This is what happens when you give me two weeks vacation

So, today I finally got off my lazy butt and did something I've been meaning to do for months.

As you may or may not know, I have three fish tanks at the moment. At present, however, only one of them is operational: the 29 gallon. The ten gallon in my room and the five gallon QT are both in a sorry state of disrepair. So today I started what I'm calling
Project Eyesore

I'm taking the ten gallon and stripping it, then, I'm going to set up a Zebra Danio colony tank. It will be awesome.

          

Before. ew, right?

                                           Still ew...

                                         Scrub scrub scrub scrub. I shall triumph over alge!

                                           A scrub brush and baking soda: a fishkeepers best friends

Winter Break...to some, Christmas Break and to others, Holiday Break

So, today was the last day of school for two weeks, in fact, two weeks of doing nothing but sleeping in, hanging out with friends and eating yummy food, and of course, opening presents. (Who could forget that?) Alas, there are no pictures, because, for this post, everything that I tell you, can be told in words and pictures are not necessary. When I got out a school I was yelling at the top of my lungs, shouting things like, "Merry Christmas", "Happy Kwanzaa", "Happy Hanukkah", Happy Halloween", Happy Christmas", "Merry New Years..." Yeah, random stuff like that. Hey, you can't blame me, surviving on 4-2 hours of sleep per night wasn't really my plan for the past few months! But still, it was super duper uber fun...uber...I like that word...I also like ellipses...if you didn't notice...Okay, I gotta go, preparing for a party!!! 

The Library Opened Up!!

So, I probably never told you timid readers but in September our library closed due to renovations and now, it opened up just this week!! I went twice, of course, in the past two weeks and I think I got about 15+ books. Crazy much? Anyhoo, I'll post the book titles below and because I'm too lazy to find out the names of the authors, those of you who want to read the books, just find out who the authors are yourselves please!
And here they are:

1. Sister's Red
2. Gone
3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
4. The Guardian of the Dead
5. Dirty Little Secrets
6. The Sky is Everywhere
7. Wired
8. Birth Marked
9. Bruiser
10. The Snowball Effect
11. Perchance to Dream
12. The Everafter
13. The Eternal Ones
14. The Secret Years
15. Pants on Fire
16. Jinx
17. The Seven Towers
18. Marked
19. Betrayed
20. Bleach 29
21. Bleach 31
22. Kiss Me, Kill Me
23. The Land of Silver Apples
24. The Riddle
25. The Ranger's Apprentice 1
26. Prophecy of the Sisters

Well...that was a lot of books. I got 26 books, that's 11 more than 15...boy am I greedy, or I guess another description could be word hungry...

Fudge and all that yumminess

So, yesterday I went up to Chico to see my cousin and we made...drumroll please(!)...FUDGE and COOKIES!!! Both of course, are the most amazing foods in the world. I mean, who doesn't like fudge? Didn't take any pictures, at least, not on the digital camera - I did on my Leica though... - but still, I had the best time. We listened to Christmas music, and danced around and made cookies and fudge and then went to my cousin's exhibit at the CSU (Chico State University) museum-ish place.
*NOTE*: And on a side note...I got an early Christmas present, it was the Leica, as mentioned above. It's a small Leica CL, really amazing little thing, maybe I'll post a pic of it later but, I love it to death (can't you tell I don't have life?) and love taking pictures with it!
*NOTE#2*: Also, if you want to tell who's posting, just look down at the Labels below and it should say either, #1, #2, or #3. Just a little tip. Oh and BTW, this is #2!!

heyy... remember me?

*laughs nervously* heh heh.... hiiiii.... it's #1 here! Gosh, I haven't posted in such a long time, what to say, what to say.....

Oh.
Right.
I, too, finished Nanowrimo. My novel is only 50,013 words (what? I'm just not as over-achiever-ish as Ami, kay?) Buuuttt..... I'm not letting you read any of it.
Hah.
You can, however, laugh with me over my 'nanoisms' folder.

They leaped over the now unconscious man’s death
Um… What?

She slammed the bottle’s neck into the window. It shatnerd.
Shatnered? Really? How’d it do that? I can just see the window now, with a huge picture of William Shatner on it… That would be totally awesome

She took him by the shoulders from behind and began leading him on.
Not in that way!
Also, did you notice the sentence structure fail there? Did’ja?

He turned around and walked over to the large greenish box that is on the top of almost every flat roofed building and I don’t know what it does but it’s there okay?
You know exactly what I’m talking about. Yes you do.

Anon had taken the brunt of the impact, and was not expected to describe.
He’s fine otherwise, just don’t ask him to tell you what anything looks like.

“Cultural. It’s just… one of those things… it’s a thing…. And it’s cultural…and that was one really messed up sentence…. Kinda got away from me there. Just for a bit. Just a little bit.” She finally gave up on ever salvaging that sentence, and instead delegated it to the huge pile of may or may not be removed during editing, which at present contains every single sentence in this book. Except this one and the one before; these two are definitely going.
I… I don’t even know what to say… 

“That's ust over there...”
Um... you see unrequited love in the distance? What?

 
And yes, I do have a character called Anon. He's awesome. Recognize his awesomeness, kay? Kay.

Here are some random anime drawings and some cool Little Red Riding Hood pictures.

End of Nanowrimo...so sad

So, three days ago (sorry it's late to those nonexistant readers) Nanowrimo ended and I reached, not 30,000, not 40,000, not 50,000 but 62,789 words. In. A. Month. Cool huh? Anyhoo, I had tons of fun writing it and now that my novel City Lights on the Water is done, I'll have to think of something else. Below is an excerpt and a synopsis. Oh, and one more thing, on the YWP Nanowrimo site, my username is Ami.

City Lights on the Water

Ben Channing and Olivia Trent are dancers. But they are completely different. Ben Channing has had no professional training, all the training he’s ever had was on the streets of San Francisco. Olivia Trent, on the other hand, is from a well-to-do family and attends a small state of the art private school in New York where she studies mainly classical ballet with a mix of hip hop. But after a car crash that leaves her mom dead and Olivia unable to dance, everything changes. Olivia’s dad suddenly comes into the picture, a man she hasn’t seen or talked to in the past five years and takes her back to San Francisco with him, hoping to make things better, but instead, making them worse. When Olivia and Ben’s worlds collide, the two immediately are drawn together and what seems like the end is only the beginning of a roller-coaster ride of emotion and a twist nobody will see coming.

Excerpt

Prologue
The first time I saw someone dance was when my momma took me to the Coppeilia ballet. When I saw those dancers glide across the stage like swans, I knew what I was going to be when I grew up. Ever since that day, when I was five, I just kept on dancing, I never stopped, it was like the world revolved around me and dancing, it was like there was nothing else, at least, there was nothing else until the day my momma died, then I realized that maybe dancing wasn’t everything. It was time I woke up and saw the world in front of me, not the fairytale that I had been living my entire life.

And here is my winner's badge!!