Generation Staff, Piper, Kiri Liz, Willow, and Mandy--please read! :)

Wow, that's really small.

Anyway, I got awarded by Piano Bookworm! Thanks so much!! :)

The Rules:

1: When you receive the award you must post about it on your blog and leave a link to my blog.

(above^)

2: Answer all the questions to the tag below.

(OK)

3: Do not award anyone who has more than one hundred followers.

(gotcha)

4: Come up with ten questions for the tag.

(yup)

5: Keep your questions clean and refrain from using bad language.

(of course, but thanks to whoever added that rule)

6: Tag 5 to 10 people.

(easy enough ;))

 

Piano's Questions:

1. Do you like snow or rain better?

Snow.

 

2. Would you rather live on a ranch or a farm?

A farm. It seems more mystical. =D

 

3. Would you rather live in an enchanted castle or a cottage in a fairy forest?

Hmm... probably a cottage in a fairy forest.

 

4. Do you like books set in more modern times, or books set in ancient or older times?

I like all kinds of books, as long as they're about girls. :D

 

5. Socks/slippers or barefoot?

Socks, though they're disgusting if they get wet. =P

 

6. Pink, Green, Yellow or Blue?

Yellow.

 

7. Are you musical in any way? (Singing, playing an instrument) If so, what is it?

I play piano, do handbells, and do choir.

 

8. Is this too many questions?

No, this isn't.

 

9. Do you like asking questions or answering them better?

I like answering them better, I suppose. It's more work the other way around.

 

10. Are you the quiet type, or the more outgoing type?

I'm more quiet, but around my friends I suppose I'm pretty loud. (You should be able to answer that one, old friend, eh?)

My questions:

1) Blogger or wordpress? (if you're reading this, probably blogger. But you never know.)

2) Are you/were you excited to drive? (cars) Why or why not?

3) What is your most deadly fear?

4) What's a funny moment that's happened to you recently?

5) What is your favorite of my stories?

6) Who is your favorite character of my stories?

7) What would make the most epic book ever? (details such as (ahem this is kind of mine) the main character is a girl, somehow there's a dreamcatcher and a blue moon involved, and she has a bag full of cool stuff like old books, old maps, a compass, etc. and owns a cloak. Kind of get the idea?)

8) What's your least favorite question of mine so far?

9) Why did you (if you do) decide to follow my blog?

10) What has been your favorite blog design you have ever seen? (perhaps give a link)

The Awarded:

The hard working staff@Generation Gazette (Sierra, please take care of this)

Piper@Earbuds are a Girl's Best Friend

Kiri Liz@Lianne Taimenlore

Willow@In the Words of Willow

Mandy@Mandy's Musings

Do Everything

Sometimes I just feel like there's so much to do, but not any time to do them in. And then other times, I feel as if I have all the time in the world but nothing to do. And sometimes it just feels as if whatever you do, it's just not enough, it's just not important. It's like you do the dishes and wish you could be out with your friends. You're washing the dog and you wish you were off running around the countryside. You're outside picking up rocks and you're wishing that you're inside, writing on that new story idea that just came to you. And yet, it feels as if it's all in vain. So what? Who cares about those rocks, anyway? Why couldn't somebody else do the dishes? What are dishwashers even for, anyways? Why can't the dog just stay outside and stay dirty? You'd rather be out, doing things that really actually seem to matter, like building deeper relationships with your friends and learning more about the world around you. Or getting that story idea down before you go and forget it. I've really felt encouraged by one of Steven Curtis Chapman's new songs, Do Everything, which is about doing everything that you do to the glory of God. I'd really encourage you to listen to the song (below), even if you've already heard it a million times before.

What's been getting you down lately?

I feel like I'm sloshing through the mud,

Of the earth.

It's just not the place I knew before,

The place of my birth.

It's a changed place now, full of deceit--

Hate and lies.

I look for the people who're hiding,

Their scared eyes.

"Everything I do doesn't count,"

They say.

"I'll never do anything big,

Like what Jesus did that day."

But you realize the truth yourself,

And stoop to their side.

"Trust in Jesus," you say,

"In him abide.

"Do everything for the glory of God,

That he might say,

"Welcome home my good and faithful servant,

When it comes to that day."

Sometimes, there's no better title for a best than "my life".

 Well, I'm taking on the job designing thingy, so now I'm having to learn to use Wordpress. It's kind of interesting, and sooooo much different than blogger. I keep on getting scared that I might accidently click one of the "pay for this" things and have to pay for something. =P Ah, well, I'll get better. I only started teaching myself today. It's kind of funny. I have all of these winter headers up on all my blogs, and yet the picture that goes with this post is of a girl in fall apparel. That's probably just because I love the picture so much that I just used it. =P I tried it as my profile picture and, nope, didn't quite work. *sigh* I suppose I'll be stuck with the girl on the horse for forever. =D lol I should really start Jessie Bender up again, but she's missing, so I've got to come up with a reason WHY she's missing. You guys are probably like "WHAT?! YOU JUST SENT HER OFF FOR NO REASON!?!?" But really--with a character like Jessie Bender, you're going to want stories about her lots, right? But life's been so busy lately, it's kind of hard. =P I've been starting all of these new stories, too, because the ideas keep on coming. I've got a book going where it's not really even remotely close to the end and I already have over 200 pages. It's about a Chinese Dragonmaster, though not the kind I've explained before. (like on my blog with Alex and Andria.) And that comes to ANOTHER thing. I've been so busy, what about Alex and Andria?! I've really got to work on them... =P By the way, Connie's second story has really gotten dug into, so hopefully I'll be able to finish that soon. I'm really rambling, aren't I? And to make it worse, I haven't made any new paragraphs. :/ I hope you're having a great day!! It's just one of those days that my soul seems to be soaring like an eagle. God bless you all!!!!!! :)

lk;asjdf

I don't know if you noticed, but random stories is still winning. (Jessie Bender's pretty close, but she's still missing, remember??) Anyway, so I've got to think random....

.....thinking.....

......thinking......

Oh, yeah!

OK, so this isn't really a random story.

Well, it is.

But more like a random praise.

Ya ready?

I KIND OF GOT A SORT OF JOB LIKE I'M PRETTY SURE I'M GOING TO DO IT BUT ANYWAY I'M GETTING TO DO LIKE THIS WEBSITE UPDATING THINGY MAGIGGY!!!!!!!!

I know, pretty awesome, huh?!?????

I'M. SO. PYSCHED.

Anyway, so ya'll later!! :)

Random.........

I love this picture. I really do.

It used to be my profile picture.

And if I ever change my prof pic, this'll be it again.

Just because I love it.

How random can I get???

So, random stories and Jessie Bender are winning...

Well, we all know that Jessie's missing, so we might as well go for a random story, eh? ;D

So, we have our piano, see. (Of course--how on earth could I play piano?? lol) Anyway, so the top of the seat's kind of coming off. (don't ask--besides, I'm pretty sure it might've been my fault... :/)

So I was sitting on it, about play a song or another. (Probably Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas. I love that song. =D) But then I noticed that the seat was on funny.

OK, I don't know about you, but something like that would've bothered me throughout my whole playing time.

So, without getting off (*stupid stupid*), I reached down to move it over. But then I accidently let go with my fingers underneath it. And they kinda pretty much got crushed. (don't worry--it was left my hand =P)

OK, so I don't know about you, but when you're my age, when something happens that hurts usually I try to keep it quiet. Sometimes I ended up jumping up and down with a pained face, but usually I can keep from crying. Yeah, felt that before?

Well, I'll tell you this. That worked until about a few seconds later.

When I started crying my head off.

Anyway, so I put water over it, and it still wasn't feeling better, so then I spent like a whole hour soaking my fingers in a freezing cold ice. Which almost hurt even worse. But not as much.

And now my fingers on my left hand still feel weird.

But, hey, I'm alive!!!! =D

What are some of YOUR random stories??

More about the contest... [read on if you like awards]

Yes, more about the contest!! I'm glad you're paying attention to titles. =P

OK, so if you enter the contest below we have some awards for you!! :)

(After I judge your work, of course.)

(And after, of course, you get your normal awards. =D)

I have three awards, and the person who gets first place gets to choose first, second gets to choose second, and then the third person gets whatever's left.

Good?

Good.

OK, and what are the awards?

1. A header, designed by me.

2. Button and signature, designed by me.

3. Any saying of your choice designed by me to put on the side of your blog.

Sound good?

Let's get everything amped up!!! =D