Line of the Day

Overheard in my house:

"She found her butt!"


* Halle had a Polly Pocket doll who, without the aforementioned part of her anatomy, was broken and useless. As we all would be.

My story ROCKS!!

I just finished reading my story all the way through for the first time, possibly, ever. It's been over a year since I worked on it last, so it was good to come back to it after so long. And the great thing is, I really like my story. There are definitely things that need work. Some passages are just too cheesy, some scenes need to be rewritten, and I'm sure there are other things here and there that will change as I add my new character, Mel. But I really enjoyed my story. I honestly feel it has great potential. I made myself laugh, I made myself cry, and, really, what more can you ask from a good story?

Except a good bad guy. (You know what I mean.)

By the way, if you have any suggestions for the name of Mel's castle, let me know (the one below is just a filler). And I need a name for Mel's apprentice. Same song, second (no, wait, third) verse. And, as a teaser, here's the intro to Mel (it's all I've written so far, although writing should begin in earnest tomorrow):

High in the northern mountains of Glockenspiel there was another castle. Ancient and weathered, it appeared to grow out of the craggy mountainside on which it stood. This castle, Smothering Heights, was the home of the wizard Meliazar. His friends called him Mel for short; or rather, they would have if he’d had any friends.

4th place ROCKS!!

I just found out the results of the UIS Webposium today. I won a Special Merit award (along with one other person), which is honestly exactly where I wanted to be. Let me tell you why.

1st place won an 80 gb iPod, 2nd won a digital camera, and 3rd won a 4 gb iPod. I didn't want to win any of these categories because we already have an iPod and a digital camera.

So what did Special Merit people win? A portable DVD player--which is exactly what I was hoping for all along!

Yay!