Meaghan’s Blog

 . . . feels like any ordinary day. To me, anyway. In fact, I quite forgot it was 2008. Best wishes to everybody for the new year.

You have no idea how many times I've forgotten to mention something related to the months in my story. You see, one day in November (possibly October) I was flipping through a dictionary in search of a word, when one caught my eye in particular. I flipped back to the page in horror. No! One of the months I thought I had created on my own was actually . . . a grassland? As it turns out, Lea means just that: a grassland. It can be pronounced two ways, like lay or lee. Personally, I don't mind sticking with it; plenty of things, months included, are named after something or share a word that means something completely different. I'm just fine with having a grassland as a month.

Other story news is I now have another two chapters waiting on a flashdrive to be put on the computer, refined a little, then posted on here! Yay! I still have much to write and I haven't been reading the dictionary as of late, but I'm trying to make an effort. I'm reading Pride & Prejudice yet again, because I read another book and it messed me up quite a bit - I could feel my vocabulary shrinking away as I read through it. I only continued on reading it because I don't like leaving a book part-way through, no matter how dumb or detestful it is - not that I'm saying the book was dumb or detestful, but I did not much enjoy it.

The other night  - Sunday, I believe - we (our family) watched Persuasion on TV. I thought it was . . . interesting. Let's leave it at that. I bought my father the book for Christmas but I haven't read it yet. Last night I watched the Pride & Prejudice movie - not the made-for-TV one, though we own that one too - and I noticed how they messed up the talking in it a great deal of the time, using too many contractions or whatever people call them; we watched Sense & Sensibility, which I bought Dad I think last Christmas . . . anyway, I thought it was good but very long, and Dad also got the book this Christmas from Sarah, so now I think I'll read it when I finish the book I'm reading. Then, since Sarah said she wanted to watch something with guns in it, we watched Ultraviolet. I didn't think it made much sense and it was sort of one fight scene after another. Ah well.

Now all I have to look forward to is spring, which comes in about four months. It won't be fun waiting but at least it lasts longer than Christmas does. Addison and Kaytlyn have gone home, as did my grandmother, and the presents have all been unwrapped and enjoyed. Sarah is currently sitting a mere five or six feet away reading a book I bought her that she wanted. She seems to be enjoying it, exclaiming 'This book is AWESOME!' at random intervals. My parents have stepped out for some alone time and a few groceries we need.

Emma didn't recieve too many toys this year, but some presents I never saw her unwrap because she probably did so while I or someone else was also unwrapping a gift. I'll try to make a rough list of what I got . . . A Harry Potter poster book, a new Harry Potter calendar, one of those Harry Potter comic reflief books about beasts, two journals, a set of paints, another set of paints, and a third set of paints . . . Pomegranate tea (I drank all of Sarah's the last time she bought it, and coincidentally she bought it for my stocking), peanut M&M's (mmm . . .), a few magazines, a Jakalope CD, and a few other things I'm sure I forgot. Other than that, I got a few other little things in my stocking. Overall a very good Christmas. I painted a small replica of a painting I have with a fountain from another painting in it for Kaytlyn, which she seemed to like. Dad got an astounding four QuickPay TimCards, totaling to fifty-five dollars worth of coffee. Don't fret - this was discussed beforehand. He says we'll be going to Timmy's sometime for a treat.

One of the journals should be great to write in since it looks like better quality than the ones I bought at some store which all fell apart when I used them. It has a ton of pages and I already started using it - not for my story, though, but for a journal. I think I have enough paints to last me a very long time, and I now have four tubes of 'Ultramarine Blue', not to mention many others with the same names. Thanks again, everybody!

Wee! So Kaytlyn and Addison arrived here yesterday, bringing their Wii along with them and we played for a good portion of the night. I began cutting apples for apple pie, and I made the crust this morning (I thought I messed it up but it looks okay). I cooked it, and after lunch we went to Aunt Boo's for a visit. It wasn't for as long as we usually stay, but it was perfectly awesome anyway. My Grandmother and her third husband, Carl, just got here not long ago and supper is being made.

You know I always come across the subject of my story, so let's talk about it for kicks. I haven't writting much since yesterday, which is a shame, because I can't concentrate with company over. But since there's plenty of things to do, I don't have much time for it.

Personally, I'm excited for the apple pie. Perhaps I should take a picture of it before it's eaten up. Merry Christmas!

As I logged out of my account on here, I saw the little advice in the corner and gasped aloud. A word was spelled wrong! It was something about complimenting people or something, but they said 'complement' with an 'E' where the rightful 'I' belonged.  I'm beginning to lose trust in its judgement. Now it's telling me 'become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.' Well, I'm always pretty positive anyway, so I don't need help there. Maybe one day we can forget the troubled past and move forward, the corner and I.

Sarah would like to use the computer, and I have things to be getting to - I just thought it was necessary to report such dreadful news.