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I already have all of the morning things on my to do list done and it isn’t even 10:00 yet! That is nice. I am rather tired and sleepy today too. Hopefully coming up soon will be an amusing short story. Right now I don’t think I could do one but maybe I’ll try…

Once upon a time there was a butterfly whose wings were the most beautiful golden hue that it would dazzle your eyes just to look at. Sadly the butterfly could not flit around from flower to flower for it was made of gold. However, being made of gold has its advantages for, since it wasn’t alive, the butterfly didn’t know what it was missing.

But one day the Blue Fairy, who was on her way to visit Pinochio, showed up and changed the golden butterfly into a real living breathing butterfly. However it still couldn’t flit from flower to flower because gold is so heavy that it’s rather hard to fly when made of it.

Unfortuately the Blue Fairy had left before this discovery was made by the butterfly so it just lay flattened on the table until it’s owner came in. He was rather displeased with what had happened and since the butterfly could no longer stay posed and flopped around occasionally he gave it to a naturalists friend of his who had a handsome son. I believe the romantic part of the story may be approaching…

The handsome son liked the poor little golden butterfly and took care of it and fed it and carried it around. One day while he was doing this the handsome son saw a lovely princess surrounded by her ladies in waiting walking through the forest. The princess sat down and the handsome son approached with the butterfly. He somewhat shyly informed the princess that she was sitting on a tree stump covered with poison ivy and that poison ivy covered the glade. The princess left hastily as did her ladies in waiting.

All but one, who tripped, and of course the handsome son aided her to regain her feet and afterwards they introduced themselves and the handsome son showed her the butterfly and told her it’s tale while they walked around the forest. They met on several occasions after that and finally they fell in love and got married and lived happily ever after.

But as for the golden butterfly… Well, finally the Blue Fairy showed up again and changed it back into a gold statue of a butterfly because the butterfly really didn’t like being a real butterfly. So the butterfly stood on the mantle piece and was lovingly dusted and admired by the happy couple. So everything ended happily for everybody since after a while poison ivy will go away.

MORAL: When wandering in a forest be very careful where you step. And Gold can be very heavy.

And being that it was a disgusting and unpleasant experience I shall merely say that I don’t think my lunch agreed with me… Sorry if your imagination is not bringing pleasant sights or thoughts to mind.

I suppose the more important news than that is the fact that I was not a bridesmaid today as the wedding was “postponed” and although I am not completely and utterly sure about it, “canceled” might be a better word. A lot of unusual things have been happening lately and they haven’t all been good… Frequently indeed I have been told, “And don’t post this on Bethjoy.com”. In order to save time recently I’ve started saying, “And I won’t post this on Bethjoy.com” whenever I hear an update on the situation. So sorry, if you want the scoop on the situation although I know plenty about it, my lips are sealed… But if you are planning on getting John a wedding present make sure you save the receipt…

So in other news… Um… I did a lesson in school today. I burned my hand last night on a hot plate that had just come out of the oven and that hurt. Aloe Vera plants are nice. My stomach doesn’t feel very upset right now and that is even nicer. I’ve sort of starting getting back to work on SSSS and I may get some typing done on it tonight. I got to ride in Andrew’s Porsche today. Soon I may be seventeen. I watched a lot of DVD’s today which aided in calming my stomach. And rapid squirrels still aren’t rampaging on the lawn… I think I’ve mentioned them before. Oh, and I didn’t go to the YMCA this week. And a huge rock did not fall on my head. So I think I’ll end this post now before one does…

Incidentally, I have now reached 600 posts on my websites. Today I got the inspiration to do a bit of a movie which somewhat shows what goes on on Thursday nights. Last night I watched Star Wars… I hope you enjoy this brief movie.

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Oh, and just so there is no confusion, I did not create the movie shown on the plasma screen…

The Space Station Siege Story currently looks very interesting. Here is the Character List I have compiled so far. With the exception of Tevla Arnan all of the names were names from the original character list I made. Most are rather interesting…

Main Characters Left on the Base
Arranged in no particular order

Tevla Arnan: Female, Brown Hair, Brown Eyes, Age 17, Officer Lieutenant, Heroine of the book. Nothing is impossible to her.
Calpin Durace: Male: Brown Hair, Brown Eyes, Handsome, Age 18, Mechanic, very good at building things out of scratch and repairing things. Possible romantic connection with Tevla.
Veronia Lowdale: Female, Golden Brown Hair, Blue Eyes, Age 20, Maintenance Worker, Beauty of the Base, Trainis Cannis likes her as does Lanzo Tinklo.
Reldia Marel: Female, Greying brown hair, brown eyes, Age 49, Scientist, she has been doing experiments in protective greenhouses for plants, good at growing food. May transfer some knowledge into the energy shields.
Dilcy Vink: Female, Very Blond Hair, Blue Eyes, Age 19, Cook, a bit of a flirt but not too bad. Natural blond and prone to mistakes but typically can cook well.
Lodia Dincer: Female, Red hair, Green eyes, Age 22, Mechanic, Takes life very seriously at first but lightens up a bit as time goes on, expert with space ships and spends spare time flying in a simulator.
Caldon Braot: Male, brownish black hair, grey eyes, Age 23, maintenance worker, expert plumber but not very good at much else. Can always bring any conversation to the subject of plumbing.
Lanzo Tinklo: Male, Black Hair, Green Eyes, Somewhat dark of skin, Age 21, Leader of the other soldiers, has some piloting experience. Adventurous Spirit
Zorg Dalle: Male, Dull Red Hair, Blue Eyes, Age 17, Soldier, Always in the wrong place in the wrong time and always pleads innocent. Follows where led
Plolp Trart: Male, sandy blond hair, blue eyes, Age 18, Soldier, practical joker
Brenia Dearsy: Female, Black Hair, Dark Brown Eyes, Age 29, nurse, no nonsense, very dietarily sound, dislikes Dilcy Vink’s way of cooking and insists on cooking her own meals. Keeps everyone on the base healthy.
Vake Ilk: Male, Greying hair, green eyes, Age 69 or pretty old, Handyman who has been on the base for ages. Likes to talk about the good old days
Trainis Cannis: Male, Red Hair, Green Eyes, Freckles, Age 21, Computer Technician, very capable with computers and so forth, can program anything and knows a lot of obscure information. Can hack into communications channels.

I think a lot of the characters are quite interesting and have great potential. There are thirteen in total which is unlucky, but not for them.

Since there is going to be a whole lot of blowing up of space ships I am going to have the attackers of the Space Station be some sort of alien creature so that I won’t have people dying. I may make the aliens insect like because there is typically great rejoicing (by some) at the death of a hornet or other stinging insect.

I’m enjoying the plot on this story and I just may be able to write it. I was mistaken when I said this book wouldn’t have any romance in it, but it won’t be the focal point of the book.

Also any information about this story is subject to change and I may not even write it but I hope you enjoy reading about it.

So I watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I enjoyed it though after about an hour or so I decided I ought to start writing on the story which was the reason I chose to watch Star Wars tonight. I’m currently in “Switching around between stories” mood and right now I feel like working on “Space Station Siege Story” which is a very old story of mine which has been around for at least a couple of years and has a very interesting plot.

There is a huge galactic war going on and there is a seemingly small and insignificant base which has to be evacuated. Unfortuately due to space constraints not every one can be evacuated so one officer, the main character, is left behind in charge of the base, which, in case I haven’t mentioned it before, is a space station.

Since they are now behind enemy lines and supplies are running low and so forth improvisation becomes the word of the day and fortunately several of the persons left behind know how to build things. Not everything works but enough is repaired and reordered that they manage to tractor beam in an enemy ship and resupply themselves from it’s supplies.

A lot of other things happen in the story that I haven’t thought up yet and of course in the end the war is over with the main characters side winning and they all live happily ever after. It’s not a very “romantic” story, or at least, I don’t plan it to be. But it ought to be pretty exciting and perhaps after the manner of a Henty Book. And since I just watched Star Wars maybe some of that will be thrown in too.

Although of course, I may not write the story anytime soon but I’m at least thinking about it.

pickOne = function(listOfThings){
randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*listOfThings.length)
return listOfThings[randomNumber]
}

once = new Array(”Once upon a time”, “A long time ago”)
one = pickOne(once)

pinks = new Array(”pink”, “white”, “brown”, “cute”, “grey”, “shy”, “sweet”, “hungry”, “girl”)
pink = pickOne(pinks)

animals = new Array(”mouse”, “mouse”, “rat”, “ant”, “aadvark”, “dragon”, “doughnut”, “quail”, “mouse”, “pig”, “mouse”, “butterfly”, “unicorn”, “Leviathan”)
animal = pickOne(animals)

names = new Array(”Clara”, “Elizabeth”, “Tabitha”, “Jenny”, “Pricillia”, “Elelelelelelelelia”, “Mary May”, “Eleanor”, “Abby”, “Cinthia”, “Beth”, “Lizzy”, “Dela”, “Flumpy”)
name = pickOne(names)

foods = new Array(”cheese”, “cheese”, “chocolate”, “cabbage”, “carrots”, “chocolate truffles”, “cheese soufflés”)
food = pickOne(foods)

cats = new Array(”Cat”, “Spotted and Herbacious Backson”, “Hephalump”, “Woozal”, “Income tax return”, “terrifying sight”, “Hungry and Ferioucous Dragon”, “space alien”, “spot on the carpet”, “greenish grey jelly bean”, “hornet”)
cat = pickOne(cats)

boynames = new Array(”Henry”, “Jake”, “Aragorn”, “Richard”, “Nemo”, “Clark”, “Patrick”, “James”, “Luke”, “Han”, “Sam”, “Pippin”, “Lois”, “Edwardo”, “Marvin”)
boy = pickOne(boynames)

document.write()

document.write(one) there was a little document.write(pink) document.write(animal) named document.write(name) who loved to eat document.write(food). One day while engaged in her favorite pastime of eating document.write(food) she suddenly saw a document.write(cat)! This terrified document.write(name) so much that she was about to faint when suddenly a handsome young document.write(animal) named document.write(boy) quickly rushed out and pulled her to safety. When document.write(name) revived she was very happy and she and document.write(boy) fell in love and got married and lived happily ever after. The End

Here is a piece of nonsense I just wrote.

She stood facing the corridor that led out to the garden. “Would he come?” she wondered audibly to herself. He had promised her faithfully that he would but she had heard that such promises were often broken.
Footsteps approached but she knew that they were not his, no the footsteps belonged to her younger Star Wars crazed brother who, in his Ewok suit, was briskly ascending the stairs to watch “Return of the Jedi” for the umpteenth time.
Looking at the window she could see the sun slowly sinking into the east and she could not help but wonder when her father was going to rearrange the plasma screen windows, and then, with a sinking feeling in her heart, she thought that this was not one of the plasma screen windows but an actual window.
Suddenly realizing that she was the in the wrong corridor she quickly rushed to the correct corridor feeling that something odd indeed was going on, and it was.
As she ran with most unladylike haste she forcibly encountered her younger sister. After apologizing briefly for causing her sister to drop her Princess Leia action figure she ran on wondering why all of her family was so obsessed with Star Wars.
Arriving at the correct corridor she saw that he was already there. Her breath almost stopped short. He turned and gazed upon her. She smiled and approached.
“I have it.” He said.
Her pulse quickened as she held out her hands. Quietly he handed her a package. Opening it she pulled the replica Eowyn Sword that she had ordered and had been in agonies of expectation for its arrival ever since.
After a brief, “Thank you,” she left quickly to show her new acquisition to the rest of her family leaving the FedEx delivery man behind thinking that it was a most unusual house he was currently in. And it was.

A very great piece of nonsense. I’m trying to “cultivate” my descriptive writing so I thought I would try something “descriptive” and interesting and perhaps a trifle bit unexpected. I have no clue who “She” was though or the why’s and wherefore’s behind that bit of nonsense. Let’s see if I can’t write something to top it though.

Princess Allessa stood at her window. Golden sunbeams strew themselves across the room and lit up Princess Allessa’s face. She was waiting patiently for a great event to occur and as of yet, it had not occurred.
For eight years she had stood at that window and regretted being a stuffed teddy bear whose owner had decided to go off and get married and live happily ever after.
She was about to sigh and feel that yet another day would go by in utter loneliness when she heard the creaking of a door. She feared to turn around, which was fortunate as she could not anyway but she distinctively heard the patter of small feet.
Suddenly she heard a small child’s voice saying, “Oh what a beautiful bear!” and the next instant she was lifted from where she had waited so long.
Face to face with a little girl who seemed delighted with her Princess Allessa felt that joy and happiness were hers and that she would be able to live happily ever after.
Sadly she did not figure on the little girl’s older brother’s pet dachshund’s Corgi friend who barked most incessantly at all hours of the night and would have been arrested for disturbing the piece of it had not belonged to the sheriff.
However, with the exception of this and a few other minor inconveniences Princess Allessa was able to live happily ever after until going to final resting place of all well loved toys. And so that I do not disturb those toys who haven’t reached that stage yet I shall not mention where it is…

There, I think that as far as ridiculousness goes I have improved upon the previous story. I’m kind of enjoying this:) I have no clue where the story is going to go when I start writing it and it’s rather fun to see what happens. I probably need to go to bed now, I believe I’ve more than covered my writing quota.

Once upon a time there was a little white kitten who loved to play in the bright sunshine on the dewy grass in the meadow. One day as the little white kitten was playing with a cute green caterpillar something terrible happened, the Dark Lord regained the Ring of Doom and covered the lands in a second darkness and made all of the grass wither.
This of course made the little white kitten very said and it wandered around in the dark mewing piteously and wishing for the bright sun and pleasant days that it had known so well.
Finally the sun shone out again for the Dark Lord had been defeated and the Ring of Doom destroyed by brave and mighty warriors and the kitten was able to once more play happily in the bright sunshine on the pleasant meadow.

MORAL: Even the smallest kitten can have nothing whatever to do with important events. And beware of stories written late at night after the authoress has eaten sugary things…

It’s only April 5th but I’ve had 64 unique visitors so far this month!!! Last month totaled 417 unique visitors and the month before that was 413. In January it was 330 unique visitors. 17 visits so far today, at time of writing this post.

There have been a few interesting searches which have brought up my websites. There was another “barber of seville plot” and also one more “seventies hairstyles”, “royal crowns” has proved pretty popular. “2004 average tempature in arkansas” is new as is “strawberry icecream”. Remarkable…

I have gone shopping TWICE!!! The first time I got to go to Walmart where I purchased two patterns and the materials for a dress which I have just finished cutting out. I’ll probably sew it tomorrow though I might sew some of it tonight.

The second time we went out I got to go to the Mall, which is a very rare occurrence. Mom has been doing a lot of thinking lately and was busy writing things down so while I walked around and looked at toys, formal/prom dress, and so forth she followed along and wrote things down occasionally. I had a fun time. The only thing I bought was a collapsible hair brush.

I’m quite tired right now as is expected after all of the walking I did in the Mall and in Walmart. I have also gotten a lot done today. I have a new checklist that I’m trying to keep up with. So far I’ve managed to do everything on it. Currently the only things left are, “Write Post” and “Write on Something for about a half an hour”. So I can now check off the Write Post one.