Hello There!

Here I am, finally making a post! I haven't been posting as regularly, have I? The funny thing is I haven't been that  busy. Actually, what have I been doing? School! I like school! I mean, the hand writing isn't the best. My hand can't keep up with my brain. But I like the math! I'm doing really low grad math right now, but I don't mind. It just means I can get through it faster! I like watching my progress. We use a site called Kahn Academy, and I like to see what badges I've earned, what progress I've made throughout my week, and what math I've mastered overall.

I've been writing as well! Actually, more let re-writing. Ug. I can't stop myself from going back and editing The Shadow! I just started this one, I got the idea a while ago after doing a writing exercise. At first I wasn't going to work on it, not until I finished True Hero, or at least one of my other stories. But then the inspiration just started flowing and so I started. I haven't made it past the first chapter, and I'm debating on whether or not to have a prologue. Getting past the first chapter/prologue can be hard, for me at least. So after I get a satisfactory first chapter then I'll do my best not to edit. I'm writing this book in first person, so this is a new experience for me. So far it's fun, but I have to remember not to go off into certain ways. That's part of what made me bored with Hunger Games, so I'm trying hard to not do that. Keep to the story, no going into other parts!

I still haven't ordered the MIDI-USB. I should actually do that today! Oh yeah, and apparently those ear buds are really bad quality. So I think I'll see about picking up a fairly cheap pair at Frys. If we ever go there again... :P

Great news guys, I GOT A JOB! Gone are the days where it can be month's where I have literally no money to spend, hello cash! Okay... that was strange. But yes, I've finally found a way to make money, and until recently I thought this job was extinct. I've got a paper route! I'm delivering to homes around my neighborhood. It's cool, I get to deliver to some really new, modern homes. They look so fancy, what with their pillars in front of the door, and the front doors are so tall! The door handles are nice, and from what I could see of the side windows the insides look cool! Yeah, this job is cool. Although it kills the feet. I had to deliver my first batch a few days ago, and I'll be delivering again tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to sore feet. I didn't want to walk afterwards, and my feet felt like they had grown twice as big! Luckily by the end of the day I was feeling better, and the next day I was fine.

I really want a smoothie right now... but I should wait till later. Just cause I like to drink a smoothie while watching TV and we don't watch until after dinner time. But it sounds really good right now! Ug... decisions. :P Ah, mango! I'll just have some frozen mango right now, and then a smoothie later. Or a chocolate frapp thingy. It's not exactly the texture of a frapp, but not exactly a smoothie. So it's a frapp thingy. Oh that sounds so good right now!

Well, I think I'll go get a snack and possibly do some writing. Or reading. I've got the slightest headache, and laying down with a good book sounds really inviting right now. Especially with some frozen mango to eat. I love it frozen because you can suck on it, making one peice last a really long time! I like to do that, make food last. When I eat certain things, I eat very slowly in very small bites, that way it lasts. I'm usually the last to finish ice cream (which I'm trying not to eat anymore) or to finish my soda (which I don't drink because it makes me feel sick). Huh... I guess the only thing I eat really slowly now is smoothies/frapp thingy and frozen fruit. I love frozen fruit. Or just fruit in general.

Oh yes, I got the old music back. I was missing it, especially since I started listening to the free albums I got! So back with the good old celtic music, with other music. Really it's just awesome music! :)

Hmm.. this part of this song... makes me think of Petz Horsez 2... I love that game, and the music, and graphics, the incredible story-line! That would make an amazing book!

Forgot

I need... to... sneeze! Ah, no! I didn't sneeze, arg! It's always a horrible feeling, when you're about to sneeze, and then you don't. Then your nose gets all tingly, sorta, and you just really wish you'd been able to sneeze. Okay, this is getting strange.

Finally! I am finally planning to buy a MIDI-USB cable, because I finally got some money! Tiana let me count pi pets (I have no idea if I spelled that correctly) for Red Berry, so in a sense she's paying for it, yet I did the work so I am. Back on topic, finally! I'm sure this'll make composing easier, so as soon as I get it (I haven't even ordered it yet) then I'll probably bring the keyboard down into my room, temporarily. Oh yes, I'll also be buying new ear buds. My old ones broke. The casing for the wire broke and the wires snapped, so the left ear bud doesn't work. It's driving me crazy. So I'll be getting a new pair, because I need them. Finally, I wont have pink ear buds! See, when my other pair broke a few years ago I had my dad pick me up a pair at Frys, but the only color left was pink. So finally, I'll have a different color. White. It's a nice neutral color, and they're also the cheapest ones I saw on Amazon. I'm not rich yet!

So I've been doing research on Pilates, and apparently it's best to do it every day, with one break day a week. I've been doing three times a week, with cardio, so my workouts are about to change drastically! Maybe I'll post about it here, maybe on my workout blog. Eh. I just need to post on there. Ah, I have too many blogs! I've got this one, then my book review blog (I reviewed another book!), MAE history... hmm, weren't there more? Oh, right. My workout blog. So yeah, I hardly keep up with those as it is. Yet I think I might make a specific blog to learn everything I can about Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. I'll link it to MAE history. But the thing is, then I want to make a separate blog for each historical figure I like, then I would have too many blogs to keep up with, and I would never post on MAE history! Ah. Problems, problems.

Some friends of ours are moving to good ol' rainy Washington, and they're going to get a nice rainy greeting today! They're driving all the way from Georgia, and I think they're going to get to Washington today. Yeah, I think that was it. It's funny, the weather was really good until today. It's like the moment they get near, Washington decides to give them a nice rainy welcome. Actually I find it rather fitting, and I like the rain. Especially when it rains really hard. If you open the window on the side of our house when it's raining just right, then it sounds like we're next to a waterfall. Course, we're next to a stream/river. The reason I don't say just one is because when it rains a lot, then it's a lot more like a river, but come Summer time and if it actually gets warm, then it'll barely a trickle. Sorta. It's in between. In any case, if any of you ever reads this post, then, hi!

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Whoops! I wrote this yesterday and forgot to post... well, here it is anyway!

Happy 100th!

I can't believe it, I've made one hundred posts! This is my ONE HUNDREDTH POST!!! Finally, I've reached that impossibly high number that, apparently, isn't so impossible to reach! So yippy, I've finally reached it! I was going to make a vlog to celebrate my one hundredth post... but I just didn't get around to it and I feel like posting. Should have done it yesterday, then I could celebrate Spring too. The weather is just as good as yesterday thought, so that's close enough.

So yes, one hundred. Wow... just. Wow. Fifty was pretty cool, but getting to one hundred seemed like it took forever. Apparently it didn't take forever, because it's happening today. Yup, today is awesome.

Mamma, Tiana, Daniel, and I went on a picnic today. First, though, we stopped by a few stores because Tiana needed to drop of packages for Red Berry and she was looking for shoes. Lucky me, while she was browsing shoes I was lucky enough to find some jeans. I've been needing jeans for the longest time, since I seem to keep growing taller. I only got one pair, but that should be enough to last me until money starts coming in. Then I get all the other clothes I need, shirts, more jeans, shorts, socks, possibly a new jacket, etc.

The sun was warm when we finally got to the park. Daniel found a snake, but it went into the bushes so he couldn't get it. I had a chicken salad sandwich, and it tasted very good. I also had some home made yogurt and it was amazing. Just like store bought. Gosh, I haven't had store bought flavored yogurt for years... or at least it feels like years. Sometimes I loose track of time and weeks feel like years and years feel like weeks, if you know what I mean.

We don't know what to watch tonight. Sereina is working, so we can't watch Saving Mr. Banks. Tiana says Star Wars, or Frozen, Or Indiana Jones. I say the Avengers! After watching a Marvel: Building the Universe, I want to watch the Avengers, and Iron Man, and Thor, and Captain America. I want to watch superhero movies! I really wish that the DC movies were better, cause the Batman movies look dark, Man of Steel was disappointing... then there's the Green Lantern movie. I didn't watch it, but Daniel said it was good. I want a good Wonder Woman movie, and one for Hawkgirl, my favorite super hero! Then there's Zatana, Vixen, Huntress, Martian Man Hunter! I want a movie about him... actually it seems like he had a movie... maybe...

Doctor Who?!?! Sorry. The song, I Am the Doctor, just started playing and now I really want to watch Doctor Who. That show is just soooo awesome! We only have one season left, then it's over... well, after Day of the Doctor. Ten is in that one! :D Don't ask which doctor is my favorite, because I cannot decide. One moment I really like Nine, I mean Nine just smiles at everything and he's just awesome. He pulled me into this fandom! Then there's Ten. Ten is just awesome! He had some awesome compensations and adventures. He was in the first episode I saw that had weeping angles! But then Eleven comes along and he's just so kooky! That is literally the best word to describe him, and I love it when he's wearing a fez! It's just so awesome! So yeah. Don't even ask.

Wow, is that the time already? Where did my day go? Today I was planning to actually get up at seven, my goal time to get up. But I failed because my bed was to darn comfortable! I didn't sleep in to to much of an outrageous time, but I should have gotten up earlier... maybe tomorrow. Yeah, I'll do it tomorrow! Actually I have no idea if I actually will, so we'll see.

I'm sleepy right now. I just want to curl up in a patch of sunlight and fall asleep. That just sounds so relaxing, maybe I should. There's bound to be a patch of sunlight somewhere in our house. It's sunny after all. In any case I'm going to end this post.

But not before saying at least one more time, IT'S MY ONE HUNDREDTH POST!!!

Grey and Rainy

I'm cold. And tired. I have a head ache and I still need to exercise. The kitchen is a mess, and I need to clean it, the day is half gone because I've been shopping and it's raining. Ug.

On a happier note I bought a stuffed animal today. Ever since I started collecting Webkinz I wanted the Cardinal. I now have it, and her name is Jenna. Daniel bought the Lego set with the Flash. He's been raving about this set since last year, so he's super excited to have it now. At the moment he's sitting just in front of me in our room, putting together the Bat Mobile.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes out in a few months. I watched a few trailers the other day, and I can't believe how many villains they're having! Green Goblin, Electro, and Rhino. During the Super Bowl our friends, along with Daniel and I think Tiana, spotted Doc Ock. arms in the background! Daniel thinks this is going to lead up to a Sinister Six movie, which would make sense.

Ahh. The heater I'm sitting on has very warm air blowing out of it. Now I'm not as cold, but my head still hurts. I've become really sensitive to some foods, and I guessing it was the Trader Joe's chocolate mints I had. I could be wrong, and I hope I am. But they're filled with sugar and I don't think the mint flavor is real. So that could be why I'm not feeling good. Compared to a year or two ago, my diet has become extremely restricted. Like I cannot eat gluten, and I've really been missing pretzel rolls ever since I discovered that Trader Joe's sells them for a buck and a half. Now sugar really makes me feel bad. I tried a Trader Joe's orange soda recently and it made me feel sick. So I think it's pretty official, soda can no longer be apart of my diet.

For the fun of it I've started my own "companion" or spin off" series to the Royal Diaries. I'm currently re-reading Mary Queen of Scots, and I decided to write a diary from one of her ladies in waiting point of view. I chose Mary Seton, because she seemed like a lively character. The reason I consider it a companion series is because I'm having all events coincide with the actual book. I started just before the part where Mary Beaton fell through the ice on the river, and was on the brink of death. So far it's still quite a bit like the actual book, but I'm going to change it but a little. It was just fun thinking about what Mary Seton may have thought, not letting he, or Mary Livingston or Mary Fleming in to see Mary Beaton. Of course I'd never get these published, but I'm going to write them for my own practice. I'm not the best at writing a diary, at least one that's interesting.

The other day I learned something that I've been wanting to know how to do for the longest time. I learned to tie a tie. My dad had some trouble showing me, since the tie wasn't on himself. Apparently tieing a tie is one of those things you do without thinking. Makes me think of when I play the piano! Anyways, he taught me the half Windsor, or 'the symmetrical knot' as he called it. Apparently many, if not all, other ways to tie a tie make it unsymmetrical. So now I can tie a tie! I want to buy an old tie, simply so I can practice putting it on and off. I don't want to wear down any of daddy's ties. After I learned how to do that we pulled out a few of his other ties, remembering when he wore them years ago. Like one, it's a blue and yellow wavy one. I'm not sure why I remember it the most, but I do!

Because of my headache I'm not going to do running today. No cardio in my workout this time. But I'm pretty determined to still do pilates! I'm not sure what video, or videos, I'm going to do yet. I'll find something though.

I don't want to move, I just want to sit here doing next to nothing. When I move pain shoots through my head, so I'm trying to be fairly still. But I've got to clean the kitchen. Since it's shopping day the mess is a bit worse than usual. I'm not looking forward to it. At all. I just want to stay in my warm little bubble. Hmmmm... I'm tired... sleeeeeppp...

By the way, I do like rain. Quite a bit. It might not have sounded like that in my first paragraph. But I love rain.

Maybe my headache is because I didn't eat very well, or very much, yesterday. This morning I had a good breakfast. But everything went downhill after those chocolates. Ug.

Ah yes, today is my dads birthday! :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY! :D

Well, I'm going to go. Hopefully I'll feel better later, or tomorrow. I'm just going to slee-norgle murrf gurgle... zzzzzzzzzzz.

Cut Short

Would you look at that? Look at the time! Practically four already? Well, I suppose it makes sense. Today Tiana, Daniel, and I went to the Disney store. Daniel got a Oswald plush that was on clearance, Tiana got the Hans doll, a shirt, and the Pascal plush, along with Frozen! We came straight home and watched it. I love that movie so much! I put my doll, Elsa, on the table to watch. Tiana brought out Anna and of course Hans was there. Daniel grabbed his favorite of the dolls, Flynn. He has a cameo after all!

Adrian von Ziegler is giving away his song, Spring Charm, for free for the next twenty four hours! I'm listening to it now, this song must be almost twenty minutes long! It's really good, and I still can't believe I own one of his, and Brunuh's albums! It's just too awesome for words! Sometimes I like to just listen to their music, and let myself fall from reality. Sometimes my thoughts are pointless. Others I'll be imagining a story in my mind. Often times this is when I get my best inspirations. When I sink from the world and get carried away by my thoughts and dreams. It's always interesting coming back. It feels like the world isn't quite real, as though I've been gone for hours. Like I've been on vacation and now I'm at home. It makes my house feel like a completely new place, though I've lived here for as long as I can remember. This doesn't happen often, but it's pretty incredible when it does. 

Mamma and Daddy got home a short while ago, they were at a network meeting of some sort. Apparently they over ordered food, and not many people showed up. Now we've got a huge amount of Mexican food sitting in our kitchen! We got it for free since they were just going to throw it away anyways.

The song is official twenty minutes and fifty five seconds long! Wow! I'm really getting great music for free! Oh yeah, and the song I got from Brunuh's free album didn't include the version of Cry of the Dragons with Sharm. Just a different version. Who cares, I love it all the same!

Looks like I've got to do dishes. Makes sense. Maybe then I'll eat.

...I need a MIDI-USB, because all this epic music makes my inner composer go nuts!

Chocolate

Can my job just be pinning awesome stuff on Pinterest? Because I've got way to many pins to keep up with! People pinning stuff about stories, and castles, out in the winderness and just everything awesome! I can't keep up with it all and it makes me sad in a way. I don't want to miss all the beauty in these pictures! Oh well, it would take a long time to catch up.

Today is the start of Pilates Bootcamp Week for myself! I'm going to do Pilates all week, except Saturday and Sunday. Of course in between the hard days I'll just do flexibility stretches. But yeah, I'm exited for that! Today I did a fifteen minute full body pilates video. Based on how I feel tomorrow I'll decide if I want to do more. One thing about all my workouts is I haven't really felt sore the next day. I like feeling sore! It makes me feel accomplished!

I have been making inspirational background on my computer. They revolve around True Hero! I'm taking pictures and making backgrounds to fuel my ideas. They're not the best. A lot of the pictures can't cover the screen. But I like the one I have, it's got a sentence that really fits. Like so much that you'd have to read the book (once I finish it) to even remotely understated. It reads: I am not like other girls. Yup, that's it. But those words are very powerful to me. Not only is she different because of her strange powers, but... well I don't want to give anything away. You'll just have to wait until I get my book published and I become a famous author! Ha ha ha!

I don't have much to say. Maybe tomorrow I'll have more to talk about. For now I want to make a chocolate frapuchino! Oh that sounds soooo good right now... I also don't know if I spelled that right... oh well.

You know that song from the Muppets? The one that goes, "everything is great! Everything is grand! I've got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand!" You know, that one? Well that describes my mood right now! I'm so happy and it's for totally no reason!

Oh hey, if you were curious, my fitness blog is exerciseisessential.blogspot.com. I've only got three posts, but hey! I just started. So go ahead and check it out.

Gosh, I just love making new blogs. Making my fitness journal was so much fun. Although I'm not very good with color themes. I'm not always sure what goes together or not. Especially when you get into all the different shades of color. Colors that I can't even name!

Okay. I'm seriously going to go make that chocolate frap. I can taste it now!

...one more thing. I still haven't done that vlog. I think I might skip the who twenty facts about me and just do a vlog talking about my day/week. Coming up with facts about oneself is harder than I thought. I've got like five sorta interesting things...

And now, CHOCOLATE!!!

Hello and Goodbye

The pond near our house... well, one of them, has flooded! It's never done that before, so it's just sorta cool. The creek by the house is raging and the water is overflowing into that. There's even water coming out of the green tube. The tube that has the smallest trickle on it's best day. Right now it's raining, and dark because evening is approaching. It's just kind of, grey. I like it!

Finally, I've started work on what it going to be my largest and most spectacular project yet! A village for my Schleich people! Yup, finally I've started. Sorta. So far I've figured out the scale of the people, and I know what it's going to look like. Next I've got to get building supplies and stock up on anything about model railroading. That's the place to go when model building. Of course this town is going to be meant to play with, unlike model railroads. Let's just say, this town will not be finished for a very long time. Who knows when we'll even start the actual building!

Tomorrow I exercise... hmm, I've gotta get a game plan here. I could use my old exercises, and not that they're bad or anything, but I need something new. As I may have said, I want a full body workout. Maybe I'll just add a Blogilates video to the workout. Maybe arms on Monday, abs on Wednesday, and legs of Friday. That might work, but I want to change it up more. Ack, what am I doing talking about this here?! I didn't make that other blog for no reason!

Ooo, dinner. Good, I'm hungry. It's chicken noddle soup tonight, so it's going to be good. My stomach grumbling, and it hurts. I'm guessing it's from hunger. It'd better be. Adios!

News Alert!

I just got Brunuh Villie's album, Rebirth, for free! It's so amazing! It's even got one of my favorites, Winterwolf. The first song, Rebirth, it amazing. He's giving away the album for free, this weekend only! It's so cool, that's two free albums I've gotten from my two favorite composers! Yes! Today is going great!

This post might be entirely about songs. Because with each song I listen to I just get so excited! The music is so beautiful. Makes me want to compose. But I've realized, just by messing around on our keyboard, that I desperately need a MIDI-USB cable. Since I've got a little money I might be able to buy one. They're fairly cheap, so that's a good thing!

We're at the end of Doctor Who... sorta. Not. See, Netflix doesn't have the last season, so we have to wait for it from the library. I hope it comes soon. The last two episodes were awesome! As usual. ;)

Oh my gosh! This album had Rising Sun, Mists of Avalon, and Cry of the Dragons both versions! I love these songs, and I'm falling in love with the rest! This music is amazing! So awesome... I could listen to this all day... maybe I will. Ah! It's even got the second version of Cry of the Dragons, with the vocal by Sharm. The only thing to possibly make this any better is if Hero's Journey was on it... Ahhh...

Okay, I think I might be putting Adrian, Brunuh, Dereks, and so on's music back on. Not that I don't like this music, I'll miss constantly listening to Life's Too Short and Just a Spare. But this music is to amazing to not have on my blog...

All I can think is, someday... Someday I'll make music like this! I'll continue to try. But the piano will make it way easier.

Mostly Just a Review

Hi-de-ho friends! I'm back, and quite early in the morning. I'm not sure that I've ever made a post this early in the morning before... not that it's early. It's practically nine already. But for a blog post its kind of early.

Now! You are entering into a Man of Steel spoiler area, skip three paragraphs if you don't want spoilers. Now, starting with the beginning. I liked Krypton. It was way cooler than the first movie, but then how could it not? The animation was cool, I liked the way it looked, the creatures in it, and especially the armor. The entire beginning/first half was put together in an... interesting way. It skipped between his early life and when he was an adult. It felt choppy, although I was able to follow.

Now for the second half of the movie. I can't really say there was a middle, it was just really choppy. The entire second half felt like eight hours of battle. It was like a game almost, how many buildings can Zod and Superman completely destroy before one dies? It just went on, and on. Flinging each other into buildings, glass shattering, buildings falling over turning Metropolis into a pile of rubble. Then Superman had him, Zod was going to be beaten. But he started using his laser eyes and he trapped a family in a corner. They were going to die, so Superman snapped his neck. It was at that moment that the fighting became somewhat justified. After Zod was dead it was obvious that Superman had never killed before and he didn't want to. So although they totally should have cut out the fighting, it made sense in a way. To me at least.

Finally, let's address characters. To start off I'm just going to say, I liked Lois Lane. Although she wasn't like the comics, or the old movie. She wasn't out to get Superman, which was sorta nice for a change. Oh yeah, Perry was black. Whhhaaaattt? Now, overall for the characters? Ug. I hardly knew any of them. There wasn't much character development so they were shallow. So yeah. My overall rating is... I don't know. It was okay.

End of spoilers!

So because it's morning there isn't much to say. My day has hardly begun! Maybe I'll discuss what my breakfast should be. Yogurt? Oh, that sounds good! But... we're out of strawberries. We've only got mango and pineapple. Those aren't the best for making yogurt. Um, egg sandwhich? Ooo, yeah. With the bread covered in salted butter... yummy! Great. Now I'm really hungry. I'm gonna go eat. Sorry about the short post.

All of My Day... Not

Hellllooo Americaaa!

I'm not sure why I said that. But for some reason I really wanted to start like that. Like some sort of talk show host.

So, I keep finding more books on Goodreads, such as Anastasia Nikolaevna's mothers diary! I haven't checked that specific book, but it seems like our library doesn't have many of the ones I want. Which is a bummer. Although I might be able to get them through an inter library loan, or they may buy it. But it could take up to six months for them to act. Seriously? That's sad. But I suppose my patients could use the help.

As my many followers know, (I jest here), I have been exercising. Well, due to circumstances beyond my control I have been unable to exercise for the last two workout days. But I wasn't completely idle in my down time, and I do intend to continue this Monday. Actually, in my extra time today I created another blog! It's My Workout Journal. To keep track of my goals, different exercise moves, and food to eat. So I can be healthy and fit/toned. Yay!

I've been writing this post all throughout the day, and now it's late. Like really late. I'll write more tomorrow, particularly what I thought of Man of Steel. That is, if I can remember too...

Then There's Today's Weather...

Yesterday I was debating on weather I should write another post, because I wanted to write about the glorious weather we were having. Note, I said we were having. It was sunny yesterday, we had windows open around the house and the bird were chirping (I think) and it was just bliss. It felt like Summer, not Winter! I washed my dad's car and earned ten bucks. It was really hot, and after the water dried the surface of the car became really hot. Then I had to vacuum the inside, and here's the worst part. His seats are made of black leather, so they were scalding hot. But I managed it, and now I'm ten bucks richer than I was before. I'm putting all my money towards buying that book, Olga's diary, plus a recently retired Schleich. It completes my Golden Retriever family, so I just have to get him before cost goes up!

I found another amazing book on Goodreads. So a bunch of authors (around twenty five, maybe thirty-ish) got together, or something, to make this book. All these authors have written historical fiction books, particularly about the history of Great Britain. Well, they gathered all the little tidbits and nonsense they researched to write the novels, and made them into a book! It's called Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors. It sounds so awesome, Goodreads has helped me find a whole bunch of books, fiction and non-fiction, related to the history I love! Unfortunately my library doesn't have these books I want... typical.

So the other day I went to my dentist. I don't like doctors, needles (*shivers*), and all that stuff. It's just... ew. But our dentist is amazing, I get the same hygienist every time, unlike at my old dentist. She gives me tips on brushing so I can get all the plaque off my teeth. Unfortunately I have a cavity, and that means needles (ew!) and keeping my mouth open for a long time. Not cool. At all. But right now I've got six months before we decide what needs to be done. Hopefully the cavity will not grow, and nothing will need to happen.

I'm not sure what to do today... I could read, but I do that a lot. Maybe draw... but I don't really feel like it. Hm, maybe Tiana and Daniel will want to play Legos on the Falcon. Meaning, play with our Star Wars Lego minifigs (mini-figures) on the Millenniumfalcon. Falcon for short. :P I'm sure Daniel will want too. But then again, I could work on True Hero! I need to edit my latest addition, and then do an overall edit, then I should be able to move on to chapter two. In a sense I could just move on now, I finished the chapter, but I need to polish it up a little. Right now it looks like bunged up metal, scratches and scuff marks. I mean this all metaphorically... but you probably already know that...

I've been thinking... I need some way to make money because of those two books I really want to buy. Plus that one Schleich as a bonus, so to speak. Sure, there are other things, but I really want these books. I suppose I could see if our library get buy them, or get them as an inter library loan. Yeah, I'll look into that. Although Castles, Customs, and Kings sounds like a great book to own, because of all the great info! So yeah, I'll look into more on the library, but these books are defiantly on my wish list. I think I'll go do that now, see if I can get it on inter library loan or something. I want to read these books, ASAP!!!

My Life These Days

Yesterday, and now this morning, feel like a Summer day. Or at least a Spring day. The sun is actually shining, I can see it's rays on our neighbors house. It feels like a cool breeze should be blowing through the house, and we should have watermelon, and the day should just feel mellow and hot. The air should be calm, except for the occasional light breeze, and outside should be mostly silent, just the splashing of our backyard waterfall and creek. Yes, Summer is definitely on it's way.

I had a jumble of idea floating around my head all day yesterday, but I've completely forgotten them now. That's a bummer, because I think they were interesting, and not the usual. Oh well, maybe it'll come to me while to write.

Mockingjay is starting to pick up. That's a releif! I mean the overall story of the books is great, and now that it's picking up it's getting easier to read. I just hope it stays that way, because I want to know the rest of the story. I just seem to have a thing for dystopian. Who knows, maybe I'll write a story set in a future that's doomed to fail. That's how they explained dystopian on Wiki. I think.

Finally, I have made a Goodreads. Sereina and Tiana have been telling me I should get one, and now I've got one. Actually I've had one for a few months, and now i'm going a little crazy getting every book I've ever read on there. So far I've got all the Royal Diaries, History Mysteries, Heartland, and Sherlock Holmes books on there. With there own shelves! Goodreads also reminded me of one of the best series ever. The Tintin series. I love those books! Well, they're more like comics... or graphic novels. I'm not sure what exactly they'd be considered. But I've found so many books to read. One in particular that I need. Like RIGHT NOW. It's Olga Romanova's diary. Her actual diary that she stared when she was ten! Can you believe that?! Her diary! I'm so excited, because someone translated it, so as far as I can tell it's her own thoughts. Although the author continues on, after she stopped writing. I'm not sure if she continues in a diary fashion. But who cares, I can read her real diary! I'm so excited! How cool can you get?!

Today I exercise. This time I'm running indoors, so I shouldn't get out of whack again. I'm considering adding on Pilates stretches to become more flexible... maybe next week. I don't feel like doing much today. I have a feeling today is going to be a low key day, maybe I'll do a bit of reading, possibly play Lego's with Tiana and Daniel. As long as they aren't busy.

Let's see, I've already done my school and chores today. Ah, but I've got to keep up with laundry. It's my new chore, since Sereina's working. Now Tiana and I will swap off laundry duty each week, this week it's my job. Well, I'd better go get ready to exercise. I find it's best that I don't push it off, otherwise I might not do it!

Long Time No See

It feels like I haven't posted for along time... four days can be a long time. Wait, four days? Four days without posting? Wow, no wonder I feel as though I haven't posted in a while. In any case, it's good to be typing again. It helps my fingers to relax, although I do admit that at times it's not as relaxing. But as of the moment it is.

Let's see, what have I been doing lately? In other words, what have I been doing the last four days? Good question. My mind is drawing a blank here... what have I done? Oh yeah, we celebrated Sereina's birthday on Saturday. She wanted to go to the library (yay!), Half Price Books (yay!), the mall (eh), and Trader Joes (yay-ish!). While at the library, we went to a different, larger one, Tiana spotted Mockingjay and Allegiant sitting on the shelf. I'm on hold for those! Seriously? I'm waiting and here are some copies, just waiting for someone to pick up and read. It's crazy. Sadly it was Allegiant instead of Insurgent, the second book in the Divergent series. I read the first sentence. Oops, bad idea. Like, really bad idea. I hope I get the second book in soon, so I can read the third. I only got it because I'm somewhere are two hundred on the waiting list.

About Mockingjay. Let's just say I'm not impressed so far. Whenever the book starts to get sorta interesting it's just a memory, them bam! I'm back to Katniss, in real time. I haven't made much progress on it within the last few days, who knows how long it'll take me to read the book. Or if I'll even finish it. Like some great person once said, "I don't waste my time reading books I don't like." Well said person, well said.

Today I exercised, but to be honest I was out of sync. First of I convinced Tiana to run with me, so we ran around the neighborhood. But I don't have running shoes, so my ankles began to hurt and we walked the rest of the way. Surprisingly we did roughly one and a half miles in twenty three minuets or so. That's my record... seriously? How did that happen, we were walking. Back on topic, when we got home we took a little break, I got a little snack, and by the time I got to crunches n'stuff I was tired and no longer warm from our walk. I stretched and started exercising, but I just felt out of it, I couldn't do the crunches correctly and I was just ready to be done. Overall I'd have to say, I prefer running indoors, it just works better. Besides, I didn't sweat as much since it was cold outside. Sweat has just become apart of the routine, it doesn't feel complete without it.

Daylight savings. Why do we even have it? All it does is get our brains out of order, either "giving" or "taking" away one hour of sleep from us. Since it's Spring, we lost an hour, so I just feel out of whack. Actually, some place,s like Arizona and Hawaii, don't even do Daylight savings? They don't get deprived of sleep! Well, you sorta do, and you sorta don't. You know what I mean. I think there might even be some countries that don't do it, but I'm no expert so I won't got pointing fingers at the ones I think do it.

I would have talked about daylight savings a lot more, had I posted yesterday. But I didn't, so you just have that nice little paragraph.

Summer is coming. I'm not sure what to think. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Hard to say. In Summer you go outside, and to go outside you have to get dressed. But I don't want to abandon my pajama pants! I love them, they're more comfy than any pair of jeans could ever be! Huh, maybe someday I'll just get yoga pants to live in. They're closer to pajama pants, and acceptable in public. But it's not the same, pajama pants are baggy and... plaid. Yes, my pajama pants are plaid, my new ones with the pockets, and my old red ones with the hole in it. On the good side, I can get wet (if the weather decided to get warmer) and I can roller-blade.

Adrian von Ziegler released sheet music for his song I Need You. It's a very pretty song he wrote for Carina. Now get this straight, I have no idea how to read sheet music. But I think I'll be able to make a very rough translation. There's an easy version, and the actual song, and for the most part it looks (and sounds) pretty easy. Of course I don't know what every little do-dad on the sheets means, so we'll see. Maybe I'll do a mix of listening to the song and translating the sheet. Yeah, that sounds like it could work...

I was looking for a MIDI-USB, but we don't have any! Daddy was sure we did, but I looked though both wire boxes and couldn't find any. He said he thinks we have another box. Where that box might be, remains a mystery.

Hello Friends

I was just thinking, I haven't been posting as regularly. Of course I still post ten times as much as a normal blogger, but I've missed a day or two this week. Not that I'm trying to post everyday, I just post because I feel like it. Maybe it's because a lot has been going on, or not that much. It's hard to say, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Mentally planning my next big build. See, I love model building. I never thought about that until recently, when I was mentally planning. Back on topic, I've been thinking about my next build, a town, based upon the town in Petz Horsez 2, the computer game. The town is so beautiful, the colors and the materials, arches and bridges, streams and waterfalls, the mystery and elegance. That's what I'm going to try and capture in my model building. I'm going to make it to scale of my Schleich people, so I can have them live there. But first I need to learn a bit more about building to scale. I just wish the models were to scale, the cats are half as tall as humans, and the dogs reach almost to the humans shoulders! Well, except the newest ones, Schleich has been doing a better job at that.

Today is my oldest sister, Sereina's, brithday! Happy birthday Sereina! I can't believe that you're two decades old, twenty years old! Seems like just yesterday when we were filming our at home Summer Olympics, jumping from the couch for diving n'all. Of course that was years ago.

I have read the entire book, I have finished Catching Fire. Now to wait for Mockingjay from the library, and that could be a while.

We watched Agents of Shield last night. OH. MY. GOSH. Marvel is incredible, it's just... ahhhh!!! I could scream, it's sooo good. Like, they are revealing important information in each episode, we're learning more and more, yet everytime we learn something new, the plot thickens! This show, in one season, is driving me to the point of insanity! Okay, I'm totally kidding, I'm not going insane. But I aspire to be as good at telling stories as they are, as good as thickening the plot and drawing it out as they are. Because they're doing a pretty darn good job at it.

I'm still waiting for Insurgent from the library. The second book in the Divergent trilogy. Actually, is the the Divergent trilogy, or does it have a name? Kind of like Hunger Games, is it the Hunger Games trilogy, or... I don't know, does it have a name? Just something about calling the trilogy after the first book doesn't seem quite right. It needs a name!

Right after I wrote that I thought about the quote, "She had a name!" from the forth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Gotta say, that movie was a disappointment, Black Beard was not scary. Personally I like the second two, for the villain, because of Davy's back story. His love for Calypso, the sea goddess, but the tragedy... yeah, definitely better. Sure, they had two movies to tell it all, instead of one, but even so, it could have been better.

Cottage cheese, yesterday while shopping we bought cottage cheese. I think that's how you spell it, that's how you say it. I never really paid that much attention to the container. But I love it, especially with pineapple inside. Ah, it's so good. Although not as good as a pretzel roll. I'm still craving one of those.

Yesterday daddy bought ice cream, and it was just too hard to resist eating some. I'm really trying to cut back on sugar, I doubt I'll go sugar free like Sereina, at least any time soon, but I'm trying to cut back. In the end I couldn't help myself, so I had a spoonful of each flavor, rocky road and french vanilla. I'm going to try my best to not eat any more ice cream, for as long as it's in the house. Luckily soda makes me feel sick now, so it's not as tempting as before. That's a half good half bad thing. Ewww, now I'm thinking about when I got sick from the soda, I remember the stomach aches all too well.

I mean not have succeeded, but from now on I'm going to try and make my blog posts more clear. For being a writer you'd think my blog would be more understandable... so from now on, although I wont write in advanced, I will take more to check for mistakes and make things more clear. Reading back I see that my sentences can be choppy and confusing and just horrid... So today marks the end of bad posts! (I hope).

Guess what? I got an entire album of music, by Adrian von Ziegler, for free! See, he's become quite popular, so whenever one of his songs reached one million views on YouTube, he gives it away for free. For twenty four hours that is, only this time it was a four hour compilation of his album, Mortualia. I'd never head the songs, they were under the category of emotional. Usually I listen to his fantasy songs, I especially enjoy a few certain songs from his album Feather and Skull. The cover art for some of his albums are interesting, some cool, some more like, eh. The names? Well, I'm not overly fond of the name Feather and Skull, but it's not bad or anything. I just really love his music.

Not that I don't enjoy the music on my blog, I really do, but I feel in the mood for Adrian and Brunuh's music. Along with a few others, but mainly them. Someone should hire them to do movie soundtracks, because their music is pretty darn awesome. No, it's incredible! :) Their music is just awesome.

I Hear it Calling

So I've been drawing a little bit these last few days, and I haven't been using reference pictures like I usually do. I've gotten fairly good at drawing eyes, just as long as it's only one. If I have to draw two then it could take forever for them to be symmetrical. So I just started drawing something totally random and weird and it turned into a human/dragon. I decided that it was supposed to be a girl in the middle of changing into a dragon because of poison. The way I see dragons, extremely intelligent creatures that speak many different languages from birth and can shape shift, that would seem cool. But the girl got venom in her blood stream, so instead of turning into an awesome dragon, she will become part of an army... Oo, that would be a neat idea for Prevlion, like Thomas Bonvalet is not only using existing dragons, but creating and enslaving more to his purpose. He believes he is meant to rule Prevlion, he had a vision that he is to be Supreme King of Dragons and Prevlion. See, dragons have been banished from Prevlion and... well, it's a long story.

Back on the topic of drawing! After that I drew a more dragon looking dragon, this on with more texture. Sure, I drew scales, but it just, well. It's hard to explain. Oh yes, on the first on I gave her a fin on her head and neck, this one I gave horns. I'm new to drawing dragons, so the drawings are all very similar, but I didn't use a reference picture and they turned out pretty well. Finally there's my most recent, it's a dragon and I didn't just do the head and a little bit of the neck, but the entire neck and the tiniest bit of the back. I haven't sat down and just worked on it, but the scales are taking forever. I'm making them very tiny.

Agent's of Shield tonight! But Sereina works the closing shift, so we have to wait until tomorrow. This is painful, I mean it's already been a month, and they left of at such a critical point! Tiana confirmed that they will be playing the show regularly for the week, so today and next week there will be an episode. They'd better not take another break. That show is just awesome, totally awesome!

I think I'll make it a goal to try and write at least another page in True Hero. I've taken a little break, the juices aren't flowing very much. But I'll try! I need a good starter sentence, that's what got me five pages last time. A simple sentence made the difference, so that's what I need. I'll think about it while I work on Magix. After I'm done here I'm going to work on Magix. I've taken a little break, but now I'm back in the studio! I think I'll do something very, very tiny, just so I can making something. Also, I've been working out in my mind how to do it, and just mentally preparing myself that it's not going to create itself and it's not going to be perfect in the beginning. But I can do it! So yes, after I'm done here that's where I'll be for a while.

I really like At Wit's End. Actually, I love the entire POTC soundtrack, it's been my favorite for the longest time. It's really hard to pick a favorite soundtrack, and it's somewhat impossible, but if I had to choose, I'd probably say Pirates of the Caribbean. But Frozen and Tangled have great soundtrack too, and we cannot forget The Lion King and Spirit! Ah, it's impossible! It's like asking my favorite Star Wars movie. Or worse, my favorite book. I don't have a favorite book, I have hundreds!

Speaking of books, Catching Fire. Someone died, and Katniss is sad. I hardly knew the person, so I don't really care, and the thing is, Katniss acts like she could have saved this person. She's in the arena! Only one person gets out, except in 74th, when both Katniss and Peeta won. Oh yes, and I know that they are both going to survive the Quarter Quell as well. This book, both books that I've read, they have so much potential! But, sorry to say, the characters lack emption, I don't feel sad at anyone's death, unlike Divergent. Although that book isn't the best written book, it's better than Hunger Games. When a certain character died I was sad, and I mean the way they died. The entire story... Rue died, eh. Prim dies eventually, eh. But this character... it was sad. I literally stared at the book with my mouth open, just stunned. I hardly knew this character, but somehow to me this was so very sad. Although I can see how to some people it'd be like, eh, who cares.

Speaking of Divergent, I'm still waiting for Insurgent from the library. Who knows how long it will be? I've got lots of other books to keep my occupied until it comes in. Like a bunch of Scott O'Dell's books, one is going to be due soon, and I haven't even read it! I've been to busy reading first Hunger Games, then Catching Fire, and of course I don't just read all day. So yeah, I may have to re-order them.

In any case, Magix calls. Time to compose!

Pouring Grey

Nothing says rainy day like a game of intense canasta. Of course that's not why we played, but we did and that last round. It. Was. Crazy, like hold your breath every time you discarded crazy. The discard pile was larger than the deck, and when Daddy got it, Daniel and I were in for it. We knew we would loose. But they need seventy five more points to win. Seventy five more points. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how close Daniel and I have come to being pulverized. We're taking a break, who knows when we'll finish. Chances are Daddy and Tiana will win, but there's always a chance. Canasta is a tricky game, full of surprises.

So as I said, it's raining. Nothing much had happened today. I haven't eaten very well, chocolate, egg sandwich, and... that's all I can think of. Ah yes, mango and milk. So today I've eaten chocolate, an egg sandwich, mango and milk. That would be why I feel kind of "bleh". My entire body feels unhealthy. Ah wait! I also had some potato chips (no help there) and an egg vegetable muffin thing. Even so I just don't feel good.

Some friends of ares are making a Hunger Games fan film, Weeping Willow. They started before I read Hunger Games, but now that I'm halfway through Catching Fire I'm pretty excited. I'm not a very good actor, at all, but it would have been fun to participate. But they live like an hour away, so obviously we didn't. Besides, they started before we were interested. But yes, I've been reading Catching Fire. The overall story is good, but. Well, it lacks... something. I mean the writing is a disappointment from everything I'd heard, the overall story is great, although Tiana and a few friends said Mockingjay was a bit of a let down. Tiana couldn't even make it through the book, the first part was pretty boring apparently. I'm still going to give it a try, but I have no expectations. I already know that Prim dies, along with a few other people as well, and I think Katniss has kids. But yeah, I'm not overly impressed with the series. It could have been so much better, but, oh well. Probably wont be buying those books, or reading them again any time soon.

My favicon still hasn't changed, that is so weird. I'll figure out how to fix that soon. Not now, but soon. I hope.

I totally re-arranged all my boards on Pinterest. Now everything that has to do with writing is not in brackets, and everything besides writing stuff is in brackets. So all the boards at the top are writing stuff. I sorta have two inspiration boards, but one is for more fantasy type inspiration and the other just average inspiration. So I'm still debating on if I should merge the two. Gosh, that'd be to much work. Nah.

March Already?

I'm so excited for two things! Well... three actually. First off, I've written five extremely satisfactory pages of True Hero! It's going so well, the first chapter has drastically changed from the first draft. I like it much better now. The best part is I've hardly scratched the surface of what I want to happen in the chapter. Usually I "cut to the chase" but the problem is I do that in every single chapter. Then the novel get's way to short n'stuff. But now I'm going to have to balance, by drawing it out I'm in danger of boring the reader. To me it's really interesting, because she's just surviving in the wilderness. Makes me think of Scott O'Dell's works. But I'm also including some information about her powers, if people pick up on that. I'm refraining for explaining the entire situation, at least until Katie and Jade become friends, then real friends. 

On to topic two, Agents of Shield is returning this Tuesday! Lady Sif is going to be in this episode too! For those of you know don't know, she's the lady warrior from Thor. But then again, if you didn't know that then the news about Agents of Shield doesn't matter. Now, speaking of Thor, we're watching Thor 2 tonight! Finally, the rest of my family will have seen it and I'll be able to talk about it. Yay! Thor 2 war really good, so I'm excited to watch it again, Thor is awesome! But to be honest, he needs a hair cut. His hair, as well as Loki's, keeps getting longer in each movie. Thor, the The Avengers, then Thor 2. It'd better not grow too much more. It's too long as it is.

I still haven't beat Pitfall. Today I tried... twice? Once or twice, I forgot. But I still haven't beat it. I haven't made it to the throne room, although I've gotten close. It's a hard game. Ah yes, and I started Petz Horses 2 ( yes, it's spelled Petz, not Pets). That is the best horse game in the world, there's a huge plot about a missing stud farm owner, and the devious mayor wanting the land. You team up with your friend Oliver, and try and keep the stud farm. Each choise you make in the games takes you to a different ending, and the part I love most. It changes seasons! So in Summer it's like Summer, when Autumn comes all the tree's change color, then during winter it can snow, and the snow stays until it rains. Yes, it rains! It's just such an awesome game, I love it so much!

Gilligan's Island is playing on Me TV right now. We're watching live. That show is my childhood, I grew up with the Skipper, Gilligan, Professor, Maryanne, Ginger, and Mr. and Mrs. Howel. I just love it, the humor is great and still makes me laugh. It's sad that there's only three seasons, all because some lady wanted Gun Smoke more that Gilligan's Island (she was a producers wife, or something to do with TV. Someone with enough pull to get Gun Smoke instead of Gilligan's Island). That's why there's only three seasons, there were going to be four, and then who knows how many more. I know pretty much every episode by heart, and all of us kids can usually tell what episode it is within the first few seconds. The funny part is each episode starts in a very similar way, lot's of them start will Gilligan shouting, "SKIPPER! SKIPPER!". Ah, good memories.

It's snowing! Sorta, it's wavering between rain, hail/snow, and snow. The lightest layer of snow is covering the ground, but I doubt it will stick. Daddy went to the pit today, apparently there was eight inches of snow! Can you imagine, sliding down the back hill! It's really steep and would really get you going! Now I really want to go to the pit and hand in the snow. That would just be awesome, a combo of shooting, then breaking to sled, and just handing out. Yup, that's it, I want to go to the pit.

Well, I think I'll go do something else. Maybe I'll play more Pitfall, or work on True Hero. Or something else. Just anthing to lay low. I stretched a muscle in my lower back, so it's really sore. Not just sore, it down right hurts when I twist the wrong way. I think I need to stop doing glute lifts in my workout, I can't seem to isolate the muscle, so I'm straining my back. That's the problem with exercise, it's really good for you, but only if you do it right. The main thing I need to remember is, it's the quality of the exercise that matters, not the amount. On Friday I did one hundred crunches, which I may have mentioned, but I think if I focus even more on isolating the muscle, then I won't be able to do so many. Which in a sense is a good thing.