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And with the impressive array of cards now at my command, I was able to decimate Polly at site seven without Polly having to do any stupid or idiotic moves:) So that’s nice.

And what else have I been doing today other than playing with my new trading cards? Well, I’ve been playing with my existing LOTR trading cards, I’ve watched two episodes of the Muppet Show. I’ve eaten two meals. I’ve watched two lessons of Chemistry. And that is about it! However as it is only five or so now i may be doing some more things before the day is over. Like perhaps playing another game with my Lord of the Rings Trading Cards:)

Today’s primary news flash is that I will not be doing the Algebra II course I was working on yesterday, I’ll be doing a much simpler one. That is nice. Today I worked some more on Chemistry and we finished Lesson 10 of thirty lessons. So my school is progressing nicely.

Tomorrow, hopefully, the trading cards I ordered should arrive. I”m eagerly looking forward to that.

I’ve been watching a lot of the Muppet show lately. I decided that since my memory could not remember all of the details about the shows that I would just watch through all of the shows and write a log about them. Then I’ll have something to refer to when choosing the shows. I might post the log on here once I’m done writing it.

I haven’t been keeping up with my to do list this week. Oh well. Next week will soon be here and then I’ll start again. The Muppet Show can be quite a distraction. Besides, I haven’t really been feeling well lately.

For the SECOND time today Daniel has beat me in the LOTR tcg game. This makes either the fourth or fifth time he has beaten in me in this game and I have never beaten him. But when I get my new cards in… I hope it will be different! At least this time I got all the way to site 9 and to the final battle before getting creamed. Oh well, if he’d drawn a really bad hand of cards I might have won. However there were few in his fellowship unwounded at the end. If you have no idea about the way the LOTR TCG is played then you probably have no idea of what I’m talking about so in simple words, Daniel and I played a game this evening. It was very close at the end but Daniel beat me. I will feel a very great feeling of accomplishment when I beat Daniel as I hope I do someday.

Mom and Dad made it back safely from their trip. Which is very nice. They came back while in the middle of Daniel’s and I’s game so I didn’t ask all of the questions and tell all of the news that I would have done otherwise. However tomorrow there will be time for them. It’s nice to have tracking numbers on packages so that you can know when they are. And when they are supposed to arrive. My two new value boxes of LOTR trading cards should arrive on Wednesday!!! And then indeed I may be a formidable foe! Unless I do the horrible thing to myself of not opening them until after Algebra II is done. That might get a lot of Algebra II done though but I’m not sure I’d be able to hold to my purpose for that long.

So I’m glad Mom and Dad are back!

We were just playing the Lord of the Rings TCG and Daniel won:( This makes the third or fourth time I think. Now I have even more of a reason to wish for the arrival of the two more TCG value packs I recently ordered. And then… I will probably be able to build a better deck and perhaps be able to defeat Daniel(Muhahahahahahahaha). Only then he might not play with me… Oh well, at least then I could probably beat Polly without her having to do idiotic moves at site 9.

In other news the day has been progressing well, providing your definition of “Well” includes getting a headache from doing Algebra II. As Calvin’s Dad would say, I’m currently building, “Character” by forcing myself to do something I don’t particularly want to do and without necessarily having to do it. Well, I do have to do Algebra II but not quite yet, after all, I still have about two and a half weeks left until September when I’m supposed to start the next school year of Twelfth Grade and presumably have finished all pertaining to Eleventh grade and all I have left of eleventh grade is about 4/5ths of my Chemistry and 10/11ths or so of Algebra II. I will be very surprised if I finish before September 1rst. In fact, I’d be surprised if I finished all of my eleventh grade school before I turn seventeen, which will happen on September 26th. You will probably be hearing much more about September 26th as that date draws nearer.

Mom and Dad should be back in a few hours. I suppose the shortness of their being away has prevented me from missing them too much. I’m not currently pining away. However it will be nice when they are back.

Andrew picked up Chinese Take Out for lunch and for breakfast we did have cereal. For supper I think that the plan is to get Pizza and watch… something. For lunch we watched an episode of the Muppet Show. Andrew said that he didn’t think he’s seen the extended edition of The Two Towers and therefore we might watch some of that which would go quite well after the Lord of the Rings trading card game that was played. And it’s probably a good thing that my brother Daniel wasn’t opposing the actual fellowship of the ring, because he might have beaten them as he just beat me. At least I have something really difficult to compare conquering Algebra II with. Chemistry is easy compared with Algebra II. Primarily because Chemistry is a DVD course where you just watch the DVD’s and do an occasional problem or two while Algebra II is a full fledged course with tons of problems and lots of reading and trying to comprehending etc.

And hopefully soon there may be another story on here. However one may not show up until after Algeberish II is finished as that is using up most of my brain and concentration. And now… I think I just realized why I’ve been making this post so long, it’s because I know, or my fingers know, that as soon as I stop I’ll probably make myself go do some more Algebra II and they think that if they keep on typing this post that I won’t get up and do school. However THIS POST IS ENDING!!! NOW!!! SCHOOL MUST BE DONE!!!

Last night it was decided that somebody needed to go to New York. Some clamps needed to be somewhere on Monday and Fed Ex could not guarantee their getting there during business hours on Monday but could guarantee a very expensive fee for shipping them. So it was decided that somebody needed to fly to New York and personally bring the clamps to where they needed to go as that was cheaper than sending the clamps Fed Ex. I’m not saying that Fed Ex is really expensive, but large quantities of clamps can weigh a LOT.

So who ended up going? My parents! And who is staying? Me. That does not happen very often. I am home without Mommy. It’s probably a good thing she’s coming tomorrow, Lord willing. Fortunately I have Polly, my bear, to keep me company tonight. And Andrew is home too. And Daniel is next door. And at the moment I’m not violently missing Mommy.

They left this afternoon. Andrew and I went to church tonight in Andrew’s Porsche. That was quite fun. It took him a half an hour to get to church. Usually thirty-five minutes are allowed to get to church. Andrew directed tonight and I ran Camera One. Camera Two ran Camera Two. After church Andrew and I went to McDonalds for supper. Guess who suggested that?(me in case you don’t know) I got a really nice Happy Meal toy! So now I’m home and writing a post. Tomorrow is probably going to be interesting. According to my plan I need to restart work on Math and also there are three meals without Mommy to eat. Breakfast will probably be cereal(easy) and lunch we’ll probably eat out(easy) and maybe for supper we’ll order Pizza to be delivered and watch the extended edition of The Two Towers(also easy). So that doesn’t look too bad. And Mom brought her cellphone(I reminded her about that frequently.)

So now I think I’ll end this post. And woe unto any hijackers that might be on the plane my parents are on. However all of that is in God’s hands. Therefore I have nothing to worry about… nothing to worry about… nothing to worry about… Not that I am worried. I think… Um, I suppose I’d better end this post now. Stuffed bears are nice.

It was very very fun having my two friends, Bryn and Greer, over! We started out the visit by filming “A Tale of Three Twins” for the the third time. Possibly if I get really energetic I might go through the difficulties of putting it up here. It’s quite an amusing movie, Bryn is a great actress. She played the parts of the spoiled rich twins. I was the polite poor twins. Then one of my Prince Ken dolls played the third set of twins, the twin prince’s. We spent about two and a half hours filming and setting up things and selecting our costumes. Then I spent about an hour or more editing the movie together. Then we played dress up some more with my costumes and visited and ate supper and then visited some more and then they had to go. I hope I can see them again at some point in the moderately near future. Usually I get to see them at least once a year mainly due to their busy schedules.

I was a bit tired after their visit, and also very interested in watching a few more episodes of Season One of the Muppet Show which we just got on DVD, so I didn’t write a post then, which is unfortunate because my memory has faded slightly since then and some other events have happened, but that is for another post.

It should be very fun! I have a lot I could do before then, such as cleaning up my room, perfecting the script of the movie we’re going to film, filming the scenes that have just me in them etc. but so far today I’ve been extremely lazy and I haven’t done anything just about. Oh well, I’ll be busy tomorrow. And I still might get in the filming of the scenes that have just me in them today. I’ve picked out the costumes for my characters, that took a while…

Well, yesterday I ordered two more value packs of LOTR TCG cards from Walmart. They are now $4.00 a value box but shipping and so forth is rather expensive and almost doubles the price of the item. Oh well. I’m looking forward to getting them in.

However, TOMORROW is going to be here soon! In fact there are LESS than twenty-four hourse before my two friends will probably be arriving, Lord willing. Much indeed to do yet have I… Perhaps I’ll start doing it.

(I’m adding to this post after posting it) You know something funny? Well, I’m sure you do know something funny but not necessarily what I’m going to say. I just looked in the archives at the last time I ordered the LOTR TCG Value Box and I ordered it on a Thursday then too! AND I didn’t mention it on Bethjoy.com on the day after. Hopefully the two I ordered yesterday will come as quickly as the one I ordered a month ago, it came the next Tuesday!

I thought this information was worth posting. I hope that project SSS will be worth posting when I finish it, which might be a while. And what is project SSS? Well… You’ll just have to wait and see… After all, there should be some sort of suspense on my website though “suspense” is not one of the words that SSS is short for. Nor does it stand for Six Slurping Snakes.

My brother Daniel came back from Canada yesterday night. I was quite glad to see him. I went in the airport to meet him at the luggage area where he was waiting for his suitcase and looking earnestly for it.

He did pose for the picture. It’s quite nice having him back and we looked at some very spectacular pictures on his computer last night.

In other news, I made three doll dresses yesterday though two of them were nearly identical and were meant to be identical. And as I have quite a few things to do today I’m going to end this post now.

You may remember, if you have read any of my previous recent posts, that I went to the Dollmarket and got a doll named Marley Wentworth. Now this has led to a few problems for Mom got the exact same doll with, of course, the exact same name. This really isn’t that important but if you pick up a copy of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens what does the first sentence of the story say? “Marley was dead to begin with…” disquieting that is. So for this and other reasons I have yet to think of, I decided that a change was necessary.

I still wanted to keep the initials of M. W. for my doll so I found some long lists of names to drive my eyes berserk and start reading. I carefully considered most names for the space of about half a second, sometimes pausing for five seconds on the names that really caught my attention, Media was one of these as well as Melinda. However, as you might have noticed if you read the title of this post, I did not chose either of those. I chose the name Meliora. Though I’m not certain I think it’s pronounced MEL YOR AH or something like that. I chose the name, you see, for it’s meaning and not necessarily for it’s pronunciation. The name, presumably, is derived from a latin word meaning “Better” and since I want this name to be “better” than Marley I thought it would work. So here are two pictures of Meliora in the dress I made for her earlier today.

Meliora is really nice, even when she was Marley. I played a game with her with my Lord of the Rings Trading Cards today and… I beat her!!! And she didn’t even make that many stupid moves!(unlike Polly had to do last game). I think I’m finally getting my strategy figured out. I completely destroyed her fellowship at site seven. She may get a new dress tomorrow as a reward for being such an excellent loser:)

I’ve been very busy today. This morning I spent most of my time cleaning and organizing my room since I’m going to have company on Saturday. I vacuumed a lot of dust and brought to light parts of my floor that had been buried under for quite some time.

Recently I’ve developed a method for cleaning up my room, or parts of my room at least. I select an area and then put everything movable in that area on top of my bed and then reorganize from there. Here is a picture of what my bed looked like after a picked up nearly everything from the section of floor I was cleaning.

I was rather busy this morning getting that situation in hand. Then I made a dress for Marley, now named Meliora, and after that I forget what I did but I’m sure I did something… This evening we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and after we came home I rode my bicycle for over an hour and now I’m tired but I still have a few more things to do on my to do list. Last week I did not use a to do list but this week I’m using one again. I think I still have five things left to check off but as soon as I finish this post I’ll be able to check that off

First off, here is the dress I just finished making today. My brother Andrew was kind enough to take the picture.

I spent most of this morning and afternoon making the dress and taking breaks in-between steps. I’m rather tired now and I don’t feel like writing much however the previous post is nice and long.

Here are some pictures of Marley Wentworth in the dress I made for her Saturday. Since this was the first dress I’d made for her it didn’t exactly turn out perfectly, but it works.