Notable Numbers

Lately I've been encountering interesting hit numbers.
I was 48,484 on Anywhere But Here,
I was 1,234 on one of my mom's blogs,
and I was 1,212 on Sophie Peaches Fiction. :P

Always Watching

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ALWAYS WATCHING – Rayne Tour Series book #1

This daughter of a rock star has it all—until murder crashes her world.

During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Is Tom Hutchens' death connected to her?

Frightening messages arrive. Paparazzi stalk Shaley. Her private nightmare is displayed for all to see. Where is God at times like this?

As the clock runs out, Shaley must find Tom's killer—before he strikes again...

Seatbelt Suspense® for young adults.

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I'm entering the contest. :P I can't wait to get my hands on a copy and read it! It sounds really good. :D

Doubles posts, and I really should have some art to share by now

I really should have some art to share by now. I've kinda just been posting whatever here, and I want to post more art and less whatever. But, right now I don't have any new artworks to share so I'll show some more whatever.

To the left are a couple of screen shots, of when my blog post numbers were all doubles. :P How did that work out? I have no idea, but it looks cool. And it happened more than once. 

But...from now on I want to post more art. That makes this blog fun! I get that my posts lately have been *boring*...I want there to stop being being posts that come out of nowhere. (Only, I liked the laundry post. haha.)

Well, see you again soon, when I have some sketches to post or something. Looking forward to it.

Oh, and if you likes my photos, I has a photo blog. Wheee. You can look if you want. It is not all my photos, some are other people's. But so far most are mine. 

Another laundry day

So today was another laundry day. I still think going to a laundromat makes it more fun...and we went to one because we had a lot to wash. Lots of blankets. 
So anyway we were driving around. We were going to go to this one next to The Casket Outlet which is near the graveyard I'm photographing (haha...?) but then we decided since there was nothing interesting in The Casket Outlet's windows (what? wouldn't you like to look at some caskets instead of a waiting room sort of thing?) to go to the one on our street next to KFC. But then mom spotted this hidden one across from The Casket Outlet, and we went there. (It's a good thing we did; not only was it pleasant and the washers worked, but the store next to it sold chocolate rice crispy treats! NOBODY sells those anymore!!)
They had this soap machiene that looked broken, but it worked really well actually. I wonder how old it is? The only problem is the stuff comes out so far in there, it's hard to stick your hand in there and grab it. 
Watching the dryers was fun. ^_^ But even more fun to watch were the turbo washers (?? They're supposed for be for big loads) which had several intevals of extremely fast spinning...I thought they were going to take off.
The dryers were computerized, apparently. I wonder what decade they were from...haha! :)

Me in a blog post

It occurs to me that I haven't really gone *that* in depth about myself...so why don't I now? :)

• I am turning 17 on May 20th, 2009. (Yay!) I share my birthday with Cher and one of my pen pals.
• I am a freelance artist (yes!), and aspiring novelist and cartoonist. I write romance. I was surprised to learn this, but I realized that everything I make up turns into a romance. But fantasy's also in there. Although not everything I write is a fantasy.
• I have a Youtube channel. I've only got two videos. They are silent and animated with Paint, whoohoo. I want to add more in the future probably. 
• I have a webcomic on my fiction blog altough since I'm going to be homeless again it might go on hiatus. I'm trying to pack, so Ted and Marissa will have to wait until I can think again. Sorry. :(   (Btw, my fiction blog is the third blog I created.)
• Speaking of homelessness, I have a homelessness blog over here that is about me. It is the second blog I created. 
• The Blinky Blog is my first blog. It's my art blog with a lot of differnt not-art posts and stuff. Not sure why I started an art blog in the middle of a kind-of art-funk...haha.  
• I also have a PNN blog. I am not sure why, but there it is.
• I'm on Twitter. My tweets are largely useless, like "wow it's windy today" and "the dogs are hyper today" and "I just took a shower" or something. But I like following people when they follow me and I reply to people and stuff. I'm mostly on Twitter in the evenings.
• I am five feet nothing, I have never cut my hair and it is like over 36 inches. It's streaked pink, kudos to my mom for letting me do that! :D I'm a proud wearer of glasses, and I think my taste in clothes is pretty unique. 
• I read a lot and I have a Shelfari and my tastes vary widely. I like Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl, and at the same time I like Kamichama Karin Chu. See? :P My tastes in music are also widely varied, I favorite most of them on Youtube. (what does that have to do with books? lol) (although some of my favorites got removed, like Breathe Your Name, sadly. :( )
• I like drawing. (How did you guess?) However, I suck at painting. I mostly sketch, and make Copic drawings. I use colored pencil too, although less often. I also like sewing things, mostly ribbon/lace things and felt dolls. :)
• I went to a public elementary school and had some sucky teachers and some that were nice and some that were devil spawn. (haha...who hasn't?) I attended one month of middle school, and then became homeschooled. And then this year I became quasi-unschooled because it is so much less stressful, thank God. (I say quasi because I don't fully consider myself an unschooler, but it's not *exactly* homeschooling either. I should make a post about the differences or something, or else Dr. Phil will keep everyone confused. In short: homeschooling is basically public school in your home with less people, you meet with a teacher once a month (or I did). Unschooling does not have a cirriculum like homeschooling does, you learn from experiences and you have more control over what you learn.)
• I read a lot of blogs. Apparently someone thinks that blog readers don't read books, but that's not true, see aforementioned Shelfari bullet. :P
• I daydream a lot. Mostly about stories I make up that I should be writing. :) 
• I need to be enrolled in EA--Emoticons Anonymous.
• I also need to be enrolled in Chocoholics Anonymous. I hit Dove milk chocolate and Girardheli milk chocolate & caramel squares. And chocolate milk.
• I bite my nails. People say "just stop" but how can you when you don't realize you're doing it?? I'd like someone to explain that.
• I have two chihuahuas that help me with severe migraines (BPVC, I don't have headaches but dizziness. Details here, here, and here.) and they are adorable. 
• I am Christian, but that doesn't stop me from being interested in things like Harry Potter and tarot and manga. And I believe down in my soul that I must be a Democrat. 
• I am geeky. Be prepared. 
• I also like Lolita (a frilly old-fashioned style clothing popular in Japan. NOT anything nasty!! Lolita fasion is innocent and has nothing to do with the novel). 
• The last time I went trick-or-treating I was 14 and an IRS auditor. :) *proud of it*
• I have a photo blog as well. 

I've probably gone on too long already, so I'll stop. But when things change and I get a better picture to post (hahaha) then I'll change/add things, or whatever. But there you have me!