ride back was somewhat tiring though we did watch a new DVD, My Man Godfrey. Highly recommended. It stars William Powell and is hilarious. I’m now about to read Dilbert etc. and use the internet that I have missed. So goodbye for the present.

I have never had or used a Yo Yo before. Ownership of one is very interesting, Mom likes to use it. Now to mention how I got a Yo Yo. We went to a company to see a machine test today on Tuesday around 10:00 A.M. One of the “Demo” machines was set up to make a Yo Yo so the demonstration was done and I was given the Yo Yo. Mom promptly showed me how to use it and then handed it back and then after I did a fairly good job for a beginner (I hope) she showed me how to use it some more. There must be something irresistible in somebody else playing with a toy when you aren’t. It was a very interesting demonstration. I rather like my new Yo Yo and I’ll have to see just how good I can get with it.

It is very good thing that there is no TV at our house. There is something almost irresistible in wasting time watching things that you are just barely interested in. So I’ve waisted the past few evenings in watching television and not writing posts so I now have a bit of a jumble of memories to write.

We went to Cape Cod on one of the days. I got to ride in a duck which is a motorized vehicle that runs on land and sea. It was a blast since our tour guide and driver were very, very funny. I definitely recommend the Duck ride there. When we passed people the tour guide would yell “stage left” or “stage right” and then we would all turn to the designated direction and yell “QUACK QUACK QUACK”. We even passed a wedding party and quacked the wedding march! The best part was, when we were coming home from Cape Cod was stopping at a WALMART!!! and going in and shopping. I got some beautiful fabric that is going to make an elegant evening gown.

I’ve seen a lot of lovely houses in Newport, and played a lot of games of Hangman with Mom on my cellphone while waiting in restaurants. The concept of two player hangman is that one person writes down a collection of words, or a word, and then the other person tries to guess it letter by letter. There is a limit for when you guess a letter that is not in the phrase then the head appears, next the body, then the legs, and last of all the arms. Its kind of fun, especially when I am winning. I beat Mommy several times:) Today we were really competitive, Mom stumped me with “Silly Milly” and I strucky back with “Hilly Silly La La” which she didn’t get and then she really got me with “no tv”, short ones being very difficult to get and I stumped her with, “I hope I win” but I got what she replied which was “I hope you don’t”.

The gift shops are very nice. I got a lovely bracelet and several paper-doll books. Mom has been buying a lot of books so we had to buy another suitcase to bring them home in. I’m tired of writing so this is all for now. I’ll be home soon.

For those of you who don’t read Dilbert I shall now not offer an explanation as I don’t feel like it. Any way today, Thursday July 22, we went to see an extrusion plant where a friend of my Dad works. Recently they had a change in management. The plant was very interesting to see as we got a tour. It was rather noisy though. At the end we were introduced to the new owner/partner/something, I don’t really know what his position was but he was new to the company and from the description I heard was remarkably like the pointy-haired boss from the Dilbert comic strip, like having employees write long reports that nobody reads instead of working etc. Of course I didn’t mention that to his face, I do have some self control. He even looked and talked like the pointy-haired boss, though his hairstyle was a bit different. Since I am sure that he probably will never read this, and if he did would probably not know that he is the person I am talking about:)

I learned all about Extrusions. They are a “wrought” product instead of a “raw” and are made of aluminum which comes in cylinders and then through several processes are changed into long bars of a shape which are then cut into slices and then you have something. They had some examples of things made from extrusion and among them was a chess set. It was in the room where we did most of the talking and I had a fun time playing with it. The pieces were perfect for stacking together in interesting, for lack of a better word, things and if I can get it my Mom has a wonderful picture of my masterpiece which used all of the chess pieces.

Other things we did today, oh I still havne’t written about Yesterday! Our flight was delayed an hour or more so we had to sit around and wait. And I was so happy to hear that! I had brought my PDP and “Hot Lead and Cold Feet” and Mom, Dad, and I sat in the airport and watched it. John(my brother) is really going to enjoy that movie. The flight was somewhat uneventful, I watched a Roy Rogers and ate five bags of pretzels. I had one to begin with and then asked if I could have some more, only expecting one extra bag and I was handed four more. I was hungry so they vanished quickly.

We are staying at a Holiday Inn and I have a room to myself which is very nice. The heating/air conditioner seems to have one setting, freezing cold, and is slightly noisy though not bad. The television is a horrible device, because its made me stay up late two nights in a row watch AFV, or America’s Funniest Videos. There was a dog playing the piano, a duck that would follow his owner when they got into there car, and many other funny things. It’s a good thing there is no television at our house or I’d be in trouble.

Today we drove all over the place and had each meal in a different state, you can do that up in New England since the states are so small. I forget which state the hotel is in but it is about two hours away from Maine where we had supper in a restaurant over looking the ocean. Tomorrow(or actually Today as it is way past midnight) is Mom and Dad’s wedding aniverary and we are going to Newport. Sadly there will be a LOT of walking there. Hmm, maybe I should tell them to enjoy the day by themselves(after they visit a grocery store and get me some snacks of course) and stay in the room and watch DVD’s, television, write, etc. and let them face the bugs, heat, and exhaustion of touring Newport. So now, since I have to wake up early and wash my hair:( I’d better go to bed and get to sleep.

I’m about to leave fore the Airport. I’ll be back Tuesday. I do wish I could get “commissions” for recommending things, because then I would probably say something very nice about a lot of DVD’s but since don’t get a commission I should probably just say nasty things about DVD’s. But that would be a waist of time so I’ll just say that I’ve watched a certain disney movie that just came out on DVD, “Hot Lead and Cold Feet”, several times and rather enjoyed it. It is very interesting because one actor plays the three main roles, and each of them are different. Plot synopsis is…

An old man “dies” and leaves behind a vast fortune, an old western town and a great deal of land. Also he leaves behind twin sons. But neither of the twin sons has heard of the other and they have never met. One is a missionary preacher from the city and the other is, well the roughest toughest gunslinger in the west would describe him fitly. So when the two of them meet it is rather interesting. Then when the will is read it mentions that there is to be a “contest” between the two brothers and the “winner takes all”. The contest consists of a race, starting with steam engines moving onto canoeing through rapids, climbing up a mountain, crossing a ROPE not a rope bridge over a deep canyon with a roaring river at the bottom, and ends up with racing a team of six horses to the finish line in the town. And the fact that some one, who will inherit the money if neither brother wins, is busy sabotaging the race many things of great interest happen.

The movie is a bit “Violent” but not too bad. It was made in the seventies and some of the characters have seventies hairstyles, which are quite different from the hairstyles in the Roy Rogers movies. Don Knotts is in the movie and does a splendid job as a sheriff.

So any rate, I’ll be back Tuesday from New England and hopefully I’ll some pleasant experiences to post about. And also hopefully I’ll post them:)

Apparently my website was majorly spammed yesterday by somebody posting something like “Nice site” “Awsum” “i like it” etc. and also links to bad websites. Fortunately either Daniel or my website spam-filter cleared these out for which I am extremely thankful.

Anyway it shows that my website is finally getting some notice. I did a web-search today for “Bethjoy.com” and my website was actually first in the list! I also found a link at some website that mentioned my website. Scroll down a lot and you will find a Bethjoy.com listing:)

Hopefully Daniel will soon set something up so I can see how many hits my website has received as I am extremely curious about that. I also want to know just how much advertising I can make for my book when it gets published, providing I ever write a book that gets published. Currently “Elizabeth’s Wonder Clock” seems to be writing all right but then I also had high hopes for “Elaine’s Pearls.” Currently I’m giving that book a break since it so much more fun to write short fairy tales such as the one in the previous post.

It’s been a while since I posted a story on here. I’m currently working on a collection of twenty four stories, one for each hour in the day, and I wrote this one for that collection. However it is not the right length so I think I shall just post it on here and let you get a taste of the collection of fairy tales I am writing. Though this one is a bit different from the others. Also, other than a bit of spellchecking I haven’t really proofread this so if you see a mistake just expect more.

Wilfergliffent, the story

Once upon a time there was an unfortunate king who had twelve beautiful daughters and no sons. He was not unfortunate in having twelve daughters, but he was unfortunate in the fact that all twelve were enchanted and had been changed into twelve statues of themselves.

The worst of the matter was that no one, except the one who had made the enchantment, knew how it could be broken. And even worse than that was the fact that no one knew who had made the enchantment. So you can clearly see just why the king had many trouble on his hands. So he made a decree that whoever disenchanted the princesses could marry the one he chose.

Now in that same kingdom there lived a poor fisherman who had twelve sons. Each of these sons were clever and handsome and none of them were any good at fishing. But they each could do something for the eldest could use a sword, the second eldest could shoot with the bow, the third eldest could read and knew much old lore, the fourth eldest could tie knots and make traps, the fifth eldest could cook, the sixth eldest could play upon a harp, the seventh could whittle, the eighth could sew, the ninth could swim faster and farther than the rest, the tenth could make and answer riddles, the eleventh could run faster than the rest, and the twelfth son could eat anything.

Well, one day it chanced that the twelve sons heard of the twelve enchanted princesses and with great intelligence the eldest brother said that their were twelve of them and twelve princesses and perhaps they should go and try to disenchant these princesses and marry them.

So, with their fathers hearty approval, the twelve brothers set out to journey to the place where the princesses were. After much travel they reached the garden in which the statues of the princesses were and looked at them.

It was a sight well worth seeing for each of the princesses were lovely and fair. It was the third eldest who noticed some strange writing upon the pedestal of one of the princesses. He looked carefully and noticed that there was writing upon each of the princesses pedestals and when they writing was all put together it read

He who would free one of the princess must free all. And he that would free them must first defeat me.
To summon me to the contest one need only shout my name “Wilfergliffent”.
But beware if incorrectly pronounced for not only will I not come but he who says it shall risk being changed into a stone statue to stand in this garden until I change them back.

When the third eldest brother figured this out he quickly told his brothers and they decided to summon Wilfergliffent. The pronunciation bothered them but the eldest decided to try it. He got it wrong and instantly changed into a statue. The third eldest brother noticed that on his pedestal was written the words

Ha ha, wrong pronunciation.

The remaining brothers tried again and all were changed into stone statues until only the youngest brother was left. He spoke “Wilfergliffent” as loudly as he could and luckily for him and his brothers he pronounced it correctly.

Instantly there stood before him an old man dressed entirely in black. He asked the youngest brother who he wanted to disenchant first, his brothers or the princesses and the youngest brother said that he would like to disenchant his brothers first and then the princesses.

Wilfergliffent told him that their would be twelve contests and that after each of them one brother would be disenchanted and that if in the final one he was beaten the princesses would be disenchanted.

They youngest brother agreed and the contests began. Fortunately it was one in eating and with little trouble he beat Wilfergliffent. The next contests was in running but the eleventh brother was able to beat him and so it went, each contest being a brother’s specialty until it finally came to the twelfth contest, the one that would release the princesses. All the brothers hoped that it would be in sword combat for that was what their eldest brother was best at.
But no, with an evil smile Wilfergliffent announced that Fishing was to be the final contest.
Each of the brothers felt that their doom had come upon them for despite all of their father’s instruction none could fish but as they looked again at the lovely princesses they agreed to try.
The eldest brother did try his best, but he could not beat Wilfergliffent in fishing so in the end the twelve brothers just had to march away home again.
But when they got there their father noticed a sudden interest in fishing and he was glad to finally have twelve fishermen helping him instead of twelve sons who never wanted to learn it.
But after a while of fishing when all the twelve brothers were excellent at it they went back. The youngest brother spoke the name of Wilfergliffent and since this time there were no brothers to disenchant they were able to start on the princesses right away and this time they defeated Wilfergliffent and disenchanted all the princesses, married them and lived happily ever after.

Tonight is Mom and Dad’s date night. They get into their Porsche and go out to eat at a nice restaurant just the two of them. Since Thursday nights are also when my brothers have a church class I get to stay home alone with Buckie and have a GREAT time doing whatever I want, making a lot of noise, watching movies on the big screen, sewing, etc. So a fun time is had by all.

Well, this Thursday night Mom and Dad went to eat at an Italian restaurant. As usually I called Mom about three times to check up on their status and as usual Mom called me once to check on me. So I found when their food arrived etc. Then one time I called Mom said they had just got ice cream at Harris Teeter and were bringing it home!!! So I got to eat ice cream tonight too! This is unprecedented! Outside of a cruise ship or a trip we almost never have ice cream at home.

The worst part about having an active imagination is that you wonder whether your parents have been mysteriously replaced by aliens who are trying to fatten you up for consumption and therefore are feeding you a lot of ice cream to make you taste sweet and delicious when you die of… of… fatness.

Of course not for more than five minutes will this horrible thought remain in my head by it just passed through as I was typing. Which just goes to show that strange things may happen while typing when you want to explain something.

I suppose the main reason Mom and Dad are getting so much ice cream and sweet stuff is because it tastes delicious and after about fifteen or so years of avoiding it and eating healthy foods, it almost is time to break out in desserts. Though I’m glad it’s not deserts.

And now I think I’m going to stop typing and go to sleep as I am trying to get to sleep earlier.

…Have something like “Time for another post” for the title. For many times, without much idea of what to write but merely the idea that I need to write something, I start typing a post. Lately I have been clogging my lungs with dust, or to rephrase that, I’ve been cleaning my room. My room is rather dusty and messy and is currently in a chaotic state of confusion. But with my glasses off I barely notice it and that’s nice.

Speaking of the price of tea in china did you know that an Earl’s wife is called a countess? And that there are two enter buttons on a mac laptop?

It is amazing just how spasmodic(I hope that’s the right word) my writing is. One day I’ll have been working hard on a project for the past several days and entertaining high hopes for it. A few days later I will realize that I haven’t been working on it and even forgot to post about it.

Speaking of forgetting to post I had something delicious for lunch! Strawberry ice-cream made by my dad. I really like the homemade strawberry ice-cream that Dad makes. It is very good and is also healthier than other types of ice cream. Frozen strawberries, cream, milk, and a banana for extra flavor compose the delicious concoction. There, now I’ve used three long words in a sentence and since I can’t really think of much else to say I shall end this post.

But I do wonder whether anybody looking up “The price of tea in China” may accidently stumble across this post and go “WHAT???”. Highly unlikely but who knows?