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� Happy Birthday, Bith!
� Happiness
� A Working Girl at last!
� A day in the life of me
� I'M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
� Untitled
� Moana!
� Growing up
� Cinders and Ash
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My American blog

Here, by special request, is the blog I wrote of our trip around America last year.

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� Settling in in Hollywood
� Strawberries
� Universal Studios
� A midnight trip to the beach
� Computers, quarters, and grumpy daughters...

(These are just the first posts, by the way; I will add more when I find time!)

My Fanfiction

Palant�r - Chapter one
Palant�r - Chapter two
Palant�r - Chapter three
Palant�r - Chapter four
Palant�r - Chapter five

Tears - A oneshot

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Nov. 24, 2009

-whistles innocently-

Posted By Chickadee

Heh. Why don't I write here more?? Good question. And this question has a simple answer.
I'M BUSY!!! ARG!!
Sorry. -chuckle- I'm just getting tired of being busy. -_- But also... I like being busy, too... so I'm not gonna complain. Instead, I'll give you update, yes?
First and foremost, I started Karate lessons at last. W00T!! Currently I'm a white belt with a yellow tip. Once I get two yellow tips I'll be ready to take the test for yellow belt. At my dojo the belts are: White, yellow, blue, green, brown, black. Actually... I'm not sure if they have a brown belt, but oh well. -shrug-
I'm also doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), also known as suicide for authors. Whoever thought up the idea of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days should both get a big huzzah for brilliance, and also be shoved off a tall cliff. >_> Okay, not really. I enjoy NaNo, despite my complainings. Wait... didn't I say I wasn't going to complain? Okay, moving on.
Voice lessons are still going grandly. Getting ready for my Christmas recital, where I will be singing Fly Away, by FFH, and Sunrise, by Nichole Nordeman. Perhaps some other stuff.
Aaaaaand.... that's it for my schedule. 'Cept for work of course. Working half days again. OH! AND I'm taking classes on how to teach piano, so hopefully I can quit working away from home completely. I hate being away from home, even just for half the day. =P
So I've been keeping busy! Mostly with writing at least two thousand words every day. x_x

Saturday I went to my first LARP (live action role play) ever. I went as one of my characters. Thea, or Jaella. She's a gypsy. It was a TON of fun, especially once one of my friends got the brilliant idea of starting a thieves guild with me, her, and another friend. We stole a bag of marshmallows, and between two of us, ate them. Then we stole the stuff out of a secret stash that we found, and then some shields from the armory shop. Yes, we were quite busy. In the secret stash, we left a note reading, "You've been robbed by the illustrious Magpie Band. Tee hee.". -grin-
We hid the stuff up in fir trees, then sat and waited for people to notice. No one noticed, and we got bored, so we penned a second note and split up, my friend to deliver the note to someone to give to the person in charge, and me to go and wait for her at our base. (yes, we had a base and everything. -grin- We rock.) Just as we split up, we hear something to the effect of, "Hey! Someone tell (-persons name-) that the Magpie Band stole his stuff!"
Needless to say, my friend hightailed it back to me and we both hightailed it for our secret hideout. XD We made it there, then our other band member got there, then I (gr.) had to go back for my brother, who I had had to bring along to keep an eye on, and who had decided to turn around and walk back to the house. >_< I was irritated.
But anyways, I found him, and headed back to the base, but found that it was swarming with soldiers. So I couldn't very well go back there. So I wandered around the woods, hiding and sneaking and trying to find where my friends were.
The LARP ended before it could be resolved, but it was still fully awesome. B) ... Except for the fact I found skirts and scarves are NOT conducive to running about in the woods. OR dragging a younger brother around. XP But oh well. I still had a blast. And I still have yet to finish picking all the burrs and stickies out of my scarves and skirts. I'm TOTALLY wear pants next time.

Well, farewell until next time!

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Nov. 24, 2009

Homeschool 2nd Hand Fair! Wednesday 25th November 2009

Posted By HSN - New Zealand in Coming Events

Homeschool 2nd Hand Fair! Wednesday 25th November 2009

Anything at all loosely related to homeschooling will be at …

Auckland Homeschool 2nd Hand Fair!

Wednesday 25th November 2009

12.45pm to approx 3.00pm

Sunnynook Community Hall

148 Sycamore Drive

Sunnynook, North Shore

(map at www.wises.co.nz/l/Auckland/Sunnynook/148+Sycamore+Drive)

Want to buy good 2nd hand stuff? Come along to see what 20+ families have available!

Books, games, software, toys, materials, used curriculum, DVDs, seedlings, kids’ home businesses/produce …

Bring some decent CASH – it’s likely you’ll see something you have wanted for a while and we won’t have eftpos/credit!

Queries: Sophia Sharpe on 476 8546 or email sophia.sharpe@gmail.com

See you there!

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Nov. 24, 2009

Multitude Monday ~ 21 - 30

Posted By Bluejane in Multitude Monday

Today I am Thankful For...

21. 41,685 words (bigger post on this later)

22. The sound of Christmas music drifting up the stairs in November.

23. My MP3 player.

24. A great choir concert.

25. Ale 8 1

26. Fellowship filled Sundays

27. The feeling of the holidays already installing itself within me

28. Crispy hash browns

29. My attic bedroom

30. Old quilts

What Are You Thankful For?

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Nov. 24, 2009

Multitude Monday ~ 11-20

Posted By Miss Eyebright in Thoughtful Thinks

Here is this week's installment of my contribution to The Gratitude Community. I'm not actually an official part of it, but you can be if you like! Go check it out!

I am Thankful for...

11. Books
12. Blankets
13. Hot tea
14. Homemade bread
15. My first customer at my Etsy shop.
16. Pumpkins
17. Forgiveness
18. My best friend in the whole, wide world, Bluejane.
19. Knitting
20. New friends What are you Thankful for? Copyright 2009 Defective Compositions

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Kaitlyn and Grace

Posted By KiwiSmithFamily in *Family

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The Lady

Gabrielle is brilliant, beautiful, talented, sweet and good, yet marvellously humble. Haha... No. Let's try that again...

Gabrielle has a wicked sense of humour and far too much pride for her own good. She loves to write, and has spent a good portion of her life buried in books. She loves old English literature, anything Tolkien, and well-written humour.

She loves blogging, fanfiction, and spends a good portion of her day on her computer. Pretty active, she enjoys climbing, swimming, running, and sitting up trees, yet does not enjoy most ball sports.

At sixteen, she is still far more immature than she should be and enjoys the fact far too much, yet she can be serious at times and ponders deeply on many issues. She takes her faith very seriously, and strives to make becoming like her Lord her greatest wish.

She enjoys talking about herself in the third person.

Dol Amroth

Dol Amroth was a coastal city in South Gondor. Built on a hilltop overlooking the Bay of Belfalas and crowned by Tirith Aear - the seaward tower - it was the Jewel of the Southern coasts. The Princes of Dol Amroth were prominent in Gondor and ruled much of the land about Belfalas.

Dol Amroth was the home of both sailors and mounted knights, yet they were also renowned for their harpists. The people of Dol Amroth were of Numenorian decent, and also accounted to have had elvish blood - passed down from Mithrellas, one of Nimrodel of Lothlorien's handmaidens. They were tall, dark haired and grey eyed, and spoke, for the most part, Sindarin.

Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth fought in the battle of the Pelennor Fields with many of his knights, and won renown for his deeds there, which included saving the life of his nephew, Faramir. Imrahil's sister, Finduilas, was the wife of Denethor, Steward of Gondor, and the mother of Boromir and Faramir. Imrahil's daughter, Lothiriel, later married King Eomer of Rohan.