The Scribe's Castle

Hey everybody this is just to let you know that I now have another blog devoted especially to my novels and my writings. I'd really appreciate it if you could pop over there and check it out! Thanks! You can find it at: thescribescastle.blogspot.com

What I'm up to

Well this year seems to be shaping up to be busy and productive. I've been taking two classes at the local high school, creative writing and art, and I've been given a role in a community play to be performed this summer. I'm in the middle of an apologetics study with my dad and I've been working on my novel to (hopefully) get it ready for publishing. I'm drawing a graphic novel, I've been trying to get more sleep, and I'm hoping to take up some kind of sport once I actually have the time.

Winter Doldrums

Winter is always a weird season for me. I don't like cold weather, and the fact that it's constantly cold and gloomy and mushy makes me lethargic and depressed. Now normally this wouldn't matter too much to me, but my life is getting a little hectic and I have a lot of commitments that I need to work on and even though I really want to do them, I'm feeling so lazy and its driving me nuts!

Ugh. If you guys are the praying type, I'd like to request that you pray for God to give me energy and determination. Thanks.

CANADA!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow I'm going to Canada, along with my three younger brothers, my parents, and whatever junk we can stuff in the back of our car and our pop-up camper Ted. Yup. So....beware Canada, my family is en route.

BUMP

So every year my church does this missions trip to Minneapolis/St. Paul, where we put on a Vacation Bible School type thing at one of our sister churches. I had a great time last year and I'm looking forward to going this year. We're leaving this Saturday at 6 am, so I'll probably sleep a lot on the bus :)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Recently (well, okay, a few months ago), while talking to a friend, I was introduced to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and fell in love with it immediately. The story is exactly the kind I like to read and the characters are great.

Well, today I learned that they were making a movie out of "The Lightning Thief" the first book, and I totally geeked out about it. I screamed and jumped up and down for a good hour or so after seeing the commercial. Let me tell you, it looks absolutely effin' EPIC! And the guy who plays Percy is totally hot. *stares off into space for a moment, smiling dreamily*

I WILL GO SEE IT WHEN IT COMES OUT, MARK MY WORDS!

God, I can't take it anymore!

I mean, for the sake of all that is holy, WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO GET SICK?! It's driving me up the wall, because I get sick almost every other week and I'm fed up with it. I am seriously beginning to consider that I was cursed or something. I want to go see a doctor and find out just what the heck is wrong with me because I'm sick all the time. It interferes with everything: school, exercise, hanging out with my friends, and I am so goddamned tired of being sick. I feel like shit two-thirds of the time.

Another egg

Dad's B-Day!

Well, today's my dad's birthday. He's gonna be ** years old! I was in charge of making the icing and actually applying it to the cake, but it turned out to be as ugly as homemade sin. This was mostly due to the fact that during the baking of the cake, my mom had some trouble getting one of the layers out of the pan and it got all broken, so trying to ice it was like trying to apply gold leaf. It kept. Falling. Apart. It was only with a very generous application of icing was I able to keep it together in the semblance of a cake.

I'm sure it'll taste fine, though. I hope my dad likes his presents.

My dragon eggs

Click on these eggs to keep them alive, please!

Much better

Well, looks like I'm over this plague-like disease. Watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Pretty cool movie. Not as good as the first one, but then again, movies based off of children's toys are rarely a good watch, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

Well, I was too sick to go to the city today, and I think I'll be too ill to go to youth group tomorrow, but I hope I'm well enough to go, because I get to see my crush. *squeals like a fangirl* I know I sound like a little stupid girl, but whatever. I've never had a boyfriend and I plan to remain a virgin until I get married, so I take the romantic moments where I can with my crushes.

Blargh

Still feeling crappy. I alternate between feeling blazing hot and freezing cold, I cough whenever I move, my throat feels as though I'm swallowing razor blades, I threw up, and I feel as though I'm gonna keel over from exhaustion at any second. It could be the flu, but I dunno.

Sick again

I'm feeling really crappy, with a headache, a really bad cough, a fever, I'm nauseous, exhausted, and I think I may have pneumonia.

Ugh . . .

Zain, the Sight Mage.

So, this is one of the other dudes from my dream involving Loor. Zain is the sight mage, meaning he has visions of the future, past, and present, sometimes all at once. He's also blind, and people are told that it was an unfortunate accident before he came to the Exodus compound. He is one of the few mages who have to wear a restriction collar to prevent him from using his magic against the staff of Exodus 5. He and Loor are not precisely friends, but they have a mutual respect for each other. As a red-shirt, he is one of the labs top priority experiments, so he recieves much better treatment than some of the other mages. Despite being blind, he has a pretty uncanny knowledge of people's personal habits and the sounds their footsteps make.

Copyright 2009 Christine Powers

Pencil Pic of Widget

Well, most of my stuff is in pencil anyway. Whatever. Anyway, this is a slightly older sketch of Widget, which is why it looks a bit different than the current Widget. It's still Widget, though.

Anyways, this is one of those pics where I just doodle and it turns out cool. Happens to me all the time. I planned it a little, but just enough so I knew where I wanted his head and stuff. Before you ask (haha, who's gonna ask?) about the things on his shoulders, I ain't telling ya what they are, more out of my insane sense that someone's going to try to steal my stuff than anything else, really. As for the reason nothing around his nose is shaded? Well . . . I kinda slacked off. And yes, he is crying. Not in the throes of mourning, but the kind of hopeless crying where you've given up.

Sup

Hey nonexistant readers.

How's it going? Good, good.

I've decided, that regardless of the readership (or lack thereof) I will continue on my comic. Expect some style changes throughout. I change the way I draw every week or so.

Anyway, stay beautiful, eat lots of muffins, and don't forget to wash between your ears.

Meh

Today I'm feeling really tired and run-down. Headaches abound and I feel like I'm going to keel over from exhaustion. Meh.

My future husband?

Sometimes I really want to know who I'm going to marry. I want to know so bad, because I want someone to say "I love you" to me. That doesn't mean that I'm going to go and sleep with some guy because he says he loves me, but I want the guy who's meant for me to be here with me.

My dad jokes about it, saying that he has my husband already picked out. He's fooling around, but I know I have someone out there picked out for me.

Recently I've been having recurring dreams about a boy. Its not in the traditional sense, really, where I know him or anything, or even that he's the main focus of the dream, but the dreams usually go something like this: I'm somewhere, with a bunch of boys I know, who all seem to have a crush on me and want to be my boyfriend and stuff. I feel really uncomfortable and I'm trying to get away, and then all of a sudden, this boy walks past. For some reason, I want to see him, and he catches my eye and I think he smiles. Its weird because when I wake up I can't remember his face. I think he's blonde, though. We were even dancing this one time, but I can't remember what he looked like or who he was. The weird thing is that he usually isn't the main part of the dream, he's just sort of there. In other dreams where its about a boy I know and like, they're the main focus of the dream, but here, this boy just exists.

To myself, I kind of joke that he's supposed to be my husband in the future, and I kind of like the idea. Maybe if I ever meet him, then I'll fall in love. Nice thought, huh?

Beauty

Have you ever been in this sort of situation? Someone tells you you're beautiful, but you don't really think so? (This really only applies to girls, really)

I have had a total of six people in my life tell me I'm beautiful, and two of them are my parents, while a third is my baby brother. So three people outside of my family, one of them a boy, two of them women older than me.

Normally, I don't believe that I'm beautiful at all, or pretty, or anything. The only parts of my face I like are my eyes and my mouth, and my hair, but none of it really makes me think that I'm beautiful.

God looks at the heart, right? That would be nice, to have a guy who did that, instead of looking at my outside.