Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

A few little updates. Christmas was awesome. We went over my aunt's house, hung out, ate, hung out, talked, ate again, waited, then ate. Notice a pattern? She makes amazing food and deserts. Plus she has a coffee urn! That's like a keg in my world. From my dad I got a Pullip doll, Lunatic Queen. She is absolutley beautiful. My parents (mostly my mom) got me all kinds of books and pjs and an Alfonse Mucha calendar. From my nanny, I got a Blythe doll, Very Vicky, she came late (and I need to tame her hair), but she is a beauty as well.

I've also been writing a bit. Got the beginning of the story started, but I'm having a hard time working with my female lead character. Seriously, Eilian and the butler have more chemistry. I may have to rework her or make a new female character to take over. She's too short, too personality-less.

Happy New Year's Eve everyone and Happy New Year (tomorrow)! Have a healthy and happy vacation and holiday!

Bridalplasty?

Seriously, who thought of this ridiculously self-centered, shallow show? Brides being sneaky and manipulative to get plastic surgeries and a dream wedding. How much plastic surgery can separate my real self from ideal self? I can't imagine the incongruities that these plastic surgeries cause. I understand that 2 of the contestants have had issues that have changed their bodies for the worst, so I understand their need for surgery to correct it, but other perfectly normal women, who already look beautiful, are getting half a dozen procedures to look more like Heidi Montage. People all over the world who have disfigurements can't afford surgeries that are needed to make them FUNCTION normally and have a better quality of life. Why can't the money used to make this ridiculous show be used for something like Operation Smile or to get prosthetic limbs to amputees that can't finance it on their own. I just wonder how much more plastic people can get. What makes them want to change themselves so drastically when they look better than average?

Calyx 2011

At Caldwell there's a literary magazine published each Spring, and submissions are already being accepted, but I don't have anything ready yet. I have something I might send it, but it isn't perfect yet -shift eyes-. It's the first few pages of the story I'm working on... Peaceful airship... CRASH... a fiery escape from wreckage.... fever dreams

A lot to condense to a few pages =)