So short, sorry friends

Dear Readers,

I'm still feeling pretty sick. But watching Finding Nemo, drinking tea, and eating hot soup's helping. :) Happy Valentine's Day!! I'll hopefully post a longer post soon. Sorry I'm so boring. =P Meanwhile, to keep you occupied, please tell me what your least favorite song by your favorite music artist is. ;)

Love,
Katrina

And why hath I neglected you [for a day]?!

Picture from this awesome blog.

Dear Readers,

Why did I not post yesterday?!

*drum roll*

I had a cold, and I was reallyyyyyyyyyy tired, so basically it was a eat-chicken-noodle-soup-and-watch-movies day. (Yes, pretty awesome, except that I was way tired.... =P And my throat hurt. Yeah. It was that kind of a cold. And today my nose's runny. Yuck.)

Anyway, thanks so much, Brittney Ann, for linking up on Embers|pictures that inspire!! I LOVED your pictures. (Recognize the one in this post? Sorry, I just loved it so much. :) Are you on Pinterest?? You'd have awesome photos!! :))

Anyway, so no news on Rubberboot Girl getting published. As soon as the magazine's website is available I'll go and leave you the link so that maybe you can subscribe!! :) (It's a free Christian magazine. I hope you do subscribe!! And if you have a business, you might be able to get it advertised. I'm not quite sure.)

Anyway, lately I've really been focusing on prayer in my own life. It's amazing. I find myself praying a lot. Every time I think of something, I'm just praying. It's so awesome!! :) God is so good. :)

I'll catch ya'll later. ;)

Love,
Katrina

I've Found Myself Praying a Lot

Dear Readers,

It's true. I have.

And it's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Like last night I went to another basketball team. And as people did free throws and stuff, I found myself praying for the person shooting, and then for all of the teams, and then for the people in the crowd. It was such an amazing feeling.

Sometimes prayer seems hard. Like you don't know what to pray about, or how to pray it, or you feel bad if you don't sound perfect like some people seem to. But it's what's in your heart. God knows what you're trying to say.

It's kind of funny. When I pray in my mind, everything makes sense for me. When I try to pray out loud, sometimes I stumble over the words, but I realize that my heart is in the right place and that's what counts for God.

Sometimes it's kind of hard to know if you should just pray, "God, I..." or "Dear God" or anything else you could start out with. I used to only start out with "God..." But now I feel myself starting out with "Dear God". Because He's amazing. He really is.

In my mind, when I pray, I find myself thanking Him for so many things--the beautiful day, my family, what's going on in my life. Thanks. It's something that's hard for me whenever I pray it out loud in front of people. Mostly because I don't want to sound... you know... fake. Like I'm just doing that just because. But I know I can do it in my mind. Because it's real. It's true.

Have you ever had a hard time praying, just with yourself and God or with other people around?

I'd love to know that there's others.

Love,
Katrina

The Agent Files, sticky oranges, my wantings, and a question

Dear Readers,

I'm proud to tell you that my friends and I (Piano Bookworm, Hadassah) have finished the first The Agent Files and are working on the second one, which seems to be going better than the first one. (Very Hobbitish. And funny........ if you haven't read the book or watched the movie The Hobbit you might want to do so......)

Anyway, does anybody else get irked when they're eating an orange and their hands get all sticky? Even when they've washed them?! I know that's kind of random, but I just ate an orange...... =P

Sometimes I wish that I could be like other bloggers. I wouldn't show a picture of myself (of course) but I wish I could at least give an age-range, kind of what I look like, my first name, and then use like "I live in Xxxxx". (You kind of get the picture.) But I don't. Oh well. =P

I was wondering.... should my next post be Abigail Jane Applegate, the Patriot spy, or Jessie Bender, the hilarious Ohioan? Please tell me. :)

Love,
Katrina

P.S. Don't forget to enter the design contest!! It ends the first of February. :)

Magazine Update!

Dear Readers,

GUESS WHAT?!?! I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT A STORY OF MINE IN THE MAGAZINE!!!!!! GAH!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! (Yesterday I was jumping up and down and screaming. If you can imagine that..... that's kind of what I did when I thought I was going to get to be an extra in a movie...... =P)

The story I've decided to put in is actually Connie (Rubberboot Girl). So I've had to pull the story off the blogs that they're on because it's being published. Sorry! I hope you guys understand. Soon, hopefully, I'll have the link to the magazine's website so that maybe you guys could subscribe!!!! That would be really awesome. :)

I'll keep you updated.

Love,
Katrina

I might have a story in a magazine...?

Dear Readers,

Guess what?! I might be (might be) having a continuing story in a magazine! (like again and again) (and a real magazine) (by a really awesome person I know) Anyway, we haven't figured out everything out, but I'm pretty sure it's all going to work out. :) I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!! I really love the lady who's going to be doing the magazine. I just can't wait!!

The editor of Connie has told me that they have gotten to the end (I believe) of chapter eight, and when they start editing again they can get to chapter nine. Like I said, they're thorough. I'll make sure to keep you updated, and if/when I get Connie published/agreed-to-be-published I'll make sure to let all of you know!!!!! :)

So, did you guys like the new Abigail? Well? (Well, I did!! =D)

I'll tell you guys more about the magazine later.

(I'm also probably going to have an add for it. And a place where you can subscribe. And of course a link to the magazine's website.)

As for now, I'll be seeing you later....

Love,
Katrina

A very short letter from Jessie and a message from Storyteller.err.Katrina

Dear Readers,

This is Jessie, and I just got back to my own beautiful house in Dayton, Ohio, and away from the farm. PHEW! I'm glad to be back.

Bye!

P.S.From.Storyteller.err.Katrina. OK, just to say, Abigail Jane Applegate WILL be coming back, but she's very different. Everything's that happened before... it's zilch. So, we're starting over! Clean slate! Whoohoo!! Keep a lookout for it. ;)

LOOK AT THESE CHOPSTICKS!!!!!!!

OK, so, I was going to say that I was going to get to use my chopsticks again today! We picked up these Chinese/Japanese meals for like a dollar each (so we have a LOT), and then I was told I could have one. (YES! SCORE!!) 

And THEN I was looking up pictures of chopsticks and I saw this picture^ and I was like "THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME I WOULD SOOOOOO USE THOSE!!" Aren't they?! What kind of a genius comes up with lightsaber chopsticks?! They're so awesome!!

Anyway, I've been working on this one new story (don't worry, Connie's getting worked on =P Oh! And we finished The Agent Files!!!!!!! :) I'll post it soon.....) called The Polar Vortex (please don't take that name) and it's going really well!! I just got it over 100 pages yesterday, so that's good.... and I know what's going to happen at the end of the book, and what the second book is mostly going to about. And I know who's really a bad guy..... anyway, I don't want to tell you anymore so that when I post it you guys know everything. =)

I don't think I told you guys, but I got a new blog called Heart of a Storyteller Blog Designs. Please go check it out!!!!! It means a lot. :)

Later!!

Love,

Katrina

Ask me one!

As most of you know, I love designing.

And, as most of you know, I've done tutorials about designing.

Well, I can't really think of something really important that I want to talk about.

But if there's anything about designing that you'd like to know, tell me and I'll do a post on it!

Sorry this is kind of short. =P

Love,

Katrina

P.S. Also, if you need places to design, I can offer a few.....

I'm a Princess!

Dear Readers,

I'm not perfect. Like NOT AT ALL. I have faults. If I get mad, I'm mad. If somebody annoys me, then I get annoyed. Sometimes I'm the annoying one. I'm far from perfect. In fact, I can't even begin to become that word. At least on my own.

If it weren't for God, I don't know where I'd be. I'd probably be convinced that I was the most horrible and most ugly person ever. I'd probably become a recluse and stay in my room all the time. And when I was forced to go somewhere I'd stay in the quiet corner, hidden.

Our God is a great God! How I'm glad that's He real, that He's here, inside of me. I really have no idea where I'd be. Without Him, I'm nothing. With Him? I'm a princess.

And you're all princesses, too, if God's your Savior.

Don't EVER forget that!

Love,
Katrina

I don't like things changing.

Dear Readers,

I've never liked the idea of giving things away. Or the idea of moving, of packing up my things, leaving, and never coming back. I like to hang onto things. I like them always being there. The thought of people close to me dying is almost unthinkable.

I don't like change, either. I don't really like having to give something away from my childhood. I don't like having to forget and go away. I like remembering things. I like hanging onto the memories and keeping them forever.

But that's just me, isn't it?

Love,
Katrina

Wow. Another contest??

Dear Readers,

Apparently you guys want another contest!! (I mean, it's winning.... =P)

So before I go and make up this big idea and the add and everything, what kind of contest would you be most likely to enter?

Story, design, or photo contest?

The one that gets the most comments about it, that's the contest that I'll do, OK? ;)

Meanwhile.....

It's snowing!!! Yay!!!! Love ya, snow!!!!! =D

This is kind of random, but I really love libraries. I really, truly do. If I had to spend all day in town at one place, you know where I'd go? Bingo!! THE LIBRARY!!! 

I love it because of all the books. And that's because I LOVE reading!! I always have. And I love it when they get a whole bunch of awesome new books in. I'm usually the first ones to get them out!!! =D Yeah, it's pretty awesome... this one librarian really knows us, too, so it's just like coming and seeing a friend. :)

And, if there aren't any good books, there's a TV upstairs in a quiet corner, so you could watch a movie, too. And of course computers. =P (lol) 

Don't forget to talk to me about the contest!!! ;)

Love,

Katrina

I'm like Connie.

Dear Readers,

I'm like Connie. I don't like letting go. When I think of 2012 slipping away I feel kind of sad. I mean, I'm excited about 2013. But what about 2012??

There's been so many things that have happened. So many memories created. I never want to forget. Ever. Just like Connie, I can keep my memories. But I also want to go forward and make new ones.

Recently, I read a book called 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass. In it, a girl called Amanda gets stuck for a week on her 11th birthday.

And just think--would I want to be stuck in 2012?

The answer's no. I want to get older. I want to keep on learning new things. I want to meet new people, go to different places, and write new stories. I don't want to be stuck here.

What are you looking forward to?

Love,
Katrina

I'm sorry I haven't written. So much has happened.

Dear Readers,

This is Abigail Jane Applegate. I'm sorry that I haven't written in what seems like ages to me. The war (Revolutionary War) is still raging around me. I feel the sadness of the people as more and more fall to the cause of freedom for this country.

I am currently living at my grandmother's plantation, and my father has gone off to war. It's not easy living here. My grandmother expects that we all have to be perfect ladies. But I do not want to be. I am considered to be the ugliest of my sisters, but I do not care. I just wish that I could get away from here... and from the war...

Thankfully, I manage to escape sometimes during the day. This is wonderful--when I can escape to the barns and hide in one of the lofts. Nobody finds me, and I can write one of these letters or write in my diary that is, mostly and sadly, empty, because I cannot bring myself to write of the tragedies of war.

I hear somebody calling me.

Sincerely,

Abigail Jane Applegate

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Meanwhile, I (Storyteller/Katrina) found some awesome pics on Pinterest for ya'll. ;D

I was puking. And I have some weird eye updates. So... yeah.

Dear Readers,

I've officially decided that my name's Katrina. You may call me Kat, but I like Katrina better, so it's really up to you.

So, yeah. On Thursday I woke up and I puked. So I lay low all that day. And then today I was glugging down gatorade. Yeah.

But on Wednesday I went to the eye doctor just for a checkup. OK, so, whenever I go to the eye doctor I get this fear like "YOU. NEED. GLASSES" or something. It just scares me.

But, no, I don't need glasses.

Instead, I found out that if I don't want to get cross eyed and have a horrible surgery, I can't read or go on the computer past twenty minutes straight. After every twenty minutes I have to stop and look twenty feet away for twenty seconds.

It wouldn't stink as much if those weren't the two main things that I do.

First of all, I love reading. Second of all, I love writing and blogging. So, basically, everything that I love doing, is kind of interrupted. Yeah. It's kind of annoying, but I'm hoping it gets into better habit, soon. =P

See ya later, gator. ;)

Love,
Katrina