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Tomorrow is thanksgiving and shortly before lunch Laura Beth, who probably has attained the title of “Daniel’s Girflfriend” will be arriving. Shortly after lunch (I hope) an epic game between Daniel and myself will begin. I shall be playing my newly built deck and Daniel will be playing his yet unbeatable(when he is playing it) deck. Daniel is an excellant strategist but I have been picking up some strategy of my own so it shall doubtless be a well fought game. I hope. And I hope I win! Because if I win prizes will be giving out but if I lose it will be just like any other game so prizes probably won’t be given out. I hope I win because the first place prize if I win should be something very fun. I think I might want to make a certificate or something for Daniel to present him if wins again, perhaps something like “Daniel Von Fange, Beaded Gecko Indeed” or “Daniel, Number One Reason to buy more trading cards” or perhaps if he loses, “Daniel, Finally Defeated Champion”

I am greatly pleased! I played against Daniel’s deck and I beat it!!! I’ll probably play a few more games against it before playing Daniel on Thursday but so far I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.

Probably after supper I’ll play a game with my new deck against Daniel’s deck and see how it comes out. I’m just a little too tired to do it right now. After all, I’ve just been organizing and going through over a thousand cards!!! I’m quite pleased with the cards I got. Since there is the randomness factor with the cards though I knew what cards I might be getting I didn’t know which cards I’d actually get. I was hoping really hard for two Arwen cards and a Galadriel, and I got them!!! I was soooo pleased when those three cards turned up. I got many other cards I was glad to see and many more that are going to be useful indeed. I think I might reasonably be able to expect to beat Daniel now:) We’ll see how a game against his deck without him at the other end of it goes. Though I’ve beaten his deck before but it’s a general rule that if one can’t beat the deck without the player at the other end of it then when the player is there one probably won’t win then. Or something like that. It’s time for a snack now. Over half of the cake I made is gone. In case you were wondering what I am planning to snack on…

I haven’t opened the cards yet but I opened the box they came in to make sure everything arrived, and it had. I can’t wait to open the boxes!!! Or actually I am waiting because I thought it would be nice to post and say that they have arrived since the past several posts have been about waiting for this moment. Something really nice is that with my cards they sent me a “special thank you” for my first order of five dollars off my next order of $25.00 or more. Whether I use this or not time will tell…

Oh… My Grandmother said that she would be coming and reading my website and naturally, I’m quite glad to have her! However, just so she doesn’t think I’m always into Trading Cards, being that it is a bit silly, I shall here mention, to preserve my image of darling granddaughter, that I’ve been doing a lot of cross stitching lately and designing what I’ve been cross stitching and I just finished knitting a pink baby blanket for my new niece and I’ll probably be investing in a mutual fund very soon for my retirement. And I did get a very good deal on these trading cards. So I have been doing prudent and useful things lately, just not very many of them today…

And now to open my NEW TRADING CARDS!!! and build a deck to defeat my brother Daniel with and finally win the title of CHAMPION BROTHER BEATER, or something like that. And now… to open some packaging:)

I hope UPS comes soon! Oh, and incidentally, in case you were wondering about the subject or title of the previous post it was a quote from Gollum which he said when Bilbo was ready to get “Unlost” from the book of “The Hobbit”.

I’ve said UPS a lot today… the mail has been delivered so far today and Fed-Ex has come but UPS still persists in not arriving. Hopefully the do come soon. At least while waiting for them I’ve thought up something important to remember when building a deck. And fortunately I didn’t think of it when I was building Daniel’s deck so that should give me a bit of advantage. And… I just heard a door close so I think I’ll head down stairs for the umpteenth time today and see if it had anything to do with UPS comming with my trading cards.

UPS hasn’t come yet today. However according to the UPS website my trading cards are “Out for delivery”. I’m getting rather impatient, or at least, I’m really, really, really, looking forward to their arrival. So I hope they come soon because I’m not really going to be doing anything until they do come other than waiting and organizing and reorganizing my existing cards and watching a DVD or two and walking outside every so often to see if UPS is there or about to be there.

In other news, the cake I made last night was considered to be edible. I had some for breakfast and I put some peanut butter on top of it and tasted quite good. Since it was cake made with whole wheat and no sugar I felt that it was probably as healthy as toast with peanut butter on it and it certainly tasted better.

I got a lot of school done last week. This week I haven’t done much so far but I only have two out of ten unites left of history so I’m glad that is almost done. Then I’ll probably be starting on language. I still don’t have all of eleventh grade done yet but I’m farther ahead in my school than I was last year about this time. Which is good I suppose. Its a rather odd feeling doing twelfth grade because it’s the last year of it. And in case this post seems a slight bit different than usual I’m writing it while watching a very exciting part in a movie so it’s only occasionally that I’m paying attention to what I’m writing.

Oh, I hope UPS comes soon!!!

And the cake tastes quite good and it wasn’t burned and major mistakes were not made in it’s composition primarily because my mother step by step walked me through the process. Though I got to frost it on my own. The frosting is a bit lumpy:) However it tastes good.

Tomorrow, according to the UPS tracking service on their website, my trading cards should come. I’ve organized and reorganized my trading cards in preparation for this grand occasion and I’m greatly looking forward to it. I have been making plans about what sort of a deck I’m going to build so as soon as I get my new cards in I ought to be able to build a pretty good deck, I hope. Also, my next game with Daniel is scheduled to take place on Thanksgiving day. So that may be interesting. Will Daniel win again as he has done often in the past? Or will I finally beat him? Find out on Thursday.

And I hope UPS comes in the morning and my trading cards arrive then. The closer I get to their arrival the more impatient and curious and exited I keep on getting and oh the suspense!!!

I’ll probably go to bed a bit earlier than usual tonight because the sooner one is asleep the sooner the next day comes, to some extent.

I’m looking forward to Tuesday. Presumably on that day UPS is supposed to deliver a box contain my new trading cards. I’m glad it’s only about two more days until Tuesday and that time is drawing closer by the second.

To get back to the main subject, apparently I’ve had my calculations wrong but I might still be more closer to right than I thought. I’ve often thought about “Royalties” ever since I really thought I might possibly get something published one day. I’ve usually thought that maybe one would get royalties of a dollar a book and then if five thousand people bought the book that would be five thousand dollars for me! Though it would be more like four thousand by the time tithes and taxes were deducted providing the taxes were the same as the tithes. And that amount would be nice with the hopes of more eventually. But… today Daniel said that royalties from books were FIVE CENTS!!! That is only TWO HUNDRED AND FIFITY dollars for five thousand readers. And I haven’t even deducted tithes and taxes which makes it two hundred dollars and taxes might just be more than ten percent. Considering the speed I write at and that it would probably take me at least two months to write a book that’s long enough and the chances of it being published it would be months and perhaps years before I could buy a Video Ipod… Oh, incidentally I saw one today and the little thing was soooo cute. I’d love to be able to play videos on a handheld device that’s very, very small.

But to return to the subject of writing… I’m now in a “depressed” state of mind concerning writing and publishing. I still want to see something of mine published and be able to walk into a store and see it there but I wish… Well, I suppose I could continue hoping that I’ll get more royalties than Daniel thinks I will. I can pretty stubborn at times, if stubborn is the word for it. I think “Pig Headed” or “Intentionally Stupid” might be closer to the mark. Occasionally, despite a great deal of evidence on the contrary, I will still go on foolishly believing something. For instance despite my Mother’s and my Hair Beautician’s united opinion that my hair is not going to grow any longer I still cling to the hope that it will get longer. And despite a lot of circumstances I still hope to get a book published and earn enough money from my writing to build a castle and make a movie which I hope will be a hit and will allow me to make even more movies and the movie studio of Elizabeth Unlimited will be established. Though really, I usually only dream about Elizabeth Unlimited when i’ve been watching too many behind the scenes on movies and then I start pretending interviews in which I’m talking about movies that haven’t even been thought of yet.

However I kind of don’t really think Elizabeth Unlimited will show up. A successful writing career for me is a lot more likely and me living in a castle is a lot more likely than either of the previous statements though it’s not that likely. However as the saying is, “Every man’s home is his castle” therefore I’m sort of living in a castle now because my Dad lives here and it’s his home therefore it ought to be his castle and I never thought of that before but it’s really a nice idea and I’ve been living in the castle I was born in for over seventeen years now and didn’t know it!

However I’ve already designed the general concept for the house I’d like to live in when I have a house of more or less my own. And it’s definitely a castle. It’s square(though it could be rectangular) and at the four corners there will be towers rising and though, for reasons of economy, it probably won’t have a moat I’ll probably still try to have a reusable portcullis over the entrance to the main courtyard.

You know, I think I dream rather big… And just about all of the plans and hopes I’ve mentioned in this post are rather softened and toned down versions of what sometimes I think… Except that my hair going down to my waist is about all I ever ask for but when it comes to Elizabeth Unlimited I’ve dreamed up oscars and awards and millions in profits and me as the star, director, script writer, and so forth(usually at the same time) and I would like to write something that would go into the class of Tolkien, C.S.Lewis and Jane Austin and yet would have a special spot unto itself. Um, I suppose I’d better stop writing now. Though I think I’ll add this. If my hair never gets any longer it will be alright, I won’t be seriously unhappy. If I never make a movie that is shown in movie theaters or on television, that also will be alright, it would be nice if it happened but there would be a lot of bother with making a movie and I don’t mind not having it. If I never get anything published… Well, I still hope I do but I’ve got a lot of readers on this website and lots of people enjoy reading my writing so I’ll still have a few fans and I can earn money in other ways that royalties. However, if my new trading cards don’t come on Tuesday… Well, maybe there might not be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth but something just a few notches beneath it might happen…

So in conclusion… I’m Seventeen years old and I think I may need to adjust my priorities at some point in the near future. THE END(And I wrote THE END more to say to myself STOP TYPING NOW than for any other reason. Apparently it didn’t work because I’m still typing. However I am now going to STOP)

And so far I’m doing fairly well at it. The concept of buying and selling stock makes perfect sense to me, you buy when it is cheap and sell it when it is high and make a profit. Or in more technical terms, buy when it “dips” and sell when it “rises” and hit a home run.

My primary source of information on the Stock Market comes from Neopets.com. They have a stock market there and I buy and sell there daily. I’ve made considerable neopoints there and it’s rather a pity it’s not real money… Oh well. It’s interesting learning about the American Stock Market. However stock isn’t the only thing one can buy and sell at a profit, oh no precious, there are lots of other things for the enterprising to make a profit on. However, perhaps the lower risk way of doing it, is merely to work steadily at a job and earn a paycheck. And remember, money should never control you, you should control it. And though there is a saying that money can’t buy happiness… Well, I sure enjoy spending it and buying fun things that greatly increase my happiness level. But I don’t think I’m controlled by it. Though I will admit that I usually perk up a bit when I hear my relatives crinkling bills or clanking loose change and look at them like a dog would look at someone eating a steak who might possibly deign to bestow some of their extra to one who would greatly appreciate it. Some times it works…

I’ve actually done a lot of school today. And I got an A 97% on the test I took today!!! But don’t ask me what it was about… my memory is already failing me. Though wait, it was something about bankruptcy and liquidation and Caveat Emptor and monopolies and if it isn’t a gift horse look it in the mouth and warranties and lot of other things. I got an A 97% on the quiz I just did a few minutes ago too. So apparently I must understand what I’m doing because usually I get between the D and C range with some F’s and an occasional B. An “A” is a very pleasing accomplishment for me. And I am learning some things, I think, from my school. I just don’t spend long studying since I usually do a days worth of school in an hour or less. I’ve spent over two hours on school today and that is very unusual for me. Also today I wrapped my first Christmas Present for this year and it wasn’t addressed to me. It’s fun wrapping presents. Probably I’ll wrap up some of the new trading cards and put them under the tree with tags like “For Elizabeth From Aragorn” for the Lord of the Rings Trading Cards or “To Elizabeth From Obi-Wan Kenobi” on a few of the Star Wars trading cards I ordered. Yes, I did order more than just Lord of the Rings trading cards… Although I am aware that I probably don’t need to start playing another game when I can’t even beat my brother at the current game I’m playing and I have a very full room. But the cards were really cheap, $6.00 for a booster pack box of 30 packs with 11 cards each so that is 330 cards for under two cents a card each, and the games are supposed to last less than a half an hour which is nice since a game of Lord of the Rings TCG seldom lasts for less than an hour and Daniel usually doesn’t have that much time and I might possibly be able to convince Andrew to play a game with the Star Wars cards and besides that, the cards look somewhat nicer than the Lord of the Rings, in other words, the villians aren’t as ugly, and their are more female cards like Padme and her handmaidens and even some miscellaneous senators and one can defeat battle droids and capture planets and what does all of this have to do with the Stock Market? Um… Well, I’m a consumer!

I think I’d better end this post now. It would be nice If I’d write for a while on a story but I don’t think I’ll do that now. I might just go back to doing my school work and get some more done. It would be nice to finish this unit. In fact, it would be nice to finish the whole subject but I probably won’t be doing that this evening though I am over halfway on the subject. Their are ten units in a subject in case you want to know. I think after nearly a week of being half asleep my brain just woke up. And as I said at the beginning of this paragraph, I think I’d better end this post now…

And she very nicely emailed me a picture of myself to put up on my website. You are seeing me after the third trip to the booth that was giving out the strings of beads. In the background you can see one of the sides of our booth. The Light Source booth is a really neat one designed and primarily built by my Dad.

Oh, and incidentally, I ordered some more trading cards today. I’m really looking forward to their arrival.