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A year and half ago at Christmas I downloaded the first book onto my kindle it was Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.  I instantly loved her writing. Slick and fast she drops you into the character's world. The completeness of the characters world that she describes is delicious and beautiful and done with overwhelming simplicity rather than overwhelming wordy-ness.

 

Many scenes just stuck with me; winter Sam smelling butter on Graces hand, the chocolate shop and the winter woods. The winter woods eventually let me to this.

which lead to this...

and finally...



And my favorite is when the light catches the leaves as they are falling from the trees and makes them glow like flying suns so I like this most...

Stained Glass 22"x10"

This was the first book to lead to inspiration for the art I create. I would like to do another one with The Wolves Of Mercy Falls running and weaving through the trees. Read the books and check out Maggie’s Blog

 

 

 

 

I would tell the world that as individuals they have the power to choose how they feel, no one has the power to make them feel anything. If you're sad or angry its because you've made that a choice to feel that way. If you don't like the way you feel choose to look at the situation another way, and choose to feel differently about it. It takes time but it will change your life. Empower yourself!

If i were president, HA! no one in their right mind would give me that job! I'd likely fire them all in Washington and start over. make teachers (the good ones) leaders and better fund education.

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Okay here’s my story, understand I wrote this in 5^th grade for school about water-waisters . I grew up in California during the drought in the 1980s.  and I think Garbage Pail Kids were all the rage…

 

The Water Wierdos

 

“Hi! Were the Plungo’s.  We live on a farm”

“I’m Blobby Patty. My belly waddles like jelly, it sinks like a sinker on a fishing rods. I only drink water and never go one, two , or three, and I smell like a nuke dump.”

 

“Like, oh my gosh, Hi! I’m Skinny Whinney. I walk like a push pin, and talk like a valley girl from West Park Elementary. My eyes are like nails and my mouth is as small as a marble.”

 

“Yo, I’m Bubba Joe. I’m round, like an enormous beach ball. I move like a growing plant with no help at all! I eat baseball cards and my favorites are Jose Canseco and Pete Rose.”

 

It’s time to water the pavement. The Plungo’s don’t know that there is a drought. So far today the Plungo’s have been watering the pavement for 2 hours. They have finally stopped watering. Now its time to water the plants again, for the 25^th time today.  Now it’s time to water the soil. Boy, this family never stops using the water. They have been watering for the last 6 hours without turning the hose off once. Oh no! They have turned the horse corral into a pig pool. They have given the dogs water blisters with ten baths a day. Oh oh oh No! Now they’re watering the house – maybe to make it grow? But it just sinking like the Titanic!

 

It’s the end of the day, and its time to take showers. Blobby Patty takes a two-hour shower. Skinny Whinney takes a three-hour shower and Bubba Joe washes his trading card bubble gum for four-hours, he only takes a bath once a year.

 

Its morning again, cocka-doodle-do! Each time the Plungos finds one bitty bug they pick it up and go flush, flush it down the toilet.

 

They washed their cars so much they had to go buy a boat. And from watering the pavement, plants and car so much the ducks started to migrate to their front yard. This caused such a commotion, all the neighbors and ranchers came to riot. This in turn brought the fire department  so hose them down and cool them off.  This made a blue ocean of bubbly goo, and used up all the rest of the water and everything went bye-bye!

world of tomorrow

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I am going to attempt to post the cartoon I drew to live journal

I'm going to have gastric bypass surgery. I really don’t remember being thin in my life though I've got pictures of me in kindergarten when I was too skinny and tall to fit in anything you could buy.  I remember shopping with my mom and her complaining I was to skinny. When I entered elementary school they had a lunch line. I remember eating cottage cheese and fruit out of my lunch box in kindergarten. When I entered first grade lunch became money in an envelope with hot dog or pizza written on it. By the 3rd grade I weighed 120 lbs (almost double what my classmates weighed) I was being sent to weight watchers meetings alone. I'd get dropped off be told to pay attention, my mom wasn't over weight she didn’t need to go in.

 

How I remember the teasing, it was relentless.  When I walked down the halls in elementary school my classmates would chant boom bada boom bada.... and I was labeled as having cooties and if you touched me or anything I had you would get them too and become fat like me.  How alone can a child feel in a classroom with 30 other students? Utterly alone.  I feared touching others and condemning them to my fate, I didn’t know what cooties were, that everyone has them or that you cant catch fat like one catches a cold.

 

I am now in my 30’s and I still weight double what I should. My life would be meaning less if it weren’t for my dog; she needs me as much as I need her. I have never to my knowledge had someone outside my parents and sister love me or care for me. Really, who would want me? I wouldn’t. And it’s so very hard to let someone love you when you don’t love yourself. I’ve eaten enough food for several lifetimes so I'm ready to stop eating and start living.

 

I am going to start by making a bucket list of all the things I’m going to do when I am no longer Morbidly Obese.

 

1. RUN, I miss running.
2. Kayak, in a single person kayak
3. Ride any rollercoaster I want
4. Love
5. Live
6. Play sports again
7. Pee in an airplane toilet
8. wear dresses
9. fit in a movie theater seat
10. fit in
11. Live, Live, Live

the Kindle and ebooks....

I have heard some complaints about the kindle and amazon and pricing, and I have to side with authors!  HOWEVER I love my kindle!  I have stopped watching TV accept for a movie maybe once a week. I have read 18 book in the last 3 months.  Most of the books I have purchased I would not have read if i had to purchase them at the book store because it's miles away and tooooo big. The books I have really enjoyed I have purchased in hard cover. If the ebooks cost much more I would be penny-less, but I have thought of canceling cable all together.  It's not back lit so it doesnt kill my eyes, the only thing its missing it a reading light.  I think that authors who have their books painted with cool papers and fancy inks have a a good shot at getting me to buy the hardcovers of their books also!  when i do hit the book store to get a book i cant get on my Kindle i check out the books i have read on it and have found some jems. But frequently the books i have read are out of stock!!!  With the kindle thats not an issue, i can download day or night, rain or shine, at the beach, or on the john. But having it available on kindle is, but my list of to reads is long so i can always start a different book. I think the Kindle is GREAT, best xmas gift ever!  If it has the same affect on others as it had one me and increases sales volume of books all around i think it could easily make up for the price of the ebooks. I can only hope because we need more (new) great authors!

-mindy

I'd go for soundtracks because I'm a cheater! soundtracks tend to have a variety of genres so hopefully i could get around the confines of one genre.

books i've read since xmas;

Ink Spell, Cornelia Funke, 656 pages
Ink Death,Cornelia Funke, 656 pages
Ballad, Maggie Stiefvater, 360 pages
Lament, Maggie Stiefvater, 336 pages
Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater, 400 Pages
Percy Jackson Series:Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief, 400 pages
The Sea of Monsters, 304 pages
The Titans Curse, 336 pages
The Battle of the Labyrinth, 384 pages
The Last Olympian, 400 pages
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, 368 pages
Hush Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick, 400 pages
Of Bees and Mist, Erick Setiawan, 416 pages
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, 384 pages
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins, 391 pages
If I Stay, Gayle Forman, 208 pages
6399 pages in all! crap I need a life