Right now, I doubt anyone in our house could feel sleepier. It’s in the mid-80s in here, but right now it feels like 90 degrees. Uncle Ed is snoring a little on our futon couch, Mom and Aunt Sharon are watching M*A*S*H, Jessie and Jeff are doing something in my/Aunt Sharon’s and Uncle Ed’s room, and here I am, blogging away like I haven’t (and should have) done for a week.

Not much to report here… We’ve been doing the touristy stuff with everyone, or rather, they’ve been doing it without me while I stay home in most cases. I like the daily solitude, actually, because I can get things done on my own time and not on anyone else’s. I can get on the Internet and play Nintendo at regular intervals and still get my work done on time, a fact that Mom has not yet come to realize… or at least support. And there’s the matter of being able to sing to my music without feeling like an idiot.

So, for lack of things to write about, I’ll list a few books I’ve read recently:

~Dragonspell and Dragonquest, both by Donita K. Paul

~The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas

~Fantastic Four, by Peter David (what a name!)

I actually haven’t finished the last two, but I’m in the progress. All four are very cool- maybe I’ll give them reviews when I feel like writing again, or maybe when it stops being so blasted hot. Guess I shouldn’t complain, though, since the rest of you are freezing your bums off, but you’d all be experiencing the unpleasant sensation of thawing anyway.

Don’t have much else to say, so I guess that’s it. ‘Til later, folks, and here’s to the hope that I come out of my mental doldrums soon.

I got bored during church and wrote a whole list of some of my random favorite stuff. (Yes, I know, bad me, but it was fun!)

Here are a few of my favorite things:

Entertainment
TV Show: M*A*S*H
Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia, Legend of Zorro, Goblet of Fire, The Return of the King
PS2 Games: Amplitude, Katamari Damacy, Lego Star Wars, Dragon Ball Z
GameCube Games: Zelda- The Windwaker, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Gameboy Games: Zelda- The Minish Cap, Tetris, WarioWare
Computer Game: The Sims2 University
Card Games: Mille Bournes, Fluxx, Apples to Apples, Imaginiff
Books: Inkheart, Redwall series, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings, Dragonspell, Dragonquest, Eragon, Ivanhoe, Robin Hood
Web Sites: Xauror (www.nero.xauror.com), Legend of the Green Dragon (www.mmorpg.enhog.us), my Blog (www.mewgirl14blog.blogspot.com), my character site for Xauror (www.freewebs.com/leah_lovegood), Google (you should know that one)
Screennames: Leah Lovegood, ferrrret face
Poems: Jabberwocky, Walking Through the Woods On a Winter Evening, Ode to Gandalf (or whatever that poem in The Fellowship of the Ring is called)

Material Possessions
Piece of Jewelry: My sister-sister-sister ring
Shirt: My Jars of Clay shirt
Pants: Any pair of comfy p.j. pants
Shoes: Black and white flip-flops
Necklace: My Aslan necklace
Photo: Our whole family at Tara and Dave’s wedding
Stuffed Animals: Soft (my big blue bunny), Osito (my small, soft llama hair bear), Cairo (my small lion), my ferret stuffed animal (doesn’t have a name yet due to lack of creativity on my part)
CDs: Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack, Chronicles of Narnia Soundtrack, Aladdin Soundtrack, Series of Unfortunate Events Soundtrack, Beach Boys Mix

Food Related
Food Groups: Pasta, any mexican food w/o ground beef, onions, or tomatoes, pizza
Breakfast Food: Belgian waffles, pancakes, hash browns, scrambled eggs
Lunch Food: Lipton Extra Noodle Soup
Dinner Food: Spaghetti, turkey
Restaurant: Spaghetti Factory
Fruit: Pineapple
Vegetable: Potatoes (preferably mashed or baked)
Soda: Mountain Dew Pitch Black

Other Favorites
Church: Blue Rock, of course
Town: Waynesboro (believe it or not…)
Thing About Myself: My imagination
Colors: Silver, purple, black, blue
Things to Write or Read About: Robin Hood, adventure stories, fantasy, dragons, pirates
School Subject: English
Time of Day: That time from late afternoon to dusk
Time of Night: Any part of it where I get to stay up alone
Sport: Quidditch (I know, I’m a dork), snowboarding
Mythical Animals: Dragon, phoenix
Holiday: Thanksgiving
Productive Hobbies: Writing, crafting, reading
Unproductive Hobbies: Playing card games, playing video games, watching M*A*S*H, watching movies
Heroes: Robin Hood, Link, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dar, Kale Allerion, Saphira, Aslan, Peter Pevinsie, Susan Pevinsie, Harry Potter
Villains: Voldemort, White Witch, Front-de-Boeuf, Invader Zim, Risto, Capricorn
Quality in a Person: Sense of humor
Stores: GameStop, WalMart

If you have any more ideas for some favorite stuff, let me know in the comment thing. You people need to comment more anyways.

Right now, I’m sitting at home alone eating a fine dinner of turkey and mashed potatoes with a glass of red wine, and I’m also wondering where the time since December the Fifteenth has gone. It seems like only a week ago that Mom, Dad, and I were waiting excitedly at the airport for Tara, Melissa, and Dave to walk through the entry gate, when in reality it has been three weeks and two days since then. To use an old adage, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” So true, so true. I have to admit that I either come close to tears or actually cry when people leave, but that’s only to be expected from a hormonally challenged teenager, right? Still, I feel like such a baby when I still can’t handle a simple goodbye. I hate goodbyes.

Everyone’s here now. It’s interesting; we’ve never had this many people in this tiny little apartment before. My cousins Jessie and Shawn, along with Jessie’s fiance, Jeff, are sleeping in the living room/ dining room. Aunt Sharon and Uncle Ed are sleeping in my room, and I’m sleeping in Mom and Dad’s room. It’s crowded. And Mom and Dad snore. But it’s only temporary, and we never get to see them. Heh, and another plus is that they looooove Mt. Dew, which means that there’ll have to be a steady supply at all times. Whoo! But seriously, it’s really good to see them.

I’m being shooed, so I guess I’ll go read my new book, Dragonquest by Donita K. Paul. Good book, good series. Anyways… see ya.

(And the fine dinner and wine are actually a TV dinner and carbonated apple-grape juice in a wine glass, but you probably figured that out already.)