Bluebirds and Birch trees

 Or not even that long. I hope to be graduating by this coming Fall/Winter as well as a good number of my friends, and if that alone is not enough to get me or you excited to work even faster than I have been, well then... Remember that you're Out on the Verge of it all! So keep going!

 Yes, I still have 9 unfinished blog posts. Yes, I should be eating lunch instead of shortbread cookies. And yes, I really should be doing more schoolwork.  But to quite fair and completely honest, I do have a touch of nostalgia for some of the posts on my old blog. The Wandering Narnian. I don't really know what I plan on doing with it, or what I really planned to do with some of those old posts, but several of them were to me, quite well done. (At the time at least. Some do make me slightly cringe.)  It's going something like this in my head. You already have Bible Notes starting on your blog. You already don't finish your drafted posts on your blog. You haven't written those last two scenes on your novel. You really should do more school. And, you really should just finish something to begin with so you can move onto the next thing instead of multitasking ineffectively.  So, I will probably be having some old posts from an old blog be resurfacing soon. And...

Forgetting old friends I use to see every day Forgetting old books I used to read Forgetting the sights that I used to see Forgetting everything except for me.  I feel like in my desperate attempts to move forward, I am forgetting things in the process. Things are falling through the cracks of my mind in my feeble attempt to grapple them all once again to try and hold onto an old life of what was once me. I'm growing up, and that's not sad. No, on the contrary, I'm actually happy to be growing up. So much life has thrown at me these past two years, and some things I know for a fact from which I will never recover. I hold things dear. Though some may have said I held too much. I don't believe them. But while I'm trying to hang onto the past, I feel like I'm slipping from what I grasp of the future. But some things, some such simple lovely little things to hold and hang onto, even just a short while longer, please? The stuffed animals with whom I played th...

 Or at least I will be in a little under a year now! Till then I'm not going to really push it!  :D That being said. I did something very childlike today, mainly because it's snowing, and it's super perfect for making snowballs--I was also the only one wearing gloves. So like any mature sibling would, I pelted my brother with as many as I could make till he started making snowballs without gloves. I still managed to nail him a couple times! :) And promptly ran back inside because it was cold and proceeded to make hot chocolate like any intelligent human being in my family would.  (Though I did add cinnamon to my cup, my siblings are gonna just have to deal unless they find the cinnamon... it took me a little bit and I'm the one that helped rearrange all the spices O.o)  As it is currently, I told them about ten minutes ago the cocoa was ready and they still haven't gotten any -_- can't blame me if it gets cold. Can only heat up milk so many times before it ge...

So ordinarily I wouldn't be writing another new blog post while I have about 8 unfinished and still drafts, but this one seemed like a relatively easy way to get back into the swing of things! Plus, the questions are rather fun! My friend Bronze, over at The Rambling Line has tagged anyone who has read her latest post to answer these questions. And although I've done these kind of things before, and although I might not give totally interesting answers, I love to do them anyway ^.^  1. If you were tossed into a fictional world, which world would you want it to be? (In other words, which would you have the best chance at surviving?)  Hm. Probably Narnia for a first choice, I have no doubt I would survive there. Plus I have no doubt that one day I will truly get there!  2. If you could take three people with you to that world, who would you take?  Ooh. That's hard actually, and not because of anything weird, just because there's so many people I would love t...

To anyone that has commented on my blog recently, for reasons unknown, I am unable to once again respond to your comments! :'(  It's not that I don't read them, but blogger seems intent on not letting me comment on anything, even my own posts! I've been perusing the settings, but so far no luck. *huffs* So, just so you know, I do read your comments! But until I figure this out, I will be unable to respond directly, I will probably do some method of posting to respond. So to Hope who posted a comment about a week ago - That lamp and mirror sound lovely! I haven't seen Gone with the Wind yet, but I have it in mind to watch!

So last night during youth group, I had a realization of the fact that I take all of these notes on post it notes during service, and a couple times some siblings have taken pictures of my notes to read later. But, despite the fact that I take all these notes, I will admit I don't think I've taken the time to go back and look at hardly any of them. I have them all on a cork board, but that cork board is on the inside of a door to my desk that I am not using a whole lot right now. So, both for my benefit, and I'm hoping some others that don't mind reading some others opinions and possibly discussing things bible related, I'd like to start posting things related to the notes I've taken, and to just talk some about it. I'm unsure of whether I should start doing it with the first notes I've taken, or with the most recent ones. Also, I'll either be doing this on Wednesday nights, or on Thursday morning like right now.  This will be a preliminary post I t...

 Why not resolutions? Because do be completely honest, I've never made one, or if I had I rather doubt I kept it. Rather, I call them yearly goals. Now those more often than not, I do keep. So here, is a short list of things I wish to accomplish this year, and will do my absolute best to complete them. But they are not the ordinary goals one usually hears during the excitement of new years partying. Finish reading Sherlock Holmes. Finish reading Jules Verne. Finish reading Emma, by Jane Austen. Complete first draft of Skaters World. If possible to continue from the above, work on draft two. Complete chapter one of Coffee Rings, draft something. (I lost track for that one) Work on, and if possible, complete draft one/rewrite Commit. Update all outlines. Get papers from writing and artwork orderly and filed. Granted, every single one of those pertains to stories, in one form or another. However, I do have non-writing related goals as well; such as-- Get drivers licens...

 This new year of two thousand and sixteen has started off quite different from last year, and quite different from imagined. But it is not altogether, quite apart from fantastic!  First and foremost, I am sitting here with the very strange brunch of cold homemade pizza, and coffee. Mostly because someone took it upon themselves to eat what was left of my toast. The coffee pot was still about halfway full, and we can't have that on a Saturday, oh no sir!  Secondly, on the first day of the new year, I completed a drawing of myself, along with nearly all the characters of my stories that I had written about in the past year of 2015. The ending result being me, accompanied by the two main characters of Coffee Rings, the four main and three supporting of Skaters World, and the seven main with the nine supporting of Commit. Despite that rather large number of twenty-five characters, plus myself, I ran out of room and was unable to include any others from other novels, or an...