Meaghan’s Blog

I'm getting excited now - maybe I'll get some birthday cards soon. I like cards.

Right now I have to figure out some sort of made-up language for my story. It'll probably be a symbol for each letter, a few common words like 'the' and 'to' will have some also, and then some symbols that mean two letters that can usually be found in a lot of words, like 'th' or 'ie'. I started before I went to bed last night but I got too tired and went to sleep. Then I have to think of games the kids there play, probably several more story-within-a-story's and much more. I like to be very thorough.

I started a little story yesterday about a little girl who's seven and very serious. Everyone treats her like a child when she's smart enough to be two grade levels ahead of what she should be. I only wrote one page so far, but I do have it planned out. At some point she wakes up one morning in a forest and two panthers walk by, talking. She tells them they should be more careful about where they talk, as some people would be very interested in that for circuses and such. She tries to leave, but she can't - not until she's learned her lesson, so one panther says. So she has to stay until she learns how to be a kid again.

It's a very weird story, but I like it. Emma has been asking me to write a story for her, though I don't know if this would be for kids.

Only a week to go.

Yesterday, or maybe it was the day before that, I sorted through boxes of my stuff. I threw out one fair-sized box and two are for yard sale type things. Everything is still in boxes, though. I need to put it on shelves.

As for my story, I haven't done much, but I did come up with a holiday that isn't a holiday. There's no real celebration for it, but it's just one day a year that rains all day and all night. So I got to think up a little story within a story. Those are always fun.

I just thought right now that we should have a doorbell. The question is, where would we put it? We have five doors to get out of the house. That's a problem. Maybe we could have several, or somehow hook up the two front doors and one side door to one doorbell. I don't know.

The countdown begins!

Story-wise, though, I have come up with fourteen new (or not-so new) months which are from twenty-eight days to thirty-four days, making a total of four hundred and thirty-four days in their year. What I did was use the calculator to multiply fourteen by thirty-one, which would be the default amount of days in a month, to get how many days in the year. Then I thought up names for each month and if I wanted one to have thirty-four days, the next on the list (they were out of order) would have twenty-eight. That way, it would vary how long each month was and I wouldn't have to try really hard to keep it at four hundred and thirty-four when trying to do this. I probably just made no sense.

Here is a list of the names of the months in order, how many days they have, how to say them and  some will have little tidbits.

Palean (pah-lay-uhn) 29 days

Zentas (zen-tahz) 31

Julia (just like the name) 32

Moa (moh-ah) 34

Memour (mehm-or) 30

Maius (may-us) 34 (in Latin  it's Majus, and the J is pronounced like a Y. For romans this was, of course, May.)

Filia (feel-i-ah) 33 (it means "daughter" in Latin)

Nenatas (nen-nah-tahs) 29

Lea (lay) 32

Raya (ray-ah) 30

Pyxis (pik-sis) 33 (a constellation in the sky, part of the ship Argo, which is some sort of legend. It's the compass and you can find it near Orion and Canis Major, and the other parts of the ship are Vela, Carina and Puppis.)

Gemod (jeh-moh) 28

Junius (joo-nee-us) 28 (June in Latin and on the Roman calendar)

Rosentis (roh-zen-tis) 31

There you have it!  Yesterday I made apple pie, which was very good. The filling sort of turned to apple sauce, but it was delicious. And I remembered to add the sugar this time.

I need to figure out when to have the cold season, too, which I have decided will have winter. I just don't know what months to have it on.

Ten more days  to go!

The story is going pretty well, although there are little parts of it I have to figure out, like how Katie's going to meet certain people and things like that. I also need to make a list of how to pronounce places and things in the story because some are pretty tricky to figure out and some are easy. It'll be helpful.

So my cousin, Betty-Joe, visited us yesterday. She has five kids, including a baby, so I got to play with them and feed them (one helped themselves). Lots of fun!

Now it's only nine days until Halloween, which is awesome. It should be fun to Trick-or-Treat in a new neighborhood, since this one does have a lot of kids which means they would go Trick-or-Treating around here so then the people would get candy for that. Back in my old neighborhood my street usually didn't get Trick-or-Treaters, so then they didn't get candy for it. Even then our house never got any and it was along a main road.

I was thinking of going as an M&M, but now I'm not sure. I'm looking for an easier thing to go as. Although it would be funny, not to mention a warm costume to go as an M&M.

I just remembered I needed to think of holidays for my story, although I have no idea what they would be for. And since there are different months and longer years, I should think about Birthdays. Then some people might be Katie's age but at the same time they would be older. Huh. I may need suggestions on this one.