It's been 8 days since I last posted, how could I let that happen? What's with my brain lately, I'm searching for inspiration and the well of imagination keeps running dry, at least for anything writing related anyways, I seem to have no trouble coming up with art idea's in fact I'm feeling more artsy then ever! 

Even today I still have no idea what to write, I'm just pushing forward, as I put it this morning, " It's like I'm in a haze, I'm not really thinking, just going through the motions." It's so frustrating to not be able to come up with anything viable to write, let's hope I can get my act together soon. 

I hope you don't mind that this is so short, I just wanted you all to know I'm still going, I'm just fishing for the right things to write about, gathering my thoughts, and hopefully my brain will be back on track soon. 

Thanks for sticking around :)

Lots of Love

Sarah Gracen

Honestly you guys are great!

Well well well, here I am again at long last! I shall no longer have the slow clunky computer as an excuse for late posts as I have recently acquired a new speedy one! Yes it has finally happened, I did my waiting, 3 years of it, but now I can finally turn my computer on without delay!

So, what is going on in the twisty turning road that is my life? Quite a lot actually, I'm not going to bore you with the details but I'm getting ready for a lot of changes and maybe I'll keep you updated as things get interesting... :) bare with me through the ups and downs here because I'm still not sure how much I'm going to be able to post when things get more hectic.

So for now, how are you guys? How's life been while I've been away, I can tell you I'm certainly enjoying Spring weather, Mmmm warm days are great aren't they! I've been working on my art recently, still not as good as I'd like to be but I'm growing and yeah, there's still time to pick up before I give illustrating a try....my sister has already asked me to illustrate her book...but yeah the only people who'll ever see the results of my precious hard work will be my family and possibly you guys, I'd love to share more art with you, if you have any requests for me I'll be happy to do them, just let me know in the comments.
I miss talking to you all and it seems to me a lot of us haven't been writing on our blogs as much as our younger selves imagined we would, I'm thinking of working at this regularly in an effort to sharpen my writing skills, I still want to be a published author before to long, just need to keep at this.

Anyways That's all for now, hopefully I can push things to full swing and start shooting out future Catherine Weatherbane chapters and such, I already have some character sketches of the cast that I drew plus one that this amazing artist @Aria Tailor  drew, I can't wait to share them with you all! Please speak out on what you'd like to see me write and I'll write you all later.

Lots of Love
Sarah Gracen 

She's Alive!

Well hello again, it's been a long time since we last talked, seems I've been avoiding using this clunky old laptop for the last two years huh. I can't quite recall when the last time I posted on here was and that's pretty inexcusable but I guess it's just really hard typing on an iPod and really annoying booting up the internet on this ol' thing.

So life has been pretty exciting I feel like I've grown a lot in the Lord these past few years, I'm finding I can be very difficult to deal with and I thank my family for putting up with that for so long, I am trying to get better though and the Lord is helping me with that.
I've recently started reading through my Bible (all of it) and I'm really enjoying it, it helps to have understanding and knowledgeable parents who can explain some of the harder concepts to me, there's a lot of meat to chew on in the Bible, but I want to actually chew on it and get as much as I possibly can rather then just cramming it down as fast as possible, so I plan on going back to study and memorize certain books and passages when I'm done with my read through.

My drawing has continued as at good pace, you can't get better if you don't keep going and it helps when you watch a few tutorials on YouTube and find interesting reference picks on Pinterest (yes I'm on Pinterest now) I've recently being wearing my prismacolors to stubs, so I had to take the plunge and use my own money to invest in some new ones (I'm trying Prismacolor Scholars and I love them!). Since I plan on being an illustrator one day I need to get the best art supplies to work with.

Anyways that's it for just this moment, I reeeeeaaaallly want to finish Catherine Weatherbane even though it's an ocean of ups and downs and due for a total rewrite (cause goodness knows I'm not dropping it) I still plan on finishing up the full-of-flaws version before giving it the overhaul of my newer (and hopefully better) writing style. But here's the question, I'm finishing Catherine Weatherbane up no matter what, but how many of you actually want to see these upcoming chapters, who wants this story to go on and be completed? Let me know in comments :)

Stay Classy
Sarah Gracen (PG)

Just Chilling

So it's the middle of the afternoon me and my sis Ani just finished with some side work and now, now it's time to blog! To be quite honest with you I've attempted several posts before this one but I've found myself having trouble deciding what to post about...what does one post about when one feels dried up? 

I haven't been drawing much either....not to say I haven't been drawing, just nothing interesting enough to share, mostly I've been so busy and excited with just my every day life it gets hard to come on here ya know. 

But hey I love you guys and I love writing so I thought...who cares if you have nothing to really say...because there's always something to say right! Just like there's aways something to do and always something to draw,

even if it's just chores to do...a half okay poem to write, or a little flowery card.

 I have been contemplating writing about a few other things but I just haven't felt like they were good enough idea's yet...I'm still building on them so yep when they're ready....BOOM! Interesting posts galore!

You know what, I've actually noticed that a lot of people haven't been writing...and some that even have stopped altogether....I'm determined though! I've been blogging just two days shy of four years...no time to slow down now guys!

 If I can get some old projects restarted and some new ones kicked into action, 

it'll be just like old times.

Like Catherine Weatherbane...I really need to get going on the next chapter for that.

It's so funny; I'm at the point where everything is so full of potential  and exciting I should be more ready to write this than I am, guess when you're mind is so filled with other things it's hard to concentrate on that one thing that you started awhile ago, but I like Catherine and I also like a lot of other characters whose stories you guys have probably forgotten by now...but I haven't forgotten them, SO THEY SHOULD RETURN!!!

Got to go, interesting stuff later :j

Au Revoir
Sarah Gracen

Updates and Exciting News

Hello There :)

So it's been awhile since I've written anything and I'm not sure what to tell you to expect....however there is one thing....super excited to tell you!!!

Catherine Weatherbane is coming back!!!

That's right I'm coming out of writers block for that one...actually the chapter has been written for a month I've just been to busy to send it to my beta readers...AKA Dad and Liz.

I just need to know if they think it's alright and if they like it....*ding* it'll be posted.

Now explanation for why I haven't been writing.

It's the age old tale. Summer. Yeah, summer happened...do you know how crazy summer's are, they hit you like a rocket with things to do...and if you're like me it kinda makes your head spin.

And yeah I know technically even in the busiest times you always have some free time...but you have to ask yourself, "Is this how I want to spend that time?" usually that's a no...and don't deny that you get that way too. 

Anyways back to Catherine Weatherbane...if there's anything you want to know about it, or think would be really cool to see in it, or even maybe want to have a little appearance in it let me know in comments :) 

Oh, and one more thing I remember someone winning a contest a longish time ago and she was going to have an appearance as Ariella's younger sister (you know who you are) please contact me through comments so I know too and can finally do that, Thanks :) 

Au Revoir 

Sarah

My Cheery Cherry Tree

Oh, wow, I haven't posted in foreeeeeeeeeeever. 

Can you believe that, I mean it's not that I didn't have things to talk about I had an over abundance actually, but I was never on the lappy (in case you didn't know lappy is my nickname for me and Ani's laptop). But hey I have a blog and when you have a blog you sort of have an obligation to post on it, so I'm going to try and be better at posting regularly alright...and commenting on other peoples blogs too...I can't tell you how many times I've had comments I wanted to leave but didn't get around to it, so yeah that too.

Anyways what's up over here...well currently I'm swatting an IRKSOME fly...but now it's gone...YAYA

My apologies, it was just so annoying...um, so yeah back to what's up.

Mostly we've been going to graduations parties but we've also been doing other things,

like me and Ani have been playing badminton, perfect weather where we live, awwww it's just lovely....and very very hot...any very very wet...yay for rain! Our lake has recently started falling and we were scared it would disappear entirely...it has once before and let me tell you it was not a pretty sight...sad time. A sad. Sad. Time. But if we get enough rain maybe we can keep it awhile longer. Oooooookay other than that....we had the day before Memorial Day and yes...Horses were rode :) 

Ani and Babe                                                                                                                                    Molly

And than of course there was Memorial day and that was great too.

 The lake: earlier and current :)

A little more recently I've been chatting with...THE FLY IS BACK....okay it's gone now, I've been chatting with my cousin Em...she's so awesomely awesome, you guys would love her. We're planning a get together sometime this year hopefully sometime this month or the next.

I've started a summer reading plan with the local library, which I highly look forward too!

I'm planning on going to see How to Your Dragon 2 maybe sometime...not next week since that would be like, the day it comes out..no the week after that I'm sooo excited I put the date on my calendar at the beginning of the year...I just hope it's not a let down, because I already plan on buying it 

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By the way, who else thinks the trailers gave waaaaaaay to much away?

Let's see what else....can't think of anything so I guess it's time to log out.

Tootles not Poodles

Sarah 

P.S. Think of the post title as a spoiler for a future poem 

a Niece for Christmas

Merry Christmas Eve Everyone!

By now some of you are probably thinking...yay Christmas it took forever, or maybe you're thinking that came fast.

For me I'm barely conscious of the fact that tomorrow is Christmas since we've beeeeeeen reeeeeeeeeeeeally crazy busy again...thought we were done with home stuff, I was wrong...we had the wood floor put in, a door and piece of wall ripped out and put back in reverse stairs taken out a and moved farther down,  (Long story involving a fridge), No internet for a few days and we still aren't done most likely the house won't be done till sometime late in January of 2014 (we've like up'ed the whole house!) I'm pining for normal...we haven't even decorated yet...we've had our Christmas tree since December first but it's been bare up to this very day....(we don't usually wait so long to decorate but all the remodeling...) I think mom just really wants to get this stuff done because before she was just doing 1 project a year...I had no idea we had so much stuff to be done! 

Anyways you want to know what's with my title right? Well my first ever niece was expected on Christmas day....and she was born a week early (exactly a week early, like last Wednesday) Cutest, sweetest, most adorable, baby girl you've ever seen.....however that may just be because she's niece :) I won't be posting any pictures of her because her parents want her to be able to decide that on her own when she's a whooooooooooole lost older...she wouldn't want her whole life on the interenet I'm sure. So on here I'll refer to her as Cuddles because she's so cuddly :) cute baby..sorry new aunt here who's totally crazy about her niece (all of us are) 

Soooooo on an unrelated note to kinda  get the feel for the coming Holiday we've been reading Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" the first few nights I even made egg nog for it!

Here's the recipe if you want to make it 

Egg Nog

Servings:

 5 

Ingredients 

• 4 Eggs
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• Milk (enough to fill up the blender)
• Nutmeg 

First crack your eggs and put them in...than put your sugar, vanilla, and milk.....blend until nice and fluffy....

Serve with nutmeg sprinkled on top :) 

Well that's it for now let me send you off with Peppermint Winter by Owl City and have a Merry Christmas!

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Updates Past, Present, and Future

*note when I say us, we, our, ecetera....I mean me and my sisters, love my sisters :) 

Past

Wednesday, me and Ani were in a small Christmas play, it was very very fun :) I was playing Ester, a somewhat nice girl who plays an Angel in the Negativity play, I say somewhat nice girl because it's a small role and I didn't really get to know my character, my only lines were "What was that for!" and "Why You!" So yeah....but it was a fun role :D I'm really glad I got to be in the play.

Present

We're going shopping and such with my aunts, cousins, grandma, I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun :) 

Future

It's our churches Night of Christmas music, and me and Liz will be singing :) I'm super excited, I couldn't get my sisters to do this last year so I'm glad to be able to do it with Liz this year...also we'll be singing in the Worship service, I've never done anything like this before so I'm very excited.....

overall I want to sing to Gods glory :) 

Now for some stuff I really enjoyed this week :) 

Heard this song by the Piano Guys and loved it, makes me excited for our viewing of the Hobbit this Monday! (We originally found out about the Piano Guys from some friends of ours) 

the video "is" on here so if you can't see it come over to my blog and you can watch it.

Another from the Piano Guys, A great song to get that Christmastime feel...oh, and by the way it has snowed down here but just a little...for which I'm glad hard to skate on snow covered ice...yeah me and Liz went skating together it was really fun! Funny how we have a lake in our backyard but I hardly ever skate on it every winter, it's the cold I just know I don't like it. 

Oh, yeah here's the video (almost forgot) 

Oh, Almost forgot, we went and saw Frozen last Monday it was super awesome! And we all really enjoyed it! Have any of you seen Frozen or are planning too, if you have seen it what did you think of it? If you haven't you should go :)

 Speaking of movies, are any of you going to see the Hobbit soon? 

Thanks for Reading :)

Just Something :)

(Picture by me)

So yep just me with another post for you. 

Soooo not much is up of late, just kidding somethings always up but I just don't always feel like posting about it, lets just leave it at I had a very very fun and fantastic Thanksgiving filled with skits, songs, and cousin times :) Love my cousins!

I know I said  was going to do a Thanksgiving post last week but I just didn't know how to put to words all the wonderful things I'm thankful for, (I did try) so don't think I wasn't serious, haha sometimes even I'm at a loss for words...okay a lot of times.

You can kinda look at this post as a late messy what I'm thankful for post.

 So last Sunday at a bridal shower I was reunited with a cousin I hadn't seen in years she's awesome and we were talking like the years had only been a few months she's awesome, and I found out we have much in common, so we decided to get each others email address so as to keep in contact :) I'm so thankful I got to meet her again as well. 

Ani's been practicing a lot and recently she's taken up learning Once Upon a December, let me tell you I'm so glad she is I love that song and she plays it really well, even if I don't play anymore I'm glad she's still playing right on I love listening to her music, haha if you're reading this Ani, Love ya and I'm glad you're my sister.

Liz has been super sweet as of late too, love chatting with you sis even if it sometimes seems like I don't (not sure why I pretend otherwise) She puts up with my silliness a lot. 

There's so much more to say as well, like I'm thankful for my little niece or nephew that'll be born soon awwwwww this first time aunt's going to really spoil and love on that little kid :D 

My super cool married siblings and their spouses,

 My super awesome encouraging parents, 

Of course you guys my faithful friends, and readers,

And my amazing Savior who's blessed me in more ways than I can say (the one who's really at the top of this list!) 

and a whole bunch of other things! But I just couldn't fit it all into this post so I guess this is it :) 

ANYWAYS, how was your thanksgiving's I got to read about a couple of them and it sounds like you guys had fun too, I just love Thanksgiving and always find myself with an abundance of things to be thankful for, God has blessed me so much :) 

Please Look At...

I've got a new page for art suggestions <3 

You can still make suggestions in comments on here but then...you can also do it there (my official place for it) and make me very happy, so when finished they'll be posted on my other blog mostly and I'll just leave links to them on this blog or if you want on your blog in your comment box :) Go over there it kinda explains things with making it sound like I want to do them because I'm "something special" blah, yeah I don't do it for that so yeah, check that page out :) 

Oh, and Thanksgiving it coming up yay! I'll be posting thanksgiving posts soon yay! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...yaya! :D

Slipper Socks

For lack of a better title.

No I haven't done anything yet...as to fix the lappy all I did was give it some many days of rest...which seems to have paid off, I thought I'd let you know that was going good and than I thought I'd just share some things I've been enjoying recently.

(NOT NUMBERED BY WHICH I LIKE BEST)

1. My thinking spot (AKA the backyard swing) it's a great place to relax, listen to music, think, and plot out stories. 

2. My cozy slipper socks

3. The Autumn Sunsets *sigh*

4. Future Photo Shoots! (we haven't done them yet but we're planning to)

5. Pilgrims Progress (part 2 Christiana) study (is that spelled right?)

6. Beautiful Eulogy songs like this one :)

and this one

Listen to them they're awesome! Its free on noisetrade right now :) 

Annnnnnnnd that's all. What have you guys been up to?

Something...problematic

So you guys aware that I've been having technical difficulties with the laptop (rather serious difficulties) 

which means it's an unpredictable mess and I can't be sure it won't suddenly turn off...and if that happens while I'm writing a story well....I won't be very happy so as you can see we are at an impass here, me and Ani are looking at buying a new one but well it will take some time to raise the necessary amount, especially with baby showers, Christmas, and Operation Christmas Child coming up. So I'm writing this to tell you that you probably won't be seeing stories on here for awhile at least not until I the big computer get's plugged back in and maybe I can get that done soon. So basically just be patient and don't expect a lot of posts as much as I'm in a real writing mood I can't quite quench it yet, not until the mac gets plugged in...so I guess we'll see how things turn out. I will try to post as much as I can even if I can only do it on my iPod :] so there you have it :) 

hope to write you all again soon :D

Sarah

More Updates :)

Hey Guys, here I am with more updates for you :) 

these will be abstract updates meaning they'll be small, random and fun for me to write :) 

We recently watched Chitty Bang Bang which is one of my all time favorite movies movies and one I'd hadn't seen since I was 10 and that was sooo long ago *sigh* memories, Me and Liz had fun reminiscing about our favorite parts and were surprised to find that we shared a favorite among the songs, the song being, "Doll on a Music Box" "scene posted below"

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Yesterday I ordered my 'iPod Touch, after some searching my brother recommended a very nice refurbished one :) thanks Josh. 

And also yesterday I finished my entry to me and Samantha's latest challenge :) 

we were doing Mermaids next is elves I believe (The Lord of the Rings Kind) 

(Guys if you have a challenge for me and Samantha to do next please put it in comments and I'll post both mine and hers on here and also on The Artistic Writer, noting who challenged us)

I used another of Mark Crilley's tutorial videos to do this mermaid and than personalized her :) 

And today I was designing the wallpaper for my iPod :) 

I had a lot of fun I made a bunch of others but I figured I'd just show one :) 

(I can make you guys some too if you want) 

Aaaand here's a special Challies post that got me thinking about how much I 'Humblebrag'

That's all guys please drop me a comment and let me know what you think and how you've all been doing it's been awhile since I had a good chat with you guys :)

Yay Updates!

(picture by me)

Nothing can be said now that hasn't been said or written or before and so I’ll try to change the way I approach this particular piece of typed singularity.

BUT let me just say….Hey, how you doing?

Translation: What can I say about not posting in a really long time that other bloggers haven’t already said so I guess I’ll just say something totally unrelated, How are you?

  That’s right it’s me, I’m back and hopefully to stay for awhile.

So you guys remember how this Summer all throughout this very day I've been saying that the reason for my not writing has to do with the fact that I've either been busy or been uninspired because of not being able to leave the house very much because of house renovations and stuff. Well I'm happy to say that today we finally finished applying the primer and the first coat of paint to the house! Though we might apply the second coat to the front of the house this year...the rest of the painting should be left until sometime next Spring or Summer....so that means for now we can have a time of rest and somewhat normality :) I'm still happy about all of this upgrading and such I'm just not so ecstatic about all the time it's taken to complete these long do renovations it really felt like we were moving not just fixing up some things... so much more than just painting…um…so yeah we’re done and I can no longer bore you with updates on progress so I’ll just end work updates here and save you the annoyingness of having to deal with more of my rather uneventful Summer…don’t get me wrong we had a lot of great things happening and I’ll love this Summer forever I just well yeah you get the picture.

(the house after painting. It still has some green tape on it but doesn't it look nice)

(picture also by me)

To paint our home, we did endeavor 

Though it did seem like forever

We kept hard at it until it was done

Till the completion was won 

(poem requested by my dad)

So yesterday after we’d finished we went out to eat and celebrated our completion of the long “Never Ending Adventure” as I called it.

We were happy it was done but….then it started to rain and paint can’t dry when it’s raining we could only hope that the paint had, had enough time to dry before the rain came…and today we found out that we still had more days of endless rain coming...we were worried it would never have a chance to dry if it hadn't had enough time…but then while we were worrying I happened to notice I was a little hungry so I picked up a fortune cookie from the night before that was lying close by, I cracked it open and pulled out the little slip of paper it read, “The job is well done.” If ever there was a time we needed to hear that it was then…and wow I showed mom and she was just all smiles, thanking God for this strange way of letting us know it was okay we didn't have to worry, my stomach was in knots and was just thanking God over and over again sooo happy…cause you know how amazing it feels when you know God’s spoken two you I've only felt that a few times is my life and it’s so special! :D

Now to less amazing topics, you guys who follow The Artistic Writer know I’ve been drawing a lot recently in fact I’ve been doing a back to back series of Challenging with my friend Samantha…who might I add is Awesome!

And as a result I’ve been pumping more and more creativeness into my drawings…yes this distracts from my writings but I hope with time I’ll be able to refuel that little part of my life that’s still running on empty haha yes I’m writing despite a severe case of writers block, I feel like lately my life has been taking a different turn art is becoming more and more my favorite hobby and it’s very distracting though my character creations do help replenish idea’s for my already in progress stories…even so please bare with me I don’t usually have writers block this bad…please help if you can, maybe provide some idea’s or something how do you guys work with this I keep writing but yeah, it isn’t going so well.

Schools been fine but sleeping hasn’t, I stay up waaaaaay to late. I know I need to remedy that and I have been working on it but still if you guys could please pray I would appreciate it a lot, I’m really moody when I don’t get enough sleep and as a result I’m rude to my sisters and parents and I hate it, also it doesn’t help with school. I’m starting to worry about that….I really care about how much I pay attention and learn I want to take things in, I’m going to need to remember these things if I ever want to be a writer or even to just make it through day to day life so please pray for that too, pray that I am a diligent scholar and take in what I learn J right now I’m enjoying it but I want to be able to remember too.

Sooooo thanks for reading J

Sorry I'm Staller

Hey guys, been awhile hasn't it. I can't say I've been too busy just really, really uninspired so whenever that happens you're supposed to just keep writing right? Keep writing until you're back in the swing of things. I mean writer's block will never get me down...I can write I just don't seem to want to no what I mean...yeah so that's just me I guess. But hey I have stories coming if you guys would only tell me the ones  you want to see. Okay yep, I was actually writing something not that long ago...thing was I felt like a copy cat and then some of it just felt to drawn out so I abandoned that.

 I'm trying to make certain stories work and they're sooo on their way, I'm not going to tell  you what they are, so you're just going to have to be surprised and if you like that then you should probably subscribe to my other blog, "The Artistic Writer" you know my overflow blog, so you know these stories will be ones you've never seen before. I'm also working on Cathrine Weatherbane and hope to have that done soon, if I manage to work on it today it's practically guaranteed! 

Can't think what else to write right now so I guess I'll see you guys later :)

All Done

So The Author's Club is now.....The Artistic Writer.

I assure you this change was completely necessary it should help me manage things a little more neatly plus I was already going over what to do with a blog and no writers I wasn't sure I could even maintain two blogs but now I've found an alternative route to tossing it. I'll use it for the overflow of stories from here and go ahead and do all my art contests, commissions, and just plain art pieces over there, it's perfect. 

Though all my art related things will be centered around "The Artistic Writer" I'll still accept commissions on here and leave a message for you with a link to your piece on "The Artistic Writer" oh, yeah and from this point on we can refer to it here as "The sister blog" or "TheAW" just to shorten and simplify things. 

Well what do you think :D

In Which I Randomly Ramble On

I can't say that this is going to be a very organized post...but then I don't always know what I'm going to post when I press the 'new post' icon sometimes I get stuck deciding what to write . If it was just art I could have endless posts but art isn't exactly what you guys like to see everyday on here right? And if...I were to convert The Author's Club into an art blog...would you guys follow?

Anyways back on topic, I....have one weight off my shoulders and that is the contest results for The make a postcard and Book cover contest I had...in the Summer, sorry for being so late on it! And you guys remember the header contest thingy I had going up earlier this year....I'm sorry I had to call that one off do to not to many entries and total extreme busyness, I feel pretty bad about the unreliable way I've been lately I feel pretty bad...The poetry contest....I think I'll have to drop that one off too, I haven't had a single entry for it and I've decided if I don't get at least one by Monday I'm going to pull it off...if you want to enter here's the link ---> http://poetic-meditations.blogspot.com/2013/08/3-year-blog-o-versary-mark-your-books.html

Now I know you guys love the "My Life Posts" and the reason I haven't been posting them as much is because my life has slowed considerably to a rather uninteresting pace that I didn't think it worth writing to you about but...I figure letting you guys know whats been going on down here will clear up a bit of why I haven't been posting so much.

So here it is...We've been so busy with painting, and all those other Home fixing good stuff that I haven't gotten out as much and we still have the whole upstairs to finish painting plus we have to paint the outside of the house (it's sorely in need of it!) and not getting out means not so inspired and while I have been on the computer quite often and made several attempts to post something I never feel like it's....well inspired, it felt dry and uncreative and I deleted at least 40% of the ones I started and another 50% was nothing at all so that leaves the 10% which was the stuff that actually made on my blog. 

Hmm not quite interesting is it? 

Well now you're probably wondering why I never said anything about my vacations...truth is once they were over...I was so mentally and physically exhausted that I never got around to putting the pictures on the computer or taking the time to post about it and by the time I was back to my usual, perky writing self it was long past the time we'd been gone and the vacation was no longer fresh in my mind.

The one you guys know most about took place in gorgeous South Dakota! I haven't been there in ages since it's such a long time to get there, we hiked up Mount Harney (Which I promptly dubbed Mt. Hernia before even hiking...because they said it would take three hours...I was both exited and unsure...of what to feel, I mean three hours is a lot of time to be hiking!) My first reaction upon arriving was sheer awe...the gorgeous tall tree's, the hills and mountains, the shimmering lakes! It was breath taking!

(Pictures by Ani)

She took a lot more later on (these are just the first day) but she never got them on the computer. 

I believe when we were first driving up threw Custer Park I said, "It's so beautiful I could cry!" and I was just staring out in awe drinking it all in whilst my ears were popping from high altitudes. 

Of course we had to see Mt Rushmore and all those other wonderful sites and we tried to do everything we could in the time we had it was fantastic...well except for towards the end of the trip I got sick...sour throat, headache, dizziness, cough, that sort of thing and mom was sick too but we didn't let it get us down...too bad... :) it was fun!

Soooo, we got home, we recovered we got back into routine and two weeks later... *BAM*Church Retreat! And wow was it the warmest and funnest one ever, I got to know some of the people from our church better and work my way ever so slightly a little more out of my shyness, I mean those girls I was with the whole time were so nice and easy to talk to, M was the sweetest and kindest, and Katie, well Katie's awesome! Bella continued to be a wonderful true friend and was there to talk to me when I was by myself, I must say I have some pretty great friends and I thank the Lord for them. 

God has really been working in my life lately and thinking about him makes me so happy I could sing, he's constantly there and I feel him in my life, I am learning things I didn't know before, understanding in a way that is so different from before. 

So there you go a very long post to make up for the lack of other posts :)

P.S. If you have any suggestions for drawings I'd appreciate it a lot...and if you;d like me to do a commission for you I'd be very happy,  also check out Abilaine's new Art Blog if you haven't already it's full of great drawings! ---> http://artsy-abilaine.blogspot.com/

*Half Smiles*

I am at a loss at this moment I was just sitting here with the computer on my lap thinking, "Okay, so I read all the unread posts in Google Reader I don't have any new emails and my music is still playing...I KNOW I'LL WRITE A BLOG POST!" that just about sums me up since the internet started working again I mean before when it didn't it seemed like I had a million things to do and no time to do them in and now it's my duty to catch up with my blogging again so why doesn't this apply first? Hmm old habits die hard I guess.

Those thoughts were followed up with, "So I'm on blogger what do I write...I KNOW I'LL WRITE ABOUT NOT KNOWING WHAT TO WRITE AND THEN DO POEMS AND UPDATES!" 

Don't you guys love how resourceful I am. Okay enough jokes now here's the poem.

Nothing seems to come to mind

So this is what I've got

A poem on confusion

And whatever else plus whatnot? 

Isn't it funny how I've made a poem when I can't think

Isn't it funny how that works

I assure you though it's not always like that

It's just sometimes I have those quirks.

Ever have a hard time trying to find a rhyme

For that thing you just wrote

I experience that pretty much always 

So I have those thoughts to tote.

That's the poem now the updates...

1. Thanks to a little push from a friend a sister and a little brainstorming there should be a new chapter to Cathrine Weatherbane and even perhaps one for The Traveling Red Umbrella Girl...and I'll get on the others as well if you tell me which ones you're anxious to see more of also I'm thinking on discontinuing a few of the others since I have so many stories that need my attention and yes even I can't take on ten stories at once.

2. I may possibly have a Character Quiz soon but to do that I need to know which book you guys would like to see a quiz for. Let me know in comments.

3. Would you guys like me to illustrate any of my books I could always try.

4. Any questions, reminders or other please let me know in comments. 

Thanks for your ever faithful patience.