"In the beginning was the Word..."

"...and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."



Merry Christmas!!

I found the above picture through Google search, but here's a funny story: originally I typed in "christmas images", and everything but one picture on the first page of results was of Christmas trees and cartoonish penguins and snowmen. How typical, eh?
However, both my mom and I have noticed that this year, many more people in stores and stuff were saying "Merry Christmas" rather than "Happy Holidays". It was a VERY pleasant switch, believe me. But you probably know yourself from past experience, right?
So did y'all have a good Christmas? Mine was (and is still) terrific! ALL my family was (and again, still is) here, which was a total switch. Usually one or another of my brothers can't make it a certain day, or arrive after another one leaves or something. But this year, my oldest brother arrived early Christmas Eve morning, and two other brothers arrived Christmas Day, in the morning. (Although the times were much different...one came at 3 a.m. and the other came at 11 a.m.) It's been loads of fun. :D And it's really weird having eight people at the table again! I got some really awesome Christmas presents, my favorites being the set of the Anne of Green Gables movies (and the complete set of the books), two $25 Borders gift cards (you can't even imagine how excited I am to splurge with those!!), a piano music book (Ennio Morricone), and 35 pairs of earrings. Yup, 35. ;D I actually just got my ears pierced, so this is really exciting. There are some really cute pairs too, and some really pretty ones. I can't wait to being wearing them all. =D

Anyways, hope you all enjoy the rest of the Christmas season! It lasts awhile, you know. Oh and by the way...our Christmas tree is 13 feet tall. Seriously. It's totally wicked. I mean, we have an Ent in our living room! It's great! :D

May Baby Jesus caress you with His tiny hands, bless you with His newborn smile, and hold you in His open heart.

-Limwen

Roller Coaster Life

First order of things...
One of my guinea pigs died Sunday. :( I was devastated. I had been sleeping over at my friends' house Saturday, and came back Sunday after church all happy and cheerful, only to be met with the news that Toasty (that was his name) had died. I won't go into details, but let's just say I was pretty miserable. I've gotten over it pretty much...of course I'm still upset, but it's not like I'm bursting into tears every five seconds. I've realized, from past experiences, that well...life goes on. Death is inevitable and there's nothing you can do about it except pick up your cross and go on.
Anyways, here are some pictures of Toasty (and family):


This is Toasty when he was newly born...that's his mama Buttercup and one of his siblings next to him (Toasty is the darker baby with the white stripe)


Toasty with his dad Skipper (Skipper is the orange one)


Toasty with his...shall we say...wife, Kawaii ("Kawaii" means cute in Japanese)


Kawaii with her and Toasty's babies

Aren't they cute? I'm so proud of my guinea pigs. :) I used to have eight altogether, but I gave away one (one of Toasty's babies) and now Toasty died...the weird thing is, he wasn't the oldest guinea pig. I still have his parents, Skipper and Buttercup.
So yeah...prayers would be welcome. :) I become very much attached to my babies, so it's hard for me to say good bye.

On another note...
I'm entering a poem into a poetry contest! The first prise is $500, and there are three honorable mention prizes, each at $100. So yeah, it would be pretty amazing if I won. :D

Also...
"Born of Hope" is OUT!!!!!! :D :D :D I'm SOOOO excited!! I started watching it yesterday, but got interrupted before I got even ten minutes into it. Oh well, I WILL be watching it fully through soon. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, "Born of Hope" is an independently-made Lord of the Rings fan film. It looks very well done. It's about Aragorn's father and mother, Arathorn and Gilraen, and also about many other Dunedain. Anyways, WATCH IT. If you have time. You can watch it at the website: www.bornofhope.com



I will be replying to all your previous comments shortly, I just never seem to remember or have time to do so. God bless you all!

Blessings!

-Limwen

"What a strange person."

(Quote from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail')

I need inspiration. Ever since NaNoWriMo stopped, I've been in a mire of laziness, when it comes to writing. Maybe it's more of just taking a break. Anyways, all I've been doing lately besides the everyday chores and duties is practicing pool. I'm getting to be quite the pool shark. :D We have this new pool table, you see, and I'm determined to get good at it.
What else has been happening lately? Well, my family and a bunch of my friends put together a surprise birthday party for me yesterday. It was so sweet! I've always wanted a surprise birthday party, but that's not exactly something you can ask for, you know? Anyway, it was really nice. And I WAS surprised. Apparently, my dad had been dropping rather obvious hints here and there during the week before, but somehow I missed them all. :D

Speaking of my birthday, guess what's coming Wednesday, that my parents got for me? And iPod!! :D :D :D :D :D I'm so excited!! It's not one of those fancy touch-screens, but it's pretty darn sweet. It has a camera/video camera built in. I can't wait for Wednesday!! ;D

Someone else's birthday is in December...December 16th, to be exact. And that would be one of my favorite actresses, Miranda Otto. :)







Woot, yeah, pretty ladyy. <3

Btw, has anybody ever heard of or read any of Robin McKinley? I just heard about her...she sounds like a pretty awesome fantasy writer...but I was wondering if anybody had read any of her stuff, and if they liked her writing.

Pax,
Limwen

To Write or not to Write

Well, I never got to 50,000 words with my NaNoWriMo book. I tried, really I did. But near the end, it just got too insane. I couldn't write anymore...for a number of reasons (I'll explain later). However, if I come up with another great story idea between now and next November, I may just try again. ;) Anyways, I'm quite glad I participated, because it helped me ALOT. I laid down a really good groundwork for my NaNo book during that time, and I wrote some really cool stuff. All in all, it was extremely helpful. Also, one of the emails from Chris Baty was extremely encouraging for me:

"Group Three: The Go On Without Me's. For you, November turned out to be a very bad month to try and write a novel. Life went completely crazycakes, and you faced a never-ending series of demanding work or school projects, health emergencies, social obligations, and/or tech meltdowns. You managed to get a few good ideas down on paper, but never quite found your novel's rhythm. You're thinking of bowing out, and planning on giving it a try next year."

Yeah, that was me. But then he wrote something really nice later on for 'Group Three':

"For the Go On Without Me's: This is going to sound really weird, but you're in the best shape of all three groups. You're off the map, but that's the point of this escapade. NaNoWriMo is to there to put you in such an impossible situation that you can stop worrying about perfection and achievement and just savor the thrill that comes with making and doing. Think of the remaining days in NaNoWriMo as an anything-goes creative retreat. You sacrificed your novel to the world around you this month, and the world around you appreciated it. But you now get some time for you. You may not write 50,000 words, but you still have plenty of time to create something smaller and equally wonderful. Return to the page—there's still a beautiful adventure waiting for you."

I found that really nice and encouraging, so yay to Chris Baty for being a super cool dude. :D

So what exactly did happen that stopped my novel from getting written? It was mostly parties, really. See, now that we have this huge new house, we want to share it with other people. So it started on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Of course that was all Thanksgiving preparation. Then Thanksgiving happened, and that was more preaparation and (of course) eating. Then Friday, my brother hosted a party for his soccer teammates. Saturday, we were invited to a birthday party. Sunday, we hosted ANOTHER party, for our homeschool teen group. Sunday was the second to last day of November, and by that time I was so washed out I couldn't even try to write Monday (the last day of November). And of course I had little or no time to write during that party-prep stretch. So yeah. Now I'm just glad it's all over.
I'm pretty proud of myself, though. I managed to write over 30,000 words. That's an accomplishment. I don't have the awesome-looking NaNo award to proudly post on my blog, but at least I can say I participated. Congrats to all you NaNo winners; you guys rock. (Yep, that means you Hannah. ;D)

Oh yeah, and tomorrow's my birthday. Whew, I can't believe I'll be 16. o_0

God bless!

-Limwen

"In all things give thanks"

'Nuff said.

-Limwen

Do you ever get the feeling that you're being watched?

So...I was sitting here, trying to think of something to post...and this kind of came up.

Today my parents and I went to church. The Gospel that was read was the one where Jesus, upon seeing Jerusalem, wept. I love that passage. It's one of my favorites, because it shows us the human side and the tender side of God.
I was thinking about how much Jesus is weeping today.
Abortion...
Murder...
War...
Rape...
Contraception...
Divorce...
Abuse...
Homosexuality...

It seems like America has gone down the tubes, doesn't it? You hear so many horrible tragedies on the news...just horrible. And you hear how so many people still honor and fawn over Obama as if he were a god, even though he hasn't done any of the 'change' he promised would happen, he's the biggest pro-abortion president we've ever had, he's obviously totally against America and all we stand for...I mean, what the heck kind of a president IS that??
And yet, there is hope. You don't hear much of anything that gives you cause for hope (the media takes care of that), but there are still good people in this world, and they are fighting for justice. And God is watching over all...perhaps weeping sometimes...but always watching. Always bestowing mercy. Always giving the sinner a chance to repent. Always bestowing more graces on those who fight for Him.

And in the end, GOD WILL TRIUMPH.

Pax.

-Limwen

Dude...50,000 words is ALOT.

Well, this has to be short because it's 11:30 at night and I have to get up REAL early tomorrow. It's not my fault I stayed up this late...I was writing. :P I was working on my NaNoWriMo novel. Honestly, I don't know why I joined NaNo this year. It's awesome fun, but I'm doing pretty bad. :D (Don't laugh at my word count, you NaNo veterans!) It's been so crazily busy around here, I haven't had the time. We just moved in to our new house (yay!), our computer wasn't working, I took a road trip to Tennessee with my mom, and then of course there's school and piano. I think I'll have to catch up on a lot of writing on the weekend.
"So what IS your word count, anyway?" you ask. *sigh* Well, it's a meager 2372 words. Can I make 50 grand by the end of this month?

No way. XD

I'm such a pessimist.

-Limwen

PS. On the bright side, I got an email with one of the many "pep talks" from NaNoWriMo...and guess who wrote the pep talk? Gail Carson Levine!! She wrote some really awesome advice, I'll have to post it sometime.

Funny Videos :D

Hey all,
These made me laugh...really hard. :) Enjoy.

-Limwen



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA --(this one didn't have an EMBED code, so I just had to put the URL here)

Writing and Fantasy

I hope to be published someday. (Don't we all?) I've been reading lots of different kinds of fantasy lately...Cornelia Funke...Brian Jacques...Christopher Paolini...Gail Carson Levine....
Sometimes I wonder if I'm really good enough to be published. I'm so impatient, but I know I still have a long time to get better. Currently, I'm working on two books, and have plans to start two more soon. One will be started in November for NaNoWriMo. :) Wouldn't it be the most beautiful feeling to go to a store and see YOUR BOOK with YOUR NAME on it, there on the shelf?
I know that lots of people --probably most everybody-- wants to be famous...and for that reason some people may laugh at my dream. But I don't want to be famous because I'm a model, or I'm a movie star, or I'm some big sports player, or I'm related to the President (and thank God I'm not!). I want to give something to people. I want to accomplish something in my life. I want the faces of young people to brighten when they hear my name, because a book they dearly love comes to mind...MY book. I want them to have copies of my books in their house, well-worn and falling apart because they have been loved so much. I want them to get so caught up in my story and my characters that to them it's something real...just like it is for me.

Do you ever feel this way?

I'll never be a Tolkien or a Lewis or an Austen...
but who ever wants to be like somebody else? I pray that God will someday allow me, in a unique way, to give the gift of my writing to the world.

After all, He didn't give me that gift of writing for nothing.

Nor the love of fantasy.....



-Limwen

My Peter Pan Personality

I'd like to get organized.
Really, I would.
Like have a specific post for everyday of the week, a specific theme for every week, etc. I'd like to get my room cleaned and pack up every single little thing that's in my room right now so it'll be all ready for when we actually move. I'd like to have the willpower to put down my Redwall book, and actually get my schoolwork done today instead of putting it off for the weekend. But who can resist a good book, a comfy couch, and a warm blanket on a cold, rainy day?
Ah well, someday I'll be organized. Someday I'll be mature. Someday I'll put down my fairy dust dreams and set aside those ethereal tales of fantasy I delight in, and face reality.

Grow up, in a word. (Or two.)

Lord, don't let that day come too soon!

Here's a glimpse of some beautiful fantasy, and proof that I spend way too much time enjoying myself. ;)



I put it together myself...it was lots of fun. Notice that there are pictures from all three Narnia movies? The ones of Lucy in a sailor's (PC's) outfit are from the filming of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. You see, I'm still getting some juicy updates from narniaweb.com. ;) (See a post from a few weeks ago with pictures of the Dawn Treader itself.)

Blessings!

-Limwen

People can say SUCH funny things

So I had no idea what to post, but then the idea came to me to post some of my favorite and random quotes...some are funny and some are thought-inspiring....
Leave your favorite quote in a comment!!! :D

"Quick's the word and sharp's the action, wot, wot?" -Basil Stag Hare

"Never insult the author; she might put you in a book and kill you." -Anonymous

"Can you penetrate the designs of God? Dare you vie with the perfection of the Almighty? It is higher than the heavens; what can you do? It is longer than the earth in measure, and broader than the sea." -unknown

"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." -Groucho Marx

"Humor is reason gone mad." -Groucho Marx

"Death but not sin." -St. Dominic Savio

"No wonder You have so few friends, since you treat the ones You have so badly!" -St. Teresa of Avila (upon getting her donkey cart stuck in the mud and unable to get it out no matter how hard she tried)

"Love God, serve God; everything is in that." -St. Clare of Assisi

"I don't sing in the shower; I rap." -Travis "Pronk" Hafner (player on the Indians baseball team in Ohio)

"I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities." -Dr. Suess

"Weddings? I love weddings! Drinks all around!" -Captain Jack Sparrow

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." - Merry Brandybuck

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." -J.R.R. Tolkien

"Ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons." -Vizzini


Cheers!

-Limwen

Tonari no Ponyo!

Just got back from watching Japanese director Hayao Myazaki's latest film Ponyo. I grew up watching Myazaki's Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), so ever since then, I've had a love for his movies. Ponyo is really magical. It's based on the tale of the Little Mermaid, with a spectacular Japanese twist. I liked it alot, and I think it will be much better when it comes out on DVD, and I can watch it without it being dubbed in English (always hate that).



(You can read the synopsis of Ponyo by copying and pasting this link into your toolbar, as well as find links to more of Myazaki's movies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo)

I decided to also post some recent pictures of myself...most of them aren't too good, because I took those with my dad's phone, but hope you like them anyway. :) I "tweaked" most of 'em too... :D







Blessings!
-Limwen

Mumbo-Jumbo.

Wow.

So many things have happened to me recently...so many emotions are floating around in my head. It's kinda unbelievable.

Actually, not that much happened...if you look at it a certain way. Only two things.

1. I read Books #2 and #3, Eldest and Brisingr, respectively, out of the Inheritance Cycle. By Christopher Paolini, of course. Doesn't sound like much, does it? Well, you see, I get so emotionally involved with characters in books, that I've been rather emotionally drained these past couple days. There are so many twists and turns in the plot of Eldest and Brisingr, so many crazy things happen to my beloved friends (the characters), so many secrets get revealed...ugh. I'm exhausted. But they're excellent books, all three in the Cycle. I found them extremely intriguing, and I couldn't put them down. I got Eldest out of the library a few days ago, read it in one day, and returned it to the library promptly...borrowing Brisingr while I was at it. And I just now finished that. I can't wait for Mr. Paolini to write the fourth book!!!! I WISH HE'D HURRY!!!!!! Well anyways, yeah...to me...well....that's alot. :)

2. We're moving. We've been looking at this one house about ten minutes away from us for about two years now, and just today we bought it. Talk about exciting, eh? :D It's a sweet house, big and roomy, with 8 acres of gorgeous farmland!!!! I'm so esctatic!!!! This will be awesome!! :D :D :D We're hoping to be moved in by November or December. It's pretty crazy. We've been living in our old house for about 30 years now...and we just now decide to move! :P Well, that's our family for ya. Anyways, pray for us...we'll need it! :)

Oh, and I just thought of a third thing that happened.

3. I watched the 1940 and the 1995 BBC versions of Pride and Prejudice (not all in one day of course...the BBC takes at least two days to watch anyways!). I believe there's just one version I haven't watched yet...another TV version (also by BBC)...doesn't look to interesting, though. Anyways, they were great. I have to say that out of all three P&P film dramatizations (1940, 1995, and 2005) I think the 2005 is my favorite. Perhaps because that Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFayden) is my favorite. <3>

So yeah, that's me and my life right now!

Blessings!

-Limwen

Voyage of the Dawn Treader...in pictures.

Check.

This.

Out.

I've been getting emails from NarniaWeb.com because I signed up for their mailing list, and recently they sent out pictures of the Dawn Treader!!
This is just about the coolest thing I have ever seen:

Isn't that just amazing?? The detail and everything is just spectacular. I can't wait for VDT to come out!!!!

Cheers!

-Limwen

The Big Apple and a house sold

I just got back last night from New York.
It turned out that only my brother and I went on vacation to New York. Why? Well...it's a long story. :D

Here goes.

The Friday before last, my dad had a really severe bloody nose that wouldn't stop. He ended up having to go to the emergency room and get a huge bandage stuck up his nose to stop the bleeding. The doctors figured that an artery had burst and would need medical attention from an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Turns out also that my dad has really high blood pressure.
Obviously, Dad couldn't go on vacation, because we were leaving that Sunday. So my mom had to decide whether or not she should go. She decided she should stay with Dad. The question then arose...would my brother and I go to New York by ourselves? It wouldn't be that big of a deal, because we were going to a family camp with a bunch of families we knew...it wouldn't be like traveling around New York totally by ourselves, you know? My brother and I wanted to go...so we did! My other brother dropped us off on the way to a wedding in New Jersey, and he picked us up a week later, when the camp was over. And here we are! So yeah, it was craaaaaazy. Thank God, Dad is doing much much better. He got the packing off his nose and the vein cauterized, and he is now on blood pressure medicine. Please pray for us though, for his continued health!! My brother and I had a blast in New York, even though it was weird that just the two of us went. We were our own little family. :D It was a ton of fun. We played a bunch of games with all those other families, and there was Putt-Putt, and a swimming pool, and a slip 'n slide, and a creek, and carpet ball (a game where you try to knock other people's balls down with the white ball, it's fun) and we played baseball and ping-pong and it was just fun. :D Sorry, that was rather a run-on sentence. :D And I apologize also for not having any pictures...but we didn't have a camera. Sorry. I wish I had some that I could post...

We found out the day before we came home, when I called Mom, that my Grandma's house was sold! WHOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!! We've been trying to sell that house for awhile, and we've had it on our hands, worrying us, since last September-- when Grandma died. Of course, it's sad to see it go, but the overall feeling (especially for Mom) is relief. :D It's possible now that we ourselves will be moving to another house...update on that later. :)

I posted the prologue of my second book on apricotpie.com. Check it out here: http://apricotpie.com/clare-marie/eleta-prologue

I re-read "The Princess Bride" and "Buttercup's Baby" a week or so ago. I think it has inspired me somewhat. Oh yeah, and I fell in love with Westley all over again. :D And I want to get a Princess Bride t-shirt, like "Westley Never Dies" or something. You know, I forgot just how downright hysterical that book is...
Now I need to go watch the movie. :D

I think that's about all I have to post about!! Update again soon, and keep us in your prayers!!



-Limwen

I can't believe summer is almost over.

Hasn't it just begun??

I guess I've been so busy that time has just flown by. I went on retreat this week with my mom and one of my best friends and her mom. It was just the four of us in a cozy lodge down in Amish country. It was so beautiful. I really needed a getaway to renew my spiritual life. We spent about three days there, from Monday (late afternoon) to Wednesday (afternoon). The scenery is just amazing, and I went bonkers over the horses and cows and sheep and goats and llamas!! Especially the horses. ;) Amish people are cool. My friend and I would wave at every buggy we passed in the car. They're such an inspiration to me, their life style and all that. Besides, their food is pretty dang good. :D

I'm also trying to finish up the newsletter for our homeschool teen group (I'm the secretary), drop some stuff for the county fair off at a friend's house, and get packed before we leave for New York--Sunday. Saturday, I have a dance performance in a city a few hours away, and I've been mentally preparing myself for that too. It's just been crazy around here! I'm glad I have some time to just sit down and...be a vegetable. Let my mind become mush! :D

Got to run, my mom needs to use the computer.

Blessings!

-Limwen

Romance, dirty carpets, and vanilla ice cream

Decided to take some time off from energetic work to melt my brain by watching a movie. I felt an irresistable urge to watch one of my favorites, the 2005 "Pride and Prejudice" movie with Keira Knightley. Unfortunately, we don't own it, so I had to watch it on YouTube. I'm actually in the process of watching it right now, and waiting for one of the sections to load.

So I've been ripping up the carpet in my bedroom these past couple days. I've hated that carpet forever, and it's been there for 30 years. Yeah, it's pretty gross. And it's a complicated project, because first you have to rip the carpet, then take out the tacks, then pry up the carpet tack strips along the wall, then sweep, then wash, then rinse, then dry. Plus all the junk in my room has to be moved from one spot to the other as I rip different sections. Sounds fun, hey? :D Actually, it IS kinda fun, and music like Sara Evans, Fireflight, and Enya wile the time away nicely.

Today I rode my bike to Drug Mart to get vanilla ice cream to go with Mom's blueberry crisp, a new hair dryer for Mom, and some pampering stuff for me (like nail polish, make up...). When I was almost there, I realized I forgot my bike lock; but thank God my bike wasn't stolen! I was anxious and worried the whole time I was shopping...took away some of the fun of it. :D Then on the way home, I'm sure I made quite a spectacle: rushing along at a great pace, trying to get home before the ice cream melted, plastic bags swinging crazily from the handlebars and crashing into my knees. I passed a guy on a bike, who was not so absorbed in his iPod that he couldn't grin at me as he passed.
Arriving home, I dumped my bike on the lawn and rushed the ice cream in the house, laying it tenderly in the freezer. I found a note on the front door that said:

Clare,
Went to pick up the car.
Are you making dinner :)?

Love,
Mom

At first, I wasn't so sure I would comply with her request, and wrote her a reply:

Mom,
You owe me $4 for the ice cream and --surprise!--$13 for the dryer.
Must have been on sale and I didn't even know it.
Don't count on dinner.

Love,
Clare

But then I thought better of it and made pasta with sauteed vegetables. Despite the fact that I didn't put enough vegetables in, it was still quite good. If I may say so myself. :D

Off to watch more of P&P!



-Limwen

I'm sort of having mixed feelings today.

Yesterday I went to my friends' house, and it was a BLAST!! We were thinking about driving a ways to go protest outside of a building where Barack Obama was giving a speech about his health care plan, but we ended up not going. It would have been fun, though, to go join the tea party.

Still feeling the effects of visiting my friends (it's always so refreshing to visit them), but I'm also a little down...I have to go to a 4 hour practice for my dance group today. What a drag. :/ Can you tell I'm not thrilled about being in this group anymore? (I've been in it for about four years--ever since it started.) We have a performance coming up in August (the 8th), and our teacher is going crazy. She's quite the perfectionist, and does all she can to make our group perfect, even though we never can be. It gets rather annoying, you know? But...such is life. I'm glad I can vent on here, right? :)



Here's my favorite picture of Enya. <3!

You won't believe how much Enya's music can calm me down and make me feel better.

Cheers!

-Limwen

If I could, I would live in a bookstore

Yup, you read that right. ;D
Bookstores are amazing. Especially used books bookstores, like Half-Price Books; because then you find a bunch of old editions of great classics that smell like heaven and feel so soft to your fingers....
As you probably guessed, I just went to Half-Price Books the other day with my mom. We went, really, to find a birthday present for a friend of ours, and my mom made me promise that we wouldn't look for anything for ourselves until we had found a birthday present. Good thing she did, because as soon as our mission was completed, I went hog-wild and carefully scrutinized the fantasy, ficition, and young adult bookshelves. I was as happy as Winnie the Pooh when he finds a honey pot. You won't believe how many hours I could spend in a bookstore, poring over books and deciding just what exactly I want to buy. Soon enough, I was squealing and jumping for joy over some of my finds. What I actually bought was:

-'Anne's House of Dreams' and 'Anne of Ingleside' (or, #5 and #6 in the Anne of Green Gables series)
-An absolutely BEAUTIFUL hardback copy of 'Eragon' (and for only $7! I was delighted =D) and...
-two Enya albums, Watermark and Shepherd Moons. Mom was like "Don't you have enough Enya?!" With the purchase of Watermark and Shepherd Moons, I now have 5 Enya albums. Perhaps I should stop there, eh? =D
Sum total: $22. I was pretty happy with that. ;D

*sigh of rapture* I love bookstores!! I think I'll ask for gift cards to Half-Price Books for my birthday, when it comes. ;)

Speaking of books, I posted Chapter 17 of "And There Were Three" (my book) on apricotpie.com. Copy and paste this address into your Google or Internet Explorer address bar to read it:
http://apricotpie.com/clare-marie/and-there-were-three-chapter-seventeen
Enjoy. ;D

-Limwen

New Blog

Well, here I am posting on my new blog! It's a little rough right now, but hopefully I'll fix it up soon. What do you think?

-Limwen