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I’ve written several stories in the past that I haven’t posted and I think I’ll post one or two of them now for the fun of it.

There once was a King who was known for his partiality for oysters. No matter what the season he had to have oysters every week. Now this probably would have been all right if he had been king of a land that lay near a sea coast or near a place where oysters were but no where around did any oysters live and it was a weeks journey to the nearest place where they could be found.
So the King kept messengers very busy going there and getting oysters and bringing them back so that he could eat them.
Now, as is usual, this King had a very beautiful daughter, and as is unusual he also had a very ugly daughter.
Both princesses were well educated and both of them were much sought after, for though one was very ugly she happened to be the oldest and would inherit the kingdom and as it was a large and wealthy one(and had to be with the King’s partiality for oysters) so few were daunted by the eldest princesses lack of beauty just as few were not daunted by the younger princess’s lack of wealth and consequence, for though she was a princess as she was not the oldest she would inherit nothing.
One day, a knight came to town. He was not young and handsome and had actually been happily married for ten years though he had been married for a total of twenty three.
He had a son, and his name was George, the mere fact that of all the characters who could have a name and who don’t shows that this character must be very important, as indeed he is. For he shall marry a princess, though I do not say which one he shall marry. That shall be left for the climax.
Now it chanced that while George and his father were staying in the capitol the king ran out of oysters. This happened because of a great storm that destroyed the road completely and prevented messengers from starting and from returning and as for those that were in between, well we shall just hope that their fate was a good one.
The king wanted his oysters and he wanted them before the week was over so he made a decree, the man who could bring him oysters for his dinner could have his pick of the two princesses.
As was intended this decree got a lot of young men busy looking for oyesters and many of them tried riding down the road that had been destroyed in the storm that was still raging and none of them were very successful.
But George, who thought he would try his hand at princess winning, had better luck than the rest. During one of his many adventures that do not come into this tale he had found a shovel. And it was no ordinary shovel, it was a magic shovel and whatever you wanted to find, when you dug with this shovel you had a higher chance of finding it than when you dug with any other shovel. Of course that did not mean that you would find what you sought but at least you would get some good exercise trying.
George was rather fortunate as he dug for he had not dug for more than three hours when he found a bed of oysters. They were fresh too and he felt as good as married to the princess until he looked up and realized he had a dilemma.
He had dug so far down that he could not climb up. This worried him a great deal but he closed his eyes and wished hard for a ladder and dug down and as fortune was with him he found one after only five more minutes of digging. Once he had hauled the ladder up out of the dirt he was able to climb up with the oysters and go to the king.
The king was overjoyed to see the oysters and immediately told George to take his pick of the two princesses.
George carefully considered the situation. The younger princess stood there, radiant in golden curls, blue eyes, and a pastel pink dress with sky blue trimmings. The older sister looked less than attractive in a dull purple dress with bright red trimmings which contrasted badly with her muddy red hair and greenish blue eyes.
George carefully considered while the King had the oysters cooked and by the time that he had decided which princess to marry the King was already on second helpings.
Then George chose to marry the older sister since he felt that he would like to be king and eat oysters every week even though they were very difficult and expensive to get. So George did marry the older princess and they all lived happily ever after, even the beautiful younger princess who was able to elope with a rich lord who was so enamored by her beauty that he forgot to ask what her dowry was and even when he came to his senses about ten years later he was still so in love with her that he didn’t mind that she wasn’t a crown princess.
MORAL: Beauty isn’t everything and neither is Money.

That was part of a collection of stories I wrote called “Elizabeth’s Wonder Clock”. There were supposed to be twenty-four stories in total but I only wrote eight or so. I’m mainly posting it now because I don’t really feel like writing a humorous story right now and I feel as though it has been some time since I posted one. I have not been doing much writing recently. At some point I plan on remedying that.

I got to eat a sugar free ice cream sandwich tonight:) Birthday celebrations begun early are enjoyable:) I still have quite some time of transcribing left to do and as it is only 9:38 or so here I will probably try to work an hour or so tonight. Hopefully I will be very productive as this needs to get done. I have an hour of footage to transcribe, oh and if I haven’t mentioned the fact “Transcribing” is taking the raw footage and then writing down all of the information on each shot, like what was said, the length of time, what happens, whether the shot is wide or a close up etc. It takes about thirty minutes or so of transcribing for five minutes of footage. At least that is my average at the moment. I’m about a third of the way done since I have done twenty minutes of the hour of footage. So now to work!

Once it is my birthday I’ll probably go back to thinking up titles. I have been busy “transcribing” recently. I’m currently about twenty minutes into the footage. I am listing the shots, what happens, everything relevant that is said, etc. etc. I prefer it way more than working in the shop, especially since I can do it on the laptop I am earning!!! So on my birthday wishlist I can take “Laptop” off. I’ll probably do an updated one soon.

Oh, last night I did a little video with some pictures that I had of Light Source products. I had some Star Wars music so I had the opening, with the scrolling text etc. for “MEGA CLAW” which is the name of the products. The final shot was very neat, it was “May the Claw be with you” It was enjoyed at breakfast. Someday I will try to put videos on here so you can see what I video edit and come up with. So now END OF POST!!!

Oh rapture! Spellcheck again! isn’t that exciting! My posts should be spelled correctly again. Hopefully… This is a test post so it won’t be much longer than this.

For the present I have named my beautiful Mac 12 inch powerbook “Lady in Waiting”. That way I can say, “I brought my lady in waiting with me”, or, “My lady in waiting helped me do that” etc. I’ll probably figure out some name or other for my lady in waiting so when I wish to refer to her I can do it by name too.

I am very happy with my her. I will be doing a lot of video editing on her, A LOT and also typing and other things. Soon I will probably have my posting program on her(I am still posting on Arwen). I have the two computers side by side, Arwen next to the wall and Lady closer to where my chair is. It is kind of fun using both Arwen and Lady at the same time, which is what I am currently doing. I’m writing this post on Arwen and listening to music on Lady.

Right now it is high time for the customary Sunday Nap so I am going to close this post. I really do like my new laptop and I think she will make a very good Lady in Waiting.

Oh joy, Oh rapture! I may be getting a MAC POWERBOOK!!! Wouldn’t that be delightful!!! Since they are silver instead of white I think I’ll name this one something other than Eowyn. I’ll have to think up a good name for it.

I will have to work for it though, but not work in the shop!!! My Dad has a convention he is going to and we will have five different monitors scrolling through product movies and I will be doing five different DVD things for them to play and each ought to be an hour plus. I’ll be doing a LOT of typing, video editing, etc. etc. but in comparison to getting my hands dirty in Mordor that will be great!!!

I probably won’t name this laptop after a character in Lord of the Rings. I think I’ll wait until I hold it in my hands to name it. And then… I am very pleased and happy as the laptop weighs less than five pounds! I’m getting the twelve inch powerbook you see. It should be sooooooo nice!!!

I have a strong suspicion that there may be a bit of humor in the movies, there won’t be any sound but there will be text, and where there is text I write… Well, permit me to refer you to The Castle of Wandering .

Soon indeed I will leave the age of fifteen behind me and become sixteen. I have already started my birthday shopping. I suppose it may not be custumary to buy oneself presents for one’s birthday but I want to make sure I have some…

I have recently read “The Importance of Being Earnest” and I found it to be very amusing. I recamend reading it. You can find it on Project Guetenberg(I don’t really know how to spell the last word.). It is a humorous work in the extreme.

Hopefully soon I will have a new Laptop and have spellcheck. I supose I could go back over my writing carefully and look for mistakes but… I’m too lazy. Perhaps my character will suddenly change when I turn sixteen… Doubtful…

I can’t think of anything else to say so, “Goodnight!”

I just added a few new rooms and items to The Castle of Wandering and I am quite sure that if you want to go wandering about and explore you might find something interesting and humorous! You can pick up items and move them around and sometimes very interesting things happen when you pick some items up. Explore each room, you never know what you will find!

Especially a certian type of velvet that is sold for $3.97 a yard. And what is especially glorious is a certian dress that I made in that velvet. It is very interesting when one is sewing something and one makes up the pattern, sews it, and the dress actually looks stunning and one’s Mother even says that I could actually wear it!!!!!!!

The dress is an evening dress, a modest evening dress(it would have to be for me to wear it). But the skirt! Well, the dress is somewhat close fitting until it gets to the knee, then the skirt becomes extremely full so when I walk it flutters and I sooooo much enjoy it. Someday I will have to find a way to put pictures on here because though I can think the dress clearly in my mind and had it visualized before I made it, I can’t describe it. But it looks stunning on me and I really enjoy twirling around in it. And for the price of $9.26 I did very well because I don’t think you could buy a brand new evening dress as lovely as this for that. And it only took two hours to make and I think that some people might spend that much time just trying on dresses and making up their minds on which one they want to buy!

I really enjoy sewing. And I really like this dress. And it is extremely comfortable to wear, unlike most evening gowns. Hopefully I get to wear it somewhere because I rather think I look very nice when I wear it. I do believe that I am a little bit vain but I think that is a very common feminine character trait.

There is a rather famous author by the name of Charles Dickens. I think about all that I had ever read of works was “A Christmas Carol” but several days ago it chanced that I saw a movie rendition of the book “David Copperfield”. Apparently at some point in my mother’s youth she had read the book of “David Copperfield” during a summer and said that it might be worth my time to read it.

Now I had just found a CD of books which can be transferred to my cellphone for reading and among them was David Copperfield. I was a little bit worried though when I noticed that the book was divided in four parts. since there was a limitation on how much text could be fit into one part. Most books. like pride and predjudice, nearly all of Jules Verne’s works, were merely one part. Ben Hur, which is a rather long book, was only two parts. I think that David Copperfield can well compare with “Lord of the Rings” for length. I believe that I started reading “Lord of the Rings” on an evening and then finished it on a morning after three full days had passed.

David Copperfield I started Sunday afternoon and I just finished it shortly before one in the morning on Wednesday. So really, I read the whole book in less that three days. I believe that that was no small accoplishment since I still managed during that time period to do quite a few other things, including playing some computer games, working on the castle with Daniel, and entertianing some friends. Though I did stay up until past midnight nearly every night reading.

David Copperfield is actually a fascinating book. It detials David Copperfield’s life from his being born to the time when he is a happy father with many children and a loving and devoted wife. Great humor can be found trhoughout the book, and one thing which I really liked was characters constantly showing up again. There would be somebody whom you met in the first few chapters that you would later meet at another time. And the endings of the story shows nearly all of the principle characters and what they are likely to be, or, in some cases, continue to be.

However David Copperifled is indeed a long book and not to be attempted by the faint hearted. However it is a great study of human nature and many useful lessons can be derived from it such as “Don’t spend more than you make or else msiery will befall you” and many more which I am at present too sleepy to relate as I did not take a nap today and I am rather fatigued.

And personallly, I think that my writing style has been influenced to some degree by reading David Copperfield and that until the influence of it wears off I may write some rather interesting posts.

To conclude, I probably will read some more of Dicken’s works but at the moment I think my eyes are going to go nuts if look at a computer screne any longer.