Oh the wonders of a tropical Christmas.
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readingredheadWell, for all of you wondering, I really did make it to Florida alive! Silly me, thinking that I would actually have time to update this journal while on vacation. I should know that I'll never really make myself sit down and just write about my day.
Especially when I don't have a computer of my own to access the internet on, and especially when all the people who I know here only have dial-up internet. I'm just too impatient to really use it well.
But right now I'm at my Grandma's house because me, Mom, my aunt, my sister, and my cousin are helping her out with stuff around the house. So I'm typing on her computer, because she appears to have a slightly faster connection than my cousins do.
I really haven't done much yet while I've been here...but I might as well recout my vacation so far.
Saturday I woke up at the obscenely early hour of 4:30 in order to eat and get dressed and get to the airport by 5:30 so that we could get through security in time to make our plane at 7:30. Yech. The plane rides really weren't that bad. We had one two and a half hour flight from Orange County Airport to Dallas Fort Worth, and then a half-hour layover when we ate lunch, and then another two and a half hour flight from Dallas to Port St. Lucie.
We got picked up at the airport by my aunt, grandmother, and cousin. Then we went to the Roadhouse Grill for dinner, this restaurant that we've been going to for as long as we've been going to Florida. Then we drove back to my cousins' house, changed into pajamas, and slept.
Sunday I was awoken to my aunt telling my mom that Corinne had a high fever. So Rhinn was sick and we pretty much stayed in all day. I helped mom unpack, and probably watched at least four movies. I did a little homework (urgh) and read a little. I'm reading a Civil War historical fiction novel called The Guns of the South -- Mr. Vargish recommended it to me! Yeah, I know, I'm a geek...but it's a good book.
Monday...I honestly don't remember what we did on Monday. Pretty much we lounged around the house some more. I knit a little. Oh, and we watched movies. We always watch movies! But it's been fun to hang with Rhinn & Carissa again, because the last time I got to spend time with both of them together was when I was in Europe over the summer.
Tuesday (aka yesterday) we met Nana (my grandma) at the movies and saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I really liked it -- I thought that it was a great representation of the book, and I hope they continue on and make the rest of the series into movies as well as they did this one. Corinne and Carissa had different opinions of it at times...as I type this they're busy figuring out how we can do a spoof of it (when we get together we have this tradition of creating spoof home videos, so they're planning the one for this visit). I believe it involves "The Chronicles of Nerdia" or something similar. *shudder*
Today I haven't really done much yet. Well...I haven't really done anything particularly noteworthy this entire time. I'm trying to start on my homework today. I attempted to start reading The Scarlet Letter earlier but the introductions and biographical notes and all that junk that preceded the actual novel was so long that I didn't finish it yet. So I'm not actually started in on the real story yet... But I did review the first chapter of the IB Standard Level Math textbook. Granted, it was simple algebra: "If 2(x+4)=6(2-x) then what does x equal?" But at least I feel like I've accomplished something.
On another note...I realized how long it's been since I've worked on Azuria, my novel-in-progress. During the summer I decided that I needed to rewrite the first 30,000 words or so because I started on a major plot overhaul. The problem was, I didn't finish the overhaul during the summer, which doomed it to remain unfinished. So last night I went back, read a bunch of the old stuff I'd written regarding Azuria so that I'd remember what I was going to change, and then wrote a total of maybe three paragraphs before getting bored. But it's something that I had to do, just so that I don't completely lose interest. I am still really excited for my story. Now as ever, I intend for it to be written and completed to the best of my abilities. It might not be finished today, or tomorrow, or in any forseeable future...but it will be finished someday, and everything will happen in its allotted time. So I'm not worried about it not being done, which is really a good thing because a lot of my worries generally focus around the quality or quantity of my writing.
Phew, that was something I really needed to get out. Writing is such a big thing for me. I always say that it's not my fault that the story of my lifetime came to me before I was ready to write it -- it just means that it's up to me to go and get ready to write it, the sooner the better. But I've come to realize that creativity can't be rushed. For now, I'm still a child, whose income does not depend on the amount of pages she produces daily. Unil I have to write on such a frenetic basis, I don't think that I will. After all -- academia calls.
I think that's really about it for now...I've thoroughly exhaused my life story, or at least as much of it as I feel I need to tell at the moment. And we're leaving my grandma's house soon, so I have to go for that reason as well. To all my friends, I hope that you're having a great time doing whatever it is you're doing. I'll post more later, when I come by something else post-worthy.
Especially when I don't have a computer of my own to access the internet on, and especially when all the people who I know here only have dial-up internet. I'm just too impatient to really use it well.
But right now I'm at my Grandma's house because me, Mom, my aunt, my sister, and my cousin are helping her out with stuff around the house. So I'm typing on her computer, because she appears to have a slightly faster connection than my cousins do.
I really haven't done much yet while I've been here...but I might as well recout my vacation so far.
Saturday I woke up at the obscenely early hour of 4:30 in order to eat and get dressed and get to the airport by 5:30 so that we could get through security in time to make our plane at 7:30. Yech. The plane rides really weren't that bad. We had one two and a half hour flight from Orange County Airport to Dallas Fort Worth, and then a half-hour layover when we ate lunch, and then another two and a half hour flight from Dallas to Port St. Lucie.
We got picked up at the airport by my aunt, grandmother, and cousin. Then we went to the Roadhouse Grill for dinner, this restaurant that we've been going to for as long as we've been going to Florida. Then we drove back to my cousins' house, changed into pajamas, and slept.
Sunday I was awoken to my aunt telling my mom that Corinne had a high fever. So Rhinn was sick and we pretty much stayed in all day. I helped mom unpack, and probably watched at least four movies. I did a little homework (urgh) and read a little. I'm reading a Civil War historical fiction novel called The Guns of the South -- Mr. Vargish recommended it to me! Yeah, I know, I'm a geek...but it's a good book.
Monday...I honestly don't remember what we did on Monday. Pretty much we lounged around the house some more. I knit a little. Oh, and we watched movies. We always watch movies! But it's been fun to hang with Rhinn & Carissa again, because the last time I got to spend time with both of them together was when I was in Europe over the summer.
Tuesday (aka yesterday) we met Nana (my grandma) at the movies and saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I really liked it -- I thought that it was a great representation of the book, and I hope they continue on and make the rest of the series into movies as well as they did this one. Corinne and Carissa had different opinions of it at times...as I type this they're busy figuring out how we can do a spoof of it (when we get together we have this tradition of creating spoof home videos, so they're planning the one for this visit). I believe it involves "The Chronicles of Nerdia" or something similar. *shudder*
Today I haven't really done much yet. Well...I haven't really done anything particularly noteworthy this entire time. I'm trying to start on my homework today. I attempted to start reading The Scarlet Letter earlier but the introductions and biographical notes and all that junk that preceded the actual novel was so long that I didn't finish it yet. So I'm not actually started in on the real story yet... But I did review the first chapter of the IB Standard Level Math textbook. Granted, it was simple algebra: "If 2(x+4)=6(2-x) then what does x equal?" But at least I feel like I've accomplished something.
On another note...I realized how long it's been since I've worked on Azuria, my novel-in-progress. During the summer I decided that I needed to rewrite the first 30,000 words or so because I started on a major plot overhaul. The problem was, I didn't finish the overhaul during the summer, which doomed it to remain unfinished. So last night I went back, read a bunch of the old stuff I'd written regarding Azuria so that I'd remember what I was going to change, and then wrote a total of maybe three paragraphs before getting bored. But it's something that I had to do, just so that I don't completely lose interest. I am still really excited for my story. Now as ever, I intend for it to be written and completed to the best of my abilities. It might not be finished today, or tomorrow, or in any forseeable future...but it will be finished someday, and everything will happen in its allotted time. So I'm not worried about it not being done, which is really a good thing because a lot of my worries generally focus around the quality or quantity of my writing.
Phew, that was something I really needed to get out. Writing is such a big thing for me. I always say that it's not my fault that the story of my lifetime came to me before I was ready to write it -- it just means that it's up to me to go and get ready to write it, the sooner the better. But I've come to realize that creativity can't be rushed. For now, I'm still a child, whose income does not depend on the amount of pages she produces daily. Unil I have to write on such a frenetic basis, I don't think that I will. After all -- academia calls.
I think that's really about it for now...I've thoroughly exhaused my life story, or at least as much of it as I feel I need to tell at the moment. And we're leaving my grandma's house soon, so I have to go for that reason as well. To all my friends, I hope that you're having a great time doing whatever it is you're doing. I'll post more later, when I come by something else post-worthy.
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HEY!
Date: 2005-12-22 05:10 am (UTC)Missing you AMAZINGLY
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Re: HEY!
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