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I don’t particularly have anything to post at this time.
In fact I really don’t have much to post at all.
Therefore I shall attempt to write a short poem
And, as is usual, into nothingness I shall fall

Personally I don’t think I write very good poetry
Which may be why I hardly write poetry at all
So I shall tell you to beware the Ides of March
For at that time to Caesar, ill fortune did befall

And as I have just about nothing left to say
In fact I never had much to say at all
I suppose I ought to close this silly poem
And post it on my website, visitors to enthrall

My Mom has been working hard on the letter and she now has it written and is letting us proofread it. I repeatedly requested that Bethjoy.com be mentioned so this is what Mom said about it “She has her own website Bethjoy.com in which she enjoys rambling on any subject that catches her attention”. Quite frankly I think that sentence is erroneous but I have my doubts about Mom changing it at my request. It’s been a long time since I really rambled on here and I don’t write down every subject that catches my attention.

I suppose the main thing that I am not very pleased about is that that one measly little sentence followed three sentences talking about my reading David Copperfield on my cell phone! I only spent THREE or so days doing that while posting on my website has been a fairly year long and major thing. Oh well. I’m not in the best of spirits right now, I don’t exactly know why but I can guess, and just about everything is upsetting me slightly. I lost two games of “Age of Empires” which may be the main reason I’m depressed… And I’m a bit sleepy. But at any-rate, for those of you are getting the Von Fange family newsletter it should be arriving within the next few weeks. And then you can read about what Mom tells. However as I am getting an average of 25 visits per day on my website who am I to complain if nobody reading the newsletter who does not already visit my website goes to it? I hope that that last sentence made sense. So any rate, I have no written this post and I do wish to mention that I do spend time writing for Bethjoy.com and though it is not what I do most(I would say that sleeping wins there) it is something I normally do more than once a week. And personally I think it deserves a slightly better sentence than that.

I suppose I probably really shouldn’t post this post as it is not very humorous or interesting and I already posted a post today but… I think I’ll post it. Just to make Mom’s words true that I ramble on on any subject that comes into my head… Though I don’t really as some subjects that come into my head, I forget about when it comes time to post them!

So now that I have had some good typing practice and I have decided that I need to either go to sleep or eat something before I really start writing crazy things, I’m going to end this post. And I do not like losing even though I normally try not to make a big deal of it. But two games in a row… And Age of Empires games take soooo long to play… END POST HERE NOW ELIZABETH Please pardon the message to myself.

THE END AND HOPEFULLY THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

You know what I’ve been thinking? I have been thinking about my writing. I was just looking through my Stories, Books, etc. folder and I have come to the conclusion that I have a lot of stories in the process of being written. Now as I seem to be able to work on a story for about four days in a row without getting too tired of it, and then take a long break and work on the story again, I think I am going to rotate stories. I have about twenty-two folders in my “Stories that have there own folder” folder. However some of them are completed, more or less, or I don’t intend to work further on them, so in actuality there are only about 18 stories. So there is plenty to rotate through and then by the time I get back to a story I’ll probably be ready to write on it again. I do hope to do plenty of writing before the year ends and hopefully finish something though if I do a lot of rotating that won’t seem likely. Oh well, at least I’m finishing lots of posts. I suppose I’ll write a short story on here before too long.

Today has been fairly interesting. I slept until nine, in honor of Thanksgiving we have all been sleeping in lately. In the morning I actually did some writing, which is a good thing because other than this post I don’t think I’m going to do any more now. I suppose my title is a bit misleading as I do not intend to relate all of the events of today. I have been listening to an unabridged recording of “The Lord of the Rings” and though I am not completely certain, I think it is having an effect on my writing. Especially on my story as I started a draft of it this morning. I seem to be using longer words than usual and taking far longer in saying things. Which is indeed useful if one is writing for length as I was able to make about a page and a half long one paragraph from my most recent story plot, the one I wrote last night.

While listening to “The Fellowship of the Ring” I have been playing two different games simultaneously. That way I’m getting two rather unimportant things done at once so I’m not exactly wasting my time as I’m listening to the story and getting ideas for my book. I’ve decided it needs a bit more to happen in the plot so as usual I’m “borrowing” or attempting to borrow ideas. Currently I haven’t gotten any so I suppose I’m not borrowing.

As I have camera tomorrow I set an alarm clock for when I ought to turn my lights off and go to sleep and it went off just as I finished the previous sentence. So I suppose I ought to go to bed now. Indeed, I am sleepy. So I’ll end this post. Progress is being made on the story of Dalthnodair. Let us see whether or not I continue to progress.

I’m currently working on writing my third plot in a row for the story. I wrote one yesterday and I wrote one the day before. They seem to get longer and longer… Which is good. Considering the amount of information that I have written on this story and the way things are currently going, I think that there is a 75% chance I will actually write the book. At least a rough draft of it. The plot I wrote yesterday was a full four pages long. And in this plot there will be even more happening. I have characters I’m pretty satisfied with, Though Professor Relborin and Relborin Junior need some work… Plus I still haven’t named the places where the story will be happening yet either. But I have a fairly good opening, the middle needs work, but the ending is great! And having an ending that is great is very important. I just changed the ending from what it was when I posted on this story earlier. In fact, the story has never had the ending that it has now. In case I forget to mention this is Dalthnodair’s story I’m talking about. Quite frankly I don’t like the name as much as I like Drelia and Nancealia and a few other of my names, but it works. At any rate when I google search for it only my website shows up which is more than I can say for some names…

I suppose the main reason I’m typing this was that I was looking over the plot. You know, in just about every long story I’ve written(Meaning, “The Royal Crowns of Scotland”, and even “Elaine’s Pearls”) I’ve had a sword fight. In TRCOFS I had quite a few… Though mainly with dragons as the opponents. But so far in the story of Dalthnodair, there isn’t a single sword fight. Though swords are mentioned and should be as one of the main characters is a blacksmith and two of the main characters are experienced adventurers and… Well, I’m not quite sure about the three other main characters. I suppose having six main characters is rather odd… At any rate there is the main main main character who is Dalthnodair and then there are the two main main characters which would be Ranger and Gandaleous and then there are the three main characters of Snobornia, Professor Relborin, and Relborin Junior. I suppose that since I want to finish writing my story plot tonight and as I want it to be longer than the previous one I ought to stop typing on here and start typing on it. I hope you enjoy this insight into the story I am currently writing and remember, I may not finish it though I rather hope I will.

There, don’t I look like Princess Leia? For those of you who receive my families newsletter this picture will be on the picture page. I made the dress Wednesday and my brother Andrew made the background for it and put me into it. He is very talented with computers. The picture is a tad bit fuzzy as I compressed it, the original picture is crystal clear. Personally I think I did a pretty good job at copying the dress, though I definitely won’t say the same for the hairstyle. I don’t have enough hair to successfully copy it…

And it is somewhat interesting especially since I lost just about all of the information on the story in a hard drive crash over a year ago… However I found this post that I had written about it and some of the story came back to me. With further stretching of my memory more of the story came back and I have already written a fairly good plot and I’m currently working on character development. Considering the fact that I seldom work on a story for long, the chances of this story becoming anything is doubtful but at the moment I am working on the story so who knows?

I was working very hard on the story in which Drelia was the main character but I got stuck. I changed the beginning and ending of that story and somehow the whole story didn’t seem to make sense anymore and it was also a space/science fiction story and quite frankly, I prefer more fairy-tale/LordOfTheRings type stories when it comes to writing. I think I prefer writing stories like “Elaine’s Pearls”, which I may post here someday, though I’d rather publish it, or “The Royal Crowns of Scotland” which is posted here.

This story is a bit different from the two previous, mainly because the main character is actually going to be… Wait a minute. I don’t really want to spoil the plot. But any rate there is going to be a lost kingdom/city and a great quest to find it and restore it to it’s previous state of prosperity and, and, and… uh, magnificence. So I think I’ll head back to the story. I haven’t exactly decided where the humor of this story is going to come in, but there is room for it. I just figured out the names for the main characters. Their names probably will be: Dalthnodair, the main character; Gandaleous, he’s an old man, sort of like Gandalf, and you can see where his name was inspired from; Professor Relborin and his son Relborin Juniour, both are excellent in the lore of the lost city, but not so excellent when it comes to adventures; Snobornia, as far as it is known she is a descendant of the ancient rulers, which makes her an important person; Ranger, I couldn’t think of a good name for him since he is going to be the Hero, more or less, of the book so I decided everyone will just call him Ranger, he may be a bit like Aragorn. And all though I may seem to have based a few of my characters on characters from Lord of the Rings, I assure you they will be somewhat different.

I actually did a Google search for each of my characters names to make sure that no one else, at least on the internet, had used them and I couldn’t find them. Though now I probably can:) I’m quite surprised that Relborin wasn’t taken because if you add a space and a few extra letters you get two very interesting words that may, though I hope not, describe the essence of the character.

So you now have an update on my writing project. The schedule for this evening is… Write a more advanced plot as I currently only have a short one where nobody but Dalthnodair(the only name I could remember from my previous work on this story) had a name and every one was mentioned like, “the Gandalf Character”, “the not so adventurous old man”, “the mysterious man”, “the young woman”, etc. etc. It will be far less confusing now that I have names and Ranger is indeed far easier to type than “the mysterious man”.

And surprisingly, though swords and daggers may play an important part in the story, I currently don’t have a single sword fight written into the plot. All though there are quite a few blank spots in the plot where things could be inserted… And I don’t really have a good ending for the story quite yet. But I suppose I’ve written quite enough on this post and I think I ought to go type out the plot before I get too utterly tired of typing.

Yesterday was quite enjoyable. It was planned for the evening to watch Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back. Therefore I thought I would sew Princess Leia’s dress that she wear in both A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. So I sewed it. And it turned out to be remarkably like Princess Leia’s dress. I have a great picture of it but as usual, I can’t seem to be able to get it up here,

My most humble and sincere apologies for the shortness of this post but… I’m afraid it’s not going to be much longer. I have been doing a little bit of writing recently though. Mainly in the form of story work on a new story. It is definitely amazing the ratio between the stories I work on and the stories I complete.

And since the soup is now completely eaten and nobody objected to it, I can reveal the manner of which I cooked it.

Normally I do not cook or do anything like it. Pouring cearel, putting peanut butter and jelly and butter on bread is about the extent of my food preparation. Though I normally clear the table and set it. Well tonight, Mom being busy she requested that I fix supper. After recieving careful instructions on getting a can of Campbells Chicken Noodle Soup(as usual this is not a paid advertisement though the soup does taste good) opening it, then filling the empty can with water and pouring that in, and setting the stove on medieum etc. I went to the kitchen.

With remarkable little difficutly I found the pot Mom wanted me to use, I put it on the stove and I turned the right burner onto medium. Then I picked up the can of soup. And quite frankly, I don’t think the can of soup liked me. It had this funny tab thing which I think you are supposed to lift up or something. At anyrate I don’t think you’re supposed to push down as you to do to a can of coke or something, and then try to pull up and pull the tab off and then be stuck with just a little bit of the can lid sticking down. I attempted to pour the soup into the pot but though the broth went in the noodles and etc. didn’t go in… Now if you want only the broth I highly recommend this method.

Next I tried using the can opener but made the lid part be so far down that the cutting device couldn’t open it. So the next thing I tried was pushing down as I couldn’t very well pull up. With pushing down I managed to open the lid about halfway and get soup etc. on my fingers as I had not poured out much broth. However I turned it upside down and poured out. The unfortunate part of this was that the noodles that were not on the side that were coming out pushed down and closed the lid effectively cutting the noodles that were coming out. I hope this makes sense. I pushed down further on the lid and then poured again. I forget how many times I repeated this until I finally got the lid off… But it was several times.

Most of the contents of the can now being in the pot I then walked over to the sink with the can in my hand. We have two sink faucets, one is regular water and the other is filtered water. Mom had specifically stated to me that I should use filtered water but I was so flustered by what had happened in the previous paragraph that I used non filtered water from the normal faucet. As soon as I realized this, which was before I poured it into the pot though after I had filled the can up, I yelled up to Mom, who was upstairs using her computer, that I had not used the filtered water. She said it was okay so I dumped the contents of the can into the pot. I put the lid on after again yelling up to Mom whether or not the contents of the pot needed to be stirred, which they didn’t at that time. I then left the scene of the kitchen and went upstairs to my room where I commenced playing on Neopets.

After this adventure I rather forgot about the soup. However my laptop has a wireless internet connection. Every once in a while, as in several times a day, I need a “Replug” where I have to go down stairs and unplug and the replug a certain cable if I want to use the internet again because it just stops.

It is my firm belief that God must have been watching over the soup because I needed a replug just about the same time that the soup started boiling over… I normally walk through the kitchen to get the replug and I noticed the soup actively boiling. Remembering the wise words of my mother on not allowing the soup to boil I immediately removed it from the burner and placed it on another burner, turned off the stove, and then grabbed a few paper towels and wiped up the soup that was on the stove. Then I got myself a replug and went back upstairs to my computer.

When I returned downstairs a short while later to see if anybody was ready for soup, which they weren’t, I put the now cooled off soup on a pot holder on the table and tried to find Mom. She was on the phone in the office so I asked her if we were ready for soup. She told me to put it back on the burner with the burner on low so I did so.

When she was done with her phone call she came in and put the soup on the table and then the soup was consumed. As far as I know none of us have died of indigestion yet.

THE END

However, despite the fact that I am not being outright paid for saying nice things about The Light Source, since my Dad owns it I do receive certain benefits from the profits of The Light Source. I have just come inside from working out in The Shop, which is the place where The Light Source products are produced. The Shop has changed much since the early days where I worked there(search for Mordor in other posts). Now it is fairly pleasant out there. Recently the whole shop was rearranged and now the assembly area is quite a bit nicer. However, I am not exactly going to talk only about the shop in this post, oh no, there are much more things to discuss.

I have no clue on how many people who read my website might need a high quality though affordable clamp to hang lights with but… Use Light Source Clamps!!! There is the Mega Clamp, which is the standard clamp. It has an elegant shape which, even if you don’t need to hang lights, would still look cool as a home decorating item and if you ever need something that could hold several hundred pounds without breaking there it is! I suppose I could just refer you to the Light Source website which I believe my website has a link to it, in fact it does as I just checked. The website isn’t exactly impressive at the moment and it doesn’t list all of our products, like the Monstro Clamp which is huge(in comparison to our other clamps), however Daniel, the impressive and great master of web design and Code, is working on a new website. It should be done soon… Hopefully.

Any way, as Christmas is coming Light Source Products make great gifts, hopefully. We have the small and useful Mega Combo wrench which is perfect for fastening and unfastening the bolts of our clamps. And we have just come out with a new product which is the large version of the Mega Combo Wrench, the Mongo Wrench! It has everything on it that a Mega Combo Wrench has, plus it handles couplers and has a built in bottle opener.

It is amazing the stimulation of ones mind in the shop. I not only thought up the subject of this post, but also Ideas for a NEW random story which may or may not show up soon.

Oh, and there are dealers of Light Source products all over the world!

And also a matter of interest, John told me this morning that I push for things too hard… I was mention Christmas presents rather forcibly… I suppose next Christmas I’ll try to be good and not mention Christmas presents. After all, there are far more important things to life than presents and I can always work in the shop and buy the stuff for myself! Which is why I want to make sure that products from The Light Source continue to sell.

And eventually I think it would be fun to have a paid advertisement on here… However it probably would only be something I would advertise anyway… And did I say that clamps make nice paperweights? Oh, and we have the delightfully little Micro Clamp that probably would make a very nice Christmas Tree ornament? And if you really need to, the Micro Clamp could probably hang the whole Christmas tree…

So I think that now I will end this post and channel my creative efforts to other things…